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Meritorious Team
Commendation
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September 2, 2006
Dallas, TX.
CITATION TO ACCOMPANY THE AWARD OF
COAST GUARD MERITORIOUS TEAM
COMMENDATION
TO THE FOLLOWING UNITED STATES COAST
GUARD AUXILIARY TEAM
COMMERCIAL
VESSEL EXAMINATION TEAM
For exceptionally meritorious service from January 2004 to
September 2006 while serving on the Coast Guard Auxiliary Commercial
Vessel Examination Team. The Team created several innovative
workshops and training and mentoring programs for Auxiliarists,
other agencies, and commercial vessel crews to promote Auxiliary
performance, train new vessel examiners among Auxiliary, active
duty, and Reserve ranks, and promote commercial vessel safety. As a
result of the Team’s steadfast commitment to training and program
performance, the number of examinations of commercial fishing
vessels, uninspected passenger vessels, and uninspected towing
vessels notably increased. Exercising similar expertise and zeal,
the Team guided the Dockwalker program to an unprecedented level of
more than 2,200 hours focused on increasing the awareness of
commercial fishing vessel communities on vessel safety.
Demonstrating remarkable initiative and cross-programmatic
coordination, the Team created a commercial vessel examination
database for District Fishing Vessel Coordinators, and it employed
Auxiliary interpreters to translate commercial fishing vessel
regulations from English to Spanish, Portuguese, and Vietnamese.
The Team culminated its comprehensive efforts by crafting a detailed
commercial vessel safety program policy letter for the Coast Guard’s
Office of Commercial Vessel Safety that defined Auxiliary training
requirements, augmentation expectations, and performance standards.
The dedication, pride, and professionalism displayed by the United
States Coast Guard Auxiliary Commercial Vessel Examination Team are
in keeping with the highest traditions of the United States Coast
Guard and the United States Coast Guard Auxiliary.
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