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NASP Black History Month observance ...

NAS Pensacocla (NASP) will hold a Black History Month Celebration Feb. 23, in Bldg. 1504 (across from Bldg.1500 NASP Headquarters) from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. The guest speaker will be FORCM(AW/SW/FMF) Mamudu K. Cole. The NASP Diversity Team would like to invite all active-duty and retired military personnel, their dependents and civilian employees to attend. For more information, contact AC1(AW/SW) Chad Bradley at 452-4671.

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Fleet readiness starts with training excellence Navy training commands recognized with TEA From Naval Education and Training Command Public Affairs

Naval Education and Training Command (NETC) recognized commands for their accomplishments through the 2017 Training Excellence Awards (TEA) program Feb. 6.

Ten learning centers and three training support centers are eligible for acknowledgment of superior performance in the annual program.

“The entire NETC team is working hard to be better, faster and more effective in how we deliver training to the fleet to win in today’s competitive environment. Our learning centers are continuing to provide our Sailors with the training they need as they progress through their careers,” Rear Adm. Kyle Cozad, NETC commander said. “I am incredibly proud of the amazing amount of work that goes into this effort from our instructors and the staffs who support the entire training process.”

Nine areas for learning centers and

seven areas for training support centers are evaluated for functional merit awards.

When commands score 90 percent, they earn a “T” certificate for that category.

The learning center with the highest score in all the functional areas receives the Training Excellence White “T” award, and the overall winner for the training support centers receives the Training Excellence White “TS” award.

The 2017 overall award winners are: NETC Training Excellence (White “T”) • Center for Information Warfare Training, NASP NETC Training Support Excellence (White “TS”) • Training Support Center Great Lakes, Ill. These two commands receive a blue burgee to display throughout the 2018 calendar year to indicate their outstanding accomplishments and excellence in See TEA on page 2

Firefighters Logan Rodgers (left) and Ryan Gorman (right) test Engine 625’s water turret. Rodgers and Gorman are part of Fire & Emergency Services Gulf Coast, winners of the CNRSE Fire Department of the Year for being the best fire department in the Navy Southeast region.

F&ESGC awarded CNRSE Fire Department of the Year Story, photo

by Kaitlyn Peacock Gosport Staff Writer

Naval Air Station Pensacola’s (NASP) Fire & Emergency Services Gulf Coast (F&ESGC) recently won

the Commander Navy Region Southeast (CNRSE) Fire Department of the Year. This award recognizes the department as being the best in the Southeast region. F&ESGC services See F&ESGC on page 2

Navy College scheduler tool improved, added to My Navy Portal

By Navy College Program Public Affairs

The Navy College Program (NCP) announced Feb. 12 that the self-service Navy College Appointment Scheduler tool available via the NCP website has been enhanced and added to My Navy Portal (MNP).

According to Christy Minshew, Voluntary Education (VOLED) Appointment Scheduler pro-

gram manager at the Navy College Virtual Education Center, the improved self-service scheduling tool includes several upgrades. The new version allows all Sailors to directly schedule academic counseling appointments with the Navy College Virtual Education Center (NCVEC), and OCONUS Sailors can schedule counseling appointments at their respective Navy College Offices. Overseas Sailors can also

Reminder on rules and regulations: No drone flying onboard NAS Pensacola

By Ens. Lewis Aldridge NAS Pensacola Public Affairs Office

Naval Air Station Pensacola (NASP) Commanding Officer Capt. Christopher Martin would like to remind everyone both onboard and around the base that an understanding of the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) rules and regulations regarding the usage of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) is necessary in our ever-changing technologically advanced world.

NASP is considered a NO DRONE ZONE. This means that unless specific written approval has been provided from the commanding officer, nobody, whether civilian or military, should be operating a UAS onboard the base.

There are multiple tools, which can be referenced when determining the ability to operate a UAS in a specific area. The first place to visit would be the website faa.gov/uas. This webpage will help any drone user determine the category of See No Drones on page 2

schedule either an academic test (SAT and ACT) or a Defense Language test.

“The old NCP rapid scheduler was more of a manual process, where the new NCP/MNP scheduler allows increased functionality by all Navy College counselors; they can now see and manipulate their schedules, including access to the system by overseas Navy College See Navy College on page 2

CNATT celebrates 15th birthday From Center for Naval Aviation Technical Training Public Affairs

The Center for Naval Aviation Technical Training (CNATT) headquarters staff celebrated the organization’s 15th birthday with a luncheon and cake-cutting ceremony at the Naval Air Station Pens a c o l a (NASP) Morale, Welfare and Recreation (MWR) Portside Entertainment Complex Feb. 8.

CNATT serves as the aviation training arm of Naval Education and Training Command (NETC) and the Naval Aviation Enterprise (NAE) overseeing 28 learning sites located throughout the continental

United States, Hawaii and Japan.

“We’re in the business of getting the best, most capable and highly trained Sailors and Marines out to their ultimate duty stations to continue the tradition of excellence Naval Aviation has historically embodied,” Capt. Eric J. Simon, CNATT commanding officer said.

“Each and every service member and civilian employee who is part of the CNATT team is playing a critical role in the success and legacy of our Navy’s aviation assets, the most important of which are the Sailors and Marines going through the See CNATT on page 2

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NASP personnel witness Roy Jones Jr’s last professional bout

By Greg Mitchell NAS Pensacola Public Affairs

It ended as Roy Jones Jr. had said that he wanted it to end; in front of his hometown of Pensacola. Showing flashes of his once-dominant self, Jones (66-9, 47 KOs) notched another win over journeyman Scott Sigmon (30-12-1, 16 KOs), 30, of Lynchburg, Va., via 10-round decision in a cruiserweight bout held at the Pensacola Bay Center Feb. 8.

Jones, who won 98-92 on all three scorecards, turned 49 Jan. 16, and entered the match having sustained a torn bicep muscle during training, but performed solidly against a game but limited Sigmon. The fight was a part of the locallyproduced boxing and mixed martial arts (MMA) “Island Fights 46” event under the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) banner.

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delivery of education and training.

The eligible learning centers are choreographing training for around 28,000 students daily at subordinate commands and detachments throughout the U.S. as well as overseas.

The training support centers provide training and management services for about 10,000 students every day, as well as to the staff at learning center detachments and sites they support.

Local awards include: Business Administration and Support (Yellow “T”): • Center for Information Warfare Training, Pensacola • Center for Naval Aviation Technical Training, Pensacola Planning and Programming (Silver “T”): • Center for Explosive Ordnance Disposal and Diving, Panama City • Center for Information Warfare Training, Pensacola • Center for Naval Aviation Technical Training, Pensacola Total Force Management Award (Red “T”): • Center for Explosive Ordnance Disposal and Diving, Panama City • Center for Information Warfare Training, Pensacola • Center for Naval Aviation Technical Training, Pensacola Logistics Management Award (Blue “T”): • Center for Explosive Ordnance Disposal and Diving, Panama City • Center for Information Warfare Training, Pensacola • Center for Naval Aviation Technical Training, Pensacola Information Technol-

Naval Air Station Pensacola (NASP) Morale, Welfare and Recreation (MWR) provided service members, department of defense (DoD) civilians and their families the opportunity to see the fight live for free by providing a limited amount of tickets for admission. Several servicemembers and their families took advantage of the chance to see a future boxing hall of famer perform one last time in the ring.

Jones began his meteoric climb to pugilistic fame during the 1988 Olympics, where he lost a controversial decision to South Korean fighter Park Si-Hun in the gold medal round, a bout in which afterwards saw all three judges voting against Jones suspended. The incident led Olympic organizers to create a new scoring system for Olympic boxing.

Jones turned professional May 6, 1989, stopping Ricky Randall in the second round in Pensacola at the Bayfront Audi-

ogy Management Award (Gold “T”): • Center for Information Warfare Training, Pensacola Curriculum Management Award (Black “T”): • Center for Explosive Ordnance Disposal and Diving, Panama City • Center for Information Warfare Training, Pensacola • Center for Naval Aviation Technical Training, Pensacola Training Production Award Management (Green “T”): • Center for Explosive Ordnance Disposal and Diving, Panama City • Center for Information Warfare Training, Pensacola • Center for Naval Aviation Technical Training, Pensacola Support Training Management Award (Bronze “T”): • Center for Information Warfare Training, Pensacola • Center for Naval Aviation Technical Training, Pensacola Financial Management Award (Purple “T”): • Center for Information Warfare Training, Pensacola For more, go to www. navy. mil/ submit/ display. asp?story_id=104273.

torium.

Captivating audiences over the years with a dazzling ring presence and an unlimited boxing skillset, combined with hand speed and raw punching power, Jones' fighting resume consists of a list of the best of fighters predominately from the 1990's; Bernard Hopkins, James Toney, Antonio Tarver, Vinny Pazienza, Mike McCallum, Felix Trinadad and Virgil Hill, to name a few.

In all, Jones won championships in four different weight classes; middleweight, super middleweight, light heavyweight and heavyweight. The heavyweight title was won in 2003 with a victory over then-champion John Ruiz, making Jones the second former middleweight champion (first was Bob Fitzsimmons) to win a heavyweight title in 106 years.

Jones plans to continue his career as a

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both NASP and Naval Air Station Whiting Field (NASWF), with four stations onboard NASP and one station and several oil lift teams onboard NASFW. The CNRSE award puts F&ESGC in the running for being awarded the best fire department in the Navy, to be announced in the upcoming months.

Fire Chief Timothy Dias credits the win to the hard work of the F&ESGC firefighters.

“This is a department award, but it is to recognize our personnel,” Dias said. “They have been working really hard to get us to the next level.”

Along with winning the CNRSE award, the department received awards for two individual firefighters.

ABH1 (AW/SW) Michael Sauber won Military Fire

boxing analyst while also training fighters such as Ikram Kerwat, who fought on the undercard, improving to 9-1 (5 KO) with an eight-round decision win over Angel Gladney, who fell to 9-14-1 (6 KO). With the win, Kerwat captured the WBU women's lightweight championship. A second Jones protégé, Pensacola junior welterweight prospect Devin Cushing, improved to 7-0 (5 KO) with a six-round decision win over Tommy Bryant (3-15-3, 1 KO).

There is talk of Jones fighting another legend in the ring-be it of the mixed martial arts realm, former UFC middleweight champion Anderson Silva in a cross-over boxing and MMA hybrid fight. But for all intensive purposes, Jones considers Thursday nights’ fight to be his last. With his retirement, Jones will be eligible for the International Boxing Hall of Fame in five years.

Officer of the Year and ABH2 (AW) Shane Barton won Military Firefighter of the Year. Both are part of the oil lift teams at NASWF. While winning the CNRSE award was a triumph for the department, Dias said they are working to expand their training courses.

“We want to grow to the next level, so we are going to be hosting our own courses this year,” Dias said. “We are going to be building new courses and a full technical academy to get our people to the highest level qualification.”

Dias hopes that the new training will assist the department in reaching new heights and keeping their firefighters in peak form.

For more information on F&ESGC, visit their Facebook page at www.facebook.com/pages/Fire-Emergency-Services-Gulf-Coast.

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locations,” Minshew said. “The scheduler also has improved tools that allow us to rapidly adjust and improve our products based on the demand signals from our Sailors.”

To visit the new NCP scheduler, from the MNP home page (https://www.mnp.navy.mil/html/portal/logout.jsp), navigate to the scheduler or select it from the carousel at the bottom of the home page. For the latest information on Navy Voluntary Education, visit https://www.facebook.com/NavyVoluntaryEducation.

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their machine as well as where to operate the device and at what altitude.

Another valuable resource is a mobile application specifically developed by the FAA for drone enthusiasts. It is called “B4UFLY” and uses GPS tracking to determine whether the UAS can be flown based upon the mobile device’s geographical location. This application is available via the Apple Store for iOS and Google Play Store for Android.

Lt. Partick Khoryati, the Air Traffic Control (ATC) Officer onboard NASP, would like to remind personnel that any plans for operating a UAS should include a call CNATT from page 1

courses our learning sites administer.”

CNATT learning site instructors teach nearly 1,000 courses for more

to the ATC office at 452-3371 Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. so that pertinent information is exchanged, concerned parties are aware of the flight and proper safety practices are observed.

Finally, if a suspicious drone is spotted onboard or around the base, Navy security personnel should be contacted immediately. The following information should be provided to the law enforcement officials: location of the drone, approximate size, color, altitude, as well as any potential suspects.

Community support in policing the usage of drones is encouraged to ensure the safety of the base. The number to call if a security concern is observed would be 452-2654.

than 20 naval aviation ratings and Marine Corps Military Occupational Specialties (MOS) and 29 Navy and Marine Corps aviation officer career fields. The organization’s nearly 3,000 staff members

“NAS Pensacola: History in Focus” ... NASP His-

develop, deliver and support aviation technical training for nearly 100,000 students annually.

For more news from Center for Naval Aviation Technical Training, visit www.navy.mil/local/cnatt/.

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tory in Focus is a photo feature designed to draw attention to the rich historical legacy of the base. A photo or photos will be published each week showing an interesting, obscure or historically significant feature of NAS Pensacola. The first person who e-mails Gosport to correctly identify the object and its location will win a $5 coupon good toward food or beverages purchased at the Navy Exchange (NEX) onboard NASP. E-mail your answer to NASPGosport@gmail.com.

Winner and answer will be announced on NASP Public Affairs Facebook at www. facebook.com/ NASPPAO and in the following week’s Gosport.

(Readers can win once per month). Trent Hathaway was last week’s winner.

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Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Fla.: A Bicentennial Defense Community Commanding Officer — Capt. Christopher T. Martin Public Affairs Officer — Patrick J. Nichols The Gosport nameplate pays homage to the 100th anniversary of naval aviation in 2011: the Centennial of Naval Aviation, or CONA. The image on the left side of the nameplate depicts Eugene Ely taking off in a Curtiss pusher bi-plane from the USS Pennsylvania Jan. 18, 1911.

While Ely had taken off from the USS Birmingham two months earlier after his plane had been loaded on the ship, the USS Pennsylvania event was the first time a plane landed on and then took off from a U.S. warship.

The image on the right side is the Navy’s most modern fighter aircraft, the F-18 Super Hornet.

Established in 1921 as the Air Station News, the name Gosport was adopted in 1936. A gosport was a voice tube used by flight instructors in the early days of naval aviation to give instructions and directions to their students. The name “Gosport” was derived from Gosport, England (originally God’s Port), where the voice tube was invented.

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Is your cup half full or half empty?

By Lisa Smith Molinari Military Spouse Columnist

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y mother, a retired firstgrade teacher, has always put a positive spin on things that appeared to be sad, unjust, terrifying or disgusting. I have always admired her capacity to see the good in all things, but there are times when this ability seems out of reach.

On a mud-splattered, dreary Monday morning in February, my mother would hear birds singing.

Along a litter-strewn highway dotted with decrepit strip malls, my mother would spy Queen Anne’s Lace growing in a nearby ditch. If I served my mother a revolting casserole made from two weeks of mediocre leftovers, she would delight at the colorful pimentos. My mother could encounter a great big pile of excrement and chances are she would point out the “skats” scientific benefits – fertilization, seed distribution or composting.

I know, because she has actually done this. Many times.

Having been a military spouse for 24 years, I

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found it difficult to channel my mother’s relentless positivity. Military moves, separations and inadequate pay were like big piles of excrement plopped down into our path. As far as I could tell, there were no benefits. These inevitable hardships were the sacrifices of military service.

But just because I could not see a bright side does not mean there was not one.

Take Permanent Change of Station (PCS) moves, for example. After I packed up my entire household, left my job and everything I had come to know, said good-bye to good friends and our favorite pizza joint, was I supposed to see rainbows and unicorns?

No, because there were

About the columnist Lisa Smith Molinari, mother of three, was a military spouse for more than 25 years. Her husband recently retired from the Navy. Her syndicated column appears in military and civilian newspapers, including Stars and Stripes, and on her blog, www.themeatandpotatoesoflife.com. no unicorns and rainbows, but there were certain hidden benefits of PCS moves.

A fresh start, a clean slate or a reset was sometimes just what our family needed. Our first move overseas gave my husband and I an opportunity to travel together, rather than spending all our vacations with extended family. Our orders to move from Eng-

land were a ticket out of my tedious obligations as Parliamentarian of the Spouse’s Club. When we moved away from Virginia, we were relieved to get our son out of the school where he had been bullied.

Our move from Germany enabled me to break up with the hairdresser who had turned my hair an unnatural shade of yellow-orange. During our move to Florida, the movers finally broke that microwave cart I always hated anyway.

With each move, we were given a unique opportunity to reinvent ourselves, our routines and our living situations. And in that way, moving was actually a good thing.

Let’s face it, military pay grades are not the stuff that dreams are made of.

My minivan with 215,000 miles on it and interior carpeting that smells like pickled eggs is proof that military families are not wealthy. However, receiving military pay that is a matter of public record has its benefits, too. We never had to wonder how we stacked up to our military peers. Minivans, pot lucks and bill-splitting were never frowned upon.

There was no competition or pretentiousness. And in that way, military pay was

actually a good thing.

Believe it or not, even military separations offer something positive. Aside from the obvious “absence makes the heart grow fonder” phenomenon, there is also crumbs, clickers and communication to appreciate. Men are crumbproducing machines and during the times that my husband was deployed or on travel, I relished my crumb-free existence. I also savored full reign over the television clicker. But best of all, my husband and I communicated best when he was away. We e-mailed and called often, and never forgot to say, “I love you.”

And in that way, military separations were a very good thing.

Artists say that the lump of plaster is a masterpiece because “beauty is in the eye of the beholder.” Real estate agents will tell you that the old shack is “a charming Cape Cod.” And my mother will tell you that the dog-doo you just stepped in is an essential element of the circle of life.

Families enduring the challenges of military life can put a positive spin on their world. No matter how dark it seems, as long as the sun shines, there will always be a bright side.

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USS Iwo Jima begins 2018 deployment

From Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group Public Affairs Office

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AYPORT, Fla. (NNS) – More than 2,500 Sailors and Marines aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Iwo Jima (LHD 7) departed the ship’s homeport of Naval Station Mayport, Fla., for a scheduled six-month deployment Feb. 7.

The Navy-Marine Corps team will support maritime security operations, crisis response and theater security cooperation, while also providing a forward naval presence in Europe and the Middle East.

“We have been training for this since we returned from the last deployment,” Capt.

Joseph O’Brien, Iwo Jima’s commanding officer said.

“The Iwo Jima Navy-Marine Corps team brings a full range of capability from humanitarian assistance to power projection ashore. Being deployed enables us to efficiently and effectively provide combatant commanders with sea, air and land capabilities in support of national priorities. Wherever Iwo Jima ends up and whatev-

er tasks are presented our way, these Sailors and Marines are ready to accomplish the mission.”

Iwo Jima is the lead ship of the Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group (ARG), which is also composed of the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit, the transport dock ship USS New York (LPD 21), the dock landing ship USS Oak Hill (LSD 51), Fleet Surgical Team (FST) 8 and FST-4, Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 28, Tactical Air Control Squadron (TACRON) 22, components of Naval Beach Group (NBG) 2 and the embarked staff of Amphibious Squadron 4.

Approximately 4,500 Sailors and Marines will deploy with the ships and squadrons of the

Family members observe as the amphibious assault ship USS Iwo Jima (LHD 7) departs Naval Station Mayport Feb. 7 for a scheduled six-month deployment. The Iwo Jima Amphibious Assault Ready Group and the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) are deploying to conduct maritime security operations, crisis response and theater security cooperation, while also providing a forward naval presence in Europe and the Middle East. Photo by MC2 Michael Lopez

Iwo Jima ARG. Iwo Jima’s deployment will include operations in the 5th and 6th Fleet areas of operation and, for a majority of the crew, it will be their first deployment of their military careers.

“I am very excited to go on deployment,” AN Michael Goodwin said. “I know I’ll miss my family a lot, but I

know it’ll be fun to have this experience and see some new countries at the same time.”

The Iwo Jima ARG is capable of performing expeditionary operations on remote shores in support of national policy. Other capabilities include rendering humanitarian assistance and disaster relief, promoting maritime security, rescuing distressed mariners,

evacuating non-combatant Americans and exercising with partner nations to promote theater security cooperation.

For more information, visit www.navy.mil, www.face book.com/ usnavy, or www. twitter.com/ usnavy.

For more news from USS Iwo Jima (LHD 7), visit www. navy.mil/local/lhd7/.

The CIWT N1 team: Total force manpower

By MC2 Taylor L. Jackson Center for Information Warfare Training Public Affairs

Throughout the Center for Information Warfare Training (CIWT), the dedicated Sailors and civilian experts work tirelessly to prepare the next generation of information warriors for the fleet.

So how does CIWT maintain such a high-caliber team? It all starts with finding the right person for the right job, and CIWT’s total force manpower (N1) team knows how to do just that.

N1 is where every staff member’s journey at CIWT begins. They are responsible for ensuring that every position is filled, and with more than 1,000 civilian and military positions to manage, the eight-person N1 team plays a critical role in building, shaping and maintaining the CIWT workforce.

“Our biggest functions are ‘faces’ and ‘places’,” Wes Oliver, the N1 department head said. “Once there is a valid requirement, we determine how to meet that requirement and build that position or ‘place’. After we build the place, we look for the right employee, the ‘face’, to fill that requirement.”

To find the right person for each job, N1 works closely with the Navy’s officer and enlisted detailers to ensure potential military staff members meet the requirements of their position. On the civilian side of the house, applicants are carefully screened and narrowed down to the best choices for the position before an official selection is made by CIWT leadership.

“CIWT’s N1 team is a core component of the entire domain,” CIWT’s Commanding Officer Capt. Bill Lintz said. “They help build, strengthen and

maintain a diverse, integrated militarycivilian team comprised of the best people in the right jobs, all with a clear focus on CIWT’s mission. Additionally, our N1 team has been key to the success of aligning the personal and professional goals of our workforce with the needs of the Navy and joint services, while safeguarding the welfare of our Sailors, civilians and their families.”

Beyond faces and places, N1 also takes care of the administrative requirements to maintain CIWT’s workforce. They manage employee training, benefits, career management and performance management and all associated record keeping.

Thanks to the dedicated efforts of its N1 team, CIWT’s military and civilian billets are manned at more than 90 percent and filled by highly qualified and dedicated staff who are able to shape the

future of the Navy’s information warfare community.

Additionally, N1 is key in creating a skilled workforce that leads, manages and delivers Navy and joint force training to 22,000 students annually at four information warfare training commands, two detachments and additional learning sites located throughout the United States and Japan.

Center for Information Warfare Training delivers trained information warfare professionals to the Navy and joint services, enabling optimal performance of information warfare across the full spectrum of military operations.

For more news from Center for Information Warfare Training enterprise, visit www.navy.mil/local/cid/, www.netc. navy.mil/centers/ciwt/, www.facebook. com/NavyCIWT or www.twitter.com/ NavyCIWT.

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“I’m very impressed with the way our CFL team manages our group physical training sessions and the command’s participation,” said Cmdr. Jeffrey Buschmann, CIWT’s executive officer. “The workouts help build camaraderie and encompass everything from muscular fitness training to agility fitness training, weight lifting to cardiovascular conditioning. Everyone works hard to test their limits and they understand what you put in, is what you get out.”

Research also shows that regular exercise is a key component of a healthy lifestyle, but working out with others may be even better. With group exercise, Sailors are more likely to hold themselves more accountable, build team work, shape mental readiness, develop positive self-concepts, emphasize the value of cooperation and develop lifelong recreation skills. Additionally, exercising with other hard-working Sailors can motivate them to push each other to power through.

“What I enjoy most about CIWT’s physical training program is that our sessions are geared toward team building,” CIWT’s CMDCM Mike Bates added. “On the field or in the gym, our Sailors complete physical challenges together, push each other and don’t let each other quit. In the end, we get a great work out that is a lot of fun and allows us to come together as a one cohesive Center for Information Warfare Training (CIWT) staff participate in command physical fitness session team.” inside the Wenzel Fitness Center onboard Naval Air Station Pensacola Corry Station. CIWT staff takes Consistent training, flexible group workouts physical fitness seriously and regularly train together to maintain readiness. and good nutrition are key to any health and fit“As CIWT’s assistant command fitness leader ness program – and certainly at CIWT. They Story, photo or CFL, I continuously strive to help develop and know fitness is an important of readiness, and the

by Glenn Sircy maintain a culture of fitness and health through- work they put in at the gym will help make them Center for Information Warfare Training out the command,” CTT1 Brendan Nobles said. healthier, better workers, less stressed and more Experts agree that a proper exercise program “I’m fortunate we have great leadership here that focused. In short, the kind of Sailors who can carried out on a regular basis can not only help participates in our group physical fitness sessions, tackle anything and come out on top. you keep fit and maintain a healthy weight, but inspiring others to be the best they can.”

Building and maintaining optimal mental and CFLs play an integral part in the overall fit- physical fitness is as much a part of “mission can also improve your mental health, quality of ness and readiness of Sailors. CFLs are not only readiness” as it is a part of each Sailor’s overall life and productivity.

Additionally, being a Sailor is all about becom- responsible for conducting the bi-annual physi- quality of life. Whether looking to improve overing the best you can be and physical and mental cal fitness assessment for their commands, but all performance or readiness, body composition fitness is an integral part of that. It’s important also provide exercise programming and guid- or general well-being, CIWT is committed to for everyone to stay fit and healthy, but for CIWT ance throughout the year to ensure the members helping their Sailors reach those goals.

Sailors, it is essential to have a high level of men- of their command maintain physical readiness.

Center for Information Warfare Training detal and physical fitness in order to perform at the CFLs have the skills, education and motivation livers trained information warfare professionals to lead the way in establishing and maintaining a to the Navy and joint services, enabling optimal optimum level.

These are a few reasons why health and fitness culture of fitness for their command and the Navy. performance of information warfare across the Through carefully planned and implemented full spectrum of military operations. are top priorities at the Center for Information Warfare Training (CIWT). Whether training for group physical training sessions led by CIWT’s For more news from Center for Information a triathlon or just trying to stay active, CIWT CFLs, the command is able to maintain a high Warfare Training enterprise, visit www.navy.mil/ leadership offers a variety of healthy living op- level of mental and physical combat readiness local/cid/, www.netc.navy.mil/centers/ciwt/, www. portunities to its Sailors and wants them to live with healthy, capable Sailors so they are always facebook.com/NavyCIWT or www.twitter.com/ ready for any mission. an active and healthy lifestyle.

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he sixth annual Naval Air Station Whiting Field (NASWF) Travel Expo, hosted by NASWF Morale, Welfare and Recreation (MWR), took place Feb. 8.

More than 300 attendees were treated to displays from a variety of travel and recreation destinations from across the Southeast. The Travel Expo was held in the Atrium with more than 40 vendors in attendance, including Whiting Field’s very own MWR, Fleet and Family Support Center (FFSC), Navy Exchange (NEX) and Commissary. Vendors distributed information, brochures and promotional items including space ice cream, stuffed animals, sunglasses and more.

Cynthia Myers, the base’s MWR community recreation manager, was in charge of the organization and execution of the Travel Expo.

“The purpose of the Travel Expo is to create awareness of reduced-rate leisure travel options available to active duty, retired, civilian employees, and military spouses,” Myers said. “Each year, vendors from around the country come to showcase what they offer through the MWR Community Recreation Office. This year, our vendors provided over $5,000 in door prizes and lots of destination travel information.”

Travel Expo visitors were given a “passport” which they had stamped at each vendor display. Once passports were completed, visitors turned them in as an entry for a chance to win one of the nu-

A flight student from NAS Whiting Field is speaking with a vendor as part of her journey to collect stamps for her “passport” during the NASWF Travel Expo Feb. 8.

merous, travel-related prizes.

The winners were announced at the event.

First time vendors included Dollywood and OWA, an amusement park in Foley, Ala., that opened July 2017. Other vendors that attended were Gatorland, Busch Gardens, La Quinta Inns and Suites, Wild

Adventures Theme Park, Resort Quest, National Naval Aviation Museum, Disney World, Discover DeKalb, Shades of Green, Kennedy Space Center, Legoland Florida Resort, USS Alabama, Medieval Times, Universal Studios, Blue Heron Adventure, WonderWorks, Alpine Helen and more.

Exercise Solid Curtain-Citadel Shield onboard NASWF ... (Left) NASWF Police Officers Timothy Hatcher and Kenneth Sandusky clear rooms before engaging the “suspect” barricaded in a building in response to an active-shooter scenario onboard NAS Whiting Field Feb. 7 as part of Exercise Solid Curtain-Citadel Shield (SC-CS) 2018. (Right) ATTT leader Raymond Paris and Opposition Force Ian Conway, the “bad guy,” discuss exercise details while preparing to begin the SC-CS 2018 security exercise. This annual exercise is conducted by Commander, U.S. Fleet Forces Command and Commander, Navy Installations Command on all continental United States naval installations. Photos by Ens. Nick Spaleny

Karie Barrett, the Dollywood representative, traveled from the Tennessee side of the Smokey Mountains to attend the Travel Expo.

“We have been voted the friendliest park in the world 10 years in a row,” Barrett said. “We’re very proud about that. Dollywood consists of a small theme park which includes four rollercoasters, 30 rides, the world’s fastest wood-launch rollercoaster and eight theaters on the park with mini shows throughout the day.”

The OWA was one of the closer vendors, located less than an hour and a half away.

“We have a total of 21 rides and takes about four hours to experience the entire park,” Stacey Stater, a representative from OWA said. “We have Groovy Goat and Wahlburgers, those are our two signature restaurants that are open right now.”

The event is the MWR Travel Office marquee event for the year.

Bar Association Executive Director The Escambia – Santa Rosa Bar Association (ESRBA), a Florida nonprofit incorporated association based in Pensacola, is seeking applicants for its Executive Director position. The Executive Director serves a bench and bar population of approximately 725 members, and reports to the ESRBA’s Executive Council and to the Board for the ESRBA’s supporting Foundation. Primary responsibilities include providing leadership and support to the Council and Board, overseeing the management of member meetings and events, managing a staff of two persons, ensuring accurate and timely financial statements and budgeting, maintaining executive oversight to the ESRBA’s activities and assets, and serving as the ESRBA’s ambassador to the membership and public at large. A Bachelor’s degree is required; an advanced degree in business, law, public administration, marketing, or related field is highly preferred.

Salary range of $45,000-$60,000 based on experience and ability. EEO employer and drug-free workplace.

For more information, please see the complete position profile at:

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Military Notices PACPOA scholarship deadline

The Pensacola Area Chief Petty Officer Association (PACPOA) plans to award its second annual National Flight Academy scholarship for the 2018 season. The scholarship is open to seventh grade to 12th grade family members of all ranks of the military (active duty, retired and veterans) and first responders from any for the NAS Pensacola tenant commands as well as Naval Hospital Pensacola.

NFA information and schedule can be found at www.nationalflightacademy.com.

Request for an application and completed application can be sent to jarred.scolari@navy.mil.

Application deadline is Feb. 28. The PACPOA will not cover any travel cost for applicants who do not live in the Pensacola area, but they are encouraged to apply. Applications will be reviewed by board members and the winner will be announced March 5.

Applications will be reviewed by board members and the winner will be announced Feb 4. For more information, e-mail AEC Jarred Scolari at jarred.scolari@navy.mil.

Language test appointments open

Interested in taking the Defense Language Aptitude Battery (DLAB) or the Defense Language Proficiency Test (DLPT) for foreign languages?

Tests are administered Wednesdays at the Navy Language Testing Office Bldg. 634. Test appointments are accepted by e-mail only. For appointments and language testing counseling, contact CIWT_CRRY_ Lang_Testing_Pensacola@navy. mil.

Learn more about what the Center for Language, Regional Expertise and Culture offers at www. netc.navy.mil/centers/ciwt/clrec.

Retired Activities Office needs help

Do you have four to six hours free a week? The Navy’s Retired Activities Office, located in the Fleet and Family Support Center, Bldg. 625, is looking for military retirees/survivors to staff its office. Duties include; casualty reporting, assisting survivors in obtaining benefits, and answering general questions concerning retirement benefits.

The position requires a desire to assist your fellow retirees and survivors, and an administrative background with knowledge of computer programs such as MS Outlook, Word, etc. For more information, call 452-5622 or e-mail nasp.rao. fct@navy.mil.

Onboard NASP Spring break three-day cruise

The National Flight Academy will host three-day cruise programs during spring break. Registration for the programs are now open for fifth-12th grade students.

A variety of three-day cruise programs cover subject matter areas such as aerodynamics, meteorology and physics. The three-day overnight program blends the culture and excitement of aviation and emphasizes workforce skills such as leadership, teamwork, critical thinking and effective communication. three-day cruise programs open for the following dates: • Santa Rosa and Okaloosa Counties: March 18 to March 20. Registration closes Feb. 21.

• Escambia County: March 25 to March 27. Registration closes Feb. 28.

The cost for the three-day cruise programs is $399 per student and $350 for groups of 12 or more. For registration information and a complete breakdown of 2018 National Flight Academy programs, please contact the registration coordinator at 308-8948 or visit www.NationalFlightAcademy. com.

FFSC announce new workshops

The NASP Fleet and Family Support Center (FFSC), 151 Ellyson Ave., Bldg. 625, offers a variety of classes and workshops. Upcoming classes include: • Family Employment Readiness Brief: 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. every Tuesday • Move.mil: 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. each Tuesday and Thursday • New spouse, Newcomer orientation: 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. today, Feb. 16.

• Couples Communication: 9 a.m. to noon, Feb. 21.

• Emergency Preparedness: 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., Feb. 23.

• Music & Movement: 10 a.m. to noon, Feb. 23 at Lighthouse Terrace, No. 1 Price Ave. For information or to register for any of these classes, call 452-5990.

You can join Coast Guard Auxiliary

For more than 75 years, the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary has offered citizens an opportunity to gain education and training while assisting the U.S. Coast Guard. Auxiliarists may choose among programs such as boating safety, public education, public affairs, Interpreter Corps, communications, Marine Environmental Programs (MEP), operations and U.S. Coast Guard support.

Following training, auxiliarist may assist in a

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Purple Heart recipients sought

The National Purple Heart Hall of Honor is a New York State Historic Site administered by the New York State Park Commission. Dedicated on November 10, 2006, the Hall’s mission is to collect, preserve and share with the public the stories of Purple Heart recipients. It is the first and only facility in the nation dedicated to honoring this country’s Purple Heart recipients.

The primary way in which Purple Heart recipients are honored is through enrollment in The Roll of Honor electronic database which is accessible in The Hall’s main gallery and on its website, www.thepurpleheart.com. Purple Heart recipients are encouraged to become members of the Roll of Honor by completing an enroll form and submitting it to the National Purple Heart Hall of Honor. Family members and friends may also enroll Purple Heart recipients, living or deceased, by completing an enrollment form and providing supporting evidence. Enrollment is voluntary and free of cost.

Help us honor and preserve the stories of these deserving men and women by enrolling them today in the National Purple Heart Hall of Honor. To enroll a Purple Heart recipient or for more information, visit www.thepurpleheart.com. number of ways. Members also develop and share new skills with the community and other members.

Anyone interested in joining the Milton Flotilla can attend a meeting at 6 p.m. the fourth Thursday of the month at the City of Milton Fire Station, 5321 Stewart St. For more information, go to www.cgaux.org or www.flotilla18.com.

Marine Corps family team building

L.I.N.K.S. is offering team building classes located at 211 Farrar Road, Building 3450 in the Commanding Officer conference room. Specific class dates and times will be April 28 and June 9 at 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

For more information or to sign up for classes, contact Shanel Gainey at 452-9460 ext. 3012 or e-mail Shanel.Gainey@usmc.mil.

Around Town Annual I Pink I Can Run scheduled

The 5th annual I Pink I Can Run will be held Feb. 24 at Flora-Bama starting with a 9 a.m. gun start. This run offers a great course, awards, food, music, after party and fun. Join in to show extra love for breast cancer survivors.

All the proceeds from the event will go to the Keeping Abreast Foundations’ breast health programs and help individuals in the community receive screening and diagnostic imaging services.

To register, visit www.active.com/perdido-keyfl/running/distance-running-races/5th-annual-ipink-i-can-run-2018?int=.

Free Scottish dance classes

Free Scottish dance classes will be offered at the Dance Craft Dance Studio, 8618 Pensacola Blvd., from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m every Sunday night.

No partner or experience is necessary. For more information, contact Holly Sherman at 607-9200.

Childrens Mardi Gras parade

The Pensacola Council of the Navy League of the United States invites the community to the annual Military Recognition Day luncheon and Margaret Flowers Civic Award Ceremony Feb. 22 at 11:30 a.m. at Skopelos at New World Landing.

UWF Football Coach Pete Shinnick will be guest speaker. The event will honor distinguished service men and women who have gone above and beyond in volunteer efforts in our local community and in their commands.

The event seating sells out quickly each year.

Anyone interested in attending should RSVP no later than Feb. 12 by calling 436-8552 or by email to navyleagueofus@bellsouth.net. Tickets are $15 each.

For more details, contact the Pensacola Council Navy League office at 436-8552.

Pensacola author to hold signing

Southwest Branch Library will be hosting a local author signing. Dot Moore, author of books includeing Oracle of the Ages: Reflections on the Curious Life of Fortune Teller Mayhayley Lancaster will be holding a signing and book discussion. Moore will be signing tomorrow, Feb. 17 at 10:30 a.m.

Everyone is welcome to the signing. Discussion is open to everyone. For more information, contact Cathy Ingram at 696-9609 or e-mail Cathy99@ cox.net.

Family 5K and 10K invitation

The 12th annual Michele Hill Raider Run and Community Family Celebration will be held April 7 at 7:30 a.m. at Navarre Youth Sports Association, in Navarre, Florida. The race is an out and back 10K Run and a 5K Run/Walk. There will be a free kids run after the 10K/5K races. The race registration fee is $15 with discounts for activeduty and retired military, track club members and

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civil service employees. DJ Cool Ice Water will provide the finish line music. Jones and Company will perform a free concert after the race.

Soul Sensation will provide live music on the race route. Creative Catering by Mark Whittlesay will be serving the best post race meal. As always there will be many prizes at no additional charge to the race participants.

For other race details visit the race registration website at www.raceentry.com/races/michele-hillraider-run/2018/register or contact Joe Hill, event director, at 582-2946

Panhandle tour group for seniors

Panhandle Senior Travelers, a non-profit tour group for Seniors 50 and over, will meet Feb. 20, 1:30 p.m. at Asbury Place, 750 College Blvd. to accept membership applications, pick up travel brochures, pay deposits and pay the balance for trips. Meetings are held the third Tuesday of each month. During the meeting, members will hear details about future trips and listen to speakers on travel related topics.

Annual membership fee is $14. For more information, visit www.pstravelers.org or contact Vivian Krumel Storey at 434-1757.

Woman’s Club to host Game Day

GFWC-Santa Rosa Woman’s Club will host a Game Day on the Beach March 7, with doors open at 10 a.m. and close at 2 p.m. The four-hour event includes card games like bunko, poker and bridge plus set-ups for Mexican Train and Left-RightCenter. Door prizes will be awarded every thirty minutes. The $20 ticket also includes a lunch of Southwestern soup and dessert.

To purchase tickets for Game Day at the Beach, call 291-1347, contact any member or e-mail srwcwomansclub@gmail.com.

Florida college student recruiting

Florida A&M University (FAMU) will host a student recruitment event in Pensacola March 9 at 6:30 p.m. at the Theodore Bennett Auditorium at Booker T. Washington High School. Interested high school students, parents and alumni are invited. The FAMU Connection will perform at this event. FAMU has both Navy Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) and Army ROTC units on campus.

For more information, contact Reggie Parker at 723-2141.

Student scholarship essay contest

The Studer Foundation is sponsoring an essay contest for 80 middle school students in Escambia and Santa Rosa Counties. The essay contest winners will get the experience of a lifetime during a dynamic six-day program at the National Flight Academy (NFA) from July 29 through Aug. 3.

The essays will be reviewed through a blind selection process by a group of volunteers and local educators.

Student must be enrolled in middle school as a rising seventh through nineth grader and applicants must write a 500-word essay on one of two prompts. The essay should represent their own work.

Prompts are: • Describe what being a leader means to you and share an example of leadership you have experienced or witnessed.

• In the future, but during your lifetime, what do you think will be the biggest advancement in one of the following areas: Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics? Why do you think that advancement will be so significant?

Students interested in being considered for the Studer Foundation Scholarship offer must electronically submit their essay through the NFA’s online portal on or before 11:59 p.m. March 1.

Winners will be notified by e-mail no later than March 31.

To apply for the essay contest, go to https://tinyurl.com/ya8zkuzf.

For more information or to learn more about the program, visit www.NationalFlightAcademy.com.

Freedom Foundation award banquet

The Pensacola Chapter of Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge has extended an invitation to the 34th annual awards banquet, scheduled Feb. 27 at 6 p.m. at the Yacht Club located at 1897 Cypress Street. Tickets are $30 per person. Checks can be mailed to FFVF, Pensacola Chapter, P.O. Box 1012, Pensacola, FL 32591.

For more information, contact Jackie Young at 438-4401.

ESC annual dinner and auction

The Escambia Christian School (ESC) announces their 14th annual dinner and auction, themed “A Bid for Excellence,” will be held March 3 at the Gateway Church of Christ Family Life Center, address 245 Brent Lane. Doors will open at 4 p.m. for viewing items with dinner scheduled for 5 p.m. and the auction starting at 6 p.m.

This event is open to the public. Tickets are $35 per person.

For more information or to donate items or services, call 433-8476.

Volunteer at Pensacola lighthouse

The Pensacola Lighthouse and Museum is looking for volunteers to help keep the light shining. If you need to earn community service hours or just love history, contact Diane Johnson at 393-1561.

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Presidents Day:

Washington’s, Lincoln’s legacy of leadership resounds through the ages

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ccording to the federal government, the holiday observed on the third Monday in February is officially Washington’s birthday (Feb. 19 in 2018). To most Americans, this holiday is commonly called “Presidents Day,” in honor of two presidents, Washington (born Feb. 22) and Lincoln (born Feb. 12).

George Washington On April 30, 1789, George Washington, standing on the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York, took his oath of office as the first president of the United States. “As the first of every thing, in our situation will serve to establish a precedent,” he wrote to James Madison. “It is devoutly wished on my part, that these precedents may be fixed on true principles.”

George Washington Born in 1732 into a Virginia planter family, he learned the morals, manners and body of knowledge requisite for an 18th century Virginia gentleman.

He pursued two intertwined interests: military arts and Western expansion. At 16 he helped survey Shenandoah lands for Lord Fairfax. Commissioned a lieutenant colonel in 1754, he fought the first skirmishes of what grew into the French and Indian War. The next year, as an aide to Gen. Edward Braddock, he escaped injury although four bullets ripped his coat and two horses were shot from under him.

From 1759 to the outbreak of the American Revolution, Wash-

ington managed his lands around Mount Vernon and served in the Virginia House of Burgesses. Married to a widow, Martha Dandridge Custis, he devoted himself to a busy and happy life. But like his fellow planters, Washington felt himself exploited by British merchants and hampered by British regulations. As the quarrel with the mother country grew acute, he moderately but firmly voiced his resistance to the restrictions.

When the Second Continental Congress assembled in Philadelphia in May 1775, Washington, one of the Virginia delegates, was elected commander in chief of the Continental Army. On July 3, 1775, at Cambridge, Mass., he took command of his ill-trained troops and embarked upon a war that was to last six long years.

He realized early that the best strategy was to harass the British.

He reported to Congress, “We should on all occasions avoid a general action, or put anything to the risk, unless compelled by a necessity, into which we ought never to be drawn.” Ensuing battles saw him fall back slowly, then strike unexpectedly. Finally in 1781 with the aid of French allies, he forced the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown.

Washington longed to retire to his fields at Mount Vernon. But he soon realized that the nation under its Articles of Confederation was not functioning well, so he became a prime mover in the steps leading to the Constitutional Convention at Philadelphia in 1787. When the new Constitution was ratified, the Electoral College unanimously elected Washington president.

He did not infringe upon the policy making powers that he felt the Constitution gave Congress.

But the determination of foreign

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Abraham Lincoln To his disappointment, two parties were developing by the end of his first term. Wearied of politics, feeling old, he retired at the end of his second. In his farewell address, he urged his countrymen to forswear excessive party spirit and geographical distinctions. In foreign affairs, he warned against longterm alliances.

Washington enjoyed less than three years of retirement at Mount Vernon, before he died of a throat infection Dec. 14, 1799. For months the nation mourned him.

Abraham Lincoln Lincoln warned the South in his inaugural address: “In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous

issue of civil war. The government will not assail you ... You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to preserve, protect and defend it.”

Lincoln thought secession illegal and was willing to use force to defend federal law and the Union.

When Confederate batteries fired on Fort Sumter and forced its surrender, he called on the states for 75,000 volunteers. Four more slave states joined the Confederacy but four remained within the Union.

The Civil War had begun.

The son of a Kentucky frontiersman, Lincoln had to struggle for a living and for learning. Five months before receiving his party’s nomination for president, he sketched his life: “I was born Feb. 12, 1809, in Hardin County, Ky. My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families – second families, perhaps I should say. My mother, who died in my 10th year, was of a family of the name of Hanks ... My father ... removed from Kentucky to ... Indiana, in my eighth year ... It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up ... Of course when I came of age I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write and cipher ... but that was all.”

Lincoln made extraordinary efforts to attain knowledge while working on a farm, splitting rails for fences, and keeping store at New Salem, Ill. He was a captain in the Black Hawk War, spent eight years in the Illinois legislature and rode the circuit of courts for many years.

He married Mary Todd, and they had four boys, only one of whom lived to maturity. In 1858, Lincoln ran against Stephen A. Douglas for senator. He lost the

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policy became preponderantly a presidential concern. When the French Revolution led to a major war between France and England, Washington refused to accept entirely the recommendations of either his Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson, who was pro-French, or his Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton, who was pro-British. Rather, he insisted upon a neutral course until the United States could grow stronger.

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election, but in debating with Douglas he gained a national reputation that won him the Republican nomination for president in 1860.

As president, he built the Republican Party into a strong national organization. Further, he rallied most of the Northern democrats to the Union cause. On Jan. 1, 1863, he issued the Emancipation Proclamation that declared forever free those slaves within the Confederacy.

Lincoln never let the world forget that the Civil War involved an even larger issue. This he stated most movingly in dedicating the military cemetery at Gettysburg: “that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain – that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom – and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.”

Lincoln won re-election in 1864, as Union military triumphs heralded an end to the war. In his planning for peace, the president was flexible and generous, encouraging Southerners to lay down their arms and join in reunion.

The spirit that guided him was clearly that of his second inaugural address, now inscribed on one wall of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.: “With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation’s wounds.”

On Good Friday, April 14, 1865, Lincoln was assassinated at Ford’s Theatre in Washington by John Wilkes Booth, an actor who somehow thought he was helping the South. The opposite was the result, for with Lincoln’s death, the possibility of peace with magnanimity died. – www.whitehouse.gov

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Teacher: “John, do you know Lincoln’s ‘Gettysburg Address?’ ” Student: “No, ma’am. I thought he lived in Washington.”

Q: What do you call George Washington’s false teeth?

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Q. What did one flag say to the other flag?

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Q: How did George Washington speak to his army?

A: In general terms.

Q: Did you hear about the cartoonist in the Continental Army?

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NETC HQ recognizes superior performance From Naval Education and Training Command Public Affairs

Naval Education and Training Command (NETC) recognized its civilians at an all-hands call onboard Naval Air Station Pensacola (NASP) Feb. 6.

The Civilian of the Quarter/ Year (CoQ/CoY) program recognizes staff civilian employees who have made significant contributions to the mission, operations and productivity of the NETC HQ staff.

Michael Michaud, a training specialist from NETC Learning Site (LS) Dam Neck, was selected as the 2017 Junior CoY, and Roy Wilde, the learning standards officer at NETC Fleet Integration, Learning and Development division, Virginia Beach, Va., was selected as the 2017 Senior CoY. Michaud is a qualified master training specialist (MTS) and manages the MTS program. He also taught 17 Navy Instructor Training Courses (NITC); eight Command Managed Equal Opportunity CMEO) courses; and six Command Drug and Alcohol Program Advisor DAPA) and Alcohol Drug Abuse Managers/Supervisors (ADAMS) for Leaders courses.

“The people I have worked with and for, the friends that I have made, the places I have gone in my career and the amazing things I have been able to accomplish because of the military are always in my thoughts and inspire me

LN1 (SW/AW) Gerardo Villa is assigned to Region Legal Service Office Southeast but works at NETC. He received the Military Outstanding Volunteer Service Medal Feb. 6 at the NETC all-hands call for his hundreds of volunteer hours with a variety of organizations including Regimental Memorial Chapel (50 hours), Fort Eustis Child and Youth Services (40 hours), Habitat for Humanity, Naval Air Technical Training Center and the United Service Organization (138 hours).

to give my best every day I come to work,” Michaud said.

“I have the privilege of being able to train military and civilian personnel on how to properly train and educate our future forces to do their jobs in the fleet.”

Wilde provides supervision and guidance on curriculum, instruction and evaluation management for 10 geographically dispersed learning sites

supporting over 38,000 students annually. He oversees courses of instruction which include NITC, Command DAPA, ADAMS for Leaders, CMEO, Urinalysis Program Coordinator and LifeSkills.

“Mr. Wilde’s forward leaning initiatives ensure NETC’s general skills courses meet the quality standard expected of a high performance learning organization,” said Cmdr.

Shannon Stanton, branch head director of training.

“Throughout the year, his instructional systems design and learning standards expertise was sought after for multiple cross-departmental projects in support of Ready, Relevant Learning (RRL).”

Awards were also presented for the fourth quarter of 2017.

Glenn Eman, an information technology (IT) project manager, was selected as the Junior CoQ and Frank Topf, a content program manager at NETC Fleet Integration, Learning and Development division Virginia Beach, Va., was selected as the Senior CoQ. Eman works with the Voluntary Education (VOLED) program where he managed the data migration from the Saufley data center in Pensacola to the Navy Enterprise data center in New Orleans.

He also managed the automation of the Navy College Program website and the Tuition Assistance program in the My Education website.

“Helping Sailors work toward their educational achievements gives me great satisfaction,” Eman said. “It is a privilege for me to work on projects that enhance opportunities for service members to get their off-duty education.”

Topf, a 17-year civil servant, currently manages the Block Learning implementation team, responsible for the coordination and tracking of RRL Block Learning rating

solutions implementation.

“Frank’s efforts have proven critical to ensuring the success of a central pillar of the Sailor 2025 initiative,” said Thomas Bonanno, learning standards supervisor. “He goes out of his way to get things done and always keeps us on track through his proactive stance.”

Additionally, Topf manages programs, including Personal Qualification System; Nonresident Training Course; Instructor Qualification, Certification and Sustainment and MTS. “I provide the Sailor with the means to excel in their field and issue the most up-todate material necessary to do their work,” Topf said.

NETC is the largest shore command in the Navy, and is comprised of more than 12,000 military and staff personnel at more than 230 subordinate activities and detachments in the United States and at remote sites overseas. NETC provides training and education to more than 31,000 students on any given day RRL is part of the Navy’s Sailor 2025 initiative to provide Sailors the right training at the right time in the right place.

For additional information on the Naval Education and Training Command, visit the NETC website at www.netc. navy.mil or www.navy.mil/ local/cnet/. Follow NETC on Facebook at www.facebook. com/netcpao and Twitter @ netcpao.

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• Fleet and Family Support Center The NASP Fleet and Family Support Center (FFSC), 151 Ellyson Ave., Bldg. 625, is offering the following: • Parenting Toddlers: 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. through March 19 (six Mondays). Learn about the development stages of toddlers and why they do what they do.

Topics include appropriate discipline and toilet training.

• Mov.mil Assist: 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. every Tuesday and Thursday. One hour of dedicated online walkthrough to set-up your account and make your move seamless.

• Base tour: 9 a.m. to noon the first Wednesday of every month. The next one is scheduled for March 7. Learn about the history of Naval Air Station Pensacola and how to get around base.

• Imagination Station: 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. every third Thursday of the month at Blue Wahoo Stadium. The next meeting is March 8. The NASP New Parent Support program partners with the Imagination Station for a military family play date.

Meet some military families and let your children play.

• New spouse, Newcomer orientation: 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. today, Feb. 16. Meet other new military spouses, and gather informational materials. Workshop will help spouses prepare for their responsibilities and acquaint them with military and community resources.

• Couples Communication: 9 a.m. to noon Feb. 21. Develop better communication skills and learn to manage stress as a couple.

• Emergency Preparedness: 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Feb. 23. Emergencies come in many forms. Be

Worship schedule

NAS Pensacola – Protestant • Worship service, 10:15 a.m. Sunday, Naval Aviation Memorial Chapel, Bldg. 1982.

• Chapel choir, meets following the 10:15 a.m. Sunday service at All Faiths Chapel.

• Contemporary service, 6 p.m. Sunday, All Faiths Chapel.

• Training Air Wing Six Bible Study, 11:15 a.m. Tuesday, Griffith Hall student lounge.

• Bible study, 6:30 p.m. Tuesday and 5:30 p.m.

Wednesday, J.B. McKamey Center.

NAS Pensacola – Roman Catholic • Sunday Mass, 8:30 a.m. Sunday, Naval Aviation Memorial Chapel, Bldg. 1982.

• Daily Mass, 11:30 a.m. Monday, Wednesday and Friday in the Our Lady of Loreto Chapel.

• Confessions: 30 minutes before services.

Latter Day Saints • Service, 10:30 a.m. Sunday, All Faiths Chapel.

• Meeting: 6 p.m. Monday and 6 p.m. Thursday, J.B. McKamey Center.

For more information, call 452-2341.

NASP Corry Station – Protestant • Adult Bible study, 9 a.m. Sunday, fellowship hall vice conference room.

• Chapel choir, 9 a.m. Sunday, choir room vice sanctuary.

• Worship service, 10 a.m. Sunday.

• Fellowship, 11:30 a.m. Sunday.

• Contemporary worship, 6:30 p.m. Sunday, followed

prepared for your family.

• Music and Movement: 10 a.m. to noon Feb. 23 at Lighthouse Terrace, No.1 Price Ave. A learning activity to enhance self-expression and socialization in children through dance with use of instruments.

• SAPR If you are a victim of sexual assault, it is not your fault. Help for victims of sexual assault in the DoD community is a call, click or text away: • The SafeHelpline: Provides live, one-on-one crisis support and information by trained staff.

Call: (877) 995-5247; click: www.SafeHelpline.org or text:

by fellowship at 7:30 p.m.

• Bible study and dinner, 5:30 p.m. Thursday, fellowship hall.

Latter Day Saints • Service, 7 p.m. Wednesday.

NASP Corry Station – Roman Catholic • Mass, noon Sunday and 11:30 a.m. Tuesday and Thursday. For more information, call 452-6376.

NAS Whiting Field Chapel – Roman Catholic • Mass, 11 a.m. Friday.

NAS Whiting Field Chapel – Protestant • Bible study, 11:30 a.m. Tuesday.

• Weekly chapel service, 11:30 a.m. Thursday.

For more information, call 623-7212.

Other services: Jewish • B’nai Israel Synagogue, 1829 North Ninth Ave., services 7 p.m. Friday and 9:30 a.m. Saturday. For information, call 433-7311.

• Temple Beth El, 800 North Palafox St., services 7 p.m. Friday (6 p.m. first Friday of each month). For information, call 438-3321 or go to http://templebethelofpensacola.org.

Seventh-day Adventist • Seventh-day Adventist Church, 1080 North Blue Angel Parkway, services at 11 a.m. Saturday. For information, call 453-3442.

55-247, CONUS; (202) 4705546, OCONUS (may be extra charges for OCONUS).

• The Sexual Assault Prevention and Response (SAPR) Program: Provides prevention, intervention and a 24/7/365 response to non-intimate partner adult victims of sexual assault.

Active-duty and adult family member sexual assault victims have a choice of reporting options, unrestricted and restricted. Unrestricted reporting allows victim to have an advocate, seek medical care, counseling, legal services, safety interventions and/or transfer, etc. To access an unrestricted report, the victim may report to his/her

chain-of-command, security/ law enforcement, NCIS, SAPR VA, SARC or others. NCIS shall be notified by the CO and/or the VA/SARC in unrestricted cases to begin investigation. Investigation results are provided to the offender’s CO for appropriate action/disposition. Restricted reporting allows a victim to have a confidential report, which does not trigger command or law enforcement notification and the victim may have a SAPR VA and seek medical care and/or counseling. To access restricted reporting, the victim may disclose his/her sexual assault only to the SARC, a current SAPR VA, a health care professional

and/or a chaplain.

• To contact the NASP 24/7 Victim Advocate, call 4499231/2. For the Civilian Victim Advocate, call 293-4561. To contact duty SARC, call the SARC cell at 554-5606.

• CREDO Chaplain’s Religious Enrichment Development Operation (CREDO) Southeast offers retreats enabling military members and their families to develop personal and spiritual resources in order to meet the unique challenges of military life.

• CREDO Southeast Marriage Enrichment Retreat March 2-4 in Orange Beach, Ala. Reach new heights in your marriage.

Topics Include: Love Languages, Personality Types, Communication Skills, Problem Solving and Goal Setting.

To register , e-mail Ray Doss, CREDO Gulfport, Ray.doss.ctr @navy.mil Phone: (228) 8713504.

NAS Pensacola CREDO Detachment contact information: Work: 452-2093 E-mail: tony. bradford.ctr@navy.mil.

• Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society The Navy-Marine Corps relief Society (NMCRS) offers a range of volunteer opportunities for people with a variety of skills and interests. This is a great opportunity to get new skills and build your resume.

• Administrative and communications support • Financial instruction for expectant parents • Budget counseling Contact the Pensacola office at 452-2300.

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Run around Pensacola

By Kaitlyn Peacock Gosport Staff Writer

With January behind us and most New Year’s resolutions either forgotten or weighing heavily on our shoulders, keeping to fitness goals can be difficult as the months continue. However, Pensacola and the surrounding area will play host to a number of fun and varied exercise experiences to help keep your goals. Here are just a couple events happening soon to help you reach your goals.

I Pink, I Can Run: Looking to stay fit and help in a great cause? The 5th annual I Pink I Can Run will be held at Flora-Bama. This run offers a great course, awards, food, music, an after party and fun. Join in to show extra love for breast cancer survivors.

All the proceeds from the event will go to the Keeping Abreast Foundations’ breast health programs and help individuals in the community receive screening and diagnostic imaging services.

Date: Feb. 24, 9 a.m.

Register: www.active.com / p e rd i d o - k e y - f l / r u n n i n g / distance-running-races/5thannual-i-pink-i-can-run2018?int= Family Run: For people looking for something to help a local school, the 12th annual Michele Hill Raider Run and Community Family Celebration will be held at Navarre Youth Sports Association, in Navarre. The race is an out and back 10K run and a 5K

Naval Air Technical Training Center (NATTC) Aviation Support Equipment Technician “A” School Instructor AS1 Angela Adair congratulates NATTC students at the finish line of the NATTC Coalition of Sailors Against Destructive Decisions (CSADD) 5K Color Run last year onboard Naval Air Station Pensacola. Exercise opportunities are available year round to help with fitness goals. Photo courtesy of CNATT Public Affairs

run/walk. There will be a free kids run after the 10K/5K races. The race registration fee is $15 with discounts for active-duty and retired military, track club members and civil service employees.

Date: April 7, 7:30 a.m.

Registration: www.raceentry.com/races/michele-hillraider-run/2018/register or contact Joe Hill, event director, at 582-2946 Mud Run: If you are looking to get a little dirty, the Pensacola Florida Terrain Racing Mud Run 2018 will be at Adventures Unlimited, 8974 Tomahawk Landing Rd, Milton.

The course will include more than 20 obstacles, including cargo nets, monkey bars, mud

crawls and more.

Date and Time: April 7, beginning at 8 a.m.

Registration and cost: www. mudrunguide.com/event/gulfcoast-florida-terrain-racingmud-run-2018 Glow Run: Light up the night during the Pensacola Beach Glow Run. Come nightfall, participants will run a 5K course on Pensacola Beach, illuminating the night with neon lights and glow sticks. The run is family-friendly and families are encouraged to enjoy the fun together. Cost is $35 per person, with discounts for groups and children runners.

Date: Feb. 24, at 7 p.m.

Registration: www.endurancecui.active.com

C @ NAS Pensacola Portside Cinema a FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY MONDAY t c h “12 Strong” (R) 5 p.m. and 7:40 p.m.

“Paddington 2” (PG) 5:30 p.m.

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“The Commuter” (PG13) 8:10 p.m.

“The Commuter” (PG13) Noon

“Paddington 2” (PG) Noon

“Paddington 2” (PG) 2 p.m.

“The Post” (PG13) 2:30 p.m.

“Insidious: The Last Key” (PG13) 2:30 p.m.

“The Greatest Showman” (PG) 4:30 p.m.

“12 Strong” (R) 5 p.m. and 7:50 p.m.

“12 Strong” (R) 7 p.m.

“The Greatest Showman” (PG) 11 a.m.

“The Commuter” (PG13) 2:30 p.m.

“12 Strong” (R) 5 p.m. and 7:50 p.m.

“Paddington 2” (PG) 12:30 p.m.

“The Greatest Showman” (PG) 3 p.m.

“The Commuter” (PG13) 1:30 p.m.

TUESDAY

“Downsizing” (R) 5:30 p.m.

“Downsizing” (R) 4 p.m.

“Paddington 2” (PG) 5 p.m.

“Insidious: The Last Key” (PG13) 8:20 p.m.

“All the Money in the World” (R) 7 p.m.

“12 Strong” (R) 7:10 p.m.

“The Post” (PG13) 5:10 p.m.

“The Commuter” (PG13) 7:30 p.m.

WEDNESDAY “Paddington 2” (PG) 5 p.m.

“12 Strong” (R) 7:10 p.m.

“The Greatest Showman” (PG) 5:10 p.m.

“Insidious: The Last Key” (PG13) 7:30 p.m.

THURSDAY

“Insidious: The Last Key” (PG13) 5 p.m.

“Downsizing” (R) 7:10 p.m.

“The Commuter” (PG13) 5:10 p.m.

“The Post” (PG13) 7:30 p.m.

“The Post” (PG13) 5 p.m.

“Insidious: The Last Key” (PG13) 7:30 p.m.

Regular shows: $4 adults, $2 children ages 6-11, free for 5 and younger 3D shows: $5 adults, $3 children ages 6-11, free for 5 and younger Details: 452-3522 or www.navymwrpensacola.com

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Morale, Welfare and Recreation

The NASP Morale, Welfare and Recreation (MWR) department has a number of upcoming events and activities. For more information, call 452-3806, ext. 3100, or go to the MWR website at www.navymwrpensacola .com.

• Seabreeze Jazz Festival: MWR has tickets to the 20th annual Seabreeze Jazz Festival to be hosted at the Aaron Bessant Park Amphitheater at Pier Park, Panama City Beach, April 18 through 22. Tickets are available through NASP Tickets and Travel. Three day passes are $173 and four day passes are $216. For a full list of prices, visit NASP Tickets and TravTry this el or call 452-6354.

•Backpacking Over- • Frozen Winter night Trips: There will Wonderland: Are be an overnight back- you ready for snowpacking trip March 9 fall in Pensacola? through 11 in the Sipsey Come out to the FroWilderness, Ala. Go zen Winter Wonderwith MWR on an out- land Feb. 24, from of-town backpacking 11 a.m. through 3 adventure. All gear and p.m. at the old hostransportation provided. pital grounds onOnly $60, rain or shine. board NAS PensacSign up for the skills ola across from the course at the Tickets Mustin Beach Club. and Travel office Bldg. There will be down3787 at Corry Station. hill sledding, acBackpacking 101 Skills tivities, games and Course is a prerequisite prizes. This event is for all NAS Pensacola free and open to all. backpacking trips. For For more informamore information, call tion, call 452-3806.

281-5489 or 452-6354.

• Karate class: Shotokan Karate classes are $20 per month at Portside Gym, Bldg. 627, for active duty and family members ($22 for DoD).

For more information call 452-7810, 452-7813 or 291-0940.

• Splash and Dash: MWR Aquatics and Navy Fitness will host a Splash and Dash event March 17 at 10:00 a.m. to noon. This friendly competition is open to the whole family with certificates presented upon completion. For a full list of age groups, visit www.navymwrpensacola.com or call 452-9429.

• Summer Camp Expo: Join MWR at the 2018 Summer Camp Expo at the NAS Pensacola Indoor Pool March 17 from noon to 2 p.m. Get information on all of the summer programs offered by MWR Pensacola for the summer of 2018. MWR will have a variety of day programs that offer educational and fun opportunities for children over the summer break. For more information, call 452-9429.

• Youth Sport Camp: Registration for the Youth Sports Spring 2018 season begins March 9 at the Corry Youth Center (Bldg. 4118). There will be soccer, baseball and T-ball available this spring.

Youth sports are open to all dependents ages 4 to 14 of active-duty, reserve or retired military, as well as DoD employees and contractors. Registration will be open from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., March 9, 16 and 23. Cost is $50 per child. Mandatory skills evaluation will take place March 24 from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. at the Youth Sports Complex on Hwy. 98. Parents must complete the annual Parent Association for Youth Sports training prior to registration. Log on to www.nays.org/parents to complete training. For more information, contact Ron or Patrick at 453-3490.

Liberty Activities Liberty program events at NAS Pensacola and Corry Station target young, unaccompanied active-duty military. Hours are 10:30 a.m. to 11 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 10:30 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. Sunday through Thursday. Regular events are scheduled at the main Liberty Center in the Portside Entertainment Complex. You must sign up in advance for off-base trips. For more information, call 452-2372 or go to www.naspensacola-mwr.com.

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