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Coast Guard to conduct recruiting on Saipan
HONOLULU, Hawaii—The U.S. Coast Guard will have recruiters on Saipan from Sept. 18 to Sept. 22, to meet with interested applicants.
They will be visiting Kagman High School, Marianas High School, Saipan Southern High School, Mount Carmel School, and Grace Christian Academy throughout the week.
Interested students, especially those in their senior year, should see their counselors to participate in these visits.
For those who have graduated high school, or would like more time with the recruiter, the recruiters will be posted at the Saipan Mayor’s Office on Beach Road in San Jose, from 1pm to 5pm each afternoon that week. Walk-ins are welcome.
The U.S. Coast Guard is a military, multi-mission, maritime service within the Department of Homeland Security and one of the nation’s five armed services.
Its core roles are to protect the public, the environment and the U.S. economic and security interests in America’s coasts, ports and inland waterways.
Serving in the Coast Guard allows its members to travel worldwide, and duty stations include Guam, Hawaii, the mainland United States, the Caribbean, Europe, and the Middle East.
The requirements to join the Coast Guard are:
Be a U.S. citizen or a resident alien.
Be between the ages of 17-31 (up to age 32 if qualified for attending guaranteed “A” school) for active duty (If you are 17, you’ll need parental consent.).
Have a high school diploma. GEDs are accepted in special circumstances.
Have no more than three dependents.
Pass the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery test.
Pass a military entrance medical exam.
For more information, go to www.gocoastguard.com, or contact the recruiter for the CNMI, Petty Officer First Class Mark Prijic at Mark.R.Prijic@uscg.mil to set up an appointment the week of Sept. 18-22. (PR)
