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COMMAND CORNER
VALUES – A Game Changer Cmdr. Derek Wessman NRD Phoenix, Commanding Officer
Female Test Category Upper and Officer Medical are just the beginning. Notice I didn’t say Page First Class Food Bank it’s getting harder. One thing I’ve learned since entering the recruiting Page 8 D-Backs 4th of July enterprise is that recruiting is always challenging, regardless of market Page 9 Adopt a Highway conditions. Every type of market has its unique challenges, but it’s our Page 11 Around the Fleet job to stay ahead of them. Finally, focus on VALUE has never been more important to Road Runner Staff our Navy, not just in recruiting, but in every aspect of our conduct as individuals and as a Navy Family – Cmdr. Derek Wessman ashore and afloat, on and off the job, Commanding Officer in and out of uniform. This is where true deckplate leadership makes the Cmdr. Alex Ortiz difference… changes the game by Executive Officer Our Navy Core VALUES emphasizing and modeling Core set us apart… Why? As you CMDCM(SCW/SW) Eric Cole Values. consider this question, I want to Command Master Chief So, why do our Core address the timing of our VALUE Values set us apart? The answer MC1(AW) Adrian Melendez Oriented Recruiting (VALOR) has everything to do with attitude training and implementation. It is Public Affairs Officer – positive mental attitude (PMA) particularly fitting for our district Editor/Layout and Design as it is often called. According to for a few reasons. First, the turnover renowned author Stephen Covey, The Road Runner is a monthlynewslet- of personnel (approximately 30 there are essentially three types of ter produced by the U.S. Navy Recruit- by the end of the fiscal year) sets situations in life: experiential – that ing District Phoenix Public Affairs. It is the stage for change… in the which happens to us; creative – that intended primarily, but not exclusivly, form of leadership opportunities for the use, information and entertainwhich we bring into existence; and and recruiting tactics/techniques/ ment of it’s active duty and reserve attitudinal – our response to difficult members, civilian employees and their procedures (TTPs). Second, the circumstances. The highest of these families. Any views exspressed herin are market is changing – Prior Service, is attitudinal. I would add that not necessarily the official postions of On the Cover: Personnel Spe“Value-Driven” people, which every the U.S. Navy. The Road Runner staff cialist 1st class Aaron Spann from encourages feedbacl from it’s readers. Sailor strives to be, elevate this Navy Recruiting Processing Station Please submit all articles, suggestions, concept even higher because they ideas, comments, photos, compliments Phoenix throws out the first pitch are pro-active not re-active. In other or complaints to MC1(AW) Adrian during the Arizona Diamondbacks words, attitude (guided by a deep Melendez at adrian.b. melendez@ salute to service members pre-game belief in core values) transcends navy.mil. ceremony, July 4. Representatives any external factors. So, no matter from each of the armed services what is going on around us (market threw out the first pitch simulchanges, personnel turnover, new taneously. (U.S. Navy photo by VALUES Continued On MC1(AW) Adrian Melendez) Page 3 Page 6 Under Water Robotics
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TTPs), we remain successful because we remain grounded in our Core Values and we “carry our own weather with us.” We are never at the mercy of the environment because our core values remain unaffected. As stated in our Command Philosophy: We must PRO-ACTIVELY
drive every challenge, don’t let it drive us. This will produce measurable results … WINS that we will all celebrate together as ONE Navy Family! As you continue to put your new VALOR training to work, remember what it stands for, what you stand for and the power of your attitude … and continue recruiting
for and with VALUE - the game changer! Thanks for your continued pro-active professionalism and Core Value leadership. Stay Hungry! Skipper
The 21st Century Sailor
CMDCM(FMF/SW) Eric Cole NRD Phoenix Command Master Chief when people need help. - Curb alcohol abuse and reduce incidents that end careers and sometimes lives. - Reinforce zero tolerance on drugs to include newer designer drugs and synthetic substances like Spice. - Aggressively prevent sexual assaults, support victims, and hold offenders accountable. Sailors and Marines will not tolerate sexual assault! Safety: Improve motorcycle - safety by closing the training gap with Military Sport bike Rider Shipmates and families, Course(MSRC) this month I will talk about an Physical Fitness: initiative from the Secretary of the - Move from a culture of Navy (SECNAV). It is called the testing to a culture of physical 21st Century Sailor and Marine. readiness by strengthening PRT The initiative combines existing requirements and providing better policies with some new ones. The program is meant to emphasize the nutrition options. A NOFFS App is now availimportance of people in the success - able for your smart phone. of operations in the Navy Marine Inclusion: Corps team. This initiative is di- Increase the diversity of vided into 5 areas: ideas, experiences, areas of experReadiness: tise, and backgrounds necessary to - Reduce suicides and manfulfill the variety of missions asked age stress by providing a support of us. network, health care and skill Continuum of Service: needed to overcome adversity and - Recruit Sailors once and training to leaders to recognize
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retain them for life through flexible service options that provide opportunities to work across a career whether in the Navy Reserves or in the civilian workforce. - Provide tools for life after the Navy for our wounded warriors and those affected by force management. What does this all mean? We realize the importance of our people. We have many programs to support our shipmates and their families. If you are a leader (we all are), get smart on the various programs. If you are a Sailor or family member having difficult times, ASK FOR HELP! We cannot fight and win our nations wars without our most valuable resource. PEOPLE!
Division Four Gives Back to Community By MC1(AW) Adrian Melendez Photos Courtesy of Nelson Evangelista
Sailors from Navy Recruiting District Phoenix Division 4 took time out to help those in need at the Ronald McDonald House in Phoenix, June 8. The team of Sailors spent the afternoon cleaning the facilities at the house including a playground, library, kitchen and rooms which act as temporary homes for family members who have a serious ill child going through treatment at a local hospital. “I have always had a place in my heart for families and children who are dealing with illness,” said Equipment Operator 1st Class Alana Siegwald, Division Four’s volunteer organizer. “When I was looking for a volunteer opportunity for our division I instantly thought of Ronald McDonald House.” This was the first time the division volunteered at the house and impressed the staff with their
work ethic and the quickness they were able to complete the jobs they were given. “Our volunteer activity for the group was a ‘House SpruceUp’ and immediately U.S. Navy volunteers came in with a great attitude and eagerness to get involved with our organization,” said Nelson Evangelista, Ronald McDonald House Charities of Phoenix volunteer coordinator “Once tasks were assigned, they
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could be seen all over our campus, cleaning, moving furniture and overall making our house beautiful and homelike for the families that stay here.” Evangelista said that volunteers and their efforts are important to the not for profit organizations mission in providing a clean and comfortable living space for the families during a hard time. “Volunteers are vital to accomplishing our mission of making Ronald McDonald House Charities of Phoenix, a home away from home for families with children that are going through a medical crisis. Volunteers not only enhance the environment of the house but allow our organization to be fiscally responsible by stretching out donor dollars and keeping operation costs down,” said Evangelista. Siegwald said that the project was very rewarding and RHMC Continued On Page 5
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added the importance of every volunteer effort that Sailors are part of. “It’s important to create Navy awareness in a land locked state, but more importantly it’s great for people to see that the military is not only about
defending the country, but also and equally we are here to help our communities,” said Siegwald. “The staff at Ronald McDonald House Charities of Phoenix would like to thank every U.S. Navy member that came to volunteer and every member of the U.S. Navy for their service and sacrifice to this nation,” said
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Evangelista “We also want to thank the U.S. Navy for making time to personally invest in our community.” If you are interested in volunteer opportunities at the Ronald McDonald House Charities visit http://rmhc.org/who-we-are/ chapter-search/ to find your local chapter.
Sailors Volunteer to Judge National Underwater Robotics Challenge Story and Photo by MC1(AW) Adrian Melendez CHANDLER, Ariz. - Sailors from Navy Recruiting Station Chandler joined engineering and technology professionals to assist in judging the 2012 National Underwater Robotics Challenge at the Chandler High School Aquatic Center in Chandler, Ariz., June 8-10. The annual competition is in its sixth year and features teams from junior high school through adult, who compete against other teams in their age bracket. This years mission consisted in teams having to free hostages taken by aliens, which were being held in a mock spaceship built in the 13-foot deep pool at the aquatics center. The teams had to maneuver their robots into the ship and pull a lever in the ship, which released a buoy that would float to the top. Maneuvering the robots had to be done by the operator only being able to see video on their monitor from the robot’s mounted cameras. “This is a challenge. It gives the kids something hard to do and they get to build something. Its not just solving one equation,” said Ken Whitley, the competition’s volunteer coordinator. “They have to find answers to a bunch of different problems and work together in order to get their robot to function properly.” Not only were teams judged on the mission itself, but they are also judged in other categories such as a technical report due before the competition, team website, and a oral presentation. One of the teams that stood out to the Sailors was a group of students who created a solar powered battery system to power their robot and was sending their devel-
Teams at the 2012 National Underwater Robotics Challenge place their robots in the pool at the Chandler High School Aquatics Center for a test run in Chandler, Ariz., June 9. Sailors from Navvy Recruiting Station Chandler volunteered as judges at the annual competition, which helps get students interested in the science, technology, engineering and mathematic fields.
oped technology to students at a village in Fiji to assist them to be able to have light in order to study past sunset. “This technology will help keep their books illuminated into the night, and help inspire them to continue learning,” said Aviation Boatswain’s Mate (Fuel) 2nd Class Pete Williams. “It goes to show, that through advancing technology for one thing can also improve another and help others in the process.” Both Whitley and Williams agree that it is pertinent for military and civilian professionals from the science, technology, engineering and math communities get out and talk with students about the importance of what they are learning and how that knowledge can be applied to help them find jobs in those areas in the future. “It’s important to show kids how really cool all this stuff
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is,” said Whitley, who is also a math teacher at Carl Hayden High School in Phoenix. “Just like trying to get the best football players, if you want the best engineers you’re going to have to get out there and find them.” “It’s important for us (Sailors) to get involved with science and engineering students so they can see not only the end result of their effort though military technology, but also a higher purpose for their innovation,” said Williams.
U.S. Navy photos by CTR1(SW) Charles Dodd
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Navy Closer to Landing UAV on Aircraft Carrier By MC2 Leona Mynes USS Harry S. Truman Public Affairs USS HARRY S. TRUMAN, At Sea - A team from the Navy Unmanned Combat Air System program office tested communication software for the Unmanned Combat Air System Carrier Demonstration (UCAS-D) program aboard the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) during its sea trials, July 7-10. The UCAS-D program, based at the Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) on Naval Air Station (NAS) Paxutent River, Md., is designed to demonstrate the ability for the unmanned, autonomous X47-B unmanned air vehicle (UAV) to launch from and land safely on an aircraft carrier. Thirty-seven NAVAIR engineers and contract personnel were embarked on Truman to test UCAS-D unmanned aircraft and shipboard UCAS-D software. “We are one of the first aircraft carriers in the fleet to have Navy UCAS-D equipment installed on board,” said Lt. Cmdr. Chad Young, Truman’s assistant air operations officer. “Its purpose is to communicate with the UCAS-D flight software on their unmanned aircraft.”
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The tests aboard Truman ensured shipboard UCAS-D software was interfacing properly with the unmanned aircraft’s software using a surrogate aircraft, which was a contracted King Air. “They are looking for confirmation that our systems are properly monitoring the unmanned surrogate aircraft,” said Young. “This testing will eventually lead to unmanned aircraft landing on and launching from U.S. Navy aircraft carriers.”
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The software on board the King Air, an aircraft that is comparable to the Navy’s C-12 Huron, was modified to include an accurate representation of X-47B on-board systems. In June 2011, UCAS-D was tested aboard the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) (Ike) using an F/A-18D Hornet. “We’re refining the system,” said Lt. James Reynolds, UCAS Continued On Page 11
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UCAS-D surrogate project officer with Air Test and Evaluation Squadron 23 of NAS Patuxent River. “During last year’s tests on Ike, we found minor interfacing issues with the in-flight software aboard the Hornet, and have modified that software to be more similar to the software in the X-47B. The King Air has more room on board compared to the Hornet, so we were able to include a better model of UAV software and more accurately test the software.”
The NAVAIR team also tested shipboard UCAS-D software integration with Truman’s Carrier Air-Traffic Control Center and primary flight control, said Reynolds. “The testing went well,” said Reynolds. “We accomplished all of our objectives and it was a very successful detachment. [The UAV] is certainly much closer to ready for prime time than it has been in the past.” Testing a new aircraft, especially one which is unmanned, is a slow process, said Reynolds. Initial UAV testing was completed in 2002, followed by more testing
aboard USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) in 2005. “This is what developmental flight testing is all about,” said Reynolds. “It’s the small steps that make the big evolutions happen.” The UCAS-D program is scheduled to return to Truman for upcoming underway periods to conduct further tests. “I think our effort makes the evolutionary steps necessary to arrive at a capability the Navy needs,” said Reynolds. “There are challenges, but we are doing what it takes to achieve our goal.”
Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Mobile Training Teams Readying for Deployment Chief of Naval Personnel Public Affairs Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Mobile Training Teams Readying for Deployment Chief of Naval Personnel Public Affairs VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. - Master Mobile Training Teams from the Navy’s Sexual Assault Prevention and Response (SAPR) Task Force are preparing to deploy worldwide to provide SAPR training to fleet leaders, Navy officials said July 12. Part of the Navy’s aggressive efforts to prevent sexual assaults and promote essential culture changes within the force, the 14 SAPR Master Mobile Training Teams (MMTTs) will deploy from the Center for Professional and Personal Development (CPPD) around the globe starting July 13 to provide SAPR leadership training (SAPR-L) to command leadership triads (commanding officer/ officer in charge, executive officer/
assistant officer in charge, and command master chief/chief of the boat/senior enlisted advisor) in fleet concentration areas and locations with significant Navy presence. The command triads will then deliver the SAPR-L training to their command leadership, E-7 and above. The MMTT preparatory training to command triads will prepare the command triad to provide valuable SAPR training to officers and enlisted leaders, explained Capt. Scott Seeberger, chief of staff for the SAPR Task Force. “The MMTTs have a great journey ahead of them as they train our command leaders and provide tools critical to reducing sexual assault and promoting a culture of respect and professionalism in the force. SAPR-L will be the first phase of this training utilizing a top-down leadership approach,” said Seeberger. “We’ve structured
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the MMTTs to reflect the command triad with a captain, commander and master chief. We’ve also added a Judge Advocate General (JAG) officer to each team to explain the legal procedures that follow an allegation of sexual assault and discuss recent changes in the Uniform Code of Military Justice that apply.” The MMTT training is coordinated and hosted by CPPD and uses videos and a variety of methods to reinforce the fact that sexual assault is a crime and will not be tolerated in the Navy. “We’ve put a lot of time and effort into working with the contractor to ensure that the training is innovative, effective and relevant with today’s Navy,” said Capt. John Newcomer, CPPD commanding officer. “There isn’t a single briefing slide in the entire presentation - the focus SAAM Continued On Page 12
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is on interaction and facilitated face-to-face discussion to provide command leaders the tools to develop and promote a culture of change.” Nearly 650 SAPR-L training sessions are scheduled in the next month, providing training for regular and reserve commands. The few commands that are deployed and unable to host a MMTT can receive the training via Defense Connect Online. SAPR-L training must be completed for all E-7 and above by Sept. 30 and SAPR-L training completion will be documented by individual commands via the Fleet Training Management Planning System
(FLTMPS). Capt. Clark Price, commanding officer of the Navy ROTC unit at Savannah State University and assigned as team leader for the Florida/Central Command MMTT, will present some of first SAPR-L sessions, starting at Naval Air Station Pensacola, Fla. “The training for the MMTTs was excellent; it got the teams up to the podium almost immediately and ready to prepare the command triads to conduct interactive training with their senior leadership,” said Price. “My team has an aggressive schedule of 11 cities in 30 days allowing us to see a lot of the fleet. My team is looking forward to delivering the
CNO’s message on sexual assault prevention.” Sexual assault prevention is an important element of the readiness area of the 21st Century Sailor and Marine initiative, which consolidates a set of objectives and policies, new and existing, to maximize Sailor and Marine personal readiness, build resiliency and hone the most combateffective force in the history of the department of the Navy (DoN). Additional information on the MMTT and SAPR-L training efforts can be found at the SAPR L/F training Web pages, including command registration for SAPR-L training: http://www.public.navy. mil/bupers-npc/support/sapr/Pages/ training.aspx.
PENSACOLA, Fla. (July 12, 2011) The U.S. Navy flight demonstration squadron, the Blue Angels, perform the “line-abreast flat pass” maneuver during a practice flight demonstration over Pensacola Beach. The Blue Angels 2012 performances are in celebration of the centennial of naval aviation and commemoration of the bicentennial of the War of 1812. U.S. Navy photo by MC2 Andrew Johnson
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