COMDTINST 5310.2
2.
ACTION. Area and district commanders, commanders maintenance and logistics commands,
commanding officers of headquarters units, Commander, Coast Guard Activities Europe, and
Chiefs of Offices and special staff divisions at Headquarters shall ensure compliance with the
provisions of this instruction.
3.
BACKGROUND.
a.
In line with the National Performance Review and its theme of Reinventing Government,
the Coast Guard is fundamentally changing its military personnel management, support
structure, and business processes to create a single military force called "Team Coast
Guard", first announced in reference (a).
b.
Team Coast Guard progressively merges the Service's active and reserve components into
a single force of full-time and part-time military personnel. Elements of this force will be
deployable by our lowest level field or staff commanders to provide a highly effective and
efficient personnel application to any Service mission requirement. Team Coast Guard
represents one set of missions, one command structure, and one administrative structure.
The long-term goal is to fully integrate active and reserve commands, providing active
component commanders with a rich mix of well-trained, full-time and part-time resources
to respond to any contingency, while more effectively and efficiently executing day-to-day
missions.
c.
In taking this major step, the Coast Guard is responding to a new national imperative.
National priorities defined by the budget process, and the National Performance Review,
dictate that government today must go far beyond finding mere efficiencies. Rather,
government MUST move to create much more EFFECTIVE processes, delivering
substantially greater return on the taxpayer's investment in government services. The
Commandant's "Coast Guard Streamlining Study" is a direct result of this mandate. We
are in the vanguard of Federal Agencies with Team Coast Guard. Its implementation is
the first of many such initiatives to achieve a quantum jump in return on the American
public's investment in government services. Team Coast Guard boldly responds to the
national imperative to be the best possible stewards of the public trust during a time of
unprecedented change and fiscal challenge.
d.
Team Coast Guard is more than just a response, however. We are building on several
years of studies, prototypes, and information systems integration that laid the strategic
groundwork. The Coast Guard Reserve Organization Study Team of 1994 headed by
RADM Peschel, along with the findings of the G-R/G-M and G-R/G-N Natural Working
Groups, the 1991 Coast Guard Reserve Policy Board, and the SPARCS '89 study, all
pointed in the same direction: Team Coast
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