{"id":133114,"date":"2022-11-05T15:56:56","date_gmt":"2022-11-05T19:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=133114"},"modified":"2022-11-05T15:56:56","modified_gmt":"2022-11-05T19:56:56","slug":"uscg-recruitment-woes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=133114","title":{"rendered":"USCG Recruitment Woes"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Every branch of the U.S. military is struggling to meet recruiting goals, as noted in any of several articles posted here by the usual suspects. Stands to reason the malaise has reached the smallest service, too. Mick sends us an article on what lengths the Department of Homeland Security is willing to go to fill the Coast Guard’s ranks.<\/p>\n

Coast Guard offering \u2018unheard of\u2019 $50K signing bonuses as recruitment plummets, ‘readiness’ in jeopardy<\/h3>\n

The Coast Guard admits COVID-19 vax mandates have ‘exacerbated’ critical shortages in recruitment, retainment<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

By Kelly Laco | Fox News<\/p>\n

EXCLUSIVE: The U.S. Coast Guard is offering up to $50,000 signing bonuses in an effort to bolster recruitment, after the number of guardsmen has plummeted, in large part due to the military’s strict COVID-19 vaccination mandate.<\/p>\n

According to internal USCG documents obtained by Fox News Digital from October detailing fiscal year 2023 workforce planning, “Culinary Specialist,” or “CS,” level recruits could receive bonuses up to $50,000 each.<\/p>\n

Active-duty Coast Guard Lt. Chad Coppin called the $50,000 CS-level bonuses, which would involve positions such as cooks, “absolutely unheard of.”<\/p>\n

Coppin, who is stationed in Juneau, Alaska, and is seeking religious accommodation to the vaccine mandate, told Fox News Digital that the miliary is suffering from low recruitment and retainment, in large part due to its own restrictive policies, including the vax requirement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Fox News<\/a><\/p>\n

LT Coppin is hardly an impartial source. There is a perfect storm of reasons for the failures to meet recruitment goals with the self-inflicted vax mandate a large one. The typical Big Government knee jerk reaction is to throw tax dollars at the problem, rather than fix root causes.<\/p>\n

Every job is important and folks gotta eat, but offering cooks monetary incentives more in line with those meant for nuclear power technicians is unheard of, and is indicative of massive rot.<\/p>\n

Thanks Mick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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