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MAWS is pleased to see Bill Wells (GMCM, USCG ret.) return back aboard the military.com forums. Good having you back shipmate!

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MAWS Expansion

MAWS continues to expand. We are pleased to announce the opening of additional Field Offices in Pascagoula, MS and San Francisco, CA this coming Spring. We will also be maintaining our Washington, DC Field Office as well.

Why Our Best Officers Are Leaving - Magazine - The Atlantic

Why the new global elite is leaving you behind, how porn is—and isn’t—changing sex for women, the new physics of tennis, and more

via theatlantic.com

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Great Article from LTC Grossman, USA (ret)

Came accross this the other day courtesy of a retired Coast Guard GMCM who I have corresponded with over the years...

www.killology.com/sheep_dog.htm

MERRY CHRISTMAS

Merry Christmas from our Surface Scotties!

CONGRATS TO VADM PAPP IN HIS NOMINATION AS 24th COMMANDANT OF THE COAST GUARD

MAWS is pleased to see that VADM Papp (Gold Ancient Mariner) has been nominated by Secretary Napolitano to serve as 24th Commandant of the Coast Guard...just as our staff here predicted on 11 DEC.

http://coastguard.dodlive.mil/index.php/2009/12/update-president-obama-intends-to-nominate-and-appoint-vadm-papp-as-the-24th-commandant-of-the-coast-guard/

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Federal Government Operating Status in the Washington, DC, Area: CLOSED Monday, 21 Dec 09

• Federal agencies in the Washington, DC, area are closed. Nonemergency employees (including employees on pre-approved leave) will be granted excused absence for the number of hours they were scheduled to work. This does not apply to employees on leave without pay, leave without pay for military duty, workers' compensation, suspension, or in another nonpay status.
• Telework employees may be expected to work from their telework sites, as specified in their telework agreements.
• Emergency employees are expected to report for work on time.
• Employees on alternative work schedules are not entitled to another AWS day off in lieu of the workday on which the agency is closed.

Posted on December 20, 2009 at 4:35 PM at: http://www.opm.gov/status/

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