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Subject: TWL: CG Radio....
From: Jim Alexander (jalexander127@XXX.XXX)
Date: Mon Jul 01 2002 - 20:03:10 EDT
It's not likely that messages on this subject will ever get to where they
might do some good, but for what it's worth......
Having spent more than 25 years communicating by radio, first as a radio
operator with the United States Marine Corps for four years and then over 20
years with the Federal Aviation Administration working as an Air Traffic
Control Specialist/Supervisor, I think I have reasonable knowledge of the
subject.
What many have described in this thread, some of which I have personally
experienced also, points directly to a lack of proper training and
supervision within the Coast Guard. There is simply no excuse for allowing
the type of communication I have overheard to exist in what is becoming the
norm rather than the exception.
Age and inexperience have absolutely nothing to do with improper radio
procedure, bad phraseology, incorrect speech rate and poor enunciation.
These are all items that should have been addressed during the training
phase and if not then should be handled now remedially by supervision. Now
I have no idea how the Coast Guard goes about selecting, training and
placing radio operators but some of what I have heard would give the
appearance that they simply snatched some kid off the street and sat him in
front of a microphone with no training at all. This seems to be one area of
an otherwise very professional organization that has been allowed to become
very unprofessional and should be downright embarrassing to the guard as a
whole. I certainly wonder if area commanders ever monitor their own
organizations radio traffic? Apparently not because I cannot believe they
would allow this to continue if they did.
Jim Alexander
M/V Emily Rose
43 Vista
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