Mentoring

Mentoring is a relationship in which knowledge and skills are shared between members in a way in which everyone benefits. Often a more senior person is mentoring a junior person, but mentorship can happen between any two individuals. Mentoring will help Airmen and Guardians discover their strengths by achieving their full potential through a structured, trusting mentoring relationship.

Find a mentor and become a mentor! It’s easy to do both by registering in MyVector. In 2021, we completely redesigned the Mentoring platform in MyVector based on your feedback. New features include:

Ability to self-identify as someone seeking a mentor or someone who wants to be a mentor
Track the status of their mentoring requests
Updated Resources page
Enhanced messaging capability that allows users to send messages to mentors
Additional search filters:
ethnicity, race, disability, Exceptional Family Members Program (EFMP), MAJCOM, organizations, and ranks
Ability for mentees to share documents with mentor
Sister Service mentor/mentee enabled capability
CFM ability to assign mentors to mentees (Spring 2022)

Log into MyVector, check out the new capabilities, and find your mentor today at https://myvector.us.af.mil!

B-Roll video of birds in Straits of Mackinac

U.S. Coast Guard District 9

Video by Master Chief Petty Officer Alan Haraf

April 10, 2018 | 0:50

This video footage shows birds observed by wildlife biologists on or near the Straits of Mackinac, April 10, 2018. The United States Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (USDA-APHIS) Wildlife Services program, Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, and Michigan Department of Natural Resources personnel are surveying the area, on the water and from the shore, to look for any signs of pollution or impacted fish and wildlife. Biologists are looking for excessive preening, abnormal behavior, or a feathers with discoloration. No impacts to the environment or wildlife have been identified.

Birds will naturally preen for hours to align their feathers and provide insulation from the cold. More than 3,000 waterfowl, including Long-tailed Ducks, Common Mergansers, Herring Gulls and Goldeneye Eagles, have been observed over the course of the response from areas near Mackinac, Round, and Boise Blanc Islands, as well as on the shoreline near Mackinaw City and west of the Mackinac Bridge. (video provided courtesy Dane Williams, U.S. Department of Agriculture Wildlife Services). More

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