Coast guard

Leadership represents an essential role in today’s Coast Guard. Necessary to the success of the service, exceptional leaders encompass many roles but they have the ability to maintain a philosophy that bolsters the work force at all levels. They balance the needs of the service with the needs of those under their charge by following excellent examples of compassion, advocacy, mentorship and duty. No one is born a leader; it is something that is learned and earned. Everyone has experienced…

The United States Coast Guard (USCG) has updated many of their policies to meet the intent of the MTSA. The former 24-hour advance Notice of Arrival (NOA) has been extended to a 96-hour NOA (Frittelli, 2003, 3). This increase provides the USCG, port security, Customs and Border Patrol (CBP), and other key players increased time to validate and scrutinize vessel information. Since one criticism of these new mandates can be perceived as the slowdown of commerce due to increase checks and…

process in place for transfers into to these billets. Due to a lack of screening the Coast Guard RFO program is suffering from a lower quality of inspection. Members that are assigned to these positions are lacking in experience and competencies needed for appointment. The program in its current state has resulted in a lower quality of inspections, leaving units less prepared for mission success. The Coast Guard assignment of Sector RFO program manager billets require comprehensive screening…

Prohibition put coastal towns like Beaufort on the frontline of liquor smuggling. It was illegal to trade alcohol inside the three-mile boundary that ran along the Eastern coast. Since local watermen were making easy money running booze from offshore ships into the isolated coves and islands, they would be reticent to talk to the Coast Guard. Jake figured people would be even less likely to talk to Glenn’s family. When he left Murphy, he had decided to hide his kinship to his brother by using…

As Nell and Asa walked up the steps to the Inlet Inn, Asa pulled out a small prescription bag from his breast pocket and said, “I need to make a delivery to one of my customers upstairs. I’ll come down to the ballroom when y’all start to play.” They stood on the veranda facing each other uncertainly as the scent of hush puppies and clam chowder wafted out of the large inn. Nell was still outraged by her fiancé’s harsh words regarding her Jake and Miss Bessie / and she now questioned his…

ENGINEER C4IT OFFICER (a) Ch 4.B.1.b of the Coast Guard Recruiting Manual, COMDTINST M1100.2 1. I request consideration for selection to the Direct Commission Engineer Officer Program. 2. I married my husband in 2004. I became a dependent of an active duty member of the Coast Guard. My father was active duty Navy for 23 years. I knew as a spouse of a Coast Guard active duty member I played an intricate role in supporting him and the missions of the Coast Guard. In support him I knew I was…

A huge life changing event for me was join the U.S. Coast Guard at age 18, right after I had just completed one semester at the Santa Rosa Junior College. I was a young adult thinking that I was ready to life on my own, that I was matured enough to survive on my own. That was extremely wrong in every possible way. From the first day of basic training to the first day in the fleet, was a major shift in my life. This decision to join the service was all voluntary and I knew to some extent what was…

The importance of the National Guard to the nation’s homeland defense and security is well established. Since its inception over 330 years ago, the National Guard has protected states and communities. As weather patterns began to intensify and terrorist threats increased, the National Guard’s role has expanded to assist in the response and recover to both natural and man-made disasters. It is well established that the mere presence of the National Guard after a traumatic event on United…

teaching 113 students in eight ET-A School classes. He also volunteers his time in other ET-A School’s units as an instructor, in addition to safety observer. PO Whately volunteered to be a class advisor to ET-A School Class 03-16 consisting of seven Coast Guard members and two international members from St. Kitts and St. Vincent. 3. Petty Officer Whately is ET-A School’s property manager of equipment with a value of $175,000 and a High Level Assembly (HLA) property value of $2.2 million.…

In evaluating the situation, it was easy to see that the Coast Guard was technically disadvantaged. At this time, the Coast Guard IT infrastructure consisted of a custom designed workstation, sever and network. It was ahead of its time and offered the capability of unclassified agency wide e-mail and file sharing, and in the early 90s this was far beyond other services. The Coast Guard did not have a classified network, but did have some standalone systems at the collateral…