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COVERING PUGET SOUND NAVAL NEWS FOR BREMERTON | BANGOR | KEYPORT
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VOLUME 1, NO. 41 | 6 JANUARY 2012
THIS EDITION
TRICARE pharmacy
options ..................pg. 2
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Changes to separation
bonuses .................pg. 6
USS Thomas served in both
WWII theatres ..... pg. 12
By JJ [email protected]
A water main pipe burst on Naval Base Kitsap Bangor around 2 am on Jan. 1 releas-ing thousands of gallons under the street and temporarily shutting off water to about 180 homes, according to facilities service officials.
The twelve-inch main “T” pipe was located near the intersection of Thresher and Ribalo
Broken water main floods intersection at Naval Base Kitsap Bangor
SEE WATER | PAGE 8
Sailors celebrate New Year’s Eve in the aft mess decks aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74). John C. Stennis is deployed to the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility conducting maritime security opera-tions and support missions as part of Operation Enduring Freedom. U.S. NAVY PHOTO BY MASS COMMUNICATION SPECIALIST 2ND CLASS TIMOTHY AGUIRRE.
By JJ [email protected]
The Kitsap County District Court, on Jan. 4, ruled against four anti-nuclear protestors charged with civil infractions for blocking off traffic to the main entrance of Naval Base Kitsap Bangor.
The defendants Anne Hall, a Lutheran minister, Brenda McMillan, a retired book keeper, Frances Lamb,
a retired Catholic lay minister, and Thomas Rogers, a retired Navy nuclear submarine captain, are all members of the Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action in Silverdale.
Ground Zero Center has protested the nuclear presence in Kitsap County for 34 years.
Washington State troopers accosted the four individuals for violating the traffic code of “pedestrians on road-ways” on Aug. 8 when they crossed the fog line onto State Route 308 near the Trigger Avenue gate carrying a 44-foot long inflatable Trident II D-5 missile replica into the street.
All defendants testified that the intent was to block off traffic to Bangor base for as long as possible.
“I wanted to reach as many people as
I could driving by on the illegality and immorality of what is going on inside that base,” Hall said in her testimony.
Video footage submitted as evidence to the court documented a “missile dance” between state troopers and pro-testors who shoved the inflatable mis-sile back and forth across the road.
Kitsap County District Court Judge James M. Riehl, during a pretrial hear-ing, decided that defendants would be allowed to show this footage as well as testify to the necessity and cause of their actions at the bench trial.
“We hear people’s explanations of why they did what they did often on the civil calendar. Rarely do we find it a basis for the infraction, but mitigating
Occupy Trident protestorstried and fined
Anti-nuclear protestors not deterred by court’s
decision
SEE OCCUPY | PAGE 8
New Year’s Eve at Sea
WASHINGTON, (AFPS) – Closure of the strategi-cally important Strait of Hormuz, which Iran has threatened while holding military exercises there since Dec. 23, will not be tolerated, Pentagon Press Secretary George Little said Tuesday.
According to interna-tional news reports, Iran has warned the United States not to replace the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis, which last week left the strait -- the only sea passage to the open ocean for petroleum-producing nations in the Persian Gulf region.
“Such regularly sched-uled movements are in accordance with longstand-ing U.S. commitments to the region’s security and stability, and in support of ongoing operations,” Little told reporters.
Such carrier strike group deployments are needed to maintain continuity and operational support to ongoing missions in the U.S. Central Command
area of responsibility, he added.
“Our interest is in safe and secure maritime pas-sage for ships transiting the Strait of Hormuz,” Little said.
“No one in this govern-ment seeks confrontation over the Strait of Hormuz,” he added. “It’s important to lower the temperature.”
The deployment of U.S. military assets in the Persian Gulf region will continue as it has for decades, the Pentagon press secretary said.
The U.S. Navy oper-ates under international maritime conventions to maintain “a constant state of high vigilance to ensure the continued safe flow of maritime traffic in water-ways critical to global com-merce,” Little added.
“Our transits of the Strait of Hormuz continue to be in compliance with interna-tional law,” he said, “which guarantees our vessels the right of transit passage.”
Little said the depart-ment is committed to pro-
tecting maritime freedoms that are the basis for global prosperity -- one of the reasons U.S. military forces operate in the region.
“We are obviously aware of reports of missile tests that are apparently tied to Iranian naval exercises that began in late December,” he said, adding that Iran has the right to conduct exercises and that it has taken no hostile or aggres-sive action against U.S. Navy vessels in the region.
“The United States believes that the Iranian regime should devote its energy and resources to establishing friendly rela-tions with countries in the Gulf region,” Little said.
WASHINGTON (AFPS) – Despite questions about whether the Walgreens phar-macy chain will continue as a TRICARE provider, ben-eficiaries will have several options for filling prescrip-tions, Defense Department spokeswoman Eileen M. Lainez said last week.
The retail pharmacy
contract between Express Scripts Inc., or ESI, and the Walgreens pharmacy was set to expire on Dec. 31, she added.
If the contract is not renewed, Walgreens will no longer be a pharmacy net-work provider, Lainez said, but beneficiaries will be able to find a nearby network pharmacy using the “find a
pharmacy” feature at the ESI website, http://www.express-scripts.com/tricare.
“We are committed to ensuring all our pharmacy beneficiaries are aware of the many options that TRICARE makes available to them,” said Army Brig. Gen. Bryan Gamble, TRICARE depu-ty director. “By now, all of our beneficiaries who use Walgreens to fill prescrip-tions should have been con-tacted to advise them of their pharmacy options and to take action to ensure their pharmacy benefit remains uninterrupted. The health of our service members, retirees and their families remains my number one priority.”
In addition to 56,000 net-work pharmacies, Lainez said, TRICARE beneficiaries have other pharmacy options,
including military pharma-cies at no cost; and conve-nient, low-cost TRICARE Pharmacy Home Delivery.
Beneficiaries can check the TRICARE website at http://www.tricare.mil for more information.
ESI has mailed informa-tion or contacted beneficia-ries who use Walgreens by telephone, and in December, they followed up with reminder letters.
If needed, beneficiaries can take current prescrip-tion bottles to a new network pharmacy to have prescrip-tions transferred.
Beneficiaries who need help finding a pharmacy or changing their medications to home delivery, or who have other questions, can contact Express Scripts at 1-877-885-6313.
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WASHINGTON (NNS) – Beginning the week of Jan. 3, Navy Safe Harbor is administering its annual Enrollee Survey and Caregiver Survey to evaluate those groups’ satisfaction with the program and determine ways to improve wounded warrior support services.
“As we kick off 2012, I can’t think of a more appropriate time to check the pulse of our seriously wounded, ill, and injured Sailors and Coast Guardsmen, as well as their families,” said Capt. Bernie Carter, director of Navy Safe Harbor. “We always are eager to enhance our program, and their responses to the survey will inform our approach to caring for wounded warriors in the New Year and beyond.”
Navy Safe Harbor is the Navy and Coast Guard’s wounded warrior support pro-gram. It provides a lifetime of individually tailored assistance to promote the recovery, rehabilitation, and reintegration of seriously wounded, ill, and injured service members.
The Enrollee Survey captures the experi-ences and perceptions of enrolled Sailors and Coast Guardsmen during the past calendar year, while the Caregiver Survey assesses the opinions and needs of the care-givers who support them. The surveys are distributed to more than 750 service mem-bers and their families.
The surveys include a variety of ques-tions, including how frequently respondents communicate with Navy Safe Harbor Non-
medical Care Managers and whether those staff members were responsive and reliable. The survey also asks respondents what they like best about Navy Safe Harbor, what they’d like to change about the program, and whether they would recommend it to others.
In the past, survey results have made significant impacts on the program and the services it provides. For example, feedback received from the 2010 surveys led to the creation of the 2011 Wounded Warrior Family Symposium, which took place last September. The event convened wounded warriors and caregivers with varied back-grounds, who shared their stories and recommendations with Navy Safe Harbor personnel.
Symposium panelist - and the wife of a wounded warrior -Stephnie Rose said about the event: “It is comforting to see Navy Safe Harbor hosting this event. It’s great to know the program cares so much about the families and making progress on behalf of wounded warriors.”
The surveys are being conducted by the Navy Personnel Research, Studies, and Technology division of the Bureau of Naval Personnel. They are being administered during the course of eight weeks, and results will be publicly released in approxi-mately six months.
Navy measures Wounded Warrior satisfaction
WASHINGTON (NNS) -- Top-performing Sailors will see more opportuni-ties to convert, reenlist, and advance as a result of the Navy’s use of force management tools such as the Enlisted Retention Board and Perform-to-Serve, Navy leaders said Jan. 3.
“We have the highest quality Sailors and the most capable force in our Navy’s history,” said Chief of Naval Personnel Vice Adm. Scott Van Buskirk. “Sailors are increasingly looking at our Navy as a great long-term career choice. While high retention is positive and has resulted in the best trained, most capable, and most highly motivated force in our history, we must continue to ensure we retain the right mix of people so that our workforce matches our warfighting require-ments, now and into the future. Programs such as Perform-to-Serve and the Enlisted Retention
Board have enabled those mutual goals.”
“Because of the strides made by PTS and ERB in balancing the force, bar-ring significant changes to our force structure, the Navy will not need to conduct an ERB in 2013 or 2014,” continued Van Buskirk.
High retention and low attrition within the Navy led to some rat-ings being overmanned, which resulted in hard-working, experienced Sailors not being able to advance or reenlist in their ratings. At the same time, the Navy still lacked Sailors in ratings critical to meeting its mission. Increasing the challenge, the Navy has recently shifted nearly 6,800 billets back to sea, changing the mix of skills and experience required of Sailors.
In addition to vol-untary separation pro-grams, the Navy uses programs such as PTS to help balance the force by matching the workforce
to the f leet’s job require-ments. PTS is the Navy’s primary system for managing personnel to ensure the Navy main-tains a balanced, expe-rienced force. PTS man-ages balance between ratings so that each rat-ing has their authorized share of personnel. PTS also manages balance within a rating by keep-ing the right number of top performers in each year group to match experience with mission requirements without gaps. PTS also ensures the highest-performing Sailors have the oppor-tunity to convert, reen-list and advance.
Yet, with so many Sailors desiring to stay Navy, PTS was becoming over-burdened. Many overmanned ratings had limited PTS opportu-nity, which meant even the strongest perform-ing Sailors faced tough competition and reduced chances to re-enlist and advance. Because PTS only affects those
Sailors approaching a re-enlistment decision or requiring additional obligated service, timing had become a critical factor, adding pressure to the PTS system.
To relieve the pressure on Sailors in a PTS reen-listment window, the Navy created the ERB as an additional force management tool. The ERB became necessary to ensure the Navy could reduce the overmanned ratings while converting many Sailors to under manned ratings to fill gaps. The ERB reviewed the records of roughly 16,000 Sailors in the 31 most overmanned ratings to fill a limited number of retention quotas. Unlike PTS, the ERB considered all eli-gible Sailors in these rat-ings, not just the ones in a PTS window.
According to Van Buskirk, Sailors will see significant changes in advancement opportu-nity due to the ERB.
“Before we conducted the ERB, opportunities for Sailors to advance to E5 and E6 in the 31 eligible ratings were extremely limited,” said Van Buskirk. “Because the ERB will reduce overmanning in these ratings, more Sailors will advance to E4, E5, and E6 in the coming
advancement cycles. In fact, advancements in the ERB ratings are projected to be slightly above the Navy-wide average for the next two to three cycles.”
ERB and PTS have also placed many tal-ented Sailors in under-manned ratings, a step that was critical in meet-ing the mission, said Van Buskirk.
“Because we have reduced our overmanned ratings, the Navy is mak-ing strides in improv-ing undermanning in other ratings,” said Van Buskirk. “Through PTS and the ERB, nearly 1,200 Sailors have con-verted from overmanned to undermanned rat-ings in the past year. Putting talented Sailors into these undermanned ratings enables us to meet our mission requirements while eas-ing the unusually high operational demands on Sailors currently in these ratings.”
Sailors are also seeing increased opportuni-ties in PTS. PTS was significantly changed in October to refocus on performance and reduce the impact of a Sailor’s timing on re-enlistment approval. Top perform-
ers in every rating and year group will now have the opportunity for reenlistment approval, even when a rating is overmanned.
“While PTS and ERB have been difficult pills to swallow for our Sailors, they are neces-sary tools to balance the effects of excessively high retention,” said Van Buskirk. “We are begin-ning to see increased reenlistment opportu-nity and better advance-ment opportunity as a result of improved force balance, but we know that these benefits are of little comfort to Sailors and their families who are separating. That is why we’re committed to providing Sailors who must separate the best transition support tools and assistance possible so they can succeed in their civilian careers.”
WASHINGTON (AFNS) -- The Department of Defense has implemented a tem-porary moratorium on the sales of products containing DMAA with-in military facilities.
The moratorium will remain in effect pending further review of rel-evant scientific evidence and reported events, officials said.
Recent reports show that two Soldier deaths and additional adverse health effects in other service members may be related to the use of dietary supplements con-taining DMAA, which is also known as dimeth-ylamylamine.
“We support the deci-sion of the Military Exchanges and Commissaries to remove products contain-
ing DMAA from their shelves until we can make a further determi-nation about the safety of this ingredient,” said Dr. Michael Kilpatrick, the deputy director of Force Health Protection and Readiness Programs with the Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Force Health Protection and Readiness.
DMAA is sold as a single supplement and in combination with multiple other ingre-dients. In particular, it is often combined with caffeine, a legal, natural stimulant. Stimulants may accelerate metabo-lism, heart rate and blood pressure, which may increase the body’s production of heat, espe-cially in hot and humid conditions.
“We are concerned about reports of heat ill-ness, kidney (and) liver damage, and sudden death in service mem-bers who reportedly used products containing DMAA,” Kilpatrick said.
The Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs Jonathan Woodson asked the surgeons general of the military services to conduct a review of available scientific evidence and adverse event reports to better understand any potential relationship between DMAA and these events. Recommendations from this review will guide further decisions, offi-cials said.
“We take the health of our service members and families very seriously, and believe this action
is necessary as a precau-tionary measure until we can learn more,” said Lt. Gen. Patricia Horoho, the Army surgeon gen-eral.
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Last week I told you about my plan for 2012: to host 52 sepa-rate dinner guests, one for each week that my hus-band, Dustin, is deployed overseas. For us, this project is intended to be more of a distraction than it is a measurement of time. And we know that Dustin’s seat at the dinner table cannot be truly filled until he returns for the 53rd dinner. But in a broader sense, our “Dinner with the Smileys” project is about something else, too.
According to Joining Forces—a campaign for mili-tary families headed by First Lady Michelle Obama and the vice president’s wife, Dr. Biden—military service mem-bers account for just 1-percent of the American population. They are the real “1 percent.” And although the other 99 percent wants to help or show their appreciation, often they don’t know where to begin.
This wasn’t always the case. There was a time when Americans got behind the military and their families by taking up jobs in factories left vacant by deployed troops. Soldiers were welcomed home with parades. And anyone could send any soldier a care package without red tape.
Things aren’t so simple today. Still, I honestly believe
that most Americans would “share the burden,” if you will, if they only knew how.
Coincidentally, most military families—busy with careers and lives that don’t stand still while their loved one is deployed—just want not to be forgotten.
This is what Dinner with the Smileys is about.
As someone who has dealt with military deployments my entire life (I was born while my dad was deployed and didn’t meet him until I was 7-months old), I can tell you that the worst, loneliest time is dinnertime. And especially, dinnertime on weekends and holidays. These are the times when families are supposed to be together, when neighbors, with families intact, retreat to their living rooms. These are the times when it’s easy to for-get that thousands of military families are separated.
In 2012, my boys and I will share that time with 52 guests.
At Serve.gov there is this statement: “It is vital that American communities better understand what our troops and their families are facing –and use that knowledge to simply, positively, and pro-ductively help those families address the challenges that
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WASHINGTON, (AFPS) – President Barack Obama Tuesday signed a bill into law to streamline airport screening procedures for service members and their families traveling on offi-cial orders.
The Risk-based Security Screening for Members of the Armed Forces Act gives the Transportation Security Administration six months to develop and implement a plan to expedite screening ser-vices for service members on orders and in uniform and, “to the extent pos-sible, any accompanying family member.”
The act, in part, calls for the agency to establish standard guidelines for the screening of military uniform items, such as combat boots.
In a statement released today, agency officials said they’re in the process of reviewing options for these new procedures in consultation with the Defense Department.
Even before this law, the agency had several measures in place to aid troops through the screen-ing process. For example, troops in uniform with
a military identification card aren’t required to remove their boots or shoes unless they set off an alarm, according to the agency’s website.
The agency also seeks to accommodate family members. Families who would like to accompany a deploying service mem-ber to the boarding gate or greet them upon their return may receive passes to enter the secure area of the airport, the site said. Family members, agency officials advise, should contact their air carrier representative at the air-port for local procedures.
The agency also expe-dites the screening process for Honor Flight veterans, and partners with the Defense Department to expedite screening for wounded warriors and their families. The Honor Flight Network organiza-tion transports veterans to Washington, D.C., to visit their war memorials.
Also aimed at expedit-ing screening procedures, the agency is testing a new program at the air-port in Monterey, Calif. In mid-November, troops traveling out of Monterey
Peninsula Airport began presenting their DOD identification to a docu-ment checker for card-reader scanning.
The pilot program is designed to test the tech-nology to verify service members’ status. If suc-cessful, it could pave the way for service members to be included in the agen-cy’s expedited screening program, agency officials said, enabling them to use special lanes at participat-ing airports to pass more quickly through airport security. These expedited procedures could involve not having to remove their shoes, belt and jackets or their laptops from bags.
Programs such as this one strengthen security, officials said, explaining that separating out low-risk people, such as mem-bers of the armed forces, allows the agency to focus its resources on travelers who present a higher risk.
New law eases airport screening for troops and families
Line handlers aboard the Ohio-class guided-missile submarine USS Michigan prepare to moor alongside the submarine tender USS Frank Cable at Polaris Point, Guam . Frank Cable conducts maintenance and support of submarines and surface vessels deployed in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of responsibility. U.S. NAVY PHOTO BY MASS COMMUNICATION SPECIALIST SEAMAN APPRENTICE CHRIS SALISBURY
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 31, 2011 – President Barack Obama today signed the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act, which increases active-duty and reserve pay by 1.6 per-cent and governs Defense Department activities, from procurement to military per-sonnel policy.
Several provisions in this
year’s act will potentially affect active-duty and retired service members and their families.
Section 347 requires DOD to finance an independent assess-ment of overseas troop basing, advising retention, closure, realignment or establishment of U.S. military facilities out-side the United States “in light of potential fiscal constraints on [DOD] and emerging national security requirements in coming years.”
Section 402 reduces autho-
rized Army minimum end strength from 562,000 to 547,000. The other services’ authorized minimum strengths are unchanged, with 325,700 for the Navy, 202,100 for the Marine Corps and 332,800 for the Air Force.
Section 512 of the act cre-ates a new member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, which currently includes the Army and Air Force chiefs of staff, the chief of naval operations and the Marine Corps commandant. The new member will be the chief of the National Guard Bureau, who will have respon-sibility for “addressing mat-ters involving non-federalized National Guard forces in sup-port of homeland defense and civil support missions.”
Section 526 extends volun-tary separation pay and ben-efits authority, formerly set to expire Dec. 31, to the end of 2018. Section 530 converts the high-deployment allowance from mandatory to authorized. The allowance currently pays $100 a day, in addition to all other pay and allowances, to a deployed service member who has been deployed 401 days or more out of the preceding 730 days.
Section 701 limits annual Tricare enrollment fee increas-es for retirees and their family members to an amount equal to the percentage by which retired pay increases that year.
Section 702 sets mental health assessment requirements for service members deployed for contingency operations. The act calls for a series of assessments: one within 120 days before deployment; anoth-er during the period between 90 days after a deployment begins and 180 days after it ends; a third within a year after the deployment ends; and a fourth between 18 months and 30 months of redeployment.
The act states assessments are intended to “identify post-traumatic stress disorder, suicidal tendencies, and other behavioral health conditions … in order to determine which such members are in need of additional care and treatment for such health conditions.”
Assessments are not required for service members “not subjected or exposed to operational risk factors during deployment in the contingency operation concerned,” the act states.
Section 954 affirms that
DOD “has the capability, and upon direction by the president may conduct offensive opera-tions in cyberspace to defend our nation, allies and interests,” subject to the law of armed conflict and the War Powers Resolution.
Signing the bill into law today, President Barack Obama acknowledging “serious res-ervations” about parts of the act, particularly provisions that regulate the detention, inter-rogation, and prosecution of suspected terrorists.
“I have signed the act chiefly because it authorizes funding for the defense of the United States and its interests abroad, crucial services for service members and their families and vital national security pro-grams that must be renewed,” Obama said in a statement released today.
The act also contains critical initiatives to control spiraling health-care costs within the Defense Department, develop counterterrorism initiatives abroad, build the security capacity of key partners, mod-ernize the force and boost the efficiency and effectiveness of military operations worldwide, he noted.
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 31, 2011 – President Barack Obama signed the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act today, while acknowledging “serious reservations” about parts of the act, particularly provisions that regulate the deten-tion, interrogation, and prosecution of suspected terrorists.
“I have signed the act chiefly because it autho-rizes funding for the defense of the United States and its interests
abroad, crucial services for service members and their families and vital national security programs that must be renewed,” Obama said in a statement released today.
The $662 billion act also contains critical initiatives to control spiraling health-care costs within the Defense Department, develop counterterrorism initia-tives abroad, build the security capacity of key partners, modernize the force and boost the effi-ciency and effectiveness of military operations
worldwide, he noted.It increases active-
duty and reserve pay by 1.6 percent and governs Defense Department activities from procure-ment to military person-nel policy.
However, “the fact that I support this bill as a whole does not mean I agree with everything in it,” the president empha-sized today.
Of particular concern are provisions he said restrict options avail-able to counterterrorism professionals and inter-fere with operations that have kept the United States safe.
Obama said the act undermines efforts within the last sev-eral years to develop an effective and sustainable framework to deal with suspected terrorists. This framework, he said, “allows us to maximize both our ability to col-lect intelligence and to incapacitate dangerous individuals in rapidly developing situations.”
“The results achieved are undeniable,” the president said. “Our suc-cess against al-Qaida and its affiliates and adherents has derived in significant measure from providing our
counterterrorism profes-sionals with the clarity and f lexibility they need to adapt to changing circumstances and to utilize whichever author-ities best protect the American people.”
Obama said he opposes initiatives by some in Congress that could undermine these successes. Although he initially had threatened to veto the bill over language he said could hamper ongoing efforts, he later agreed to chang-es that were negotiated.
“Ultimately, I decided to sign this bill not only because of the critically important services it provides for our forces and their families and the national security programs it authorizes, but also because the Congress revised pro-visions that otherwise would have jeopardized the safety, security, and liberty of the American people,” he said.
Moving forward, Obama said his adminis-tration will interpret the provisions in a way “that best preserves the f lex-ibility on which our safe-ty depends and upholds the values on which is country was founded.”
service to our country has imposed upon them.”
At the Joining Forces website, First Lady Michelle Obama writes that, “Joining Forces will ask all Americans to take action, because each of us has a role to play in reconnecting with mili-tary families in our com-munities.”
Indeed, in numer-ous speeches, Michelle Obama has offered simple but effective ways to show support to military fami-lies: help with carpools, babysit or make dinner.
I’m taking all of this one step further. Or rath-er, I’m turning it inside-out. Don’t make me din-ner; come instead and sit in my husband’s chair to share in the experience of a family meal when he is deployed. Talk to him through Skype with us. And after dinner, write a note for us to include in his monthly care package. Don’t just do for us; share with us.
As planning for “Dinner with the Smileys” continues, our guest list grows longer and more
ambitious (Yes, Mrs. Obama will receive her invitation soon). Recently, when I said that I’d like to send an invitation to Martha Stewart, I thought my mom—a former Navy wife herself—would faint. She looked around at my living room littered with toys and wondered out loud if that was a good idea. “What would you even cook for someone like that?” she said. And then: “I don’t know about this, Sarah.”
But it’s not about impressing Martha Stewart. It’s not about showing off my (non-existent) cooking skills. And it certainly is not about highlighting my children’s table manners (crossing fingers that no one slurps their spa-ghetti).
This is about giving influential people in our community an accurate picture of what it’s like to be a military family when a service member is deployed.
My house is 1500 square-feet. I don’t have a maid. I have 2 pyrex bak-ing dishes and an assort-ment of drinking glasses
with various squadron emblems engraved on them. Some of my din-ner plates are chipped. So a friend asked, “Are you getting nervous about the first guest? What are you doing to prepare? Do you need recipes?”
I smiled and politely declined. My husband is deployed. I have 3 young kids. I’m in the last phase of getting my gradu-ate degree. I don’t have time to impress anyone. I’m sure our guests will understand.
Note: When I read this column aloud to my first editors—Ford, 11, and Owen, 9—they simultaneously wrinkled their noses. Owen said, “Where’s the funny?
When are you going to bring the funny back?” Ford wanted to know if my next 52 columns will “always be all about these dinners.” He said, “I think you’ll lose a lot of readers.”
Ford is very wise. But fear not. Some
guests have already asked not to be included in a column, and often I will combine multiple dinners into one column. Which leaves plenty of room to one day tell you what Lindell did at church Christmas Eve. But first, there’s next week and our first guest: Senator Susan Collins from Maine.
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factors should be heard,” said Riehl.
Bill Rutzick, defense attorney, likened the situ-ation to someone being pulled over for speeding because their son was choking and they were rushing to the hospital. He argued that this action would be different than if someone was pulled over for the same infraction with no cause.
“It’s comparing apples to oranges,” said Philip Bacus, Kitsap County deputy prosecutor. “Choking is an emer-gency. People protesting a nuclear policy is not.”
Riehl overruled Bacus’s objections with the warn-ing that defendants would not be allowed to discuss international law or trea-tise on nuclear weapons while on the stand.
In her defense, Lamb testified that her action to cross the line was caused by a sense of urgency and social danger. She explained that legal avenues of letters and petitions were falling on deaf ears.
“I took that action because the nation has a “business as usual” attitude towards nuclear
weapons. I can’t just watch people stand around with such danger in this country,” Lamb said.
She began to justify her actions under the Nuremberg Laws, which allows citizens to non-violently oppose govern-ment policies that go against humanity, but was cut short by a sustained objection by Bacus.
Federal courts do not allow protestors to tes-tify to cause and neces-sity in their defense, said Leonard Eiger, spokesman for Ground Zero. Riehl’s decision to let defendants explain their actions was seen as a step forward by the group.
“This is very exciting,” Eiger said. “We are set-ting a precedent at the county level.”
In addition to necessity, Rutzick also argued that protestors did not techni-cally violate the traffic code which states that it is unlawful for pedestrians to move into the roadway when there are sidewalks provided for pedestrian use.
There are no sidewalks on State Route 308, Rutzick said. The area is a
paved shoulder along the road where service trucks park in front of the base.
“No sidewalks, no vio-lation,” said Rogers.
The court studied pho-tos of the area in ques-tion. State troopers and defendants testified to their understanding of the definition of “side-walk,” and Bacus present-ed the state’s definition of
the word. Regardless of whether
or not there was a side-walk, barricades and tape were clearly marked on the west bound side of the road, said Brian Mihelich, Washington State Patrol trooper. Mihelich made two announcements over the PA system for protes-tors to stay within the safety zone.
Defense also contended that protestors were not moving “along and upon” the roadway but cross-ing it.
“This is semantics,” Bacus said. “The state does not allow for a read-ing of the law which leads to absurd results.”
He explained that by defense’s logic, a person would be cited for mov-ing alongside the road but not walking into the middle of it and stopping. No matter how it is read, the statute is there to keep pedestrians out of the
roadway, Bacus said.Riehl ruled in favor of
the prosecution. The fine for the civil infraction carried a $56 penalty per violator, but was miti-gated down to $25 in the final ruling.
The defendants and other members of Ground Zero said that this court’s decision will not deter future action.
“It’s about raising public awareness,” said Rogers. “If I hadn’t gone out into the road, nobody would be talking to me about nuclear weapons.”streets, and water damage
has caused the intersection to shut down temporarily to traffic.
The Navy Construction Battalion (CBs) is tearing up about a thousand feet of road that is too damaged to salvage. EJB crew mem-bers are working on drying out and filling the ditches so that vehicles can pass through, said Bob Makins, EJB water shop lead man.
The temporary repair work will take a few days, but repaving of the streets may not be finished until spring of this year, Makins estimated.
EJB contractors, who service Bangor base, have determined that the cause
of the break was “pipe fatigue” from old pipes that were never replaced.
“It was just a really old, abandoned water line. The pipe pieces close to where it broke are still under the road somewhere,” Makins said.
Residents of Bangor Valley Housing (South West Housing) were affected by the twelve-hour water shut off.
During that time, resi-dents were instructed by Fleet and Family Services to use the base gym for hot showers and portable toi-lets that were delivered to the neighborhood.
Homes in Quarters B on Ribalo have been “jump-
ered” to other hydrants. This temporary fix will allow families to have water until EJB can perma-nently repair the main, said Makin.
As repair parts come in later this week, the crew will finish repairs, accord-ing to a press release by NBK public affairs.
Residents have been instructed to run faucets until water runs clear as it may initially be brown, according to Forest City Residential Management.
“Been doing that on and off since noon,” wrote
Emily Thompson Wellen, a Bangor Valley resident, “Scalding hot water is clear, but anything cooler and toilet is nasty brown.”
Wellen and other South West housing residents wondered if the water is safe for consumption.
The Bangor water sup-ply has been chlorinated and flushed out of pipes to ensure safety, Makin said.
EJB will also be taking samples to make sure there is no other contamination after pipes are permanently fixed.
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Built in a scant 132 days to support the war effort, the destroyer escort USS Garfield Thomas (DE 193) spent its entire active-duty career screening con-voys in the Atlantic and Pacific theaters during World War II.
The ship is named for World War II officer William G. Thomas Jr., a lieutenant serving on the light cruiser USS Boise when the gun tur-ret he was serving in was blown apart by enemy fire off Cape Esperance. His brave and gallant actions in battle on Oct. 11-12, 1942, earned him the Navy Cross. Eight of the men in the gun crew escaped, but Thomas gave his life.
The ship named after him was built by Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co. of Newark, N.J., the ship was com-missioned Jan. 24, 1944.
The Cannon-class ship displaced 1,240 tons, was 306 feet long and had a draft of nine feet. A crew of 186 sailors manned the ship which had a top speed of 21 knots.
Firepower was impres-sive, with three 3-inch gunmounts, four 40mm guns and eight 20mm anti-aircraft guns.
Antisubmarine war-fare equipment consisted of eight depth charge pods, one hedgehog type depth charge pod, and two depth charge tubes.
After shakedown operations off Bermuda, the ship departed New York March 11, 1944, and joined Task Group 27.4 as part of a screen for a convoy bound for Bizerte, North Africa.
The escort made two additional runs between New York and Bizerte during the next six months.
After a brief overhaul and training cycle out of Casco Bay, Maine, Garfield Thomas returned to New York where it was immediate-ly dispatched to screen a convoy bound for the United Kingdom arriv-ing at Plymouth Oct. 25.
After returning to New York Nov. 9, 1944, the ship made voyages to the United Kingdom, the last one ending May 19,
1945. After a brief overhaul,
the ship and its crew sailed for refresher train-ing in the Guantanamo Bay area.
Upon completion, the Garfield Thomas was ordered to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Upon arriving June 20, 1945, a fast cycle of training maneuvers was ordered for the ship in Hawaiian waters.
On Aug. 8, the ship was dispatched with a convoy for the Marshall Islands.
Arriving at Eniwetok without incident Aug. 16, 1945, Garfield Thomas went on to operate between the Marshall and Caroline Islands, screening convoys and taking its turn as patrol ship until it departed Eniwetok Dec. 8 for the voyage back to Pearl Harbor.
Upon arrival, it was designated as weather station ship for one month.
The ship then depart-ed Pearl Harbor Feb. 9, 1946, and transited through the Panama Canal, arriving in New York March 1, 1946.
After an overhaul, the ship was ordered to Green Cove Springs,
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Garfield Thomas entered the Atlantic Reserve Fleet.
But its service was far from over. Under the Military Assistance Program on Jan. 15, 1951, the USS Garfield Thomas was towed out
of mothballs and eventu-ally was transferred to the Navy of Greece.
The Garfield Thomas sailed on around the world’s seas, renamed the Panther (D-67). The ship’s official his-tory does not reflect any battle stars
Yest er day ’s Fleet
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 30, 2011 – American Forces Press Service published nearly 2,500 articles in 2011, cover-ing topics ranging from the end of the Iraq mission to defense budget pressures and troop concerns over retire-ment benefits.
The top 10 stories most viewed on Defense.gov this year are:
10. “U.S. Kills bin Laden in Intelligence-driven Operation,” posted May 2, focuses on President Barack Obama’s remarks to the nation the day after an American counterintel-ligence and counterterror-ism team killed al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
9. “Officials Urge Precautions at Yokosuka,
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8. “Shutdown Could Affect Young Troops Most, Gates Says,” posted April 7, covered then-Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates’ response to a soldier’s ques-tion at Camp Liberty in Iraq about troop pay dur-ing a possible government shutdown, later averted. Gates told the troops while paychecks might be delayed, all service members would receive full pay for the shut-
down period.7. “Meyer Inducted Into
Pentagon Hall of Heroes,” posted Sept. 16, detailed the Pentagon ceremony during which Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta inducted Marine Corps Medal of Honor recipient Sgt. Dakota L. Meyer into the Pentagon Hall of Heroes. Meyer was the first living Marine to receive the medal for actions in Iraq or Afghanistan.
6. “Coalition Launches ‘Operation Odyssey Dawn,’” posted March 19, announced the beginning of coalition operations enforcing U.N. Security Council Resolution 1973 and protecting the Libyan people from the country’s ruler. Officials said the military coali-tion’s goal was to prevent further attacks by regime forces on Libyan citizens, and to degrade the ability of Moammar Gadhafi’s regime
to resist a no-fly zone being implemented.
5. “Panetta: Any Retirement Changes Won’t Affect Serving Military,” posted Aug. 19, relayed Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta’s assurances that any changes to the military retirement system would not affect those now serving. “People who have come into the service, who have put their lives on the line, who have been deployed to the war zones, who fought for this country, who have been promised certain benefits for that -- I’m not going to break faith with what’s been prom-ised to them,” Panetta said.
4. “Leaders Offer Condolences in Wake of Helicopter Crash,” posted Aug. 6, relayed President Barack Obama and Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta’s statements following the crash of a CH-47 Chinook in
Afghanistan, during which 38 U.S. and Afghan service members were killed. “My thoughts and prayers go out to the families and loved ones of the Americans who were lost earlier today in Afghanistan,” the president said. “Their deaths are a reminder of the extraor-dinary sacrifices made by the men and women of our military and their families, including all who have served in Afghanistan.”
3. “No Changes to Military Retirement Any Time Soon, Officials Say,” posted Aug. 15, reiterated senior officials’ assurances to serving troops that any future changes to the military retirement system would not affect those cur-rently serving.
2. “Tricare Promotes Mail-Order Pharmacy Option,” posted Oct. 8, relayed Tricare officials’
advice to beneficiaries, espe-cially those taking long-term medications, to get their prescriptions delivered to their doorsteps. Increased usage of the health care sys-tem’s home delivery option, officials said, is a win-win situation that saves patients, as well as the government, money.
1. “Battaglia Joins Thousands for ‘Wreaths Across America’,” posted Dec. 11, recounted Marine Corps Sgt. Maj. Bryan Battaglia’s participation in “Wreaths Across America,” a program now in its 20th year, at Arlington National Cemetery. Battaglia, senior enlisted advisor to Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, joined thousands of volunteers at national cemeteries placing 100,000 holiday wreaths on veterans’ graves.
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