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Coast Guard Training Case Study

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1. No formal training or development is available to Coast Guard firearm trainers beyond the initial training provided at Firearms Instructor (FAI) C school. Upon graduating FAI school members are expected to conduct training in accordance with Commandant policy. As the Coast Guard changes through revisions to firearms training and equipment the FAIs in the field are left without direct support. The lack of continuation training exposes the Coast Guard and its’ firearm trainers to legal scrutiny. The Coast Guard needs to implement formal evaluations and PQS programs to develop CG Firearms trainers.

2. Coast Guard Training Center Yorktown is the sole source for training firearm instructors in the Coast Guard. Each year Yorktown holds six classes with approximately twenty students in each class. Ref (a) dictates that FORCECOM controls all of the quotas for FAI school. FAI school is a twenty five day resident course that teaches the member: instructional techniques, range and weapon safety requirements, course of fire, marksmanship skills and coaching techniques, target reading analysis and scoring, and administrative duties of an FAI, ref (b). After successful completion of this resident course a FAI can continue to act as a FAI for the rest of their career.

3. FAIs are a limited resource in the Coast Guard and every FAI must be available to train any unit in …show more content…

Based off of Kotter’s Eight Stage Process for Leading Change (Kotter International) the largest barrier for change of this proposal would be to “Communicating the Change Vision”. These changes will have the possibility to affect the majority of Coast Guard units. The Coast Guard has 244 cutters, 169 small boat stations, 36 sectors, all of which either have FAI’s attached or could have an FAI stationed their. Resistance to change will have overcome. Unit commanders could have issue with this if there focus remains inward on just their unit. Effective leadership is vital to any service wide

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