COMDTINST 5400.1B governs policy, authority, and procedures for staffing short-term and surge personnel requirements.
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The publication addresses temporary mission-critical and volunteer vacancies, emergency response, annual surge operations, and special events. It requires personnel requirements to be planned, prioritized, identified, and tracked, and includes Request for Forces templates.
Applies to: All Coast Guard unit commanders, commanding officers, officers-in-charge, deputy/assistant commandants, and chiefs of headquarters staff elements must comply with the provisions of this Instruction.
All Coast Guard unit commanders, commanding officers, officers-in-charge, deputy/assistant commandants, and chiefs of headquarters staff elements must comply with the provisions of this Instruction. (paragraph 2)
Short-term/surge personnel requirements include, but are not limited to, temporary mission critical and volunteer vacancies, emergency response, annual surge operations and special events. (paragraph 4)
Ensures personnel requirements are adequately identified and prioritized, and forecast specific skills requirements (e.g., foreign language or specialty skills).
Ensures data is tracked, maintained, and reported within the Coast Guard enterprise human resources software system.
No paper distribution will be made of this Instruction. An electronic version will be located on the following Commandant (CG-612) web sites. (paragraph 8)