March 10th, 2010 | 
The world of General Mandated Training (GMT) Mandated Training (MT) can be a dizzying foray of information to have to process. More oft than not you’ll sit around and ignore the emails from your local training officer telling to make your way to “the portal” and do your mandated training. Only you know for sure [...]
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Some of the most dedicated health nuts I’ve come across are fellow Coasties who’ve, for all intensive purposes, put me to shame in the “always on” physical fitness mode (i.e. cross fit). For some of the other fitness folks out there, the ones who enjoy running (’cause let’s face it, cross fitters are in a [...]  On February 25th, 2010 the Associated Press released a piece by Eileen Sullivan titled Coast Guard pick wants to refine homeland mission; a piece based on a leaked memo authored by the USCG’s perspective Commandant VADM Robert J. Papp Jr. As a reminder VADM Papp is slated, upon confirmation any day now, to take the [...] As the trend goes it seems as though all things become part of the social media scene whether we, or they (‘er, Tiger Woods) like it or not. Following said trend- and not necessarily in a bad way- a Mr. White (we’re not talking Reservoir Dogs here) created the Facebook group revolving around the Coast [...] A great video was published today showing some of our Coasties involved in last weeks accident involving the CG-6028 in Utah. In this video we see CAPT John Hardin, AIRSTA Elizabeth City’s CO, giving a welcome home to Cmdr. Patrick Shaw (I remember when he was an LT), Petty Officer 3rd Class Darren M. Hicks, [...]  I was sent an email late yesterday afternoon stating, or rather asking, the following: Ryan- In case you hadn’t seen or heard about it there was a crash of another [Coast Guard] aircraft. This is something I thought a prior aviator like yourself would have blogged about- did you know [there] was a cash? It’s always nice [...] Hot on the heels of some great news in the social media sphere of letting DoD members (no, not the Coast Guard… yet) use social media sites on work computers comes some ammunition for those who are against it. Several websites including CNN, WSJ, and D carried the story of an Israeli (presumably Army) soldier [...] |
        
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