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COVERING PUGET SOUND NAVAL NEWS FOR BREMERTON | BANGOR | KEYPORT
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VOLUME 1, NO. 36 | 2 DECEMBER 2011
THIS EDITION
USS Nimitz readies to depart
PSNS .....................pg. 3
$50 on Army ..........pg. 4
Suquamish Tribe honors
veterans .................pg. 5
Retelling of a told tale, reader
remembers the Toro pg. 13
By JJ [email protected]
Nationwide downsizing of enlisted ranks will begin next week and Navy Region Northwest will be affected by the cuts, according to authorities.
The downsizing comes as a result of department findings that 31 enlisted rates were critically overmanned equaling a 103 percent manning, according to Lt. Laura
Navy to layoff 3,000
Capt. Ronald Reis and Adm. Craig Faller serves Sailors in the galley during the Thanksgiving meal aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) Nov. 24, 2011. John C. Stennis is deployed in support missions as part of Operation Enduring Freedom and New Dawn. U.S. NAVY PHOTO BY MASS COMMUNICATION SPECIALIST 3RD CLASS KENNETH ABBATE.
By JJ SwansonJswanson@Soundpublishing,com
Children of active duty military could change schools as many as nine times in their young lives. With a new crop of “mili-tary brats” set to arrive with the the USS Ronald Reagan in January, the Navy Region Northwest school liaison has her job cut out for her.
When a Navy family arrives at their new duty station, their first two questions are almost always “where are my household goods?” and “where are the good schools?”
explained Tom Danaher, Navy public affairs officer and former school liaison officer.
The search for the right school and easing the transition of the move are never-ending pursuits for active duty parents, according to Dr. Heather Carrell, Navy Northwest school liaison officer. In the career of one service member, a child may enroll in nine different schools around the world, she said.
Very often new kids join classrooms during the middle of a school year when registration has closed and the curriculum is already in progress.
The Navy Northwest command has no base schools exclusively for Navy students.
“It can really wreck the train,” said Danaher of the stress imposed on families new to navigating military family life.
Though there are no Navy specific schools in the Northwest, kids have Carrell – an advocate for the more than 1,000 military
children navigating through five school dis-tricts in Kitsap County.
“I support families everywhere, from the north end of Gig Harbor all the way out to Forks. I also provide information on home-schooling, special needs students, and schol-arships for college,” said Carrell.
Carrell, who holds a doctorate in special education, has experience working with autistic children, and has served on the school board for the North Kitsap School District was a major find for the Navy, according to Danaher.
“We looked for a long time because we wanted someone who knew the ropes here, not an outsider. Someone who knew CK, SK, NK, private schools, public, and home-schooling,” said Danaher.
The new kids in classLocal school liaison gets ready for Reagan’s kids
SEE KIDS | PAGE 10
Holiday at sea
SEE LAYOFF | PAGE 08
KEYPORT (NNS) – The Gold crew of the guided-missile submarine USS Michigan welcomed a new command-ing officer recently, as Capt. Robert James relieved Capt. Philip McLaughlin during a ceremony at the Naval Undersea Warfare Museum in Keyport.
“Today is a moment to celebrate the hard work and achievements of the crew of Michigan Gold,” said McLaughlin, who is retiring. “I couldn’t be prouder than to be a part of that magnifi-cent group of Sailors we call
Michigan Gold.”During his command
tenure, which began in November 2009, McLaughlin guided Michigan through two operational periods during the boat’s second forward deployment to the U.S. Seventh Fleet area of operations.
Under McLaughlin, the Gold crew not only operated successfully in the Western Pacific, it also hosted tours for senior military leaders from the Republic of Korea, showcasing the contributions of the SSGN platform to
the alliance between South Korea and the U.S.
Michigan (Gold) marked the second command tour for McLaughlin, who previ-ously served as commanding officer of the Seawolf-class attack submarine USS Connecticut.
James joins Michigan (Gold) from the staff of
Strategic Systems Programs in Washington, D.C., where he has served since September 2007. He previ-ously served as executive officer of the attack sub-marine USS Hyman G. Rickover and Blue crew commanding officer of the ballistic missile submarine USS Alaska
MILLINGTON, TENN. (NNS) – A Navy message released Nov. 22 announced revisions in special duty assignment pay.
NAVADMIN 356/11 lists updated SDAP levels for active-duty and Reserve component full-time sup-port and qualified selected reserve sailors on active duty. Increases to existing SDAP levels are effective imme-diately and reductions are effective 60 days from release of NAVADMIN 356/11.
Sailors whose SDAP will be eliminated will receive half of their previous SDAP entitlement for 12 months, or until the Sailor completes the tour, whichever comes first.
The SDAP program is an incentive pay ranging from $75 to $450 a month used
to entice qualified sailors to serve in designated bil-lets that are considered extremely difficult or entail arduous duty. Program levels change to reflect the current environment associated with each billet and to sustain adequate manning levels.
In order to qualify for SDAP, sailors must be assigned to and working in a valid billet on the Command Manpower Authorization Listing. This billet must be authorized by the Bureau of Naval Personnel as a spe-cial duty assignment billet. Commands holding SDAP billets are required to com-plete an annual recertifica-tion.
More than 25,000 Sailors currently receive SDAP.
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The Ohio class fleet ballistic missile submarine USS Michigan (SSBN 727) enters into the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard. NAVY FILE PHOTO.
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BREMERTON (NNS) – As USS Nimitz prepares to withdraw from the final stages of Docking Planned Incremental Availability operations, the ship’s crew is making final preparations to successfully get the ship out of Bremerton.
Nimitz’ Bridge Team, which is comprised of a small group of officers and enlisted personnel, have been train-ing diligently to ensure the ship successfully performs its departure from Naval Base Kitsap-Bremerton.
To help guarantee the movement is successful, the Bridge team has established a training plan by utilizing a naval ship-training simulator at Naval Station Everett.
“We have about 10 simula-tors on the west cost,” said Chief Quartermaster Stacey Settles, Afloat Training Group Trainer. “The simula-
tor in Everett is the only one in the Northwest.”
The Navy requires every ship in the fleet to complete a minimum number of train-ing and instructed classroom hours each year, he said.
“Every ship is required to attend at least 40 hours of instruction per year,” said Settles.
Nimitz is currently train-ing under the ‘Ship Only’ category, which means it isn’t training for mandatory hours, but for extra practice. Settles said if the classroom and simulator aren’t being used for the instructed course, they can be used as much as requested for extra practice and training by ships, he said.
“Training is going excep-tionally well,” said Lt. Robert Ward, Nimitz’ Assistant Navigator. “It’s a great way for teams to go in and think
about navigation and getting underway without actually going out and doing it.”
With Nimitz still in DPIA operations and being docked for so long, Ward said it’s good for team members to remove themselves from the maintenance mindset of DPIA and think about the navigational side of things.
“We have about one or two simulator sessions a month,” said Ward. “It’s never as good as the real thing, but this simulator gives us the chance to look back and reflect on the things that we learned during training.”
The training simulator can simulate nearly every situa-tion a ship can run into dur-
ing operations in many naval ports, he said.
“The simulator can do regular daytime operations, night operations, restricted visibly, sand storms, snow storms, rain storms, high seas, high winds, whatever we want,” said Ward.
Ward said the training provides good practice for all types of situations that could occur while Nimitz is at sea.
However, practice isn’t the only thing the Nimitz Bridge Team is looking to gain while conducting training.
“We are trying to build team cohesiveness,” said Cmdr. John Bushey, Nimitz’ Navigator. “One of the rea-sons for the training is to get the Bridge Team work-ing together, but the other is to give some of the young officers the chance to drive the ship and improve on ship handling.”
With Nimitz so close to
departing its current home-port of Bremerton, the team is focusing on a difficult component of the departure, Rich Pass, said Bushey.
“We want to make sure we are working well together and understand the com-plexities of navigating safely through that passage and that together, we all provide our individual pieces to the greater whole as a team,” he said.
Ward said if the Nimitz needed to pull out tomorrow, the team would be ready to go.
“We are always ready and the simulator does help. We are fortunate to have people who were on board before we pulled in and will be here when we pull back out. The simulator keeps the atrophy of those specific skills from settling in,” he said.
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Nimitz readies to leave PSNS
BREMERTON (NNS) – The Naval Base Kitsap Fleet and Family Support Center held a Heroes’ Welcome ceremony honor-ing returning Individual Augmentees at the Jackson Park Community Center in Bremerton, Nov. 14.
“It was important to acknowledge the exemplary service our IAs provide due to the unique way the Navy is called to support the war efforts,” said FFSC Consultant Robin Moeller. “It was also important to acknowledge the significant sacrifice their spouses and families make while their Sailors are serving, as they
too experience this deploy-ment singularly, unlike a “normal” ship or boat deployment.”
Bremerton High School’s Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps paraded the colors to open the ceremony where more than 300 fam-ily members and friends of service members attended the special event. This year there were 20 commands represented and more than 270 names submitted for recognition at the ceremony, including a military working dog and his handler. Each attending IA was given an heirloom-quality handmade quilt from the local Quilts of Valor and American Heroes’
Quilts Organizations.“This is a great celebration
of heroes,” said Rear Adm. Douglass Biesel, commander, Navy Region Northwest. “Welcome home each and every one of you.”
Throughout the ceremony videos honoring return-ing Sailors were played as the Sailors and their family members were recognized.
At the end of the cer-emony, Moeller and other members of FFSC presented information about support systems and tools available to help IAs and their fami-lies. The FFSC’s goal is to assist IAs and their families before, during and following IA deployments.
“I wouldn’t say I’m a hero, I just went over and did my job,” said Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class Michael Lingofelter from Naval Hospital Bremerton. “To me a hero is the guy laying down fire for fellow Marines and that didn’t get the chance to come back to something like this.”
“I want to thank each and every one of the fam-ily members that supported their Sailor in the role of an individual augmentee,” Biesel said. “God bless each one of you here today, and thank the Lord for bringing you home safe and sound.”
Bremerton welcomes home returning sailors
The USS Nimitz pulls into PSNS in Bremerton Dec. 2010. FILE PHOTO
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As the the Army and the Navy’s officer training academies prepare for their 111th football match on Dec. 10, two local military teams prepare to engage in a similar matchup in Memorial Stadium at Bremerton High School. There is that tiny difference of the local soldiers and sailors not wearing pads and playing flag football instead.
Oddly, as the editor of this Navy paper, I am Army veteran. Though the Naval Academy has a few consec-
utive years of victory on the field and a six-game advantage in the overall record during the century of their match-ups, the writing is on the wall regarding Saturday’s local match-up.
Army will trounce Navy.The local outcome is telegraphed
by the gods, or as Army soldiers use to say, “ It’s in the wind.” The specific telltale to which I refer is that an Army General Martin E. Dempsey who just took over as the
chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, replacing Navy Adm. Mike Mullen.
The natural order of things is now in the correct bal-ance and with such resounding vibration, the Army team will own the field, here and in Philly later this month.
Perhaps the United States Military Academy will become inspired by this local Army Navy outcome and return to their streak of Army victories in the 1980s and 1990s.
To flame the fire from behind “enemy lines” I pro-pose a bet. If the local Navy team wins I’ll donate $25 to the Navy Wives Clubs Bremerton 46. If the Local Army wins I will donate $50 to one of the Navy wives very worthy social projects.
$50 bucks on Army
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GREGSKINNER Until Thanksgiving Day, I had
not paid much attention to the Occupy movement. I had followed the news stories and listened to debates for and against the pro-tests. I had struggled to explain to my children the purpose of the campers outside the local library (“Are they having an art show?” “No.” “What’s in those tents?” “People.” “People are living outside the library?”)
But on a daily basis, I had been too busy occupy-ing my job (make that, jobs) to fully understand what the 99-percenters are trying to accomplish.
Then I read an article about Thanksgiving, Occupy-style, and my feathers ruffled, perhaps overly so given that my husband had just left for a deployment, apparently to everyone’s surprise:
Everyone: “But I thought the troops were com-ing home for the holidays. That’s what the president said.”
Me/Buzz Kill: “I’m sure some of them are coming home for the holidays. Many more are leaving.”
By Thanksgiving night, my Facebook feed was filled with status updates from military-spouse friends across the globe missing their deployed service members, and with updates from the service members themselves, who wrote about turkey onboard the aircraft carrier or at a base in Afghanistan. These were interspersed with status updates from civilian friends recounting dinners spent with families intact and husbands at home to watch football and eat leftovers.
As I scrolled down the screen, my emotions alter-
nated between commiseration and jealousy.
Then I saw a link to the news article. It began with accounts of a confrontation between police and protestors at Occupy Wall Street in New York City. Nearly 200 occupiers surrounded 30 police, and, according to the article, one protester shouted, “Why don’t you stop being cops
for Thanksgiving?”Out of context, I might have thought this was a
joke. Stop being a cop for Thanksgiving? Is that an option? Because if it is, I’d like to volunteer my hus-band to stop being a Navy pilot on Thanksgiving, too. And what about Christmas? No one needs pro-tection or security on Christmas anyway, right?
Of course, this can’t happen. Terrorists and other threats to our country don’t take a break for the holi-days anymore than criminals do. Besides, I’m pretty certain police officers are part of the 99%. Many of them don’t have the luxury of taking a day off.
I shook this off and continued reading, pausing only to visit the various Occupy websites, trying to find a FAQs, or at least a discernible mission statement. The movement appears to be quite dis-organized, which increased my annoyance. Here in Bangor, the local occupiers have made extra work for the city’s council members, police officers and other emergency personnel. Again, all of whom likely are not part of the 1%.
As the wife of someone who has made a life
Too occupied to occupyNAVY WISESARAHSMILEY
SEE SMILEY | PAGE 8
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PORT MADISON (NNS) – The Suquamish Warriors and the Suquamish tribe sponsored the annual Suquamish Veterans Honoring at the House of Awakened Culture on the Port Madison Indian Reservation on Nov. 13.
The event is held each year by the Suquamish tribe to honor veterans and aligns with the traditional values of the Suquamish people that promote the importance of hon-oring warriors who return from battles in defense of tribal and American homelands.
“Our veterans are very important to us. I see this honoring ceremony as our sacred duty as a Tribe to honor not only Suquamish veterans, but all veterans who fight for our freedom” said Leonard Forsman, chairman, Suquamish tribe.
Rear Adm. Douglass Biesel, commander, Navy Region Northwest attended the cer-emony and commented on the contributions Native Americans have made to the U.S. Navy.
“Native Americans and the Navy have a long history of working together in the Northwest for the protection and betterment of our nation. It was a privilege to
attend this event that honored Native vet-erans, to hear their stories, and to experience the pride of service that we all share.” said Biesel.
During the month of November, the Navy joins the nation in observing American Indian and Alaska Native Heritage Month.
This month celebrates the cultures, histories and traditions of the indigenous peoples of North America, including parts of Alaska and the island state of Hawaii, and recog-nizes the significant contributions these first Americans made to the establishment and growth of the United States.
“Our veterans and elders were very honored by the presence and words of Adm. Doug Biesel and [Naval Base Kitsap] Executive Officer C.J. Carter at the honor-ing ceremony.” said Forsman. “Adm. Biesel stressed the importance of family support of our overseas military personnel in his remarks and expressed his appreciation of how the Suquamish Tribe publicly demon-strates their support of tribal and other veter-ans through this event and other activities.”
This event, which has been held annu-ally for more than 25 years, was organized by “Lucky” Joe Boyd, Suquamish Tribal Veterans coordinator and Lawerence “Pete” Hawk, Suquamish Warriors president. The ceremony also included performances by the Sacred Water Canoe Family, an intertribal group of coastal singers performing songs and dances with traditional coastal roots, while emphasizing the spiritual meaning behind their performances.
To learn more about the history of American Indians and Alaska Natives and their remarkable contributions to the Navy, visit: www.history.navy.mil.
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WASHINGTON (NNS) -- Now that the Navy has begun notifying the more than 3,000 Sailors impact-ed by Enlisted Retention Boards, six major Navy commands have started a program to aid transition-ing Sailors compete for job opportunities as fed-eral civilians.
The Shipmates to Workmates program - managed jointly by the Naval Sea Systems Command, Naval Air Systems Command, Naval Facilities Command, Naval Supply Systems Command, Commander, Naval Installations, Space and Naval Warfare Command, and the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations - will provide information about career opportunities available at partnering commands and actively assist sailors prepare job applications and resumes.
The participating com-
mands will steer separat-ing sailors, command career counselors and transition assistance coor-dinators to a dedicated Shipmates to Workmates website to facilitate par-ticipation. This website will serve as a “one-stop shop” for sailors seeking to Navy-related employ-ment.
“Finding out that you are being separated from the Navy, will be a sig-nificant blow,” said Rear Adm. Clarke Orzalli, vice commander NAVSEA. “The Shipmates to Workmates program is an opportunity to do what we can to soften the blow, as well as continue to utilize their significant skills for the benefit of the Navy.”
Through the website and other outreach pro-grams, the effort will attempt to demystify the government service hir-ing process, match job supply to demand, link
existing Navy and Defense Department transition support, and assist quali-fied sailors with local hir-ing processes.
“The Shipmates to Workmates program is simply good leadership - this program demon-strates our commitment, as leaders, to our sailors by assisting those being involuntarily separated,” said Cmdr. Pat Sanders, NAVSEA’s lead for the program.
Each of the participat-ing commands will partic-ipate in job fairs and other hiring events for transi-tioning sailors. The first event is a career forum that will be held Dec. 3 from 1100 to 1400 at NSA Bethesda in the Fleet and Family Support Center, Bldg. 11, room 109. Future forums are scheduled at fleet concentration areas throughout the country, including a Dec. 6 forum in Norfolk.
Commands to aid transitions out of Navy
Level cut
Ship’s Serviceman Seaman Albert Sawyer shows Command Master Chief Stan Jewett his haircut in the barber shop aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) Nov. 28, 2011. John C. Stennis is deployed in support of Operations Enduring Freedom and New Dawn. U.S. NAVY PHOTO BY MASS COMMUNICATION SPECIALIST 3RD CLASS LEX T. WENBERG
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WASHINGTON, (AFPS) – Arlington National Cemetery began its first major construction proj-ect in nearly eight years this week with a ground-breaking ceremony for a 20,000-niche columbarium that will extend the life of the cemetery’s inurnment space to 2024.
A columbarium is a structure that holds urns containing cremated remains.
Construction on the cemetery’s ninth colum-barium begins in January, with completion expected in June 2013, said Army
Col. Victoria Bruzese, the cemetery’s chief engineer. The new structure will dwarf the previous eight columbariums, she added, the largest of which con-tains 8,000 niches and the smallest 3,000.
“This will be 540 feet long, 116 feet wide, and at its highest elevation about 11 feet tall,” Bruzese said following the ground-breaking. “We’ll have more than 20,000 niches, which gives us the ability to have three to four inurnments within each niche -- service member, spouse, children -- so we’re looking at more than 60,000 inurnments, so that’s significant.”
The new columbarium will be almost the length of two football fields.
Kathryn Condon, execu-tive director of the Army National Cemeteries Program, told the audi-ence of mostly cemetery grounds-keepers and staff workers that construction of the new columbarium would “extend the life of our inurnment space out to 2024.”
Officials also plan to expand the cemetery’s grounds on two sides by
another 70 acres. That will further extend the cem-etery’s ability to handle inurnments, burials and possibly mausoleums out to the 2050s, Bruzese said. She noted the biggest chal-lenge to overcome will be the lack of attention paid to the infrastructure over the years.
“There are two expan-
sion opportunities here on the horizon -- our Millennium Project, which is a 30-acre combination of land we acquired from Fort Myer and the National Park Service, and already existing [cemetery] land that will increase our in-ground and niche burial capability,” Bruzese said. The second expansion
includes a 40-acre plot that’s now occupied by the Navy Annex on the cem-etery’s south side.
Bruzese said she request-ed the chief engineer position at the cemetery following a deployment to Afghanistan. One rea-son she cited was that her father and her grandfather are inurned there.
“But when I heard about the challenges going on here, I wanted to be part of the solution,” she said. “I think that’s what you’ll find with anybody who’s on the staff here. … They want to be part of the solution in returning the dignity and honor not only to the cemetery, but [also] to the veterans who lie here.”
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WASHINGTON – The Defense Department com-memorated World AIDS Day Thursday with a broad range of activities aimed at helping more than 70 partner militar-ies with their prevention, care and treatment programs.
“Leading with Science, Uniting for Action,” the theme of this year’s world-wide commemoration, describes how U.S. military members work hand in hand with militaries around the world to address the disease, said Matthew Brown, dep-uty director of the Defense Department’s HIV/AIDS Prevention Program.
The Naval Health Research Center in San Diego serves as DOD’s executive agent pro-
viding technical assistance, management and administra-tive support for the program.
DOD has provided partner militaries support, technical assistance and resources for their own programs since 2001. That effort expanded in 2003, Brown said, with the launch of the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, or PEPFAR.
The five-year govern-mentwide program, managed by the State Department, proved so successful that it was extended in 2008 for another five years, through 2013, Brown reported. Meanwhile, its funding more than doubled, from $15 bil-lion -- the largest commit-ment any country had ever made to combat a single dis-ease -- to $38 billion for the second five-year period.
DOD’s role in the broader
U.S. government program, conducted in cooperation with geographic combatant commanders and embassy defense attaches, enhances what Brown calls “health security cooperation.”
It’s critical to promoting security and stability, he said, because governments realize that the prevalence of AIDS weakens governments, mili-taries and economies.
“HIV tackles the youngest, most productive segment of the population, and it hobbles the society’s ability to function,” Brown said. “This is exactly true in the military, because the military draws from this same population that is most at risk for HIV.”
That recognition makes nations eager to become partners in the program. “They want to work with us on HIV because it is such a devastating problem,” Brown said. “They want assistance and they want collaboration with the U.S. government.”
Working with foreign militaries, predominantly in Africa but also in Central and South America, Central Asia and the Pacific, teams assigned to DOD’s HIV/AIDs Prevention Program focus education and prevention.
They spend about 80 percent of their time on the road, meeting with their foreign military counterparts and providing technical assis-tance and support, Brown said.
The scope of the coop-eration varies country by country, from periodic
conferences and meetings to full-time representation on the ground.
But regardless of the size of the individual program, Brown said, partner nations benefit from new research and lessons the U.S. military has learned in identifying, treating and preventing HIV within its ranks.
“We are able to share 25 years’ worth of experi-ence with HIV in the U.S. Department of Defense and in our services with the host country department of defense and their various ser-vices,” Brown said. “What we are trying to do is provide the learning curve.”
While progress continues
in developing an HIV/AIDS vaccine, Brown said the most promising way to address the problem now is through edu-cation and treatment.
“We know exactly how it is transmitted, and we know how to prevent it,” he said. “And it is 100 percent pre-ventable.”
Identifying people who are HIV-positive is an important first step. “The literature shows that if you are affected with HIV and don’t know, you are far more likely to transmit it,” often as much as five-fold, he said. “If you simply know that you are HIV-positive, your transmis-sion risk goes down.”
Another effective preven-
tion tool being promoted by many partner nations is male circumcision. Circumcised males are 30 percent less likely to transmit HIV than those who aren’t, Brown said. “In the absence of a vac-cine, that’s the most effective prevention strategy we have, other than just knowing that you are infected,” he said.
Partner nations share state-of-the-art develop-ments regarding HIV and AIDS during biennial con-ferences sponsored by the Defense Department’s HIV/AIDS Prevention Program. Mozambique will host the next one, scheduled for early May.
Stegherr, deputy public affairs officer for Chief of Naval Personnel.
“The quality of sailors today is extremely high. When the board was conducted, it reviewed every sailor’s person-nel file to determine who would receive the quota,” said Stegherr.
The Navy Department of Personnel completed the last round of reviews of 16,000 per-sonnel files for sailors ranked E4 through E8 Nov. 29. The enlisted
sailors considered for sepa-ration had between seven and 15 years experience. Those 3,000 sailors who did not make the cut will be notified by their com-mands in the upcoming week.
The Enlisted Retention Board was selected in April of this year to prepare for the review. The final results, including names of enlisted sailors to be let go, will be sent directly to the command this week, according to officials.
Command officers will have some time to prepare
breaking the news to the enlisted sailor. The process may include Fleet and Family support programs, financial counseling, and transition assistance, according to Stegherr. Transfers are also a pos-sibility for those enlisted sailors that want to stay in the Navy and are willing to move to an undermanned station such as the subma-rine fleet in Navy Region Northwest.
Enlisted sailors will not know that they have been chosen for separation until they are contacted by their command in the upcoming weeks.
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the 99%.However, fellow 99-per-
centers who are work-ing hard to make ends meet—on regular days and holidays—are not the only people annoying occupi-ers. Apparently the Occupy camps are also frustrated with homeless citizens tak-ing up space and resources.
Whoa! Wait a minute. Aren’t they, more than any-one else, definitely not part
of the 1%? Perhaps the break down
of percentages should be different: there are the haves and have nots, the homeless, and the ones with the tough and thank-less job of enforcing laws and protecting others.
As I read these things on a lonely Thanksgiving night, while missing my deployed husband, I became more sad than angry. All this wasted time, resources and energy, and with no clear goals, is really quite a shame. People donated turkeys and food for the occupiers, who, I would guess, are less than 1% of the 99%. Indeed, the occupiers are entirely sup-ported through donations.
Until the Occupy move-ment has a solid goal and mission statement, imagine the good that could be done if all their time and energy was distributed elsewhere. Like thanking the fire-men who stood watch on Thanksgiving. The police-men who will be on patrol Christmas night. And the military men and women who protect the occupiers’ freedom to protest.
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The school districts in Kitsap County are sensitive to military students’ needs, according to Carrell. The officer works regularly with Greg Lynch, superintendent of Central Kitsap School District, to discuss the specif-ic needs of military kids who are attending Central Kitsap schools. Lynch is a retired U.S. Army officer.
The most common admin-istrative problems that mili-tary children face when mov-ing are different graduation requirements from school to school and transfer of spe-cific course credits.
Danaher recalled that his sons lost the opportunity for elective credits when moving away from their duty station in San Diego.
“When we moved from Coronado, my boys never forgave me, because there you can get surfing credits,” said Danaher.
Curriculum differs dra-matically from state to state as well. An elementary school student learning addition and subtraction may move to a new school whose class has already moved on to divi-sion. In addition, a student enrolled in a gifted program at one school may not be able to jump into a similar pro-
gram at a new school without being retested.
Carrell advocates for military students by inform-ing district schools of the Interstate Compact on the Education of Military Children. The non-binding agreement, which has been signed by 39 states includ-ing Washington, is a pledge by school administrators to give special consideration to military children when dealing with transfer records, inclusion in extra-curricular activities, and dates for entrance testing. For exam-ple, a military student might be allowed to be tested for the gifted program mid-year, so he or she can continue her studies at the new school and not be penalized for having to move.
However, Carrell pointed out that civilian schools can choose whether or not to honor the compact.
“We can’t demand that schools help in these areas, but it helps to know where their efforts are most need-ed,” said Carrell.
Emotional issues are also something that active duty children must deal with when they enroll in a new school.
“After 2001, active duty
families are facing increased deployments and family members asked to do things and go places that they never expected in their careers,” said Carrell.
School counselors at schools throughout Kitsap County are briefed on the specific emotional difficulties students might face during a deployment cycle.
“Sometimes a school might not get it, and the school liaison officer has to translate why certain things are happening and why kids are angry or acting a certain way. And no, we can’t tell you exactly when boats are going in and out,” said Carrell.
Carrell has a mountain of pamphlets, books, materi-als, and diagrams that illus-trate the emotional cycle of deployment, how to talk to children of sailors, and how to recognize signs of distress.
Carrell said that she is amazed at the courage dis-played by even the youngest military kids during her school visits.
“Yes, moving is hard, but children are so resilient, and we are really focusing on that, finding their strength and helping support that in our students,” said Carrell.
“Our kids are learning a new social structure. They learn to introduce themselves to a new group of peers,
maybe six or seven times, often in the middle of the year when things are already set. How courageous does that make them as adults?” said Danaher.
Carrell said that high schoolers at the teen centers at Jackson Park and Bangor show a take-charge attitude at almost every social event hosted by the command.
The teen center offers a book which is created by Navy high school students themselves which include all the best places to shop, hang out, eat, skateboard, or play
music after school. At the Friday night socials,
coordinators learn right away that these kids don’t need any help networking or entertain-ing themselves, according to Danaher.
“They let us know, that’s not what we came here to do. Right now cooking is really popular, so they’ll get togeth-er and start doing that and let us know what they need,” said Carrell.
Families with special-needs children or high schoolers getting ready for college often choose to homestead in the Northwest area. The command will afford special needs families a number of consecutive tours so that they can be near Naval Hospital Bremerton for care and special educa-tion schools while the service member continues their career.
“There doesn’t have to be a school on the base for students to be supported. We build capacity at the 72 schools in the 5 districts
since we can’t be everywhere and work with every student. The counselors then become the point of contact, and every parent can reach me,” said Carrell.
Carrell is gearing up to help the new wave of families on the USS Reagan with pre-registration, school selection, childcare, finding homes in school zones, school bus schedules, gifted and special programs, and even post-sec-ondary alternatives like job corps and apprenticeships.
Some USS Reagan families have already started moving to the area and contacting Carrell for help.
Though it is an immense workload, the liaison officer is invigorated by the flux of new students.
“It feeds my soul to be able to calm the fears of Where will my kid go? Will they fit in? If it’s one less thing for the active duty member to worry about, then I’m happy,” said Carrell.
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ABOARD A U.S. MILITARY AIRCRAFT, – The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Thursday said he under-stands that service members are nervous about looming budget cuts, but will have to be patient as the process moves forward.
Speaking in an interview on his way back from meet-ings with British officials in London, Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey said the Defense Department is pledged to $450 billion in cuts over the next 10 years.
The fiscal 2013 defense budget submitted in February 2012 will answer many of the questions troops have, he said.
That budget, Dempsey said, will take the depart-ment out to fiscal 2017.
“It shouldn’t be lost on anybody that we were hand-ed this bill -- this reduction -- about two months ago,” the chairman said.
“What we’ve been doing is revising our strategy,” he said, “because you can’t just take cuts and do the same things we’ve been doing.”
Fiscal planners are weigh-ing the impact of cuts on the national security strategy and consulting with the ser-vices, combatant command-ers, defense secretary and people at the White House and Office of Management
and Budget, Dempsey said.“Concurrently, we are
doing the mind-numbing work of weighing program cuts and putting a budget together,” he said.
Congress, which under the Constitution is charged “to raise and support Armies,” and “to provide and maintain a Navy,” must be consulted, he noted.
“I know there’s a lot of anxiety in the force. I’m anx-ious,” Dempsey said. “But we’ve got to follow the exist-ing process.”
“If we weren’t having a discussion among ourselves about finding $450 billion worth of reductions, we’d still be having the conversa-tion about implementing the changes we have made in response to 10 years at war,” he added. “We have learned.”
Even if Congress were to give the department all it asks for, the military still would have to examine the strategy, consider threats and make changes, Dempsey said. Any budget discus-sion would look to reinforce changes that improved capabilities, add funding to bridge gaps, and eliminate funding for capabilities no longer needed. The discus-sions also would include considerations of how much capability is needed.
“The budget we’re prepar-ing … has to account for those lessons,” Dempsey said.
In the analysis about what has happened to the mili-tary during 10 years at war and anticipating what type of military will be needed in 2020, he said, clearly, some capabilities must be resourced. Counterterrorism is a big portion of the bud-get, he said, and cyber must be addressed, as the country is vulnerable to state or non-state actors operating in this new domain.
“Could that mean con-ventional forces could be pressured by this budget? Yes,” Dempsey said. “”But we’re going to find that bal-ance between capability and capacity -- what do we need to do and how often do we need to do it.
“One thing I will assure you of is no one is going to write off the possibility of any particular form of con-flict,” the chairman contin-ued. “You can’t say, ‘I don’t think we’ll have a conflict with a near-peer competi-tor, so let’s just ignore North Korea for the next five years and hope for the best.’ That’s impossible. So we’ve got to sustain our high-end con-ventional capability.”
Having the capability to wage conventional-style war-fare remains an important deterrent, Dempsey said.
“We’ve got to have capa-bility along the spectrum,” he said, “but some of the capacity is going to be changed, without question.”
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Dear editor, Your article on the
USS Toro in the Oct. 21 issue of Navy News is most interesting, but it contains several issues that, with respect, I’ll attempt to correct.
First, our top speed (flank) on the sur-face was 24 knots. Submerged was 10 knots. Our above deck armament was one 20 MM gun on the cigarette deck, a twin 40 forward of the con-ning tower, a 5 inch 40 hydraulic recoil deck gun aft of the conning tower and mounts for 50 cal and 30 cal machine guns. The older Gato class boats had a 3 inch 50 deck gun.
The Toro (SS422) had 10 torpedo tubes, 6 forward and 4 aft, and carried 28 torpedoes. The boat’s first patrol was in Bungo Suido, the second in Kia Suido and its third patrol in Bungo Suido, where the incident related in your article occurred.
The Toro had radioed Guam that they were on their way to attempt the rescue of the bomber crew downed off the coast of Japan. Apparently this mes-sage never reached the task force sweeping the coast. Toro was paint-ed by radar so aggres-sively that it sounded like a large orchestra warming up. Effort was made to contact the surface vessels by 10
CM radar (which was used often between U.S. boats on patrol) but it was unsuccessful.
Captain Grant cleared the bridge of all except the duty quar-termaster and himself. We now had a severe storm with seas of 10 feet or more. Finally, the skipper ordered the searchlight turned on and the I.D. code for the current time to be sent. This was done twice. The Captain gave an order to the helm in the conning tower. Because of the storm noise, the helms-man couldn’t hear well and asked for a repeat. When he did, he leaned on the wheel and the hydraulics kicked it to full left rudder. The Captain ordered an emergency dive and he and the quarter-master dropped into the conning tower and secured the hatch. Fire from the fleet dropped into the water along the track that we had been on. If not for the helmsman’s “error” it would have straddled us.
We were now descending at a rapid rate and it was report-ed that when the mas-ter air valve was closed it was jammed shut. Your report states that Toro went to 400 feet. Actually, we dove to almost twice that depth before the air valve was opened and bow buoyancy and negative were blown.
We came up even faster than we went down.
Meanwhile, we had heard the fleet vessels crisscrossing the area above us. Finally, they went away, fortunately before we broached. They found no debris and concluded that they had done a good job.
At war’s end, Toro went to Midway to unload torpedoes, then to Pearl to dispose of other ammunition, and then to New York. It was sent to Newport News for Navy Day and then to Philadelphia to have its engines removed. Finally, Toro was towed to New London for moth-balling.
CDR James Grant commanded the Toro on three patrols, not two. He was a fair and very competent skip-per. Incidentally, I was the duty quartermas-ter during the episode on which you reported.
When my younger brother was dis-charged in San Diego his papers were signed by Captain James D. Grant. I hope he made admiral.
– Thomas E. McCay, ex QM2/c SS USN
Captain James D. Grant
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