Day 2 (March 5): Today at the Vessel Traffic Service I had quite the task ahead of me. First off I made an emergency checklist off of the VTS list of obligation during an emergency. Then came my next task, I was handed a stack of papers and was told to make a MARSEC 2 and a MARSEC 3 check list consisting of at most two pages. So I had my work cut out for me. Today I spent four hors making checklists for the USCG.
Day 3 (March 12): Today was not a very eventful day at the Vessel Traffic Service. I started off the day creating a survey. The USCG has recently switched from 8 hour to 12 hour shifts, and needs to evaluate the effect this has had on it's employees. Today I learned a lot about sleep habits, and what bad sleep patterns can do to a person, as well as on a body. Later on I was given the task of measuring a wall and finding magnetic dry erase boards, with marker holders that would fit two walls. Then I also had to find 6, 4gb USB Flash Drives. It wasn't a very adventurous day, but I can say that today I learned quite a bit about sleep and sleep patterns.
Day 4 (April 2): Today at my internship I assisted Greg Swisher with his new special little assignment. Our goal of the day was to transfer old USCG documents leading all the way back to the 50's onto the computers. My job was to scan the documents, and Gregs was to upload the documents to an Excel Spreadsheet. Although Greg assumed it would have been quite a boring and tedious task for me, I found it quite interesting and entertaining. Today was a new and quite a different day.
Day 5 (April 9): Today was the final day and the busiest day of my internship. Once again, Matt Zolnierek was called into a meeting, and I was put with Greg Slusher. Me and Slusher started off our day finishing his project of scanning the old documents, but eventually there was nothing left to scan. I was later handed down to Jones, another civilian. Jones had me search through a file cabinent to find any documents that were older then 3 years and shred them. Unfortunately we ran into some problems with the paper shredder and this became a very tidious task. After I finished the shredding for Jones, I was passed onto Sean Kelley, the Operations Director. Mr. Kelley had me compile binders for the SF PAWSA and the Cosco Busan documents. This was an exciting task because I was able to learn about the SF PAWSA and the Cosco Busan which I had never heard of before. Finally, Matt returned from his meeting and it was time to finish my internship. I was asked for my feedback, and then presented with a letter thanking me for my assistance at the Vessel Traffic Office. Overall I must say that my internship was an exciting experience. I was able to meet great new amazing people and learned quite a bit of new information about what our USCG operations does.