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The Coast Guard Recruiting Command (CGRC) CSPI Program Requests Your Support!

by | Oct 31, 2018 | Announcements

The Coast Guard Recruiting Command (CGRC) CSPI Program Requests Your Support!: For over 25 years, the College Student Pre-Commissioning Initiate (CSPI) has recruited URM students from predominately Minority Servicing Institutions (MSI) into the officer corps. Today the Coast Guard’s program provides a $ 3,600/month stipend to cover tuition and guaranteed officer-employment for qualified junior and senior college students. The Coast Guard has recently initiated the MSI Partnership Program where flag/SES Executive Champions are assigned to the MSIs listed below. Through the provisions of an approved MOA, these Executive Champions will work with MSI leadership to provide students guaranteed selection to the CSPI program. However aside from direct selection, the CSPI application process is open to all interested students attending MSIs. NNOA BOD and local chapter outreach support will help ensure that CSPI is a success. Please share this information! Details on CSPI can be found at www.GoCoastGuard.com/CSPI

Please contact CDR Stacy Miller @ Stacy.L.Miller@uscg.mil and (cc) the NNOA CG Affiliate CDR Shameen Anthanio-Williams for additional details and contacts.

The next CSPI application deadline is: 11 Jan 2019

  • FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY
  • HAMPTON UNIVERSITY
  • TEXAS SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY
  • ELIZABETH CITY STATE UNIVERSITY
  • VIRGINIA STATE UNIVERSITY
  • XAVIER UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS
  • NORFOLK STATE UNIVERSITY
  • SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY
  • BARRY UNIVERSITY
  • CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, EAST BAY
  • CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, LONG BEACH
  • SOUTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY
  • UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA SOUTHEAST, JUNEAU
  • UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII, MANOA
  • UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, SEATTLE
  • UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS, CHICAGO
  • JOHN JAY COLLEGE
  • MORRIS COLLEGE
  • SAVANNAH STATE UNIVERSITY
  • TEXAS A&M CORPUS CHRISTI
  • BOWIE STATE UNIVERSITY

For questions, please contact CDR Shameen Anthanio-Williams, Shameen.Anthanio-wil@navy.mil

(703) 614-8809 wk
(202) 841-7126 cell

Marine Sgt. Maj. John Canley Receives Medal of Honor in White House Ceremony

Marine Sgt. Maj. John Canley Receives Medal of Honor in White House Ceremony

by | Oct 22, 2018 | News

VIDEO: Marine Sgt. Maj. John Canley Receives Medal of Honor in White House Ceremony

By: Gidget Fuentes
October 17, 2018 10:02 PM • Updated: October 17, 2018 10:37 PM

Retired Marine Sgt. Maj. John L. Canley, with a sea of ribbons and medals dangling from the coat of his enlisted blue dress uniform, stood at attention on Wednesday afternoon in the White House.  Read more and view video…

Promotion Ceremony CAPT (SEL) Washington Johnson, CHC, USN

Promotion Ceremony CAPT (SEL) Washington Johnson, CHC, USN

by | Oct 15, 2018 | News

On Monday October 8, 2018, a promotion ceremony was held for CDR Washington Johnson, CHC, USN to the rank of Captain. The ceremony was held at The North American Division of Seventh-Day Adventists (Amphitheater) in Columbia, Maryland. The presiding official for the ceremony was Lieutenant General Reynold Hoover, USA, Deputy Commander, U. S. Element, North American Aerospace Defense Command, Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado. Guest speaker was Rear Admiral (Ret) Barry Black, CHC, USN (Former Chief of Chaplains) and current Chaplain, of the U. S. Senate. Other dignitaries in attendance included Rear Admiral (Ret) Darold Bigger, CHC, USN, Deputy Chief of Chaplains for Reserve Matters, Daniel R. Jackson, President, North American Division of Seventh-day Adventists, Dr. Robert Johnson III, Chancellor, UMass Dartmouth, CAPT Thomas Walcott, CHC, USN, Chaplain of the U.S. Coast Guard and CAPT (Ret) Thomas Abernethy, USN, President of the Washington, DC Chapter of the National Naval Officers Association (DCNNOA). CAPT Washington was joined in the ceremony by his wife Dr. Joyce Johnson, his son Washington Johnson III (a student at Oakwood University), his mother Dr. Mildred Johnson, other siblings, family members, friends and colleagues from DCNNOA.

    

Following the promotion ceremony a reception was held in the reception hall of the Amphitheater.

Best wishes and a “Hearty Well Done” is forwarded to CAPT Washington Johnson and his family from the Executive Board and members of the Washington, DC Chapter of the National Naval Officers Association for accomplishing this significant achievement in his career!

CAPT (Ret) Jerome D. Davis, SC, USN
Secretary
Washington, DC Chapter of the National Naval Officers Association