February BDFA Message from Chief Toler (Check your Email)

Good day CSs, Linked here is the BDFA message for February 2023. Also included are the Requisitions for Purchase Cards and DLA. You will see in the BDFA message, the Requisition Numbers and Purchase Order (PO) Numbers are included. There will be used for the receipting, verifying, and approving your purchases in FSMS. February 2023 …

January Email Message from our AOs (Check your CG email)!

Good afternoon, Shipmates! Senior Chief Wright and I wanted to wish everyone a Happy New Year and give you all an update on where we are in the assignment process. Direct access is back online, and we are currently working on the slates and cutting orders. For CS3’s looking to get on the supplemental list, …

January Email Message from RKM/RFMC Select (Check your CG email)!

Culinary Specialist, Good afternoon. There’s a lot to discuss so here’s a table of contents: – INVENTORY SYSTEM FEEDBACK– NO ONE GETS THESE EMAILS. https://coastguardculinary.com/2023/01/10/no-emails-message-from-rfmc-select/– PORTAL IS GOING AWAY https://coastguardculinary.com/2023/01/10/portal-is-a-dead-man-walking-message-from-the-rfmc-select/– JOD PILOT IN PROGRESS https://coastguardculinary.com/2023/01/10/jod-email-question-for-the-rkm-rfmc-select/– LARGE CUTTER INPORT CLOSURE PILOT– PATROL BOAT INPORT CLOSURE PILOT AND BASE/SECTOR SUPPORT– SANITATION GMT/LEARNING PORTAL– CGDF CHECKLIST NEW CS Paperwork Command Checklists– EMAIL ABOUT COOL/HCCAP/CAREER GUIDE https://coastguardculinary.com/2023/01/04/haccp-email-question-for-the-rkm-rfmc-select/– WE …

How to get your SDP (With Sample Memo Template)

Want your well-deserved SDP? Please read the following: -Read ALCOAST 359/22 SUBJ: FY23 SPECIAL DUTY PAY(SDP) -All designated underway FSOs are authorized SDP Level SD-3($225 a month) to begins in FY23 01 Oct 2022 or upon reporting,whichever is later. -SDP commences on the date a member reports to an eligible position. -SPOs must submit the …

JOD Email Question for the RKM/RFMC (Select)

An Email I Received “It has been a while since we have met/talked, last I saw you was the NY Symposium three or four years ago. I was just reaching out in regards to developments for the JOD pracs. It was a project I was especially excited about participating in, along with one I thought …

We are LITERALLY the best in the nation. 

Commandant says good things about ALL the cooks during ACF Chef of the Year (Chef Danielle Hughes) and ACF Pastry Chef of the Year (Chef Matt Shaw) presentation of the Meritorious Service Medal by Army Quartermaster Brigadier General Seigl at USCG Headquarters. The Ceremony included the both the Commandant and Vice of the Coast Guard as …

Europe?? (Possibly Norway ohhh) Message from Chief Billow on CGC EAGLE

Hello CS’s!!!! Just wanted to get ahead of our surge staffing request for the EAGLE’s summer deployment. This coming year EAGLE will be going to Europe!!!!!! As of right now, we are waiting for our finalized schedule. Should know middle to the end of January. We can leave any time between April/ May through August. …

NEW CS Paperwork Command Checklists

While traveling to Symposiums we hear cooks requesting more simple/current guidance. One example was the CS Report Command Review Checklist they pass out at OINC/XPO school. SPL and C- School updated the checklist and created a PVA Command checklist as well. You can upload here until we get SharePoint access: Please distribute to your Commands …

Portal is a DEAD man walking. Message from the RKM/RFMC (Select)

In the next few months, Portal is going away and being replaced with SharePoint. We have everything backed up on a hard drive and transferred over to SharePoint at https://uscg.sharepoint-mil.us/sites/erats_spo/CS/SitePages/Home.aspx. We have high hopes for SharePoint but it is not up to par currently in regards to accessibility/communication/messaging/useful search capabilities. It will be fine for an …

Are you on the CS DISTRO List? Do you get NO CS Emails? Read this message from the RFMC

The last email I sent to the CS Petty Officers had 338 cooks on it. This means over 500 cooks do not receive these bang list emails (these numbers do not include E7 and above). Right now, anyone whose title is not their rating (CS3, CSC, CSCS etc…) is NOT getting emails sent VIA distribution …