page_title: United States Coast Guard Auxiliary
section_title: Incident Command System training recognized by the Coast Guard Auxiliary
hierarchical_section_title: United States Coast Guard Auxiliary / Training / Core training / Incident Command System training recognized by the Coast Guard Auxiliary
caption_attribution_description: English: Emmitsburg, MD, March 10, 2003 -- The campus of FEMA's National Emergency Training Center, located in Emmitsburg, Md., offers a beautiful environment for first responders, emergency managers and educators to learn state-of-the-art disaster management and response. Photo by Jocelyn Augustino/FEMA News Photo
context_page_description: The United States Coast Guard Auxiliary is the volunteer uniformed auxiliary service of the United States Coast Guard. Congress established the unit on June 23, 1939, as the United States Coast Guard Reserve. On February 19, 1941, the organization was re-designated as the United States Coast Guard Auxiliary. The Auxiliary exists to support all USCG missions on the water or in the air, except for roles that require "direct" law enforcement or military engagement. As of 2018, there were approximately 24,000 members of the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary.
  Collectively the Auxiliary contributes over 4.5 million hours of service each year and completed nearly 500,000 missions in service to support the Coast Guard. Every year Auxiliarists help to save approximately 500 lives, assist 15,000 distressed boaters, conduct over 150,000 safety examinations of recreational vessels, and provide boater safety instruction to over 500,000 students. In total the Coast Guard Auxiliary saves taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars each year.
context_section_description: The Coast Guard Auxiliary requires auxiliarists to take mandatory Incident Command System (ICS) courses. Four of the Incident Command System (ICS) courses are offered through FEMA's Emergency Management Institute (EMI) and another course if offered through the Auxiliary Learning Management System.  Auxiliarists are expected to take courses that will help them to understand the Incident Command System's organization, basic terminology and common responsibilities.  Auxiliarists are required to acquire the skills necessary to perform in an ICS support role. Officers, certified coxswains, pilots, or those in a leadership role may need to take additional EMI courses pertaining to the National Incident Management System and/or the National Response Framework.  As part of ICS Training, all auxiliarists must respond immediately to emergency response alerts and participation in mandatory.
caption: Emergency Management Institute
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