Flotilla 7-12 AUXWEA - Weather Class

By Daren Lewis

Shipmates,

The Auxiliary Weather Specialty Course is one of three required core courses for the Auxiliary Operational Specialist (AUXOP) status. Flotilla sponsored AUXOP courses are one of my key objectives and critical to the development of our membership. My personal thanks to 7-12 for presenting this course in 2011. Please consider signing up for this class and pursuing the AUXOP status.

I presented the AUXWEA class as a student/instructor early in my Auxiliary service and it is one of my fondest memories -- the material is relevant and useful while the time with your shipmates is well worth any commute. My experience with the 7-12 cadre is that they teach a top notch class.

Very respectfully, Daren

By Gary Davis, FC 7-12

Flotilla 7-12 will be presenting one of the CORE AuxOp classes – AuxWeather – commencing on Tuesday, 4 October 2011 from 1900 to 2100 hours, for five evenings (10/11, 18, 25, and 11/1). Classes will be held at the Training Deck at MSU Portland.

Class reservations are requested so that we will know how many tables to set up for the class.

Send your RSVP to gary@hillsboroqp.com or call 503.804.5662 by October 3, 2011.

Each student will be responsible for obtaining a Proctor for their individual final closed book exam. In this regard, Flotilla 7-12 will be hosting a final exam to be held at the Clean Water Services Admin Building in Hillsboro, Oregon on Saturday, Nov 5 from 0900 to 1200. The facility will have WIFI capability and two Proctors will be present to verify the exams. You will need to bring your own Wi-Fi capable Laptop – 7-12 will have two available for those that do not have a Wi-Fi capable laptop (reservations will be required for the 7-12 computers).

The Weather Textbook is available online at the Training National Website (www.cgaux.org/training/). You can download the book and view it on your computer. If you wish to have a hardcopy of the text with the study questions for each chapter (also seen on the electronic copy), Flotilla 7-12 will provide Blk/White copies of the 150 page textbook for $6.00 (3-hole punched for a three ring binder - Binder by Student). These will be available on the first night of the class. Requests must be made prior to the class starting by email or phone call.

Uniform will be ODU, Trops, Working Blue or appropriate civilian attire.

Class schedules will be available on Tuesday night.

Any questions please call FC/FSO-MT Gary Davis @ 503.804.5662.

One hour Team Coordination Training refresher 21SEP

By Daren Lewis

Shipmates,
An annual one hour TCT refresher is required for members in our operations program. This has been offered on a number of occasions. If you have not yet done the one-hour TCT in 2011 please consider taking the session offered by Flotilla 7-12.


Wednesday, September 21, 2011 to be held at the Clean Water Services Building (3235 SE River Road, Hillsboro, OR) from 7 pm to 8 pm.

Thank you to our FL7-12 shipmates for offering this opportunity to meet the training requirements and to focus on safety.

Be safe out there and look to the safety of your shipmates,
Daren

Division Meeting Monday 12SEP - Guest COMO Peter Raiswell

By Daren Lewis

Shipmates,
Please join us Monday 12SEP2011 at 1900hrs on the training deck at MSU Portland for our September Division meeting. Our guest will be D13 Commodore Peter Raiswell.

Flotilla 73 is our host Flotilla for the September meeting.

I look forward to seeing you there. Please bring your questions for the Commodore.

Uniform: Tropical Blue

(To accommodate this opportunity to meet with COMO Raiswell business casual is acceptable for members who have not yet purchased Tropical Blue)

Be safe out there and look to the safety of your shipmates.

Very respectfully,
Daren

New Auxiliary Manual - notable changes Chapters 1-5

By Daren Lewis

Shipmates,

On Friday the latest version of our key policy document, the Auxiliary Manual - COMDTINST M16790.1G, was released. All members should have received the temporary link via email on Friday. Once the permanent link is available we'll post it here.

Many of the policy changes incorporated into the "G" AUXMAN have been previously announced. There are a few policy changes and some important clarifications in this edition. There is a summary of changes starting on page 4 of the PDF.

Here are a few I noted that are broadly applicable to the Division 7 membership from the first five chapters:

• Updated chain of leadership communication expectations (CH1.C.5)
• Clarity on Auxiliary activity in the case of a lapse in funding for the Coast Guard (CH2.B.25)
• Establishment of the Direct Informational (DI) PSI status
• Updated administrative disciplinary procedures, informal/formal actions, appeals
• Added oversight for appointment of lay leaders (CH4.G.12)
• Addition of implicit assignment to duty (CH5.J.6)
• Clarification on claiming hours assigned to duty (CH5.J.9)
• Addition of ALAC - Auxiliary Logical Access Credential for access to Coast Guard data systems (CH5.O.4)
• Clarification of weapons provisions (CH5.Q)

I'll summarize changes to chapters 6-12 in a future post.

In upcoming trainings, newsletters and posts here we'll look at some of these changes in detail.

Be safe out there and look to the safety of your shipmates,

Daren