The Coast Guard Auxiliary Flotilla Member Training Achievement Award (FMTAA) was one of six awards issued under the Auxiliary’s now-defunct Goal Achievement Program (GAP). While the intent of the program was to encourage each Flotilla to achieve certain performance objectives across a breadth of operational and administrative areas, its structure was flawed: It provided the same reward, such as the Member Training Achievement ribbon, to all members regardless of the time or effort invested in helping the Flotilla meet the award’s eligibility criteria.
These shortcomings led the GAP system to be shelved in favor of AMOS, or Achievement by Objective System, which set goals for the Flotilla as a whole as well as for each of its members. This in turn was replaced by the current Annual Service Performance Award System, which sets well-defined requirements that individual Auxiliarists must meet to earn the award and attendant decoration.
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Auxiliary Public Education (PE) Service Performance Award is the closest equivalent to the old Auxiliary FMTAA. It requires Auxiliarists who’ve earned the IT (Instructor) certification to complete a set number of hours of instruction each year as a lead instructor and/or an instructor’s aide to be eligible for the ribbon and medal. Note that this award is issued for instruction in two separate fields, Member Training and Public Education.