{"id":151815,"date":"2024-01-12T10:09:20","date_gmt":"2024-01-12T15:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=151815"},"modified":"2024-01-12T10:09:20","modified_gmt":"2024-01-12T15:09:20","slug":"personnel-shortage-halts-coast-guard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=151815","title":{"rendered":"Personnel Shortage Halts Coast Guard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-61190 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Coast-Guard-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Coast-Guard-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Coast-Guard-443x333.jpg 443w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Coast-Guard-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Coast-Guard.jpg 534w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Force Alignment Initiative?<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>Hampton Roads braces for effects of Coast Guard\u2019s temporary deactivation of units amid staffing shortages<\/h3>\n<p><strong>By CAITLYN BURCHETT<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Coast Guard units will be temporarily deactivated in a consolidation this year as the service grapples with one of the largest workforce shortages in its history. What this means for Hampton Roads \u2014 home to the Coast Guard City of Portsmouth and a hub for the service\u2019s Atlantic operations \u2014 is unknown, an official said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile there is new stress with change, the Coast Guard cannot maintain the same level of operations with a workforce shortfall of this magnitude,\u201d said Lt. Luke Pinneo, public affairs officer for Portsmouth-based District 5. \u201cWe cannot do the same with less people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The deactivation is part of a servicewide \u201cforce alignment initiative\u201d that will begin taking effect this summer. Across the Coast Guard, units with redundant capabilities nearby will be consolidated for the foreseeable future. Members assigned to the affected units will be \u201cstrategically relocated\u201d in the coming months.<\/p>\n<p>The Coast Guard has reported missing its recruiting targets for four consecutive years, and as of April, the service was understaffed by 10% \u2014 or roughly 5,000 members.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pilotonline.com\/2024\/01\/11\/hampton-roads-braces-for-effects-of-coast-guards-temporary-deactivation-of-units-amid-staffing-shortages\/\">Virginia Pilot<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The hollow force has arrived and Big DOD is in denial as to why. &#8220;Strategically located&#8221; doesn&#8217;t sound at all like &#8220;right sizing.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Force Alignment Initiative? Hampton Roads braces for effects of Coast Guard\u2019s temporary deactivation of units amid &hellip; <a title=\"Personnel Shortage Halts Coast Guard\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=151815\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Personnel Shortage Halts Coast Guard<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[518,237,195],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biden","category-big-pentagon","category-coast-guard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=151815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=151815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=151815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=151815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}