Part-time service – like serving three days per week on active duty instead of seven – could help solve persistent recruiting shortfalls in the Coast Guard, the service’s commandant said Wednesday. Adm. Linda Fagan suggested creating a category other than active duty, reserve or civilian employee, to describe service. “I’m [going to] use the term part-time: You’ve got some level of benefit, but you’re working three days a week instead of the 24/7, 365-day contract that comes in,” Fagan said at a Brookings Institution event. When recruiting certified aircraft mechanics or cyber specialists, all of them, including the “part-timers” if … Continue reading Coast Guard Examining Part-Time Service to Better Man Its Force