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U.S. Coast Guard Maritime Enforcement Assignments
CWO Stephen Engle, Assignment Officer |
Assignment Officer's Hot Word:
Updated 29 OCT 09
DESCRIPTION OF THE ME RATING:
A cadre
of professionals well grounded in knowledge and skills pertaining to law
enforcement and security duties. As such, members of this rating can be
expected to be assigned challenging duties including traditional maritime
law enforcement, anti-terrorism force protection, port security and safety,
as well as providing unit-level training in these fields. Additionally
these missions will continue to be carried out as collateral duties for
those in other ratings.
Click here
to here to see the potential roles that an ME will perform.
THE RATING INSIGNIA:
The design features an outer badge that is currently the insignia for the Port Security Specialist (PS) and the Investigator (IV) ratings. The interior symbol is the Coast Guard Shield. The Coast Guard Shield was used from 1908-1915 as the rating insignia for the former Coast Guard Master-at-Arms (MAA) rating which was disestablished in 1915.
ENLISTED PERFORMANCE QUALIFICATIONS (EPQ):
The ME EPQs are posted online at https://learning.uscg.mil/portal.asp , which you will need to log into. Then you go: Course Catalog + Enlisted Advancement + EPQ + ME. Take the time to review the EPQs to get a full understanding what the rating is all about. The requirement to have them completed will not be part of the lateral process that will come out this summer. But will be needed for any future advancement within the rating. There will be a message coming out in May that will outline the advancement process for the ME rating.
From the Persman 5.C.7.a.3
Personnel Authorized to Sign EPQs. A Professional Development Supervisor(PDS) is normally assigned by the command to mentor junior personnel.
The PDS or designated supervisor must be at least one pay grade senior and should be of the same occupational specialty as the student. A PDS possesses the demonstrated professionalism and leadership ability as determined by the CO/OIC as competent to witness and sign off performance qualifications as satisfactorily completed. A commissioned officer, warrant or senior petty officer may be designated to evaluate the member’s ability on each performance qualification. Members must receive authorization from their immediate supervisors to have someone outside their normal chain-of-command sign off performance qualifications.
It is a command responsibility to certify that a member is capable of performing EPQs up to the level that they are advancing to.
LATERAL PROCESS:
Refer to ALCOAST 445/09 for details.
LATERAL UPDATE:
Members who have been successfully selected for lateral to ME will be notified via ALCGENL at a future date. Members waiting for the panel results are reminded to please be patient while the panel result information is being checked for accuracy prior to release.
ASSIGNMENT PROCESS:
Members who have successfully lateraled to the ME rating and are tour complete in AY2010 are reminded to reflect ME positions in there current paygrade on their E-resumes NLT 27 Nov 2009. If you have questions on the assignment process, please don’t hesitate to contact the MEAO at 202-493-1261 or by email.