On Board with E-Learning

Officer, The,  November, 2007  by Manning, Elizabeth H

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Coast Guard Reservists use new online course to achieve qualification.

Dilemma: Increased port security and other post-9/11 missions call for hundreds of new U.S. Coast Guard boarding officers, a qualification that for Reservists means either progressing step by step for two or three years at the unit level or taking six weeks off their civilian jobs to take resident training in Charleston, S.C.

Solution: The new Boarding Officer Qualification Support Program (BOQSP), which combines a self-paced, online course for the classroom part of boarding officer (BO) qualification with an intensive ...

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