NAS Pensacola hosts Blue Angels Homecoming Air Show Nov. 2 and 3 ... The Navy’s Flight
Demonstration Squadron, the Blue Angels, will close the 2018 season at their annual Homecoming Air Show onboard NAS Pensacola Nov. 2 and 3. Gates open both days at 8 a.m. and admission and parking for all shows are free. Areas will be reserved for the physically challenged. Food and memorabilia will be available at numerous concession stands. Pets and coolers are not permitted. Security personnel and signs will direct spectators to parking areas near the show site. For additional information on the show and reserved seating, go to www.naspensacolaairshow.com.
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Vol. 82, No. 42
October 19, 2018
Evacuated NSA Panama City employees to report to work onboard NAS Pensacola
From Navy Region Southeast Public Affairs
Civilian and military employees of Naval Support Activity (NSA) Panama City who have evacuated due to Hurricane Michael will report to Naval Air Station (NAS) Pensacola Oct. 22. Some members of the reconstitution team for the installation have been called back to NSA Panama City, but the lack of utilities, as well as essential community services such as schools and hospitals, is expected to prevent most employees from returning for an extended period of time. Evacuated employees are directed to report to the quarterdeck of Bldg. 1500 onboard NAS Pensacola as their temporary alternate work site. The phone number to call for this facility is 452-4785. This order applies for CNIC
claimancy personnel only and does not affect tenant command personnel who should maintain contact with their chain of command. For NSA Panama City personnel who are part of the CNIC claimancy, NAS Pensacola has been designated as the new safe haven area. An Emergency Family Assistance Center, commonly referred to as an EFAC, has been set up to help evacuated families at the NAS Pensacola Fleet and Family Support Center (FFSC). This service is for all evacuated personnel, whether part of the CNIC claimancy or not. Personnel are encouraged to seek help from the EFAC as they relocate to the Pensacola area. It is critical that personnel from NSA Panama City continue to muster with their See NSA on page 2
Gerald Girardot (left) and William Swaney, Contingency Engineering Response Team (CERT) members, assess damage onboard Naval Support Activity Panama City after Hurricane Michael. Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) Southeast’s CERT provides contingency contracting, natural disaster support and remote construction to Navy and Marine Corps installations. Photo by MC2 Devin Bowser
NAS Pensacola designated as the new remote safe haven
From Navy Region Southeast Public Affairs
Commander, Navy Region Southeast, Rear Adm. Bette Bolivar has designated the area within 150 miles of Naval Air Station (NAS) Pensacola as the new remote safe haven for Naval Support Activity Panama City personnel and families who evacuated due to Hurricane Michael. The new safe haven becomes effective today, Oct. 19. By today, installation personnel and families who
are currently staying at a safe haven within 150 miles of Naval Construction Battalion Command Gulfport, Miss., must ensure they are within the new safe haven area. The purpose of the move is to offer access to a greater number of temporary quarters, a larger Fleet and Family Support Center (FFSC) staff and more robust facilities that are available onboard NAS Pensacola. This order only applies to CNIC claimancy personnel, and does not apply to NSA Panama City tenant command personnel who should follow the direction of their chain of command.
“We will make every effort to provide accommodations to house our Hurricane Michael impacted team members and their families,” Bolivar said. “Our Fleet and Family Support Centers and other support personnel are ready to assist you.” The change in safe haven moves NSA Panama City families closer to the installation as base personnel continue work to restore essentials services and to ensure facilities and housing are safe for their eventual return. Personnel are reminded not to return to the installation See Haven on page 2
Hispanic heritage event hosted onboard NAS Pensacola From NAS Pensacola Public Affairs
More than 50 Naval Air Station (NAS) Pensacola service members and civilian employees gathered at Bldg. 1504 to celebrate the command’s Hispanic Heritage Month observance Oct. 15. The event, hosted by the NAS Pensacola Diversity Committee, included opening remarks from AC1 Chad
Bradley, the committee president, and featured a speech from NAS Pensacola Command Career Counselor NCC Luis Diaz. Bradley explained that the tradition of observing Hispanic heritage began Firefighters from Fire & Emergency Services Gulf Coast extinguish flames on a realin 1968, when President Lyndon B. istic simulator, the Mobile Aircraft Fire Training Device (MAFTD). Johnson designated a week in mid-September as National Hispanic Heritage See Heritage on page 2
CPOs observe Navy birthday... In celebration of the U.S. Navy’s 243rd birthday, Naval Air Station (NAS) Pensacola CMDCM Mario Rivers and members of the NAS Pensacola Chief Petty Officers Mess stand in formation during morning colors at the NAS Pensacola headquarters building Oct. 12. Photo by Bruce Cummins
NAS Pensacola first-responders participate in aircraft crash exercise
Story, photo by Mike O’Connor Gosport Editor
Naval Air Station (NAS) Pensacola’s Air Operations Department and firstresponders demonstrated emergency response capabilities during an exercise at the base’s Forrest Sherman Field Transient Line Oct. 16. Fire & Emergency Services Gulf Coast (F&ESGC), NAS Pensacola police and NAS Pensacola Air Operations personnel were called to the scene of an imaginary disaster scenario involving a crash.
The scenario was made realistic through the use of a simulator, the Mobile Aircraft Fire Training Device (MAFTD). Three Sailors and a mannequin stood in for victims. At a signal from the event coordinators, the MAFTD burst into flames. As screams were heard from the role-playing Sailors, F&ESGC vehicles rolled in to extinguish the flames and treat the “wounded.” Incident commander F&ESGC Assistant Fire Chief Chris Hatch was pleased See Drill on page 2
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