The Emergency Management and Disaster Response Directorate has posted the Incident Action Plan and the After Action Report on the recent Southwest Border Operation.  Member Zone login is required to view these documents. See the Incident Plan/Rpts submenu under ICS Resources 

In order to encourage the professional development of Emergency Management and Disaster Response Leaders, we have established a recommended reading list which will be expanding over time.  A link to the Q Director's Reading List is here and on the left menu of the Q Directorate website.

The CG-OEM Emergency Management Credential Application Guide has been updated.  Visit our EM Qualification/CGEMC page to see the latest update.

The release of an updated Emergency Management Manual Volume III - Exercises COMDTINST 3010.13D was announced on 02 May via ALCOAST 158/22. Have a look at the manual here or along with the other Emergency Management Manual Volumes on our References page.

The eagerly anticipated  Emergency Management Specialist Performance Qualification Standard has been released.  ALCOAST 007/22 announced the promulgation of the Emergency Management Specialist Performance Qualification Standard (01 January 2022) and the cancellation of the Contingency Preparedness Specialist Performance Qualification Standard (11 May 2016).

For more details see ALCOAST 007/22

The USCG Office of Emergency Management and Disaster Response (OEM) has established a new Instagram page. Visit and follow @USCGOEM to keep up with the latest images.

Please bookmark the USCG AUX EM SITREP Dashboard Page as the Auxiliary’s primary information portal for significant emergency management related notices and updates.

This Dashboard provides in many instances live up-to-the-minute data links to critical Official and Non-Governmental Organization websites with a plethora of details as you drill down into the links. Access to the Dashboard is restricted only by Auxiliary Member ID and Password.

The Emergency Mgt. & Disaster Response (Q) Dashboard Team seeks input form DSO-EM's in developing a “Standardized DSO-EM Report” document. When created, the standard report would be used when reporting up to the Q Directorate and that information will subsequently be posted in the Dashboard’s DSO-EM Tab. It’s anticipated using MS Word. There will certainly be basic common elements to any District’s report. DSO's, after consultation with your District Commodore please share with us your reporting needs by 16 September 2021 direct your responses to sitrep@cgauxnet.us and cc to bhhanlon1389@gmail.com.

Seven Auxiliary members were among 53 individuals awarded Coast Guard Emergency Mgt Credentials as recommended by the Coast Guard Emergency Management Credential (CGEMC) Board.  The CGEMC is available to any active duty (officer or enlisted), civilian, reserve (officer or enlisted), or auxiliary member who meets the training, experience, and test criteria, regardless of specialty or assigned duty station/position.  The Auxiliary members who met the requirements for CGEMC were AUX William Steadman, AUX Joseph Gleason, AUX Anthony Marzano, AUX Camilo Olivieri, AUX Stephen Kastensmidt, AUX Joseph Leonard, Jr. and AUX Michael Mason.

Members interested in learning more about the CGEMC requirements and process should visit our CG EM Qual Docs page (Member Zone Log in required) and consult with their DSO-EM.

The Auxiliary Emergency Management and Disaster Response Directorate has announced the beta testing of a new Auxiliary Qualification Tracking (AQT) to identify auxiliarists with Incident Command System, USCG, and Auxiliary qualifications, as well as professional qualifications and other skills that may be of use to the Coast Guard during normal and emergency response operations

• Auxiliarists who wish to make known their qualifications and availability to provide these types of support should download and complete the Auxiliary Qualification Information Worksheet at the link below.

District managers will consolidate information provided by individual auxiliarists and utilize the information to fill ongoing and emergency response mission requirements. The information can also be consolidated for use by the Q Directorate, the Coast Guard, and other government agencies to identify auxiliarists with needed skills and qualifications that may be needed in large-scale operations such as oil spills and hurricane response.

ACN 116/20 announced the promulgation of the U S. COAST GUARD EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT MANUAL VOLUME IV: INCIDENT MANAGEMENT AND CIRSIS RESPONSE, COMDINST M3010.24A and cancellation of the Contingency Preparedness Planning Manual Volume 4: Incident Management and Crisis Response, COMDTINST M3010.24. 

See  ACN 116/20 - OCT 2020 PROMULGATION OF U S. COAST GUARD EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT MANUAL VOLUME IV: INCIDENT MANAGEMENT AND CRISIS RESPONSE

The Coast Guard's Office of Emergency Management has issued guidance for Coast Guard Members for application to the ICS Certification Board. The USCG ICS Certification Board is the annual convening mechanism for awarding Type 1 and Type 2 ICS certification in 30 different nationally recognized ICS positions.

See  ALCOAST 393/20 - OCT 2020 2020/2021 USCG ICS CERTIFICATION BOARD APPLICATION GUIDANCE

The July issue of the CG-OEM Monthly Update is available on our CG-OEM News page.

The USCG Office of Emergency Management and Disaster Response (OEM) has established a new Facebook page.  Visit https://www.facebook.com/uscgoem/

The Office of Emergency Management (CG-OEM) announced the release of the new Coast Guard ICS-402 Self-Paced eLearning (SPeL) course (100330) in ALCOAST 291/20. This is the third ICS course to shift from a classroom delivery to a SPeL course, increasing accessibility of training to all Coast Guard members.

While today this training is not available to Auxiliary members without CG.mil accounts, interested members should watch for further developments.

When the LMS Fails to complete the Emergency First Responder course no matter what browser is used. Members should take a screenshot of the “You have successfully completed” screen BEFORE clicking on the link to get a certificate. The screen shot would need to be submitted for entry. If they miss this opportunity they should try to navigate back to the “My Transcript” page and print the transcript. If the AUXLMS system works OK, then you have a copy for yourself.  The upload from AUXLMS to AUXDATA II is not automatic yet, and at this time it requires a manual download from a member of the National staff, and they are 3 weeks behind at this time.

Contact your local IS COLM for further instruction.

Self paced E-Learning options for Incident Command System (ICS) 300 and 400 level training are now available in AUXLMS.  The course offerings are found in the Coast Guard (Gold) Catalog in the Incident Management Section.

Intermediate Incident Command System ICS-300 is an online course that is designed for personnel and supervisors assigned to key Emergency Operations Center (EOC) and Incident Command Post (ICP) positions. It provides description and detail of the organization and operation of the ICS, management of resources, describes the duties of all positions. Prerequisites for ICS-300 include IS-100, IS-200, IS-700, and IS-800. These courses are also found in AUXLMS under the Coast Guard (Gold) Catalog in the Incident Management section.

Advanced Incident Command System ICS-400 is an online course designed for personnel expected to perform in Command and General Staff roles in the Incident Command Post and/or in a management capacity in an Area Command (AC) with complex incident environments. The course emphasizes large-scale organizational development and management including planning, operational, logistical, and fiscal considerations. Roles and relationships of the primary staff are examined. Additionally, it describes the application of AC and the importance of interagency coordination. The pre-requisite course requirement is Intermediate Incident Command System (ICS-300).

The Coast Guard Office of Emergency Management & Disaster Response (CG-OEM) has released Program Updates for November 2019.  see ALCOAST 355/19 - NOV 2019 COMDT OFFICE OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT & DISASTER RESPONSE (CG-OEM) PROGRAM UPDATES

Two Independent Study (IS) courses listed as prerequisite requirements in the newly released OCT 2019 NIMS ICS Coast Guard Agency Representative (CG-AREP) PQS, have been retired.

An ALCOAST Message addressing this issue pends. In the meantime, refer to Memo 2019-10-19 for guidance.

CANUSLANT - Joint Response Team (JRT)

LANTAREA, D1, and Sector Northern New England participated in CANUSLANT 2019 on June 12-13th. The two-day exercise enabled the U.S. Coast Guard, Canadian Coast Guard, Maine Department of Environmental Protection, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and dozens of other federal, state, industry and local partners to deploy the Incident Command System in response to a worst case, cross-border oil spill response scenario.

Coordinated, just-in-time ICS refresher training provided by the CG Incident Management Assistance Team (IMAT) was key to preparing the 100+ participating responders in the U.S. Incident Command Post to fill their respective ICS positions and follow ICS processes and procedures as the exercise unfolded.

In addition to the U.S. Incident Command Post that Sector Northern New England and their port partners established in Portland, Maine, the Canadian Coast Guard and their partners established an Incident Command Post in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada. The First Coast Guard District and their Canadian counterparts established an Area Command near the international border in Saint Andrews, New Brunswick.  Seven Auxiliary members were assigned various roles in the exercise including situation team leader, assistant situation team leaders, forward deployed observers in the Operations and Resource sections. Auxiliary personnel were also assigned as IMSS Technical Specialists - Incident Management Systems Software.

(USCG Photo)

New BSX Policy on ICS Minimum Requirements 

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REMINDER 

 A reminder this course is required for all OPS personnel.

 Risk Management Required Course - ALCOAST