Reservist

ISS1 2015

Reservist Magazine is the award-winning official publication of the United States Coast Guard Reserve. Quarterly issues include news and feature articles about the men and women who comprise America's premier national maritime safety and security

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Boat Forces Training Opportunities First, the Office of Boat Forces would like to congratulate the following members who graduated from the Reserve RB-S Boat Crew Member Course at Training Center Yorktown on November 21, 2014. BZ to all! MK1 Robert Reed (Station Toledo), ME2 Joel Babka (Station Toledo), BM3 Matthew Jimmerson (Station Cortez), MK3 Troyton Loggins (Station Cortez) BM3 Zachary Pumphrey (Station Ft. Myers Beach), MK3 Paul Hernandez (MSST LA/LB) and FNMK Heath Desimone (Station Gloucester) Reserve quotas are available in the below Boat Forces Courses. Contact your SERA, Training Petty Officer, or Reserve Training Petty Officer to submit an Electronic Training Request (ETR) and request for ADT orders. RESERVE RB-S BOAT CREW MEMBER Course Code: 502420 Duration: 12 DAYS How To Apply: Submit Electronic Training Request via Direct Access Prerequisites: Member must be a Coast Guard enlisted reservist assigned to a billet at a Boat Forces unit that requires completion of a Reserve Boat Crew Member (BCM) competency. Priority of assignment goes to "non-BM" rates, primarily MKs and MEs. BMs complete course material in BM A-School and are therefore discouraged from applying. Offcers will not be assigned RB-S competencies and therefore will not be given quotas to this course. Special Info: none. Purpose Class Convening Dates The RESERVE RB-S BOAT CREW MEMBER (Defender Class Introduction) Course will assist in the boat crew member qualification process for Defender Class Boats. The course will provide the Reserve trainees with classroom instruction and practical hands-on experience. Specific areas of instruction include: crew efficiency factors, risk factors and team coordination, survival equipment, marlinespike seamanship, boat nomenclature, nautical terminology, basic stability, boat handling, communications, navigation and, mission-oriented operations. Facility name Start Date End Date Session # CG TRACEn Yorktown 1/26/2015 2/6/2015 26 CG TRACEn Yorktown 2/23/2015 3/6/2015 27 CG TRACEn Yorktown 3/23/2015 4/3/2015 28 CG TRACEn Yorktown 4/27/2015 6/15/2015 29 CG TRACEn Yorktown 6/15/2015 6/26/2015 30 CG TRACEn Yorktown 8/10/2015 8/21/2015 31 CG TRACE n Yorktown 8/24/2015 9/4/2015 32 34 RESERVIST � Issue 1 • 2015

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