Coast Guard Short 3,500
Coast Guard Short 3,500 Personnel in FY 2023, Fagan Says
By: Heather Mongilio
The Coast Guard is dealing with a shortfall of about 3,500 junior, non-rated members, the top leader of the service said Tuesday.
Due to the shortfall, the Coast Guard is starting to identify billets it cannot fill as it goes into its assignment season, commandant Adm. Linda Fagan told an audience at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. CSIS hosted Fagan as part of its Maritime Security Dialogue with the U.S. Naval Institute.The Coast Guard now has to look at how it mans the fleet and meets its missions with the workforce it has, not the workforce it wants, Fagan said.
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When it comes to recruiting, the Coast Guard needs to meet potential recruits where they are, Fagan said. Like the other military branches, the Coast Guard is competing over a decreasing population.
Someone asked about how the Coasties were faring, recruitment-wise. Not so well for such a small branch. They answer to the Department of Homeland Security if that makes a difference.
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“The Coast Guard now has to look at how it mans the fleet and meets its missions with the workforce it has, not the workforce it wants, Fagan said.”
So a group of select rates are going to get screwed into longer time on station and going to sea, only hastening their stampede to the door.
Did the Coast Guard go woke???? One of my monthly United States Naval Institute Hard copy magazines has an article written that maybe the Coast Guard should be under the DOD. In the past, they were under other agencies untill now being under homeland security.
You are fucking RIGHT we did.
I’m a member of a USCG Auxiliary Flotilla in Minnesota, and one of our members was recently awarded the [Auxiliary] Commandant’s Letter of Commendation Medal. It’s the equivalent medal to the active duty/reserve medal of the USCG. It recognizes achievements that, in the 19th century British Army, would have been awarded recognition as “Mentioned In Dispatches”.
His accomplishment?
Development of a program of “Diversity, Inclusion, Animal Husbandry, Multisexualdiverseindentityinclusivenonbinarycisgendernongenderflexiblegenderpangenderisticidentificationalnonscientificallybasedfolderollandgobbledeegookalism”
WOW, I have to ask someone I know that was in the Coast Guard around 1958 about how it was compared to now and most likely it will be the same as when I Kiddie Cruised into the Navy in 1963.
You wanna fix this “shortfall”? Just make all new recruits admirals straight out of bootcamp…this generation feels they deserve it.
Well, gosh darn, it’s just not looking good for any of the uniformed services. I wonder how the Public Health Service is doing. Their leadership is truly inspirational.
Pardon my twisted humor
If the Coasties are that short, can they all just wade to shore?
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Most pirates just splash their way thru puddles, Graybeard.
Here’s a novel thought for recruiting problems… How about if we get the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security to start looking after Defending and providing Security to The Homeland? After all…your mission is in your name. And maybe…just maybe, 20+ years of defending and providing security to other people’s homeland has worn thin…or gasps, clutches pearls…it could be that your turning the Military into a failed social experiment has finally caught up with you.
Ya got one over on me Graybeard and I give you a BZ for the rim shot
What kind of bold face lie is this?
“the Coast Guard is competing over a decreasing population”
I think “decreasing population” is political speak for “unqualified candidates”, because the pool is either too fat, too stupid, have medical and/or psychological issues, criminal histories, and so on.
Combined with the factor of “woke”, then you have a recipe for disaster.
I’m an officer in the Coast Guard Auxiliary, and I have a feeling that they may start going to us to fill empty billets. But, there’s a problem there; most of us are elderly, and the Constitutional mandate for the Auxiliary doesn’t allow us to fill such billets as Law Enforcement, or Combat Arms.
We did a fantastic job after 9/11, and during Hurricane Katrina (we got the Presidential Unit Citation). But we are limited. We can be activated under extreme conditions [I don’t see that happening], but my current flotilla seems unable to see the need to fill our ranks with YOUNGER members.
I don’t know what we can do.