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

Part 4 – Training
Chapter 3 – System Components
Section A. System Overview
Introduction
A.1. Underway
Boat Operations
A.2. Boat Crew
Training System
The Coast Guard’s boat crew training system establishes minimum
standards of knowledge, performance, and currency maintenance
requirements for all personnel (regular, reserve, and auxiliary) serving as
crewmembers on all shore-based and Cutter-based Coast Guard boats. It
explicitly tasks the CO/OIC with the responsibility for the training of
boat crews, and provides them with guidelines for the establishment of a
successful training program.
The best boat crew training programs combine classroom instruction,
shore-side practical exercises, and technology with an abundance of
underway time. Most of the underway training requirements in this
system can be accomplished coincidental with multi-mission operations.
When the tempo of operations does not provide sufficient underway
opportunities, as in winter or in the off-season, frequent dedicated
underway training sorties should be scheduled. For shore units that
maintain a readiness response posture, there should be very few days
when one or more boats are not underway for operations or training.
In this system:
(01) A trainee is apprenticed to an instructor who guides the trainee
through the qualification phase, providing hands-on training and
assisting with a program of study.
(02) Reading materiel is based on the references specified for each
task.
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