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Aug. 26, 2020
USCG Launches Everyone is a Recruiter incentive program
Coast Guard Recruiting Command (CGRC) has announced the Everybody is a Recruiter initiative, calling on all members, civilians, auxiliarists, and retirees to help recruit new active duty and reserve members.
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.
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.
Notes from Master Chief Bushey
Here’s a couple of quick notes from Master Chief Rob Bushey, Deputy Master Chief Petty Officer of the Coast Guard:
Celebrating 100 Years of Coast Guard Chiefs
Child Care Needs Assessment Survey
Promotions: Selections for Captain
The Coast Guard’s Captain Selection Board convened July 6, 2020, and recommended 89 members to promote to the rank of captain during promotion year 2021. Officers selected are listed below in active duty promotion list precedence (ADPL) order. Congratulations to all who have been selected for promotion.
Promotions: Captains selected for rear admiral, lower half
Seven Coast Guard captains have been selected for the rank of rear admiral, lower half, for promotion year 2021. Each admiral select received a congratulatory phone call from Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Karl Schultz prior to the message being released on Aug. 3.
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.
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.
Aug. 14, 2020
Deck Plate Leader of the Week: Master Chief Petty Officer Dan Schlangen
Master Chief Schlangen stands out as the best-of-the-best leader, exemplifying the Coast Guard core values of honor, respect and devotion to duty.
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