COMDTINST 5720.3 governs policy, doctrine, and procedures for preserving records of Coast Guard Operation Enduring Freedom operations.
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The publication addresses historical documentation, oral histories, operational experience, and lessons learned from overseas operations. It requires deploying units to designate historians and establishes methods for preparing, preserving, and sending historical material.
Applies to: This Instruction sets out policy, doctrine and procedure for units deploying overseas to preserve the record of their Operation Enduring Freedom operations and incorporate operational lessons learned.
A complete historical record of Coast Guard overseas operations in Operation Enduring Freedom is vital to the institutional memory of the Service. (paragraph 4)
All deploying units must designate a unit Historian. (paragraph 8)
The unit Historian will report directly to the CO or OIC and, for guidance in fulfilling the requirements of this Instruction, to the Coast Guard Historian (G-IPA-4). (paragraph 8)
The unit history should be developed in month-long blocks that detail and summarize: movements, activities and missions of the cutter. (paragraph 9)
At the end of the cruise the historical material should be sent by FedEx to the Coast Guard Historians Office (G-IPA-4). (paragraph 9)