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VOLUME 1, NO. 24 | 9 SEPTEMBER 2011

A 52-year-old Kitsap motorist was killed

By KAITLIN STROHSCHEINFor the Kitsap Navy News

A car crash near the intersection of Sedgwick and Long Lake roads in late

Sailor faces charges in traffic fatality

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By Tom Jamestjames@kitsapnavynews,com

Two sailors received category ribbons Friday in the sixth annual Kitsap County Fair

Home Brew Competition, organized by Kitsap’s West Sound Brewers homebrew club.

Warner Scott took home the second place in the Amber/Brown category along with his brewing partner Corey Shoemaker for their entry, Holy Hoppy Red, Batman, while Bobby Hashman received first place in the Porter/Stout category for his Hash Porter.

“When you make it yourself,” said Scott, “you definitely feel good know-ing where it came from.” Of his and his partner’s entry, he said, “I didn’t

name it.”Around 20 to 30 people attended

the event, mostly brewers with entries in the contest. Many brought friends and family to hear brewer Matt Riggs, of Silver City Brewery, announce the results at the business’ new Bremerton brewing facility.

Amid huge stainless steel brewing tanks and bags of grain piled high on pallets, the crowd gathered around a folding table covered in brown bottles, as Riggs, in overalls and rub-ber boots, handed out the ribbons one by one.

The contest featured eight cat-egories of beer: IPA, Amber/Brown, Lager/Hybrid, Porter/Stout, Wheat, Strong, and Other Ale. The latter included fruit beers, beers made with smoked grain, and other specialty beers.

Hashman said the batch he received his ribbon for was the first he had ever brewed, and that the win came as a bit of a surprise.

Although he brewed it from a recipe he got at Olympic Brewing Supplies, he said that factors like fermentation

time and temperature have a signifi-cant effect on the final product.

“It’s a lot like cooking. You’re following a recipe, but you’re add-ing things and taking them away,” Hashman said. Another factor that he said made his beer unique was temperature – “that changed a lot, because I brewed it in my garage.”

Although the event has only been going on for six years, said Sean Brooks, a manager at Olympic Brewing Supplis, the club itself is approaching its twentieth anniversa-ry. Many of the club’s original mem-bers went on to found local beer-relat-ed enterprises, including Hood Canal Brewery, Sound Brewing, Slippery Pig Brewing and Valhöll Brewing, said Brooks.

Scott said he got started brewing about seven years ago, when he was stationed in Hawaii aboard the USS Bremerton. At the time, he said, it was something to do, and since his equipment was limited to a few five-gallon buckets, it was something he was able to take with him when he

Master brewers, salute

Warner Scott shows off the second place ribbon from the Amber/Brown category as his brewing partner Corey Shoemaker shows off their winning entry at the Sept. 2 awards ceremony for the sixth annual Kitsap County Fair Home Brew Competition. TOM JAMES/STAFF PHOTO

Kitsap sailors brew up the best in local beers

for recent contest

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THIS EDITION

Veteran’s Bunkhouse to close Sunday ...................pg. 2

Death at NBK ........pg. 3

A night without power, Sarah Smiley ....................pg. 4

USS Menhaden Mastered the Orient ............ pg. 13

By Tom Jamestjames@kitsapnavynews.com

The Veterans’ Bunkhouse, a Kitsap organization providing medium-to-long-term emergency housing for homeless veterans will close Sunday, Sept. 11, potentially putting its two cur-rent residents onto the street.

Dennis Olds, founder and head of the organization, Tuesday said that the closure comes as a result of dwindling funds and trouble with the owner of the building in which the organization was located.

Although the organization only houses two people currently, Olds said he was waiting to expand before troubles started.

On average, at any given time the facility in its new location was housing about three or four people during summer, said Olds, and more during winter.

Brett Cottingham, an Army National Guard veteran and three-month tenant of the orga-nization, said that he was try-ing to find a room at either the Washington Veterans Home near Port Orchard, or at another area shelter, but that he had been told that he would probably have to wait two months.

“I won’t have a place to stay, so I’ll grab anything I can grab and take with me,” he said. “That means sleeping wherever you can and hoping the cops don’t kick you out.”

Olds said he started the orga-nization in 2008 as a sole propri-etorship. After about a year the organization was having trouble getting funding, he said, and he closed the organization and re-opened as a 501(c)3 nonprofit.

Olds said that members of the Kitsap Veterans Advisory Board advised him that doing so would

make it easier to obtain funding from larger national and federal organizations.

The transition to 501(c)3 sta-tus took about a year, said Olds, after which the organization re-opened in 2009 at a new location, 111 Rainier Ave., where it had a small office adjacent to an apart-ment building in which it rented

space. The organization then sublet the space to individual vets in need on a month-to-month basis, collecting rent either directly from the tenants or from county groups with funding for veterans but no housing facilities of their own.

Olds said he might have been able to keep the facility going if

funding were the only issue, but another tenant of the building had strenuously objected to the presence of the organization, and he had faced delays secur-ing parking and additional rental space from the building’s owner.

Combined, Olds said, it all made day-to-day operations too difficult.

Cottingham said that rules in the facility were strict, including a 10 p.m. curfew and a prohibi-tion on guests in the apartments, it was worth it to have a roof over his head, and he thought it might encourage people to move on once they got on their feet.

Olds said the inspiration for the organization came after he was in the military, and then spent close to a year in military hospitals. During that time, he said he realized that there was nothing set up to help veterans transition out of the military into civilian life. Olds

“Whenever you go into into the military and you’re about 18, you’ve been raised by your parents since then, you really have no living skills,” said Olds. “When you’re released from the service your parents are no long in control of you, the military is no longer in control of you, and you’re in society that has certain demands, and it don’t take long to reach the zero mark. And once you reach the zero mark, you’re in trouble financially and its hard to pull out.”

Olds said he saw it as a niche waiting to be filled. “And I was right, community-wise. I wasn’t right, business-wise.”

Olds said he hopes to re-open at a later date, and that he had opted to put the furniture from the organization’s apartments and office in storage, rather than sell it.

Veterans’ bunkhouse closing

Dennis Olds (above) stands Tuesday in door-way to the former office of the Veterans’ Bunkhouse. The Kitsap housing organiza-tion is scheduled to close Sept. 11

Brett Cottingham and Tim Titterness (at left) in the Bremerton apartment sublet to them by the Veterans Bunkhouse, a local nonprof-it dedicated to housing homeless veterans. Both said they would likely be left homeless after the organization closes Sept. 11.

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A person was found dead of a gunshot wound to the chest in an office building aboard Naval Base Kitsap, Bremerton at 2:09 p.m. Wednesday.

No foul play is suspected in the incident, said Chief Dale Davis, a Navy spokes-man.

Davis said that the Navy is leading the investigation, but that it is coordinat-ing, at minimum, with the Kitsap County Coroner’s office.

Davis said that the gunshot itself was not reported, only the discov-ery of the body, and that without a time of death being determined by the coroner’s office he could not say whether the death occurred when the build-ing was occupied.

Greg Sandstrom, Kitsap County Coroner, said that his office would likely determine a cause of death by midday Thursday

Davis would not say if the body was active duty or civilian, or release any identifying information.

By Tom Jamestjames

@kitsapnavynews.com

Kitsap County’s WorkSource lost 4 per-cent of its Workforce Investment Act funding in July, including funding for services heavily utilized by veterans, and faces further cuts in October, but has so far maintained services for job seekers.

Margaret Hess, Director of Kitsap Worksource said Tuesday the loss of funds came as part of a larger reduction in federal stimu-lus funds initially provided during and after the 2008 recession as layoffs began and the jobless numbers began to climb.

“At one point number of people coming through the door had almost doubled,” Hess said of the the situa-tion at WorkSource in 2008

Since then, Hess esti-mates, the number of people seeking services has dropped by forty percent. Hess said some reduction in funding made sense, given the reduction in

demand.“There was a buildup

during the great reces-sion, and now we need to get back to pre-recession levels.”

Rick Van Cise, com-munications manager at the organization’s Olympia headquarters, said that while he could not yet pro-vide a firm number, the cut amounted to millions of dollars statewide.

October, said Van Cise, would likely bring further cuts.

Exact numbers, Van Cise said, would be released by his office sometime this month.

Hess said WorkSource

Kitsap been able to meet demand for services from walk-in clients, and has also been able to send mailers to everyone in Kitsap receiving federal emergency unemployment funds, to make sure they know what WorkSource has to offer and invite them for a one-on-one visit.

The act set out some rules for state employ-ment assistance centers, including that veterans receive job notices first and have their resumes sent to employers first, said Lou Guarasci, supervisor of WIA programs at Kitsap Worksource.

Hess said that funding

from the act is used to fund a variety of classes, workshops and labs.

Rudy Muriel, lead spe-cialist at the agency, said last month that he teaches some classes funded by the act, and that the classes are very popular with area veterans, including vet-erans from pre-9/11 con-flicts who sometimes have trouble navigating online applications.

Hess said one way funds are preserved is by central-izing services, bringing people in need of certain kinds of help together around a specialist at a cer-tain time in a class or lab setting rather than having specialists or instructors available at all times for one-on-one assistance.

Guarasci said services were also maintained by leaving some vacated posi-tions unfilled and redis-tributing more work to fewer people.

She said she still main-

tained a caseload, even as a supervisor, and that such distributions of work were normal since the cuts.

“Essentially,” Guarasci said, “the services are preserved because there’s less people and there’s less money and it all balances out.”

Hess said that recruit-ment for many of the posi-tions is simply being held until the yearly statewide budget for the agency is announced in October, and any staff cuts are either reversed or made perma-nent.

“It’s easier not to fill positions than to lay people off,” said Hess. Speaking of the distribution of cuts between front-line special-ists working with the pub-lic and cuts to positions in the organization’s Olympia headquarters, Hess said she was confident that “the cuts in the field are going to be less than the cuts in the central office.”

By Tom Jamestjames@kitsapnavynews.com

The Navy and the Port of Port Angeles are in talks over the pos-sibility of relocating as many as six Coast Guard-operated sub escort vessels to the Port Angeles, Mike Nimmo, marine facilities manager at the port said Sept 2.

The talks come as part of a broader cost and efficiency analy-sis of the Navy’s Transit Protection System, a process which itself is still in the early stages, said Navy Region Northwest Spokesman Sean Hughes in an email Friday. Hughes said he could not imme-diately comment on whether any Navy personnel would be relo-cated to Port Angeles, but that the vessels in question are operated by the Coast Guard.

The Transit Protection System’s mission, Hughes said, is to pro-tect surfaced submarines as they transit to and from homeport. By law, Hughes said, subs must transit

inland waters surfaced, he said.Nimmo said that he could not

comment on the progress of the talks, but that his facility had offered six slips for the use of the Navy. Of the six, four would be for vessels permanently stationed there, while two would be set aside for temporary use. Nimmo noted that the port, which also oper-ates John Wayne Marina south of Port Angeles, has a similar lease arrangement there, leasing space to one vessel.

Hughes said that Port Angeles Boat Haven, along with Port Angeles Coast Guard Station, were both under consideration as pos-

sible locations for vessels, but that the larger question was whether such a move would decrease the cost of the program or increase its efficiency.

Neither Hughes nor Nimmo would comment on whether or not John Wayne marina was also under consideration.

Hughes said public hearings had not been held on the issue because discussions, even within the Navy, were still too preliminary. When any decisions were made, Hughes said the Navy planned to follow “all necessary regulatory guidelines to ensure that the public is prop-erly informed.”

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Hurricane Irene was, relatively, nothing more than a big storm when it came through Maine.

But it did bring back memories of our family’s experiences with Ivan, Dennis and Katrina: the quiet, deserted streets; the sound of generators at night; the dark-ness; the worry.

We lived without power for more than a week after those hur-ricanes. (New definition of Hell: August in Florida without air conditioning.) By 10 p.m. Sunday night, however, Irene still had not taken our electric-ity. I was baking cookies and mentioning that the day had felt like a long snow day, with the notable absence of the roof rake and snowblower.

Which doesn’t mean the possibility of losing power wasn’t on our mind. The lights occasionally flickered, and our children stopped mid-bite, their cookies hovering over their plates, to look up at the ceiling.

Losing electricity is a common concern when you are a kid, because on the scariness-scale, being in the dark ranks just below someone reaching out from under the bed and grabbing your ankles.

And really, adults aren’t that fond of the dark either. We only put on a brave face for the children.

Once, when our power sudden-ly went out in Florida, I jumped out of the bathtub and ran through the house screaming and slipping on my own trail of suds. Dustin told me later that I had set a bad example for our boys. Since then, I’ve gotten better about being in the dark.

In fact, when we lost power during a family vacation in New

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moved to Kitsap. The equipment he has acquired since then, though, he said, would probably make another move harder.

After the judging, Scott and Shoemaker popped the top off an extra bottle of their winning batch and poured samples for other attendees, along with, of course, cups for them-selves.

Swirling a small sample of Holy Hoppy Red, Batman in a plastic cup, Riggs, who also sat on the judging panel, sniffed, and said he noticed “piney hopps” and malt in the aroma. After a sip, then another, the pro-nouncement: notes of apples and plum, with good drinkability.

“If you like food, the terminology, you can put that toward beer,” Riggs said.

This year marked the first that the competition received sanction from the Beer Judge Certification Program, after a club member applied to the organization, Riggs said dur-

ing remarks while handing out the ribbons. In addition to increasing the general recognition of the event, Riggs said later, the sanction brought four judges certified by the organization to help with the event.

Hashman, who found the home brewers’ club on the Internet, said he was unsure if he would re-enter the event next year, but that home brew-ing was something he planned to keep doing.

Most of his friends, Hashman said, usually drink Bud, Miller, or other cheap domestic beers. The dominant f lavor in most of those beers is hops, which Hashman said taste bitter to him. Many commercial beers, he added, and even some microbrews, lose f lavor in processing.

Trying his older brother’s homebrew, along with other craft beers, was what made him want to try brewing on his own, he said.

“The taste of the beer is what it’s all about, not getting drunk or getting buzzed, but the taste,” said Hashman. “At least for me, anyway.”

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August left a 52-year-old Southworth man dead and a 23-year-old sailor facing possible vehicular homicide charges.

Peter M. Sedrak of Port Orchard, allegedly drove his vehicle into the back of a car driven by Harold L. Keith, who was pronounced dead at the scene after his car rolled down a 20-foot embankment around 2 a.m. Saturday, accord-ing to a report by the Washington State Patrol.

Both vehicles were traveling eastbound on State Route 160 when Sedrak’s 2003 Infinity G35 hit the back of Keith’s 1990 Geo Prism “at a high rate of speed,” forcing Keith’s car off the roadway, according to the report.

Sedrak’s vehicle veered to the left, struck a guardrail and spun around.

It continued and hit a second guard rail and a housing development sign before stopping on Peppermill Road.

A 27-year-old Port Orchard woman in Sedrak’s vehicle suffered neck and back injuries and was transported by ambulance to Harrison Hospital, according to authorities. A 24-year-old Silverdale man, also in the in the vehicle was uninjured.

Sedrak suffered a head

injury but refused aid.He was initially

booked into the Kitsap County Jail on suspicion of vehicular homicide and his bail was set at $100,000.

He was later released until law enforcement agencies complete an investigation of the acci-dent.

“At the point that (Sedrak) was arrested, we only had the most preliminary of reports,” said Ione George, the chief of case manage-ment for the Kitsap County Prosecutor’s office.

Prosecutors hope to learn the “cause of the accident, who was responsible,” she said, “just the basic facts of what happened that night and how it hap-pened.”

Once the investiga-tion by law enforcement is concluded, George said, the prosecutor’s office may file criminal charges.

Sedrak has no prior criminal history, accord-ing to authorities.

The Washington State Patrol is handling the investigation.

“A fatality collision (investigation) usually takes a month at least,” said Trooper Krista Headstrom, WSP’s local public information offi-cer. It’s “just a matter of waiting,” until results get back to investigators, Headstrom said.

Since he was released from jail, Sedrak has gone back to his job as a missile technician 3rd class on the USS Pennsylvania, stationed at Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor.

“He has been returned to his command, the USS Pensylvania, pend-ing further action by local authorities,” Ed Early, the public affairs officer for Naval Subgroup 9 said.

“The Navy is awaiting civian law enfocrement’s law enforcement action against him before we take legal action our-selves.”

Troopers closed Sedgwick Road for more than six hours following the crash for a prelimi-nary investigation.

During the investi-gation, they found a hand grenade near the vehicles, which a bomb squad later identified as an inert World War II-era “pineapple gre-nade.”

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“Participation by senior leaders in selec-tion boards is paramount to the Navy’s future,” said Navy Personnel Command Force Master Chief Jon Port.

“You should consider it a fundamental duty that when you’re promoted to a cer-tain pay grade, it’s your responsibility to go back and select those who will relieve you.”

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PEARL HARBOR (NNS) – Service mem-bers assigned throughout Hawaii, veter-ans and government leaders attended a ceremony aboard the Battleship Missouri Memorial Sept. 2, commemorating the 66th anniversary of the end of World War II.

On Sept. 2, 1945, Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Fleet Adm. Chester Nimitz, Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu and other leaders from around the world signed the Japanese Instrument of Surrender on board USS Missouri, marking the end of the most destructive war of the modern era.

Rear Adm. Robert P. Girrier, com-mander, Carrier Strike Group 7, served as guest speaker.

“This ceremony is to honor the ‘great-est generation’, a group of Americans who gave of themselves freely to make this world a better place. They faced a world of instability and fierce adversaries with

incredible bravery, courage and personal sacrifice,” Girrier said. “Our Sailors and Marines that serve today are getting the mission done. They don’t blink, they per-form. Their talent and their ability to fight through amidst adversity carries on the spirit of the ‘Greatest Generation’.”

Dr. E. Bruce Heilman, World War II veteran and chancellor of the University of Richmond, offered his thoughts during the keynote address.

“Our presence here calls to mind an even more significant occasion in the life of this battleship. Nothing said or done on this day will ever rise to the momentous impact of what transpired here on this deck 66 years ago,” he said.

“We veterans here today have been for-tunate to live long lives and along with the millions of other young men of that era, we all accepted death as a real possibility, thus, the prevailing consequences of the war provided us with a unique perspective for the rest of our lives,” Heilman contin-ued. “This celebration is a part of bringing closure to whatever shadows remain in the crevices of our mind.”

At the conclusion of the ceremony, a U.S. Navy ceremonial guard fired a salute and echo taps was played by the U.S. Pacific Fleet Band.

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BREMERTON (NNS) – Stennis Beach Detachment’s Senior Chief Fire Controlman Jonas Carter turned what was meant to be an admin hub for USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) Sailors in transi-tion, into a busy volunteer center this month.

“The Stennis Beach Detachment is here pri-marily as administration support for Stennis Sailors in any type of transition,” said Carter. “I’ve learned more about the adminis-tration of a Sailor’s career than I ever thought I would, but we’re also trying to develop things to keep ourselves busy, and I think we’ve done a pretty good job of it this month.”

The Stennis Beach Det, led by Carter, is located in the center of Naval Base Kitsap-Bremerton in build-ing 434. The Sailors spends each morning cleaning the building, but after the ‘Material Condition Hour’ breaks into small groups of

volunteers.Some of the detach-

ment’s Sailors volunteer Tuesdays and Thursdays to renovate a house for an underprivileged fam-ily with Kitsap County’s Habitat for Humanity. The rest spend more than two hours cleaning the detach-ment building and walk throughout Naval Base Kitsap-Bremerton in patrol of street trash. Other proj-ects include various park cleanups and community assistance events through-out Kitsap County.

“It’s no big deal; we’ve been cleaning since day one, so what makes this any different? Cleaning is just part of the Navy,” said Information Systems Technician 2nd Class (SW/AW) Edward Wisener, who recently joined the detach-ment after a nine-month individual augmentee tour in Africa. “I don’t think we

have a lot of free time, but to best utilize our time, we help the community.”

Comprised of more than 30 Stennis Sailors, the Stennis Beach Detachment has personnel who came back from individual aug-mentee (IA) deployments, those who can’t be aboard a carrier for medical rea-sons, and Sailors scheduled to leave the Navy while Stennis is on deployment.

“I could have gone straight from being deployed in Africa to being deployed on the [ship],” said Wisener. “I wake up in the morning and say: Thank God all I have to do is Habitat for Humanity or cleaning a building. I don’t have to work for 16 hours aboard Stennis after I just got done with Africa.”

Because the detachment serves as such an impor-tant stop for Sailors return-ing from IAs, its leadership stays on mission. General military training is con-ducted more than three times per week, physical training is scheduled three times per week to keep Sailors fit, and there’s even time allowed to handle personal, medical, and transfer matters through-out the day.

“I sit down with every Sailor, and I ask the intru-sive leadership questions to find out why they are here, what they have to offer, or what they like to do,” said Carter. “It’s a matter of employing Sailors where their interests lie, so they want to do it. Every day we come up with new com-munity service projects, so we look at it and fit it into our busy schedule. Our work here brings a good sense of pride and camara-derie. Without hesitation, every hand goes up when I ask ‘Who wants to partici-pate?’”

The detachment’s upcoming projects include park, highway and street cleanups, assisting with the Stennis Family Readiness Group End of Summer Barbecue, building a play-ground in Tacoma, joining a community outreach event at Cheney Stadium (Tacoma Rainiers home field), and renovating the detachment’s building.

John C. Stennis Beach Detachment is not just an administrative undertak-ing; it is about representing the pride and professional of the Navy and contribut-ing to the Global Force for Good.

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BANGOR, WASH. (NNS) – The Blue Crew of the Trident ballistic missile submarine USS Louisiana (SSBN 743) welcomed a

new commanding officer Sept. 6.

Cmdr. Paul Varnadore relieved Cmdr. Eric Woelper during a ceremo-ny at Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor’s Deterrent Park.

“What an amazing, rewarding and humbling experience being com-manding officer of the most powerful ship and weapon system that man has ever created,” said Woelper. “Even more

amazing, rewarding and humbling was having the responsibility to lead 150 of the greatest men I know.”

Woelper, who assumed command of the Blue Crew in February 2009, com-pleted four strategic deter-rent patrols during his time aboard Louisiana.

“I take pride in the fact that you have become known as the easiest to work with, most ‘never say never’ crew on the water-

front,” Woelper said. Woelper’s next assign-

ment will see him serv-ing as the senior member of the U.S. Pacific Fleet Nuclear Propulsion Examination Board.

Prior to reporting to Louisiana, Varnadore was stationed in Perth, Australia, where he served as an exchange officer with the Royal Australian Navy. Varnadore spent time on the staff of Commander,

Australian Submarine Force in the areas of weap-ons tactics and tactical development. He previ-ously served as Blue Crew executive officer of USS Tennessee (SSBN 734) and was also assigned to USS Maine (SSBN 741) and the attack submarine USS Oklahoma City (SSN 723).

“As you know, our mis-sion never stops and we have important work to continue,” said Varnadore.

“Our nation relies on us to demonstrate our credibility for strategic deterrence. I give you my solemn prom-ise that I will do my best to help us accomplish our mission while taking care of you and your families.”

Louisiana is one of eight Ohio-class Trident bal-listic missile submarines stationed at Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor, providing the survivable leg of the nation’s deterrent forces.

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Pride Day

Chief petty officers and chief petty officer selects commemorate Chief Petty Officer Pride Day with a formation aboard the USS Midway Museum Sept. 7, 2011. More than 2,000 chief petty officers and 400 chief petty officer selects assigned to Navy Region Southwest participated in the event. U.S. NAVY PHOTO BY MASS COMMUNICATION SPECIALIST 3RD CLASS TRAVIS K. MENDOZA

know the lights won’t work. (What’s up with that?) It’s eating cold cereal and reaching into the fridge super fast so that you don’t let cool air escape. It’s searching for flashlights and then realizing your children have used up all the batteries during lightsa-ber duels.

I did not want to lose power.

Then Lindell started crying.

Lindell: “What happens if we lose power?”

Me (eyeing light fixture): “Then Mommy can’t make any more cookies. That is all.”

Lindell: “Who will fix the expricity?”

Me: “Electricity?”Lindell: “Yes, the expric-

ity.”Me: “Men and women

from the power company will come during the night and fix the lines, and then we will have lights again.”

Lindell accepted this last reassurance, and about an hour later, he fell asleep.

That’s when the power went out.

Dustin found some flickering, battery-operated pumpkin lights and set them on the dresser. I rubbed my eyes as they adjusted to the new condi-tions. Then I lay in my bed, staring in the direction of the ceiling and hoped that the recorded message from the power company - the

one saying to expect days-long power outages - was wrong. When I went to the bathroom, I flipped the switch and cursed myself. Eventually I fell asleep.

The next morning, the lights were on.

Me: The lights went out last night, Lindell, and you didn’t even know it.

Lindell (eyes wide): Did the invisible men come in the middle of the night to fix it? Did they come in our house while we were sleeping?

I realized Lindell thought the power com-pany was something like Santa Claus or the Tooth Fairy. And I can see how that might be a little scary to a 4-year old.

I took him outside and showed him the cables stretching across the tele-phone poles and to our house. I told him that brave men and women- real ones, not invisible ones - get in special cranes on trucks and fix the lines so that we can have light.

I didn’t know if Lindell was disappointed or relieved. Probably a little of both.

But isn’t that the way with most of modern-day’s “expected” utilities? We don’t think about electric-ity until we lose it.

We don’t think about men and women who work on the lines until we need them. We complain about the lights being out, then we forget to marvel at how quickly they return.

While we are waking up and starting our day, the people who brought us restored light are crawling into bed after a night’s hard work.

Much like the military, it’s a service that goes unnoticed and under-appreciated until we need it.

Today, Lindell and I are both grateful and amazed.

appraised its cryptologic technician (mainte-nance) training.

During the review, fleet subject matter experts identified more than 35 tasks and equip-ment that needed to be added to the training curriculum and because of these needs, CID’s “A” School, “C” Schools and Apprentice Technical Training Course were modified to meet chang-ing fleet requirements.

A Center for Seabees and Facilities Engineering’s (CSFE) assessment revealed redundancies in train-ing and inconsistencies of when Seabees could expect to attend spe-cialized courses while progressing through their careers. The HPRR resulted in CSFE estab-lishing core training areas per rating that can be achieved through a combination of formal training, accelerated training and/or person-nel qualification stan-

dards (PQS).During a Center for

Surface Combat Systems 2010 HPRR cycle, more than 100 PQS books and rate training manuals were reviewed.

As a result, 30 books have been targeted for updates, and five addi-tional books have been slated for development. But, an effective train-ing review doesn’t hap-pen without aggressive fleet participation from Sailors like you.

The Navy needs moti-vated and dedicated Sailors who will step up to the challenge and provide insight and input to help shape how their community is trained.

Remaining at the tip of the spear calls for us all to remain vigilant and flexible - and ready! – at all times.

Bravo Zulu to all of you for all of your hard work and dedication that you put in every day to make our Navy a “Global Force for Good.” HOOYAH!

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BREMERTON, WASH. (NNS) – Naval Hospital Bremerton and Naval Hospital Oak Harbor con-ducted mass vaccination field training Sept. 6-7.

The two-day shot exer-cise, concentrated on all Naval Base Kitsap, Naval Station Everett, Naval Magazine Indian Island and Naval Air Station Whidbey Island shore-based active duty service members, along with acti-vated Reservists and criti-cal civilian personnel such as health care workers, federal fire department, Department of Defense police and base security.

“Our main focus in holding this type of exer-cise is to enable us to pro-tect our staff as well as our patients here at NHB. The same concept holds for all of our active duty person-nel throughout the Navy Region Northwest. If they are protected, they prevent the spread of influenza and above all, improve our overall readiness,” said

Tom Shirk, NHB infection preventionist coordinator.

Approximately 7,500 regionally based personnel have received their vac-cination on the first or will by the end of the second in this two day exercise at major sites. The West Sound sites are located on NBK Bremerton, NBK Bangor and Naval Hospital Bremerton, while the East Sound sites are located at Naval Station Everett and Naval Air Station Whidbey Island. Afloat and opera-tional forces’ personnel, such as those assigned to ships, submarines and squadrons are on track to schedule their own vac-cination evolutions and are not included in this year’s SHOTEX.

“This exercise gives us a good hard look to see if we can activate multiple points of distribution sites to sup-port and sustain over an extended period of time,” said Terry Lerma, NHB medical treatment facility emergency manager.

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MILLINGTON, TENN. (NNS) – The Navy recently launched an Exceptional Family Member Program enrollment and tracking application on the Navy Family Accountability and Assessment System.

The EFMP application adds an electronic enroll-ment capability for the Navy’s Exceptional Family Member Program and allows service members to track the progress of the enrollment process.

The initial phase will only allow new enrollees to use the system. The next phase, which is due out by the end of the year, will allow access to all enrollees of the EFMP.

“This new enrollment and tracking system is

based on input from the Fleet and replaces the Navy’s legacy paper-based enrollment system,” said Cmdr. Carl Chaffin, pro-

gram management officer for the Exceptional Family Member Program.

According to Chaffin, electronic enrollment will

benefit sailors by expedit-ing the submission, review and final determination of enrollment.

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FORT MEADE, Md. – Most of the young men and women process-ing this week through the Baltimore Military Entrance Processing Station here were too young to understand exact-ly what was happening when terrorists launched the 9/11 attacks on the United States a decade ago.

Steven Schmitz, the son of a retired Marine now following in his father’s footsteps, was a fourth-grader at the time in Stafford, Va.

“The whole school went on lockdown, but they didn’t tell the students what was happening,” he recalled. “It was all confus-ing for me. It was a very scary day.”

Schmitz’s fears were compounded when he arrived home and saw TV images of the twin

towers collapsing in New York. He didn’t see his own father, stationed at the time at Marine Corps Base Quantico, Va., for a solid week. Soon after, he watched many of his friends’ parents deploy into combat, and the deploy-ment train has never stopped.

Ten years later, Schmitz is among the “9/11 genera-

tion” that grew up under-standing the threat terror-ism poses to the United States.

And by electing to join a military that’s been at war for almost a decade, he’s among what Army Lt. Col. Christopher Beveridge, the Baltimore MEPS station commander, calls a “1-per-center.”

Less than 1 percent of Americans volunteer to serve their country in uniform, Beveridge told a recent group of recruits as they took their final tests and physicals before enter-ing the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps and Coast Guard.

“You are part of a very elite group,” Beveridge said. “It speaks volumes about your character.”

Running one of the

country’s busiest MEPS sta-tions, Beveridge processes about 6,000 new members into the military every year. Many, he said, are attracted by career and educational opportunities.

“But for the vast major-ity, there’s a patriotic ele-ment there,” he said. “We all watch the news every day and know what’s going on in the world. And these young men and women, they want to serve.”

That propensity is reflected in the quality of recruits now entering the military, Beveridge said. Almost all are high school graduates. Many receive top scores on the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery of tests. Waivers have become few and far between.

“Recruiters are able to be extremely selective,” Beveridge said.

Sitting alongside doz-ens of other young men and women at the MEPS doing final preparations before she ships off to basic training Sept. 12, Mary McDonald serves as a distinguished example of today’s recruits.

With a degree from Columbia University under her belt, along with an internship at the presti-gious Center for Strategic and International Studies think tank, McDonald knew she had a lot of

career choices.But at age 24, she knows

exactly what she wants. “I can’t think of anything bet-ter than to lead soldiers, period,” she said.

Her goal, she explained, is to complete basic train-ing and get accepted into Officer Candidate School. Her dream is to become an Army military intelligence officer.

Like most of today’s recruits, McDonald said the 9/11 attacks shaped her worldview and her decision to join the military.

She was a high school freshman in Hastings-on-Hudson outside New York City when terror-ists launched the attacks. McDonald recalled that she was in biology class, hearing loudspeakers call students by name to the principal’s office and TVs being rolled into the class-rooms.

In the days that followed U.S. flags appeared every-where – on houses and on cars, McDonald recalled.

“There was a huge out-pouring of support,” she said. “It reflected the fun-damentals of the America spirit, that we can over-come this.”

Looking back, McDonald expressed regret that her generation was considered too young to be a part of that effort.

“We weren’t asked to do

anything,” she said. “So now, I want to make a con-tribution. My generation is very eager to serve. We just want an opportunity.”

The 9/11 attacks “very directly affected my world-view,” McDonald said. And events under way now, including military opera-tions around the world, she said, will shape America’s foreign policy for the fore-seeable future.

For Schmitz and some others at the MEPS, mili-tary service is a family tra-dition. Seventeen-year-old Corey Cooper, just enter-ing his senior year at a high school, said he wants to be a Marine like his dad. He joined Air Force Junior ROTC and elected to join the Marines under the delayed entry program.

“I already knew my deci-sion. I had my mind made up,” Cooper said.

Twenty-two-year-old Calvin Sterrett had just received his nursing degree in June from Baltimore’s Sojourner-Douglass College when he opted to join the Navy Reserve.

Sterrett said his friends thought he was “crazy” for entering the military. But he was intrigued by the opportunity to travel and learn new skills as an operations specialist, and he decided to sign on.

“I’m ready to go,” Sterrett said.

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The submarine USS Menhaden (SS-337) was just starting its career when the war with Japan ended. But one famous admiral put the boat in the history books late in 1945.

Menhaden, named after a marine fish of the herring family, was laid down by Manitowoc Shipbuilding Co., of Manitowoc, Wis., and was commissioned there June 22, 1945.

Displacing 2,424 tons submerged, the Balao-class boat was 312 feet in length and had a draft of 15 feet. Top speed was 20 knots on the surface, but only 9 knots underwater.

Below the waterline were 10, 21-inch torpedo tubes, Topside gunners manned one, 5-inch gunmount and one, 40mm antiaircraft gun. A total of 66 sailors called Menhaden their home.

At the time of its com-missioning, the ship was manned by sailors of the previous USS Darter (SS-227). Menhaden sailed for sea trials in Lake Michigan until July 15 when it returned to Manitowoc and was placed aboard a barge for shipment down the Mississippi to New Orleans. Once returned to the water, the subma-rine conducted exercises and trainnig near Balboa, Panama during the final days of the war with Japan. It cruised to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii for duty with Submarine Squadron 19.

It was Sept. 24, 1945 when CINC-PACFLT Adm. Chester Nimitz selected Menhaden as his flagship for his change of command ceremony as he passed fleet command to Adm. Raymond Spruance topside on Menhaden at Pearl Harbor.

Nimitz chose the newer submarine for the cer-emony because he said it combined old and new. Menhaden was equipped with the latest improve-ments in submarine design and equipment. The old was the experienced and battle-tested crew who

previously served aboard Darter. At the end of the ceremony, Nimitz departed the submarine for duties as the Navy’s Chief of Naval Operations.

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Menhaden was recom-missioned again March 6 of the following year, and joined Submarine Squadron 3 at San Diego June 12. The boat departed Sept. 21, for the Far East. Operating out of Yokosuka, Japan, Menhaden’s duties took it to the East and South China Seas until Feb. 11, 1954, when it was ordered back to San Diego, arriving March 23.

For the next year and a half it operated in the east-ern Pacific participating in fleet readiness exercises and type training assign-ments. It was Aug. 18, 1955 when the submarine began its second deployment to the Western Pacific where it joined and supported the Taiwan Patrol Force until returning to the West Coast Feb. 17, 1956.

Menhaden completed six more deployments in the troubled waters of the Far East as a unit of Submarine Division 32. It cruised from Japan and Taiwan to the Philippines and Australia. This included surveillance and reconnais-sance patrols off Korea and later Vietnam in an attempt to thwart the spread of communism in that region.

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September 71976 – President Jimmy Carter signed

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Squadron 11are lost in what becomes known as the Disaster at Devil’s Jaw, when they run aground in heavy fog at Point Pendernales, known as the Devil’s Jaw, off Santa Barbara, Ca. Twenty two lives were lost, along with the ships USS Chauncey, USS Delphy, USS Fuller, USS Nicolas, USS S.P. Lee, USS Woodbury, USS Young. None of the seven were sal-vageable.

1991 – Navy Lt. Paula Coughlin, a helicopter pilot serving as an admiral’s aid, reports she was groped during festivities at the annual meeting of the Tailhook Association in Las Vegas, Nev., beginning one of the worst scandals in Navy history. The Naval Investigative Service ultimately identified 26 women as possible assault victims and 10 offi-cers suspected of criminal behavior. A separate investigation by the Inspector General of the Department of Defense

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September 91813 – The Battle of Lake Erie took

place, with nine American ships meet-ing six British ships on the lake. The American ships were led by 28-year-old Commodore Oliver Perry, the British by Commodore Robert Barclay, a one-armed veteran of the Battle of Trafalgar. Perry fought the British alone for two hours until, his flagship out of ammuni-tion, he rowed to another vessel, with which he proceeded to break the British line. The victory gave American forces control of Lake Erie and the opportunity to re-take Detroit.

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WASHINGTON, SEPT. 6, 2011 – Nine-year-old Zachary Laychak walked into his house after school one day to a house full of family and friends.

A fire had broken out at the Pentagon, they told him calmly, and they were waiting to hear from his father, who worked there as a civilian budget analyst for the Army. He felt a twinge of concern, but quickly dismissed the thought that something bad had hap-pened.

“He’ll be fine,” Laychak thought. “He always is.”

Two days later, two men came to deliver the devas-tating news: 40-year-old David Laychak was one of the 184 people who had died Sept. 11, 2001, when American Airlines Flight 77 crashed into the Pentagon. It was nearly a decade ago, he said, but the moment remains vivid.

His mother sat him and his 7-year-old sister down and told them their father had been killed. They screamed and sobbed as the news sunk in.

“I remember my mom saying it was the hardest thing she’d ever had to tell,” said Laychak, now a 19-year-old college student. “For me, at least initially, I felt disbelief. I couldn’t understand how it could happen.”

As Laychak struggled to come to terms with his loss, Americans struggled to comprehend the extent of damage to the nation. Terrorists had taken nearly 3,000 innocent lives here and in New York and Pennsylvania. They destroyed and damaged buildings and shook the nation’s sense of security to its core.

But to a 9-year-old who had just lost his dad, the attacks weren’t a national incident; they were a per-sonal affront.

“I couldn’t understand what would make some-one want to do this to my dad,” Laychak said. “I was just angry, so mad.” The

attacks, he added, changed the course of his life for-ever.

He lost, not only his father, he said, but also his best friend. Bonded by a love of sports, his father, a former college football player, would rush home each day so they could toss a football out in the front yard. His dad coached every sport he played, he added, whether it was basketball, baseball or lacrosse.

Laychak could hardly believe his strong, capable father was gone, he said. He recalled leaving his house that afternoon and heading over to a friend’s house across the stre et for a sleepover. He woke up at around 6 a.m. and peeked out the window at his house. Relief washed over him when he saw his dad’s car parked in the driveway. He later found out his aunt had driven his dad’s car home.

In the wake of his dad’s death, Laychak tucked his feelings aside to focus on his family. He assumed the “man of the house” role to take care of his mother and sister, he said.

“It definitely made me mature a lot quicker,” he said. “I figured things out on my own and tried to just be there for my mom and sister.”

But along with this maturity came a growing

sense of isolation. He felt like an oddity at school and was flooded with questions upon his return. Close friends shielded him, he said, in a surprising show of maturity for a group of 4th graders he had met less than a year earlier.

As time passed, his ini-tial anger evolved into a deep sense of patriotism -- born of resentment against those who dared to attack his nation and his family.

“I became a fan of us fighting these battles overseas,” Laychak said. “It made me proud that America didn’t just let the attacks happen [without responding].”

He also focused on keep-ing his father’s memory alive. He bought a silver

bracelet engraved with his father’s name, which he rarely takes off. And whatever sport he plays, he wears the No. 4 in honor of his father, who wore that number when he played football at Brown University.

His house is strewn with pictures of his dad in his college uniform, along with a framed No. 4 jersey given to him from his dad’s alma mater.

Laychak now is estab-lishing college memories of his own. He’s studying communications at the University of Arizona and plans to pursue a job with a sports organization. He even chose the college in memory of his father, he said, who took him to sports events when they

lived in the area.He’s also heavily

involved with the Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors, an organization for military families of the fallen, as well as Tuesday’s Children, an organization that provides support for children of 9/11 and oth-ers impacted by global terrorism.

Laychak’s uncle, Jim Laychak, also is intent on keep-ing alive the memory of his brother, as well as all victims of the Pentagon attack. He spearheaded the fundraising and creation of the Pentagon Memorial, a serene spot next to the Pentagon that features an engraved bench for each of the 184 people killed there.

The years have soothed much of his anger related to that day, Zach said.

Still, he rejoices in each victory in the war on ter-rorism. One of the happiest moments he’s had since his father’s death, he said, was when Osama bin Laden, the mastermind of the 9/11

terrorist attacks, was killed in May.

“I felt pure joy and happi-ness,” he said. “I had friends from high school calling me. Even they knew it was something important to me.”

As the 10th anniversary of 9/11 draws near, Laycheck said he’ll remember his father with love and pride.

“As terrible as this whole situation was, I know he was a very patriotic person and that he died serving his country,” he said.

“That’s a way he would have been proud to go.”

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