NASP Black History Month observance ...
NAS Pensacocla (NASP) will hold a Black History Month Celebration today, 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.
Vol. 82, No. 8
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February 23, 2018
NATTC’s ABE1 Shannon wins Flowers civic award By Kaitlyn Peacock Gosport Staff Writer
Capt. Bill Lintz, commanding officer, Center for Information Warfare Training (CIWT) and CIWT CMDCM Mike Bates pose with the 2017 NETC Training Excellence Award blue burgee. Photo by MC2 Taylor L. Jackson
CIWT domain recognized as top learning center for second consecutive year By Glenn Sircy Center for Information Warfare Training
Rear Adm. Kyle Cozad, commander of Naval Education and Training Command (NETC), visited Center for Information Warfare Training (CIWT) to congratulate the staff for winning the 2017 overall Training Excellence White “T” award, Feb. 20. “For the first time in recent or known history, CIWT is the first learning See CIWT on page 2
Get out of debt: Military Saves Week is Feb. 26 through March 3 From NASP FFSC and Military Saves
Roughly one in six savers has selected paying off consumer debts as their wealth-building goal. That does not come as a surprise since, along with modest incomes, large consumer debts are the most important financial reason that people have trouble saving and building wealth. The good news is that there is hope. With planning, discipline, patience and maybe some outside help, almost anyone can reduce their debts and start to accumulate wealth. Are you in trouble? If you answer “yes” to any of the following questions, then you probably need to get your debts under better control: 1. Can you only afford to make minimum payments on your credit cards? 2. Do you worry about finding the money to make monthly car payments? 3. Do you borrow money to pay off old debts? 4. Have you used a home equity loan to refinance credit card debts, then run up new revolving balances on your cards? Why too much debt is costly? Borrowing more money than you can afford is costly in many ways. Americans spend well over $75 billion a year just on See Military Saves on page 2
The Pensacola Council of the Navy League is proud to announce the winner of the Margaret Flowers Civic Award for 2017, Naval Air Technical Training Center’s ABE1 (NATTC) (AW/SW) Michael P. Shannon. The award was given yesterday, Feb. 22, at a luncheon held to honor all of the enlisted service members who volunteered their time in contribution of the local community. In his write-up, Cmdr. Russell A. Lawrence, Shannon’s department head, spoke highly of Shannon’s attributes. “Petty Officer Shannon’s superior performance, professionalism and reliability while serving in a leadership position in the (NATTC) Air Training Department have been outstanding,” he wrote. “His persistent dedication to helping his community was instrumental to NATTC’s selection as the 2017 Project Good Neighbor Flagship Award, and the Health, Safety and Fitness Flagship Award winner for large commands.
The award was given to the command for its farreaching efforts in volunteerism within the community and it would not have been possible
ABE1(AW/SW) Michael P. Shannon
without Petty Officer Shannon’s contributions, both as an individual volunteer and his efforts coordinating thousands of volunteers for hundreds of individual events.” In 2017, Shannon devoted countless hours toward community outreach and improvement with several local organizations. Among his services include 130 hours mentoring an 11-year-old “Little Brother,” as part of the Big Brother, Big Sister program. His contribution
helped his “Little Brother” develop improved study habits, class participation and positive thinking. Shannon was also heavily involved with leading and coordination NATTC Sailors and Marines to assist teaching children how to live a healthy, active life through organization such as Miracle League Youth Baseball, Heroes on the Water Association, Blue Wahoos Youth Sports Initiatives, Pensacola High School Football and Escambia High School Football. These efforts culminated into a total of 3,118 volunteer hours served in these organizations. Shannon also led 63 volunteer events with a total of 317 volunteers to assist the quality of life for shelter animals with the Escambia County Animal Shelter, leading to another 2,165 volunteer hours contributed. He also volunteered as a Coalition of Sailors Again Destructive Decisions (CSADD) advocate, mentoring Sailors, Marines and Airmen. Through this program, he was able to assist with 20 events for 15 staff members and 339 students, who See Flowers on page 2
Nurses, corpsmen honored with DAISY Award at NHP Story, photo by Jason Bortz Naval Hospital Pensacola
Naval Hospital Pensacola (NHP) held a ceremony to announce the winners of the DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses Feb. 2. The ceremony marked the first time the DAISY Award has been given at NHP. According to the DAISY Foundation website, The DAISY Award celebrates nurses who provide extraordinary compassionate and skillful care every day. DAISY is an acronym for Diseases Attacking the Immune System. The DAISY Foundation was formed in 1999 by the family of J. Patrick Barnes, who died at 33 of complications from idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura, an auto-immune disease. The nursing care that Barnes received had a significant impact on his family and inspired them to create the DAISY Foundation. Over 2,800 health care facilities in all 50 states and 17 countries participate in the program and honor nurses with the DAISY Award. In addition to recognizing ex-
Lt. Cmdr. Edith Glanton, a midwife and department head for Labor and Delivery at Naval Hospital Pensacola (NHP), plays with Gracelynn Page Feb. 2 at NHP while her mother Mirielle Page watches. Because of the care Glanton provided Mirielle during the delivery of Gracelynn, she was nominated and won a DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses. DAISY is an acronym for Diseases Attacking the Immune System – and an award program to recognize exceptional nurses.
traordinary nurses, NHP expanded the award to include corpsmen. Corpsmen are an integral part of health care in Navy Medicine and work side by side with nurses and doctors to provide care to patients. “Corpsmen are an important part of our health care team and we
wanted to recognize them along with our nurses,” said Capt. Fran Barendse, director of nursing services at NHP. “We contacted the DAISY Foundation and they were fully supportive of us including See DAISY on page 2
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