502937 CFDR Annual Ethics Training USCG Questions and Answers 100% Solved

502937 CFDR Annual Ethics Training USCG Questions and Answers 100% Solved Expert Exporters, Inc. has applied to the State Department for an export license for certain search and rescue technology to Chaotica, a country engulfed in an internal power struggle. The State Department has referred the license application to the Coast Guard for comment, and you have been asked to develop the response. Is Expert Exporters, Inc. a prohibited source? Yes. In honor of your birthday last week, your parents bought you a car. Your dad is retired Coast Guard and your mother still works for a marine contractor. Can you accept this gift? Yes. Assume that you have never accepted a gift from a particular prohibited source. Can you accept all three gifts if the prohibited source offered a $15 t-shirt in April, a $10 baseball cap and a $5 baseball card in May? Yes. A Coast Guard employee was authorized to speak on the first day of a four-day conference on environmental clean-up. An association of prohibited sources sponsors it. May she accept the sponsor's waiver of the conference fee for the entire conference? Yes, if the conference is widely attended and an ethics authority determines that it is in the Coast Guard's best interest. Which of the following does not count as "your" personal financial interest when evaluating a conflict of interest? The business operated by your next door neighbor. When is it unlawful for Coast Guard personnel to solicit a gift from a non-federal source? Select all possibilities. [select ALL] - When the gift is poorly wrapped. - When the gift is given in exchange for a federal employee's performance of jobs. - When the gift is given on one's 40th birthday. - When the value of the gift exceeds $100. Which of the following events meets the test for a "particular matter?" Select all that apply. [select ALL] - Investigation of an oil spill. - Arrest of drunken boater. - New off-shore fishing regulations for New Jersey. - Purchase of Coast Guard flight suits. A department store is offering a special 10% discount to all active-duty military personnel stationed in the greater Norfolk, Virginia area. Is this special discount considered a gift? No. A national fitness center chain is offering a special reduced membership price to all Coast Guard military and civilian personnel assigned to the Greater Toledo area. May Coast Guard personnel assigned to that area accept the discounted fitness center membership? Yes. A Coast Guard member or employee may not accept a gift from a personal friend who works for a prohibited source even if the circumstances make is clear that the gift was given because of that friendship. No. Your brother-in-law owns a small ocean-going tug company. He submitted his Oil Response Plan late and is afraid that he will have to suspend operations until it is approved. You know the person in charge of the office that approves the plans. May you ask him to have your relative's Response Plan reviewed as soon as possible? No. You've earned enough frequent flyer miles from your government travel that you could take a free trip to Hawaii. You want to take leave and use those miles for your vacation. Can you use those miles? Yes. While you were making a port call in a small country, the local mayor gave you a native shirt valued at $100.00. The source of this gift was: Non-Federal, Non-Prohibited. As the skipper of a Coast Guard vessel, while you are on a port call to England, a representative of the British Government, in her official capacity, invites you to be her dinner guest-indicating that the invitation is traditionally extended to all skippers of visiting American warships and Coast Guard vessels. It is apparent from the menu that the cost of every dish exceeds the local per diem rate. Your bill comes to $119. The British official simply insists upon paying the bill. Your best course of action is to: Accept. An employee of the Coast Guard Public Affairs Office has been invited to a cocktail party given by a noted Washington hostess who is not a prohibited source. No one, except the hostess, is paying to attend the event. May the employee attend? Yes.