comdtinst m16114.32c - U.S. Coast Guard

Part 3 – Aids to Navigation Team Operations
Chapter 9 – Aids to Navigation Units
Training
D.4. Training
Petty Officer
NOTE
Designated Training Petty Officer (TPO) billets are assigned to manage
the unit training program. This includes oversight of the unit’s reserve
training program and facilitates improvements in reserve readiness for
mobilization, reserve administration and reserve education opportunities.
The TPO will normally be staffed
with a Boatswain’s Mate (BM) equal
to the pay grade of the XPO, but not less than E-6. See Part 3, Chapter
1, Section D, Duties and Responsibilities paragraph D.13. The TPO
shall maintain Coxswain qualifications on all platforms assigned in
accordance with this Manual Part 4, Boat Crew Training, or as directed
by the OIC. The TPO shall work directly for the XPO.
If the requirement for an E-6 Boatswain’s Mate is unachievable due to the Aids to
Navigation Team billet structure, the next senior BM shall perform this duty.
Support
D.5. Support
Petty Officer
The position of Support Petty Officer (SPO) was created to reduce/
eliminate the Aids to Navigation Team finance, supply, and
administrative workload from the Aids to Navigation Team’s Command
Cadre. The SPO positions will be Storekeeper (SK) billets. These
positions are day-worker positions and not intended to be Aids to
Navigation Team duty stander positions. The SPO may perform the
following duties:
(01) Budgeting and accounting for, purchase/requisition, receipt,
inspection, issue, stowage and preservation, packaging, shipment,
disposal of, reutilization, and performance of inventory control
for all property and materiel belonging to the Aids to Navigation
Team(s).
(02) Maintenance of all allowance documentation, and preparation of
configuration change reports and allowance change requests;
preparation of public vouchers, transportation requests and
shipping documents.
(03) Performance of traffic management/transportation functions
including shipments, inspection, reservation, service orders, and
claims relating to Government and personnel personal property.
(04) Preparation of returns covering the receipts and expenditures of
public monies.
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