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Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy Mike Stevens greets Sailors during a frocking ceremony in the hangar bay on board aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75).

CNO, MCPON spend Thanksgiving with Truman Strike Group By MC3 J. R. Pacheco USS Harry S. Truman Public Affairs

ATLANTIC OCEAN

Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) Adm. John Richardson and Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy (MCPON) Mike Stevens spent Thanksgiving with Sailors aboard the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) and the guided-missile destroyer USS Bulkeley (DDG 84).

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NEW RANGE, NEW BULLETS, SAME COURSE By MC3 Desmond Parks Navy Public Affairs Support Element East

VIRGINIA BEACH

Sailors enrolled in the Center for Security Forces (CENSECFOR) Crew-Served Weapons (CSW) Instructor course completed a training exercise using innovative training rounds at a new gun range on Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek-Fort Story Nov. 4. The course trains Sailors how to use CSW, such as the .50-caliber, MK48 and M240L machine guns, as well as how to facilitate training at their parent commands. “Once they get here, they learn to

Course trains Sailors on use of CSW, MK48 and M240L machine guns; how to facilitate training at parent commands

effectively train fleet Sailors on how to operate, maintain and employ these weapon systems,” Course Manager for CENSECFOR Operation and Maintenance for CSW Instructor course Chief Master-at-Arms Thomas Pruter said. “The course is open to pretty much anybody, as long as they have all of the prerequisites for the class – though, it’s usually someone who’s confident with weapons.” The new range location enables students the opportunity to shoot targets at a shorter range, which allows for the use of new, non-aerodynamic short-range training ammunition (SRTA) that forces Sailors to shoot with greater precision.

“[The range] is a great tool for us,” Pruter said. “We don’t have to drive all the way to Quantico, we can just come out here and shoot.” The class is an essential part of the Navy’s mission to prevent a deficiency in weapons knowledge that could render ships inadequate to defend themselves. “Once I get back to my ship, I’m going to be the only Crew-Served Weapons instructor there,” assigned to aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) Gunner’s Mate 2nd Class Patrick Ramos said. “I’m going to be able to go back to my ship and

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MC2 Korrin Kim Students practice external fixation techniques during the Combat Extremity Surgery course.

NMCP’s combat extremity surgery course prepares medical personnel for combat By MC2 Korrin Kim

NEWPORT RAB OBSERVES 20TH ANNIVERSARY By Bob Krekorian NAVSTA Newport Public Affairs

YORKTOWN

A partnership group, started in November 1995 between the Navy and local citizenry to build awareness and involvement with the environmental remediation projects at Naval Station (NAVSTA) Newport, met Nov. 24 to celebrate their 20th anniversary as members of the Restoration Advisory Board (RAB). The RAB is a forum for the exchange of information between the local community and a DOD installation, when the installation undertakes environmental restoration that may impact its neighbors. The Newport RAB acts as a forum to discuss the details of studies and cleanup projects under the Navy’s Installation Restoration Program

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Naval War College Museum Archives This aerial view of Gould Island in Narragansett Bay from the north, when it was operational and used to service and store torpedoes, shows the northern Stillwater Area where environmental remediation is planned that will include marine sediment dredging, groundwater and sediment monitoring.

(IRP). RAB leadership is a joint responsibility and is co-chaired by a Navy representative and an elected community member. Current cochairs are Margaret Kirschner and NAVSTA Environmental Director David Dorocz, Other RAB members who attended the meeting were: Kathy Abbass, Ph.D.; Claudette Weissinger; David Brown, Ph.D.; Manuel Marques; and Thurston Gray. Agency representatives included: Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management Pamela Crump; Deb Moore from NAVASTA Environmental; Jim Gravette from Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) Norfolk; Kymberlee Keckler from the U.S.

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NMCP Public Affairs

PORTSMOUTH

The staff of the Healthcare Simulation and Bio Skills Training Center, at Naval Medical Center Portsmouth, continually proves they are trailblazers of military medicine through their dedication to medical education and readiness. The Combat Extremity Surgery Course held Nov. 19-20, was no exception. The Combat Extremity Surgery Course provides deploying surgeons, combat medics and corpsmen the skills necessary to manage extremity trauma. The skills taught at the course teach these medical teams to provide care on the battlefield and prepare them to treat an extensive array of conditions. Topics in the course include pelvis disruptions, spine injuries, external

fixation principles, combat amputations, limb salvage, blast trauma, pediatric trauma, vascular access, emergency shunting of the extremities, and burn management. “We have members from the direct medical field with the physicians, as well as physician extenders with physician assistants and PA fellows,” a participant in the course and a Chief Resident of Orthopedic Surgery at NCMP Lt. Mike Pullen said. “We have residents, as well as other medics and people who participate along the chain of the medical commands. So we are not just educating physicians, but also physician extenders and other front line personnel, such as medics and corpsmen, so that we are prepared for combat.” This course speaks volumes to the superior medical education provided at NMCP.

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COMCAM: ANYTIME, ANYWHERE “Anytime, Anywhere” is more than just a motto for the Sailors assigned to Expeditionary Combat Camera.

THANKSGATHERING EVENT REUNITES LOCAL SAILORS WITH FAMILY Seventy-two military men and women from bases in the Hampton Roads area were reunited with family members for two days of family togetherness on board Naval Station Norfolk.

LET THERE BE LIGHTS People sipped on hot chocolate and tugged their jackets a bit tighter at the Ocean View park Nov. 30, as a thick fog enveloped a holiday gathering.

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