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Vol. 80, No. 32
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August 12, 2016
CNATT domain CPO Selects begin CPO 365 Phase Two From Center for Naval Aviation Technical Training Public Affairs
Seventy-five Center for Naval Aviation Technical Training (CNATT) first class petty officers Navywide were notified Aug. 2 of their selection for advancement to the rank of chief petty officer. Onboard NAS Pensacola, a total of 48 first class petty officers commandwide will be advanced. Often cited as one of the most significant steps in an enlisted Sailor’s career, advancement to the paygrade of chief has a long and storied history, CNATT something CMDCM (AW/SW) Michael Knowles said the 75 CNATT domain Sailors will learn and pass along. “Being selected as a chief petty officer is a nod to not only the Sailor, but the men and women they have trained and led,” he said. “The history and heritage we share with chiefs from generations before us is part of the largest maritime fraternity in the world, and I welcome these shipmates into the mess.” The CNATT domain 75 CPO selects are stationed at detachments and learning sites throughout the continental United States, Hawaii and Japan. Knowles added that each of these CPO Selects will now begin Phase Two of the MCPON-directed CPO 365 program, a roughly six-week process designed to foster teamwork and resilience and hone leadership skills. “Throughout the next month and a
half, these Sailors will participate in a variety of community relations events, physical training evolutions and teambuilding exercises,” he said. “Each of these activities over the next six weeks will strengthen these Sailors as leaders and as a team.” Knowles said Pensacola CNATT CPO selectees from the Naval Air Technical Training Center (NATTC) and Naval Aviation Schools Command (NASC) will participate in the CPO transition process with CPO selectees from commands throughout the NAS Pensacola area, and added that CPO selectees from other CNATT learning sites and detachments will participate in CPO 365 Phase Two with other selectees at facilities and installations near their command. “There are chief petty officer selects around the world who are training together, learning together and growing as Sailors together,” he said. “No matter where the CPO select is stationed, they will be going through the exact training their brothers and sisters will be going through, working together as the team they will become in the fleet." CNATT is the technical training agent for the Naval Aviation Enterprise, an organization designed to advance and sustain naval aviation warfighting capabilities at an affordable cost, and is the largest training center under the Naval Education and Training Command. For more news from Center for Naval Aviation Technical Training, visit www.navy.mil/local/cnatt.
DoD Family Advocacy Program (FAP) Manager Kathy Robertson and DoD FAP Senior Analyst Melvina Thornton give a department program update at the kickoff of the first DoD-wide FAP joint training session. Photo by Mike O’Connor
First ever DoD-wide family advocacy program VA training held aboard NASP From Elizabeth Gray Family Advocacy Program Analyst Commander, CNIC Fleet & Family Readiness
For the first time in the history of the Family Advocacy Program (FAP), FAP leadership from the Army, Marines, Navy and Air Force joined forces to offer DoD-wide FAP victim advocate (VA) training. From Aug. 9-11, nearly 200 FAP victim advocates from all branches of service gathered at NAS Pensacola, to “ADVOCATE,” an acronym for aligning DoD victim advocates with opportunities for change, advisement,
training and empowerment. Within the DoD, there are approximately 255 full-time and 49 parttime civilian FAP victim advocates. The role of the victim advocate is to provide safety-planning services and comprehensive assistance for victims of domestic abuse. They are also vital in educating personnel regarding responses to domestic abuse. Advocates have a minimum requirement of two years of experience in providing victim advocate services and have an applicable college degree. Most victim advocates have an See DoD on page 2
Collection of ‘blessed’ wings growing at Naval Aviation Memorial Chapel By Janet Thomas Gosport Staff Writer
Wings from a new group of naval flight officers (NFOs) will soon join hundreds of others on display at the Naval Aviation Memorial Chapel at NAS Pensacola. On July 29, family members and friends gathered at the chapel with 18 members of the July 2016 graduating class for a “blessing of the wings.” Capt. Mark Stockfish, the newly installed commodore of Training Wing Six (CTW6), also attended the ceremony and welcomed the
Ens. Alyssa Kramer of Widomar, Calif., has her wings blessed by Lt. Cmdr. David Rozanek, a chaplain assigned to Naval Air Station Pensacola, July 29 at the Naval Aviation Memorial Chapel. Kramer has been selected for the E-2 Hawkeye.
participants. Lt. Cmdr. David Rozanek, a chaplain who conducts the blessings prior to every wing-
Sesame Street comes to NAS Pensacola ... More than 320 people attended the Aug. 8 Sesame Street/USO Experience shows at the Naval Aviation Schools Command theater, according to NASP MWR, who promoted the shows. The free event featured the Muppets in two shows with a young girl named Katie and her experiences as a military child. Photo by Billy Enfinger
ing ceremony, said participation is voluntary but attendance is usually good. The ceremony also offers a
connection to other aviators who have passed through “Cradle of Naval Aviation.” “After the service, the NFOs are invited to donate a pair of wings that will be displayed with the wings of aviators that came before them,” Rozanek said. Hundreds of aviator wings and other insignia representing several different service branches are displayed on panels in the Our Lady of Loreto Chapel, which is named for one of the patron saint of aviators. Six panels are now filled at NASP, and Rozanek said he hopes to get the newest one
mounted on the wall in the main chapel. Rozanek does not have records on the wings that were donated in the past. He believes the ceremony began more than 20 years ago at NASP, but it has not been performed consistently. Wing blessing may have started more than 20 years ago, however. A Navy News Service story from July 2015 recounts that Catholic chaplains at Naval Air Station Corpus Christi in Texas began blessing the wings of Catholic aviators after the beginning for World War II in 1941, and eventually other faiths were included. NASP has been a location for naval pilot training since 1941. Today, CTW-6 graduates approximately 300 Navy, Marine Corps and international students annually at NASP. Since he started doing wing blessings at NASP for Navy and Air Force aviators, Rozanek has been putting See Wings on page 2
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