Member Information - Division 1

Division 1 will offer fingerprinting for all applicants at all Division meetings.
Do you have non-Auxiliary business on a commercial waterfront? You will soon need a TWIC. Pre-enroll at tsa.gov.
Shopping? Remember to use Shop Auxiliary. PE supplies are also available there. The District stores and catalogs no longer exist.
There is another new 7030 form (March 2008). Please download

Member Training

There is no Operations Workshop this year.
Hints on Taking FEMA EMI ICS Courses

Go to http://training.fema.gov/emiweb/IS/crslist.asp, this is the Emergency Management Institute for the FEMA Independent Study Program.

Scroll down the page and you will find every publicly available IS ICS course. Note there are four versions of the ICS 100 and 200 courses. Three of these courses are labeled as ICS-100 (or 200) for Federal Disaster Workers, Law Enforcement Personnel and Public Works Workers. While not specified by the National Auxiliary I suggest selecting the basic course version that does not have any of these three specific audiences listed. Your members will want to take:

IS-100 "Introduction to Incident Command System";
IS-200 "ICS for Single Resources and Initial Action Incidents";
IS-700 "National Incident Management Systems (NIMS) an Introduction" and
IS-800 "National Resource Plan (NRP), an Introduction

To take one of these courses, click on the course you want to take. For practice, click on IS-700 since this is the one I'm using for this demonstration.

Go to the bottom of the page and double click on "Download Final Exam Questions" and print it out. Now use your back button to go to the page where you double clicked on Download Final Exam Questions, and double click on Option 3 Printable Version - Self Study Guide. Use and review the study guide online - if you print it out you are guaranteed to use a lot of paper and ink!

The test questions should be kept at hand, because the Study Guide provides the answers in basically the same order as the test questions. You can mark the answers as you read the online guide onto your printed question and answer sheet.

After completing the study, you will be directed to take the test. Fill in the "online answer sheet" by copying the answers from the test questions that you already completed. You must also fill in the personal information at the bottom of the answer sheet. Ensure your personal information is correct as this will be recorded at the FEMA EMI Institute and used to return your completion results and certificate.

To receive Auxiliary credit for completion of the FEMA EMI ICS courses within the district the current process is to submit either the email completion notice or a copy of the certificate that you have received from FEMA EMI to your Information Services Officer. On the certificate copy/email please add your Auxiliary employee ID number. The Division IS Officer will make the appropriate report to District level for entry into AUXDATA.

Note that on successful completion of the FEMA EMI courses not only do you receive a certificate recognized by FEMA of attainment of a professional learning knowledge and skills, but you also receive continuing education credit.

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News from the Aids to Navigation Team

WELCOME TO DIVISION ONE

NAVIGATION SYSTEMS

Our mission is to:

1) Become familiar with navigation systems, their performance characteristics, and their potential discrepancies that keep them from functioning properly.

2) Become familiar with the navigation publications relevant to our area of Maine 's coastline and keep up with respective changes.

3) Become familiar with the Auxiliary's guidelines on each of the navigation systems and our role with assisting the Coast Guard.

4) Become team members with the Coast Guard ANT at Southwest Harbor , Maine and assist them in any capacity they request.

Our Coast Guard Point of Contact: BMCS Christopher St. Martin, Officer in Charge, ANT Southwest Harbor (207)244-4280

Our members and points of contact are:

District Staff Officer: DSO-NS Frank Larkin FrankJLarkin@Verizon.net

Division One Staff Officer: SO-NS Nancy Plunkett ku4uo@gwi.net

Flotilla 1-1 Staff Officer (currently vacant)

Flotilla 1-1 Raymond Monreal wellsuh@myfairpoint.net

Flotilla 1-2 Staff Officer Robert Lysaght rplysaght@yahoo.com

Flotilla 1-2 Richard Ozog ozog@gwi.net

W. Tom Sawyer wtsawyer@aol.com

Alice Lambert alice@furbushroberts.com

Tom Lambert tlambert46@roadrunner.com

Flotilla 1-3 Staff Officer (currently vacant)

Flotilla 1-4 Staff Officer Steven Meryweather MERY56@peoplepc.com

Flotilla 1-4 Al Eggleston eggleston_a@yahoo.com

Francis Kinsey FEKinsey@acadia.net

Billie Lear blear1@netzero.com

Mark Smith Leko6x9mdi@hotmail.com

Flotilla 1-5 Staff Officer Nancy Plunkett ku4uo@gwi.net

Flotilla 1-5 Les Bex betselma@midcoast.com

Charles Foote cmfjtf@roadrunner.com

Joan Foote cmfjtf@roadrunner.com

Kalevi Oittinen oittinen1@msn.com

Flotilla 1-8 Staff Officer Douglas Robinson Doug@theoldbank.net

Flotilla 1-8 Elizabeth Wiswall ENW@Silver-Oar.com

Frank Wiswall FLW@Silver-Oar.com

ATONS

The Prevention Department, Navigation Systems (DSO-NS) encourages the checking of every Federal Aid to Navigation by ANY Auxiliarist at ANY time. Nothing restricts ANY member from checking and reporting a discrepancy to the Coast Guard. Tools, forms, and a super power point presentation is available at: http://www.auxmdept.org/latest_navigation_systems_division.ht(Adobe version) and www.uscgaan.com (Excel version)

Checking a Federal Aid at North Haven to ensure nesting material has not limited recognition.

Bridges

The Bridge page is located at www.uscgaan.com or you can go directly to: www.uscgaan.com/bridges.htm. Bridges suffer extensive damages during the winter months and any member can assist by checking and reporting problems. Be sure you document any discrepancies with digital photos.

Checking a hanging wire on a bridge in Hancock County .

PATON's

The PATON page containing tools, forms, information, and a database is located at www.uscgaan.com. You must be qualified to submit discrepancies, so keep watch for training opportunities listed below under TRAINING. The ANT needs our services as they don't have the manpower, nor the local knowledge to search the entire coastline.

Small Craft Facilities

All the tools, forms, and training material are located at www.uscgaan.com The power point presentation is outstanding and will walk you through how to check and submit changes if necessary. This is an area any member can contribute quality reports to NOAA starting today!

Chart Updating

This is another area where local knowledge and keen observations can be critical in assisting the Coast Guard with information to prevent accidents at sea. Find all the information you need at www.uscgaan.com .

Publications

The 2009 Light List is now available at http://www.navcen.uscg.gov/pubs/LightLists/LightLists.htm. Corrections can be located at http://www.navcen.uscg.gov/pubs/LightLists/Corrections/V1001.pdf.

The Local Notice to Mariners for District One is available at http://www.navcen.uscg.gov/lnm/d1/lnm01082009.pdf

NOTE THAT LORAN-C TERMINATION HAS BEEN PROPOSED FOR EARLY FY2010. DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY IS COORDINATING WITH OTHER AGENCIES TO DETERMINE BACK-UP FOR GPS OPTIONS IF NEEDED.

Training Opportunities

None at present

You May find the following links useful:

For NOAA charts that include the latest local notice to mariners information (charts are updated weekly)

http://www.charts.noaa.gov/OnLineViewer/AtlanticCoastViewerTable.shtml

For a list of local notice to mariner changes since the latest Light List dated January 2009 for a specific chart

http://ocsdata.ncd.noaa.gov/nm/nmUpdates.asp?Search=Search and enter the chart number

NOTE: To avoid duplication, National policy requires that Auxiliary web sites only contain information that applies directly to each site's sponsoring unit and members. Please check the National (especially the Departmental pages) and First District North sites for other items. Key National items which affect this division may appear here for short periods.

NOTICE/DISCLAIMER: Links to non-Coast Guard entities are not under the control of the United States Coast Guard or the United States Coast Guard Auxiliary, and are provided for the convenience of our customers. They do not, in any way, constitute an endorsement of the linked pages or any commercial or private issues or products presented there. We cannot make any warranty or representation concerning the content of these sites, or secondary sites from the pages to which they link.

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No personal information is collected from visitors to this site.