Division 4 What's New!
Photocopying of Military Identification Cards
Recent incidents regarding the photocopying of military identification cards and common access cards (CAC), by commercial establishments to verify military affiliation or provide government rates for service, have been reported.
Personnel are reminded that the photocopying of US Government Identification is a violation of Title 18, US Code Part I, Chapter 33, Section 701 and punishable by both fine and/or imprisonment.
Many military members, family members and DoD employees are unaware of this law. Please pass to the lowest level and include in training for force protection, information security and OPSEC.
FPO COMMENTS: Criminal elements and terrorist organizations place U.S. government identifications as a high value logistical element when planning acts against the U.S. military. Although commercial establishments are not prohibited from asking for military/government identification, many government personnel and commercial establishments are unaware of the prohibition on duplication of government identification. Unfortunately, there are no safeguards in place to ensure a government identification card won’t be counterfeited or “cloned” based on a photocopy by a commercial establishment.
It is recommended that military/DoD personnel provide a state drivers license or other form of photo identification to be photocopied if an establishment insists on a photocopy of the traveler’s identification.
*NOTE: This does not apply to medical establishments (i.e. doctor’s office, hospitals, etc…) who are allowed take a copy for the purpose of filing insurance claims; and other government agencies in the performance of official government business.
From: Allen R Harding [mailto:]
Sent: Friday, March 22, 2013 12:50 PM
Subject: Fwd: FW: Patrol Order Fiscal Management
The OTO has asked that the below email gets widest distribution. Please pass down to all flotillas and current coxswains. Also make sure your current SO-OP gets this as well.
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From: Todd, James A BOSN4
Date: Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 12:42 PM
Subject: FW: Patrol Order Fiscal Management
To: alccm, "Hall, Peggy A CIV"
Cc: TJ Del BelloDSO-OP
Good afternoon Chief of Staff,
Please consider widest dissemination of the below e-mail from the Chief Director's Office.
Ms. Hall please forward to the D8CR OIAs.
Very respectfully,
BOSN4
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From: DaPonte, Michael J CDR
Sent: Friday, March 22, 2013 12:20 PM
To: HQS-DG-lst-auxalldiraux; HQS-DG-lst-auxalloto
Subject: FW: Patrol Order Fiscal Management
Directors & OTOs,
Request your help in getting a message out to your OIAs and Auxiliarists:
DCO-83 and CG-83 are trying to get a better grip on obligated funds for patrols and the time frame before those funds are de-obligated. CG-83 has raised the need for us to work within a 90 day period, from the time the orders are issued to the time a claim is sent to FINCEN for payment. After 90 days, the funds would be de-obligated.
I know you all give your Auxiliarists a certain amount of time to submit their claims after the completion of their patrol. It's important to consider how far in advance those orders are issued (and the money is obligated) by the OIA, as that starts the 90 day clock.
I'm hoping this does not require a significant change in the way you, your OIAs, or Auxiliarists conduct business. If it does, let me know. Otherwise, please help get the word out that the expectation is to wrap things up in 90 days.
Thanks,
CDR Mike DaPonte
CG-BSX-1
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Allen Harding
DCOS District 8 Coastal Region
C: 214-532-3451
Commanders,
This email is a request of support for your FSO-MA. The following email was sent to your FSO-MA. Only two flotillas have provided their unissued PPE inventory. This does not bode well for our Division. If we expect to get materials then we have to provide the requested inventory information.
Also, a few things have changed.
All materials requests must now come from the FSO-MA. FCs can no longer make the request.
Requests are to be in Excel or Word format to expedite order handling. PDF format forces retyping of request information into proper format which provides too many opportunities for error.
Thank you for your help with this.
Edie
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Edith Wellemeyer, DCDR
District 8CR, Division 4
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-----Original Message-----
From: wcbb <<f_maranto@yahoo.com>
Sent: Wed, Feb 27, 2013 4:43 pm
Subject: Material Request Forms
Good Afternoon FSO-MA:
At the division level I want to help you do your job as well as possible, and hopefully get you the materials that you need in a timely fashion. In order to do that I need your help in submitting the request properly the first time so that we do not spend time going back and forth with emails and phone calls to get everything correct so I can push your request up the COL.
Attached are two blanks of the Materials Request Form. Please save them to your computer for use in the future. When you need one, open it, fill it out and send it, saving the original on your computer. I have also attached a sample form for reference.
PLEASE NOTE THAT THE FORMS ARE AN EXCEL FILE, OR A WORD FILE!! THE REQUEST NEEDS TO BE SUBMITTED BACK TO ME AS AN EXCEL FILE, OR A WORD FILE ONLY. IF IT IS SUBMITTED AS A PDF FILE IT WILL BE RETURNED.
PLEASE ADVISE ME BY RETURN EMAIL IF YOU DO NOT HAVE EXCEL AND/OR WORD INSTALLED ON YOUR COMPUTER.
The reason the form is an Excel or Word form is so that it can be edited, either on the Division level, the District level or the DIRAUX level. If you send it in PDF format, in most cases it can not be edited.
The sample form is based on an imaginary order for 4 Mustang suits, 3 different sizes, for 4 different auxiliarists. 3 of them have SoU forms on file, and 1 of them has the SoU form attached with the request. When I receive the form I will check to be sure the SoU forms are on file, and if not I will ask you to forward them to me, as they have to be in the Division file, as well as the District file and the DIRAUX file. The notation about the Statement of Understanding is very important and should be on each and every Materials Request form.
The Materials Request Form can only be submitted by you, the FSO-MA. If it comes from anyone else, it will be simply returned with no action taken. Please review these forms and call me, or email me with your questions. I want to help you, but I can not do that if you do not ask your questions.
On 6 February 2013 I sent a request to each of you to send me a list of your unissued PPE inventory. To date I have received replies from only two flotillas. If we do not know what, if anything, is in the flotilla's hands, we will have difficulty convincing DIRAUX to send us more material.
PLEASE, COMPLY WITH THE REQUEST FOR YOUR UNISSUED INVENTORY, A.S.A.P.
Your cooperation is appreciated, please call, or email, with your questions!
Bill Bennett, SO-MA
8th CR, Div 04
From: Todd, James BOSN4 <James.A.Todd@uscg.mil>
Date: Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 9:44 AM
Subject: OWNERSHIP CLARIFICATION
Good morning Chief of Staff,
I need to make sure I clarify the ownership requirements. If a married couple own a facility jointly it is considered, or can be, sole ownership. If this is the case no further documentation need be provided. The ownership block should be checked SOLE, not Multiple in this case. If the ownership block Multiple is checked, then further documentation is needed. Sounds picky, but there it is. The most simplest fix is just check Sole ownership. Keep in mind, I don't know if Cary Jones and the co-owner Leslie Jones are married, brother/sister, cousins or simply have the same last name.
Does this make sense?
Very respectfully,
BOSN4
Folks,
For anyone that is interested, the used uniform exchange has an abundance of tucked ODU's and other items on their site. Tucked ODU's are autorized for the auxiliary until they wear out. At this time, they are NOT authorized for wear if a member goes to the Federal Bldg. (Diraux).
The address for used uniform exchange is: http://www.trlmo.com/cgaux8w/pws/uue.htm.
Some additional info on the New Canal Lighthouse for the division event
The following was taken from a book I have had for many years called “Lighthouses & Lightships of the Northern Gulf of Mexico”. The book was put together and published by the Public Affairs department of the Eighth Coast Guard District in January 1967. It was at the time the most comprehensive publication of lighthouses and lightships of the Gulf. My copy is old and I don’t even know if it is still available. The station is a historical landmark and in my early years in the Auxiliary I spent many weekends there learning about navigation and SAR.
New Canal (1838)
A canal was begun in the early 1830’s supposedly to connect the Mississippi River, or at least downtown New Orleans, with Lake Pontchartrain and was to be called “NewCanal”.
The entrance to NewCanal was marked by a lighthouse in 1838.
The lake terminus of the canal became a small harbor and in 1834, $25,000 was authorized for building the lighthouse, The same amount authorized for Port Pontchartrain, but a portion was to be used for additional beacons and buoys. Whether this structure was brick, as were others in the area built in the same time period, or a light on the keeper’s quarters is unknown.
The light was listed as unrepairable in 1854, as was the Bayou St. John light, and was rebuilt as a Fifth Order Light on the keeper’s dwelling in 1855 for $6000. The lantern showed a fixed white light with nine lamps 33 feet above sea level and visible for 13 miles. The shingle roof was replaced in 1869 with tiles to avoid fires started by sparks from passing steamers and the station stovepipe.
On February 25, 1890, the lighthouse was discontinued and a lantern hung from a pole in its place. The next day, the old building was sold at public auction and torn down. The present two-story white frame dwelling was erected, on iron pilings with a Fifth Order lens on top. The light was then 49 feet above sea level. There is some evidence that the building may have been moved in about 1900-1910 to cement pilings nearby.
An 1886 survey of the site shows the light approximately 1,000 feet north of the natural shoreline, at the end of the east jetty. One vague report indicates that the light may have been closer to shore. Landfill projects have extended the shoreline to the lighthouse site, which now barely juts out into the lake.
The New Canal Lighthouse is still very much active. Some two-dozen Coast Guardsmen man the station and are responsible for all rescue work in Lake Pontchartrain and the Greater New Orleans area.
This was where the story ended in 1967 but it is not the end of the story. The raised white concrete structure still on the site of the station was built I believe in the early 1960’s and served several functions the south end of the building was the maintenance shop for the boats. The middle section was the radio room and the XO’s office. The north end was the generator room and storage for supplies. The open deck which joined the structure to the lighthouse was used as the exercise deck and general crew gathering area. The lighthouse first floor contained a small recreation room, quarters for the officer in charge, kitchen and a small dining area and washroom for washing clothes or taking a shower. Up the stairs of the light structure led to the crew quarters on the second deck. Above that was the light tower. The light that was in the station was a beautiful brass Fresnel lens that was meticulously maintained by the crew and could be seen from almost anywhere on the lake. Its brightness was such that the windows facing land were painted to keep the light out of the houses in Lakeview at night. The light was removed I believe in the 70’s since an admiral thought it would make a great decoration in his quarters which at that time was in the CG housing subdivision in New Orleans East. When the CG housing complex was sold the light was moved to first to the Group offices on the IndustrialCanal and it now resides at Sector New Orleans in Algiers.
New Canal Station over the years had 2-40 foot UTB which were replaced by the 41 foot UTB and a compliment of smaller Boston Whaler trailerable boats. But the station compliment was always cramped into the lighthouse until the building of the new station in Bucktown. It was at that time that the CG changed from using StationNewCanal to Station New Orleans. StationNewCanal was turned over to the Orleans Levee Board where there were grandiose plans which never reached fruition and eventually turned over to the Save the Lake Foundation. The lighthouse was not in the best of shape and in 2005 Hurricane Katrina knocked it from its pilings and destroyed the most beautiful light on the lake. It has taken 7 years but the new station now sits back on its same location with a new aluminum light structure. The old cast iron light tower, while being historically relevant, was not repairable.
So this is the history of StationNewCanal as I know it and on 29 August, 7 years to the day that Katrina dealt the death blow to the old lighthouse, it will be relighted for all to see. I for one will make every attempt to be there when the light comes back on.
Dave Buras