Updated Awards Manual

I am glad to announce that the updated SFSO Awards Manual has been posted to the publications page.  Due to the delay in getting the manual reviewed, the effective date will be August 1, 2017.

Please take this time to review the manual and please wait until August 1 before submitting any awards that an operative feels they have earned.

Please remember that awards qualified for such as academic awards and service awards will have the effective date of when the award is request. The new Heroism and Achievement awards will not be approved for prior actions, the action/event must have been completed after August 1, 2017.

VADM Paul Dyl
Assistant Director, SFSO

SFSO Training Manual

I know many of you have been waiting for several manuals to be either published for the very first time and those that are in re-write. Well some good news is the SFSO Training Manual has been updated and is now available in the publications page. The new redesigned certificates were sent to the Cert officers today and I posted the new certification and training forms on the right side on the publications page. For the newer version of the training manual, just go to the publications page and click on the picture of the training manual.

Some of the changes to the manual were the replacements for the Grade required COM/EMS medical course and also to replaced the COL courses with a few HOFL courses.

Also the Additional Skills were updated or almost completely re-written such as the Medical Certification along with updating changes to the institute or college name changes that SFA have made recently. There was also a lot of formatting changes.

The front of the manual has a Change Summary that lists the changes in the manual from the last version. In the manual if you see a * next to a course, it means its a new course added. yes some grades have had some new courses added to them, while others had some removed. Others have just been shifted in an attempted to equal out the course work across all the Grade levels and then some courses were shifted from a Grade level to the Additional Skill Certifications.

Other Manual Updates:

SFSO Awards Manual:  We have two awards that are being evaluated. I hope to have this done by June 17.

SFSO Operations Manual: Some minor changes need to be made and I am hoping to have that out between June 17 and June 24.

SFSO Uniform Manual: Most of the manual is completed, I am cleaning up a few graphics. I hope to have this done by 1 July.

Ranger Manual: This manual is completed and is currently being reviewed by HQ and then I plan to send a copy to the DDO, TacOps Commander and all the Ranger Team Leaders to review, make comments if needed etc. Once that is completed I will make it available.

SEALS Manual: This manual is completed and is currently being reviewed by HQ and then I plan to send a copy to the DDO, TacOps Commander and all the SEALS Team Leaders to review, make comments if needed etc. Once that is completed I will make it available.

Hazard Team Manual: Currently in draft mode. Basically the Ranger and SEALS Manuals will make up this manual.  No completion date as of today.

MACO Manual: This manual is completed and is currently being reviewed by HQ and then I plan to send a copy to the DDO, TacOps Commander and all the MACO Team Leaders to review, make comments if needed etc. Once that is completed I will make it available.

Recon Manual: Currently in draft mode.

INTEL Manual: Currently in draft mode.

Thank you,

VADM Paul Dyl
Assistant Director, SFSO

Good News for those waiting on Grade 1

Operatives….
RE: IOTA (Institute of THE ARTS): College of Law 101 UFP Law
IOTA (Institute of THE ARTS): College of Law 202 STARFLEET Procedures

These courses are currently in re-write. We know it has held a few of you up from getting Grade 1. I have read a proposal from the Assistant Director and agree to its terms. The proposal went as follows:

Operatives gets a pass on these two courses (see above). They can continue there Grade progression until these courses are released from re-write. At that time the operative Grade Progression will be placed on hold until the operative completes these two courses.
To keep track of who needs these two, the certification officers will record the person’s name and SCC # and contact them after the courses are released. If the operative does not complete the course then they cannot continue getting the higher Grade Levels.

I have informed the Certification Officers of their duties on this. I ask them to submit a spreadsheet to me and the Assistant Director of the operatives that need to take these courses.

I think this will make some operatives happy.

Director, STARFLEET Strategic Operations

Updated Standard Operating Procedures Manual

I am glad to announce our third Manual to be updated for 2017.

The updated SFSO Standard Operating Procedures Manual is now available for download from our Publications page.

Vice Admiral Paul Dyl
SFSO Assistant Director

SFSO Manual Updates

Greetings Operatives,

The updated SFSO Awards Manual and the SFSO Training Manual have been updated.

The next manual to be released within the coming week will be the SFSO Operating Procedures Manual and followed by the SFSO Uniform Manual.

I am hoping to have the SFSO SEALS, RANGER and MACO Manuals published some time towards the end of March if they survive the review from the respective Branches.

Vice Admiral Paul C. Dyl
Assistant Director, SFSO
STARFLEET

Changes for forming a MACO SOU

Greeting Operatives,

After a careful review of the SFSO Standard Operating Procedures Manual, the SFSO Command (SFSOCOM) along with the MACO Command Operations the following changes are effective immediately.

Forming a MACO SOU

1. All Operatives wishing to form a MACO unit can do so at any time. The requirement to start out as a Recon SOU has been rescinded.

2. All new MACO SOUs will request activation per the SFSO Activation Form Request on the SFSO website. These units will be designated as MACO Training Units. Once the requirements listed below are completed, the MACO Training Unit will be re-designated as an operational MACO SOU.

MACO Team Leaders must be as a minimum certified as a MACO Grade 4. MACO Team Leaders will have 1 year from the date that the MACO SOU  became operational to be certified as a MACO Grade 6.

1/3 of all assigned Operatives must be certified as a MACO Grade 2. Once a MACO SOU gains additional Operatives, the SOU will have 6 months from the date the 1/3 ratio was activated to have any member certified as a MACO Grade 2. Example: A MACO SOU has 1 Operative which is the Team Leader who is already at least a MACO Grade 4. The SOU gains one new member. At this time no additional grade certifications are required. The SOU recruits another Operative, bring the total SOU assigned strength to 3. The grade certification still does not change because of the 3 assigned Operatives, 1 is the Team Leader. Now the SOU recruits another Operative, bring the SOU strength to 4. Now the 1/3 requirement kicks in because the unit now has 3 Operatives not including the Team Leader. Any of the 3 none certified Operatives must complete MACO Grade 2 within 6 months from the date that the third Operative joined the SOU.

If at any time that a MACO Unit does not maintain the above requirements, the MACO Command Operations will notify the SOU Team Leader that the unit has an additional 3 months to comply with the requirements as stated above. If the MACO SOU still has not reached the required conditions to remain as a MACO SOU, the SOU will be either re-designated to another SFSO branch component or be deactivated.

The SFSO Standard Operating Procedures Manual will reflect these changes during the manual’s re-write.

For any questions, please contact the DD(S) or myself.

Vice Admiral Paul C. Dyl
Assistant Director, SFSO

SFSO Manual Review

Just keeping everyone up to date. The annual review process has begun. Currently the SFSO Awards Manual, SFSO Training Manual are completed and awaiting final approval. The SFSO Standard Operating Procedures Manual is currently finishing up its draft version and will be shortly sent for review. The SFSO Uniform and Insignia Manual is currently in the beginning stages.

Team Manuals are still in the draft stages. The MACO Manual, SEALS Manual and Ranger Manual are still in draft phase, but are each about 90% completed. The Recon Manual and the Intel Manual are in the pre-stages and are about 25% complete.

As mentioned earlier on the SFSO FB page, the Team Manuals will be about the fictional aspects of each SFSO component. The SFSO Standard Operating Procedures, SFSO Awards Manual and the SFSO Uniform and Insignia Manual will cover “real” SFSO day to day operations etc.

The purpose of the Team Manuals being written as they are, is to begin the building foundation for the future (hopefully near future) SFSO Special Warfare Center and School. The proposed idea is creating our own Academy which will only contain courses and materials related to the required training for the grade certifications and additional skills certification. This project is only in the draft stages and a lot of details and work is going to be needed to make this a reality.

As soon as more updates become available, we will post them on this site.

Thank you,

VADM Paul Dyl
SFSO Assistant Director