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Division Seven: Success Through Unity. By: Dorothy Joan Riley, ADSO-PB, SO-PB7 Page 26 “Changes. Improvements. More changes to come.” As members of the Auxiliary, we hear those words frequently, and may wonder, “just what has been accomplished, and what comes next?” The members of Division Seven know what has been accomplished within our Division in recent years. We experience first hand the benefits of these changes, and I dare add, we like it better these days. Conrad Palermo, DCP, and Peter Lore, VCP, are putting into action goals initially set for our Division under the leadership of Richard Erett, IPDC, while Conrad Palermo was Vice Captain. Like all plans, it took on a life of its own, and the ripple effect changed ways of doing things that may not have been anticipated in the initial vision, but Conrad Palermo successfully directed those ripples to produce many positive, long term effects. In addition to supporting the individual flotillas in their initiatives, Division Seven has shifted many of the non-public program responsibilities to division level. Many activities remain by necessity at flotilla levels. All of our flotillas continue to offer Public Educations programs, Vessel Safety Checks, Marine Dealership Visitations, and other programs and services that are best provided where the boating public can more readily access them. Other programs, such as Member Training, Operations, and Public Affairs, to name a few, have many projects and events conducted at division level, which provide a great deal of interaction between members from different flotillas. More importantly, volunteer hours, facilities, and other resources can be shared. The QE mission in June included vessels and members of every flotilla in Division Seven. Thirteen members successfully qualified as crew. In March through June of this year, we offered our first Division-wide crew training program. The thirteen week training involved vessels, mentors, instructors, coxswains, and crew and trainees from every flotilla. The training was organized by Cliff Martin, SO- OP, and successfully qualified thirteen new crew members. One of the benefits of centralized training is uniformity in training, and the ability to draw members and vessels from every flotilla. This sharing of resources helped make this venture a great success. Other division level training initiatives include, but are not limited to, Team Coordination Training, Hazardous Materials patrols (HAZMAT), Harbor Patrol training (HARPAT), and a Search and Rescue (SAR) exercise in August. The Division website maintained by Terry Modica, SO-CS, has become a vital tool in keeping the Division on course. The division maintains an on-line calendar. Flotillas that offer trainings post these dates to the calendar, and members are encouraged to check the calendar regularly for programs they may wish to attend. For example, in October, Flotilla 72 in St. Petersburg offered the Auxiliary Operations Patrol program, one of the courses required to earn the Auxiliary Operations (AUXOP) device. In addition to our calendar, the site maintains up-dated member rosters for each flotilla,
the “Intercom”, the Division’s newsletter, many commonly used forms, and soon will host a program designed specifically for our Division to track member qualification status, no longer maintained in AUXDATA or AUXINFO. The Division is developing software to track Operational data, including currency maintenance. If in the future, other training requirements should be added, the SO-CS will be able to add the fields for them in the database and its web interface. The developer is programming into the database an easy way for changes to be made. The Division hosts a number of events throughout the year in which all of its members are encouraged to participate. In addition to the traditional Change of Watch Ceremony in December, and the Awards Banquet in May, Division Seven holds several fellowship events. These include picnics in March and September, and a Winter Holiday Party in December. Public Affairs events include the several boat shows in the Tampa Bay Area, and with the support of CAPT. Servidio, Commander, Sector St. Pete, we have a new annual tradition- the Blessing of the Fleet in St. Petersburg. This event was planned by Kay Lori, SO-PA, and Cliff Martin, SO-OP. The flotillas within the division are inter-connected and interdependent. We much resemble an extended family, and both flotilla and staff officers work in unison to achieve our goals. While geographically, Division Seven may literally be split in half by Tampa Bay, we are a unified whole, and thereby better able to achieve our mission of supporting the United States Coast Guard in its many civil responsibilities. Ω Page 27 An Auxiliary vessel passes in front of the reviewing stand during the Blessing of the Fleet in September. The reviewing officers from left to right are CAPT Joseph Servidio, Commander, Sector St. Petersburg, Conrad Palermo, DCP, and Chief Daniel Harris, OIC, Station St. Petersburg. Susan Fearnley from Flotilla 73 is seen filming the event. Terry Modica, SO-CS, shows the prototype for the software which will track member’s currency maintenance and operational status to Commander David Allen, DIRAUX D7, at the Division Seven meeting on August 25 hosted by Flotilla 75. Jerry Route, Flotilla 75 and Marvin Bayless, Flotilla 72 look on.
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