Scheduling Coast Guard District Cutters

Scheduling Coast Guard District Cutters

United States Coast Guard (USCG) districts schedule cutters 180 feet or less in length to weekly statuses (statuses is USCG jargon for assignments) from which they primarily respond to calls for search and rescue, law enforcement, and pollution control. The First Coast Guard District, based in Boston, has one of the largest scheduling problems: Each of 16 cutters is assigned weekly to one of si...

Optimal Inspection Strategies for Coast Guard Operations

Scheduling United States Coast Guard helicopter deployment and maintenance at Clearwater Air Station, Florida

To mitigate the effects of a corrosive operating environment, the Coast Guard has planned an extensive preventative maintenance program for its Sikorsky HH60J helicopters based on helicopter flight time. We construct a mixed integer linear program that schedules the weeks during which each helicopter undergoes maintenance, as well as the weeks during which a helicopter conducts operations eithe...

Predictors of Dietary Supplement Use by U.S. Coast Guard Personnel

BACKGROUND Personnel in Armed Forces entities such as the US Coast Guard (USCG) engage in strenuous tasks requiring high levels of physiological and psychological fitness. Previous reports have found increased prevalence of dietary supplement (DS) use by military personnel to meet the demands of their occupation. OBJECTIVE This study assessed DS prevalence and patterns of use in USCG personne...

Mortality among shipyard Coast Guard workers: a retrospective cohort study.

BACKGROUND The mortality experience of 4702 (4413 men and 289 women) civilian workers in a US Coast Guard shipyard was evaluated. METHODS All workers employed at the shipyard between 1 January 1950 and 31 December 1964 were included in the study and were followed through 31 December 2001 for vital status. Detailed shipyard and lifetime work histories found in the shipyard personnel records an...