Welcome to the Department of Training

The Department of Training serves our members by designing, delivering, and maintaining courses in leadership, member training, value-added training, and AUXOP specialty courses. The Department also provides the platform for distance learning by providing on-line courses and administering the National Testing Center which offers many on-line exams for qualification of required program competencies.

Training is a very crucial part of our member activities. In fact, it is hard to think of any Auxiliary activity which does not have training available to define program mission requirements and assure a competent, superior performance in all we do. We take this responsibility seriously and are always seeking to improve the training resources offered to our membership.

Please take a few minutes to access the web links available through this site. These links, above and to the left are intended to entice, educate and encourage additional research.

Watch Words for 2009
"Leadership,Performance,Readiness"
"Credibility, Innovation, Opportunity"

Department Chief Gail Venezio, DC-T

Gail Venezio,
Director - Training Dept.

Robert Fong, DIR-Td

Robert Fong,
Deputy Director - Training Dept.

Training Activities

Juan Hernandez and Ken Renner accept the Meritorious Team Commendation Award from Rear Admiral Sally Brice- O'Hara and Rear Admiral Neffinger, at NACON 2009 Juan Hernandez and Ken Renner accept the Meritorious Team Commendation Award from Rear Admiral Sally Brice- O'Hara and Rear Admiral Neffinger, at NACON 2009. Juan and Ken accept the award for themselves and their TEAM, Julia Bidwick, Delores Kermode, Nick Tarlson. The award is in recognition of the work they did to develop the National Flotilla Leadership Course.

Congratulations to the TEAM!

In the News

Appointment New Deputy Director of National Training Department

It gives me great pleasure to announce the appointment of Robert Fong as Deputy Director of the National Training Department. Mr. Fong has held both elected and appointed positions in the Auxiliary. He was a Division Captain, and then advanced to District Captain of Operations. He has served as a Branch Chief for Advanced Training, and Division Chief for Advanced Training (DVC-TA). He is a retired Coast Guard officer, and is has just recently earned his Ph.D. Welcome Dr. Robert Fong!

Gail Venezio

Department Contacts

For questions or comments about...	Contact...
The Training Department	Gail Venezio, Director or Robert Fong, Deputy Director
E-Learning	Matthew Hammons, BC-TDP
AUXOP	Robert Fong, DIR-Td
Leadership Training	Kenneth Renner, DVC-TL
Value-Added Training	Andrew Anderson, BC-TIV
This website	Jason Cyphers, BC-TSW

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