We will provide you the best tools we can. Your obligation is to use them to improve how you support your customers. As we prepare the 2000 G-L Business Plan, two overarching goals have emerged for this coming year. The first is Alignment . That is, our delivery of legal services and support must be prioritized to significantly advance the Coast Guard s Strategic and Logistics goals and the Commandant s organizational priorities as reflected in his Direction for 2000-2002.
Alignment ensures responsiveness.
We must know our customers and their expectations. The second business goal is People . The intellectual capital of our legal professionals is what we bring to the Coast Guard. Therefore, recruiting , development and retention of the best-qualified civilian and military legal and administrative professionals is of critical importance. This past year, working with the civilian personnel specialists in CGPC, we streamlined the process for hiring civilian attorneys to take advantage of the excepted service nature of our civilian attorney force and give more control to the hiring legal office.