African-American/Black History Month observance ... NAS Pensacola is scheduled to hold its annual African-American/Black History Month program at the Naval Aviation Schools Command auditorium Feb. 28 at 11:30 a.m. Guest speaker for the event will be NASP Commanding Officer Capt. Keith Hoskins. For more information, contact SH1(SW/AW) Lajoy Battle at 452-4755.
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NASP to conduct exercise Solid Curtain-Citadel Shield 2014 complex personnel and visitors should factor in additional time for getting Naval Air Station (NAS) Pensacola, through gates to conduct business on the Corry Station and Saufley Field will par- bases. Vehicle drivers and passengers ticipate in Exercise Solid Curtain-Citadel should carry proper identification with Shield 2014; a force protection exercise them at all times. Local area residents may that will be conducted by also see increased military acCommander, U.S. Fleet EXERCISE tivity and possible traffic conForces Command and Comgestion associated with the mander, Navy Installations exercise. Command on all continental Naval Hospital Pensacola United States naval installawill have some participation tions from Feb.18 through in the exercise, but services at Feb. 28. the hospital will not be afThis annual exercise was fected. developed to enhance the Citadel Shield is a regularly training and readiness of scheduled exercise and is not Navy security personnel while establish- being held in response to any specific ing a learning environment to exercise threat. functional plans and operational capabilFor more information or for media inities. terested in covering this event, contact During last year’s CNIC force protection exercise, Citadel Shield 2013, an active During the Solid Curtain-Citadel NAS Pensacola Public Affairs, 452-4379, shooter scenario takes place at the training village onboard NASP Corry Station. Shield 2014 exercise, NAS Pensacola 452-4436 or 452-2552. Photo by Alex Sharp
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NASP joins with Navy, community collaborate to create new artificial reef Pen Air FCU as part of Military Saves Week By Jacqui Barker NSWC PCD Office of Corporate Communications
From Pen Air FCU
As part of Military Saves Week 2014, scheduled for Feb. 24March 1, NAS Pensacola Fleet and Family Support Center (FFSC) is spreading the savings message and urging the community to participate in Military Saves Week – and take the Military Saves pledge. “Military Saves Week is a great opportunity to help service members and their families in our community to ‘Set a Goal, Make a Plan, and Save Automatically,’ ” said NASP Command-
ing Officer Capt. Keith Hoskins, quoting the 2014 Military Saves Week theme. To help service members save more successfully and encourage them to save, FFSC is partnering with Pen Air Federal Credit Union (FCU) to offer military families (and DoD civilian employees) assistance. Information for the program can be obtained online at www.military saves. org or at www. penair. org. Military Saves brochures are available at any Pen Air
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Angela B. Smith and Joseph B. Henderson, financial educators from NAS Pensacola’s Fleet and Family Support Center (FFSC), flank NASP CO Capt. Keith Hoskins as he signs the 2014 Military Saves Week proclamation.
PANAMA CITY – Despite unseasonably frigid temperatures, U.S. Navy and Bay County personnel placed the last of 144 tons of concrete piling Jan. 31, and created a new artificial reef off the coast of Panama City Beach. The initial load of concrete was placed in a prescribed location at sea Jan. 29. Plans were to drop two additional sets of concrete pilings in the following days, but an ice storm shut down base operations onboard Naval Support Activity Panama City (NSA PC) and most of Bay County until the late morning of Jan. 30. The new artificial reef was built with materials of opportunity
Travis Johnson (left) and Ron Barnes, both Naval Support Activity Panama City (NSA PC) Public Works Department (PWD) employees, remove a safety block prior to offloading concrete pilings off the coast of Panama City Beach Jan. 30. Photo by Ron Newsome
which happen to be one of two types of materials preferred for artificial reef construction, according to Bay County Planning and Zoning Artificial Reef Coordinator Allen Golden. The materials were
owned by Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City Division (NSWC PCD). “Concrete and steel are preferred
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Navy Exchange (NEX) to host Black History Month event Feb. 22 From Andrea Beck NEX Special Events Coordinator
The Pensacola Navy Exchange (NEX) at Corry Mall will present a Black History Month celebration, “Black History Awareness 2014,” Feb. 22 from noon Ora Wills takes the podium at NEX’s 2013 Black Histo 1:30 p.m. Highlights include a sec- tory Month event. ond appearance by mem- was Colored.” Local artists will also bers of the African American Heritage Society have their works featured, of Pensacola, which will and there will be vendor bring several local stories to demonstrations as well. For more information, life with readings from the book, “When Black Folks call 458-8250.
By Jason Bortz NHP PAO
March 29 half marathon and 5K has rock ’n’ roll theme
The first-ever Blue Angels Rock N Fly Half Marathon and 5K (3.1 miles) is scheduled for March 29 aboard NAS Pensacola, and it promises to bring out the hidden rocker in everyone. Both races will start at 8 a.m. and the courses will be entirely on NAS Pensacola. All proceeds from the event will go to the Navy and Marine Corps
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