Coast Guard Auxiliary Leadership (CG-BSX) Policy & Member Resources

All Auxiliary Messages (ALAUXs)

All Auxiliary Messages (ALAUXs) are released periodically by the Chief Director of Auxiliary to convey important information to the Auxiliary community. They are the Auxiliary equivalent of the ALCOAST messages sent to the active duty Coast Guard. The Auxiliary needs a message system of its own because Auxiliarists do not have access to the Coast Guard network and so cannot read ALCOASTs. Where an ALCOAST matters to the Auxiliary, its content is passed on by ALAUX. Each entry gives the number, the date it was released, its subject, and one sentence on what it did; where a message canceled, replaced or ended an earlier one, that is said at the end of the sentence. Some of these messages have since been superseded by later directives.

Where the published message was archived, its number links to it, in PDF form, on the Chief Director of Auxiliary site. Messages from 2012 and earlier were not archived there.

2026

Thirty-six messages were issued in 2026.

1. ALAUX 001/26, 12 January 2026 — Solicitation for Coast Guard Mutual Assistance (CGMA) Board members.
   • Passes on ALCOAST 008/26 and asks Auxiliarists to apply for the one seat reserved for an Auxiliarist among five CGMA Board of Directors positions falling vacant by 1 July 2026.
2. ALAUX 002/26, 13 January 2026 — Fiscal Year 2026 national Auxiliary C-school calendar.
   • Announces that the FY26 C-school calendar has been posted on the Training Directorate website and that changes to it will be announced by ALAUX.
3. ALAUX 003/26, 14 January 2026 — Revised Uninspected Passenger Vessel Examiner PQS workbook.
   • Announces a revised UPV Examiner Performance Qualification Standards workbook, leaves already-qualified examiners qualified, and gives those part-way through the old version until 1 July 2026 to finish it.
4. ALAUX 004/26, 16 January 2026 — Blood-borne pathogen annual training requirement.
   • Restates that annual blood-borne pathogen training, required by the Auxiliary Operations Process Guide (AOPG) Volume I (16798.31A), remains a condition of being assigned to duty on ordered patrols, and says where the 2026 course sits in the Auxiliary Online Classroom.
5. ALAUX 005/26, 16 January 2026 — AUXSCOUT program SOP revision.
   • Announces AUX-SOP-002(F), which renames Youth Protection Training as Safeguarding Youth Training and changes the frequency needed to stay current from every two years to every year, replacing the April 2025 revision.
6. ALAUX 006/26, 16 January 2026 — 28th Commandant’s Intent and Force Design 2028 initial update.
   • Records that Admiral Kevin E. Lunday was sworn in as the 28th Commandant of the Coast Guard on 15 January 2026 and directs Auxiliarists to his Commandant’s Intent and to the Force Design 2028 initial update.
7. ALAUX 007/26, 29 January 2026 — Action Order 26-01 on combating sexual assault.
   • Passes on the Commandant’s new Action Order on combating sexual assault and the harassment that enables it, covering prevention, reporting options, immediate response and long-term support.
8. ALAUX 008/26, 29 January 2026 — Reminder, 2025 Captain Niels P. Thomsen Innovation Awards.
   • Reminds Auxiliarists of the nominations first advertised in ALAUX 044/25 and records that the deadline was extended to 6 February 2026.
9. ALAUX 009/26, 30 January 2026 — 2026 national workshops.
   • Sets out which National Operations Workshops are required for 2026, confirms they may be delivered by webinar by a qualified Auxiliarist who is a certified instructor or supervised by one, and states that self-attestation is not permitted.
10. ALAUX 010/26, 2 February 2026 — Auxiliary operations during a lapse in appropriations.
    • Sets out what the Auxiliary may and may not do during the partial federal government shutdown, limiting ordered operational activity to direct support of excepted functions, primarily urgent search and rescue, aids to navigation outages and security threats.
11. ALAUX 011/26, 11 February 2026 — AFRAS and Geoff Pagels awards solicitation.
    • Passes on ALCOAST 050/26 soliciting nominations for the Association for Rescue at Sea awards, including the AFRAS Silver Medal presented annually to an Auxiliarist, for calendar year 2025 rescues, by 17 March 2026.
12. ALAUX 012/26, 11 February 2026 — Force Design 2028, making change.
    • Passes on ALCGFD28 004/26 and points Auxiliarists to the public Force Design 2028 site, noting that the Coast Guard SharePoint site is reachable only with an active ALAC or NEATS token.
13. ALAUX 013/26, 14 February 2026 — Guidance for Auxiliary activities during a lapse in appropriations.
    • Expands the shutdown guidance in detail, confirming among other things that liability coverage remains in effect for Auxiliary activities during the lapse.
14. ALAUX 014/26, 9 March 2026 — Auxiliary force protection and security update.
    • Raises the force protection posture in response to an increase in national security threats, restricting Auxiliary uniform wear to assignments on Coast Guard federal property and setting out how to report suspicious activity. Canceled by ALAUX 021/26.
15. ALAUX 015/26, 25 March 2026 — Recognition of past Commodores and dedication of a memorial monument at TRACEN Cape May.
    • Announces the first national Coast Guard Auxiliary memorial dedicated to deceased Commodores, installed at Training Center Cape May under the aegis of the National Association of Commodores.
16. ALAUX 016/26, 25 March 2026 — Auxiliary support for the National RBS Survey.
    • Announces the first comprehensive national boating survey since 2018, running from March 2026 to February 2027, and asks Auxiliarists to promote it using the survey QR code stickers and the rack card ANSC-3003a.
17. ALAUX 017/26, 8 April 2026 — Reminders on cyber safety.
    • Warns that cybercriminals may impersonate Coast Guard offices or Auxiliary national staff, explains how to verify an official message, and sets out basic account and device security.
18. ALAUX 018/26, 15 April 2026 — Temporary waiver for FEMA Independent Study courses during the DHS shutdown.
    • Grants a provisional waiver of IS-100, IS-200, IS-700 and IS-800 while the FEMA Independent Study system is paused, with ninety days to complete them once it is restored. Ended by ALAUX 020/26.
19. ALAUX 019/26, 29 April 2026 — 2025 Auxiliary Flotilla of the Year.
    • Announces the National Commodore’s selection of Flotilla 10-13, Wyckoff, New Jersey, in the Northeast District Southern Region, whose sixty-five members logged more than 30,175 mission hours in 2025 with every member contributing.
20. ALAUX 020/26, 11 May 2026 — Restoration of FEMA Independent Study courses and end of the temporary waiver.
    • Records that the funding lapse has ended and the FEMA system is active again, ends the waiver granted by ALAUX 018/26, and sets 9 August 2026 as the deadline to complete the courses.
21. ALAUX 021/26, 12 May 2026 — Update to Auxiliary force protection and security.
    • Restores normal uniform wear for authorized Auxiliary activities including travel to and from them, unless a supported Coast Guard command directs otherwise locally. Cancels ALAUX 014/26 and the National Commodore’s Leadership Link message of 13 March 2026.
22. ALAUX 022/26, 19 May 2026 — 2026 National Safe Boating Week and Operation Dry Water.
    • Marks National Safe Boating Week, 16 to 22 May 2026, and asks Auxiliarists to promote boating safety courses, vessel safety checks and the decal alongside America’s Boating Club.
23. ALAUX 023/26, 21 May 2026 — Chief Director’s final action on National Board recommendations at NTRAIN 2026.
    • Records the Chief Director’s final action on the two recommendations put to the National Board at the 2026 National Training Meeting in St. Louis, including amendments to the Standing Rules at district, division and flotilla level.
24. ALAUX 024/26, 22 May 2026 — FY26 April ICS Certification Board results.
    • Passes on ALCOAST 139/26 and records the Auxiliary program personnel certified or re-certified at the Incident Command System (ICS) Certification Board that met from 13 to 17 April 2026.
25. ALAUX 025/26, 28 May 2026 — National RBS Survey, update 1.
    • Reports more than 10,000 surveys completed against a goal of 50,000, tells Auxiliarists how to request promotional material, and asks for help in Idaho, which had the lowest response rate in the country. Updates ALAUX 016/26.
26. ALAUX 026/26, 29 May 2026 — Hurricane response operational safety.
    • Passes on ALSAFETY 014/26 ahead of the hurricane season beginning 1 June.
27. ALAUX 027/26, 29 May 2026 — 2026 Commodore Charles S. Greanoff Inspirational Leadership Award.
    • Announces Auxiliarist Douglas Wisman of Flotilla 52, Eugene, in the Coast Guard Northwest District as the outstanding Auxiliary Flotilla Commander of the year.
28. ALAUX 028/26, 2 June 2026 — FY27 ICS Certification Board and Adjunct Instructor Program application guidance.
    • Passes on ALCOAST 145/26, which replaces ALCOAST 240/25, and ALCOAST 148/26 on the adjunct instructor program.
29. ALAUX 029/26, 8 June 2026 — 2026 CGMA campaign.
    • Announces that the annual CGMA fundraising campaign opens on Coast Guard Day, 4 August 2026, and explains how Auxiliary representatives register as campaign coordinators.
30. ALAUX 030/26, 8 June 2026 — Solicitation for volunteers for the National Scout Jamboree task force.
    • Passes on ALCOAST 158/26 seeking volunteers for the Jamboree at the Bechtel Summit Reserve, Beckley, West Virginia, from 22 to 31 July 2026, for which Auxiliarists may be assigned to duty.
31. ALAUX 031/26, 17 June 2026 — 2025 Auxiliarist of the Year.
    • Announces Auxiliarist Peter H. Gorenberg of the Sausalito-Tiburon Flotilla 12, Coast Guard Southwest District Northern Region, as Auxiliarist of the Year for 2025.
32. ALAUX 032/26, 22 June 2026 — Eighty-seventh anniversary of the Coast Guard Auxiliary.
    • Marks the Auxiliary’s eighty-seventh birthday on 23 June 2026 and passes on ALCOAST 181/26.
33. ALAUX 033/26, 22 July 2026 — Proceedings magazine, recreational boating safety edition.
    • Announces the edition of Proceedings devoted to recreational boating safety, the first on that subject in nearly ten years, opened by articles from the Assistant Commandant for Prevention Policy and the Chief Director of Auxiliary.
34. ALAUX 034/26, 14 August 2026 — 2025 Auxiliary Integration Award Program results.
    • Announces the recipients of the Commodore Viggo C. Bertelsen, Jr. and Vice Admiral John P. Currier Awards together with the District DIRAUX of the Year Award, alongside ALCOAST 247/26.
35. ALAUX 035/26, 14 August 2026 — Promulgation of the Auxiliary Financial and Materials Controls SOP.
    • Promulgates AUX-SOP-008(C), which authorizes RegFox and Eventzilla for event registration and states plainly that any compensation or stipend for service as an Auxiliarist is an unauthorized expenditure of Auxiliary funds. Supersedes AUX-SOP-008(B) of 8 April 2024.
36. ALAUX 036/26, 25 August 2026 — CGMA, more support for the Coast Guard community and Auxiliarists.
    • Sets out what CGMA offers Auxiliarists and the wider Coast Guard community, including interest-free loans, grants, counseling and referrals, and asks Auxiliarists to help spread awareness of it.

2025

Forty-six messages were issued in 2025.

1. ALAUX 001/25, 15 January 2025 — Solicitation for 2025 Greanoff Inspirational Leadership Award nominations.
   • Passes on ALCOAST 478/24 and sets 24 February 2025 as the date nominations must reach the Chief Director, supplementing section 11.A.16.f of the Auxiliary Manual.
2. ALAUX 002/25, 15 January 2025 — AUXSCOUT program enrollments.
   • Withdraws authorization to enroll Sea Scouts aged fourteen to sixteen in the Auxiliary on grounds of low enrollment and human resource management, leaving AUXSCOUT activities open to enrolled Sea Scouts aged seventeen and over.
3. ALAUX 003/25, 21 January 2025 — Leadership notification to the Coast Guard workforce.
   • Passes on ALCOAST 021/25 recording the relief of Admiral Linda L. Fagan as Commandant and Admiral Kevin E. Lunday’s assumption of duties as Acting Commandant.
4. ALAUX 004/25, 24 January 2025 — Commander’s Intent.
   • Passes on the Acting Commandant’s initial direction and intent for the service, built around the three themes of Float, Fight and Navigate.
5. ALAUX 005/25, 24 January 2025 — 2025 national workshops.
   • Sets out which National Operations Workshops are required for 2025, allows webinar delivery by a qualified Auxiliarist who is a certified instructor or supervised by one, and states that self-attestation is not permitted.
6. ALAUX 006/25, 24 January 2025 — Cancellation of DEIA-related programs and activities.
   • Passes on ALCOAST 026/25 canceling five named directives and programs, and cancels ALAUX 025/22, which had promulgated the Diversity and Inclusion Education and Awareness Program, COMDTINST 5360.1.
7. ALAUX 007/25, 29 January 2025 — 2025 AFRAS and Geoff Pagels awards solicitation.
   • Passes on ALCOAST 027/25 soliciting nominations for calendar year 2024 rescues, to reach the Coast Guard Office of Search and Rescue by 7 March 2025.
8. ALAUX 008/25, 7 February 2025 — Temporary update to Auxiliary Core Training.
   • Records that the Sexual Assault Prevention, Response and Recovery and Civil Rights Awareness courses are under review and temporarily unavailable in the Auxiliary Online Classroom, and sets out how members avoid falling into Required Yearly Not Met status. Ended by ALAUX 037/25.
9. ALAUX 009/25, March 2025 — Extension of AUX-SOP-004(A), election of unit officers by electronic means.
   • Extends the electronic elections SOP to all calendar year 2025 elections and states that it will be superseded by a comprehensive policy change for the 2026 elections. The day of the month is blank in the signed message.
10. ALAUX 010/25, 1 April 2025 — Chief Director’s final action on National Board recommendations at NTRAIN 2025.
    • Records the Chief Director’s final action on the two recommendations put to the National Board at the virtual 2025 National Training Conference, including the proposal to authorize Rescue and Survival Systems staff officers at division and flotilla level.
11. ALAUX 011/25, 11 April 2025 — 2025 CGMA annual campaign.
    • Passes on ALCOAST 154/25 launching the campaign under the title “The Power of Us”, and records that Auxiliarists received more than $173,000 in CGMA assistance in 2024.
12. ALAUX 012/25, 18 April 2025 — Restoration of the online proctor requirement for AUXOP specialty course exams.
    • Restores the proctor requirement and the seventy-five per cent pass mark set by the Auxiliary Manual, ending the temporary COVID-19 arrangements made by ALAUX 027/20.
13. ALAUX 013/25, 1 May 2025 — AUXSCOUT program SOP revision.
    • Announces a revised AUXSCOUT SOP ending enrollment of Sea Scout youth under seventeen, adopting the name Scouting America, and removing the Coast Guard Auxiliary Association as a party to the Letter of Intent. Revises the October 2022 version.
14. ALAUX 014/25, 5 May 2025 — 2025 Operation Dry Water.
    • Passes on ALCOAST 202/25 announcing the heightened awareness and enforcement weekend of 4 to 6 July 2025 and explains how flotillas register as outreach partners through NASBLA.
15. ALAUX 015/25, 14 May 2025 — 2025 National Safe Boating Week.
    • Marks the week of 17 to 23 May 2025 and lists the six things boaters can do, from wearing a life jacket to getting a free vessel safety check.
16. ALAUX 016/25, 29 May 2025 — April 2025 Coast Guard Emergency Management Credential Board results.
    • Passes on ALCOAST 228/25 and records the two Auxiliarists who achieved the Coast Guard Emergency Management Credential.
17. ALAUX 017/25, 29 May 2025 — 2025 Inspirational Leadership and Navy League Leadership Award winners.
    • Passes on ALCOAST 230/25 and announces Auxiliarist Robert Carew as winner of the Commodore Charles S. Greanoff Inspirational Leadership Award, with Auxiliarist Barry Woods receiving honorable mention.
18. ALAUX 018/25, 29 May 2025 — Force Design 2028, a bold blueprint.
    • Passes on ALCGFD28 002/25 and records the requirement for all Coast Guard personnel, Auxiliarists included, to read the sixteen-page Force Design 2028 Executive Report.
19. ALAUX 019/25, 29 May 2025 — 2024 Captain Niels P. Thomsen Innovation Awards recipients.
    • Passes on ALCOAST 238/25 and names the Auxiliarists recognized for Auxiliary Achievement and for honorable mentions in operations and readiness.
20. ALAUX 020/25, 29 May 2025 — Hurricane response operational safety.
    • Passes on ALSAFETY 015/25 ahead of the hurricane season beginning 1 June.
21. ALAUX 021/25, 5 June 2025 — 2024 Auxiliary Integration Award Program results.
    • Passes on ALCOAST 250/25 naming the units that won the Bertelsen and Currier Awards and the District DIRAUX of the Year.
22. ALAUX 022/25, 6 June 2025 — Request for National RBS Survey testers.
    • Asks Auxiliarists to volunteer by 13 June 2025 to test the survey questionnaire and online platform being built with the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago, ahead of approval by the Office of Management and Budget.
23. ALAUX 023/25, 9 June 2025 — Promulgation of the Auxiliary AOPG Volume III, Telecommunications, 16798.33B.
    • Promulgates the new volume, signed on 5 June 2025. Cancels AOPG 16798.33A and the Auxiliary Communications Program SOP of 21 March 2016.
24. ALAUX 024/25, 23 June 2025 — Eighty-sixth anniversary of the Coast Guard Auxiliary.
    • Marks the anniversary and records that Auxiliarists conducted more than seventy-seven thousand recreational vessel safety checks during the year.
25. ALAUX 025/25, 3 July 2025 — Promulgation of the Auxiliary Temporary Duty and Deployment Guide.
    • Promulgates a new guide setting out how Auxiliarists prepare for temporary duty and deployment under Coast Guard orders, and defines temporary duty by reference to the flotilla meeting location as the permanent duty station.
26. ALAUX 026/25, 22 July 2025 — 2024 Flotilla of the Year.
    • Announces the National Commodore’s selection of Flotilla 35-6 of Chicago, Illinois, in the Great Lakes District Western Region, which delivered more than 10,285 hours of service during the year.
27. ALAUX 027/25, 22 July 2025 — Force Design 2028, senior leader engagement, town halls.
    • Passes on ALCGFD28 004/25 and gives the dates of four town hall events on the Force Design 2028 execution plan, held between 28 July and 18 August 2025.
28. ALAUX 028/25, 28 July 2025 — Force Design 2028 execution plan summary.
    • Passes on ALCGFD28 006/25 and directs everyone, Auxiliarists included, to read the thirty-two-page execution plan summary covering the four campaign areas of organization, people, technology, and contracting and acquisition.
29. ALAUX 029/25, 30 July 2025 — Renaming Coast Guard districts, update.
    • Confirms that the Auxiliary adopts the geographic district names announced in ALCOAST 305/25, that no district lines were redrawn and no areas of responsibility changed, and adds the approved abbreviations for the new names. Updates the National Commodore’s Leadership Link message of 8 July 2025.
30. ALAUX 030/25, 30 July 2025 — 2024 Commodore Daniel Maxim Awards for Excellence in Education.
    • Announces Auxiliarist Robert M. Sajnovsky of Flotilla 2-24, Pacific Area Oceana District, as the awardee, with two area runners-up.
31. ALAUX 031/25, 13 August 2025 — FY25 AUXDATA patrol order closeout.
    • Sets the deadlines for canceling unused approved patrol orders by 13 September 2025 and moving the rest to completed status by 30 September 2025, before the fiscal year ends.
32. ALAUX 032/25, 2 September 2025 — AUXDATA, anticipated shutdown on 20 September 2025.
    • Warns that contractual circumstances make a shutdown of AUXDATA likely on that date, for at least three weeks, and tells units to extract what they need in advance.
33. ALAUX 033/25, 5 September 2025 — Guidance for the anticipated temporary AUXDATA shutdown.
    • Explains that the shutdown is temporary and caused by a contract renewal not completed before the contract expired on 19 September, that AUXDATA remains the system of record, and that Auxiliary activity is not suspended. Follows ALAUX 032/25.
34. ALAUX 034/25, 23 September 2025 — Guidance for the AUXDATA temporary shutdown and reactivation.
    • Announces that the contract renewal was completed, the new contract would be awarded on 24 September and AUXDATA reactivated that morning, and points to the gap reports created from the backed-up data. Follows ALAUX 033/25.
35. ALAUX 035/25, 30 September 2025 — Reinforcing Coast Guard core values in online interactions.
    • Passes on the Acting Vice Commandant’s message that the Coast Guard has zero tolerance for online behavior that condones or promotes violence, mocks victims, or shows contempt for service leadership, whatever the member’s duty status or channel.
36. ALAUX 036/25, 30 September 2025 — Chief Director’s final action on National Board recommendations at NTS 2025.
    • Records the Chief Director’s final action on the four recommendations put to the National Board at the National Training Summit in Dallas in August, including a proposal to reduce the Auxiliary Recruiting Service Award criterion from seven recruits a year to three.
37. ALAUX 037/25, 30 September 2025 — Reactivation of the SAPRR and Civil Rights Awareness courses.
    • Records that both Auxiliary Core Training courses were available again in the Auxiliary Online Classroom from that day, sets 31 December 2025 as the completion deadline, and describes the opt-out route for anyone sensitive to the content of the SAPRR course. Ends the temporary position set by ALAUX 008/25.
38. ALAUX 038/25, 30 September 2025 — Suicide prevention awareness and resources.
    • Passes on ALCOAST 368/25 for Suicide Prevention Awareness Month and points Auxiliarists to the prevention, intervention and postvention resources available to the whole Coast Guard workforce.
39. ALAUX 039/25, 1 October 2025 — Auxiliary operations during a lapse in appropriations.
    • Sets out what the Auxiliary may and may not do during the federal government shutdown, limiting ordered operational activity to direct support of excepted functions, primarily urgent search and rescue, aids to navigation outages and security threats.
40. ALAUX 040/25, 1 October 2025 — Auxiliary Environmental Response Investigator (AUX-ED).
    • Announces a revised AUX-ED Performance Qualification Standard, leaves qualified members qualified under the previous edition, and gives those part-way through until 31 March 2026 to finish.
41. ALAUX 041/25, 27 October 2025 — Auxiliary force protection and security tips.
    • Issues a force protection advisory in response to an increase in incidents involving Coast Guard personnel and installations, particularly for Auxiliarists near border control operations, and sets out the reporting routes.
42. ALAUX 042/25, 5 November 2025 — Wreaths Across America.
    • States that the wreath-laying itself is not an authorized Auxiliary activity and may not be done in uniform, while a ceremonial role such as guest speaker or color guard is an authorized public engagement.
43. ALAUX 043/25, 21 November 2025 — Coast Guard policy and lawful order prohibiting divisive or hate symbols and flags.
    • Passes on the Acting Commandant’s memorandum of 20 November 2025 and confirms that it applies to Auxiliarists and to all Auxiliary workplaces, facilities and assets.
44. ALAUX 044/25, 3 December 2025 — 2025 Captain Niels P. Thomsen Innovation Awards solicitation.
    • Passes on ALCOAST 480/25, notes the Coast Guard Auxiliary Achievement category, and sets 31 January 2026 as the closing date, later extended by ALAUX 008/26.
45. ALAUX 045/25, 15 December 2025 — Auxiliary National Supply Center (ANSC) warehouse reopening.
    • Records that ANSC, closed since 30 November because of a contract renewal delay stemming from the federal shutdown, has reopened, and that 2026 vessel safety check decals will be distributed by this office rather than by ANSC.
46. ALAUX 046/25, 19 December 2025 — Controlling Coast Guard policy and lawful order on hate incidents and divisive or hate symbols and flags.
    • Passes on the Acting Commandant’s memorandum of 18 December 2025, which supersedes and removes Chapter 11 of the Harassing Behavior Prevention, Response, and Accountability policy COMDTINST 5350.6A and leaves the 20 November 2025 order in full effect.

2024

Forty-one messages were issued in 2024.

1. ALAUX 001/24, 24 January 2024 — 2024 AFRAS and Geoff Pagels awards solicitation.
   • Passes on ALCOAST 032/24 soliciting nominations for calendar year 2023 rescues, with a hard deadline of 29 February 2024.
2. ALAUX 002/24, 25 January 2024 — 2024 national workshops.
   • Makes the Surface Workshop required for 2024, strongly recommends the Telecommunications Workshop, and keeps the Air Operations Workshop as a mandatory task within the Air Station Safety Workshop.
3. ALAUX 003/24, 29 January 2024 — Updated risk management training requirements, and the Aids to Navigation Verifier qualification name change.
   • Announces Policy Letter 19-01 / AUX-PL-001(B), adds Aids to Navigation Verifiers to the risk management training requirements list with a 31 December 2024 completion date, and renames the qualification “Aids To Navigation Verifier – with PQS”. Cancels AUX-PL-001(A).
4. ALAUX 004/24, 29 January 2024 — Updated damage claims procedures and requirements policy letter.
   • Announces Policy Letter 23-03 / AUX-PL-023(B), which removes the “Catastrophic Failure” paragraph and the logbook note from Chapter 10 Section K of the Auxiliary AOPG Volume I. Cancels AUX-PL-023(A).
5. ALAUX 005/24, 14 February 2024 — AUXLMS offline period.
   • Records that AUXLMS went offline at 1600 Eastern on 14 February for an indeterminate period, asks members not to raise service tickets, and points them to the Auxiliary Online Classroom instead.
6. ALAUX 006/24, 15 February 2024 — Updated waiver requirements for night certification and operations.
   • Announces Policy Letter 24-01 / AUX-PL-026(A), updating the waiver requirements for the minimum certified boat crew at night under the Auxiliary AOPG Volume I.
7. ALAUX 007/24, 21 February 2024 — Promulgation of the Auxiliary Training Handbook, Boat Crew, ATH 16794.51C.
   • Promulgates the handbook, signed 20 February 2024, which together with the qualification handbook brings in the new boat crew standardization process, evaluation drill sheets and Qualification Examiner requirements. Cancels ATH 16794.51B.
8. ALAUX 008/24, 21 February 2024 — Promulgation of the Auxiliary Boat Crew Qualification Handbook, ABQH 16794.52C.
   • Promulgates the handbook, signed 20 February 2024. Cancels ABQH 16794.52B.
9. ALAUX 009/24, 6 March 2024 — Promulgation of the Coast Guard Auxiliary Operational Excellence Program Handbook, 16794.4.
   • Promulgates the handbook, signed the same day. Cancels COMDTINST 16794.4.
10. ALAUX 010/24, 19 March 2024 — RBS Visitation Program Handbook, 16796.3.
    • Promulgates the new handbook, signed 18 March 2024. Cancels the Auxiliary Marine Dealer Visitor Manual COMDTINST M16794.3 series.
11. ALAUX 011/24, 19 March 2024 — Auxiliary Coast Guard Recruiting Support Program SOP.
    • Promulgates AUX-SOP-006(B), updating the procedures and competencies for the recruiting support program. Cancels AUX-SOP-006(A).
12. ALAUX 012/24, 22 March 2024 — 2024 AFRAS Silver Award recipients.
    • Passes on ALCOAST 131/24 and announces the Silver Medal to an Eleventh District boat crew for a rescue near a rock jetty in Los Angeles Harbor in July 2023 in which seven people were saved, with honorable mention to four Seventh District Auxiliarists.
13. ALAUX 013/24, 29 March 2024 — Chief Director’s final action on National Board recommendations at NTRAIN 2024.
    • Records the Chief Director’s final action on the four recommendations put to the National Board at the virtual National Training Conference in March, including a proposal to standardize the color of the letter A in the insignia of office.
14. ALAUX 014/24, 1 April 2024 — Promulgation of the Coast Guard Auxiliary Aids to Navigation Program Handbook, 16500.16.
    • Converts the manual to a handbook, introduces the Auxiliary Navigation Systems Program name, adds annual currency requirements and two new mission codes. Cancels COMDTINST M16500.16A and the ATON Verifier PQS of 14 July 2011.
15. ALAUX 015/24, 3 April 2024 — Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month.
    • Marks the annual awareness month under the theme “Step Forward – Prevent, Report, and Advocate” and encourages Auxiliarists to attend events at their local Coast Guard unit.
16. ALAUX 016/24, 9 April 2024 — Promulgation of the Auxiliary Financial and Materials Controls SOP.
    • Promulgates AUX-SOP-008(B), which adds detail on grant management, approves Affinipay alongside PayPal and Square for taking payments, and extends the annual report deadline to 1 April. Supersedes AUX-SOP-008(A).
17. ALAUX 017/24, 8 May 2024 — 2023 Auxiliary Integration Award Program results.
    • Passes on ALCOAST 212/24 naming Training Center Cape May, Sector Eastern Great Lakes and Sector Key West as the winners of the three Bertelsen and Currier awards.
18. ALAUX 018/24, 10 May 2024 — 2023 Flotilla of the Year.
    • Announces the National Commodore’s selection of Flotilla 68, Station Galveston, in the Eighth District Coastal Region, chartered in 1960 and thirty-one members strong.
19. ALAUX 019/24, 15 May 2024 — Short-term training request deadline for FY2024 C-schools.
    • Sets 15 June 2024 as the national deadline for Short-Term Training Requests for the remainder of the fiscal year.
20. ALAUX 020/24, 20 June 2024 — Eighty-fifth anniversary of the Coast Guard Auxiliary.
    • Records the ceremony at Coast Guard Headquarters at which the National Commodore received a letter of appreciation from the President, a congressional proclamation, and a Coast Guard Unit Commendation covering service between 24 June 2019 and 23 June 2024.
21. ALAUX 021/24, 26 June 2024 — 2024 Inspirational Leadership and Navy League Leadership Award winners.
    • Passes on ALCOAST 241/24 and announces Auxiliarist Barbara Allen of District 5 Southern Region as the Greanoff award winner, with Auxiliarist Natalie Bunting receiving honorable mention.
22. ALAUX 022/24, 27 June 2024 — 2023 Auxiliarist of the Year.
    • Announces Auxiliarist Natalie M. Bunting of Flotilla 39, Dania Beach, Florida, in the Seventh District, with two honorable mentions.
23. ALAUX 023/24, 9 July 2024 — Extension of AUX-SOP-004(A), election of unit officers by electronic means.
    • Extends the electronic elections SOP to the 2024 election cycle and says it will be superseded by policy change for the 2025 elections. Follows the 2023 extension made by ALAUX 001/23.
24. ALAUX 024/24, 10 July 2024 — FY24 AUXDATA patrol order closeout.
    • Sets the closeout deadlines before the fiscal year ends on 30 September 2024, including 11 September for approving or denying outstanding patrol requests.
25. ALAUX 025/24, 10 July 2024 — Removal of the Direct Operational personnel security investigation requirement for District Captains and aviation qualifications.
    • Announces Policy Letter 24-03 / AUX-PL-028(A), removing the requirement for Auxiliary aviation qualifications other than Flight Surgeons, and for District Captain offices.
26. ALAUX 026/24, 1 August 2024 — Auxiliary uniform and appearance policy changes.
    • Announces Policy Letter 23-02 / AUX-PL-024(B), covering wear of the Alternative Work Uniform, consequence management for annual uniform inspections, and component allowances across several uniforms, effective immediately. Revises AUX-PL-024(A).
27. ALAUX 027/24, 26 August 2024 — Auxiliary Core Training requirement, suicide prevention.
    • Records that suicide prevention content was lost as a training requirement when the Workforce Resilience course was renamed in 2023, and reinstates it within Auxiliary Core Training.
28. ALAUX 028/24, 26 August 2024 — Auxiliary Culinary Assistance Program SOP revision.
    • Promulgates AUX-SOP-005(B), which adds the AUXCA-1 Specialist Medical Clearance form ANSC-7200 and clarifies order issuing authority, competency portability and wear of the AUXCA patch. Cancels AUX-SOP-005(A).
29. ALAUX 029/24, 10 September 2024 — Coast Guard Auxiliary national leadership changes.
    • Passes on ALCOAST 352/24 recording Commodore Mary Kirkwood’s appointment as the thirty-seventh National Commodore and Commodore Pat Feighery’s as Vice National Commodore.
30. ALAUX 030/24, 10 September 2024 — New AUXDATA service request procedures and patrol order closeout.
    • Withdraws the external service request email address during contract negotiations and routes requests through AUXDATA service requests or the Auxiliary National Help Desk instead.
31. ALAUX 031/24, 20 September 2024 — FY25 AUXDATA patrol order guidance.
    • Explains that patrols conducted from 1 October 2024 fall under the FY25 budget, and that approved FY24 orders with no activities more than forty-five days old will be canceled.
32. ALAUX 032/24, 9 October 2024 — Support and response to Hurricanes Helene and Milton.
    • Designates the operation codes HURRICANE HELENE and HURRICANE MILTON in AUXDATA and sets out who may use them, namely members whose operational activity was ordered by an Order Issuing Authority with the concurrence of the Auxiliary Liaison Officer, and members in direct administrative support.
33. ALAUX 033/24, 10 October 2024 — National Cybersecurity Awareness Month.
    • Marks the twenty-first annual awareness month and urges Auxiliarists to apply strong countermeasures in both personal and Auxiliary activity.
34. ALAUX 034/24, 25 October 2024 — Promulgation of the Auxiliary CGMA Ambassador Program SOP.
    • Promulgates AUX-SOP-014(A), setting out how qualified Auxiliarists serve as CGMA Ambassadors.
35. ALAUX 035/24, 28 October 2024 — Auxiliary inclusion in the American Forces Travel Service.
    • Reminds Auxiliarists that active members are eligible for the Morale, Welfare and Recreation leisure travel service, as first announced in ALAUX 012/19 of 24 July 2019.
36. ALAUX 036/24, 31 October 2024 — Auxiliary Enrollment Application (ANSC-7001) update.
    • Announces a revised enrollment application, effective immediately, with the instructions separated from the form so they are no longer submitted to the District DIRAUX.
37. ALAUX 037/24, 1 November 2024 — Chief Director’s final action on National Board recommendations at NACON 2024.
    • Records the Chief Director’s final action on the three recommendations put to the National Board at the National Convention in Orlando, including the proposal that all Auxiliarists also be members of the Auxiliary Association.
38. ALAUX 038/24, 14 November 2024 — Promulgation of the new format of Auxiliary mission activity codes and descriptions.
    • Issues the codes in a searchable spreadsheet with requirements in a separate column, updates several descriptions, and adds three new codes including short-range unmanned aircraft system time and chart and coast pilot updates.
39. ALAUX 039/24, 14 November 2024 — CGMA marks a century of service.
    • Passes on ALCOAST 424/24 marking the hundredth anniversary of CGMA and the Auxiliary’s long contribution to it.
40. ALAUX 040/24, 27 November 2024 — Holiday resilience and safety.
    • Passes on ALCOAST 445/24 and ALSAFETY 025/24, and sets out which of the referenced support resources Auxiliarists may use and which are limited to Coast Guard employees.
41. ALAUX 041/24, 17 December 2024 — Posting of the Auxiliary national C-school calendar.
    • Announces the first version of the FY25 calendar, covering sessions scheduled up to April 2025, and warns that funded training quotas are much more limited than in previous years.

2023

Forty-three messages were issued in 2023.

1. ALAUX 001/23, 12 January 2023 — Extension to AUX-SOP-004(A) of 4 September 2020, election of unit officers through the use of electronic means.
   • Extends the standard operating procedure to all calendar year 2023 elections effective immediately, with any further extension to be determined by the Chief Director of Auxiliary.
2. ALAUX 002/23, 13 January 2023 — 2023 national workshops.
   • Requires the Surface and Telecommunications Operations Workshops for 2023, keeps the Air Operations Workshop as a mandatory task within the Air Station Safety Workshop, permits webinar delivery by an Auxiliarist qualified in the program who is a certified instructor or supervised by one, and prohibits self-attestation.
3. ALAUX 003/23 — Promulgation of the Auxiliary Boat Crew Qualification and Training Handbooks.
   • The copy on file is an unsigned draft of a different message, the AUX-MSAM qualification update later issued as 006/23, so neither the date nor the text of 003/23 is available.
4. ALAUX 004/23, 20 January 2023 — Auxiliary COVID-19 guidance, version 5.
   • Announces version 5 of the guide and suspends the temporary restriction that required full vaccination before volunteering for an assignment to duty.
5. ALAUX 005/23, 27 January 2023 — Boating safety application for smart phones.
   • Advises that the Coast Guard Boating Safety application is no longer available in the app stores because updates have not been possible, that members should tell interested boaters so, and that current users should delete it until further notice.
6. ALAUX 006/23, 27 January 2023 — Marine safety administrative management (AUX-MSAM) qualification update.
   • Cancels the 1 September 2009 qualification with effect from 1 April 2023 and promulgates the 1 January 2023 revision, which all members must use thereafter, with online modules, workbook sign-offs and an oral board required before a letter of designation.
7. ALAUX 007/23, 31 January 2023 — Resumption of in-person Auxiliary C-schools, revision to CG-BSX Policy Letter 21-01.
   • Revises the policy letter again to authorize individuals who are unvaccinated against COVID-19 to attend all in-person Auxiliary C-schools.
8. ALAUX 008/23, 1 February 2023 — Promulgation of the Auxiliary Paddlecraft (AUXPAD) Program Handbook, 16794.11A.
   • Cancels the Auxiliary Paddle Craft (AUXPAD) Program, COMDTINST 16794.11A, and promulgates the handbook signed 30 January 2023, which converts the manual to a handbook, adds district cold weather patrol order guidance, and expands the qualifications for taking part in on-water activity.
9. ALAUX 009/23, 13 February 2023 — Solicitation for volunteers to support the Coast Guard National Scout Jamboree task force.
   • Passes on ALCOAST 046/23 soliciting volunteers for the jamboree of 19 to 28 July 2023 at the Bechtel Summit Reserve in Beckley, West Virginia, for which Auxiliarists are authorized to be assigned to duty.
10. ALAUX 010/23, 28 February 2023 — Auxiliary aircraft facilities with Continental engines.
    • Directs that owners and operators of Auxiliary aircraft with engines covered by Federal Aviation Administration airworthiness directive AD 2023-04-08 may neither request nor accept Coast Guard orders until an airframe and powerplant mechanic clears the engine, and must notify their order issuing authority immediately.
11. ALAUX 011/23, 9 March 2023 — Commandant’s State of the Coast Guard address and new Coast Guard recruiting logo.
    • Relays Admiral Linda L. Fagan’s first State of the Coast Guard address, delivered in Washington, D.C. on 7 March 2023, and summarizes its main points.
12. ALAUX 012/23, 20 March 2023 — Promulgation of the Auxiliary Claims Process Guide.
    • The copy on file carries the correct heading but its subject line and body are draft text for a different message, on risk management training requirements and the aid to navigation verifier qualification, so the text of 012/23 itself is not available.
13. ALAUX 013/23, 27 March 2023 — Promulgation of the Auxiliary Flotilla Procedures Guide.
    • Promulgates the guide and cancels the Auxiliary Flotilla Procedures Manual, COMDTINST M16791.5 (series).
14. ALAUX 014/23, 7 April 2023 — Expansion of Coast Guard exchange privileges for Auxiliarists.
    • Authorizes Auxiliarists of appropriate age to buy alcohol and tobacco products at Coast Guard exchanges and amends section 6.A.1.d of the Auxiliary Manual, COMDTINST M16790.1G, to read “Coast Guard exchanges for the purchase of goods and services.”
15. ALAUX 015/23, 19 April 2023 — Chief Director’s final action on National Board recommendations at NTRAIN 2023.
    • Approves all six recommendations: aiguillette wear for deputy assistant national commodores and the National Commodore’s executive assistant; reduced national dues for youth members; amendment of Chapter 11, section A.18 on anniversary streamers; a pathway crediting the training and qualifications of honorably discharged and retired Coast Guard personnel who enroll, applied to any three-year period between last currency and enrollment; amendment of the Auxiliary Manual reference to the Auxiliary Diversity Award; and one point per patrol hour for paddlecraft operators toward the recreational boating safety insignia, subject to AUXDATA changes.
16. ALAUX 016/23, 20 April 2023 — 2023 Association for Rescue at Sea gold and silver awards and Geoff Pagels SAR Professionals of the Year awards solicitation.
    • Passes on the Coast Guard solicitation for nominations covering calendar year 2022 rescues, due to the Office of Search and Rescue by 30 May 2023.
17. ALAUX 017/23, 21 April 2023 — Auxiliary waterways management and Auxiliary facility inspector qualification update.
    • Terminates the 5 August 2015 AUX-WM and AUX-EU qualifications on 1 September 2023 and promulgates the 1 January 2023 replacements, which members must use from 2 September 2023.
18. ALAUX 018/23, 16 May 2023 — Auxiliary coxswain and boat crew initial qualification waivable task by Director policy letter released.
    • Announces CG-BSX Policy Letter 001-23, which updates the process for a DIRAUX to waive tasks in the Auxiliary Boat Crew Qualification Handbook, ABQH 16794.52 (series).
19. ALAUX 019/23, 17 May 2023 — 2022 Captain Niels P. Thomsen Innovation Awards recipients.
    • Passes on ALCOAST 196/23 announcing the winners, Auxiliarists among them.
20. ALAUX 020/23, dated 22 May 2021 on the copy on file, evidently a typing error for 2023 — National Safe Boating Week.
    • Announces National Safe Boating Week for 20 to 26 May 2023 and passes on ALCOAST 198/23.
21. ALAUX 021/23, dated 22 May 2021 on the copy on file, evidently a typing error for 2023 — Operation Dry Water.
    • Gives notice of the 2023 Operation Dry Water heightened awareness and enforcement weekend, 1 to 3 July 2023, coordinated by the Boating Safety Division, CG-BSX-2, with the National Association of State Boating Law Administrators.
22. ALAUX 022/23, 25 May 2023 — 2023 Inspirational Leadership Award winners.
    • Passes on ALCOAST 204/23 and congratulates Eighth District Eastern Region Auxiliarist Buford Ridgeway on selection for the Commodore Charles S. Greanoff Award.
23. ALAUX 023/23, 2 June 2023 — 2022 Auxiliary Integration Award Program results.
    • Announces the Commodore Viggo C. Bertelsen, Jr. and Vice Admiral John P. Currier award winners — the Coast Guard Academy for enhanced mission support, Sector Long Island Sound for enhanced operations, and the Research and Development Center for applied innovation — and Commander Christina Sullivan of the First District Northern Region as District DIRAUX of the Year.
24. ALAUX 024/23, 7 June 2023 — Warning of a malicious email attempting to phish SF-86 background investigation data.
    • Warns that an email referencing an “SF-86_F” form or an SF-86 addendum is not from the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency or any government personnel security entity, and directs members to delete it and report it through their flotilla communications services staff officer and Flotilla Commander to the DIRAUX.
25. ALAUX 025/23, 23 June 2023 — 84th anniversary of the United States Coast Guard Auxiliary.
    • Conveys the Chief Director’s thanks on the anniversary and passes on ALCOAST 230/23 carrying the Commandant’s appreciation.
26. ALAUX 026/23, 29 June 2023 — Auxiliary Ceremonial Color Guard program standard operating procedures and personal qualification standard (PQS)s.
    • Announces AUX-SOP-010(B) and extends the AUXCCG PQSs deadline to 31 December 2023, after which members may not take part in color guard events without having completed it.
27. ALAUX 027/23, 29 June 2023 — International Association of Emergency Managers 2023 emergency management award nominations.
    • Passes on ALCOAST 238/23, with nominations due 14 July 2023, and notes that “squadron commander” in its paragraph 3.b is meant to apply to Auxiliary district captains and division commanders.
28. ALAUX 028/23, dated 13 July 2022 on the copy on file, evidently a typing error for 2023 — FY23 AUXDATA patrol order closeout update.
    • Directs closeout of FY23 patrol orders before the budget ends at 2359 on 30 September 2023, requires requested orders to be approved or denied by 11 September 2023, and requires cancellation of approved orders for patrols that were never conducted.
29. ALAUX 029/23, 26 July 2023 — 2022 Auxiliarist of the Year.
    • Announces Auxiliarist Chester L. Williams of the Seventeenth District, Flotilla 24 in Whittier, Alaska.
30. ALAUX 030/23, 8 August 2023 — Workforce resilience course name change.
    • Renames Auxiliary Core Training course 502379 to Sexual Assault Prevention, Response and Recovery, with no change to the course code, currency or training requirements.
31. ALAUX 031/23, 31 August 2023 — Chief Director’s final action on National Board recommendations at NACON 2023.
    • Approves all three recommendations: navigation systems mission points toward the “M” device on the Annual Service Award, effective in AUXDATA from 1 January 2024; creation of a Leadership Development Ribbon; and a legal officers program qualification insignia in silver and gold, each bearing a silver “A”.
32. ALAUX 032/23, 11 September 2023 — Promulgation of the Auxiliary AOPGs.
    • Cancels the Auxiliary Operations Policy Manual, COMDTINST M16798.3E, and promulgates four volumes signed 1 August 2023: General and Surface, 16798.31A; Air Operations, 16798.32A; Telecommunications, 16798.33A; and Marine Safety and Security, 16798.34A.
33. ALAUX 033/23, 14 September 2023 — National RBS Survey expertise solicitation.
    • Invites the whole Coast Guard workforce, Auxiliarists included, to submit trends, concerns and observations for the next survey through 27 October 2023.
34. ALAUX 034/23, 14 September 2023 — Promulgation of the Auxiliary Training Handbook, Aviation.
    • Cancels the Auxiliary Aviation Training Manual, COMDTINST M16798.5B, and promulgates ATH 16798.5A, signed 1 August 2023, which converts the manual to a handbook, replaces the legacy Patrol Order Management System with AUXDATA, requires re-qualification after five years in Required Yearly Not Met status, moves currency from semi-annual to annual, and adds the Coast Guard short-range unmanned aircraft systems program.
35. ALAUX 035/23, 19 September 2023 — FY24 AUXDATA patrol order guidance.
    • Sets the FY24 budget start at 0000 on 1 October 2023, directs that FY23 approved orders with no activities more than 45 days old will be canceled, and authorizes verbal patrol orders from 1 to 14 October 2023 or until the Financial System Modernization Solution is funded.
36. ALAUX 036/23, 3 October 2023 — Auxiliary uniform and appearance policy letter.
    • Announces BSX Policy Letter 23-02, which carries the uniform and appearance changes developed in the D1 Southern Region and D8 Coastal Region pilot program, including grooming provisions and the Alternative Work Uniform as an Auxiliary work uniform, effective immediately except the annual uniform inspection requirement, which starts with calendar year 2024.
37. ALAUX 037/23, 4 October 2023 — National Cybersecurity Awareness Month.
    • Marks the twentieth annual observance and urges members to stay vigilant and apply strong countermeasures in both personal and Auxiliary activities.
38. ALAUX 038/23, 23 October 2023 — Credit for qualifications of honorably discharged and retired Coast Guard military personnel.
    • Amends section 4.c.(1)(b) of ALAUX 015/23 to clarify that a DIRAUX may waive the approved boating safety course and the Auxiliary Core Training courses other than BQII when conveying credit for prior military qualifications.
39. ALAUX 039/23, 8 November 2023 — 2022 Coast Guard Auxiliary Aviation Award of Excellence recipient.
    • Announces Auxiliarist Judith Redlawsk of the Fifth District Southern Region as the recipient.
40. ALAUX 040/23, 8 November 2023 — Coast Guard Auxiliary emergency manager award and credential board results.
    • Announces Auxiliarist Matthew Hammons of the Eighth District Coastal Region as the 2023 International Association of Emergency Managers Uniformed Services Caucus Auxiliary Manager of the Year, and Auxiliarist Eddie Puckett of the Eighth District Eastern Region as having earned the Emergency Management Branch Assistant credential.
41. ALAUX 041/23, 15 November 2023 — Posting of the Auxiliary national C-school calendar.
    • Announces the FY24 calendar and urges members to submit a Short-Term Training Request, ANSC-7059, early because funded quotas are more limited than in previous years.
42. ALAUX 042/23, 5 December 2023 — Update to damage claims procedures and requirements policy letter released.
    • Announces CG-BSX Policy Letter 23-03, which removes the term “catastrophic failure” and updates the written explanation of denial in Chapter 10, Section K of the Auxiliary AOPG, Volume I, AOPG 16798.31 (series).
43. ALAUX 043/23, 15 December 2023 — Solicitation for 2024 Inspirational Leadership Awards.
    • Calls for nominations for the 2024 Commodore Charles S. Greanoff Inspirational Leadership Award, routed through the flotilla chain of leadership and management under Auxiliary Manual section 11.A.16 and due to CG-BSX by 7 February 2024.

2022

Fifty messages were issued in 2022.

1. ALAUX 001/22, 5 January 2022 — Auxiliary COVID-19 reconstitution guidance, version 3.
   • Announces version 3 of the guide and requires full vaccination for assignment to duty involving in-person interaction with Coast Guard personnel, other government personnel or the public, while leaving unvaccinated members able to volunteer for activities with no in-person interaction.
2. ALAUX 002/22, 25 January 2022 — Extension to AUX-SOP-004(A) of 4 September 2020, election of unit officers through the use of electronic means.
   • Extends the standard operating procedure to all calendar year 2022 elections because of continuing restrictions on in-person meetings, with any further extension to be determined by the Chief Director.
3. ALAUX 003/22 — 2022 national workshops.
   • The copy on file is an unnumbered draft of the 2023 national workshops message, so neither the date nor the text of 003/22 is available.
4. ALAUX 004/22, 26 January 2022 — Auxiliary currency maintenance changes for calendar year 2021.
   • Waives the annual currency maintenance requirements for 2021 and the other-than-annual requirements that fell due that year, except the tests and workshops that could be completed online.
5. ALAUX 005/22, 26 January 2022 — AUXDATA, resuming patrol order processing.
   • Records that the Financial Systems Modernization Solution cutover period ended on 26 January 2022, resumes normal processing for patrol dates from 1 October 2021, and requires those orders to be entered by 31 March 2022 for expenses to be reimbursed.
6. ALAUX 006/22, 28 February 2022 — Auxiliary financial controls standard operating procedures.
   • Promulgates the SOP on controls over district, division and flotilla finances under a memo signed 25 February 2022, after review by the Office of General Law and the Office of Legal Policy and Program Development, and directs Auxiliary leaders at every level to ensure adherence to it.
7. ALAUX 007/22, 28 February 2022 — Coast Guard uniform boards 47 and 48, impacts on Auxiliary uniform policies.
   • Explains how the July 2020 changes to the Uniform Regulations manual, COMDTINST M1020.6 (series), apply to Auxiliarists, including female hair grooming standards and the authorized hair accessories.
8. ALAUX 008/22, 4 March 2022 — Auxiliary aviation policy letters released.
   • Lists the aviation policy letters signed by the Chief Director: 22-02 on call signs, 22-03 on aircraft maintenance, 22-04 on facility inspection and return to service after a major repair or alteration, and 22-05 on VHF-FM antennas.
9. ALAUX 009/22, 7 March 2022 — Auxiliary aviation qualification syllabi update, CG-BSX Policy Letter 22-01.
   • Announces the policy letter signed 28 February 2022, which updates the air observer, air crew, pilot and instructor pilot syllabi, cancels the Aircrew Qualification Process, COMDTINST 16798.2 (series), and allows members already working under an earlier syllabus to finish under it no later than 1 September 2022.
10. ALAUX 010/22, 7 March 2022 — Update to the prohibition of unmanned aerial systems.
    • Follows ALAUX 011/16, keeps the ban on using personal unmanned aircraft in any authorized Auxiliary activity, notes that members may qualify as a short-range unmanned aircraft system remote pilot or visual observer under the Coast Guard standard operating procedures, and records that program expansion is halted pending DHS policy changes on cyber security.
11. ALAUX 011/22, 10 March 2022 — Suspension of Auxiliary Aviation Policy Letter 22-02.
    • Suspends the call signs policy letter that ALAUX 008/22 had put in effect, makes no change to call signs in AUXDATA, and directs aviators to keep using their traditional facility call signs under the three-letter “CGX” convention.
12. ALAUX 012/22, 11 March 2022 — AUXDATA security updates.
    • Announces security changes from 14 March 2022 that prompt users to set a new password on sign-in, explains what to do after a failed attempt or a lockout, and advises signing in at least monthly to avoid an inactivity lockout.
13. ALAUX 013/22, 19 April 2022 — Auxiliary navigation rules exam update, CG-BSX Policy Letter 22-09.
    • Announces the policy letter, signed 14 April 2022, which updates the navigation rules exam requirements in Chapter 5.A.6 of the Auxiliary Operations Policy Manual.
14. ALAUX 014/22, 19 April 2022 — 2021 Captain Niels P. Thomsen Innovation Awards recipients.
    • Announces Auxiliarist Clint O’Connor of District Seven as winner in the Coast Guard Auxiliary Achievement category for developing the Aid Verifier Assistant mobile application, with recognition for Auxiliarists who took part in two further projects given honorable mention.
15. ALAUX 015/22, 2 May 2022 — Association for Rescue at Sea gold and silver awards solicitation.
    • Passes on ALCOAST 156/22 soliciting nominations for calendar year 2021 rescues, due to the Office of Search and Rescue by 3 June 2022. The copy on file leaves its own message number blank.
16. ALAUX 016/22, 2 June 2022 — Auxiliary COVID-19 reconstitution guidance, version 4.
    • Authorizes unvaccinated Auxiliarists to perform in-person assignment to duty in low or moderate community-level areas provided they are prepared to show a negative test taken within seventy-two hours, while those in high community-level areas remain limited to activities without in-person interaction.
17. ALAUX 017/22, 3 June 2022 — Solicitation for Auxiliary support of Southwest Border operations.
    • Invites Auxiliarists to help fill a Customs and Border Protection request for about 145 people to provide logistical and administrative support in California, Arizona and Texas through September 2022, with a minimum on-site deployment of seven consecutive days.
18. ALAUX 018/22, 3 June 2022 — U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliarist support to Coast Guard health care facilities.
    • Passes on ALCOAST 188/22 announcing COMDTINST 6010.2F, which cancels 6010.2E and sets the requirements and guidance for participation in the Auxiliary Health Services program.
19. ALAUX 019/22, 3 June 2022 — 2022 Inspirational Leadership Award winners.
    • Passes on ALCOAST 198/22 and congratulates District 7 Auxiliarist Ralph Hendricks on selection for the Commodore Charles S. Greanoff Award, with honorable mention to District 5 Southern Region Auxiliarist Bonifacio “Joey” Taguding.
20. ALAUX 020/22, 8 June 2022 — Auxiliary aviation call signs update, CG-BSX Policy Letter 22-11.
    • Announces the policy letter updating the aviation call signs listed in Annex 1, section F of the Auxiliary Operations Policy Manual, COMDTINST M16798.3 (series).
21. ALAUX 021/22, 23 June 2022 — 83rd birthday of the United States Coast Guard Auxiliary.
    • Marks the anniversary and passes on ALCOAST 226/22 carrying the Commandant’s gratitude and appreciation.
22. ALAUX 022/22, 13 July 2022 — Auxiliary policy statement.
    • Announces the Auxiliary Policy Statement issued by Admiral Linda L. Fagan, Commandant of the Coast Guard, and posted on the Auxiliary national leadership documents page.
23. ALAUX 023/22, 20 July 2022 — Chief Director’s final action on National Board recommendations at NTRAIN 2022.
    • Acts on nine recommendations, approving seven — creation of the “G” Directorate for Auxiliary Chaplain Support, with adjustments; revision of the Auxiliary Manual on safety hats; creation of the ANACO-AS and its deputy together with the W and O Directorates; the Auxiliary flight suit policy; formation of AuxA Management LLC; mandatory AuxA membership; and an Auxiliary Culinary Assistance Program device — and disapproving two, the electronic meeting rules template change, to be revisited in 2024, and the creation of paddlecraft staff officer positions at district, division and flotilla levels.
24. ALAUX 024/22, 25 July 2022 — Resumption of in-person Auxiliary C-schools, revision to CG-BSX Policy Letter 21-01.
    • Revises the policy letter effective 25 July 2022 to address what to do when instructors or students are exposed to or test positive for COVID-19 during or after a school, and provides that no penalty is assessed to a student who cannot attend or finish for those reasons. The copy on file numbers itself 024/21.
25. ALAUX 025/22 — Promulgation of the Diversity and Inclusion Education and Awareness Program.
    • The copy on file is an incomplete draft carrying no date and the subject line of a different message; its only substantive content is a link to Commandant Instruction 5360.1.
26. ALAUX 026/22 — FY21 AUXDATA patrol order reimbursements.
    • The copy on file carries the date 1 August 2022 but its subject line and body are an unnumbered draft of the FY22 patrol order closeout, so the text of 026/22 itself is not available.
27. ALAUX 027/22, 4 August 2022 — United States Coast Guard’s 232nd birthday.
    • Passes on ALCOAST 288/22 marking the Service’s 232nd year and the daily support it receives from the Auxiliary.
28. ALAUX 028/22, 8 August 2022 — FY22 AUXDATA patrol order closeout.
    • Sets the closeout timetable for the FY22 budget: requested orders approved or denied by 15 September 2022, approved orders moved to completed by the same date, completed orders submitted before 30 September, orders for patrols never conducted canceled by 1 October, and everything submitted to the Financial System Modernization Solution by 1 November 2022. Only a signed PDF of this message is available.
29. ALAUX 029/22, 9 August 2022 — 2021 Auxiliarist of the Year.
    • Announces Commodore Douglas S. Cream of the Ninth District Eastern Region, Flotilla 33 in Buffalo, New York.
30. ALAUX 030/22, 9 August 2022 — Extended solicitation for Auxiliary support of Southwest Border operations.
    • Extends the Customs and Border Protection support request through November 2022 and raises the minimum on-site deployment to fourteen consecutive days.
31. ALAUX 031/22, 24 August 2022 — Chief Director’s final action on National Board recommendations at NACON 2022.
    • Approves both recommendations: crediting all underway and airborne hours, plus up to a quarter of the associated training hours, toward the Auxiliary Annual Operations Service Award, with AUXDATA changed to apply it to activity from calendar year 2022; and deletion of Rule 3.4 from the Standing Rules of the National Board.
32. ALAUX 032/22 — FY23 AUXDATA patrol order guidance.
    • The copy on file is an unnumbered draft of the FY24 guidance later issued as ALAUX 035/23, so neither the date nor the text of 032/22 is available.
33. ALAUX 033/22, 23 September 2022 — FY22 AUXDATA patrol order closeout update.
    • Updates ALAUX 028/22 with the steps required before the FY22 budget ends at 2359 on 30 September 2022, including denial of requested orders for patrols never conducted and approval of every verbally authorized order by that date.
34. ALAUX 034/22, 26 September 2022 — Promulgation of new and revised Auxiliary mission activity codes.
    • Adds new mission activity codes and clarifies or updates the descriptions of more than twenty existing ones, with several new codes replacing operations codes that are then discontinued.
35. ALAUX 035/22, 29 September 2022 — Support and response to Hurricane Ian in District Seven.
    • Designates a Hurricane Ian operation code in AUXDATA for activity authorized by the District Seven Area Command incident command post, and directs members to coordinate through their Auxiliary liaison officer rather than requesting patrol orders themselves.
36. ALAUX 036/22, 6 October 2022 — Update to the Operational Auxiliarist (AUXOP) program.
    • Keeps AUXOP as a membership status, merges the AX and AX2 designators in AUXDATA into AX alone, and directs a data review so that AUXOP achievement is recorded consistently in member records.
37. ALAUX 037/22, 6 October 2022 — National Cybersecurity Awareness Month.
    • Marks the observance and urges members to recognize and report phishing, use strong passwords, keep software updated, and enable multi-factor authentication.
38. ALAUX 038/22, 22 October 2022 — Auxiliary-Sea Scout Youth Development (AUXSCOUT) program standard operating procedures revision.
    • Requires an adult with current Safe Swim Defense training to be present for swimming activities and one with current Safety Afloat and CPR training for missions involving an Auxiliary surface facility, and significantly expands the organizational activities open to Sea Scout youth under seventeen who are enrolled in the Auxiliary.
39. ALAUX 039/22, 31 October 2022 — Passing of a past National Commodore.
    • Announces the death on 25 October 2022 of Past National Commodore Peter W. Melera, who joined the Auxiliary in 1974 and served as National Commodore from 1995 to 1996, and whose 1996 testimony to the House Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation helped secure passage of the Auxiliary Act.
40. ALAUX 040/22, 7 November 2022 — Posting of the Auxiliary national C-school calendar.
    • Announces the calendar and reminds members that funded quotas are more limited than in previous years, so a Short-Term Training Request should be submitted early.
41. ALAUX 041/22, 8 November 2022 — Promulgation of the Auxiliary Training Handbook, Boat Crew, ATH 16794.51A.
    • Cancels the Auxiliary Boat Crew Training Manual, COMDTINST M16794.51A, and promulgates the handbook signed 1 November 2022, which requires a coxswain to be at the helm when supervising a break-in coxswain, adds mishap reporting and nighttime currency requirements, and requires re-qualification after five years in Required Yearly Not Met status.
42. ALAUX 042/22, 8 November 2022 — Promulgation of the Auxiliary Boat Crew Qualification Handbook, ABQH 16794.52A.
    • Cancels the three separate qualification guides, COMDTINST M16794.52A, M16794.53A and M16794.54A, and promulgates a single handbook signed 1 November 2022, which adds deferred tasks, physical fitness and vision screening, and the personal locator beacon to crewmember protective equipment.
43. ALAUX 043/22, 14 November 2022 — Promulgation of the Emergency Management Specialist performance qualification standard for the Auxiliary.
    • Implements the Coast Guard EMS PQS for Auxiliary use, lets members who already hold the Auxiliary Contingency Planner qualification keep it, and allows that qualification to count toward the Auxiliary Marine Safety (Trident) insignia.
44. ALAUX 044/22, 16 November 2022 — Creation of the Auxiliary Master Cutterman designation.
    • Announces CG-BSX Policy Letter 22-12, signed 15 November 2022, which recognizes Auxiliarists who show prolonged commitment to supporting the Coast Guard cutter community and sets the criteria and awarding procedure.
45. ALAUX 045/22, 28 November 2022 — Auxiliary survey request.
    • Authorizes release of a survey to all Auxiliarists on membership numbers and satisfaction in volunteer service, conducted as post-graduate research by an officer of the Coast Guard Office of Emergency Management.
46. ALAUX 046/22, 29 November 2022 — Resumption of in-person Auxiliary C-schools, revision to CG-BSX Policy Letter 21-01.
    • Revises the policy letter on 28 November 2022 to allow unvaccinated Auxiliarists to attend the C-schools designated mission critical, among them Aids-to-Navigation and Chart Updating, the Auxiliary Senior Officer Course, and Information Systems AUXDATA.
47. ALAUX 047/22, 13 December 2022 — Coast Guard recruiting initiative, the Scout Talent and Refer (STAR) program, formerly Everyone Is A Recruiter.
    • States that Auxiliarists are eligible, that a referral leading to first-time active duty or Reserve enlisted service earns the Auxiliary Commandant’s Letter of Commendation and a $1,000 incentive, and that eligibility does not depend on assignment-to-duty status.
48. ALAUX 048/22, 20 December 2022 — Calendar year 2023 annual currency maintenance requirement tracking for crewmember, coxswain, personal watercraft operator and nighttime certification.
    • Provides that crewmembers and coxswains certified before 31 December 2022 and not in Required Yearly Not Met status for 2022 will show as night certified in AUXDATA from 1 January 2023, and sets out how members certifying after that date obtain nighttime certification.
49. ALAUX 049/22, 21 December 2022 — 2022 holiday seasons greetings.
    • Passes on ALCOAST 513/22 carrying the Commandant’s holiday message and adds the Chief Director’s own greeting to the Auxiliary.
50. ALAUX 050/22, 28 December 2022 — Re-solicitation for Auxiliary support of Southwest Border operations.
    • Seeks volunteers for a further Customs and Border Protection request for logistical support along the Southwest Border, beginning in mid-January 2023 for ninety days with a possible extension, with a minimum on-site deployment of sixteen consecutive days.

2021

Forty-three messages were issued in 2021.

1. ALAUX 001/21, 19 January 2021 — National Operating Committee meeting invitation.
   • Invites all Auxiliarists to the Auxiliary’s first virtual national Operating Committee meeting on 23 January 2021, live streamed, with Vice Admiral Linda Fagan, Pacific Area Commander, as guest speaker.
2. ALAUX 002/21, 10 February 2021 — Auxiliary COVID-19 reconstitution guidance, version 2.
   • Announces version 2 of the guide, written to help DIRAUXs, Coast Guard units and order issuing authorities use Auxiliarists as safely as possible during the pandemic, and combines and supersedes four earlier ALAUXs.
3. ALAUX 003/21, 17 February 2021 — Committee of the Whole and National Board meetings invitation.
   • Invites all Auxiliarists to the first virtual Committee of the Whole meeting on 19 February 2021 and the first virtual National Board meeting on 20 February 2021, both live streamed.
4. ALAUX 004/21, 18 February 2021 — 2021 student art contest solicitation.
   • Passes on ALCOAST 056/21 inviting art from students in grades K to 12 across the Americas on the theme “Seafarers: At the Core of Shipping’s Future”.
5. ALAUX 005/21, 4 March 2021 — State of the Coast Guard address, 11 March 2021.
   • Announces that Admiral Karl Schultz would deliver the annual address from San Diego on 11 March 2021 and gives the ways to watch it.
6. ALAUX 006/21, 11 March 2021 — AUXDATA updates for the patrol orders process.
   • Changes the patrol order page layout and moves the start of a patrol request from the Requests tab to the Patrol Orders tab from midday Eastern on 15 March 2021, with step-by-step instructions.
7. ALAUX 007/21, 12 March 2021 — CGMA fundraising campaign, “It’s Mutual”.
   • Passes on ALCOAST 094/21 on the 2021 campaign, which ran from 1 to 30 April 2021, together with ethics guidance and a description of the support programs.
8. ALAUX 008/21, 25 March 2021 — 2021 national workshops.
   • Requires the Surface and Air Operations Workshops for 2021, makes the Telecommunications Workshop optional but strongly recommended, and permits webinar delivery by an Auxiliarist qualified in the program who is a certified instructor or supervised by one.
9. ALAUX 009/21, 29 March 2021 — Auxiliary Association Inc., recipient of the CGMA “So Others May Live” award.
   • Records the award for the Association’s support of Operation Extended Hands, which raised over $31,000 for Coast Guard families affected by a housing complex fire near Station Cape Hatteras Inlet, North Carolina in October 2020.
10. ALAUX 010/21, 8 April 2021 — 2020 Auxiliary Diversity Award recipient.
    • Passes on ALCOAST 138/21 announcing Auxiliarist Randel McCormick of the Eleventh District Northern Region, Flotilla 53 in North Solano County, California, as the National Commodore’s award winner.
11. ALAUX 011/21, 12 April 2021 — 2020 Captain Niels P. Thomsen Innovation Awards recipients.
    • Passes on ALCOAST 140/21 recognizing three Auxiliarists: Alvaro Ferrando of District Seven, and Commodore William Bowen III and Auxiliarist Bruce Buckley of the First District Southern Region.
12. ALAUX 012/21, 19 April 2021 — AUXDATA skills and availability update.
    • Asks every Auxiliarist to log in and bring their skills, expertise and availability up to date by 15 May 2021, before the 2021 hurricane season, and gives the steps for doing it.
13. ALAUX 013/21, 6 May 2021 — Call for nominations for the International Association of Emergency Managers 2021 uniformed, civilian and Auxiliary member emergency management awards.
    • Passes on ALCOAST 169/21 soliciting nominees in three categories, one of them Auxiliary Emergency Manager of the Year.
14. ALAUX 014/21, 11 May 2021 — Qualification examiner check ride task expiration date extensions.
    • Extends by one year, in AUXDATA, the task expiration date for every qualification examiner check ride last completed in 2018, 2019 or 2020, so that districts could spread a check-ride workload that the blanket extension in ALAUX 032/20 had concentrated into 2021; it is not a waiver of the check ride itself.
15. ALAUX 015/21, 21 May 2021 — 2019 Association for Rescue at Sea award recipients.
    • Passes on ALCOAST 182/21 and congratulates Seventh District Auxiliarists Stephen Wyatt and Gloria Wyatt on the Silver Medal for responding to a 40-foot motor vessel on fire near Matanzas Inlet, St. Augustine, Florida in July 2019, with honorable mention to boat crews from the Fifth District Northern Region and the Ninth District Western Region.
16. ALAUX 016/21, 21 May 2021 — National Safe Boating Week.
    • Passes on ALCOAST 187/21, which marks National Wear Your Life Jacket to Work Day on 21 May and National Safe Boating Week from 22 to 28 May 2021, the fiftieth anniversary of the Federal Boat Safety Act of 1971.
17. ALAUX 017/21, 2 June 2021 — Association for Rescue at Sea 2020 gold and silver awards solicitation.
    • Passes on ALCOAST 183/21 soliciting nominations for the AFRAS 2020 medals.
18. ALAUX 018/21, 28 May 2021 — Resumption of in-person Auxiliary C-schools, CG-BSX Policy Letter 21-01.
    • Announces the policy letter signed 28 May 2021, which gave the initial guidance for resuming in-person C-schools as the pandemic restrictions evolved. The copy on file numbers itself 017/21.
19. ALAUX 019/21, 17 June 2021 — June 2021 Coast Guard Emergency Management Credential board results.
    • Passes on ALCOAST 218/21 and congratulates seven Auxiliarists — William Steadman, Joseph Gleason, Anthony Marzano, Camilo Olivieri, Stephen Kastensmidt, Joseph Leonard, Jr. and Michael Mason — on earning the credential from the board that sat from 31 May to 4 June 2021.
20. ALAUX 020/21, 23 June 2021 — 82nd birthday of the United States Coast Guard Auxiliary.
    • Marks the anniversary, thanks members for their work through the pandemic, and passes on the Commandant’s ALCOAST.
21. ALAUX 021/21, 25 June 2021 — Resumption of in-person Auxiliary C-schools, first revision to CG-BSX Policy Letter 21-01.
    • Records the revision signed 24 June 2021, which authorizes both vaccinated and unvaccinated Auxiliarists to attend in-person C-schools subject to the policy letter’s provisions.
22. ALAUX 022/21 — Update to the Auxiliary Operations Policy Manual, Auxiliary navigation standards, CG-BSX Policy Letter 21-02.
    • The copy on file could not be opened, so its date and text are not available; the subject above comes from the file name.
23. ALAUX 023/21, 25 June 2021 — New Chief Director of Auxiliary.
    • Captain Troy P. Glendye introduces himself on relieving the watch as Chief Director and sets out his intent to work with the National Commodore and his staff on the goals in the Auxiliary Strategic Plan.
24. ALAUX 024/21, 1 July 2021 — AUXDATA update, personal protective equipment (PPE).
    • Adds a function on the member record to track the issue and maintenance of PPE, with manager permissions granted only by a DIRAUX or an operations training officer, phased in over an expected six to twelve months.
25. ALAUX 025/21, 1 July 2021 — Change to the Coast Guard Auxiliary operational support personnel security investigation policy.
    • Passes on Commandant Notice 063/21, which updates the Auxiliary Manual, COMDTINST M16790.1G, to formalize the initial and annual background check processes already required to enroll in and keep membership of the Auxiliary.
26. ALAUX 026/21, 28 July 2021 — 2021 Inspirational Leadership Award winners.
    • Passes on ALCOAST 261/21 and congratulates District 1 Southern Region Auxiliarist Alexander Rico on selection for the Commodore Charles S. Greanoff Award, with honorable mention to District 5 Southern Region Auxiliarist Joseph Espino.
27. ALAUX 027/21, 3 August 2021 — Extension to AUX-SOP-004(A) of 4 September 2020, election of unit officers through the use of electronic means.
    • Extends the standard operating procedure for the 2021 election cycle because of continuing restrictions on face-to-face meetings, temporarily and for a duration the Chief Director would determine.
28. ALAUX 028/21, 4 August 2021 — United States Coast Guard’s 231st birthday.
    • Passes on ALCOAST 279/21 marking the Service’s 231st year and the support it receives from the Auxiliary.
29. ALAUX 029/21, 16 August 2021 — Financial system blackout and cutover impact on patrol orders.
    • Announces the Coast Guard’s transition to the Financial Systems Modernization Solution from 1 October to 15 November 2021 and requires patrol orders in AUXDATA to be closed out before 20 September 2021, with 24 September the last allowable closeout date.
30. ALAUX 030/21, 23 August 2021 — 2020 Auxiliarist of the Year.
    • Announces Auxiliarist Patrick M. Brown of the Eighth District Eastern Region, Flotilla 11-5 in Nashville, Tennessee.
31. ALAUX 031/21, 3 September 2021 — Availability of a new bloodborne pathogen online training course.
    • Makes a new version of the course available through the Auxiliary Online Classroom as an alternative to the one in the AUXLMS, with a screen shot of the completion notice to be sent to the member’s information services officer; successful completion remains a requirement for assignment to duty on ordered patrols.
32. ALAUX 032/21, 15 September 2021 — Passing of a past National Commodore.
    • Announces the death on 3 September 2021 of Past National Commodore Viggo C. Bertelsen, Jr., who joined the Auxiliary in 1975, served as District 13 Commodore and as National Commodore from 2001 to 2002, and composed the Auxiliary’s Operation Patriot Readiness after the attacks of 11 September 2001.
33. ALAUX 033/21, 15 September 2021 — AUXDATA skills and availability search.
    • Records that AUXDATA is now the primary place to search members’ skills and availability, that the legacy Skills Bank has been retired, that skills codes moved from the 2010 to the 2018 Bureau of Labor Statistics codes, and sets out three ways to search.
34. ALAUX 034/21, 16 September 2021 — Auxiliary coxswain and boat crew initial qualification night tasks no longer waivable, CG-BSX Policy Letter 21-03.
    • Announces the policy letter signed 9 September 2021, which makes the nighttime tasks mandatory in the initial qualification process for coxswain and boat crew member.
35. ALAUX 035/21, 23 September 2021 — Cybersecurity best practices awareness reminder.
    • Marks Cybersecurity Awareness Month and lists ten practices, among them a separate strong password for each account, supported operating systems, current patches and antivirus, firewall protection, regular backups, and caution with email.
36. ALAUX 036/21, 15 October 2021 — Update to the financial system blackout and cutover impact on Auxiliary patrol orders.
    • Follows ALAUX 029/21: claims submitted after 1 October 2021 would not be settled until after 15 November, and all patrol request functions in AUXDATA were disabled, so mission-critical patrols had to be arranged directly with order issuing authorities.
37. ALAUX 037/21, 22 October 2021 — Resumption of in-person Auxiliary C-schools, revision to CG-BSX Policy Letter 21-01.
    • Revises the policy letter effective 18 October 2021 to limit C-school application and attendance to individuals fully vaccinated against COVID-19.
38. ALAUX 038/21, 5 November 2021 — 2021 Association for Rescue at Sea award recipients.
    • Passes on ALCOAST 402/21 and congratulates Ninth District Auxiliarists Gary Markle and Shelley Markle on the Silver Medal for responding to a drowning person and giving CPR.
39. ALAUX 039/21, 8 November 2021 — October 2021 Coast Guard Emergency Management Credential board results.
    • Passes on ALCOAST 400/21 and congratulates Auxiliarists Grant Graves of the Eleventh District Southern Region and Christopher Todd of the Seventh District on earning the credential.
40. ALAUX 040/21, 15 November 2021 — Updated date for the financial system blackout and cutover impact on Auxiliary patrol orders.
    • Reports that the data migration ran two weeks behind schedule, so the transition period was expected to continue to 1 December 2021, with everything else in ALAUX 036/21 still in effect.
41. ALAUX 041/21, 24 November 2021 — Solicitation for 2022 Inspirational Leadership Awards nominations.
    • Passes on ALCOAST 408/21 and sets the routing for outstanding 2021 Commodore Charles S. Greanoff Award nominations: district commodores to their deputy national commodores by 30 November 2021, and on to CG-BSX by 10 December 2021.
42. ALAUX 042/21, 30 November 2021 — Auxiliary culinary assistant instructor authorization.
    • Authorizes legacy Auxiliary Food Service instructors to have that competency converted to Auxiliary Culinary Assistance instructor in AUXDATA and to carry on signing off qualification tasks under AUX-SOP-005(A).
43. ALAUX 043/21, 22 December 2021 — Auxiliary aviation PPE and day/night pyrotechnic flares update, CG-BSX Policy Letter 21-04.
    • Announces the policy letter signed 17 December 2021, which updates aviation protective equipment policy in Annex 1, section D of the Auxiliary Operations Policy Manual and requires pyrotechnic flares to be taken off Auxiliary aircraft and replaced with a Coast Guard approved electronic visual distress signaling device by 1 June 2022, or by the pyrotechnics’ own expiry date if that falls sooner.

2020

Thirty-five messages were issued in 2020.

1. ALAUX 001/20 — 2020 national operations workshops.
   • The copy on file has been partly overwritten with the text of the 2021 workshops message, carrying the date 25 February 2021 and a 2021 subject line, so its own text is not reliable; ALAUX 004/20 records that it had set the Surface Operations Workshop completion date at 30 June 2020.
2. ALAUX 002/20, 14 March 2020 — COVID-19 travel and leave policy.
   • Passes on ALCOAST 084/20 with updated foreign and domestic travel and leave guidance, points to the three paragraphs that bear on Auxiliary interests, and notes that separate C-school guidance would follow from the Chief Director’s office.
3. ALAUX 003/20, 17 March 2020 — Novel coronavirus (COVID-19), Auxiliary awareness.
   • Sets out the background to the pandemic and the Coast Guard’s proactive steps to keep the risk of exposure low, with the safety of members and their families stated as the highest organizational priority. Later combined into the Auxiliary COVID-19 Reconstitution Guide and superseded by ALAUX 002/21.
4. ALAUX 004/20, 20 March 2020 — Update to the 2020 national operations workshops requirements.
   • Moves the Surface Operations Workshop completion date from 30 June to 30 September 2020 and permits all three national operations workshops to be completed by webinar, delivered by an Auxiliarist qualified in the program who is a certified instructor or supervised by one.
5. ALAUX 005/20, 27 March 2020 — COVID-19 Auxiliary frequently asked questions.
   • Points members to the Coast Guard’s coronavirus website and to the Auxiliary-specific section newly added to its frequently asked questions.
6. ALAUX 006/20, 27 March 2020 — AUXDATA is almost here.
   • Announces deployment expected on 15 April 2020 of a system combining the functions of AUXDATA, AOMS and AUXINFO, and explains that the Commandant had made modernizing the Auxiliary’s information system a priority because the old system was neither user friendly nor adaptable.
7. ALAUX 007/20, 2 April 2020 — Auxiliary telephonic and electronic meeting waiver.
   • Waives, for the circumstances of the pandemic, the requirement under section 4.E.9 of the Auxiliary Manual that a unit first adopt the corresponding standing rules appendix before holding meetings by telephone or electronic means.
8. ALAUX 008/20, 14 April 2020 — Auxiliary-Sea Scout Youth Development (AUXSCOUT) program standard operating procedures revision.
   • Issues AUX-SOP-002(C), which establishes the flotilla staff officer position for the AUXSCOUT program and sets guidelines for handling requests from the Boy Scouts of America.
9. ALAUX 009/20, 18 April 2020 — Update 1 on the AUXDATA project.
   • Records that the contractor delivered the system on schedule on 15 April 2020 after a nine-day data migration, that validation of the migrated data was under way, and that accounts would be phased in starting with DIRAUX and Auxiliary information services officers.
10. ALAUX 010/20, 27 April 2020 — Update 2 on the AUXDATA project.
    • Reports data migration validation nearly complete, DIRAUX accounts rolled out, an email delivery problem affecting non-primary DIRAUX users resolved with the Defense Information Systems Agency, and order issuing authority and Auxiliary accounts beginning that week.
11. ALAUX 011/20, 1 May 2020 — Webinar delivery of the team coordination training refresher.
    • Authorizes webinar delivery of the refresher required by Risk Management, COMDTINST 3500.3A, and BSX Policy Letter 19-01, with updated slides and a facilitator resource guide posted in the Auxiliary Online Classroom and any platform permitted that allows real-time interaction between facilitator and students.
12. ALAUX 012/20, 2 May 2020 — Update 3 on the AUXDATA project.
    • Reports accounts rolled out to the Chief Director’s office and its executive assistants, order issuing authorities, district information services officers and Tier 1 help desk staff, with all members due accounts by the week of 18 May.
13. ALAUX 013/20, 7 May 2020 — National Board telephonic and electronic voting.
    • Amends the Auxiliary Manual to authorize electronic voting by the Auxiliary National Board and to clarify what is expected in the conduct of business at flotilla, division and district level.
14. ALAUX 014/20, 8 May 2020 — Update 4 on the AUXDATA project.
    • Reports order issuing authorities receiving their accounts, a training environment set up so information services officers could answer field questions before tickets were raised, and rollout continuing through the week of 25 May.
15. ALAUX 015/20, 15 May 2020 — Update 5 on the AUXDATA project.
    • Reports accounts reaching division information services officers and facility owners, the first post-production meeting, a successful test upload to the Auxiliary databases, and that sector unit data was not yet in AUXDATA and so not yet in AuxDirectory.
16. ALAUX 016/20, 23 May 2020 — Update 6 on the AUXDATA project.
    • Reports account rollout reaching flotilla information services officers and members holding mission qualifications, roughly 10,000 accounts activated, and all members due their accounts by 28 May 2020.
17. ALAUX 017/20, 29 May 2020 — Update 7 and final on the AUXDATA project.
    • Records that all Auxiliary members had their accounts by 28 May 2020, that the project moved into a roughly three-weekly enhancement cycle with the first maintenance window on 1 June, and that two-factor authentication would be re-enabled that same day.
18. ALAUX 018/20, 2 June 2020 — National Board meeting attendance allowance.
    • Adds a paragraph to section 4.E.5.b of the Auxiliary Manual letting the Chief Director, after consulting the National Commodore, allow a National Board member who cannot attend an in-person meeting for medical or other good cause to take full part by electronic means in an election of national officers.
19. ALAUX 019/20, 4 June 2020 — Vessel safety check, portable fire extinguisher guidance, CG-BSX Policy Letter 20-01.
    • Announces the policy letter signed 3 June 2020, which updates the guidance to vessel examiners on portable fire extinguisher requirements for recreational vessels.
20. ALAUX 020/20, 22 June 2020 — 81st anniversary of the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary.
    • Conveys the Chief Director’s congratulations and passes on ALCOAST 244/20 carrying the Commandant’s tribute to the Auxiliary’s 23,000 uniformed volunteers.
21. ALAUX 021/20, 10 July 2020 — 2020 Inspirational Leadership Award winners.
    • Passes on ALCOAST 262/20 and announces Auxiliarist Jim Bell of Flotilla 35-9, Ninth District Western Region, as the Commodore Charles S. Greanoff Award winner, with honorable mention to Auxiliarist JeanneMarie McNamara of Flotilla 74, Eighth District Coastal Region.
22. ALAUX 022/20, 13 August 2020 — COVID-19, CGMA COVID assistance.
    • Passes on ALCOAST 306/20 announcing six grant and loan programs implemented on 1 August 2020, for which Auxiliarists are eligible alongside active duty, Reserve, civilian employees and retirees.
23. ALAUX 023/20, 25 August 2020 — Auxiliary election policy changes.
    • Amends the Auxiliary Manual so that electronic voting can be held at district, division and flotilla level during the pandemic: nominations from the floor are suspended for electronic elections, letters of intent must reach the unit leader at least fourteen days beforehand, and floor nominations remain authorized at in-person meetings.
24. ALAUX 024/20, 29 August 2020 — Everyone Is A Recruiter incentive program.
    • Passes on ALCOAST 317/20 and the program user guide, PSCINST 1120.1A, calling on the whole workforce, Auxiliarists included, to help increase enlisted and officer accessions after the pandemic’s effect on recruiting.
25. ALAUX 025/20, 8 September 2020 — MyCG, modernizing Coast Guard organizational communications.
    • Relays the Vice Commandant’s announcement of MyCG, a public web gateway bringing Coast Guard news, personnel policy and workforce resources together in one place.
26. ALAUX 026/20, 8 September 2020 — Solicitation for research, development, test and evaluation ideas.
    • Passes on ALCOAST 321/20 inviting Auxiliary submissions to the Coast Guard’s fiscal year 2022 research portfolio, and notes that members without dot-mil access can submit by email instead of through the crowdsourcing platform.
27. ALAUX 027/20, 22 September 2020 — Temporary suspension of the online proctor requirement for AUXOP specialty course exams.
    • Suspends the proctor requirement in sections 8.C.2(b) and (d) of the Auxiliary Manual for five AUXOP specialty exams taken online, which may then be open book but must be taken through the Auxiliary National Testing Center with a 90 per cent pass mark inside a 120-minute limit.
28. ALAUX 028/20, 22 September 2020 — Communicating unity and respect, representing the U.S. Coast Guard.
    • Relays the Vice Commandant’s message to Coast Guard leadership on holding the workforce together through a high operational tempo, the pandemic, an active hurricane season, widespread protest for social justice and a national election, and on every member representing the Service in all interactions.
29. ALAUX 029/20, 26 September 2020 — 2019 Auxiliarist of the Year.
    • Announces Auxiliarist Michael A. Barth of the First District Southern Region, Flotilla 5-11 in Upper Manhattan, New York, with honorable mention to Auxiliarist Robert E. Kumpf, Jr. of the Ninth District Western Region.
30. ALAUX 030/20, 29 September 2020 — Change to Auxiliary chaplain ball cap insignia.
    • Records the Vice Commandant’s approval for chaplains to wear their Chaplain Corps identification insignia on the ball cap in place of rank insignia, amends section 4.A.4 of the Uniform Regulations accordingly, and extends the authorization to Auxiliarists designated as Auxiliary chaplains.
31. ALAUX 031/20, 21 October 2020 — Sexual assault prevention, response and recovery update.
    • Relays ALCOAST 369/20 and states that although Auxiliarists are not full-time federal employees and so fall outside many provisions of the Coast Guard program in COMDTINST M1754.10 (series), they are entitled to initial consultation and referral from a sexual assault response coordinator or a credentialed victim advocate when an assault is reported or alleged while they are assigned to duty.
32. ALAUX 032/20, 29 October 2020 — Auxiliary currency maintenance changes for calendar year 2020.
    • Waives the annual currency maintenance requirements for 2020 and the other-than-annual requirements that fell due that year, except tests and workshops that could be completed online, and moves the waived requirements to a deadline of 31 December 2021.
33. ALAUX 033/20, 9 November 2020 — Merger of ANSC and AUXCEN.
    • Records that the ANSC and the Auxiliary Association’s fulfillment center have moved into the same warehouse in Granite City, Illinois, while their business and product lines remain separate, and gives the contact details for both.
34. ALAUX 034/20, 7 December 2020 — Termination of Adobe Flash Player service in 2020.
    • Warns that Flash Player becomes obsolete at the end of 2020, that several Coast Guard and Auxiliary courses in the AUXLMS had already become or would become unavailable after 28 December 2020, and tabulates the status of the courses affected.
35. ALAUX 035/20, 28 December 2020 — COVID-19 vaccine message from the Commandant.
    • Passes on the Commandant’s message that the vaccine, then voluntary, had begun to be administered to the Coast Guard workforce as part of the Department of Defense plan, with medical personnel receiving priority and wider administration as supply increased.

2019

Fourteen messages were issued in 2019.

1. ALAUX 001/19, 13 February 2019 — Risk management training requirements for the Coast Guard Auxiliary, CG-BSX Policy Letter 19-01.
   • Announces the policy letter signed 1 February 2019, which sets out how the changes to the Coast Guard risk management program’s training requirements apply to the Auxiliary.
2. ALAUX 002/19, 13 February 2019 — Changes to Auxiliary ICS core training, CG-BSX Policy Letter 19-02.
   • Announces the policy letter signed 1 February 2019, which takes ICS-100 and IS-700 out of the Auxiliary Core Training package required of all members while keeping both as prerequisites for every elected position and for certain competencies and appointed positions.
3. ALAUX 003/19, 22 February 2019 — Commandant’s message addressing the arrest of a Coast Guard lieutenant.
   • Relays the Commandant’s message that extremism, hate, bigotry and the advocacy of violence have no place in the Service and that any individual espousing them and failing to live by the Coast Guard’s core values will be held accountable.
4. ALAUX 004/19, 20 March 2019 — USS Tampa Purple Heart campaign.
   • Asks for the Auxiliary’s help in tracing descendants of the crew of the USS Tampa, sunk in the First World War with all hands lost, so that 84 outstanding Purple Heart medals awarded posthumously can be presented, with the aim of recognizing as many descendants as possible by Memorial Day.
5. ALAUX 005/19, 20 March 2019 — State of the Coast Guard address.
   • Passes on the Vice Commandant’s notice that the Commandant would deliver the address from Base Los Angeles-Long Beach on 21 March 2019, and how to watch it live or later.
6. ALAUX 006/19, 8 May 2019 — Auxiliary Humanitarian Service Award.
   • Records the Vice Commandant’s award of the Auxiliary Humanitarian Service Award to the Auxiliarists who supported rescue, response and recovery after Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria in 2017, with awardee rosters and ribbon and medal sets sent to the district DIRAUX offices and the AUXDATA entries made centrally.
7. ALAUX 007/19, 25 June 2019 — 80th anniversary of the Coast Guard Auxiliary.
   • Marks the anniversary of 23 June 2019 and records the award of the Coast Guard Unit Commendation, signed by the Commandant, to every Auxiliarist who served at least one day between 24 June 2014 and 23 June 2019, with AUXDATA entries to be made by the Chief Director’s office.
8. ALAUX 008/19, 2 July 2019 — Deputy Commandant for Operations Independence Day message.
   • Passes on ALCOAST 221/19 for the Fourth of July and adds the Chief Director’s own birthday greeting to the Auxiliary.
9. ALAUX 009/19, 11 July 2019 — 2018 Auxiliarist of the Year.
   • Announces Auxiliarist Alison G. Blind of Flotilla 31-4, Ninth District Western Region, in Holland, Michigan, with honorable mention to Michael A. Barth of Flotilla 5-11, First District Southern Region.
10. ALAUX 010/19, 17 July 2019 — Updates to team coordination training facilitator policies for Auxiliarists.
    • Announces Commandant Notice 068/19 and CG-BSX Policy Letter 19-03, both released on 2 July 2019, which change the facilitator requirements, and thanks the twelve Auxiliarists who developed them with CG-BSX staff and other headquarters offices.
11. ALAUX 011/19, 23 July 2019 — Cell phone use on board Auxiliary facilities.
    • Promulgates CG-BSX Policy Letter 19-05 on the use of cellular telephones, applications and handheld devices while underway under orders on Auxiliary surface facilities, aligns it with the guidance for Boat Forces units, and states it will be folded into the next revision of the Auxiliary Operations Policy Manual.
12. ALAUX 012/19, 24 July 2019 — Auxiliary inclusion in American Forces Travel.
    • Records ALCGPSC 074/19, which gives Auxiliarists access to the American Forces Travel service, a morale, well-being and recreation program run jointly by the five armed services with a commercial travel partner.
13. ALAUX 013/19, 16 September 2019 — Chief Director’s final action on National Board recommendations at NACON 2019.
    • Approves the single recommendation put before the board: amending Chapter 3, section D.5 of the Auxiliary Manual to delete the exemption from national dues that district and appointed commodores had held at the end of their term of office. The copy on file numbers itself 011/19.
14. ALAUX 014/19, 1 November 2019 — Auxiliary-Sea Scout Youth Development (AUXSCOUT) program, national implementation.
    • Records the memorandum of agreement signed in August 2018 by the Auxiliary, the Auxiliary Association, the Boy Scouts of America and the Sea Scouts, which allowed the Auxiliary to enroll Sea Scout youths from the age of fourteen where seventeen had been the minimum, and takes the program national after prototyping in the Fifth District Southern Region and the Ninth District Eastern Region.

2018

Twenty-three messages were issued in 2018.

1. ALAUX 001/18, 19 January 2018 — 2018 national surface operations workshop.
   • Makes the national surface operations workshop mandatory, alongside the one-hour team coordination training refresher, for all coxswains, boat crew, personal watercraft operators, paddlecraft operators and trainees, to be completed by 30 June 2018, with those who miss it placed in Required Workshop Not Met status and given until 31 December 2018 to finish it without further consequence.
2. ALAUX 002/18, 10 February 2018 — Basic Qualification II course requirement for newly enrolled Auxiliarists.
   • Requires, from 1 February 2018, every newly enrolled member to complete the BQII course before moving from Approval Pending status to any other membership status, following the application of the course to elected office eligibility and the AUXOP program announced in ALAUX 013/17.
3. ALAUX 003/18, 1 February 2018 — Auxiliary reciprocity with the United States Power Squadrons for vessel examiner and instructor competencies.
   • Provides that a Power Squadrons member certified as a vessel examiner or instructor who joins the Auxiliary may carry that certification across, and sets out the reciprocal arrangement in the other direction.
4. ALAUX 004/18, 8 March 2018 — Auxiliary uniform wear at formal and ceremonial occasions.
   • Amends Chapter 10 of the Auxiliary Manual on when active and retired Auxiliarists may wear the uniform at formal and ceremonial occasions and on the occasions where uniform wear is prohibited.
5. ALAUX 005/18, 8 March 2018 — Online Coast Guard uniform sales.
   • Records the return of online uniform and accessory sales through the Coast Guard Exchange System store from 1 March 2018, which Auxiliarists are authorized to use, and relays ALCGPSC 025/18 with the detail.
6. ALAUX 006/18, 2018 — Announcement of the 26th Commandant and the 31st Vice Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard.
   • Relays Admiral Paul F. Zukunft’s announcement of the nominations of Vice Admiral Karl Schultz as the 26th Commandant and Vice Admiral Charles Ray as the 31st Vice Commandant. The copy on file carries only the year, with no day or month.
7. ALAUX 007/18, 14 May 2018 — 2018 CGMA fundraising campaign.
   • Relays ALCOAST 095/18 on the campaign, themed “Coasties for Life”, noting that CGMA had given more than $187 million in assistance since 1924 and over $6.3 million in the previous year alone.
8. ALAUX 008/18, 9 April 2018 — 2018 Commodore Charles S. Greanoff Inspirational Leadership Award winner.
   • Relays ALCOAST 130/18 and congratulates Auxiliarist Linda Jones of the Seventh District on the award, with honorable mention to Auxiliarist Craig Johnson of the Eleventh District Northern Region and Auxiliarist Timothy Darrey of the Ninth District Western Region.
9. ALAUX 009/18, 14 May 2018 — Paddle craft reflector kits.
   • Records that the ANSC held about 16,000 kits, developed under a Sport Fish Restoration and Boating Trust Fund grant to make paddlers more visible, available as stock item 3004B with a limit of fifty kits per order.
10. ALAUX 010/18, 17 May 2018 — Free uniform items at the ANSC.
    • Offers surplus uniform items from the Coast Guard Uniform Distribution Center (UDC) free to Auxiliarists, filled first come first served on an excess uniform requisition submitted through the Flotilla Commander or the flotilla materials staff officer.
11. ALAUX 011/18, 4 June 2018 — Commandant change of command, accelerating toward our future.
    • Records that Admiral Karl L. Schultz relieved Admiral Paul F. Zukunft as the 26th Commandant on 1 June 2018, relays ALCOAST 214/18 on the senior leadership team’s initiatives, and notes that Admiral Schultz had issued his Auxiliary Policy Statement.
12. ALAUX 012/18, 15 June 2018 — Commandant of the Coast Guard interview on a television news channel.
    • Gives notice that Admiral Karl L. Schultz would be interviewed that evening. Only a PDF of this message is available.
13. ALAUX 013/18, 23 June 2018 — 79th anniversary of the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary.
    • Marks the anniversary and points members to the article on the Auxiliary carried that day by the Coast Guard Compass, the Service’s official blog.
14. ALAUX 014/18, 25 June 2018 — Auxiliary Core Training policy changes.
    • Replaces Auxiliary Mandated Training with Auxiliary Core Training, set against the requirement in 14 U.S. Code § 831 that the Coast Guard ensure Auxiliarists are trained, tested and found competent before being assigned to duty.
15. ALAUX 015/18, 5 July 2018 — Policy clarification, Auxiliary inflatable personal flotation devices.
    • Relays the Office of Boat Forces policy letter clarifying Auxiliary use of inflatable personal flotation devices for surface operations personnel, with the associated qualification standard and maintenance procedure card posted on the National Response Directorate website.
16. ALAUX 016/18, 19 July 2018 — Auxiliary Life Jacket Wear Observation (AUXLWO) program standard operating procedure approved.
    • Announces the SOP signed by the Chief Director, developed with the Auxiliary Division and the Boating Safety Division, which gives the advice, guidance and structure for Auxiliary participation in life jacket wear observation, with the Boating Safety Division as national program manager.
17. ALAUX 017/18, 30 July 2018 — AUXDATA mission activity code changes.
    • Activates three new activity codes — Coast Guard Historian office support, Auxiliary paddle craft operation and operational standby — and redefines the search and rescue standby code so that mission hours and crew mission time are tracked more accurately.
18. ALAUX 018/18, 13 August 2018 — Auxiliary Paddle Craft (AUXPAD) Program, COMDTINST 16794.11A, revision approved.
    • Announces the revision signed on 8 August 2018, which adopts American Canoe Association requirements, allows operation beyond 1,000 yards from shore when the order issuing authority authorizes it, and updates the weather parameters, protective equipment and physical fitness requirements; the previous version, COMDTINST 16794.11, is canceled.
19. ALAUX 019/18, 17 August 2018 — 2017 Auxiliarist of the Year.
    • Announces Auxiliarist Joseph J. Giannattasio of Flotilla 82, Fifth District Northern Region, in Cape May, New Jersey, with honorable mention to Joseph J. Leonard, Jr. of Flotilla 12, Eighth District Coastal Region.
20. ALAUX 020/18, 25 August 2018 — Update to ALAUX 017/18, clarification of crew fatigue and search and rescue standby status.
    • Clears up the confusion the earlier message had caused about accounting for accumulated crew fatigue time while in standby status under codes 01D and 23A, and gives an updated definition of search and rescue standby.
21. ALAUX 021/18, 25 August 2018 — Change to simultaneous Auxiliary office policy.
    • Rewrites section 4.G.5 of the Auxiliary Manual so that no member holding elected office may concurrently serve as the finance or materials staff officer at any level, with a waiver available from the Director where a unit has no effective way to comply.
22. ALAUX 022/18, 11 September 2018 — Coast Guard Auxiliary and Sea Scouts.
    • Records the memorandum of agreement signed at the 2018 National Conference in Orlando by the Auxiliary, the Boy Scouts of America and the Coast Guard Auxiliary Association, which allows Sea Scouts as young as fourteen to join the Auxiliary and Auxiliary flotillas to charter Sea Scout ships.
23. ALAUX 023/18, 25 October 2018 — Chief Director’s final action on National Board recommendations at NACON 2018.
    • Disapproves all four recommendations the board had adopted: the parallel amendments to the flotilla, division and district standing rules templates on who may sign checks and authorize disbursements, and the amendment to Chapter 4, subsection A.9 of the Auxiliary Manual on flotilla voting policy.

2017

Fifteen messages were issued in 2017, numbered 01 through 14 with one supplement numbered 08a.

1. ALAUX 01/17, 9 March 2017 — 2017 CGMA.
   • Describes what CGMA does for the Coast Guard community, records that Auxiliary members received $62,449 in direct financial assistance in 2016 out of more than $4 million given in all, and gives notice of the April 2017 fundraising campaign.
2. ALAUX 02/17, 17 March 2017 — The Coast Guard culture of respect.
   • Relays the Commandant’s message, written after reports of degrading social media posts and file sharing in the armed services, that everyone in the Service including Auxiliarists is expected to build and maintain a culture of respect and to call out unacceptable behavior rather than stand by.
3. ALAUX 03/17, 17 March 2017 — Auxiliary Financial Educator (AUXFE) program establishment.
   • Establishes the program as an authorized Auxiliary activity, effective immediately and to be folded into section 2.B of the Auxiliary Manual, so that Auxiliarists can be designated to help Coast Guard military personnel make informed decisions under the Blended Retirement System.
4. ALAUX 04/17, 4 April 2017 — Solicitation for the 2017 National Scout Jamboree task force.
   • Relays ALCOAST 102/17 seeking task force members, Auxiliarists among them, for the jamboree at the Bechtel Summit Reserve in Beckley, West Virginia, from 17 to 29 July 2017.
5. ALAUX 05/17, 7 April 2017 — Auxiliary Public Affairs competency realignment.
   • Renames the three public affairs competency levels in AUXDATA to match Coast Guard public affairs petty officer ranks, effective 31 March 2017: AUXPA I becomes AUXPA3, AUXPA II becomes AUXPA2, and AUXPA III becomes AUXPA1.
6. ALAUX 06/17, 12 April 2017 — Farewell from Captain Tom Boross.
   • The departing Chief Director of Auxiliary’s farewell message to all Auxiliarists.
7. ALAUX 07/17, 19 April 2017 — Auxiliary Build (AUXBUILD) program.
   • Establishes the program as an authorized Auxiliary activity, effective immediately and to be folded into section 2.B of the Auxiliary Manual, letting the Coast Guard draw on Auxiliarists’ construction industry skills, with training and certification, to monitor and report on shore-side construction projects. The copy on file’s date line reads 2019 rather than 2017.
8. ALAUX 08/17, 24 April 2017 — New Chief Director of Auxiliary.
   • The incoming Chief Director introduces himself on relieving the watch, describing twenty-two years of service as a cutterman and prevention officer and his intent to work with the National Commodore and his staff. The copy on file carries no signature block.
9. ALAUX 08a/17, 28 April 2017 — 2017 Commodore Charles S. Greanoff Inspirational Leadership Award winner.
   • Relays ALCOAST 146/17 and congratulates Auxiliarist Gene Little of the Ninth District Eastern Region on the award, with honorable mention to Auxiliarist Gary Derby of the Fifth District Southern Region.
10. ALAUX 09/17, 10 May 2017 — Change in the Coast Guard directives website and interim availability of an alternate Auxiliary access site.
    • Records that public-facing manuals, instructions and forms moved off the old directives address to the site of the Coast Guard Directives and Publications Division as part of a transition running through September 2017.
11. ALAUX 10/17, 21 June 2017 — AUXINFO upgrade to Cognos version 10.
    • Gives notice of a mandatory upgrade of the software behind AUXINFO on 21 June 2017, driven by security vulnerabilities and the end of support for the old version, and warns that while the cubes and reports themselves do not change, existing AUXINFO bookmarks and shortcuts will be erased.
12. ALAUX 11/17, 23 June 2017 — 78th anniversary of the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary.
    • Marks the anniversary and points members to the tribute carried that day by the Coast Guard Compass, the Service’s official blog, written by two Auxiliarists.
13. ALAUX 12/17, 11 August 2017 — 2016 Auxiliarist of the Year.
    • Announces Commodore Kenneth E. Jacobs of Flotilla 77, First District Southern Region, in Fairfield, Connecticut, with honorable mention to Todd J. Wilkinson of Flotilla 52, Eighth District Western Region, and Joseph J. Giannattasio of Flotilla 82, Fifth District Northern Region.
14. ALAUX 13/17, 22 September 2017 — Basic Qualification Course II.
    • Approves the course towards elected office eligibility, so that it now satisfies the same requirement as the Administrative Procedures Course or the Flotilla Leadership Course for election as Flotilla Vice Commander or Flotilla Commander, and makes it a leadership course option worth one credit in the AUXOP program, with members who had already finished its seven modules grandfathered for both.
15. ALAUX 14/17, 10 October 2017 — ANSC phone number changes.
    • Gives the new telephone contact numbers for the supply center in Granite City, Illinois, and confirms that the mailing address is unchanged.

2016

Twelve messages were issued in 2016.

1. ALAUX 01/16, 31 January 2016 — Auxiliary Musician (AUXMU) standard operating procedure.
   • Announces the SOP signed by the Chief Director, developed with Auxiliary national leadership and the Coast Guard Band, which gives the structure through which Auxiliary musicians qualify and perform authorized musical activities.
2. ALAUX 02/16, 11 March 2016 — Coast Guard “Everyone Is A Recruiter”.
   • Records the presentation to the National Board at the January 2016 training conference on the value of Auxiliary support to Coast Guard recruiting, and asks flotilla, division and regional leaders to build links with their nearest recruiting offices and to point prospective recruits to the Coast Guard recruiting website.
3. ALAUX 03/16, 29 March 2016 — 2016 CGMA campaign.
   • Describes what CGMA does, records that it issued more than 4,400 loans and grants totalling over $3.4 million in 2015 of which Auxiliarists received over $29,000, and notes that the Supplemental Education Grant then offered up to $350 per client per year and had been extended to graduate students.
4. ALAUX 04/16, 20 April 2016 — Commodore Greanoff Inspirational Leadership Award.
   • Relays ALCOAST 147/16 and congratulates Auxiliarist Jeffrey Pielet of the Eleventh District Southern Region on the award, with honorable mention to Auxiliarist Jack Benton of the Ninth District Eastern Region.
5. ALAUX 05/16, 6 June 2016 — Chief Director’s final action on National Board recommendations at NTRAIN 2016.
   • Approves both recommendations: modifying Chapter 11, A.11.c of the Auxiliary Manual on the Auxiliary Recruiting Service Award, whose existing requirements had become practically unachievable because new members’ security investigations rarely returned within the same calendar year; and establishing the district staff officer position for food service, with the AUXDATA changes to follow within two weeks.
6. ALAUX 06/16, 4 August 2016 — 2015 Association for Rescue at Sea award recipients.
   • Relays ALCOAST 284/16 and congratulates Auxiliarist Patrick Porter of the Eleventh District Southern Region on the AFRAS Silver Medal, with honorable mention to seven Auxiliarists of the Fifth District Southern Region.
7. ALAUX 07/16, 4 August 2016 — Change to the Coast Guard Marine Safety Manual, Volume II.
   • Relays ALCOAST 281/16 announcing Change 2 to COMDTINST M16000.7B, which makes no substantive policy change but folds four existing policy letters into the manual and cancels them, adds a section on commercial vessel compliance personnel proficiency, and revises the section on hydrostatic tests of boilers.
8. ALAUX 08/16, 6 August 2016 — World’s best Coast Guard, 226 years of service.
   • Relays the Commandant’s birthday message to the Service, which names the Auxiliary among the force that makes the Coast Guard what it is.
9. ALAUX 09/16, 8 October 2016 — Chief Director’s final action on National Board recommendations at NACON 2016.
   • Approves the recommendation on filling immediate past office vacancies, and records that the other two — on the district newsletter provision in the district standing rules template, and on requiring Auxiliary mandated training before a provisional member receives an identification card — failed at the board, so no action followed.
10. ALAUX 10/16, 13 October 2016 — Change to the immediate past office vacancy policy.
    • Rewrites sub-section 4.F.5.c of the Auxiliary Manual so that vacancies in immediate past offices shall be filled, with the Director appointing a previous immediate past officer of the unit, extended by the Chief Director to include the Immediate Past National Commodore.
11. ALAUX 11/16, 14 October 2016 — Prohibition of unmanned aerial systems.
    • Applies ALCOAST 331/16 to the Auxiliary, barring Auxiliarists from operating unmanned aircraft in any authorized Auxiliary activity under any circumstance, including for testing or prototyping, and records that the Chief Director was chartering a working group to explore a way forward.
12. ALAUX 12/16, 16 November 2016 — Auxiliary Clergy Support (ACS) program.
    • Records the establishment of the program by Auxiliary national leadership, the Chief Director and the Chaplain of the Coast Guard, with Commandant Instruction 1730.5 signed by the Vice Commandant on 27 October 2016, and names the two application forms, ANSC-7069 and ANSC-7070.

2015

Twenty messages are on file for 2015, numbered 01 through 20 with one supplement numbered 18a; number 05/15 is not on file.

1. ALAUX 01/15, 12 January 2015 — Anticipated disruption of AUXINFO availability.
   • Warns that AUXINFO was at risk of being discontinued because of its lifecycle age, vendor supportability and cyber security requirements, with a decisive test planned for late January 2015, while other Auxiliary systems were unaffected.
2. ALAUX 02/15, 6 February 2015 — CGMA updates.
   • Announces several new assistance programs and an increase in the Supplemental Education Grant to $350 per client per calendar year, and records that Auxiliarists received over $41,900 in assistance in the previous year.
3. ALAUX 03/15, 10 February 2015 — Update on AUXINFO.
   • Records that AUXINFO and AUXDATA remained fully available despite the warning in ALAUX 001/15, and that AUXINFO was expected to stay so for at least six to twelve months.
4. ALAUX 04/15, 10 February 2015 — Chief Director’s final action on National Board recommendations at NTRAIN 2015.
   • Approves all three recommendations: a one dollar per month rise in national dues from the 2016 dues cycle, the first in ten years; an amendment to Chapter 10 of the Auxiliary Manual specifying when boat shoes may be worn with the Operational Dress Uniform (ODU); and AUXOP leadership training credit for the Coast Guard Leadership and Management School course.
5. ALAUX 06/15, 28 April 2015 — Vehicle decal program termination.
   • Records that the Coast Guard ended the personal vehicle decal program in September 2014 and requires every decal issued to an Auxiliarist under section 5.O.3 of the Auxiliary Manual to be removed and destroyed immediately.
6. ALAUX 07/15, 26 May 2015 — 2015 Commodore Charles S. Greanoff Inspirational Leadership Award.
   • Relays ALCOAST 212/15 and congratulates Auxiliarist Jeffrey Geddes of the Eighth District Western Rivers on the award, with honorable mention to Auxiliarists Jerry Edelen of the Eleventh District Northern Region and Paul Pronovost of the First District Southern Region.
7. ALAUX 08/15, 26 May 2015 — Vigilance during Coast Guard operations.
   • Relays the Vice Commandant’s message of 22 May 2015 on managing daily risk as the boating season opened, and asks Auxiliary leaders at every level to go through it with members at their next unit meeting.
8. ALAUX 09/15, 29 May 2015 — Honored to serve.
   • Relays the Commandant’s message marking a year in command and the release of the Commandant’s Strategic Intent for 2015 to 2019.
9. ALAUX 10/15, 6 June 2015 — Auxiliary Mandated Training, new delivery methods and policy changes.
   • Updates the extension announced in ALAUX 022/14, sets out the courses to be completed within the first full year of enrollment and every five years thereafter, and announces the policy changes meant to drive completion across the Auxiliary.
10. ALAUX 11/15, 6 June 2015 — Office of Personnel Management cybersecurity incident.
    • Passes on the departmental notice of the incident and states that it is reasonable to presume Auxiliarists may be among the affected population, with notifications to follow by email and post.
11. ALAUX 12/15, 12 June 2015 — Temporary suspension of the UDC iStore.
    • Records that the online uniform ordering portal was suspended for maintenance, with ordering still possible by telephone, fax or in person, and the Academy clothing locker and Coast Guard exchanges also able to help.
12. ALAUX 13/15, 13 June 2015 — Office of Personnel Management cybersecurity incident, update.
    • Passes on the departmental update to ALAUX 011/15 and records that notifications to affected individuals ran from 8 to 19 June 2015.
13. ALAUX 14/15, 20 June 2015 — Launch of the Enterprise Common Ideation Platform.
    • Relays ALCOAST 249/15 announcing ECIP Connect, a crowd-sourcing tool open to active duty, civilian, Reserve and Auxiliary members, prototyped to replace the legacy innovation database.
14. ALAUX 15/15, 26 June 2015 — Office of Personnel Management cybersecurity incident, update.
    • Passes on the departmental update of 23 June 2015, which records an intrusion affecting the personnel information of about four million current and former federal employees and the credit monitoring offered to those affected.
15. ALAUX 16/15, 14 July 2015 — AUXINFO availability status.
    • Updates ALAUX 001/15 and 003/15 and records that a bridging strategy had been settled in the form of an upgrade of the Cognos software behind AUXINFO, pending a long-term replacement.
16. ALAUX 17/15, 19 July 2015 — 2014 Auxiliarist of the Year.
    • Announces Jacob E. Thayer of Flotilla 75, Eighth District Coastal Region, with honorable mention to Karen P. Chapman of Flotilla 10-2, Eleventh District Southern Region, and Russell A. Braswell II of Flotilla 59, Fifth District Southern Region.
17. ALAUX 18/15, 17 August 2015 — 225th anniversary of the U.S. Coast Guard.
    • Relays the Secretary’s tribute of 4 August 2015 to the Service on its 225th anniversary.
18. ALAUX 18a/15, 14 October 2015 — October is Cybersecurity Month.
    • Relays the DHS’s monthly bulletin on National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, with a note that links embedded in departmental email are normally disabled and may have to be copied into a browser.
19. ALAUX 19/15, 5 November 2015 — Auxiliary Mandated Training, frequently asked questions and “what if” scenarios.
    • Sets the incentives and consequences attached to mandated training from 1 January 2016: members enrolled before that date had to finish by 31 December 2016 to qualify, re-certify or avoid Required Yearly Not Met status, and later enrollees by the end of their first full calendar year.
20. ALAUX 20/15, 24 November 2015 — Auxiliary air operations, health services and public affairs program policy changes.
    • Carries five changes to the Auxiliary Manual and the Auxiliary Operations Policy Manual, effective immediately, among them the restatement of section 8.B.4 setting out the five levels of competency in the air operations program.

2014

Twenty-two messages are on file for 2014; numbers 20/14 and 21/14 are not on file.

1. ALAUX 01/14, 18 February 2014 — Chief Director’s final action on a National Board recommendation.
   • Approves the establishment of a civil rights appointed office within the national staff’s Human Resources Directorate, where the program had until then consisted of a single appointed officer in each district or region.
2. ALAUX 02/14, 1 March 2014 — Nomination of the next Commandant.
   • Relays the Secretary’s announcement of the intent to nominate Vice Admiral Paul F. Zukunft, then commanding the Pacific Area and a thirty-seven year veteran, as the 25th Commandant.
3. ALAUX 03/14, 6 March 2014 — Auxiliary policy changes.
   • Issues, in three parts, the chapter-by-chapter summary of changes to the Auxiliary Manual made since the September 2013 set announced in ALAUX 013/13, together with the Auxiliary Association consent form.
4. ALAUX 04/14, 5 April 2014 — Human factor, family and workforce awareness.
   • Points members to four ALCOAST messages issued for April 2014 on sexual assault awareness, alcohol awareness, autism awareness and a mandatory stand-down, and notes that April is also National Child Abuse Prevention Month.
5. ALAUX 05/14, 26 April 2014 — Announcement of the 75th anniversary of the Coast Guard Auxiliary.
   • Relays ALCOAST 180/14 announcing the anniversary on 23 June 2014, the special anniversary logo, and the call for Coast Guard commanders to reach out to their local flotillas.
6. ALAUX 06/14, 14 May 2014 — 2014 Inspirational Leadership Award winners.
   • Relays ALCOAST 197/14 and announces Brenda Paul of Flotilla 7-10, Eighth District Coastal Region, as the Commodore Charles S. Greanoff Award winner, with honorable mention to Ronald Kaplan of the First District Southern Region.
7. ALAUX 07/14, 30 May 2014 — Shipmates 29 and final, we are Coast Guardsmen.
   • Relays Admiral Papp’s farewell message reflecting on four years of steadying the Service, honoring the profession, strengthening partnerships and respecting shipmates.
8. ALAUX 08/14, 30 May 2014 — Commandant’s change of command.
   • Relays Admiral Paul F. Zukunft’s first message on relieving Admiral Papp as the 25th Commandant and points the workforce, Auxiliarists included, to his Commandant’s Direction.
9. ALAUX 09/14, 8 June 2014 — 70th anniversary of D-Day and the Coast Guard.
   • Points members to the Coast Guard Historian’s account of the Service’s part in the Normandy invasion and quotes the 1994 memorial plaque to those who took part.
10. ALAUX 10/14, 19 June 2014 — Seventy-fifth anniversary of the United States Coast Guard Auxiliary.
    • Relays ALCOAST 271/14 marking the anniversary on 23 June 2014 and records that Auxiliarists delivered over 4.2 million hours of operational and administrative support that year, with instructors teaching over 96,000 hours.
11. ALAUX 11/14, 24 June 2014 — Coast Guard Unit Commendation.
    • Records the Commandant’s award of the Coast Guard Unit Commendation to every Auxiliarist who served between 24 June 2009 and 23 June 2014, and carries the citation, which credits the Auxiliary with over 1.1 million vessel safety checks and marine dealer visits in that period.
12. ALAUX 12/14, 26 June 2014 — Sixth annual Operation Dry Water.
    • Relays ALCOAST 282/14 on the boating-under-the-influence enforcement weekend, run under the National RBS Strategic Plan and funded through Sport Fish Restoration and Boating Safety Trust Fund grants to the National Association of State Boating Law Administrators.
13. ALAUX 13/14, 31 July 2014 — 2013 Auxiliarist of the Year.
    • Announces Wallace A. Smith, Jr. of Flotilla 6-10, Eleventh District Northern Region, with honorable mention to Jerry Shaw, Jr. of Flotilla 8-12, Eighth District Coastal Region, and Jessica Zenquis-Davidson of Flotilla 2-76, Fifth District Northern Region.
14. ALAUX 14/14, 4 August 2014 — 224th anniversary of the United States Coast Guard.
    • Relays the Commandant’s Coast Guard Day message marking the founding of the Revenue Cutter Service.
15. ALAUX 15/14, 1 September 2014 — Commandant’s equal opportunity policy statement.
    • Relays ALCOAST 354/14, which states that every member of the Coast Guard is responsible for preventing and eliminating discrimination and points the workforce to the Civil Rights Directorate.
16. ALAUX 16/14, 1 September 2014 — Foundation for Coast Guard History 2013 awards solicitation.
    • Relays ALCOAST 356/14 soliciting nominations for the foundation’s annual unit, book and individual awards, and strongly encourages Auxiliary nominees.
17. ALAUX 17/14, 6 September 2014 — Password changes for AUXLMS and AUXDATA.
    • Announces a global password reset in the AUXLMS, with new passwords required to be at least fourteen characters and set through the forgotten-password link.
18. ALAUX 18/14, 14 September 2014 — Chief Director’s final action on National Board recommendations at NACON 2014.
    • Approves the three recommendations the board passed — barring the finance and materials staff offices from being held alongside an elected office at the same level, establishing an Auxiliary Musician program, and changing how eligibility for an anniversary streamer is documented when the original charter cannot be found — while the fourth, on permanent markings on dedicated operational facilities, was voted down at the board and never reached the Chief Director.
19. ALAUX 19/14, 17 September 2014 — Change to the Auxiliary district captain election eligibility requirement.
    • Cancels the requirement that a district captain submit a complete direct operational personnel security investigation package by the date of taking office, making District Chief of Staff the first elected office for which that package is required.
20. ALAUX 22/14, 31 October 2014 — Change to the Auxiliary Mandated Training deadline and requirements.
    • Extends the completion deadline for members who enrolled from January 2013, when ALAUX 001/13 launched the AUXLMS and required new enrollees to finish all mandated training within their first year.
21. ALAUX 23/14, 24 November 2014 — Auxiliary University Program.
    • Establishes the program as an authorized Auxiliary activity, effective immediately and to be folded into section 2.B of the Auxiliary Manual, allowing partnerships with accredited colleges and universities so that student Auxiliarists’ service is integrated with their academic experience.
22. ALAUX 24/14, 22 December 2014 — Coast Guard Uniform Board 46, impacts on Auxiliary uniform policies.
    • Explains how the results announced in ALCGPSC 171/14 apply to the Auxiliary, beginning with the authorization of the Foul Weather Parka II for wear with the ODU, Tropical Blue, Winter Dress Blue and Service Dress Blue.

2013

Seventeen messages were issued in 2013.

1. ALAUX 01/13, 18 January 2013 — Auxiliary Learning Management System (AUXLMS).
   • Announces the implementation of the AUXLMS and its benefits, requirements and effects on Auxiliary mandated training; the copy on file carries only the subject line, that purpose statement and a link, so the detail of those requirements is not available.
2. ALAUX 02/13, 7 March 2013 — State of the Coast Guard Address.
   • Tells members that the Commandant’s annual address was digitally recorded rather than broadcast live, that commands were to show it at an all-hands session by 15 March and were strongly encouraged to include Auxiliary and Reserve personnel, and that the recording would be available for individual viewing from 15 March; the body of the message is written in the week before 1 March, so the 7 March date on the file is later than the text it carries.
3. ALAUX 03/13, 12 March 2013 — Greanoff Inspirational Leadership Award.
   • Announces that Thomas Chalifoux of District Nine (Central Region) Flotilla 18-11 was selected as the year’s Commodore Charles S. Greanoff Inspirational Leadership Award winner, with honorable mention to Lowell Gytri of District Eleven (Southern Region) Flotilla 11-12, as announced with the other major Coast Guard leadership award selectees in ALCOAST 102/13.
4. ALAUX 04/13, 17 May 2013 — Coast Guard Exchange announces new online store available for Coast Guard Auxiliarists.
   • Passes on the Community Services Command release extending Coast Guard Exchange shopping privileges to the Auxiliary’s roughly thirty-two thousand members through a new online store.
5. ALAUX 05/13, 25 May 2013 — Memorial Day messages.
   • Carries the Secretary of Homeland Security’s Memorial Day letter, with its call to observe the National Moment of Remembrance at three o’clock local time, together with ALCOAST 237/13, the Commandant’s Memorial Day message, which recounts the rededication of the restored Coast Guard War Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery.
6. ALAUX 06/13, 4 June 2013 — Commander’s intent, campaign to eliminate sexual assault from our Coast Guard.
   • Directs members to ALCOAST 244/13 setting the Commandant’s expectation that sexual assault will not be tolerated as contrary to the Service’s core values, states plainly that the Auxiliary is not immune to such behavior, and tells members who witness or learn of unacceptable behavior that they have a responsibility to act on it.
7. ALAUX 07/13, 10 June 2013 — ALCOAST 253/13, Auxiliary Food Service Specialist health record verification.
   • Relays the formal renaming of the AUXCHEF program to the Auxiliary Food Services program and of the qualification to Auxiliary Food Service Specialist, the requirement that every current specialist have the qualification record updated by 1 October 2013, and the position that specialists are authorized assignment to duty supporting and augmenting dining facilities at Coast Guard units and should be considered first for food service support at Auxiliary functions.
8. ALAUX 08/13, 21 June 2013 — Seventy-fourth anniversary of the United States Coast Guard Auxiliary.
   • Carries the acting Chief Director’s congratulations to the membership and ALCOAST 271/13, which marks the anniversary of the organization Congress established in 1939.
9. ALAUX 09/13, 11 July 2013 — ALCOAST 291/13, solicitation for the 2014 Coast Guard Reserve Awards Panel.
   • Passes on the Director of Reserve and Military Personnel’s call for panel volunteers, notes that membership is open to Auxiliarists, and routes applications through the chain of leadership to the District Commodore and from the District DIRAUX to the Coast Guard Reserve Information and Evaluation Division.
10. ALAUX 10/13, 8 August 2013 — Team Coordination Training (TCT).
    • Authorizes selected Auxiliarists to deliver initial and five-year currency maintenance TCT to other Auxiliarists from 1 September 2013 in half-day sessions, sets the nomination route from flotilla or division commander through the chain of leadership to the district captain or district directorate chief and then to the DIRAUX for selection, requires certified instructor status paired with a current coxswain, first pilot or aircraft commander qualification or with logged hours in those roles, makes the designation a renewable three-year one labeled TCTAUX in AUXDATA and distinct from the TCTFAC label earned through Coast Guard training, and gives the Director sole authority to designate or remove these facilitators.
11. ALAUX 11/13, 25 August 2013 — 2012 Auxiliarist of the Year.
    • Relays ALCOAST 342/13 announcing the selection of Chris W. Bandy of Flotilla 28-1 in the Ninth District, Central Auxiliary Region, recognized for devoting more than seven hundred hours to the Paddle Smart program launched in 2011 to curb kayaking fatalities in the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore area of Lake Superior.
12. ALAUX 12/13, 4 September 2013 — CG-BSX relocation.
    • Announces that the office would be unreachable by telephone and electronic mail from 6 to 8 September 2013 while the Prevention Policy Directorate moved from the Transpoint Building to the new Coast Guard Headquarters complex on the St. Elizabeths campus, and gives the new mailing address for CG-BSX, telephone and electronic mail contacts remaining unchanged.
13. ALAUX 13/13, 16 September 2013 — Auxiliary policy changes.
    • Publishes a chapter-by-chapter, section-by-section summary of changes to the Auxiliary Manual, COMDTINST M16790.1G, effective immediately: “Employee ID Number (EMPLID)” is replaced by “Member ID Number” throughout; the Auxiliary Chef program becomes the Auxiliary Food Service program at section 2.B.2; identification card issuance reverts at section 3.D.2.c to being made only on receipt of a favorable personnel security investigation; section 4.A.9 lets the DIRAUX, with District Commodore concurrence, waive the twenty-five per cent flotilla voting quorum down to fifteen per cent for a specified period; section 4.E.9 broadens the rules for holding unit meetings by electronic or telephonic means; section 5.J.10 adds a service animal policy; section 5.N.1 requires unit financial reports to reach the cognisant Director by 1 March each year; section 8.B.11 memorializes the TCT facilitator policy issued in ALAUX 10/13; and section 8.C.1 broadens the AUXOP program by admitting twenty-nine National Incident Management System (NIMS)-compliant Type 3 ICS courses at two credits each.
14. ALAUX 14/13, 27 November 2013 — Thanksgiving message.
    • Extends ALCOAST 507/13, the Commandant’s Thanksgiving message, with the Chief of the CG-BSX’s own thanks for the Auxiliary’s work promoting recreational boating safety and supporting the Coast Guard.
15. ALAUX 15/13, 18 December 2013 — CHDIRAUX and Commandant holiday greetings.
    • Carries the CG-BSX’s 2013 holiday message, which thanks the volunteer corps as the Auxiliary enters its seventy-fifth consecutive year of service, together with ALCOAST 529/13, the Commandant’s last holiday message in that post.
16. ALAUX 16/13, 19 December 2013 — Loss of a Coast Guardsman.
    • Relays the Chief of the CG-BSX’s note and ALCOAST 540/13 reporting the death of Boatswain’s Mate Third Class Travis Raymond Obendorf of the Cutter WAESCHE from injuries sustained on a search and rescue mission, with a reminder that the Service often operates where there is little margin for error and that safety must be the highest priority.
17. ALAUX 17/13, 28 December 2013 — Change to AUXOP elective courses.
    • Makes every NIMS-compliant ICS 300 and 400 course acceptable for one credit toward the Operational Auxiliarist device from 1 January 2014, restates section 8.C.1.c.(6) of the Auxiliary Manual to that effect, provides that ICS-210 cannot be substituted, and says the change will be institutionalized at the next change to the Manual.

2012

Thirty messages are on file for 2012: numbers 001/12 through 028/12, of which 025/12 is not on file, together with three supplements filed as 017a/12, 017b/12 and 017c/12.

1. ALAUX 001/12, 27 January 2012 — Shipmates 19, respect our shipmates, duty demands courage.
   • Carries the Commandant’s message that sexual assault, hazing, harassment and discrimination undermine morale and readiness, that each incident is a deliberate act violating law, policy and Service standards, and that the Service will intervene to halt such acts, investigate and discipline those responsible.
2. ALAUX 002/12, 2 February 2012 — Updated ODU availability at the Coast Guard UDC.
   • Updates the surplus uniform inventory announced in ALAUX 027/11 at the distribution center in Woodbine, New Jersey, marking which top and pant sizes had since become available and which had run out, and confirms that available sets may be ordered in multiples.
3. ALAUX 003/12, 13 February 2012 — Shipmates 20, fiscal year 2013 budget.
   • Carries the Commandant’s message on the budget request delivered to Congress that day, which would reduce the Coast Guard’s budget by three hundred and thirty-eight million dollars, about 3.9 per cent, and requests 8.3 billion dollars in discretionary funding including 6.8 billion for operating expenses and 1.2 billion to continue recapitalizing cutters, aircraft and boats.
4. ALAUX 004/12, 14 February 2012 — 2012 State of the Coast Guard Address.
   • Relays ALCOAST 073/12, which announces that the Commandant would deliver the address from Base Alameda, California on 23 February 2012, webcast to the whole Coast Guard community including Auxiliarists, with the archived webcast and transcript available within an hour of its conclusion and accommodations made for blind and hearing-impaired viewers.
5. ALAUX 005/12, 16 February 2012 — Updated ODU availability at the Coast Guard UDC.
   • Updates the list given in ALAUX 002/12 of ODU top and pant sizes held at the distribution center in Woodbine, New Jersey, only two sizes then being unavailable, and recommends ordering by telephone through a customer service representative because the center must adjust availability to meet active duty demand.
6. ALAUX 006/12, 24 February 2012 — 2012 Commandant’s State of the Coast Guard Address.
   • Points members to the posted address; the copy on file carries only that pointer, in a sentence left incomplete in the source, so no part of the address itself is available.
7. ALAUX 007/12, 27 February 2012 — Commodore Greanoff Inspirational Leadership Award.
   • Announces that James Armour of District Eight Eastern Region Flotilla 16-9 was recognized with the Coast Guard Auxiliary Commodore Charles S. Greanoff Inspirational Leadership Award, with honorable mention to David Linder of District Nine Eastern Region Flotilla 44, as announced with the other Coast Guard inspirational leadership award winners in ALCOAST 084/12.
8. ALAUX 008/12, 9 March 2012 — Crash of Coast Guard helicopter 6535.
   • Carries the Secretary of Homeland Security’s message of 1 March 2012 on the crash during a training flight off Point Clear, Alabama, which names Aviation Survival Technician Chief Fernando Jorge as recovered deceased and Lieutenant Commander Dale Taylor, Lieutenant Junior Grade Thomas Cameron and Aviation Electronics Technician Andrew Knight as then still missing.
9. ALAUX 009/12, 9 March 2012 — Webcast of the CG-6535 memorial service.
   • Passes on the Deputy Commandant for Mission Support’s link to the webcast of the memorial service for the crew of CG-6535.
10. ALAUX 010/12, 21 March 2012 — Final action on the administrative investigation of the CG 6017 crash.
    • Announces that the Vice Commandant had signed the final action on the investigation into the July 2010 crash near the Quillayute River, Washington, with findings, causal factors and a series of directed actions to prevent a recurrence, and gives the location of the final action memorandum; the message carries a restriction limiting it to viewing by Auxiliarists and forbidding reposting, so it is summarized here no further than its subject.
11. ALAUX 011/12, 13 April 2012 — Fatalities at Communications Station Kodiak.
    • Reports that two members of the Coast Guard family had been found dead after a shooting at the station on Kodiak Island, Alaska, that the names would be withheld for twenty-four hours out of respect for the families, and that the Coast Guard Investigative Service was investigating with federal, state and local partners while security patrols at Kodiak were increased.
12. ALAUX 012/12, 13 April 2012 — Update, fatalities at Communications Station Kodiak.
    • Releases the names of the two members lost in the shooting at the station, Petty Officer First Class James Hopkins, who came to the Coast Guard from the Navy in 2002 and had served at Kodiak for three years, and Chief Boatswain’s Mate Richard Belisle, retired after more than twenty years and then serving as a Coast Guard civilian employee, and reports that the Federal Bureau of Investigation had taken the lead in the investigation.
13. ALAUX 013/12, 25 April 2012 — Final action on National Board recommendations.
    • Records the Board’s votes and the Chief Director’s final action on the five recommendations put before it at the January 2012 National Training Conference: a new ribbon specific to the RBS Program Visitation program, voted for by the Board but disapproved because the existing Examiner Program Ribbon already covers those qualifications and further subdivision would proliferate ribbons and weaken them; a rise in Auxiliary Association national dues of ten dollars for fiscal year 2013 and five dollars a year for three years after, voted against by the Board to allow at least another year to assess the need, in which the Chief Director concurred; separating the state liaison and legislative liaison functions into dedicated offices, not concurred in but conditionally resolved so that legislative liaison officers remain appointable only by the District Commodore, in consultation with the national Legislative Committee Chair, with the DIRAUX confirming that consultation before concurring; reducing the boat crew Required Yearly, Not Met window from five years to three, disapproved for want of data showing the present scheme causes more administrative work; and new division and flotilla diversity staff officer positions, concurred in on condition that functional statements be developed and approved that distinguish them from the Human Resources staff officers and show how they complement them, and that their creation in AUXDATA not displace higher priority work.
14. ALAUX 014/12, 8 May 2012 — Public Service Recognition Week.
    • Carries the Secretary of Homeland Security’s message of thanks to the Department’s employees for the year’s work.
15. ALAUX 015/12, 9 May 2012 — Re-organization of CG-DCO.
    • Records the relabeling of staff elements effective 6 May 2012 under which the CG-BSX became CG-BSX in place of CG-542, the Auxiliary Division became CG-BSX-1 in place of CG-5421 with its Administration and Operations Branches becoming CG-BSX-11 and CG-BSX-12, and the Boating Safety Division became CG-BSX-2 in place of CG-5422 with its four branches renumbered to match.
16. ALAUX 016/12, 10 May 2012 — Leadership, Excellence and Diversity Council.
    • Announces the Council’s meeting in Washington from 4 to 7 June 2012 and relays ALCOAST 217/12’s service-wide call, open to Auxiliarists as well as military members and civilian employees, for leadership and diversity topics to be submitted by 21 May 2012, without displacing existing chains of leadership or the equal opportunity process.
17. ALAUX 017/12, 18 May 2012 — Vice Admiral Brice-O’Hara’s farewell to the Coast Guard.
    • Carries the Vice Commandant’s farewell message, issued on the day she retired from active duty after thirty-seven and a half years and relinquished the office of Vice Commandant to Vice Admiral Currier.
18. ALAUX 017a/12, 26 May 2012 — DHS and Coast Guard Memorial Day messages.
    • Carries the Secretary of Homeland Security’s Memorial Day letter, which marks the bicentennial of the War of 1812 and the part played in it by the Revenue-Marine, forerunner of the Coast Guard, and asks that members observe the National Moment of Remembrance at three o’clock.
19. ALAUX 017b/12, 22 June 2012 — Seventy-third anniversary of the United States Coast Guard Auxiliary.
    • Carries ALCOAST 299/12, which marks the birthday and records that the organization’s thirty thousand members devoted over 4.1 million hours to Coast Guard activities in the year, taught over seventeen thousand boating safety classes, performed more than one hundred and forty-five thousand six hundred safety checks on boats and fishing vessels, and visited over one hundred and eight thousand four hundred marine supply stores.
20. ALAUX 017c/12, 31 July 2012 — Announcement of the new CG-BSX and CG-BSX-1.
    • Welcomes Captain David Rokes as Office Chief and Chief Director of Auxiliary and Commander Michael DaPonte as Auxiliary Division Chief, Captain Rokes arriving from the post of Director of Western Rivers at the Eighth District office and Commander DaPonte from a career spent largely in operations ashore.
21. ALAUX 018/12, 3 August 2012 — Shipmates 23, Coast Guard birthday, focus on proficiency.
    • Passes on the Commandant’s two hundred and twenty-second Coast Guard Day message and its accompanying article on proficiency as the essence of discipline, with the Auxiliary Division Chief’s encouragement that Auxiliary leaders discuss it at unit meetings and in newsletters and on unit websites.
22. ALAUX 019/12, 3 August 2012 — Auxiliary policy changes.
    • Publishes a chapter-by-chapter, section-by-section summary of changes to the Auxiliary Manual, COMDTINST M16790.1G, effective immediately and to be incorporated in the change then expected in 2013, centerd on organizational structure and administrative process and most significantly authorizing the issue of Auxiliary identification cards to members in Approval Pending status, and says the Manual posted on the Chief Director’s site would be annotated by 10 August 2012 so a reader could see where each change falls.
23. ALAUX 020/12, 10 August 2012 — 2011 Auxiliarist of the Year.
    • Relays ALCOAST 362/12 announcing the selection of Stephen A. Lee of Flotilla 12-4 in the Eleventh District Southern Auxiliary Region, credited with more than one thousand one hundred and thirty hours of service and qualification as boat crewman, vessel examiner and program visitor in the three years since he enrolled, with James Gladstone of the Ninth District Central Region and William Nelson of the First District Southern Region as the finalists from their areas.
24. ALAUX 021/12, 21 August 2012 — Auxiliary Manual policy change.
    • Issues the change to section 4.E.1.b that should have gone out with ALAUX 019/12, allowing the National Commodore to delegate ex officio voting status in writing to the National Immediate Past Commodore, the Vice National Commodore, any Deputy National Commodore and any Past National Commodore.
25. ALAUX 022/12, 28 August 2012 — Policy change, district captain elections.
    • Replaces Appendix C.34 of the Auxiliary Manual, COMDTINST M16790.1G, so that where geographic area bears to any extent on a district captain’s office the post is elected by all district board members except the district captains from other geographic areas and the division commanders leading divisions in those areas, and where geographic area does not bear on it the post is elected by the whole district board; effective immediately and to be carried into Change 1.
26. ALAUX 023/12, 11 September 2012 — Remembering September 11.
    • Carries the Secretary of Homeland Security’s message on the eleventh anniversary of the attacks that led to the Department’s creation.
27. ALAUX 024/12, 29 September 2012 — 2011 AFRAS Silver Medal winners.
    • Congratulates the Fifth District Southern Region Auxiliary boat crew of Ronald Johnson, Dennis Szeba, Jim Mauk, Bill Gerdsen and Fred Jelinek on the Association for Rescue at Sea Silver Medal, awarded once a year for extraordinary bravery during a rescue at sea and announced in ALCOAST 426/12, and notes the nominations of Douglas Kerr and Debra Kerr of the Eleventh District Northern Region.
28. ALAUX 026/12, 2 December 2012 — Loss of a Coast Guardsman.
    • Relays the Commandant’s report of the death of Boatswain’s Mate Chief Terrell Horne, executive petty officer of the Cutter HALIBUT, from injuries sustained when a suspect vessel struck his boarding boat during maritime law enforcement operations off the California coast.
29. ALAUX 027/12, 10 December 2012 — Memorial service for Senior Chief Boatswain’s Mate Terrell Horne III.
    • Reports the memorial ceremony at Base Los Angeles/Long Beach and the posthumous advancement of Chief Horne to Senior Chief Petty Officer together with the posthumous award of the Coast Guard Medal for heroism in the incident in which he died.
30. ALAUX 028/12, 14 December 2012 — Chief Director final action on a National Board recommendation.
    • Records the Board’s vote at the August 2012 National Conference in favor of formalizing the AUXCHEF program by creating a District Staff Officer for Food Service with subordinate staff positions at each level, and the Chief Director’s non-concurrence and disapproval, on the grounds that participation is limited by the number of Coast Guard dining facilities and that national and regional program management already sits within Auxiliary Human Resources.

2011

Twenty-nine messages were issued in 2011. The file for 008/11 is empty, so that message is listed from its file name alone.

1. ALAUX 001/11, 9 January 2011 — Martin Luther King Jr.
   • National Day of Service. Carries the Commandant’s message for the twenty-fifth anniversary of the national observance, whose theme was “Remember! Celebrate! Act! A day on, not a day off”, and encourages members to join a local service project.
2. ALAUX 002/11, 10 January 2011 — Message from the Secretary of Homeland Security.
   • Carries the Secretary’s message asking members to join the President and the nation in a moment of silence at eleven o’clock that morning for those killed and injured in the shooting in Tucson, Arizona, and noting that the Department had offered assistance to the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Pima County Sheriff’s Office.
3. ALAUX 003/11, 1 February 2011 — 2011 National African American History Month.
   • Carries the Commandant’s message for the eighty-fifth annual observance, whose theme was African Americans and the Civil War, noting the nearly two hundred thousand African Americans who fought to preserve the Union and end slavery and pointing members to the Coast Guard Historian’s site.
4. ALAUX 004/11, 11 February 2011 — State of the Coast Guard Address now online.
   • Tells members that the Commandant’s first State of the Coast Guard Address, delivered the previous day, was available online together with the text of the speech and the new Commandant’s Direction on the senior leadership page.
5. ALAUX 005/11, 12 February 2011 — Shipmates 9, Commandant’s Direction 2011.
   • Releases the Commandant’s Direction 2011, which sets the Service’s course through 2014 and beyond around the objectives of sustaining mission excellence, recapitalizing and building capacity, enhancing crisis response and management, and preparing for the future, and asks every member, Auxiliary included, to read it.
6. ALAUX 006/11, 16 February 2011 — Shipmates 10, fiscal year 2012 President’s budget.
   • Carries the Commandant’s message on the budget delivered to Congress, which requests 8.7 billion dollars in discretionary funding including 1.42 billion to recapitalize cutters, aircraft, boats and command and control equipment, described as the largest recapitalization request to that date, and funds pay and benefits increases and the operation of newly delivered assets.
7. ALAUX 007/11, 24 February 2011 — Auxiliary surface operations survey.
   • Announces the National Commodore’s survey of surface facility owners and boat crew program participants, prompted by declines of between eighteen and thirty per cent since 2004 in facilities, qualified coxswains and crew and total surface operations hours even as membership rose from 2007, and asks members who had withdrawn a facility or let a qualification lapse to answer within fifteen days.
8. ALAUX 008/11 — Auxiliary mandated training program.
   • The copy on file contains no text at all, so nothing beyond its subject is available; its content is a status update referred to by ALAUX 010/11 of 27 March 2011, and no release date appears in the file name.
9. ALAUX 009/11, 27 March 2011 — Commercial postage stamp transition.
   • Explains that the Postal Service stopped printing the penalty mail stamps supplied through the ANSC with effect from 29 May 2009 and that the Center would issue ordinary commercial stamps once its remaining stock ran out, expected later in the summer of 2011, with the same restriction to official Auxiliary business and a warning that commercial stamps are more easily mixed with personal mail.
10. ALAUX 010/11, 27 March 2011 — Auxiliary mandated training program, status update.
    • Gives the location of the status update on the mandated training requirements for all Auxiliarists whose development was described in ALAUX 037/10; the substance of the update is not in the copy on file, which carries only the pointer.
11. ALAUX 011/11, 30 March 2011 — Navigator magazine.
    • Announces the Chief Director’s and National Commodore’s decision not to award a new contract for the Auxiliary’s Navigator magazine, the funds going instead to Auxiliary operating expenses in support of the priorities in the Coast Guard Auxiliary Policy Statement, and says the national public affairs staff would explore publishing a periodical at reduced frequency while member communications continued through Navigator Express, AUXDirect, What’s New and SITREP.
12. ALAUX 012/11, 9 May 2011 — Coast Guard 2010 photo contest results.
    • Reports the results announced in ALCOAST 224/11, in which two of the three honorable mentions among more than six hundred entries went to Auxiliarists, June Wingert of Flotilla 69 in the Eighth District Coastal Region for “Into the Fog on Clear Lake” and Stephen Lee of Flotilla 12-4 in the Eleventh District Southern Region for “Auxiliary Helo Op Training”.
13. ALAUX 013/11, 9 May 2011 — Public Service Recognition Week.
    • Points members to the Vice Commandant’s testimonial in ALCOAST 226/11 for the week designated across the United States in the first week of May.
14. ALAUX 014/11, 27 May 2011 — Memorial Day message, ALCOAST 270/11.
    • Carries the Commandant’s Memorial Day message, which recalls that Coast Guardsmen have given their lives since 1790 in war, in rescue and in the Service’s other maritime missions, and asks members to find the memorials nearest them on the Coast Guard Historian’s site and consider visiting or tending one.
15. ALAUX 015/11, 21 June 2011 — Auxiliary uniform guidance.
    • Summarizes the effects on Auxiliary uniform policy of the Coast Guard changes made by ALCOAST 291/11, pending a fuller revision of Chapter 10 of the Auxiliary Manual: Service Dress Blue may be worn year-round for business within the Coast Guard and in a travel status, with the bridge coat or trench coat and combination cap as prescribed outer wear and the overcoat, reefer coat, foul weather parka, garrison cap and Air Force cold weather cap no longer authorized with it after 31 December 2012; Tropical Blue may be worn year-round for appropriate assignments to duty with the windbreaker or trench coat and no ball caps of any type; and Winter Dress Blue, the basic cold climate non-operational uniform, may be worn from 1 November to 31 March, in each case with the foul weather parka allowed when conditions require it.
16. ALAUX 016/11, 22 June 2011 — Seventy-second anniversary of the United States Coast Guard Auxiliary.
    • Carries ALCOAST 302/11, which marks the anniversary, recalls the some fifty thousand Auxiliarists who stood watch over the shores, ports and waterways during the Second World War, records the thirty-one thousand members then delivering over 3.2 million hours of operational and administrative support including the Deepwater Horizon response, Midwest flood operations and assistance to West Coast communities threatened by a tsunami, and asks units to hoist the Auxiliary colors on 23 June. The file name dates this message 23 July 2011, which would put it out of sequence with 017/11 and 018/11; the ALCOAST it carries is dated 22 June 2011.
17. ALAUX 017/11, 30 June 2011 — Guidance to officer selection boards and panels.
    • Passes on the Commandant’s updated guidance to selection boards and panels, setting out his expectations for officer leadership, performance and continuing service, and encourages every Auxiliarist to read it.
18. ALAUX 018/11, 1 July 2011 — Commandant’s Independence Day message.
    • Carries ALCOAST 315/11, the Commandant’s Independence Day message on standing the watch, which surveys the Service’s work from the Caribbean and eastern Pacific to the high latitudes, the Arabian Gulf, foreign port inspections and maritime safety exchanges with West African nations.
19. ALAUX 019/11, 3 August 2011 — Commandant’s Coast Guard Day message.
    • Carries the Commandant’s message for the Service’s two hundred and twenty-first birthday, tracing it to Alexander Hamilton’s proposal and the act of the First Congress signed in 1790 creating the Revenue Cutter Service.
20. ALAUX 020/11, 11 August 2011 — Auxiliary national staff reorganization.
    • Relays ALCOAST 373/11, under which, effective 15 August 2011, the Deputy National Commodore for Operations took oversight of response, prevention, incident management, preparedness and international affairs, the Deputy National Commodore for Mission Support took government affairs, public affairs, training and human resources, the Deputy National Commodore for Operations Policy was retitled for RBS with oversight of vessel examination, public education and outreach, the Deputy National Commodore for Force Readiness was retitled for Information Technology and Planning as an appointed rather than elected office, and the Assistant National Commodore positions were cut from eleven to seven.
21. ALAUX 021/11, 12 August 2011 — FY2011 inspirational leadership awards.
    • Announces that Paul Shurte of District Eight Coastal Region Flotilla 17 received the Coast Guard Auxiliary Commodore Charles S. Greanoff Inspirational Leadership Award at a ceremony at Coast Guard Headquarters on 11 August 2011 presided over by the Vice Commandant, as announced with the other inspirational leadership award winners in ALCOAST 347/11, together with those earning honorable mention in each Auxiliary area.
22. ALAUX 022/11, 2 September 2011 — Revised Auxiliary Manual, COMDTINST M16790.1G.
    • Announces that the revised Auxiliary Manual was approved and signed by the Deputy Commandant for Operations on 17 August 2011 and supersedes COMDTINST M16790.1F of 18 May 2004, that a PDF had been posted ahead of a 508-compliant version to follow on the Coast Guard and Chief Director’s sites, and that no hard copies would be distributed.
23. ALAUX 023/11, 7 September 2011 — Tenth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
    • Carries the Commandant’s Shipmates message honoring those lost, among them more than four hundred first responders, and recalling the response of junior personnel from the unit then called Activities New York and the hundreds of mariners who answered the call for all boats to respond to lower Manhattan.
24. ALAUX 024/11, 10 November 2011 — 2011 Veterans Day.
    • Carries the Commandant’s Veterans Day message, which notes the gathering at the Coast Guard War Memorial in Arlington National Cemetery and the memorial’s deterioration after decades of weather and exposure.
25. ALAUX 025/11, 16 November 2011 — “Coast Guard Alaska” on The Weather Channel.
    • Carries the Vice Commandant’s message on the seven-episode series based at the air station in Kodiak, the first reality series in almost two decades devoted entirely to Coast Guard members, missions and assets, and gives notice of the remaining episodes.
26. ALAUX 026/11, 1 December 2011 — The Coast Guard Ethos.
    • Announces the release of the Coast Guard Ethos, replacing the Guardian Ethos after a senior-level work group recommended minor changes to its language, as an enduring statement of the character of the active, reserve, civilian and Auxiliary force.
27. ALAUX 027/11, 14 December 2011 — Increased ODU availability at the Coast Guard UDC.
    • Tells Auxiliarists that the distribution center in Woodbine, New Jersey held a surplus of many ODU sizes and that multiple sets could be bought, a few sizes being unavailable because of recruit and Academy demand, and recommends ordering by telephone through a customer service representative.
28. ALAUX 028/11, 19 December 2011 — Commandant’s holiday message.
    • Carries the Commandant’s thanks to members and their families, particularly those standing the watch away from home or forward deployed, and points to the digital version of the message.
29. ALAUX 029/11, 28 December 2011 — Flotilla standing rules.
    • Changes Chapter 4, Section H of the Auxiliary Manual, COMDTINST M16790.1G, effective immediately, so that standardized flotilla standing rules are affirmed by two thirds of the voting members present rather than two thirds of all eligible voting members, provided proper notice is given, a quorum is present and one of those voting is the flotilla commander, vice flotilla commander or immediate past flotilla commander, with appendices adopted the same way and effective on the signature of the senior elected leader.

2010

Forty-four messages are on file for 2010, all of them from a single consolidated table, the only source available for the year; the dates below are the creation dates that table records. The numbering runs from 001/10 to 044/10 with 011/10 and 032/10 absent, one message numbered 013/10 a second time, a supplement filed as 031a/10, and two number cells mistyped in the source as “017/16” and “37/10”.

1. ALAUX 001/10, 13 January 2010 — Texting while operating a motor vehicle.
   • Points members to ALCOAST 012/10 on Executive Order 13513, which prohibits text messaging while driving on official business or while using government-supplied equipment across the federal government, and notes that this reaches Auxiliarists while assigned to duty.
2. ALAUX 002/10, 14 January 2010 — Untucked ODU orders.
   • Tells Auxiliarists that stocks of the untucked ODU had reached a level sufficient to accept Auxiliary orders for one set per member, with a further advisory to follow when unlimited sets could be ordered.
3. ALAUX 003/10, 15 January 2010 — Earthquake in Haiti, Auxiliary response perspective.
   • Answers the questions members were asking in the days after the earthquake: that Homeland Security Task Force Southeast had been activated in the Seventh District to support the relief effort, that there had been a preliminary data call for Auxiliary interpreter capability but no mobilization, that specific requests for Auxiliary support must come first from Coast Guard operational commanders, and that the normal assignment-to-duty procedures would apply if Auxiliary services were requested.
4. ALAUX 004/10, 16 January 2010 — Message from the Secretary of Homeland Security, the Department’s response in Haiti.
   • Carries the Secretary’s message on the Department’s response, with four Coast Guard cutters arrived in Haiti, the Federal Emergency Management Agency coordinating urban search and rescue teams, and Customs and Border Protection providing aircraft.
5. ALAUX 005/10, 20 January 2010 — All hands, Coast Guard activity in Haiti.
   • Carries the Commandant’s account of the week after the earthquake at Port-au-Prince, the cutter FORWARD arriving as the first American asset on scene, the makeshift trauma unit set up by TAHOMA and MOHAWK with the Haitian Coast Guard, port and harbor assessments by VALIANT and OAK, and the surge that was to take the number of Coast Guard personnel in theatre past seven hundred.
6. ALAUX 006/10, 22 January 2010 — Recreational boating safety insignia, eligibility criteria.
   • Changes the public affairs activity codes that count toward the Auxiliary RBS insignia so that they better reflect the program work the insignia is meant to recognize, adds them to the Mission Activity Report form and to AUXDATA, requires that they be claimed to count from then on, and restates the requirement of one hundred and twenty points a year for two consecutive years.
7. ALAUX 007/10, 22 January 2010 — Support for Haiti relief efforts.
   • Carries the Secretary of Homeland Security’s message on the Department’s eleven days of support for search, rescue and relief in Haiti and the launch of a federal fundraising effort for the recovery.
8. ALAUX 008/10, 22 January 2010 — 2010 National Scout Jamboree.
   • Authorizes active duty, reserve, Auxiliary, civilian and retired personnel to take part in the Coast Guard support element at the Jamboree at Fort A. P. Hill, Virginia from 26 July to 4 August 2010, names the flag sponsor and task force commander, and asks interested Auxiliarists to submit the questionnaire to the Auxiliary coordinator with copies to their flotilla commander and the Director’s office.
9. ALAUX 009/10, 2 February 2010 — President’s fiscal year 2011 budget.
   • Carries the Commandant’s message that the request submitted to Congress totalled 8.467 billion dollars in discretionary funding against the 8.542 billion appropriated for the current year, so that the Service would operate and recapitalize with seventy-five million dollars less, and asks members to understand the trade-offs that were made between operating and recapitalization funding.
10. ALAUX 010/10, 4 February 2010 — Senior leadership nominations and announcement.
    • Announces the leadership team to take office when the incoming Commandant was relieved on 25 May 2010, with nominations forwarded to the Senate for a Vice Commandant and the two area commanders, the Chief of Staff continuing in post, and the Deputy Commandant for Operations named without need of confirmation.
11. ALAUX 012/10, 12 February 2010 — Coast Guard photo contest.
    • Reports that photographs by five Auxiliarists, William Giers, Charles Stevens, Morris Harvey, Sal Ciappetta and Angela Daniel, appeared in the Coast Guard’s 2010 Posture Statement and were entered automatically in the photo contest announced in ALCOAST 666/09, with judging to follow and results expected by mid-March.
12. ALAUX 013/10, 26 February 2010 — Anniversary of the Coast Guard Reserve.
    • Carries ALCOAST 089/10 marking the Reserve’s sixty-ninth anniversary, created when Congress amended the Coast Guard Auxiliary and Reserve Act on 19 February 1941, and noting that more than two hundred and sixty reservists had been mobilized for the Haiti earthquake and over seven hundred had served on active duty in support of overseas contingency operations.
13. ALAUX 013/10, 1 March 2010 — The Department’s seven-year anniversary.
    • Carries the Secretary of Homeland Security’s message marking seven years since twenty-two federal agencies and offices came together to form the Department, and the publication of its first Quadrennial Homeland Security Review. This message carries the same number as the Coast Guard Reserve anniversary message below; 011/10 is not on file.
14. ALAUX 014/10, 4 March 2010 — Auxiliary use of automatic external defibrillators.
    • Corrects and clarifies ALAUX 001/06, stating that because there is no service-wide Coast Guard defibrillator program each unit must know and comply with state and federal rules, and that a unit procuring a defibrillator for a public access defibrillation program must meet the federal requirements including a licensed physician as medical director to oversee maintenance and certification, a role a Coast Guard medical officer may but need not fill.
15. ALAUX 015/10, 14 March 2010 — 2009 member survey in the Navigator.
    • Carries the National Commodore’s call for members to take a follow-up survey to the 2009 member survey, which drew 5,774 responses and showed information distribution, speed and leadership to be the topics members cared most about.
16. ALAUX 016/10, 1 April 2010 — Spotlight on Leadership campaign and contest.
    • Points members to ALCOAST 154/10 on the Service’s annual April campaign to highlight leadership and professional development and recognize best practice.
17. ALAUX 017/10, 21 April 2010 — POMS problem management procedures.
    • Reiterates the requirements of ALAUX 019/09 for reporting problems with the Patrol Order Management System, a Coast Guard Finance Center requirement under which calls or messages to the contractor, the Finance Center or Headquarters without a problem management ticket number will not be accepted, and sets the escalation route through the local POMS administration team; the source types this message’s number as “017/16”.
18. ALAUX 018/10, 21 April 2010 — Coast Guard Leadership Development Center online survey.
    • Passes on the Center director’s invitation to Auxiliarists to take an anonymous five-minute survey, open until 25 April, choosing the three terms that best complete the sentence “Every member of the U.S. Coast Guard is a ___”.
19. ALAUX 019/10, 1 May 2010 — Uninspected passenger vessel program guidance.
    • Points members to ALCOAST 206/10, which clarifies and amplifies the program’s compliance, enforcement and outreach guidance and covers Auxiliary involvement in outreach.
20. ALAUX 020/10, 8 May 2010 — Tracking Auxiliary support of the Deepwater Horizon response.
    • Adds a “Deepwater Horizon” entry to the Operation field in AUXDATA and asks members to write those words in the remarks section of their ANSC-7029 and ANSC-7030 reports for any activity supporting the response, so that information services staff officers can annotate it correctly.
21. ALAUX 021/10, 12 May 2010 — Commodore Charles S. Greanoff Inspirational Leadership Award.
    • Announces through ALCOAST 224/10 the selection of James McReynolds, flotilla commander of Eighth District Coastal Region Flotilla 37 at Biloxi, Mississippi, as the 2009 award winner, the award recognizing the most distinguished Auxiliary flotilla commander alongside the Service’s awards for officers, chief petty officers and civilians, and recalling the losses the flotilla suffered after Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
22. ALAUX 022/10, 26 May 2010 — Commandant’s change of command.
    • Carries the outgoing Commandant’s farewell on the day he was relieved after four years, noting that he would continue for a time as National Incident Commander for the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
23. ALAUX 023/10, 26 May 2010 — Setting the watch.
    • Carries the incoming Commandant’s first message as the twenty-fourth Commandant, naming the senior leadership team taking up their posts with him and setting out the vision that the Service is defined by its missions, people and heritage.
24. ALAUX 024/10, 31 May 2010 — Respect our shipmates, command climate.
    • Carries the Commandant’s message on command climate as one of his four guiding principles, that people must respect one another before they can work as a team, and that good climates follow from mutual respect, communication and attention to small things rather than from chance.
25. ALAUX 025/10, 1 June 2010 — My guiding principles.
    • Sets out in detail the four principles for the new Commandant’s watch, to steady the Service, honor our profession, strengthen our partnerships and respect our shipmates, against the background of nine years that took in the 11 September attacks, hurricanes Katrina and Rita, the Haiti earthquake and the Deepwater Horizon spill.
26. ALAUX 026/10, 12 June 2010 — Deepwater Horizon response operations, medical and health protection guidance.
    • Points Auxiliarists in direct support of the response to the three applicable ALCOASTs, 286/10 on medical guidance for personnel serving in the Gulf region, 297/10 on heat injury prevention, and 300/10 on the Occupational Medical Surveillance and Evaluation Program.
27. ALAUX 027/10, 14 June 2010 — Honor our profession, Deepwater Horizon response.
    • Carries the Commandant’s message that what began on 20 April 2010 as a search and rescue operation, in which eleven lives were lost aboard the drilling rig, had become the largest offshore oil spill in United States history and the Service’s first priority, and that every Coast Guardsman had a duty to support and sustain the response while the Service’s other missions continued.
28. ALAUX 028/10, 23 June 2010 — Solicitation for Auxiliary support in response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
    • Relays ALCOAST 324/10’s call for Auxiliarists holding Auxiliary Trident qualifications to join the response for the remainder of 2010, sets ICS training to at least the ICS-100 level as a prerequisite for every applicant, and states an immediate need for thirty members holding ICS-346, ICS-347, ICS-351 or ICS-440, for which no substitutions could be accepted.
29. ALAUX 029/10, 23 June 2010 — Seventy-first anniversary of the United States Coast Guard Auxiliary.
    • Carries ALCOAST 328/10, which marks seventy-one years of service to the more than eighty-three million recreational boaters on the nation’s waterways and credits the Auxiliary with modernizing its national organization to parallel the Coast Guard in operations, training, policy development and mission support.
30. ALAUX 030/10, 1 July 2010 — Commandant’s Independence Day message and military workforce management.
    • Carries ALCOAST 343/10, the Commandant’s Independence Day message on standing the watch, which singles out the Reserve and Auxiliary as the Service’s bench strength in the back-to-back Haiti and Gulf of Mexico responses, and points to ALCOAST 333/10, the second in a series keeping members and Auxiliarists informed on the state of the military workforce.
31. ALAUX 031/10, 2 July 2010 — ALCOAST 350/10, honor your profession, aviation.
    • Points members to the Chief of Staff’s message and professional insight addressed to Coast Guard pilots and aircrew.
32. ALAUX 031a/10, 7 July 2010 — Guidance to Coast Guard officer selection boards and panels.
    • Passes on the Commandant’s guidance to selection boards and panels setting out his expectations for officer leadership, performance, continuing service and promotion, and asks the whole workforce, Auxiliary included, to read it.
33. ALAUX 033/10, 8 July 2010 — Update 1, loss of Coast Guard aircraft 6017.
    • Names the three members killed in the previous day’s mishap, Lieutenant Sean Kruger, Aviation Maintenance Technician First Class Adam Hoke and Aviation Maintenance Technician Second Class Brett Banks, reports that the fourth crew member, Lieutenant Lance Leone, survived and was recovering, and records the Commandant’s concern at the number of serious aviation mishaps in the preceding twenty-two months.
34. ALAUX 034/10, 14 July 2010 — 2009 Auxiliarist of the Year.
    • Announces the selection of Ryan Bank of Ninth District Western Region Flotilla 39-6, based at Wilmette Harbor, Illinois, and points to the ALCOAST describing his service.
35. ALAUX 035/10, 3 August 2010 — Commandant’s Coast Guard Day message.
    • Carries the Commandant’s message for the anniversary of the Revenue Cutter Service, created by an act of the First Congress signed two hundred and twenty years earlier, fourteen years after the Declaration of Independence.
36. ALAUX 036/10, 4 August 2010 — Personal letter from the President.
    • Forwards the President’s letter recognizing the Coast Guard’s two hundred and twentieth birthday and gives its location on the Service’s blog.
37. ALAUX 037/10, 17 September 2010 — Auxiliary training program changes and updates.
    • Raises the Auxiliary Trident insignia’s permanent entitlement from four to five years of sustained support at a marine safety field unit without affecting those who had already earned it or reached temporary-awaiting-permanent status, replaces the July 2002 Introduction to Marine Safety and Environmental Protection course with the September 2010 edition and drops the Initial Indoctrination to Marine Safety course as a prerequisite to it, and from 1 January 2011 fixes boat crew currency maintenance at twelve hours a year for a single qualification and eighteen where a member holds both personal watercraft operator and boat crew or coxswain qualifications, with minimums in each; its number cell is typed “37/10” in the source, though the message’s own subject line numbers it 037/10.
38. ALAUX 038/10, 30 September 2010 — ALCOAST 460/10, safety, don’t let your guard down.
    • Reports that for the first time in a decade Coast Guard operational fatalities had exceeded off-duty fatalities and that the Commandant was expanding the Atlantic Area “Don’t Let Your Guard Down” safety initiative service-wide.
39. ALAUX 039/10, 15 October 2010 — ALCOAST 502/10, loss of a Coast Guardsman.
    • Relays the report that Petty Officer Third Class Shaun Lin of the Maritime Safety and Security Team at New York fell into the water during a training evolution on the James River in Virginia on the night of 13 October and that his remains were recovered the next day.
40. ALAUX 040/10, 15 October 2010 — Shipmates 8, Coast Guard Authorization Act of 2010.
    • Reports that the President had signed the Act, which carries new marine safety, port security and oil pollution prevention authorities, acquisition assistance for fleet recapitalization, and the modernization authority letting the Service keep two area commanders and convert the Chief of Staff’s post into the Deputy Commandant for Mission Support.
41. ALAUX 041/10, 30 October 2010 — Message from the Secretary of Homeland Security.
    • Carries the Secretary’s message on the air cargo threat from Yemen, the additional aviation and cargo screening measures put in place, and the call for continued vigilance and for suspicious activity to be reported.
42. ALAUX 042/10, 9 November 2010 — Commandant’s Veterans Day message.
    • Carries the Commandant’s Veterans Day message, which observes that the nation’s active duty and reserve force of 2.4 million is less than one per cent of the population and asks members to honor veterans’ service.
43. ALAUX 043/10, 9 November 2010 — Chief Director final action on National Board recommendations.
    • Records the Board’s votes and the Chief Director’s final action on the four recommendations put to it at the August 2010 National Conference: changes to unit standing rules on elections, approved, allowing a vetted candidate who has filed a letter of intent to be elected without being present, requiring a second for a nomination from the floor, requiring a candidate nominated from the floor to be present and to answer that the nomination is accepted and that they will serve if elected, and eliminating self-nomination from the floor; a C-school for the Auxiliary Chef program, disapproved because a C-school is created only after lengthy and costly examination and because members should be trained only where a Coast Guard unit to support has been identified in advance; widening eligibility for the Operations Program ribbon, approved with two modifications and effective immediately, so that section 11.A.14.a of the Auxiliary Manual admits watchstanders designated by the Director, holders of the Auxiliary Telecommunications Operator qualification or of AUXCOM earned before 1 August 2008 with no minimum hours, and Auxiliary interpreters at Level A, with the “E” device authorized for qualification and flight examiners; and a new ribbon for twenty-five hours of service in a member’s first year after reaching Basically Qualified status, disapproved because existing ribbons already recognize sustained service and unit certificates and other local recognition fit that purpose better.
44. ALAUX 044/10, 20 December 2010 — 2010 holiday greetings.
    • Points members to ALCOAST 595/10, the Commandant’s holiday message of thanks to members and their families.