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USCG 12 Week OCS - Program III
OFFICE OF AVIATION FORCES - ✔✔COMDT CG- 711
MH-60T - ✔✔CRUISE SPEED- 180 KNOTS
RANGE- 700 NMs ENDURANCE- 6.5 HOURS MH-65D/E - ✔✔CRUISE SPEED- 148 KNOTS RANGE- 350 NMs ENDURANCE- 3 HOURS HC-144 OCEAN SENTRY - ✔✔CRUISE SPEED- 215 KNOTS RANGE- 2100 NMs ENDURANCE- 10+ HOURS HC-130J - ✔✔CRUISE SPEED- 320 KNOTS RANGE- 490 0 NMs ENDURANCE- 20+ HOURS AVIATION- OPERATIONAL CONTROL (OPCON) - ✔✔IS THE AUTHORITY TO ORGANIZE AND EMPLOY AVIATION FORCES, ASSIGN TASKS & DESIGNATE OBJECTIVES, AND GIVE AUTHORITATIVE DIRECTION NECESSARY TO ACCOMPLISH THE MISSION OPCON RESIDES WITH THE ______ AND IS TYPICALLY ______ TO THE ________. - ✔✔AREA COMMANDER, DELEGATED, DISTRICT COMMANDER
AVIATION- TACON - ✔✔- TYPICALLY RESTS WITH THE CO OF THE AIR STATION FOR WHICH THE ASSETS ARE
ASSIGNED
- ON ALL FLIGHTS INVOLVING A TACON CHANGE, THE TIME AND PLACE OF TACON SHIFT SHALL BE CLEARLY
DEFINED.
AVIATION- ADMINISTRATIVE CONTROL (ADCON) - ✔✔IS THE RESPONSIBILITY TO ADMINISTRATIVELY
SUPPORT OPERATIONAL PERSONNEL
CONSIDERATION MAY BE GIVEN TO SHIFTING ADCON OF A CUTTER DEPLOYED HELICOPTER FOR
DEPLOYMENTS GREATER THAN ____ DAYS. - ✔✔ 60
FLIGHT APPLICATION CRITERIA - ✔✔MEDICALLY:
62"-78" TALL (99-238LBS)
UNCORRECTED DISTANCE VISION OF MUST BE 20/50- MUST BE CORRECTABLE TO 20/
UNCORRECTED NEAR VISIOM MUST BE 20/50- MUST BE CORRECTABLE TO 20/
NORMAL COLOR & DEPTH PERCEPTION
CLASS 1 DENTAL
PRK/LASIK ARE PERMITTED PROCEDURES
COMPLAINANT CONTACTS CIVIL RIGHTS SERVICE PROVIDER WITHIN HOW MANY DAYS OF ACTION? - ✔✔ 45
CALENDAR DAYS
COMMAND HAS HOW MANY CALENDAR DAYS TO ATTEMP RESOLUTION? - ✔✔ 15
HOW MANY DAYS DOES THE CIVIL RIGHTS SERVICE PROVIDER HAVE TO INQUIRE, RESOLVE OR ISSUE NRTF A
FORMAL COMPLAINT? - ✔✔30 DAYS
2. ASSESS HAZARDS
3. DEVELOP CONTROLS AND MAKE DECISIONS
4. IMPLEMENT CONTROLS
5.SUPERVISE & EVALUATE
ORM STEP 1: IDENTIFY HAZARDS - ✔✔PHASE 1 MISSION/TASK ANALYSIS
PHASE 2 LIST HAZARDS
PHASE 3 LIST CAUSES
PEACE MODEL - ✔✔PLANNING, EVENT, ASSET CREW & ASSET RESOURCES, COMS, ENVIROMENT
S.T.A.A.R - ✔✔Spread Out, Transfer, Avoid, Accept, Reduce EER - ✔✔CG-3788 A-G CO RESPONSIBILITIES - ✔✔APPOINT EDUCATION OFFICER INFORM PERSONNEL OF ADVANCEMNET REQUIRMENTS PROVIDE ON-THE-JOB-TRAINING MAKE RESOURCES AVAILABLE FOR SELF-STUDY READY OR NOT RECOMMENDED OR NOT ALMIS - ✔✔Asset Logistics Management Information System FOUR MAJOR ALMIS MODULES - ✔✔ASSET COMPUTERIZED MAINTENANCE SYSTEM (ACMS) ASSET MAINTENANCE MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM (AMMIS)- PARTS & PURCHASING
ELECTRONIC ASSET LOGBOOK (EAL)
DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM (DSS)- DATA COLLECTION
WHAT SYSTEM IS USED TO TRACK CURRENCIES? - ✔✔TMT
MISLE - ✔✔PRIMARY MEANS FOR COLLECTING AND STORING INFO RELATIVE TO ALL CG OPERATIONS.
6 CONCENTRATIONS OF MISLE - ✔✔ARRIVALS
FACILITY INSPECTIONS
VESSEL INSPECTIONS
LAW ENFORCEMENT ACTIVITIES
MARINE SAFETY ACTIVITIES
SEARCH AND RESCUE ACTIVITIES
BEFORE TAKING THE SERVICE-WIDE EXAM - ✔✔VERIFY SWE PERSONAL DATA EXTRACT (PDE) TO ENSURE
CORRECT INFORMATION
TIS/TIG REQUIRMENTS FOR ADVANCEMENTS- E2 TO E3 - ✔✔SIX MONTHS IN PAYGRADE E
TIS/TIG REQUIRMENTS FOR ADVANCEMENTS- E3 TO E4 - ✔✔SIX MONTHS IN PAY GRADE, GRADUATION
FROM A SCHOOL
TIS/TIG REQUIRMENTS FOR ADVANCEMENTS- E4 TO E5 - ✔✔SIX MONTHS IN PAY GRADE E-4 IN CURRENT
RATING
TIS/TIG REQUIRMENTS FOR ADVANCEMENTS- E5 TO E6 - ✔✔TWELVE MONTHS IN PAY GRADE E5 IN CURRENT
RATING
TRAINING MANAGEMENT TOOL (TMT) - ✔✔ASSISTS UNITS IN PLANNING, TRACKING AND REPORTING
PESONNEL AND UNIT LEVEL TRAINING ACTIVITIES.
ELECTRONIC ASSET LOGBOOK (EAL) - ✔✔TRACKS: ALL OPERATIONAL ACTIVITIES, MAINTENANCE, CREW
PERFORMANCE AND TRAINING REQUIRMENTS
WHO IS ABLE TO CERTIFY A UNIT MEMBER IN TMT AFTER THEY HAVE COMPLETED ALL COMPETENCY
REQUIRMENTS? - ✔✔CO (COMMANDING OFFICER) / OINC (OFFICER IN CHARGE)
____ PERCENT OF GLOBAL TRADE TRAVEL BY SEA - ✔✔ 90
VESSEL TRAFFIC SERVICES (VTS) - ✔✔MARINE TRAFFICE MONITORING SYSTEM ESTABLISHED BY THE USCG TO
AID IN THE CONTROL AND MOVEMENT OF VESSELS ON THE WATER IN CERTAIN AREAS OF OPERATIONS.
AIDS TO NAVIGATION (ATON) - ✔✔ANY DEVICE EXTERNAL TO A VESSEL INTENDED TO ASSIST A NAVIGATOR
TO DETERMINE THEIR POSITION, SAFE COURSE AND/OR TO WARN OF DANGERS OR OBSTRUCTIONS
BUOYS - ✔✔AN UNMANNED FLOATING AID TO NAVIGATION MOORED TO THE SEABED. THEY CAN BE BOTH
LIGHTED AND UNLIGHTED
BEACON - ✔✔ANY FIXED ATON LOCATED ON SHORE OR MARINE SITES.
LIGHTED- CALLED LIGHTS
UNLIGHTED- DAY BEACONS OR BOARDS
RANGE MARKERS - ✔✔PAIRS OF BEACONS ARRANGED SO THAT WHEN THEY ARE LINED UP THEY INDICATE
THE CENTER OF THE CHANNEL
IALA - ✔✔International Association of Lighthouse Authorities
IALA - 2 REGIONS - ✔✔REGION A- MOST OF THE WORLD
REGION B- NORTH & SOUTH AMERICA, JAPAN, KORA AND THE PHILIPPINES
REGION A - ✔✔GREEN EVEN TRIANGLES
RED ODD SQUARES
REGION B - ✔✔RED EVEN TRIANGLES
GREEN ODD SQUARES
3 R's - ✔✔RED RIGHT RETURN (FROM SEA) LATERAL SYSTEM - ✔✔EMPLOYS A SIMPLE ARRANGEMENT OF COLORS, SHAPES, NUMBERS AND LIGHT CHARACTERISTICS TO SHOW WHICH SIDE AN AID SHOULD BE PASSED ON. PREFERRED CHANNEL MARKER - ✔✔MARKS JUNCTIONS & BIFURCATIONS COLOR- RED OR GREEN HORIZONTALLY BANDED SHAPE- SAME AS PREFERRED CHANNEL (UPPERMOST BAND IS PREFERRED CHANNEL) WHITE LETTERING SAFE WATER MARKS - ✔✔INDICATED THERE IS NAVIGABLE WATER ALL AROUND THE MARK COLOR- RED & WHITE VERTICALLY STRIPED LETTERING- WHITE LIGHT- WHITE RANGE LIGHTS/DAYBOARDS - ✔✔INDICATED A SAFE ROUTE/CENTERLINE OF CHANNEL IDENTIFYING MARKS FOR INTRACOASTAL WATERWAY SYSTEM (ICW) - ✔✔YELLOW SQUARE OR TRIANGLE
Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon (EPIRB) - ✔✔LOCATOR BEACON, GMDSS REQUIRMENT, TRANSMITS TO SATELLITES AND PASSES INFO TO APPROPRIATE FIRST RESPONDER ORGANIZATION AUTOMATED IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM (AIS) - ✔✔It is a system used by ships and Vessel Traffic Service (VTS) principally for the identification and the locating of vessels. AIS provides a means for ships to electronically exchange ship data including: identification, position, course, and speed, with other nearby ships and VTS stations. RESCUE 21 - ✔✔CG's ADVANCED COMMAND, CONTROL AND DIRECTION FINDING COMMS SYSTEM CHANNEL 16 - ✔✔156.8 MHZ 21a, 23a, 81a, 83a - ✔✔USCG CHANNEL HOW TO TRANSMIT A MESSAGE - ✔✔1. NAME A STATION BEING CALLED
- NAME OF STATION CALLING
- THE MESSAGE ITSELF PROWORDS - ✔✔BREAK, I SAY AGIN, ROGER, SAY AGAIN, OVER, OUT, WAIT, WAIT OUT, WORD AFTER, NOTHING HEARD, READ BACK, ALL AFTER 2 TYPES OF MARINE INVESTIGATIONS - ✔✔MARINE CASUALTY & PERSONNEL MARINE CASUALTY - ✔✔REPORTABLE MARINE CASUALTY, SERIOUS MARINE INCIDENT, MAJOR MARINE CASULATY REPORTABLE MARINE CASUALTIES - ✔✔INTENDED OR UNINTENDED GROUDING, ALLISIONS, OR COLLISIONS
LOSS OF PROPULSION OR STEERING
LOSS OF LIFE
INJURY BEYOND FIRST AID
DAMAGE OF PROPERTY $75K
SIGNIFICANT HARM TO THE ENVIRONMENT
SERIOUS MARINE INCIDENT - ✔✔ONE OR MORE DEATHS
DAMAGE OF PROPERTY $200K OR MORE
DISCHARGE OF 10K GALLONS OF OIL OR HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCE
DRUG & ALCOHOL TESTING - ✔✔APPLIES VESSEL ENGAGED IN COMMERCIAL SERVICES (SERIOUS INCIDENT
OR HIGHER)
ALCOHOL TESTING- 2 HOURS AND NO MORE THAN 8
DRUG TESTING- 32 HOURS
MAJOR MARINE CASUALTY - ✔✔LOSS OF 6 OR MORE LIVES
LOSS OF MECHANICALLY PROPELLED VESSEL 100 GT+
DAMAGE TO PROPERTY $500K+
SERIOUS THREAT TO LIFE, PROPERTY OR ENVIROMENT BY HAZARDOUS MATERIALS.
JOINT INVESTIGATIONS - ✔✔NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD (NTSB)
PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATIONS FOR: - ✔✔MAJOR MARINE CASULALTY WHICH INVOLVES SIGNIFICANT
SAFETY ISSUES RELATING TO CG SAFETY FUNCTIONS (SAR, ATON, VTS)
INITIATING EVENT - ✔✔THE FIRST UNWANTED OR NEGATIVE OUTCOME
MAY ALWAYS BE THE FIRST REPORTABLE EVENT
14 USC 521
14 USC 102 - ✔✔"Develop, establish, maintain and operate...rescue facilities for the promotion of safety on, under and over the high seas and waters subject to the jurisdiction of the United States." 14 USC 521 - ✔✔AUTHORITY TO CONDUCT SAR SAR SYSTEM THREE LEVEL OF COORDINATION - ✔✔SAR COORDINATORS (SCs) SAR MISSION COORDINATORS (SMC's) ON-SCENE COORDINATOR (OSCs) WHO CARRYS OUT THE SAR MISSION? - ✔✔SEARCH AND RESUE UNITS (SRU) Rescue Coordination Center (RCC) - ✔✔IS INTERNATIONALLY RECOGNIZED WITH THE RESPONSIBILITY TO COORDINATE SAR OPERATIONS WITHIN A SPECIFIED AREA OF RESPONSIBILITY (AOR) SAR COORDINATOR - ✔✔HAS OVERALL RESPONSIBILITY FOR ESTABLISHING, STAFFING, EQUIPPING AND MANAGING SAR SAR MISSION COORDINATOR (SMC) - ✔✔ESTABLISHED BY SC, IS DESIGNATED FOR THE PURPOSE OF COORDINATING A SPECIFIC SAR MISSION ON-SCENE COORDINATOR (OSC) - ✔✔DESIGNATED TO COORDINATE SAR OPERATIONS WITHIN A SPECIFIC SEARCH AREA SAR UNIT - ✔✔TRAINED PERSONNEL, PROVIDED WITH SUITABLE EQUIPMENT AND FOR THE EXPEDITIOUS CONDUCT OF SAR
EMERGENCY PHASE- UNCERNTAINTY - ✔✔EXISTS WHEN THERE IS KNOWLEDGE OF A SITUATION THAT MAY
NEED TO BE MONITORED, OR TO HAVE MORE INFO GATHERED BUT THAT DOES REQUIRE MOVING
RESOURCES (DOUBT)
EMERGENCY PHASE- ALERT - ✔✔EXISTS WHEN A CRAFT OR PERSON IS EXPERIENCING SOME DIFFICULTY AND
MAY NEED ASSISTANCE, BUT IS NOT IN IMMEDIATE DANGER OR IN NEED OF IMMEDIATE RESPONSE
(APPREHENSION)
EMERGENCY PHASE- DISTRESS - ✔✔EXISTS WHEN GRAVE OR IMMINENT DANGER REQUIRING IMMEDIATE
RESPONSE TO THE DISTRESS SCENE THREATENS A CRAFT OR PERSON
SAR COMPONENT- COMMUNICATIONS - ✔✔SAR RELATED PROCEDURAL WORDS (PRO-WORDS): MAYDAY
(DISTRESS), PAN-PAN (URGENCY), SECURITE (SAFETY SIGNAL)
SAR CHECK SHEET BIG FIVE - ✔✔1. VESSEL'S POSITION
2. NUMBER OF PERSONS ON BOARD
3. NATURE OF DISTRESS
4. DESCRIPTION OF VESSEL
- LIFEJACKETS/PFDs TRACK LINE SEARCH (T) - ✔✔ARE USED WHEN THE INTENDED ROUTE OF THE SEARCH OBJECT IS KNOWN PARALLEL SEARCH (P) - ✔✔ARE NORMALLY USED FOR LARGE, FAIRLY LEVEL SEARCH AREAS, WHERE ONLY APPROXIMATE INITIAL POSITION IS KNOW AND WHEN UNIFORM COVERAGE IS DESIRED TRACK SPACING STANDARD - ✔✔1 NAUTICAL MILE CREEPING LINE SEARCH (C) - ✔✔ARE USED TO COVER ONE END OF AN AREA FIRST OR TO CHANGE DIRECTION OF THE SEARCH LEGS WHERE SUN GLARE OR SWELL DIRECTION MAKES THIS NECESSARY
DOMESTIC VESSEL INSPECTIONS - ✔✔40 U.S.C. 3305
TWO TYPES OF VESSELS INSPECTED: PASSENGER & CARGO
COMPONENTS OF VESSEL INSPECTIONS - ✔✔DOCUMENTATION
LIFESAVING
MACHINERY
FIREFIGHTING
HULL STRUCTURE
THROUGH ITS PORT STATE CONTROL PROGRAM - ✔✔THE USCG EXAMINES FOREIGN FLAGGED SHIPS
OPERATING IN US WATERS TO VERIFY COMPLIANCE WITH APPLICABLE INTERNATIONAL CONVENTIONS
Purpose of the port state control program? - ✔✔ELIMATE SUBSTANDARD SHIPS WHAT PERCENT OF US PORT CALLS ARE MADE BY FOREIGN VESSEL? - ✔✔95 PERCENT TYPES OF VESSELS EXAMINED - ✔✔TANKERS- GAS, CHEMICAL, OIL FREIGHT: BULK, CONTAINER, RORO PASSENGER OTHER- HEAVY LIFT, SEMI-SUBMERSIBLE, MOBILE OFFSHORE DRILLING UNITS PORT STATE CONTROL: INTERNATIONAL CONVENTIONS - ✔✔ORIGINATED IN 1914 DUE TO THE TITANIC DISASTER DESIGNED TO PREOTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY
WHAT IS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT INTERNATIONAL TREATIES CONCERNING SAFETY OF MERCHANT
SHIPS? - ✔✔SAFETY OF LIKE AT SEA (SOLAS)
ROLE OF USCG IN SOLAS - ✔✔VERIFY COMPLIANCE OF FOREIGN FLAGGED VESSELS OPERATING IN US
WATERS WITH:
INTERNATIONAL CONVENTIONS
US LAWS AND REGULATIONS
STCW - ✔✔STANDARDS FOR TRAINING, CERTIFICATIONS & WATCHKEEPING
MARPOL - ✔✔prevention of pollution from ships ICLL - ✔✔INTERNATION CONVENTION OF LOAD LINES ILO - ✔✔International Labor Organization ENFORCEMENT OF LAWS & TREATY MISSIONS (ELTM) - ✔✔1. DRUG INTERDICTION
- ALIEN MIGRATION INTERDICTION OPERATIONS
- FISHERIES ENFORCEMENT
- RECREATIONAL BOATING SAFETY (RBS)
- PORTS, WATERWAYS & COASTAL SECURITY (PWCS)
- NATIONAL DEFENSE WHERE DOES THE CG GET ITS DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES? - ✔✔14 USC 102 WHAT IS AUTHORITY? - ✔✔THE GOVERNEMENTS LEGAL POWER TO ACT
ON WATER SUBJECT TO THE JURISDICTION TO THE US
ON BOARD US VESSELS ANYWHERE EXCEPT IN EXCLUSIVE STATE WATERS
ASHORE, PROVIDED THAT A SUSPECT IS FLEEING FROM ONE OF THE ABOVE
HOW DO LE PERSONNEL DISCHARGE THESE DUTIES? - ✔✔ACCORDING TO 14 USC 522(A) "USING ALL FORCE
NECESSARY"
COMDT POLICY "ONLY THAT FORCE REASONABLY NECESSARY UNDER THE CIRCUMSTANCES. EXCESSIVE
FORCE MAY NEVER BE USED"
CG CUSTOMS AUTHORITY - ✔✔14 USC 703 AND 19 USC 1401 ESTABLISH CG PETTY OFFICERS, CWO, AND
COMMISSIONED OFFICERS AS CUSTOM OFFICERS
WHAT IS JURISDICTION? - ✔✔IS THE GOV'T LEAGAL RIGHT TO EXERCISED AUTHORITY OVER ITS PERSONS
VESSELS AND TERRITORY
3 ELEMENTS OF MLE JURISDICTION - ✔✔VESSEL STATUS/FLAG
SUBSTANTIVE LAW
LOCATION
VESSEL STATUS - ✔✔IS THE CLAIM OF NATIONALITY THAT CAN BE VERIFIED BY A VALID DOCUMENT, VERBAL
CLAIM BY MASTER OR DISPLAY OF NATIONAL FLAG
VESSEL - ✔✔INCLUDES EVERY DESCRIPTION OR OTHER CONTRIVANCE USED OR CAPABLE OF BEING USED AS
A MEANS OF TRANSPORTATION IN THE WATER
4 TYPES OF VESSELS - ✔✔RECREATIONAL
COMMERCIAL
GOVERNMENT OWNED/ NON-COMMERCIAL
WARSHIPS
WARSHIP - ✔✔BELONG TO ARMED FORCES OF A NATION
UNDER THE COMMAND OF A COMMISSIONED OFFICER
CREW IS UNDER REGULAR FORCES DISCIPLINE
BEARS THE DISTINGUISHING MARKS OF WARSHIPS OF IT NATIONALITY
US FLAGGED VESSEL - ✔✔FEDERALLY DOCUMENTED OR HAS A CERTIFICATE OF NUMBERS (STATE
REGISTERED)
OWNED, IN WHOLE OR PART, BY A US CITIZEN AND NOT REGISTERED IN ANOTHER COUNTRY
FOREIGN FLAGGED VESSELS ARE ALL SEAGOING VESSELS EXCEPT: - ✔✔US VESSELS
VESSELS WITHOUT NATIONALITY
VESSELS TREATED AS WITHOUT NATIONALITY
EXCLUSIVE FLAG STATE JURISDICTION - ✔✔a vessel exercising freedom of navigation in international water is subject only to the jurisdiction of the Flag State force majeure - ✔✔IF A FOREIGN VESSEL IS FORCED INTO COASTAL STATE WATERS BY VIRTURE OF DISTRESS, WHETHER BROUGH ABOUT BY NATURAL OR MAN-MADE CAUSES IT IS GENERALLY NOT SUBJECT TO COASTAL STATE JURIDICTION DURING A REASONABLE PERIOD NECESSARY TO REMEDY THE DISTRESS. Statement of No Objection (SNO) - ✔✔The means by which a Coast Guard flag officer informs a subordinate commander that the flag officer does not object to the proposed use of the subordinate commander's lawful discretion and authority. WHAT ARE THE FIVE AUTHORITIES OF SECTOR COMMANDER? - ✔✔
