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My first post back from vacation and I’m hittin’ you up with the reminder that October is just around the proverbial corner- and with it is our new weight standards. This is actually my second post I was intending to do on the subject, but on Wednesday the Coast Guard placed a reminder ALCOAST on [...] The Coast Guard tattoo policy has changed…again. So if you were holding off on getting inked, or trying to hide your new sleeve under rolled down ODUs? Fear not! Ink away! Here is an interesting piece I stumbled across on federalnewsradio.com, talking about how the Coast Guard is working to get a handle on social media and its security issues. They talk about how the Coast Guard is looking to hire up to 3 people to work on social media. Ah, listen to me sigh dramatically [...] The local New London, CT paper The Day has a piece on the expulsion of nine Coast Guard cadets after they were found to have been using or possessing cocaine or marijuana. The article notes- All nine of the third-class cadets will receive general discharges and will be barred from ever returning to academy grounds, the [...] The battle between the use of social networking tools and the military is really starting to heat up. Last week, while I was on my little hiatus, Peter posted a Danger Room story on the Pentagon looking into an all out ban on the use of social media tools/sites such as Twitter and Facebook, among [...] This was passed to me a few weeks ago by a fellow Coastie/Guardian/Coast Guard member on the West Coast in what I’m sure was a thought of “hmm… this could happen.” So as a public service announcement of sorts we bring you a reminder of how important OPSEC is in not only our (as in [...] Imagine if you will that the Coast Guard, say in 2006-07, embraced the landscape of social media as it does today. If they, or we, were to do so we would have used sites like Amitize.com, TheHub.com, or perhaps Yahoo! 360. In doing so we would have run into a problem we’re bound to run [...] Assaulting a service member may soon be punishable by way of a 10 year prison sentence. If HR 2647 (National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010) is passed the new amendment (S 1390) will place into law provisions making those who choose to assault or destroy property owned by a service member think twice. [...] There is no doubt in the minds of the internet savvy that the Coast Guard, upon jumping in head first, had come out strong in the Social Media front when comparing to other government/military services. I’m not just talking about unit blogs, I’m talking more of the real social media medium’s such as that of [...] It’s ironic I would hear about the CG’s high-year tenure (HYT) program this week. The irony is two fold; first the historical aspect of this piece would be the fact that today, in 1991, was the day that ADM Kime officially implemented the HYT program for the Coast Guard. The official line from the Coast [...] |
 
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