PS2 Vincent Danz

get to know this enlisted hero

Officer Vincent G. “Vinny” Danz was a Coast Guard Reservist and a New York Police Department (NYPD) officer, who joined the NYPD after serving in the United States Marine Corps. By September 2001, he had served as an officer for 14 years starting on bicycle patrol before joining NYPD’s Emergency Services Unit and assigned to ESU Truck Number 3.

Vincent Danz was the first New York City police officer to receive a memorial service after 9/11 and was posthumously awarded the NYPD’s Medal of Honor for his heroic actions. On Sept. 9, 2005, all of the public safety officers killed on 9/11, were posthumously awarded the 9/11 Heroes Medal of Valor by President George W. Bush. And, in June 2021, the Coast Guard dedicated Coast Guard Sector New York’s unaccompanied personnel housing facility in honor of PS2 Danz.

To learn more about Vincent Danz’s heroism, click here to read a September 202a article from Coast Guard Atlantic Area historian William H. Theissen. The article first appeared in The Long Blue Line, the USCG retiree newsletter magazine published by our friends at the National Coast Guard Museum Foundation.