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Aug. 26, 2020
Deck Plate Leader of the Week: Chief Petty Officer Jerry Minchew
Our Deck Plate Leader of the Week is Chief Petty Officer Jerry Minchew, a maritime enforcement specialist from U.S. Coast Guard Sector Long Island Sound!
Surface Navy Association Virtual Waterfront Symposium (Aug 25-27)
A Virtual Waterfront Symposium this week offers an opportunity to collaborate with your peers, and focus on your own professional development.
The event, hosted by the Surface Navy Association (SNA), started on Tuesday and runs through Friday. It is free for active duty and government civilians with a .mil or .gov email address.
There’s something for almost everyone in the line-up. Can’t make it to all the panels you want to check out? You can access videos of the sessions for 30 days.
Striving for Equality— A Historical Perspective on Women’s Evolving Role in Coast Guard Service
As we commemorate Women’s Equality Day today, Aug. 26, it is also an opportunity for us, as a workforce, to acknowledge the many great steps that our fellow female Coast Guard members have taken on the road to equality.
Station Grand Isle and Sector LA-Long Beach spouses honored for supporting Coast Guard families
The Coast Guard recognizes two hardworking volunteers as the Coast Guard’s Wanda Allen-Yearout Ombudsman of the Year Award for 2019. Dahna Simmons and Jenna Hall distinguished themselves out of the service’s 350 ombudsman throughout the service, going above and beyond assisting fellow spouses and families during the past year. This award recognizes their outstanding contributions during a difficult 2019 as our Coast Guard families navigated an unprecedented combination of natural disasters, financial uncertainty during the government shutdown, deployments, and the COVID-19 pandemic.
Command leadership can now use the Agile Workforce Guide
The Coast Guard released the updated COVID-19 Agile Workforce Guide this week to provide commanding officers and managers with a common framework that can help protect the workforce while ensuring mission readiness. The purpose of the guide is to help assess risk and tailor mitigation measures in a safe, controlled, and thoughtful way.
Aug. 7, 2020
Dear Coast Guard Family: Spouse License and Certification Reimbursement Program and other employment initiatives
Military spouses embody characteristics that are highly desirable to employers. They are dedicated, adaptable, driven, resourceful … I could go on and on (military spouses are amazing!) … yet, they experience significantly higher rates of unemployment and underemployment due to their military lifestyle.
July 31, 2020
Being Proactive about Life—Suicide Prevention Efforts at the Coast Guard
September is National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month—a designated time to discuss the very real threat suicide presents to the Coast Guard and the steps we’re taking to ensure the mental health of our members and workforce.
July 8, 2020
PCSing in the time of COVID-19: Four families share their stories
In an effort to support others, four families share their PCS stories and what they’ve learned along the way.
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