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Colocating Boat Teams Case Study

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Collocating Boat Forces and Cutter Operations Standardization Teams The excessive cost of travel for both the East and West Coast Boat Forces and Cutter Operations Standardization Teams (BFCO STAN) annually is 1.3 to 1.5 million dollars with a minimally manned team stationed at the National Motor Lifeboat School (NMLBS). Collocating BFCO STAN Teams has caused an excessive rise in the annual budget. In 2008 the West Coast team was dissolved due to difficulties in correspondence between the teams and the billets were slowly moved to Yorktown VA, where STAN Team is headquartered. By doing so several issues have surfaced such as increased travel costs, longer deployments, and a greater distance from the NMLBS. An example of the increased travel costs would be the recent …show more content…

Secondary impacts of increased operating costs are delays of newly reported personnel becoming qualified. Each deployment is authorized to take two unqualified members except when the budget is stretched thin. When this occurs the unqualified members are removed in order to conserve the budget. Therefore the delay in qualifications leads to longer deployments for the qualified members. Before the West Coast STAN Team was dissolved the geographic area of responsibility for each team was divided in half, North to South of the Great Lakes. By dividing the area of responsibility the amount of time that teams were deployed averaged a week less. Currently the average time a five to eight man team is deployed is three weeks. Spring and Summer are STAN Team’s busiest months and each team member has on average one week back in the office before deploying again, which creates a fatiguing op-tempo. Furthermore, dissemination of hot and new information lags behind when members are continuously deploying which creates a nonstandard team of inspectors. The West Woast STAN Team was located in close proximity to the NMLBS. In the past both the NMLBS and

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