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Lincoln achieves redelivery

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The USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) was redelivered to the fleet May 12, marking the successful completion of its refueling and complex overhaul (RCOH) carried out at Newport News Shipyard.

At sea for the first time since March 2014, the crew conducted rigorous tests of engineering components, the modernized combat systems suite and flight deck equipment that supports Lincoln’s mission at sea. Damage control capabilities and basic deck seamanship were also checked to ensure both the ship and the crew’s operational readiness. The ship marked its return to the fleet after four days of sea trials » See LINCOLN | A9

MC3 Juan A. Cubano The aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) conducts high-speed turn drills during sea trials. Abraham Lincoln is underway after successfully completing its mid-life refueling and complex overhaul and will spend several days conducting sea trials, a comprehensive test of many of the ship’s key systems and technologies.

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The Navy’s 2016 Sailors of the Year (SOY) were meritoriously advanced to chief petty officer during a ceremony, May 18, at the Navy Memorial.

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MC3 Lauren K. Jennings Naval Aircrewman (tactical helicopter) 1st Class Mark Brown, left, the 2016 Navy Reserve Sailor of the Year, and Cryptologic Technician (Technical) 1st Class Courtney P. Evers, center, the 2016 United States Fleet Forces Sea Sailor of the Year, talk with Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy Steven S. Giordano during Sailor of the Year week.

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Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek-Fort Story (JEBLCFS) will hold a Bell Tolling Ceremony May 25 at 10 a.m. at the Base Chapel to remember fallen service members who were based at JEBLCFS. Approximately 93 Joint Expeditionary Base fallen heroes have paid the ultimate price in the line of duty defending our great country since Sept 11, 2001 will be honored. All military personnel and their families are encouraged to attend.

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USS Bataan celebrates Mother’s Day

By MC1 Kegan E. Kay USS Bataan Public Affairs OfďŹ ce 5TH FLEET

Amphibious assault ship USS Bataan (LHD 5) hosted a Mother’s Day celebration on the mess deck, May 14.

The celebration honored the deployed mothers aboard the ship and all the mothers, stepmoms, grandmothers, and mother ďŹ gures back home and remember those who were no longer with us.

Mother’s Day is often marked by owers, cards, pastel colors, and children doodles with the letters m-om spelled across but today’s celebration only resembles the original holiday in sentiment.

The actual holiday started with one woman’s idea in the midst of a war torn country. According to historian Katharine Antolini, of West Virginia Wesleyan College, Ann Reeves Jarvis, a West Virginia women’s organizer, held work clubs to improve sanitary conditions and try to lower infant mortality by ďŹ ghting disease and curbing milk contamination. The groups also tended wounded soldiers from both sides of the Civil War from 18611865.

It was after the war that Jarvis began to hold Mother’s Friendship Day picnics and other events as paciďŹ st strategies to bring the two sides of the conict back together and heal. It was Julia Ward Howe, which issued a “Mother’s Day Proclamationâ€? in 1870 and called for all women to take a role in promoting peace.

While these two women laid the foundation, it was Jarvis’s daughter, Anna Jarvis that brought about the Mother’s Day we know today. It was the death of her mother that pushed Anna to organize a Mother’s Day observance in 1908.

Families would gather in Grafton, West Virginia, for the event and soon it spread to other cities. This growth and recognition around America became ofďŹ cial when Presi-

dent Woodrow Wilson set aside the second Sunday in May in 1914 for the holiday.

Anna intended this day to be a day where children would go home and spend time with their mother and give thanks for everything she has done.

During Bataan’s ceremony, many of the mothers aboard the ship spoke of the sacriďŹ ce of leaving their children behind while on deployment. “I have been in the Navy for over 12 years and the pain of being away never gets easier,â€? Legalman 1st Class Danielle Greeley said. “The best way I can get through each month is to establish routine. When I make a set schedule and stick with it the time seems to go by faster.â€?

Deployment is never easy when leaving those you love and building and maintaining relationships with limited communication and missing so many important events such as ďŹ rst steps, school plays, games and just seeing constant growth in children from one moment to the next brings a lot of self-doubt and heartache.

The ceremony however was not limited to women as many men joined and spoke of their wives and mothers and other inuential mother ďŹ gures in their lives. “My mother is my favorite person in the world, I could not have been blessed with a more perfect female in my life,â€? Aviation Ordnance Airman Shayn Gillespie explains. “My mother made sure my childhood was a rich and memorable experience for my brother and me. If not for my mother’s love, I can honestly say I wouldn’t be as strong of a young man as I am today. I cherish and honor my loving mother for that.â€?

The ceremony included many funny antidotes regarding interactions with their children or mothers, the mood turned to somber as emotions rose with reminders that all were away from their families, that some have lost their mothers and others made aware of the broken re-

lationship between them and their families. “I would love to tell my mother that I love her and that I’ll be home soon,� Gillespie said. “I would also tell her that she did the best job in the world raising me and I love her for that.�

With the welcome surprise of a few Mother’s Day video shout outs sent by the Bataan Family Readiness Group and playing some Mother’s Day interviews done aboard the ship helped to lighten the mood once more and service members were offered the opportunity to give their own shout outs at the end of the ceremony to be shown on the Bataan’s social media platforms. “Being a mother in the military is tough but it brings attributes to being a leader,�

Greeley said. “The emotional connection to the team beneďŹ ts me and my Sailors. Being honest, adding emotion and also discipline helps in being an effective leader.â€?

Many of the women who spoke during the ceremony agreed with Greeley’s sentiments and thanked the others for their support and mentorship in handling deployment away from their families.

Some remarked to the senior leadership that seeing them rise in ranks and still maintaining a closeness to their family was inspirational and gave them the encouragement that they too could ďŹ nd the balance.

The celebration concluded with the cutting of the Mother’s Day cake and service members chatting and showing photos of their moms, children and wives, with comforting hugs and tissues, and laughs as more amusing stories were told. “Keep your mind on the end game,� Greeley advised. “I know every day is a struggle and your heart will ache like you could never imagine but always remember the life and opportunities you are giving your children every day by serving your country. They may not understand why you do it now, but when

NAVSUP FLC Norfolk Navy food management team holds Asian PaciďŹ c cooking class

By Tom Kreidel NAVSUP FLC Norfolk OfďŹ ce of Corporate Communications NORFOLK

The Naval Supply Systems Command (NAVSUP) Fleet Logistics Center (FLC) Norfolk Navy Food Management Team (NFMT) held an Asian PaciďŹ c cooking seminar for a group of seven culinary specialists, May 9-11.

According to NFMT Senior Chief Culinary Specialist Virgie Villarreal, the focus of the class was to teach junior culinary specialists basic food preparation and culinary techniques as they relate to Asian and PaciďŹ c Island cuisine. “The particular goal of this class was to create a fun and positive environment where culinary specialists from the eet could come to learn fundamental cooking techniques in a structured environment,â€? Villarreal said. “The Navy Food Management Team’s training galley provides the perfect backdrop for this type of training.â€?

The students included culinary specialists from USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75), USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69), USS Vella Gulf (CG 62) and Joint Amphibious Base Little CreekFort Story.

Villarreal explained that the class taught a wide variety of skills as they relate to Asian and PaciďŹ c Island cooking, including knife skills, galley sanitation and galley organization. The class also taught cooking skills for a variety of cultural dishes, including egg drop soup, chicken adobo, and vegetable stir fry, as well as desserts. “I appreciate expanding my knowledge as a culinary specialist so I can take it back to the

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I appreciate expanding my knowledge as a culinary specialist so I can take it back to the fleet.�

Culinary Specialist 3rd Class Dante Stubbs eet,� a student from Harry S. Truman, Culinary Specialist 3rd Class Dante Stubbs said.

Stubbs added that he appreciated the patience shown by the NFMT instructors. “The NFMT instructors provided hands-on step-bystep direction throughout each stage of the cooking process to ensure the students learned the correct method to prepare the menu item that they were assigned,�

Villarreal said. “Generally, smaller class sizes are needed for these types of classes because of the complexity involved in preparing these products.�

May is Asian-American PaciďŹ c Islander Heritage Month. The skills these culinary specialists learned can be used in cultural celebrations back at their duty stations. “Food plays a signiďŹ cant role in cultural celebrations as it helps to outline the history of those in our eet,â€?

Villarreal said.

This class was one of many that are offered by the NFMT throughout the year.

Classes range in topics from galley sanitation, to pastry making and holiday meals.

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NEWS FROM NAS OCEANA NAS Oceana celebrates Asian American, Pacific Islanders month

By MCSN Molly DiServio

Naval Air Station Oceana celebrated Asian American and Pacific Islander month by holding a luncheon May 17th at Dam Neck Annex Galley.

Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders have served in the armed forces with merit and have helped bridge cultural and communication barriers between the Asian/ Pacific countries and the United States. This month long celebration began in 1978 when President Jimmy Carter passed a congressional law proclaiming that the first week in May, to include the 7th and 10th, would be named Asian /Pacific American Week. The month of May was chosen to commemorate the immigration of the first Japanese to the United States on May 7, 1843, and to mark the anniversary of the transcontinental railroad completion on May 10, 1869. The majority of the workers who laid the tracks of that nationunifying railway were Chinese immigrants. It wasn’t until 1992 that congress passed another law expanding the week-long celebration to an annual Asian Pacific American month. This month is designed to recognize the personal achievements and valuable contributions Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders have made within the United States and the armed forces.

This year’s theme for Asian American and Pacific Islanders Heritage month is “Unite

MCSN Molly DiServio Retired Personnel Specialist 2nd Class Petty Officer Joan Sanchez speaks to Naval Air Station Oceana Sailors and marines about her Naval experience as an Asian Pacific American during a Asian Pacific Islander American Month celebration at Dam Neck Annex Galley May 17. This years theme “Unite Our Voices by Speaking Together” is designed to encourage the different Asian Pacific American communities to join together to communicate and help overcome the many misconceptions and stereotypes formed about the community.

Our Voices by Speaking Together”. According to the Federal Asian Pacific American Council (FAPAC) this theme is designed to encourage the different Asian Pacific American communities to join together to communicate and help overcome the many misconceptions and stereotypes formed about the community. FAPAC hopes that by raising the issues and telling stories it will improve representation in the workplace by communicating the benefits of a diverse workforce.

Retired Personnel Specialist Petty Officer 2nd Class Joan Sanchez says to her the theme is about communication and coming together as one in the Navy. “It doesn’t matter what country or culture we are from, we all speak the same language of Navy core values and respect for one another.”

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LESSON IN GREATNESS Blue Angels speak at North Carolina high school

By Tamara R. Dabney Navy Recruiting District Raleigh Public Affairs RALEIGH, N.C.

The Blue Angels airshow is something you have to see to believe.

The in-flight maneuvers that the Blue Angels’ F/A-18 Hornet fighter jet performs would seem impossible to someone who has never seen a Blue Angels airshow; yet, the Blue Angels have been performing these astounding maneuvers for more than 70 years with remarkable precision. Blue Angel Pilot

Lt. Lance Benson spoke to students at Beaufort High School during a community outreach event about what it takes to achieve a seemingly impossible level of greatness.

The Blue Angels’ mission is to represent the pride and professionalism of the Navy and Marine Corps, and to inspire a culture of excellence and service to country. Thousands of people in Beaufort, South Carolina watched in amazement as the Blue Angels thundered across the sky at speeds up to 700 miles per hour, diving and flipping, at extremely close interval and

low altitudes. It was a display of excellence in flight.

The Blue Angels, in their signature Blue and Gold, are a symbol of greatness for people across the United States. According to Lt. Benson, the amount of effort that Beaufort High School students put forth to achieve academic excellence is the same effort that they will need put forth to achieve greatness in any endeavor, to include becoming a Blue Angel.

“There was a ton of information that I had to learn to become a Blue Angel and I

worked hard,” Benson said.

“I was in complete shock when they told me I made the team. If you want to be good at anything, while everyone else is hanging out and partying, you’re going to have to work hard and study.”

Lt. Benson has accumulated more than 2,300 flight hours and 200 carrier assisted landings. His accomplishments would not have been possible without the help of the Blue Angels team. In his opinion, being part of the team is the best part of being a Blue Angel.

“The single best thing

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about being a Blue Angel is the teamwork. The team that I am a part of is second to none,” Benson said. “We have some of the best pilots and aircraft maintainers in the world. Every single one of us are working toward the same goal. It takes all of us to achieve greatness.”

Through their airshows and community outreach events, the Blue Angels highlight the potential for greatness that lives within every American that can be achieved through teamwork.

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Officer Cmdr. Randy Bernacchi says, “It is our hope that when you look into the sky and see Blue Angel aircraft, you see the embodiment of teamwork, professionalism, and precision, but more importantly the capacity for greatness that exists in all Americans.”

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OPSEC, social media: Hidden risks

By MCSN Kristen Yarber USS George Washington Public Affairs NORFOLK

As the ship prepares for a long maintenance period, USS George Washington reminds Sailors how OPSEC is still important.

Loose lips sink ships.

It’s a phrase every Sailor hears at some point in their career. Operational security (OPSEC) training is frequently given to Sailors.

Posters depicting the dangers of violating OPSEC hang on ships’ bulkheads. The issue is stressed time and time again. Constant repetition of this message can cause the crew to forget its importance, especially a crew on a ship that will be in port for a long time, such as the aircraft carrier USS George Washington (CVN 73). However, OPSEC still holds as much importance in port as it does out to sea.

“OPSEC is vital to the George Washington because information doesn’t have an ‘operational’ or ‘maintenance’ phase. It is always valuable to our adversaries,” Washington’s Intelligence Officer Cmdr. Jason Davis said. “In today’s day and age with the advent of social media, information is always plentiful and available.

Therefore, the only way for us to protect ourselves from our adversaries and competitors is to continually rely on a systematic method of how, what and when we present that information.”

For instance, sharing a photo on a social media platform such as Facebook, Twitter or Instagram seems harmless enough. What some do not know is that these photos have something embedded into them that could be of use to our adversaries.

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“One thing that most people don’t know about, in regards to posting photos online, is metadata,” social media manager for George Washington’s Facebook page Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Kris R. Lindstrom said. “When you post a photo on Facebook, regardless of a status or a location tag associated with it, that photo could have information encrypted in it called metadata. Modern cameras log certain metadata like dates, times and even preprogrammed information, but on advanced cameras and some smartphones, it will auto-log locations and other information that is considered OP-

SEC.” Therefore, posting a photo with metadata attached to it can be equated to posting a specific location on social media.

Even posting selfies or photos of coworkers can violate OPSEC, depending on where the photo is taken and what equipment is in the background.

A particular job description can give away sensitive information about how the Navy operates. Posting details about training can disclose specific skills needed for a certain job. Even posting pictures that were taken in a workplace can reveal equipment, which someone

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Misusing OPSEC can lead to punitive action and possible loss of security clearances.

“Exercise common sense,” Legal Clerk Seaman Timothy Parrott said. “Certain things that we see on a day-to-day basis are pretty interesting and pretty cool, but at the same time you don’t want to put your command or your ship at risk by putting it out for the whole world or the whole internet to see.”

Sailors aboard George Washington need to be wellinformed about these OPSEC violations due to the current state of the ship. The ship

will soon begin refuel and complex overhaul (RCOH) and Sailors will experience a completely different environment. Their mission will not only be to rebuild the ship, but to avoid sharing sensitive information about RCOH. The crew must remain vigilant and think twice about the details they post on social media or any other public platform.

Join the conversation with GW online at www.facebook. com /USSGW and www.twitter.com /GW_CVN73. For more news from USS George Washington (CVN 73), visit www.navy.mil/local/cvn73/.

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NAVSUP FLC Norfolk Regional Navy Mail Center trains independent duty postal clerks

By Tom Kreidel NAVSUP FLC Norfolk OfďŹ ce of Corporate Communication NORFOLK

Naval Supply Systems Command (NAVSUP) Fleet Logistics Center (FLC) Norfolk Regional Navy Mail Center hosted an independent duty postal clerk class May 1–12.

According to Regional Navy Mail Center Deputy Director Vic Gonzalez, the class hosted 23 logistics specialists who were in transit to ships and shore commands throughout the Navy and earned them the 3001 Navy Enlisted ClassiďŹ cation (NEC). “The Postal Petty OfďŹ cer (PPO) must be prepared to deal with any postal issues they encounter during dayto-day operations,â€? Gonzalez said. “The knowledge they obtain could have a positive or negative effect in whether the crew gets mail on time or mail gets dispatched in a timely manner.â€?

He added that PPO not only deals with the crew’s personal mail, but also ofďŹ cial mail that could affect things like the receipt of mission critical items, advancement exams and ďŹ tness reports and evaluations. Instructors stress accountability to the students, reminding them that the Regional Navy Mail Center is there to help them with any challenges. “Just like all supply ratings, the Postal Petty OfďŹ cer has a huge impact on command morale,â€? Gonzalez said.

He added that the major

MC1 Kegan Kay Logistics Specialist Seaman Apprentice William Hickey, of Naval Supply Systems Command (NAVSUP) Fleet Logistics Center (FLC) Atsugi Post OfďŹ ce, sorts mail into the individual command mail bags.

parts of the class included mail routing instructions, postal offenses, postage meters, customs and a host of other job requirements for PPOs in the eet.

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This is a drill: Inport emergency team keeps Sailors safe

By MC3 Nathan T. Beard USS Dwight D. Eisenhower Public Affairs ATLANTIC OCEAN

“This is a drill, this is a drill.

Fire, fire, fire, class alpha fire in compartment 02-69-01.

Away the in-port emergency team, provide from Repair Locker 1F.” Sailors assigned to the inport emergency team (IET) onboard the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) jump to their feet and quickly assemble at the repair locker to don their firefighting gear and grab the equipment they need to combat the simulated fire.

IET fights fires, clears chemical spills, patches burst pipes, and dewaters spaces.

“They are the first line of defense when everyone goes home for the day,” IET member Fireman Jeanette Rochefort said.

“The importance of having IET is for the safety of the ship and to respond to any damage that can occur while in port,” Duty fire marshall Damage Controlman 2nd Class Jen Cole said. “Nine times out of 10, damages happen to the ship while we are in port and everyone is diligent in responding to issues when they occur.”

Every duty section on the ship has an IET who are ready to respond at a moment’s notice. The teams are responsible for upholding the integrity of the ship and ensuring all emergencies affecting the ship are dealt with safely and swiftly.

“If something happens to the ship, IET is responsible for how the damage is controlled,” Rochefort said.

“Every Sailor has to be basic damage control qualified to be a member of IET. Sailors need to know how to use the kits, firefighting, fire-hose

MC3 Nathan T. Beard Sailors practice hose-handling skills in the hangar bay aboard the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) during a general quarters drill. The ship is conducting aircraft carrier qualifications during the sustainment phase of the Optimized Fleet Response Plan.

handling, investigating damages safely, and much more.”

This group of motivated Sailors trains every duty day with a variety of drills, as constant practice is needed to keep their damage control skills sharp.

“IET trains constantly on various scenarios that include flooding, toxic gas, fires, hazardous spills, anything that can do damage to the ship,” Cole said. “It is a lot to remember, but knowing that the ship and my shipmates are depending on me to keep them safe motivates me to give my all every day.”

Issues can arise at any time of the day and the IET are prepared at all times.

“IET allows the rest of the crew to go home and sleep soundly knowing that if anything happens to the ship, IET can handle it and the ship will not sink with them on board,” Ship Fire Marshall Chief Warrant Officer Richard Armstrong said.

Being a part of IET is important not only for the duty section, but for the entire crew. Sailors on IET allow everyone to leave the ship for the day knowing that the ship will being taken care of and

will be protected no matter what.

“Damage to the ship can happen at any time,” Cole said. “That’s why IET is always ready to respond to make sure the ship and the crew are always kept safe.”

Eisenhower is currently underway conducting engineering drills as part of the sustainment phase of the Optimized Fleet Response Plan (OFRP).

For more news from USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69), visit www.navy.mil/local/cvn69/.

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Wrongfully posting intimate images leads to administrative separation: Seven things to know From Navy Public Affairs WASHINGTON

Effective immediately, personnel who wrongfully distribute or broadcast intimate images in violation of Article 1168 of U.S. Navy Regulations will face mandatory administrative separation processing, the Navy announced in NAVADMIN 119/17.

“There is no room in our Navy for this toxic behavior,” Chief of Naval Personnel Vice Adm. Robert Burke said. “This new policy shows that we are committed to eradicating this behavior from our force.”

1. Anyone found to have violated the regulation is now subject to mandatory administrative separation processing.

2. Wrongfully distributing or broadcasting an intimate image for personal gain, or with the intent to humiliate, harm, harass, intimidate, threaten or coerce the depicted persons, or with reckless disregard as to whether the depicted person would be humiliated, harmed, intimidated, threatened, or coerced is a violation of Navy regulations.

3. An intimate image is a visual depiction of an iden-

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tifiable person engaging in sexually explicit conduct or that depicts at least one of his or her private areas, and that was taken under circumstances in which the subject had a reasonable expectation

of privacy.

4. Distribution means the act of delivering an image to the possession of another, including transmission by electronic means. Broadcasting means the act of electroni-

cally transmitting a visual image with the intent that it be viewed by a person or persons.

5. This regulatory change complements Article 120c of the Uniformed Code of Military Justice (UCMJ), which prohibits the indecent viewing, visual recording or broadcasting of another person.

6. Military Personnel Manual (MILPERSMAN) Article 1910-233, Mandatory Separation Processing, and MILPERSMAN 1910-142, Separation by Reason of Misconduct — Commission of a Serious Offense, have been

Aviation events to highlight the sea services during 2017 Fleet Week New York From Navy Region MidAtlantic Public Affairs NORFOLK

In support of Fleet Week New York (FWNY), the U.S. sea services will host a variety of aviation static displays to showcase the latest capabilities of today’s maritime services, May 25–29.

Public Events: (free and open to the general public) May 27 10 a.m.–2:30 p.m., Eisenhower Park | East Meadow, N.Y. Event will include U.S. Navy (USN) Parachute Team “The Leap Frogs,” USN and U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) aviation static displays, personnel equipment, EOD demonstration, as well as a performance by Navy Band Northeast “Rhode Island Sound.”

Noon–12:30 p.m.,

Homeport Pier | Staten Island, N.Y. A U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) helicopter will conduct a search and rescue demonstration over open water near the pier. The helicopter crew will drop a mannequin into the water to simulate a person in distress. A rescue swimmer will jump into the water to secure the mannequin, then both will be lifted securely back into the helicopter.

May 28 Noon–4 p.m., Rye Playland | Rye, N.Y. Event will include a ceremony in honor of Memorial Day for veterans and USMC aviation static displays.

Noon–5 p.m., Liberty State Park | Jersey City, N.J. Event will include a parachute jump by The Leap Frogs, USN helicopter demonstration with EOD fast rope, USCG search and rescue demonstration, and performances by the USCG

Silent Drill Team, USMC Battle Color Detachment and Navy Band Northeast.

May 29 2 a.m.–6 p.m., Glen Island Park, New Rochelle | New York — Event will feature USMC aviation static displays.

2 a.m.–2:30 p.m., Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, Pier 86N | Manhattan, New York — A USCG helicopter will conduct a search and rescue demonstration.

4:10 p.m., Citi Field | Flushing, N.Y. During the annual New York Mets Military Appreciation Game at Citi Field, The Leap Frogs will jump into the stadium. Military personnel from all five branches will be represented on the field, the Joint Service Color Guard will present colors, and a member of Navy Band Northeast will sing the national anthem. The Mets play the Milwaukee Brewers.

Public School Events: (Not open to the general public) May 25:

alleled opportunity for the citizens of New York and the surrounding tri-state area to meet Sailors, Marines and Coast Guardsmen, as well as witness firsthand the latest capabilities of today’s maritime services. FWNY will be commemorating the 75th Anniversary of Naval Construction Forces’ “Seabees.”

8:30 a.m.–10:30 a.m., Somerset County Vocational and Technical High School | Bridgewater, N.J. 10 a.m.–3:30 p.m., Millburn High School | Millburn, N.J. 1:30 p.m.–3 p.m., Harrison High School | Harrison, For up-to-date information N.J. on all FWNY events, visit www.fleetweeknewyork.com, May 26: “Like” FleetWeekNewYork 9 a.m.–2:30 p.m., Cen- on Facebook, or “Follow” tral Islip High School | Cen- @FleetWeekNYC on Twitter. tral Islip, N.Y. FWNY photos can be viewed 9:30 a.m.–11 a.m., Cur- on Flickr at www.flickr.com/ tis High School | Staten Is- photos/fwnypao and Instaland, N.Y. gram at www.instagram.com/ 1:30 a.m.–3 p.m., Gar- fleetweeknyc. field High School | Garfield, Join the conversation on N.J. social media by using Now in its 29th year, #FleetWeekNYC. Follow the FWNY is the city’s time- Seabee Commemoration at honored celebration of the #Seabee75th. sea services. It is an unpar-

Opportunity to experience Middle Eastern culture while having fun UAE |

Continued from A1 Sailors of the George H.W. Bush Carrier Strike Group (GHWBCSG) experienced this while on a Morale, Welfare and Recreation (MWR) tour of the sand dunes of Dubai. It was an opportunity to gain a little exposure to Middle Eastern culture while having fun.

“I just love the exotic vibe that Dubai and the UAE give off,” Culinary Specialist 3rd Class Samantha Masters said. “I’ve never been to the Middle East and for me, it’s a once in a lifetime experience, so it fills me with joy that I was here in person.”

The tour began with Sailors being split into small groups and boarding SUVs with a driver at the ready.

They were driven down the highway for several miles before the SUVs pulled over

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in the desert and Sailors were able to get out, stretch their legs and take photos of the dunes that expand for miles.

“It kind of freaks me out just how far the desert goes out,” Masters said. “I’m not from a place where we have deserts, but what surprised me was the sand. It’s reddish and soft which only adds to the exoticness of this place.”

Once the tour group was ready to move on, their drivers lowered the air pressure of the SUV’s tires, much to the surprise and confusion of a few Sailors. Any lingering questions were quickly answered when the drivers drove faster and swerved through the sand dunes of the desert while blaring techno music.

“Once we really started to drive into the dunes, it became quite the rollercoaster,” Damage Controlman 3rd

Class Franjesca Roca said.

“It was definitely a unique and fun way to experience a tour.”

The caravan of vehicles eventually made it to a camp where Sailors were served some appetizers and drinks, and could ride on camels or purchase local garb and sand art from the stores.

“The camels were cute and it was a fun little ride,” Masters said. “The camp is like an oasis in the middle of a desert.

This experience is something I can check off my bucket list.”

As the hours went by and sunset arrived, Sailors were treated to dinner and performances by dancers, including a belly dancer.

“The dancers just made the night even more fun,” Roca said. “We all got into the overall mood of the night, especially when the belly dancer pulled people from the audi-

MC3 Michael B. Zingaro Sailors assigned to the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77) take photos on May 15 at the Dubai Marina during a Morale, Welfare and Recreation tour.

ence to dance along. This was just an amazing experience, and one that I won’t soon forget.”

As the performances ended and the tour drew to a close, Sailors made their way back to the SUVs, leaving the dunes of Dubai with joy in their hearts and an experience that not many get to have.

Whether it was the food, the people, the local culture or the ambiance, they walked away with memories and a story to

tell their loved ones back home about their port visit to Dubai.

The GHWBCSG is conducting naval operations in the U.S. 6th Fleet area of operations in support of U.S. national security interests.

For more news from USS George H.W. Bush visit www.navy.mil/local/cvn77 or www.facebook.com/ ussgeorgehwbush/.

| RCOH began in March 2013, ‘breathed new life into Lincoln’

Continued from A1 with high-speed maneuvers, that tested the ship’s systems and crew.

“Every Sailor, shipyard worker and contractor involved with RCOH and redelivery should be standing tall as we bring this mighty warship back home to Norfolk and put her back into service for the U.S. Navy,” Lincoln Commanding Officer Capt.

Ronald Ravelo said. “Get-

ting Lincoln back into the fight was truly an all-hands effort, and I could not be more proud of the crew who helped make that happen.”

The success of sea trials marks another step taken towards Abraham Lincoln to becoming, ready for tasking on the open ocean.

The carrier began its RCOH period in March 2013. During the four-year evolution, Lincoln Sailors amassed more than 2.5 mil-

lion man-hours toward the completion of RCOH. Sailors, shipyard workers and contractors worked sideby-side on board the ship, working to achieve such milestones as refueling the ship’s propulsion plant, modernizing combat systems and upgrading infrastructure all imperative to allowing the ship to serve another 25 years in the fleet.

“Approximately 33 percent of Lincoln’s lifecycle mainte-

nance was performed during this RCOH,” Chief Engineer Cmdr. Hannah Kriewaldt said. “Additionally, the crew took on an unprecedented volume of production and testing efforts. Every distributed system was secured, retooled, and brought back to life. The shipbuilders, other maintenance providers, and ship’s force should be very proud having breathed new life into Lincoln for another 25 years.”

USS Abraham Lincoln is the fifth Nimitz-class aircraft carrier to complete RCOH, a major lifecycle milestone at Newport News Shipbuilding, a division of Huntington Ingalls Industries in Newport News. She returns to the fleet as one of the most modern and technologically advanced Nimitz-class aircraft carriers in service and will continue to be a vital part of the nation’s defense for an additional 25 years.

updated to reflect this new policy for enlisted personnel.

Officers who violate Article 1168 will be subject to administrative separation processing in accordance with SECNAVINST 1920.6C. 7. This NAVADMIN applies to offenses that take place on or after May 16.

Earlier offenses will be punished under existing regulations.

Read NAVADMIN 119/17 at www.public.navy.mil/ bupers-npc/reference/messages /Documents /ALNAVS/ ALN2017/ALN17021.txt

SOY | Sailors,

families toured Washington, attend events in their honor Continued from A1 Class Mark W. Brown II, of the U.S. Navy Reserve; Cryptologic Technician (Technical) 1st Class Courtney P. Evers, from U.S. Fleet Forces; Interior Communications Electrician 1st Class Brent T. Schermerhorn, from U.S. Pacific Fleet; and Logistics Specialist 1st Class Amber L. Wilson, from U.S. Navy Shore.

Before introducing Moran, Giordano congratulated the SOYs for their hard work and dedication that paved the way to their success and spoke about the effect of the chief petty officer.

“We require toughness and the steely grit to see missions accomplished,” Giordano said. “As chief petty officers, we are confidently humble experts with a sacred obligation to develop the next generation of chiefs who are capable of leading Sailors, guiding and mentoring junior officers, and providing sound counsel to senior officers.”

Giordano continued by saying that the rank of chief petty officer is not to be taken lightly and emphasized the importance of leaving a legacy.

“Be ever mindful that legacy is not based on what we wear on our collar or on our sleeve when we depart this great Navy,” Giordano said.

“But, knowing that the people we had the opportunity to serve alongside will be better than what we were.”

Throughout their weeklong visit to Washington, the Sailors of the Year and their families toured historic sites and enjoyed special events held in their honor.

The Sailor of the Year program was established in 1972 by the Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Elmo Zumwalt and Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy John Whittet to recognize an individual Sailor who best represented the ever-growing group of dedicated professional Sailors at each command and ultimately the Navy.

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US, JMSDF complete PASSEX in South China Sea From Destroyer Squadron 7 Public Affairs SOUTH CHINA SEA

Ships from the U.S Navy and Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) completed a passing exercise (PASSEX) in the South China Sea. The PASSEX included personnel exchanges, cross-deck flight operations, communications exercises, division tactics, a tracking exercise and photo exercise. The bilateral event aimed to enhance interoperability between the two navies and emphasized the importance of communications and coordination while operating together at sea.

“This was another great opportunity for the U.S. Navy to work closely with JMSDF at sea,” Deputy Commodore of Destroyer Squadron 7 Capt.

Alexis Walker said. “Integrating the crews through personnel exchanges allows our sailors to build and strengthen the personal relationships that are the foundation of our naval partnership.”

Ships participating from the JMSDF included the Izumoclass helicopter destroyer JS Izumo (DDH-183), with embarked Escort Flotilla One Command Element, and the Takanami-class destroyer JS Sazanami (DD-113).

“The U.S.-Japan alliance is stronger than it has ever been, and it is growing stronger,”

MC3 Deven Leigh Ellis The littoral combat ship USS Coronado (LCS 4) is underway during a photo exercise as part of the Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training (CARAT) exercise with the Republic of Singapore and Royal Thai navies. CARAT is a series of annual maritime exercises aimed at strengthening partnerships and increasing interoperability through bilateral and multilateral engagements ashore and at sea.

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For contraception, think PINC

By Madison Marcantel Naval Health Clinic Cherry Point Public Affairs CHERRY POINT, N.C.

Naval Health Clinic Cherry Point (NHCCP) will open a PINC (Process Improvement for Non-delayed Contraception) clinic June 14.

Located in the Women’s Health clinic, NHCCP beneficiaries will soon have access to contraception counseling as well as same day Intrauterine Device (IUD) insertion and Birth Control Implants from 12 to 4 p.m. every Wednesday.

According to the Navy Bureau of Medicine (BUMED), the Women’s Health Continuum of Care Advisory Board was created in 2013 in response to a long-standing concern of disproportionately high unplanned pregnancy rates in the Navy and Marine Corps. Unplanned pregnancy and contraception closely align with readiness and health.

To tackle the issue, the advisory board developed PINC, in an effort towards providing readily available contraception for all active-duty females and dependents.

According to the congressional findings of the Access to Contraception for Women Service Mem-

bers and Dependents Act of 2017, “studies have shown that when cost barriers to methods of contraception are eliminated and women receive counseling on the methods, including the highly effective Long-Acting Reversible Contraceptive (LARC), rates of unplanned pregnancy decline.”

LARC methods include IUDs and the birth control implant. According to the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologist, LARC methods are 20 times more effective than other birth control methods.

For women who prefer not to use one of the LARC methods, oral contraceptives will also be available.

Upon checking into the PINC

clinic, patients will provide a urine sample to check for pregnancy. Additional testing for gonorrhea and chlamydia will be available at the patient’s request. Patients will be counseled by their provider about the risks and benefits of the birth control method chosen, and the new prescription will be initiated, or the LARC will be inserted on the day of their visit. If the patient is unable to have the procedure that day, the patient will be assisted in obtaining an appointment as soon as possible.

PINC clinics have already proven successful at other Navy Military Treatment facilities including Naval Medical Center, San Diego, California, where more than 300 patients have been seen this month alone, and where 40 percent of their patients have chosen the LARC insertion method.

“Unplanned pregnancies impact the individual, the family and the readiness of the individual’s unit,” said Lt. Christina Pinkston, NHCCP’s PINC clinic coordinator, “Therefore, it’s imperative as a command and as a service, to address this issue in an effective and expedient manner for the patient, the family and the mission.”

NHCCP’s PINC clinic will be

staffed by OB/GYN’s, Certified Nurse Midwives and family practice providers dedicated to administering the highest quality of care.

In addition to San Diego, Operation PINC is operating in three other clinics, making NHCCP the fifth command to implement the program. NHCCP will have a ‘pink’ ribbon cutting ceremony June 14, at NHCCP to celebrate the opening of the new clinic.

Named after Medal of Honor recipient, Pharmacist’s Mate 2nd Class William D. Halyburton, the Naval Health Clinic Cherry Point provides high-quality patient care to more than 33,000 active-duty members and Department of Defense beneficiaries. In addition to outpatient surgical services, NHCCP offers Medical Home Port (including family care and pediatrics), dermatology, internal medicine, orthopedics, physical therapy, mental health, pharmacy services, preventive medicine, aviation medicine and radiology to include MRIs. For more news from Naval Health Clinic Cherry Point, visit www. navy.mil/local/nhccp/.

The poetry of ‘Taps’ One evening in 1981 while I was at summer camp, I took a deep breath, and blew a little too hard on the bugle’s mouthpiece.

The counselor who played “Taps” each night to signal “lights out” to the campers had agreed to let me be the substitute bugler that evening. Using only Lisa Smith one semester of French Molinari horn lessons, I blasted the first note, tempoMilitary spouse rarily silencing the contributor cacophony of crickets and frogs rising from the lake.

I relaxed my diaphragm to soften the sound and continued, measure by measure. Just before the high G, I squeezed my eyelids shut and thinned out my lips. Would I make the note?

Those whose loved ones died in war while serving in the US military know the sound of that high G all too well. In fact, they probably remember every one of the song’s 24 notes, because it is the somber bugle call played at all military funerals.

But many don’t realize that “Taps” didn’t start as a military burial tradition. The refrain we know today was created in 1862, on the back of an envelope at a weary Civil War encampment along the James River in Virginia.

After seven hard days of fighting, Union Army Brigadier General Daniel Butterfield decided he didn’t like the formal French bugle call (Napoleon’s favorite) known in Army manuals as “Extinguish Lights.” He felt the rat-a-tat tune needed to be more melodic, so after his aide translated Butterfield’s inspiration into notes scribbled on the back of an envelope, he enlisted the help of the brigade bugler Private Oliver Wilcox Norton to play it at camp that night and each night thereafter.

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resulting melody, which some called “Butterfield’s Lullaby.”

Soon, this new version of “Taps” spread throughout Union Army, and eventually, to the Confederate soldiers as well. Shortly thereafter, commands began using the bugle call while burying fallen Civil War soldiers, instead of the traditional three volleys of rifle fire, because they worried that the sound of gunfire might be mistaken for an enemy attack.

In 1891, Army infantry regulations officially included “Taps” in military funeral ceremonies.

Another lesser-known fact is that “Taps” has lyrics. Although several authors have been attributed to the simple poetry, the true author of the words is officially unknown.

General Butterfield may not have envisioned that the bedtime melody he hummed to his aide along the James River on that steamy summer night in 1862 would be as-

sociated with the tragedy of death.

However, the words that accompany “Taps” marry sleep with death in a beautiful metaphor that must offer some comfort to the griefstricken families of fallen heroes.

Day is done, gone the sun, From the hills, from the lake, from the skies.

All is well, safely rest, God is nigh.

Go to sleep, peaceful sleep, May the soldier, or sailor, God keep.

On the land, or the deep, Safe in sleep.

Love, good night, Must thou go, When the day, and the night, need thee so?

All is well. Speedeth all To their rest.

Fades the light; and afar, Goeth day, and the stars, shineth bright.

Fare thee well; day has gone, Night is on.

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Thanks and praise, for our days, ‘Neath the sun, ‘neath the stars, ‘neath the sky, As we go, this we know, God is nigh.

That night in 1981, after two flat misfires echoed from my bugle into the dusk, I finally made the high G note. As I finished the song, I felt as if I might cry. Unsure if it was selfish pride or something else, the melancholy tune tugged dolefully at my heart.

At age 15, I didn’t know that “Taps” had accompanied the burial of countless fallen American military heroes. But undeniably, the notes conveyed a sense of something simple, yet complex. Something ceasing, yet eternal. Something comforting, yet sorrowful.

The tragic yet peaceful call of “lights out.”

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Pacific Partnership 2017 partners with Project HOPE

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By MC3 Madailein Abbott DA NANG, VIETNAM

Each year Pacific Partnership provides support and the exchanging of knowledge to help strengthen relationships with partner nations around the world. An integral part of Pacific Partnership 2017 has been its volunteers from the Project HOPE foundation, which delivers essential medicine and supplies, health expertise and medical training to respond to disaster, prevent disease, promote wellness and save lives.

Project HOPE’s humanitarian assistance programs occur worldwide to provide resources where they are needed most. Emergency missions and organized groups provide medical care with volunteer doctors and nurses, exchanging expertise and skills with local providers while helping to rehabilitate health facilities and provide essential medicine and supplies.

One Project HOPE volunteer on the Pacific Partnership 2017 Da Nang team described how the organization’s partnership with the U.S. Navy has opened doors for humanitarian efforts like Pacific Partnership.

“I think it’s great when we can work together on something instead of working on separate projects with the same goal,” Disaster Medical Response Advisor with Project HOPE Jim Schermerhorn said. “The end result has the capacity to be much greater when we bring our abilities and knowledge to the table and work together.”

During Pacific Partnership 2017, volunteers from Project HOPE teamed up with U.S., Japanese and Australian military medical personnel, as well as Vietnamese doctors and nurses to exchange knowledge while treating pa-

Photos by MC2 Joshua Fulton Christine Booth, Project Hope volunteer, comforts a burn victim receiving medical care from U.S. Navy doctors Vietnamese doctors at Da Nang General Hospital during Pacific Partnership 2017 Da Nang May 9. Pacific Partnership is the largest annual multilateral humanitarian assistance and disaster relief preparedness mission conducted in the Indo-Asia-Pacific and aims to enhance regional coordination in areas such as medical readiness and preparedness for manmade and natural disasters.

Project Hope volunteers review an x-ray with Lt. Cmdr. Susanne Pickman, right, of Naval Hospital Camp Pendleton and Vietnamese doctors at Da Nang General Hospital during Pacific Partnership 2017 Da Nang, May 9.

tients in local hospitals. From performing knee surgeries to treating burn victims, every member of the medical team has made a meaningful impact, providing help and care to the community of Da Nang.

“There’s been a lot of knowledge sharing on this mission with the locals and ourselves,” Nora Chovick, pharmacists and Project HOPE volunteer said. “Instances such as how they’re dressing wounds for a patient, or what medicines they’re using, and we’re find-

ing that they’re doing it almost the same way we do it. They have quite good clinical skills here at the hospitals which is great because it makes it easier to pass exchange ideas.”

The history of Project HOPE has deep ties with the United States Navy, beginning with Dr. William B. Walsh, who serving as a medical officer aboard a destroyer during World War II, was moved by the poor health conditions he saw in regions of the South Pacific. In 1958, Walsh per-

suaded President Dwight D. Eisenhower to donate a U.S. Navy hospital ship, the USS Consolation. The ship was transformed into the SS HOPE, and the organization known as Project HOPE was born. Today, the spirit of the SS HOPE lives on through Project HOPE’s partnership with the U.S. Navy, which sends medical volunteers around the globe to provide health care and health education in partnership missions like Pacific Partnership 2017.

Perhaps no other region is as diverse culturally, economically or in terms of religion as the Southeast Asian

region. However each country faces similar health threats; the health of women and children, childhood cancers and infectious and chronic diseases have been identified as important health issues and Project HOPE serves on the front lines in fighting them. With the organizations partnership with Pacific Partnership 2017, they can offer sustainable solutions to health care needs by providing education for health professionals and addressing issues related to infectious diseases and women’s health.

“Project HOPE is a good organization in the sense that it’s involved with a lot of disaster response and humanitarian efforts like Pacific Partnership that really help people; these are the things that we think are important and it’s why we volunteer,” Schermerhorn said. “Project HOPE and Pacific Partnership have a lot of the same goals,

Project HOPE and Pacific Partnership have a lot of the same goals, so the missions sync up very well with each other, and we both achieve our goals by working together.”

Disaster Medical Response Advisor with Project HOPE so the missions sync up very well with each other, and we both achieve our goals by working together.”

Project HOPE’s influence in Pacific Partnership 2017 continues to inspire both civilian and military personnel involved with the humanitarian assistance and disaster relief mission. Many of the volunteers in Da Nang will continue on to Khanh Hoa for the last stop of Pacific Partnership 2017 before returning home.

“We’re especially working together for the patients here in Da Nang as well as to gain knowledge and pass on our own,” Chovick said. “I’ve learned a lot working with all the team members here both from Vietnam and abroad, and I’m ready to learn more as we continue Pacific Partnership.”

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NRL tests autonomous ‘Soaring with Solar’ concept

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The Solar Photovoltaic and Autonomous Soaring Base Program and the U.S. Marine Corps’ Expeditionary Energy Office (E2O) want to improve the ability of unmanned platforms to support 24-7 information, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) missions.

Researchers at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), Vehicle Research Section and Photovoltaic Section are building on the proven concept of autonomous cooperative soaring of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Their research investigates the presence of solar photovoltaics (PV) to the cooperative autonomous soaring techniques, which enables long endurance flights of unmanned sailplanes that use the power of the sun.

By doing so, the warfighter will greatly benefit because it will reduce the amount of batteries or fuel they must carry into battle, and improve the availability of continuous coverage of ISR assets.

“NRL has twice flown our solar UAV [based on the SBXC sailplane] over 10 hours using a combination of solar photovoltaics and autonomous soaring as part of the ‘solar-soaring’ research program,” Aerospace Engineer Dr. Dan Edwards said.

“This research is investigating the value of combining autonomous soaring algorithms and solar photovoltaics for capturing energy from the environment to extend flight endurance and mission operations of an aircraft.”

A photovoltaic array, custom built in NRL’s Vehicle Research Section and Photovoltaic Section, is integrated

U.S. Naval Research Laboratory Holding the photovoltaic (PV) UAV based on the SBXC sailplane, are members of the ‘Solar-Soaring’ research flight crew Dan Edwards, left, and Trent Young, right.

into the center wing panel of the PV-SBXC aircraft as a drop-in replacement to the original wing. A power management and distribution system converts the power from the solar arrays into direct current (DC) voltage, which the electric motor can use for propulsion, or recharge a ‘smart battery.’

Additionally, an autonomous soaring software algorithm—that would typically monitor the local vertical winds around the aircraft— commands the aircraft to orbit in any nearby updrafts, very similar to soaring birds.

However, the algorithm was disabled for the two solar flights in order to assess the solar-only performance. Passive soaring—meaning no specific maneuvers are attempted to catch thermals—

was still allowed, to let the aircraft turn the motor off if altitude increased because of an updraft along the aircraft’s pre-defined flight path. The autonomous soaring software was tested extensively in previous flight demonstrations in late October 2015.

The UAV with solar arrays built at NRL using SunPower Inc. solar cells, flew for 10 hours, 50 minutes on October 14, 2016. Takeoff occurred at 7:20 a.m. at 95 percent battery state of charge and landing occurred at 6:10 p.m. with the battery at 10 percent state of charge. Thermal activity was very good in the middle of the day and 40 percent of the flight was spent with the motor off, and the solar array partly recharged the battery while the motor was off.

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The power management system for both flights was provided by Packet Digital, Inc., as part of a grant from the North Dakota Renewable Energy Council.

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significant endurance gains are possible by leveraging thermal updrafts and incident solar radiation, rather than ignoring these free sources of energy,” Edwards. “Future testing will focus on quantifying the trade space between improvements in solar cell efficiency and combining with autonomous soaring for improved solar-recharging.”

The Vehicle Research Section at NRL conducts research to develop technologies for autonomous, affordably expendable, unmanned systems that carry a wide variety of payloads for numerous mission scenarios. The Section is composed of aeronautical, aerospace, electrical, and mechanical engineers, scientists, and technicians dedicated to advancing the state-of-the-art in unmanned systems tech-

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College in your future? Tuition assistance dollars are available before the term start date.�

For Sailors in the Continental United States (CONUS), contact a Navy College education counselor with your questions via the NCP website at (www.navycollege.navy. mil) “Assistance Center,� using Help Requests, CHAT or call the Navy College Virtual Education Center (VEC) at 877-838-1659, DSN 492-4684. Customer service hours are Monday-Friday, 7 a.m.– 7 p.m. EST. The VEC is closed on federal holidays. The website also includes training, informational videos, and briefs to help Sailors navigate the VOLED process.

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For service members interested in pursuing or continuing their education while on active duty, Navy tuition assistance (TA) is designed to help. “Two of the questions we get asked most often are ‘How do I get started with my education?’ and ‘How do I pay for it?’,� Naval Education and Training Professional Development Center Voluntary Education (VOLED) Program Director Ernest D’Antonio said. “The answers are easy. 1) Start with the Navy College Program (NCP) website or Virtual Education Center (VEC), and 2) Talk with your Navy College Education Counselor to ensure TA eligibility and 3) Apply.�

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- TA can be used to pay for courses leading to a ďŹ rst certiďŹ cate, associate, bachelor’s or master’s degree.

- TA funded classes, combined with credits already earned from a service member’s military training

from their Joint Services Transcript (JST), may accelerate degree completion while on active duty. Also, Final Multiple Score advancement points are available for degree completion through the E-6 exam.

Navy VOLED deputy director Lt. Cmdr. Nick Turner, stressed that TA money is currently available and Sailors have a broad window in which to apply. “The summer term is fast ap-

For the latest information on Navy Voluntary Education, visit www.facebook.com /NavyVolunMC3 Brittany N Tobin taryEducation / or www.navycollege.navy.mil /. proaching and now is not too soon to begin planning for the fall term For more news from Naval Educaas well,� Turner said. “Sailors need tion And Training Professional to ensure their WebTA applications Development And Technology are submitted and command ap- Center, visit www.navy.mil/local/ proved between 120 and 14 days NETPDTC/.

Navy HHG provides moving tips for peak moving season

By Suzanna Brugler NAVSUP GLS OfďŹ ce of Corporate Communications and Public Affairs SAN DIEGO

Naval Supply Systems Command Global Logistics Support (NAVSUP GLS) Household Goods (HHG) provided information and moving tips directed toward Sailors and their families who will be executing an HHG move during the current peak season May 17.

HHG peak season runs from the beginning of May through August.

Start the process early and be exible.

The high volume of moves during peak season drives a 4-6 week lead time for

scheduling moves. Moving company capacity challenges are already evident in Hawaii and the East Coast.

Start the process early by going to www.navsup.navy. mil/householdgood for information. Be sure to indicate alternate dates for pack out and pickup when completing the application.

Pre-move survey Once the service member initiates the move online, the shipment contract has been awarded, and the transportation service provider (TSP) assigned, the TSP will contact the service member to schedule and perform the pre-move survey. Be aware the TSP will conduct a pre-

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Preble employed tactics that assured that assets from the ARG were protected during the opposed RAS, which will prove effective in a realworld scenario. On the decks of the surface combatants, training and teamwork made all the difference in the scenario’s execution.

“This is a very difficult evolution to complete and we executed it to the letter,” USS America Assistant Operations Officer Lt. Cmdr.

Jeffrey Brill said. “The training scenarios and exercises we are executing now are preparing us for possible situations that could occur during our upcoming deployment. It’s imperative that we train the way we fight so when we are called upon, we fight the way we have trained.”

The America ARG is commanded by CPR 3 and currently conducting Composite Training Unit Exercise (COMPTUEX) off the coast of California. The exercise is designed to forge the ships of the America Amphibious Ready group into a fullyfunctioning combat force providing a robust set of seabased capabilities, an extensive set of ship-to-shore connectors, and the ability to respond to crises and deter transnational threats. This enables the Navy-Marine Corps team to shape actions across the range of military operations to resolve conflict, conduct humanitarian assistance or combat the enemy in remote, austere environments that would otherwise be inaccessible.

By MC1 Demetrius Kennon USS America Public Affairs PACIFIC OCEAN

The America Amphibious Ready Group (ARG) conducted an opposed replenishment-at-sea (RAS) training exercise with the fleet replenishment oiler USNS Henry J. Kaiser (T-AO 187) and a Los Angeles-class attack submarine playing the part as an enemy threat, May 11.

The America ARG is comprised of the amphibious assault ship USS America (LHA 6), amphibious dock landing ship USS Pearl Harbor (LSD 52), and amphibious transport dock ship USS San Diego (LPD 22).

During the opposed RAS, both America and Pearl Harbor received stores as they steamed alongside Henry J. Kaiser with Arleigh Burkeclass guided-missile destroyer USS Preble (DDG 88) out front and San Diego in the rear, all while being engaged by a simulated threat.

Additionally, helicopters assigned to the “Wildcards” of Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 23 airlifted pallets of stores from ship to ship. The simulated submarine threat, represented by USS Pasadena (SSN 752), helped assure that a complex yet routine evolution such as a RAS can be executed in a contested area.

“Ultimately the business that we’re in is warfighting.

When we deploy, we’re going to be at sea for extended periods of time which will require us to take on fuel and supplies while underway,” Intelligence Specialist 1st Class Armando Rodriguez said, team leader for the ship’s nautical or otherwise photographic interpretation and examination team.

“With us being tethered to

MC2 Kristina Young Gunner’s Mate 3rd Class Ryan Sawhook assigned to the weapons department aboard the amphibious assault ship USS America (LHA 6), fires a shot line with an M14 rifle to the fleet replenishment oiler USNS Henry J. Kaiser (T-AO 187) during a replenishment-at-sea.

Henry J. Kaiser, as we were today, we would become a vulnerable target, had we not been strategically aligned for opposing forces.

So training for an opposed RAS is critical, especially as we prepare for deployment.”

Being able to conduct underway replenishment is key to ensuring U.S. forces in the region can remain ready and prepared to rapidly respond to crises across the spectrum of operations from humanitarian assistance and disaster relief to armed conflict.

“This exercise designed for when we go into theater in 5th Fleet, when we are in a harm’s way,” combat information center watch officer Operations Specialist 1st Class Jorge Gallegos said.

When Pasadena was detected as the simulated threat, the America ARG’s immediate defensive response was to ‘go dark’ by decreasing the ships electromagnetic signature.

“Because we shut down most of our sensors, it was difficult for us to detect the sub’s location,” Gallegos For more news from USS said. “So Preble, who was America (LHA 6), visit operating all their sensors, www.navy.mil/local/lha6/. also supported by seeking

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MC2 Ramon Go Aviation Ordnanceman 2nd Class Ranching Qi uses chains to secure white phosphorus smoke ammunition onboard the amphibious assault ship USS America (LHA 6). More than 1,800 Sailors and 2,600 Marines assigned to the America Amphibious Ready Group (ARG) and the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) are currently conducting a Composite Training Unit Exercise (COMPTUEX) off the coast of Southern California in preparation for the ARG’s deployment later this year. The America ARG is comprised of America, the amphibious dock landing ship, USS Pearl Harbor (LSD 52) and the amphibious transport dock USS San Diego (LPD 22).

America conducts ammunition transfer with Makin Island

By MC3 Arnesia McIntyre USS America Public Affairs PACIFIC OCEAN

The amphibious assault ship USS America (LHA 6) received unexpended ammunition during an ordnance transfer from the amphibious assault ship USS Makin Island (LHD 8) while underway off the coast of Southern California during a Composite Unit Training Exercise (COMPTUEX), May 12.

Makin Island is currently returning home from a seven-month deployment to the Pacific, Middle East, and the Horn of Africa as America prepares for its maiden deployment later this summer.

While Makin Island was off the coast of Southern California an MH-60S Sea Hawk assigned to Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron 23 transported RIM-116 rolling airframe standard missile (SM) 2’s from the Makin Island to America’s flight deck. These missiles are an upgrade to America’s original ammunition load-out earlier in the year.

“What they’re giving us is something that is going to be better for us in the 5th Fleet,” Ordnance control leading chief petty officer Chief Aviation Ordnanceman Javier Keyser said. “We want to ensure our ammo is the latest and greatest.”

America is armed with two RAM launchers that hold 21 SM 2’s. This missile system is America’s second line of defense, with an approximately three nautical mile range, and is a lightweight, quick reaction, fire and forget missile designed to destroy anti-ship cruise missiles and asymmetrical air and surface threats.

“Before deployment, we are going to load them up into our forward and aft RAM launchers and they will stay there while we are in harm’s way.” Combat Systems main-

MCSA Chad Swysgood Aviation Ordnanceman 2nd Class Alex George and Aviation Ordnanceman Airman Jailene Benitez run to a safe zone after attaching a cable to an MH-60 Sea Hawk helicopter assigned to Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 23 aboard the amphibious assault ship USS America (LHA 6).

tenance manager Chief Fire Controlman Joseph Tsicouris said.

America is currently underway conducting COMPTUEX, but the opportunity to receive ordnance and ammunition from the Makin Island was a chance to further prepare for deployment.

“This is a highly visible ship, not only being the America, but being one of the newest ships in the fleet,” Keyser said. “This is a different type of mission. We want to make sure we are getting everything we need and that they are allowing us to go into the fight with the most advanced weapons.”

The missile cross-deck transfer is one of the final evolutions for the Makin Island’s deployment as they return to Naval Base San Diego.

For America, the cross-deck means the ship is one step closer to being prepared for its upcoming maiden deployment this summer.

“It’s kind of like we’re doing a turnover for watch,” Keyser said. “Salute, go home, and now we’re going to be able to go on our deployment.”

More than 1,800 Sailors and 2,600 Marines assigned to the America Amphibious Ready Group (ARG) and the

15th Marine Expeditionary Unit are embarked on board the ship during COMPTUEX. The America The America ARG is commanded by CPR 3 and consists of USS America (LHA 6), San Antonioclass amphibious transport dock USS San Diego (LPD 22), and Harpers Ferry-class amphibious dock landing ship USS Pearl Harbor (LSD 52) and more than 1,800 Marines from the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit.

Composite Training Unit Exercise (COMPTUEX) is designed to forge the ships of the America Amphibious Ready group into a fullyfunctioning combat force providing a robust set of sea-based capabilities, an extensive set of ship-to-shore connectors, and the ability to respond to crises and deter transnational threats. This enables the Navy-Marine Corps team to shape actions across the range of military operations to resolve conflict, conduct humanitarian assistance or combat the enemy in remote, austere environments that would otherwise be inaccessible.

For more news from USS America (LHA 6), visit www. navy.mil/local/lha6/.

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CNO, Coronado, Sterett highlight US Navy presence at Singapore’s international maritime review From CTF 73 Public Affairs SINGAPORE

The littoral combat ship USS Coronado (LCS 4) and guided-missile destroyer USS Sterett (DDG 104) represented the U.S. in the International Maritime Defense Exposition 2017 (IMDEX) in Singapore.

The ships and crew were joined

by Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson, who was hosted

by Republic of Singapore navy (RSN) Chief Adm. Lai Chung Han for the RSN 50th anniversary celebration and international maritime review along with engagement associated with IMDEX. “Let’s congratulate the Republic of Singapore navy for their 50th MC1 Nathan Laird anniversary; their golden jubilee,” Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson holds a media availability Richardson said. “What better way after meeting with the crew of the littoral combat ship USS Coronado (LCS 4). to celebrate that anniversary than The ship is moored in Changi, Singapore in preparation for the International an International Maritime Review Maritime Defense Exhibition. in the company of so many partner navies. It’s very clear to me two ships demonstrates our com- co-scheduled with IMDEX and that partnerships are built into the mitment to partnerships as well.” brought together 27 ships from Singapore DNA. The fact that the Singapore’s inaugural Inter- 21 navies and chiefs of navies United States Navy was here with national Maritime Review was and coast guards from around the

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globe. The International Maritime Review featured a ship parade rendering honors to the President of Singapore Tony Tan Keng Yam and the participating chiefs of navies.

“We were very honored to have Coronado showcased during Singapore’s International Maritime Review,” Coronado Commanding Officer Cmdr. Douglas Meagher said. “This event, and the International Maritime Defense Exhibition that followed served as a reminder of how important the oceans are to our collective prosperity as sea-faring nations. Our Sailors continue to excel at this mission while building maritime partnerships both at sea and ashore.”

IMDEX is the Indo-Asia-Pacific’s flagship maritime defense show and provides an avenue for stakeholders, industry representatives and naval leaders to liaise and collaborate.

“We are excited and honored to have participated in IMDEX this year,” Sterett Commanding Officer Cmdr. Claudine Caluori said. “We

have built strong alliances and partnerships for decades that contribute to regional security and stability in the Indo-Asia-Pacific region and IMDEX provided an opportunity to further enhance defense cooperation and reinforce these ties.”

Coronado hosted Principle Assistant Deputy Secretary of Defense Kristin French, as well as Commander of U.S. 7th Fleet Vice Adm. Jospeh Aucoin and Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force Chief of Staff Adm. Yutaka Murakawa. Sterett played host to the Republic of Singapore Deputy Prime Minister Teo, Chee Hean for a tour and visit with the ship’s crew. Both ships also welcomed more than 1,000 visitors, including defense industry professionals, trade press, and academics, during public tours and receptions.

The U.S. routinely participates in International Maritime Reviews and trade shows like IMDEX to promote dialogue, stability and security cooperation throughout the Indo-Asia-Pacific region.

| Squads, small units can run scenarios multiple times with feedback

Continued from B1 Squire said. “It will allow Marines to think more critically and adapt more quickly to changing environments and adversaries.”

The ONR-sponsored technology includes 1. the Interactive Tactical Decision Game (I-TDG); 2. an augmented-reality Sand Table application that uses a HoloLens visual display to insert virtual objects into an actual field of sight; and (3) a quadcopter based system for quickly surveying and modeling terrain.

I-TDG is a web-based application that allows Marines to plan missions and

conduct “what if” tactical decision games. It supports capturing virtual or live exercise scenarios and incorporating them into games that can be shared battalion-wide.

I-TDG links to the Sand Table app to support terrain visualization and collaborative planning and review.

Sand Table allows multiple Marines to interact with a virtual “hologram”—generated by the HoloLens—of real-world, three-dimensional terrain. I-TDG units are displayed on this terrain and can be moved around.

Because this is a shared augmented-reality environment (virtual objects placed in actual physical setting), Ma-

rines can see their surroundings and fellow participants virtually while remaining rooted in the real world.

To rapidly develop terrain models to support these technologies, Marines can operate the quadcopterbased terrain-mapping system to create a 3D model of a training area.

Among their many capabilities, the tactical decision kits literally bring training to where warfighters live.

The kits are designed to be employed in barracks “decision rooms,” where Marines can practice and compete in tactical decision-making on a routine basis.

In a recent media inter-

view, Col. James Jenkins, director of Science and Technology for the Marine Corps Warfighting Lab, said the value of the system is in the ability of squads and small units to run the same scenario multiple times with detailed after-action feedback.

“Here’s the debrief, here’s who shot whom, when, and here’s why—and go back and get better every time,” he said.

The tactical decision kit technology was developed in close cooperation with 2nd Battalion, 6th Marines (2/6) based in Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. The battalion employed prototypes in barracks decision rooms, in

events such as Spartan Week, and in support of field activities such as a live fire exercise recently executed at 29 Palms, California.

These successes were largely responsible for inspiring senior Marine Corps leadership to select the tactical decision kits as the first experiment for the service’s newly created Rapid Capabilities Office, which is designed to more quickly develop and deliver promising new technologies.

Warren Duffie Jr. is a contractor for ONR Corporate Strategic Communications.

BAHRAIN | Hospital’s pediatric ward is covered in mural hand-painted by Sailors

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Continued from B1 Bahrain, you have to come here to where it started,” Donegan said. “This hospital shows you the openness of the Bahrain society, especially since it is here in the Middle East and it is indeed a mission hospital. I think it’s the only hospital in the Middle East that has this kind of inclusion and has been functioning for so long.

It’s a great hospital, and tells a great story.”

Chief Medical Officer and Chief Executive Officer of the hospital, George Cheriyan, along with the hospital Chief Operating Officer, Julia Tovey, gave an overview of the hospital’s mission and vision and gave Donegan a tour of the buildings. Cheriyan made it a point on the tour to show Donegan the pediatric ward, which is covered in colorful murals that were hand-painted by U.S. 5th Fleet Sailors.

“The hospital has always had a very close relationship with the U.S. Embassy and

ENERGY | Solar Continued from B1 Indiana President, Duke Energy; Suzanne Crouch, Lieutenant Governor of Indiana; and John Kliem, executive director of the DON’s Resilient Energy Program Office.

“With roughly 76,000 solar panels stretched across 145 acres, this solar project is quite an impressive achievement and stands as a monument to our enduring relationship with the state

The hospital has always had a very close relationship with the U.S. Embassy and the Navy.”

Chief Medical Officer and Chief Executive Officer of the American Mission Hospital George Cheriyan

Victoria Kinney Chief medical officer and CEO of the American Mission Hospital George Cheriyan shows Commander of U.S. Naval Forces Central Command Vice Adm. Kevin Donegan a pediatric ward during a tour of the hospital. The tour underscores the longest and most enduring relationship between the United States and Bahrain. The American Mission Hospital has served the people of Bahrain for more than 100 years. Bahrain is headquarters to the U.S. 5th Fleet.

the Navy,” Cheriyan said. “[Vice Adm. Donegan’s] visit reestablishes and reemphasizes the relationship and rejuvenates what this hos-

pital stands for. With time, people forget that this was a unique partnership between our countries. This visit will do well to bring our partner-

ship back to life and remind the public of our connection.”

According to its mission statement, the hospital works, “to provide high qual-

ity healthcare at an affordable cost to all who seek care.”

U.S. 5th Fleet area of operations encompasses about 2.5 million square miles of water area and includes the Arabian Gulf, Gulf of Oman, Red Sea and parts of the Indian Ocean. The expanse comprises 20 countries and includes three critical choke points at the Strait of Hormuz, the Suez Canal and the Strait of Bab al Mandeb at the southern tip of Yemen.

panels stretch across 145 acres, bring renewable energy to area of Indiana and our energy partners,” Craddock said.

“Through this endeavor, we are providing and promoting energy sustainability and bringing renewable energy options to the installation and neighboring communities.”

Duke Energy built, and will own, operate and maintain the solar facility on NSA Crane. In exchange for providing secure, on-base land needed for the project, NSA

Crane will receive in-kind consideration in the form of electrical infrastructure upgrades, such as a motoroperated disconnect switch, and a microgrid feasibility study to increase future base resiliency.

“This helps provide our customers with a more balanced energy mix using both traditional fuel sources and renewable energy sources,” Birmingham-Byrd said. “We are pleased to partner with

the Navy on a project that will deliver clean energy to Indiana customers, and improved energy security for the Navy.”

The project will contribute to the DON’s diverse energy portfolio, ensuring more secure and resilient operations at NSA Crane. The DON is pleased to work with Duke Energy on this project to incorporate alternative energy initiatives in the local area.

“The solar project at Na-

val Support Activity Crane will serve as a catalyst for future energy infrastructure projects for the Navy as well as bringing greater energy management to our state, spurring innovation and growth,” Crouch said.

The DON continues to improve readiness, combat effectiveness and flexibility through initiatives that focus on energy reliability, resiliency and efficiency.

PASSEX | Ships

conducted precision maneuvering Continued from B1

and that’s a testament to not only the expertise of the U.S. and JMSDF sailors, but also to the strength of our naval partnership.”

Personnel exchanges were conducted through cross-deck helicopter operations utilizing Coronado’s embarked MH60S and the SH-60K Seahawk onboard Izumo.

The three ships conducted precision maneuvering events and communication exercises while underway, both focused on ensuring the two navies are prepared to work together efficiently in future operations.

“My ship, JS Izumo, the largest ship in the JMSDF, has high capability in support of HA/DR activities in this region,” Commanding Officer of JS Izumo Capt. Yoshihiro Kai said. “This bilateral exercise improved our teamwork, tactical skill and readiness.”

“Bilateral exercise like this increased tactical skills and improve response capabilities,” Sazanami Commanding Officer Cmdr. Hirotaka Okumura said.

A PASSEX is unique because it allows navies to operate closely and in ways shore exercises do not permit. It further provides the crews with real-life situations to practice their everyday watchstanding and communication skills with foreign vessels.

Prior to the PASSEX the three ships participated in the International Maritime Defense Exhibition (IMDEX) in Singapore. IMDEX is one of the largest maritime exhibitions in the Asia-Pacific region, featuring a trade show and a series of multilateral exercises and exchanges.

On behalf of Commander, Task Force 73, Destroyer Squadron 7 serves as operational commander for littoral combat ships rotationally deployed to 7th Fleet, and conducts advanced planning, organizes resources, and directly supports the execution of maritime engagements such as the Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training (CARAT) exercise series, the Naval Engagement Activity (NEA) with Vietnam, and the multilateral Southeast Asia Cooperation and Training (SEACAT) exercise with Bangladesh, Cambodia, Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand.

For more news from Destroyer Squadron 7, visit www. navy.mil/local/ds7/.

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David Dragon, yard paint foreman, Lyon Ship Repair, Norfolk, 2014 archival inkjet print (photograph) © courtesy of the artist.

Courtesy of Glen McClure

YARD WORKERS

Norfolk photographer and local museums honor maritime workers in an exhibit to be shown at four venues

By Denise M. Watson The Virginian-Pilot

As a young kid, Glen McClure thought it was the coolest thing – watching his dad, a telephone repairman, slip on his work belt, heavy with tools.

He saw other men walking through his Ingleside neighborhood at the end of the day carrying their metal lunchboxes and worn hard hats after shifts at the shipyards.

McClure, a photographer well known for his poignant portraits of everyday people, has built a new series of images of maritime workers, with the first exhibit opening Friday at the Chrysler Museum of Art. Through a unique collaboration, the Chrysler, the Portsmouth Art and Cultural Center, the Peninsula Fine Arts Center and the Charles H. Taylor Arts Center in Hampton will have overlapping shows with different pieces of McClure’s “Shipyard Workers of Hampton Roads.”

A few of the same images will be included at the four venues, but each museum will feature men and women primarily from workplaces in their cities.

The Peninsula Fine Arts Center, for example, will display 35 pieces, and most will be of workers from Newport News Shipbuilding.

The idea to share the wealth came from Diana Blanchard Gross, curator at the PFAC. She knew of McClure’s work, particularly a popular series he created in 2010 called “Endangered Species: Watermen of the Chesapeake.”

It highlighted the people who harvest the local waters for their livelihood and our seafood platters.

She met with McClure about two years ago and reviewed his current portfolio. It was stunning, she thought: black-and-white photos of people with dust still on their hands, torches in their blackened work gloves, sweat along their noses as they looked directly into McClure’s camera.

The ships, the water, the Navy – it all spoke Hampton Roads. He would eventually shoot 400 images; Gross sent out emails to colleagues at the other museums.

Courtesy of Glen McClure Janeen Hobbs, industrial rigger, General Dynamics, NASSCO, Norfolk, 2014, archival inkjet print (photograph) © courtesy of the artist

workers and asked if they wouldn’t mind being photographed. His wife, Marshall, then interviewed the subjects about their work, their families and how they spend their free time, to provide a story to run with each photo. A book has also been written to accompany the exhibition.

During one shoot at East Coast Repair and Fabrication in Portsmouth, McClure was standing near a building used for sandblasting.

A door opened and out walked Ronald Clark, hands and clothes coated from his work, his ventilation mask thrown about his shoulders.

“Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa,” McClure called to Clark.

He knew he had to photograph him.

The portrait of Clark, a former Norfolk State University football player, has become the face of the exhibit.

McClure shot at close to a dozen shipyards and repair sites during all times of the year to show the life of a worker.

“It’s impressive to see what they go through with the weather, the conditions. … They have to finish their jobs well because the next step depends on what they do.”

He photographed apprentices and one worker nearing 80 with no plans to retire. McClure found divers, men on the “melt crew” whose job it is to liquefy steel and pour castings. He met people who came from generations of shipyard workers, and those who work with their spouses, brothers and parents.

Seth Feman, Chrysler’s curator of exhibitions and acting curator of photography, said McClure’s attention to detail, from his posing of the subjects to the printing process, has produced a collection of work that will feel like four distinct shows at the various museums.

The stories that Marshall collected only heighten the experience for the viewer.

Feman said, “You can think I don’t know anything about shipbuilding, but I can connect with these people in these other areas.”

“For me, being in the arts, it’s not so much a competition, it’s more a collaboration,” Gross said. “I thought this would be a great way to highlight the whole area.”

About 150 images will be displayed at the museums.

McClure came up with the idea in 2013, wanting to do another series similar to “Endangered Species.” The award-winning photographer enjoyed that work so much he considered going around the state and focusing on different types of workers.

Then he was driving along the Elizabeth River one day and noticed the dry docks, cranes and ships in the distance.

He thought of his father and the working men of his childhood.

“It hit me that the workers are right here where I live.”

He contacted someone he knew with BAE Systems Ship Repair in Norfolk who sent his request up the chain. It took nearly a year for McClure to secure permission to photograph on site.

He then started connecting with other workplaces. In June 2014, he set up his Denise M. Watson, 757-446-2504, deequipment at BAE Systems and stopped nise.watson@pilotonline.com

The 18th annual Hampton Blackbeard Pirate Festival returns for another year of swashbuckling excitement, June 2-4, in downtown Hampton. Featured on the Travel Channel’s Expedition Unknown (www. travelchannel.com/shows/ expedition-unknown/episodes/blackbeards-hiddengold) and named one of the Top Five Pirate Festivals in North America by USA Today Travel (www.usatoday. com/story/travel/destinations/2015/02/24/pirate-fe stivals/23880041/?csp=tra vel), the festival celebrates Hampton’s rich maritime heritage by commemorating the demise of its most infamous visitor, Captain Edward Teach, aka Blackbeard the Pirate.

During the later part of the 1600s and early 1700s, pirates roamed the coastal waters of Virginia and North Carolina in search of ships laden with tobacco and other goods. The marauders terrorized waterways and unsuspecting cargo ships, capturing goods, sailors and ships. Captain Edward Teach, better known as Blackbeard the Pirate, was the most daunting of these menacing outlaws.

After years of wreaking havoc on Virginia’s shores and economy, Blackbeard’s life was finally taken in a violent sea battle with Lieutenant Robert Maynard in 1718. His severed head was impaled upon a pole near the mouth of Hampton Creek, now known as Blackbeard’s Point, to serve as an unyielding reminder that piracy would not be tolerated in Virginia.

Beginning June 3, roughly 50,000 seafaring attendees, as well as Blackbeard and his crew, will once again invade downtown Hampton.

Visitors can interact with Blackbeard (personified by first-person interpreter Ben Cherry) and more than 100 other authentically costumed pirate re-enactors as they run rampant on the streets of America’s oldest continuous English-speaking settlement.

The festivities kick off 7-11 p.m., June 2, at The Historic Post Office in downtown Hampton with the 18th annual Grand Pirates Bash. The celebration, a recreation of Blackbeard’s Party at Okracoke, will feature a bounty of food, adult beverages, live music and more. Though the festival is free, there is an admission charge for the ball. Tickets are $35 in advance and $40 at the door. Advance tickets can be purchased by phone at 757-727-6348. Purchase

Wikipedia Edward Teach, aka Blackbeard, in a circa 1736 engraving used to illustrate Charles Johnson’s “A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the most notorious Pyrates.”

Blackbeard Pirate Festival 7-11 p.m., June 2 (Blackbeard Bash Ticketed Event) 10 a.m.-10 p.m., June 3 Noon- 6 p.m., June 4 downtown Hampton www.blackbeardfesti val.com.

757-727-1102 or 757-727-8311 in person at Hampton Parks & Recreation, 5th Floor Hampton City Hall, 22 Lincoln Street, Hampton, VA 23669). Creative black tie or period attire enforced.

Saturday’s activities include a swarm of extemporized street skirmishes between pirates and militia (costumed interpreters), a replica of Blackbeard’s pirate camp, complete with living history interpreters teaching the skills of the sailor circa 1700, and the trial and escape of William Howard, one of Blackbeard’s fellow pirates with ties to Hampton. The reenactment of the classic sea battle between Lt. Maynard and Blackbeard will two full-scale replica vessels in the Hampton Harbor. At the conclusion of the sea battle, Blackbeard’s severed head will be bestowed upon Virginia Governor Alexander Spotswood (1710-1722).

Visitors can participate in the festivities when they join Blackbeard’s funeral procession, Hampton’s own version of Mardi Gras, and share in the booty from the treasure chest.

This year, the Hampton Blackbeard Pirate Festival welcomes two tall ships to the downtown docks: MEKA II and Macnab.

Based in Beaufort, North Carolina, MEKA II has an overall length of 54 feet and is a 2/3-scale replica of an 17th century, two-masted pirate brigantine armed with » See FESTIVAL| C6

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calendar Medicare Made Simple May 25, 2 p.m., 6350 Center Drive, Building 5, Rm. 115, Norfolk 757-222-4524 Senior Services of Southeast Virginia’s Benefits Team Leader Sabrina Carr answers questions about Medicare. Free and open to the public. Reservations are requested.

Virginia Memorial Day Cluster All-Breed Dog Show May 25-29, 8 a.m.3 p.m. daily, Hampton Roads Convention Center, 1610 Coliseum Drive, Hampton www.langleykennelclub.org, www.virginiabeachkennelclub.org, brookhavenlabradors@ verizon.net Hosted by the Langley Kennel Club and Virginia Beach Kennel Club, the event is expected to draw more than 1,000 canines, 20 vendors and 4,000 spectators. North American Diving Dogs (NADD) will offer four days of dock diving and air retrieving competition. “Atlantic K9 Vest Fund” will provide bullet proof vests for all canine police in the Mid-Atlantic region. The public is invited to meet local Hampton Police and learn how to help save the life of a canine police dog. Admission is $5 for adults, $3 for military retirees/dependents, senior citizens (ages 55 and older), and students (ages 3-16). Free for children ages 2 and younger, as well as uniformed police and fire personnel. No personal pets or strollers.

Games from the Orient: AsianPacific American Heritage Month Event May 27, 2 p.m., Pretlow Anchor Branch Library, 111 W. Ocean View Avenue, Norfolk 757-441-1750 Families can celebrate Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month by playing traditional games from various Asian countries on the second floor of the library.

Bam Bam’s Spring Jam Celebrity Basketball Game May 27, 7-10 p.m., Ted Constant Convocation Center, Old Dominion University 4320 Hampton Blvd., Norfolk ashley_smith@ comcastspectacor.com, 757-683-4444, www.constantcenter.com/events/

detail/bam-bams-springjam-celebrity-basketballgame-1 Come see Kam Chancellor of the Seattle Seahawks, members of the Legion of Boom, NBA and NFL stars, performing artists, and local celebrities play an exciting game of basketball! The competition is fierce, but to help raise money for Kam Cares Foundation to equip children from underserved communities in Hampton Roads and Seattle areas with educational, health, and wellness tools and resources to position students for greater academic success. Tickets are $22 and above.

Glass Art Society Member Juried Exhibition May 27, 7-10 p.m., Glass Wheel Studio, 128 W. Olney Road, Norfolk alyssa@glasswheelstudio.com, 757-819-4150 Opening celebration for the 2017 Glass Art Society Member Juried Exhibition, a highlight of the 46th annual conference, Reflections from the Edge: Glass, Art, and Performance, designed to showcase the excellence and diversity of work created in glass by Glass Art Society members.

Connect with artists while enjoying hors-d’oeuvres and a cash bar by Omar’s Carriage House. All works by the artists are available for purchase and 10 percent of proceeds will be donated to the Glass Art Society.

Symphony Under the Stars May 27, 8-10 p.m., Main Street and Walter Reed Way, Gloucester 804-824-9614, http:// symphony.gloucesterartsfestival.com/ Virginia Symphony Orchestra free family concert, presented by the Cook Foundation.The public is encouraged to bring a lawn chair or blanket. Dine on Main Street before the concert and receive 10 percent off at participating restaurants. Picnics are welcome, many of the food establishments on Main Street will offer baskets to take to the concert.

Boy Scout Troop 111 will sell food on site. General parking along Main Street, in the back lots of Newington Baptist Church and in Gloucester County Government parking lots.

Special needs parking at Newington Baptist Church and St. Therese by permit only.

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Living Museum, 524 J. Clyde Morris Blvd., Newport News http://thevlm.org/waterways/ “Water/Ways” explores the endless motion of the water cycle, water’s effect on landscape, settlement and migration, and its impact on culture and spirituality. It looks at how political and economic planning have long been affected by access to water and control of water resources. Human creativity and resourcefulness provide new ways of protecting water resources and renewing respect for the natural environment.

Presented by Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, in cooperation with the Virginia Association of Museums and six organizations across the state to help Virginians examine water as an environmental necessity and an important cultural element.

Memorial Day Ceremony in Newport News May 29, 10 a.m.-noon, Victory Arch, 25th Street and West Avenue, downtown Newport News 757-247-8523, www. warmuseum.org The Virginia WWI and WWII Profiles of Honor Mobile Museum will be on-site with its scanning equipment, so visitors are encouraged to bring World War I- and World War II-related photos, letters, and documents to be scanned for inclusion in the project. The Virginia WWI and WWII Profiles of Honor Tour is 36-foot long museum-on-wheels that features stories and artifacts from dozens of Virginians who served in World War I and World War II. The tour is part of a statewide commemoration marking the 100th anniversary of World War I and the 75th anniversary of World War II. After the ceremony, receive $1 off admission to the Virginia War Museum, 9285 Warwick Blvd.

Memorial Day Ceremony in Virginia Beach May 29, noon-1 p.m., Tidewater Veterans Memorial, 1000 19th Street, across from the Virginia Beach Convention Center 757-385-4075, bmorriso@vbgov.com.

The annual Memorial Day Ceremony held to honor and pay tribute to the men and women of the armed forces “who gave their all” includes a 21-Rifle Salute, Invocation, National Anthem and God Bless America will be performed by Tony Zontini of Virginia Beach, opening remarks by William D. Sessoms, Jr., keynote address by Scott Taylor, and a flyover of the magnificent “Warbirds” provided by the Military Aviation Museum. Military organizations are invited to bring wreaths to place at the memorial during the formal ceremony. The public is also invited to attend.

Citizens who would like to place an American flag (provided) around the base of the memorial to honor a relative or friend are encouraged to arrive prior to the commencement of the formal ceremony. The flags will remain in place for one week.

Virginia Beach schools superintendent receives statewide honor From the Virginia Association of School Superintendents

The superintendent of Virginia Beach City Public Schools was named Virginia’s Superintendent of the Year at the Virginia Association of School Superintendents (VASS) Annual Awards Luncheon on May 9 in Roanoke. The leaders of seven Virginia education organizations and the State Superintendent of Public Instruction selected Dr. Aaron C. Spence from among eight regional finalists.

As the leader of the fourthlargest school division in Virginia serving more than 67,000 students, Spence was faced with the challenge of reducing inequities in achievement and discipline

particularly among his high poverty and male AfricanAmerican students. His systemic approach to addressing this problem is a textbook example of leadership necessary to make large-scale changes in an organization that produce significant changes and positive results.

Through his development of stakeholder ownership in the division’s strategic plan, “Compass to 2020,” his pervasive communication of the plan’s goals and expectations for his employees, and his development of partnerships and marshalling of community resources, Spence changed the trajectory of his most challenged students and improved the status of Virginia Beach students overall. As a result his school division has

seen: a dramatic rise in pass rates among students on standardized tests; improvement in the division’s graduation rate; a historic low in the drop-out rate; and 20 percent decrease in the number of suspensions.

In presenting Spence with the Virginia Superintendent of the Year Award, VASS President Jennifer Parish said, “As a result of Aaron Spence’s leadership, Virginia Beach schools have been able to address achievement and discipline gaps. His work exemplifies the work that is occurring throughout Virginia.” She continued, “Additionally, his communication and community engagement strategies continue to ensure the success of his school division.”

Virginia Beach teacher named Super Teacher by Virginia Lottery From Virginia Beach City Public Schools

Kempsville Elementary School students and staff are celebrating the surprise announcement made in a schoolwide assembly on May 16 that Amy Watson is a 2017 Virginia Lottery Super Teacher. The second-grade teacher is one of eight teachers selected from more than 1,000 nominations submitted statewide.

Parent Miranda Beeson, who nominated Watson for the award, participated in the surprise presentation by reading an excerpt from her nomination letter. She described Watson as “enthusiastic, caring and encouraging,” and

praised the teacher’s integration of technology in classroom instruction as well as in parent communication.

“We are so proud to have a Virginia Beach City Public Schools teacher recognized with this selective award and to have parents help us spread good news about the difference educators are making in our classrooms daily,” said Superintendent Aaron Spence. “Amy represents the thousands of dedicated teachers in our division who are doing great work to engage students and families by making learning exciting, relevant and fun — just as it should be.”

Watson is a graduate of Kempsville High School who began her teaching ca-

reer with the division in 2007 at Hermitage Elementary School before joining Kempsville Elementary’s staff at the beginning of this school year.

She holds a bachelor’s degree in elementary education from Averett University.

As a 2017 Super Teacher, Watson will receive a $2,000 cash prize and an additional $2,000 credit for classroom supplies from The Supply Room Companies, which sponsors the award with the Virginia Lottery and the Virginia PTA. For more information about the Virginia Lottery Super Teacher award, visit valottery.com/superteacher.

Co-founders of Operation Smile named Hampton Roads ‘first citizens’ From Hampton Roads Chamber

Norfolk-LEAD Hampton Roads, a program of the Hampton Roads Chamber, selected Dr. Bill Magee Jr. and Kathy Magee, co-founders and CEO and president of Operation Smile respectively, have been named the 2017 LEAD Hampton Roads “First Citizen of Hampton

Roads” Award recipients.

They received this award during the LEAD Hampton Roads’ awards event on May 18 in Virginia Beach, which marketed the 29th year of LEAD Hampton Roads.

Recognizing, supporting and celebrating exemplary leadership is at the core of the LEAD Hampton Roads mission. This is the first time the award has been given to

a couple.

The Magees started Operation Smile in 1982. The organization helps children suffering from a cleft lip and palate by providing safe surgical care. Since their founding, Operation Smile has provided life-changing surgeries for more than 300,000 children in 60 countries.

Special screening of police documentary in Virginia Beach From Virginia Beach Police Foundation

The Virginia Beach Police Foundation presents the documentary film “Fallen” at 7:30 p.m., on May 26, in the National Geographic 3D Theater at the Virginia Beach Aquarium, 717 General Beach Blvd., Virginia Beach.

Last year saw a 56 percent increase in officers being shot and killed in the U.S. These fallen heroes deserve

a voice, as do their families, loved ones and partners who are struggling to pick up the pieces these tragedies leave behind.

Through the words of those who have lived alongside these tragedies, these stories will be told.

Not only will this film serve as an educational snapshot of history, but its raw honesty and intimately candid perspective also will serve

as a tribute to all those who have sacrificed everything so that we may enjoy the safety and freedoms we all take for granted.

To date, “Fallen” has been scheduled for screenings only in Phoenix, Washington DC. and Virginia Beach.

To view the theatrical trailer for this documentary, visit www.fallenproject.com.

Tickets may be purchased on the website as well.

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$3 Movies More than 40,000 people flocked to the Oceanfront last year to see country music artists Canaan Smith and Sam Hunt for the second night of Virginia Beach’s Patriotic Festival.

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“The Zookeeper’s Wife:” The real-life story of one working wife and mother who became a hero to hundreds during World War II. In 1939 Poland, Antonina Zabinski and her husband, Dr. Jan Zabinski, have the Warsaw Zoo flourishing under his stewardship and her care. When their country is invaded by the Nazis, Jan and Antonina are stunned — and forced to report to the Reich’s newly appointed chief zoologist, Lutz Heck.

To fight back on their own terms, the Zabinskis covertly begin working with the Resistance — and put into action plans to save lives out of what has become the Warsaw Ghetto, with Antonina putting herself and her family at great risk.

JEB Little Creek, Gator Theater – 757-462-7534

NAS Oceana, Aerotheater – 757-433-2495

Thursday, May 25

6 p.m. Ghost in the Shell (PG-13) Friday, May 26

6 p.m. The Circle (PG-13) 9 p.m. How to be a Latin Lover (PG-13) Saturday, May 27

1 p.m. Going in Style (PG-13) 5 p.m. Wonder Woman (PG-13) Sunday, May 28

1 p.m. The Promise (PG-13) 4 p.m. The Zookeeper’s Wife (PG-13)

Friday, May 26

7 p.m. The Promise (PG13) Saturday, May 27

1 p.m. The Zookeeper’s Wife (PG-13) 4 p.m. How to be a Latin Lover (PG-13) 7 p.m. The Fate of the Furious (PG-13) Sunday, May 28

1 p.m. Smurfs: The Lost Village (PG) 4 p.m. Going in Style (PG-13) 7p.m. The Circle (PG-13)

Schedule is subject to change. For your weekly movie showtimes and more, check out the Navy MidAtlantic Region MWR website at discovermwr.com.

Patriotic Festival in Virginia Beach announces top acts: Old Dominion, Darius Rucker, Jake Owen

By Dan Duke The Virginian-Pilot

The music lineup for the 2017 Patriotic Festival on June 2-4 will feature Old Dominion, Darius Rucker and Jake Owen, festival organizers have announced.

Old Dominion will perform at 7 p.m. June 2, with warmup act Brandon Lay. Old Dominion formed in Nashville in 2012 with four of its five members hailing from Virginia. The band’s first album, “Meat and Candy,” was released in 2015. It hit No. 3 on the Billboard Country Music chart and won the band New Vocal Duo/Group of the Year from the Academy of Country Music Awards and Breakthrough Group/Duo of the Year from the American Country Countdown Awards.

Darius Rucker’s concert will be at 7 p.m. June 3, with warmup bands Brooke Eden and Levon. The former lead singer of Hootie & the Blow-

Courtesy of Old Dominion Old Dominion formed in 2012 with four its five members hailing from Virginia. It won New Vocal Duo/Group of the Year from the Academy of Courtry Music Awards.

fish switched to country music as a solo artist about 10 years ago and put together a string of hits, including “It Won’t Be Like This for Long,” “Alright,” “Come Back Song” and “Wagon Wheel,” for which he won a Grammy for Best Country Solo Performance in 2013.

Country singer/songwriter Jake Owen, with special guest Hunter Phelps, will

perform at 4 p.m. Sunday.

Owen is known for hits such as “Barefoot Blue Jean Night,” “Beachin’ “ and “Alone With You.” All concerts will be on the Oceanfront at 5th Street. Local DJ Ty Street will be featured before each show. The concerts are free, but tickets for VIP standing-room and seated areas are being sold at www.patrioticfestival.com,

www.ticketmaster.com and 800-745-3000. Three-day packages range from $145 to $170, plus fees.

The festival, now in its 13th year, includes military displays and demonstrations and family-friendly festivities.

Dan Duke, 757-446-2545, dan.duke@pilotonline.com

A love story. A ghost story. New opera to premiere in Norfolk

By Teresa Annas Virginian-Pilot Correspondent

A love of lighthouses has lured a celebrated composer to craft a new opera set in one.

She was haunted, you might say, into writing it.

“Kept: A Ghost Story” premieres May 25 and May 28 at the Attucks Theatre as part of the Virginia Arts Festival.

JoAnn Falletta, music director of the Virginia Symphony Orchestra, will conduct.

Kristin Kuster, an established composer, has toured many lighthouses in Michigan.

“I just think lighthouses are really magical,” said Kuster, who teaches at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

“Of course, many of them have haunting stories. Some of them are really cute and sweet: A keeper will move furniture around or flicker the lights.

And then there are some that are quite terrifying.”

Kuster latched onto one of those scary yarns for the basis of “Kept.” She worked with her longtime collaborator, the poet Megan Levad, who wrote the spoken and sung text, called a libretto.

Their first opera contains the seed of a tale connected to a lighthouse in Presque Isle: A lightkeeper locked up his wife, who died and then haunted it.

But the meaning of the opera grew deep and wide. The opening line for the 65-minute work is: “What is a love story but a ghost story?”

“It’s about a lot of things,” Kuster said, “but most of all it’s about: What if two people are in this relationship and they’re unable to connect? Who has

Photos by Vicki Cronis-Nohe | The Virginian-Pilot The cast of “Kept: A Ghost Story” experiment in creating the motion of waves during rehearsal at the Harrison Opera House rehearsal hall in Norfolk. The opera that will premiere May 25 during the Virginia Arts Festival, opening at the Attucks Theatre.

Director Mary Birnbaum enjoys a scene during rehearsal of “Kept: A Ghost Story” at the Harrison Opera House rehearsal hall in Norfolk.

ownership of the story” of their relationship?

“And it’s also about our own stories that we tell ourselves.”

How true are they?

As operas go, “Kept” is unique.

A tenor portrays both the lightkeeper and his wife. At times the critically praised singer, William Burden, must perform both roles, as in conversation.

Why do that? “It’s really complex,” Kuster said. “If you’re talking about the person you love and they’re not physically present, they’re actually still there with you. Their presence is always with you.”

Making the double-role aspect clear is the responsibility of Mary Birnbaum, stage director for “Kept,” who teaches acting to opera singers at The Juilliard School in Manhattan.

Birnbaum’s solutions include body positioning and costume pieces.

The instrumentation also is unusual. Rather than an orchestral range, Kuster has written for six trumpets and an array of percussion, including a bass marimba.

Kuster said she likes to challenge herself by enforcing limitations. “About three-quarters of the way through I was dying for a cello.”

She got the idea from attending a concert featuring a trumpet ensemble that sounded “just magical.”

“Trumpets have a lot of versatility.” Besides heralding arrivals, “they can sound bright and shiny like a big lighthouse” and also ghostly.

The percussion comes in during storms, and at other moments.

The set is a three-story platform shaped like a lighthouse that is off-kilter and floating

this work is really exhilarating.”

“Kept” was developed in partnership with the Virginia Arts Festival’s John Duffy Institute for New Opera.

In 2015, when famed composer Libby Larsen became head of the Duffy Institute, she changed its mission from aiding fledgling composers to shepherding new operas by early-career composers to completion.

Since their 2015 Duffy Institute workshop, Kuster and Levad have had access to Birnbaum plus a top producer and other professionals. All thanks to the institute.

Kuster credited Larsen with “connecting us with other artists who can help us make this thing great. Libby knows there is very little support for writing new opera” that leads to a full production.

Musically, Kuster has her own sound, unlike that of any other composer, Larsen said.

“Her compositional voice is quite wonderful.”

Larsen praised her “masterful handling of singing voices.

Quite beautiful, quite understandable. And then mixed with the trumpets and percussion, it’s like a very fine contemporary painting.” Larsen said she pictured a hard-edged, abstract painting by Ellsworth Kelly.

“Our intent is to produce it well enough so that other opera companies will pick it up and do it. It’s that good a piece.”

in air, Birnbaum said. “It feels lonely and like a physical hurdle for the cast.”

The show is set in the 1840s, so the chorus of sailors wear layers of sweaters and jackets.

They’re like a Greek chorus, Birnbaum said, and at times represent the part of the keeper’s brain that is demanding he retell the story that haunts him.

“The cool thing is, every time we have shown this piece to people, they have understood this,” the director said.

Birnbaum is known for her inventive imagination and comic wit . With “Kept,” there is “zero comedy. It’s a pretty dark world. It’s a world where thoughts are loud and people are pretty lonely.”

Another rare thing: “Kept” has a majority-woman creative team. Kuster said she’s never experienced this. “It’s really significant. This field has such Teresa Annas may be reached a gender-gap problem. For all at teresa.annas123@gmail. of us to be together creating com.

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Festival to include special lecture, signing of new Blackbeard novel HAMPTON

Hosted by the Hampton History Museum, author Barbara McLennan will discuss her new novel “Blackbeard’s Legacy,” the third in her The Wealth of a Nation trilogy, 1 p.m., June 3, at St. John’s Church Parish Hall, 100 West Queen’s Way, during the Blackbeard Pirate Festival.

Afterward, she will sign copies of her book at the museum across the street from the church. The lecture and book signing are free and open to the public.

In this final book of an historical fiction trilogy involving early Virginian Sarah Harrison and her husband James Blair, founder of William & Mary, and other prominent families in early Jamestown and Williamsburg, “Blackbeard’s Legacy” covers the years 1710 to 1722. Author McLennan focuses the story around young Benjamin Harrison IV and his relationship with Blackbeard and continues the narrative of personal and political rivalries rampant among the prominent tobacco growers and various political figures in Williamsburg.

The parallel stories of piracy along the Virginia coast, the larger than life Blackbeard and political machinations of the period offer the kind of history lesson all can enjoy.

“Blackbeard’s Legacy” and the first two books in the trilogy are available in the museum’s gift shop.

Book synopsis Blackbeard and his fleet sail the Atlantic coast and Caribbean capturing many ships and enriching themselves. Andrew Morgan from Virginia, Blackbeard’s gunner, invests his shares with a banker in Philadelphia. Andrew visits friends in Virginia and agrees to bring along young Benjamin Harrison on one of his spring voyages. Ben, raised as nephew to Sarah Harrison Blair, is 18, has just completed his stud-

“Blackbeard’s Legacy” Lecture 1 p.m., June 3, at St. John’s Church Parish Hall, 100 West Queen’s Way, Hampton

ies, and has been promised in marriage to a daughter of King Carter of Virginia.

Ben witnesses Blackbeard’s election as captain and impresses Blackbeard with his education and family background. Blackbeard allows him to become assistant navigator on his ship and Ben is included, along with the navigator, in meetings of the ship’s officers. When they get to the Bahamas, Ben, who has made enemies, duels with the previous assistant navigator. He also meets the governor of Jamaica and becomes aware of the dangers awaiting Blackbeard and other privateers.

Upon their return to the mainland Andrew marries his banker’s daughter and is present when Blackbeard blockades Charles Towne harbor.

Ben, who has received a small ship from Blackbeard for his hard work at sea, returns to Virginia and is elected burgess.

Ben meets Governor Spotswood and participates in Spotswood’s fall in Virginia politics. Ben also learns of Spotswood’s plan to murder Blackbeard and travels to Ocracoke trying to warn the captain. There, from another ship, he witnesses Blackbeard’s assassination at the hands of Spotswood’s hired killers.

Andrew and Ben live through the aftermath: trials, executions, political recrimination from London and North Carolina, Spotswood’s seizure of large tracts of property, and Spotswood’s eventual replacement as governor.

This is followed by marriages, new families, new businesses, the growth of trade and manufacturing, and fond memories of Blackbeard.

Photos courtesy of Hampton CVB The Blackbeard Festival in downtown Hampton features costumed interpreters re-enacting street skirmishes, sea battles and more.

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Continued from C1 eight cannons. The Macnab is a 28-foot cutter based in Deltaville.

The festival will also welcome Sailboat Apostle. Sailboat Apostle was built by Thomas E. (Tom) Colvin in 1959 in Bayou La Batre, Alabama. Originally an open cockpit centerboard sailboat, Apostle drew 22 inches with centerboard up and 6 feet with centerboard down.

Throughout her history, she made many excursions in the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico.

Small boats taking part in the Blackbeard festivities this year include Jolly Boat and Advanture, a 22-foot gaffe rigged skiff revenue cutter that will remain in the pirate encampment as a static display.

This year, the event will once again feature the Blackbeard children’s area, with children’s entertainment and activities including colonial games, pirate face-painting, strolling fairies, digging for treasure, and more within Carousel Park along Settlers Landing Road. New this year, young mates will be on the lookout for “wanted pirates” throughout the festival whose photos appear on wanted posters — sharpeyed scallywags who collect all signatures on their posters win bountiful prizes!

In addition to the children’s area, guests will have

This year, the Hampton Blackbeard Pirate Festival welcomes two tall ships to the downtown docks: MEKA II and Macnab, as well as Sailboat Apostle and other small boats.

the opportunity to stroll through Blackbeard’s Pirate Camp, where they can learn how to use a cutlass, load a cannon, or even sing a sea chantey at Pirate’s Cove. At Mill Point Park, visitors can also explore a collection of 17th and 18th century period vendors selling items such as jewelry, clothing, art and personal accessories.

Another highlight of Pirate’s Cove is the Silkie’s Hyde Tavern, a rustic tavernstyle throwback to what a Hampton bar would have looked like in the 18th century.

Other weekend amusements include a pirate procession, street entertainers, cannon fire at Battery Point, period weaponry demonstrations, vendor demonstrations, and more. Head down Queens Way to check out the Blackbeard stage, complete with daytime pirate entertainment. Don’t forget about The Downtown Hampton Block Party, with musical guest The Heather Edwards Band, 7–11 p.m., June 3 on

Blackbeard stage on Queens Way will feature daytime pirate entertainment.

Event locations in downtown Hampton Most of the events take place from Settlers Landing Road to Queens Way, including Mill Point Park, which includes these locations: Grand Pirates Bash ($35 advance or $40 at the door): The Historic Post Office, 132 E Queen Street (Friday only) Downtown Hampton Waterfront: Tall Ships & Sea Battle, 710 Settlers Landing Road Mill Point Park: Pirate Encampment, 100 Eaton Street Queens Way: Blackbeard Stage and Downtown Hampton Block Party, Queens Way Queens Way. Saturday night will conclude with a fireworks display at 9 p.m. over the Hampton River.

For more information,

contact the Hampton Visitor Center at 757-727-1102, or the Hampton 311 Call Center at 757-727-8311 or visit www.blackbeardfestival. com.

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Reduced Shakespeare company debuts 10th show on May 26

By Yiorgio

The world-renown Reduced Shakespeare Company, famous for bringing laughter with their skewing abridged versions of famous works, are bringing their 10th stage show, “William Shakespeare’s Long Lost First Play (Abridged)” to the historic Wells Theatre in downtown Norfolk, May 2628.

Their previous shows include “Complete Works of Shakespeare,” “History of America,” “The Bible,” “Hollywood films,” “Western Civilization,” and “Sports and Comedy.”

For information and ticket prices, go to www.sevenvenues.com/events/detail/reduced-shakespeare-co Reed Martin has been with the company since 1989 and has co-written many of the plays, including “William Shakespeare’s Long Lost First Play (Abridged).”

Yiorgo (Y): Where are you from and what did you do before joining Reduced Shakespeare Company (RSC)?

Reed Martin (RM): I do want to say that my father was a Captain in the Air Force and was the physician at the American embassy in Moscow from 1959 to 1961 in the height of the cold war. One of the other actors, Austin, his father was a Captain in the Naval Reserves for decades. We really do appreciate everything that our military does for us. My father loved to tell the story about the time. He knew he was always followed by the KGB, and one time they had to drive out hundreds of miles to inspect a Russian facility. It’s a long empty road with one car behind him, and my father knows it’s them and notices that they are no longer following him. They had a breakdown or flat tire, so he went back, picked them up and gave them a ride where they needed to go. How funny is that? Back to your question, I was raised in Sonoma, California, went away to college and came back. I live here now.

I was an undergrad at University of California at Berkley and studied political science and dramatic arts. I then went to University of California Santiago, and got a Masters in Fine Arts in Acting. Then after living in New York for a year,

Courtesy of Reduced Shakespeare Company From left, Reed Martin, Teddy Spencer and Austin Tichenor perform in “William Shakespeare’s Long Lost First Play (Abridged)”. The Reduced Shakepeare Company present the show May 26-28 at Norfolk’s Wells Theatre.

I applied to Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Clown College and spent two years touring with the circus. I joined the RSC in 1989 and have been at it ever since.

Y: How did the company get started?

RM: The Company started as a pass-the-hat act at Renaissance Fairs in California in 1981. In 1989, there was an opening because one of the original members was going to Disney to be an artist, so Jess Winfield, one of the other original members, contacted me about joining. He knew I had studied and performed straight Shakespeare and studied clowning. I came on board and by 1990 it was a full-time job, and I have been with them ever since. We have 12-15 actors in the company for the US tour. There are three actors performing “William Shakespeare’s Long Lost First Play (Abridged)” for the Norfolk performances. it will be myself, Austin Tichenor and Teddy Spencer. We all come out at the end, shake hands with everyone and shamelessly hawk our merchandise.

Y: What prompted you

to write “William Shakespeare’s Long Lost First Play (Abridged)”?

RM: A few years ago we were touring the Folger Shakespeare Library in DC. It has the largest collection of artifacts in the world. As we were touring their vaults, Austin asked, ‘What would be the Holy Grail of a Shakespearian discovery?’ and their response was, ‘If someone found a manuscript in Shakespeare’s own handwriting that would be the lost Ark.’ Well, we could not find that, so we decided to create it ourselves.

Y: What is the premise?

RM: The background is that we are doing the world premiere of the first play that Shakespeare ever wrote when he was 17 years old. He put every idea he ever had in it, so it has hints of all of his plays, all of the characters from the 37 subsequent plays because he wrote it when he was 17 and decided that this was terrible and he would bury it. His imagination was much bigger than his ability. It’s a 100 hours long, and we are abridging it to two hours as a public service.

The premise of the story is

that there is an ancient grudge between Puck from “A Midsummer’s Night Dream,” and Ariel from “Tempest.” On the way, we see so many of the great Shakespearean characters. We also have a lot of fun lines in there. Sir John Faulstaff comes out and says, ‘A whore a whore, my kingdom for a whore!’

Y: What are some of your favorite scenes or bloopers from any of the shows?

RM: Oh gosh there are so many. A classic moment was when Austin’s son Quincy, who is now at Georgetown University, was a baby, we were performing “The Bible (Abridged).” I think we were at Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and there is a moment where Mary gives birth to baby Jesus and with a bungee cord we launch a baby doll and we catch it. But we had Quincy in the wings, and when Mary launched the baby, Austin went off quickly in the wings grabbed Quincy came out and the audience did not know what to think, ‘Did they launch a real baby?’ It was pretty funny.

Y: Well you must have had a field day last year with “His-

tory of America.”

RM: Yes, every four years in the fall we take out an election edition of the show. It features a presidential debate and questions taken from the audience, and two of us play the two major nominees when that happens. Last fall I played the Donald. The funny thing about that was we played at a very conservative school, Hillsdale College in Michigan, and we thought, ‘How is this going to play?’ And so they introduced Austin, who was the MC for a moment, and he says ‘Now ladies and gentlemen, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton,’ and of course they booed, because it is a conservative school, and then they said, ‘Reality star Donald Trump,’ and they booed even more. That was pretty funny.

Y: You have performed all over the world, any wow moments?

RM: In 1992-93, we performed for a year in London and John Cleese of Monty Python fame came to see the show. I was like, ‘Oh my God.’ He was one of the reasons I got in this business doing what I’m doing. Another one that sticks in my head was the first time

we played The Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., and we played it seven-eight times.

We were invited to perform on the lawn of the White House on July 4th, and we got to shake President Clinton’s hand, so that was a cool thing.

Y: What will people get out of seeing this show?

RM: Its really good fun.

People come to see two hours of pure silliness and fun. If you understand Shakespeare, you’ll love the show; if you don’t understand Shakespeare, you’ll love the show. We liken it to a classic Looney Tunes cartoon, “What’s Opera Doc?” with Bugs Bunny. For a little kid, it’s funny on one level, and as an adult who understands opera, its funny on another level. Whatever amount of knowledge you bring to it, you will enjoy it just as much. When we see the smiles on people’s faces and hear the laughter, we know it’s worth it.

Yiorgo is a Hampton Roads arts, entertainment and sports writer. A stage, TV and movie actor, he is also an educator, motivational speaker, writer, storyteller and columnist.

NAVSTA Auto Auction to be held June 7 From MWR Community Recreation, Naval Station Norfolk

Make sure that you are aware of the following rules and regulations of the auction before bidding on any of the vehicles.

All vehicles have been abandoned on the Naval Station and are sold as is. There is no guarantee that the vehicles will run. Vehicles are not guaranteed as to year or state inspection.

SPECIAL ODOMETER NOTE DO NOT rely on the odometer reading, as it could be incorrect. Odometer reading could be more or less. Bidders are explicitly advised to closely examine the vehicle they are bidding on. There are no guarantees expressed or implied.

VIEWING OF VEHICLES Vehicles may be viewed at SP-123, 10 a.m.-1 p.m., on the Monday and Tuesday prior to the day of the auction. There will be a list of vehicles available at the viewing: however, any vehicle may be pulled from the auction up until the moment the auctioneer offers the vehicle for bid. Everyone entering the lot must have valid CAC/Military ID card.

This auction is only open to our military/CAC card holders. (Active Duty, Retirees,

New location Vehicles may be viewed at SP-123, 10 a.m.- 1 p.m., June 5 and 6.

Dependents, Civil Service) BIDDER REGISTRATION All bidders must be registered and have a bidder number. Receipt of a bidder number implies an understanding of the legal obligations to these stated rules and regulations. Registration will start at 10 a.m. on the day of the auction at the auction site. Bidders must register their name and address as they wish them to appear on the Certificate to Obtain Title. The MWR Department reserves the right to refuse to register bidders who have previously failed to follow the rules of the auction. Registered bidders are responsible for all bids under their number. You, the registered bidder, are responsible for bids tendered, irrespective of the designated purchaser of the vehicle. i.e. Do not buy a vehicle for a friend or relative unless you are prepared to pay for the vehicle. The Certificate to Obtain Title must be made out in the name of the winning bidder. Do not bid on a car and then request that the Certificate to Obtain Title be prepared in someone else’s name.

BIDDING ON VEHICLES The auction will normally start at noon on Wednesday at the direction of the auctioneer.

The auctioneer will proceed down the row of vehicles taking verbal bids on each vehicle in turn. Bidders who are interested in a particular vehicle should stand near the vehicle so that the auctioneer will hear their bid. All sales are final. Please be sure of the vehicle you are bidding on. The MWR Department

reserves the right to refuse any and all bids and to settle any and all disputes involving bids. This is an absolute auction. There are no extra fees or charges that must be paid.

The bid price is the sale price.

Once the auctioneer declares a vehicle “sold”, the high bidder must sign a Form 1348-I (transfer of government property) acknowledging the bid price.

PAYMENT FOR VEHICLES If payment is made on

the day of the auction: The highest bidder on each vehicle may pay in full on the day of the auction at the auction site.

Such payment must be made in the form of cash or credit card (no checks). If payment is made in full on the day of the auction, the Certificate to Obtain Title (Form 97) will be prepared immediately and presented to the buyer. Payments are taken until 3:30 p.m. auction day.

If payment is not made in full on the day of the auction: The highest bidder must pay a minimum of $20 or 10 percent deposit, whichever is greater, on the day of the auction. This non-refundable payment may be made by cash or credit card. The remaining balance must be paid with cash or credit card (no checks) within five working days.

Payment must be made at the Naval Station Impound Lot office, Bldg SP-314 located at the end of 10th Ave., between the hours of 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m.

When the complete payment is made within five working days of the auction, the Certificate to Obtain Title will be issued to the buyer. The signed Form 1348-I will act as a bill of sale for removal of the vehicle from the auction site.

Failure to make full payment within five working days: The failure on the part of the bidder to make full pay-

ment within five working days of the auction will make the sale null and void, and result in the forfeiture of the deposit.

The vehicle will then be reoffered for public sale at the next abandoned vehicle auction.

REMOVAL OF VEHICLES Vehicles must be paid for in full before they are removed from the auction site. Vehicles must be registered and insured to be driven out of the lot.

Otherwise, the vehicle must be towed. Buyers have five working days from the day of the auction to remove their vehicle and may do so from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday-Friday.

You must show a signed Form 1348-I, Form 97, or registration for the vehicle to be released. Buyers who have paid in full for their vehicle and have not removed it within five working days will be assessed a $15 per day/vehicle storage charge. Vehicles left for two weeks from the auction date will be declared abandoned and will be towed. Buyers will then be assessed a towing charge in addition to the $15 per day storage charge.

FURTHER INFORMATION Call the Impound Lot office at 757-444-2631, Monday– Friday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., www. genedanielsauctions.com

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MARKETING MANAGER

Flexicell, Inc., a leading robotic system integrator, is recruiting for a Marketing Manager. The ideal candidate will have experience working within a technical environment and a full understanding of data mining and data analysis to drive growth opportunities. For a more specific description of duties and qualifications, and how to apply, visit our website at www.flexicell.com.

Part-Time/ Seasonal Earn Big Money PT from home mailing out 4-color sales postcards.

1-800-313-0961 or www.abminfo.com. Referred by 9978

business services 757.622.1455

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Additions

Landscape/Gardening

Additions, Sunrooms, Roofs, Decks &

COMPLETE YARD WORK-Weeding, mulching,

Other home Improvements. Chesapeake Office 757-274-4533. Suffolk Office 986-3777. BBB Accredited. www.builderscorporation.com

Attorneys

DIVORCE/WILLS

Uncontested. $395 + $86 filing fee.

No court appearance required.

Wills $275. Se Habla Espanol Hilton Oliver, atty. 757-490-0126

Childcare

trimming, planting & transplanting of grass, trees & shrubbery. Clean Ups, 25 Yrs Exp. 757-918-4152.

Lawn Maintenance 100% YARD CLEAN UP, Mulching, Shrub Removal & Trimming, Flower Bed Clean-Out, Tractor Work & Grading. 757-282-3823.

Affordable Cuts - Landscaping, Lawn & Tree Service, Edging & Mulching. Grass Cut - Minimum Charge $60. Lic & Ins. Credit Cards Accepted, We Do Anything In The Yard. Free Est. 472-8370

Moving-Hauling (A) FAMILY TRASH MAN

Household, demo inside & out, construction sites, dumpster drop off, backhoe work. We haul it all!

20 yrs exp, lic & ins. 485-1414

MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES District 19 Community Services Board Job Opportunities

B & J MOVING

Reasonable Rates, Licensed & Insured. bandjmoving.com 757-576-1290

Pest Control

996 Crisis Intervention Provider 528: Substance Abuse Therapist For job descriptions and applications, please visit our website on the next business day at www.d19csb.com or visit our Human Resources office at 20 W. Bank Street, Suite 7, Petersburg, VA 23803.Sign on bonus available for some positions. Restrictions apply.

District 19 is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Education/Training

ACCEPTING CHILDREN OF ALL AGES

We have experience & educational training for child care providers in your city. Go to: www.pfceea.com

Concrete/Asphalt S & H Enterprise 20 Yrs. Concrete Exp. All types of concrete work driveways, stamped & exposed. We Accept Card Cards 652-4050. www.shabazznva.com

CAREER RESOURCE SPECIALIST

“If you don't use concrete, it's your own asphalt!”

DRIVEWAY SPECIALIST. FULLY INSURED

Call 466-9100

Electrical Work 10% OFF ABSOLUTELY ANY JOB

is now accepting applications for the following 2017-18 positions: l Principal (High School) l Assistant Principal(Elementary School) l Gifted Education Specialist l School Counselor l Speech/Language Pathologist For a complete list of jobs and to apply, please visit Employment at http://gets.gc.k12.va.us EOE

Engineering/ Architecture Engineer II #22234

The City of Virginia Beach Dept. of Public Utilities is recruiting for an Engineer II that will conduct project management for highly complex sanitary sewer and water distribution engineering projects.

For more information and to apply on-line by 6/14/17 go to www.vbgovcareers.com EOE

General/Other BOAT CAPTAIN - Looking for a small boat captain with master’s license to tow people up and down the resort area. Contact Pat Foster or Robin Parker with Rudee Inlet Jet Ski Rentals at 757-377-5018 or 757-428-4614.

Peninsula Cleaning hiring in Va Beach!

(PT) General Cleaners, Floor Techs, Team Leaders & Supervisors. Must be skilled &

reliable to clean and maintain commercial & medical facilities. Valid DL & bkgd check are req‘d. Apply online @ peninsulacleaning.com or call 757-833-1603 for more info.

EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability

(Mention This Ad and Get $25 Off)

Plastering/Drywall A1 PLASTER & REPAIR 32 Yrs Exp.

Small Repair Specialist. Affordable Pricing.

Licensed & Insured.We Get The Job Done! 237-5999

Drywall, Plaster, Stucco, General Repairs 757-813-1199. JAskew222@aol.com JTAskew.com

SPECIALIZING IN CEILINGS

H J.D. BAKER Concrete Contractor H

Gloucester County Public Schools

UNIVERSAL PEST & TERMITE. FREE INSPECTIONS. 757-502-0200

DRYWALL REPAIRS 757-497-DONE (3663)

Opportunity Inc. of Hampton Roads, a regional workforce development organization, is seeking qualified applicants for the position of Career Resource Specialist. Please go to our website at www.opp-inc.org for more information and how to apply. An Equal Opportunity Employer.

8000+ sq ft- Up-scale renovation. VAF 662. www.vaauctionco.com 538-0123

Drivers/ Transportation/ Shipping

Insurance

For immediate consideration please apply in person or forward your resume to:

Lake Taylor Hospital is hiring for all Healthcare Related Positions. Visit our website at www.laketaylor.org for more information.

Ports. Turn-Key Restaurant & Event Center

AMBITEnergy Japan Seeking Marketing Consultants: New Market. Seeking ambitious people in Japan to become Marketing Consultants for AmbitEnergy Japan,GK. Serving new market of 80 million people with energy. Help them save $$ and get FREE Energy. Contact Elizabeth at ebenergy@gmail.com

l Must hold current RN or LPN license in the state of Virginia l Experience in Long Term Care preferred

Housekeepers & Inspectors Full Time Hours Best Western Plus, VA Bch 2809 Atlantic Avenue Oceanfront Resort Apply in person

Equipment Mechanic

(Min 4 yrs exp). Home weekends. Clean MVR. Sign on Bonus. Benefits Pkg. 757-545-8585.

May 28 & 29, 2017. VAAR #1597. 722-9210.

Business Opportunities

Qualified Applicants Should Have the Following:

Housekeepers & Inspectors Best Western Plus, Virginia Beach 2809 Atlantic Avenue, Va Bch Oceanfront Resort Apply in person Front Desk

CUSTODIAL & FLOOR TECHS FT. 2nd shift- Mon-Fri, Good starting pay, Benefits. Exp. preferred. Call 757-749-4081 10 am - 2 pm. Mon-Fri, EOE. N Military hwy area

Phoebus Auction Gallery. Next Auction

Suff. Carolina Rd. Auto Shop & Warehouse 8+ Acres. May 25th 10 AM on site Call to view, VAF 662. www.vaauctionco.com 538-0123

Full Time 7 am-3 pm RN, LPN Part Time 7 am-3 pm RN, LPN Full Time 3 pm-11 pm RN, LPN Part Time 3 pm-11 pm RN, LPN

Heritage Hall-Virginia Beach is an Equal Opportunity ADA/Affirmative Action Employer

at 12 Noon. Call 461-5765 for info.

German Shepherd Pups-Black & tan, AKC,

25 Yrs. Exp. Licensed

Will Come to You for Antiques

Jack’s Towing, monthly auto auction 3rd Sat.

currently recruiting for the following positions in our 90 bed facility.

CDL-Class A Experienced Driver Needed

Automotive/ Mechanics

Helper to assist in installation and repair of water treatment systems. Will train. Attention to detail and good work ethic a must. Must have valid drivers license and pass drug test. Hours 8:30AM-2PM M-F. $10 per hour. Apply in person at 2963 S. Military Hwy. Chesapeake

cultivators & hillers, good tires, runs good. $2500.

Serious inquiries only please, 757-617-1476.

Heritage Hall - Virginia Beach is

Full Time & Part Time, Previous Geico experience, Independent Agency exp. and bi-lingual all helpful. Call 757-676-9509.

#01A Black Sifted TOPSOIL

** WANTED ** FIREARMS -GUNS

Can deliver: 757-706-3667

A SCIENCE FICTION YARD SALE!

HOUSEKEEPER

Premier, non-profit healthcare community seeking applicants for a PT housekeeper - up to 3 days a week with alternate weekends req’d. Apply in person at Our Lady of Perpetual Help, 4560 Princess Anne Rd., Va. Beach, VA 23462. Drug free work place & E.O.E.

Heritage Hall-Virginia Beach 5580 Daniel Smith Road Virginia Beach, VA 23462 (757-499-7029)or online at www.heritage-hall.org

6 yds $205, Mulch $25/yd; Compost $30/yd.

Rock, Sand & Firewood. D. Miller’s, 482-5083

Boats/Rigs 10’ Kayak, paddles, 2 life vests $100;

Begins 7/1/17. Exp. with Microsoft Office desirable. Send resume w/cover letter and salary history to ccresumes@pilotonline.com, refer to Box #20657 in the subject line.

HEAVY EQUIPMENT MECHANIC Full Time. Experience a plus but will train.

757-545-8585

Wanted To Buy

OVER 100 Avail. For Boats 12'-38' BUDGET BOATS: (757) 543 -7595

Opportunity Inc. of Hampton Roads, a regional workforce development organization, is seeking qualified applicants for the position of Coordinator of Workforce Analytics. Please go to our website at www.opp-inc.org for more information and how to apply. An Equal Opportunity Employer.

SPSA-Great benefits. Exp.required Visit http://www.spsa.com to apply.

USED TRAILER SALE !!!

Flea Markets/Bazaars

Garage Sale - Norfolk

Sailboats

Articles For Sale

The Markets At Deep Creek 3112 S Military Hwy Chesapeake 7-4 Sat May 20th 7-4 Sat May 27th New Flea Market Vendors needed 7572355232

Norfolk Highlands Area SASSY SISTERS SPRING EXTRAVAGANZA UPSCALE YARDSALE! New, gently used and vintage - thousands of items, including furniture, collectibles and home decor. New items daily. LuLaRoe rep on Fri, along with Carport Carpentry quality handmades.

Fri-Sat, 8-2, No earlies, please. 334 Kemp Lane, Ches.

Used, excel cond, motor yacht, 2x mercruiser engine Call Robb 757-621-2111

Appraisal Service With 40 Years Experience.

40% Military Discount on all other sets!

Greenbrier-POA Annual Community Yd Sale.

Sat., May 27, 8-noon. Over 12 neighborhoods participating along Eden Way N., River Birch Run N. & South & at the corner of Volvo Pkwy & Greenbrier Pkwy. Look for the bright yellow signs.

Regal 2750 Commodore 1998 29’ $28,500

422-4477

Battery Outlet, Inc. Proudly Servicing Hamp-

COORDINATOR OF WORKFORCE ANALYTICS

Positive, professional individual needed for part-time receptionist position at large non-profit.

Virginia Beach Antique Co.

1000 Cobble Stones, 1500 Terra Cotta Street Paving Bricks. You haul, $2000. 627-2846.

National organization seeks individual with organizational and secretarial skills to schedule appointments. Windows/Microsoft Office required. Full time position $25,000 per year with benefits.

Email resume to jpc@nrtw.org or fax to 757-671-8272.

Hotel/Hospitality/ Tourism

Healthcare/ Medical

Appointment Scheduler (Virginia Beach)

WANTED

www.towmeplease.com or call 800-973-8007.

Everything from flat tires fixes, towing, car lock out, lawyer’s for traffic court, $40 sign up, $19.95 a mo

Administration/ General Office

Free Estimates $100 OFF ANY BREAKER BOX COLE ELECTRIC - 498-2653

Decks & Fencing ACTION ONE FENCE & DECK

Custom wood, alum., chain link, vinyl. Quality work, great prices. Free Est. 35 Yrs. Exp. 757-438-7057.

Floors

NEW FLOORING FAST!!

We'll bring samples to your home, measure, and can even install the next day. We are Hampton Roads largest flooring dealer, so you get your floors installed right and at the lowest price guaranteed.

CALL 453-8000 for your free quote.

Garages D&W Garages - 20x24' $15,995; 24x24' $17,995; 24x30’ $20,995; w/Slab & Vinyl Siding.

Call 465-0115 or 362-1833. dandwgarages.com

General Repairs Chris deBeaufort Home Repair, carpentry, electrical, plumbing, painting, gutter cleaning & more. Sr Discounts. Lic’d & Ins’d. 757-619-1386.

Home Improvements AIR-DUCT CLEANING

UNIVERSAL DUCT CLEANING FREE INSPECTIONS Member BBB 757-502-0200 D & J Home Improvements. Complete renovations, bathrooms, kitchens.fences & decks, tile, painting, gutter maintenance, 757-839-7771.

Lee’s Contracting, LLC. 757-650-8049 Call or Text Clean outs, demolition, wood fencing, pressure washing and hauling. Over 20 years experience.

Oak Grove Remodeling and Repairs Inc. No job is to small or big. Veteran owned. FREE quotes. 757-6754188

House Cleaning

Walls, Cracks, Circle Ceilings & All. Free Estimates.

Licensed & Insured. 757-695-7755.

Plumbing/Heating/Air NORFOLK PLUMBING, INC. “THE ORIGINAL” 757-466-0644 “YOUR PLUMBERS IN THE BRIGHT YELLOW TRUCKS”

Roofing-Guttering AA+ Affordable Roofing-To meet your

budget. Over 20 yrs. exp. Complete new roof or roof repairs. Lots of ref’s. Call Stanley’s Affordable. Free Est. Lic’d & Ins’d. Member BBB. Senior Citizen Discount. 757-289-0044

ADVANCED ROOFING SYSTEMS Residential Re-Roofing. 29 Years Exp. Reasonable Rates. 757-523-0044 roofingcompanyvirginiabeachva.com CALVIN’S ROOFING REPAIR - Roofing of all

types-flat, gutters, slate, shingle, torch down/rubber.

Free est, 30+ yrs exp. BBB. Lic/Ins 757-382-0031

Commercial & Residential Flat Roofs. 45

yrs. exp. Roof Repairs, new roof construction, roof coatings, 24 Hr. Emergency Service. 757-971-0888

J.K. ROOFING

LEAKING ROOF, REPAIR SPECIAL 30 YEAR ARCHITECT SHINGLE. $1.99 PER SQ. FT. GUTTER & SIDING. PLUS HANDYMAN. LICENSED & INSURED

Call (757) 880-5215

ROOFING/FLAT RUBBER, HOT TAR, Shingles, Slate, Tile, Chimney Flashing, Siding.

Licensed & Insured Call Today! 757-718-1072

Siding

BEST PRICE EXTERIORS: 757-639-4692 Siding, Windows, Trim, Roofing & Gutters.

FREE ESTIMATES! Lic. & Insured. Lowest Prices & Top Quality Work. BBB A Plus Rating

Frank’s Siding & Repairs 227-8964 Repairing Siding & Trim. Also Small & Large Jobs.

Lic/Ins. LOW PRICES. BBB A+ RATING.

Tree Service 100% ALL TREE & SHRUB REMOVAL Pruning, Broken Limbs, Bucket Truck, Overgrowth Removal & Cleanup. Lic & Ins. 757-282-3823.

AFFORDABLE TREE SERVICE-Tree pruning

& complete tree removal, stump grinding avail.

Senior Citizen Disc. Theo 515-6933. Josh 998-5327

FLOYD'S TREE SERVICE

Government/ Civil Service

*All Seasons Cleaning*Enjoy the lowest prices of the season! Call Heather today 757-696-2255 or visit us online at allseasonscleaning.org

Pruning. Trimming, Removal. Firewood.

Free Estimates. Licensed & Insured. 420-6396

NUCLEAR POWER OPERATIONS - HS Grads w/ strong math/science bkgrnd needed to operate, control and maintain components that power Carriers and Submarines. Early Adv, 12k enl bonus and up to 100k reenlist $ avail. Learn more? Call 800-533-1657

Landscape/Gardening

Godwin Tree Service-Great discounts, leave your place clean & neat as before. BBB reg. 25 yrs. exp. Lic/Ins. Free Estimates. 237-1285. 816-3759.

100% Drainage & Yard Cleanup, Shrub & Tree Removal, Pruning, Tractor Work & Grading, French Drains, Mulching, 757-282-3823

H AMERICANTREESERVICE.CO H

Free Stump Grinding With Tree Removal H 100% Price Match Guarantee. 757-587-9568 H

Real Estate/ Property Management Apartment Maintenance Technician Exp w/plumbing, elec, & drywall. HVAC cert a major plus. Valid VA driver's lic. Health, Dental, Vac. Bkgrnd check. Apply in person at 3515 Gatling Ave. Norfolk or email resume to matt@inglesideproperties.net

Restaurant/ Food Service KITCHEN & WAITSTAFF HELP NEEDED Full or Part Time Available.

Call Mike at Cafe Europa 757-399-6652.

KITCHEN HELP

Full or PT. Apply @ Green Parrot Grille, 44 Lookout Rd, VB

Local Bakery Celebrating 30 Years Now Hiring Exp’d Cake Decorators.

Must be available on Saturdays, no Sundays.

Accepting Diverse Applications.

Apply in person at 1353 Laskin Road, VA Beach, 23451

LOCAL BAKERY CELEBRATING 30 YEARS Now Hiring Bakery Counter Help l Strong customer service skills l Available to work Saturdays (FT & PT) NO SUNDAYS. Accepting diverse applications.

Apply in person 1353 Laskin Rd. 23451.

Retail

For Rent-Rooms Chesapeake-Across street from Crestwood Primary School. $450 mo. 757-373-1983.

CHESAPEAKE-Battlefield/Volvo Pkwy, furnished, incl. all utils. $525 mo. + dep. 757-681-4067 No smoking/pets. $550mo+$200dep. 944-3848

Furn Rm-Va. Bch, off Oceana, clean, quiet, no drama home, background ck, $500. 635-5151 Great Bridge-Ches. Quiet/clean, basic cable, shared bath w/kit. priv’s. $550. Furn. Utils inclu.

Dep. Ref needed. Avail now. 757-717-9332.

Kempsville, $515/Mo. Non/Smoker, Must Have Steady Income, Utils Incl., W/D, No Pets, Alcohol, or Drugs. 757-473-5611

PRINCESS ANNE MEMORIAL PARK

TEN COMMANDMENTS. 2 spaces/sites (Lot 299) in TEN COMMANDMENTS. One of the most highlydesired burial areas in Princess Anne Memorial Park. $6000. Call 407-435-8136.

For Rent-Condo

Suffolk - All utils paid, full house priv’s. $175 wk.

Non Smoker. No Animals. No dep. 757-771-7456.

For Rent-To Share Female W/Same, 2 BR apt., Va. Beach, senior

community. No smokers. $510. 757-822-3625.

smoker, no pets, kit. privileges, Wi-Fi & TV. $650 mo. Call Bee 757-289-7255.

For Rent-Townhomes air/heat. Parking, $1000 mo. 757-644-6824.

For Rent-Va. Beach Apts OCEANA/HILLTOP AREA Newly renovated throughout, Spacious 2 BR, 1 BA. $795/mo. 631-1306.

For Sale-Chesapeake Home Noritake China: 2-5 Piece Place Setting w/ Tea Service, $65 for all.

Please Contact: 757-482-0336

Western Branch-3 BR, 2 BA brick ranch, $212,000. Kline Realty 484-0123.

For Rent-Furnished Apts

EXPERT RENTAL MANAGEMENT Military Relo Group-Retired Navy Captain. We need good solid rentals. Internet promotion guaranteed.

Monthly reports. Capt-USN-Ret-ART CARDEN, Chesapeake Bay Realty, NAVYREALTOR1@COX. NET TEXT- 241-2740

BENTLEY 2008 CONTINENTAL FLYING SPUR STUNNING CONDITION, V-12 TWIN TURBO AWD, LOW MILES, NAVY BLUE EXT., GRAY LEATHER INT WITH REAL WOOD TRIM, HEATED & COOLED SEATS, NEW TIRES & BRAKES, 20” BENTLEY RIMS, NAV, BLUETOOTH, BACKUP CAMERA, CLEAR CARFAX, 2. EXTREME PERFORMANCE, ELEGANCE & LUXURY. WITH WARRANTY, OVER $8k IN OPTIONS, CURRENT BOOK $83,000.00. PRICED TO SELL @ $56,880. CALL OR TEXT @ (757)373-3257 VaDlr BMW 2011 128i AUTO AC ALLOYS SUNROOF LEATHER EXCELLENT COND. MUST SEE 12900.00 CALL 963-2299 TRINITY PRE-OWNED vadlr CHEVROLET 2009 HHR LS AUTO AC VERY GOOD COND. RECENT INSPECTION COME SEE 4900.00 CALL 963-2299 TRINITY PRE-OWNED va dlr

Chevy 2001 Impala, loaded, real good miles, good tires, nice. $2500. 757-487-7101. Va. Dlr.

Chevy 2003 Cavalier, 4 dr., auto, good cond in & out. $2150 obo. 757-228-6656.

NEED A CAR?

Office Warehouse

Corvette 2011 Grand Sport Z16 4LT Supersonic blue. Immaculate condition with 13k miles. Original owner. No smoking or food allowed. Garage kept under cover. Manual transmission. Premium interior package. Call for pricing. 757-620-1529

A Newer Remodeled 1 BR apt., walk-in closet,

E. Ocean View. $650. Water included. 646-2398.

GHENT-8 Great Locations

$300 Moves You In. $720 Mo.

Ingleside Square Apts. 3515 Gatling Ave. 466-8111

Chevrolet 1993 Corvette 40th Anniv. coupe, LT1, auto, Ruby Red, 17,500mi. Original, Garaged & covered. Asking $17,900.00. 757-509-1389

Call 460-1992 or 625-8193.

MGA 1956 A Strong running condition. Low mileage. Call Frank (757) 575-8247. $14,500.00

For Rent-Portsmouth Apts $250 Security Deposit. Waterview Colonial Manor Starting at $675. Immediate Availability, 393-2111

Churchland, W. Branch, Suffolk Homes, apts,

furn’d w/appl’s, pool, tennis court, cable, high spd net, employed, no drugs/smoke, 757-270-6012.

Honda 2002 Accord EX V6 4 door, automatic, leather, sunroof, 235,000 miles mostly highway, well service, maintained, runs great, and kept clean. $3899, 757-354-3585

Mazda 2005 3, 4 dr., auto, new engine, 61K, good cond, $3800 obo. 757-228-6656.

twnhmes. $725-$1800. Kline Realty 484-0123

For Rent-Rooms

Ford 2007 Mustang, 4.0, 86K, clean inside & out, black, must see. $9500. 757-548-4034.

Infiniti 2006 M45 63k miles. Red w beige leather.

Nav. All pwr opt Exc cond. 325HP Mike 919-3244391 Chesapeake

For Rent-Portsmouth House

1A+ Rm. Va Bch TCC. Priv. entrance, quiet,

ZERO DOWN? BAD CREDIT?

CALL 757-717-1715 VA DLR

Harley Davidson 2014 Seventy-Two Immaculate!!

No dings/dents and never dropped! Only 570 miles on it!$7900.00 or BEST OFFER. Title in-hand. Text or call for more info. 757-230-6458.

Sport Utility Vehicles Chevy 2002 Blazer,

$2150 obo. 757-228-6656.

2 door, good cond,

Ford 2000 Expedition, 22” rims, 2 TV’s, 3

TESLA 2012 S - P85 , LOW 25K MILES, IN NEW CONDITION, NAVY BLUE EXT. & TAN INTERIOR, 250MILE RANGE, NEVER USE GAS, NAV., BACK UP CAM, 2 KEY FOBS, EXTREME PERFORMANCE & LUXURY, FREE CHARGING NATIONWIDE, SAVE 100% IN GAS AND OVER 90% IN CAR REPAIRS AND MAINTENANCE! CLEAR CARFAX, CURRENT VALUE $64,875. NEW $110,000. ON SALE FOR $57,890. CALL OR TEXT @ (757)373-3257 VaDlr

Toyota 2007 Corolla LE, loaded, 4 dr, miles average. Nice. $4800. 757-487-4194. Va. Dlr.

TOYOTA 2010 COROLLA S AUTO AC SUNROOF ALLOY WHEELS VERY GOOD COND. 50K MILES 9900.00 CALL 963-2299 TRINITY PRE-OWNED vadlr

Jeep 2015 Grand Cherokee Altitude Great condition; well maintained; mileage under 19, 000; one owner; non smoker. Has sunroof, remote entry and nerf bars. Priced at $28, 900.

Call: (757) 635-2965 for more details

Land Rover 2008 LR2 Clean!, Automatic, Dual Rear DVD, Sunroof, Heated Leather, Automatic, Runs perfect! $8,500 Call 757 963-6511

Mazda 2003 Tribute, all wheel drive, good cond, $3750 obo. 757-228-6656.

CALL 757-717-1715 VA DLR Ford 2003 T-Bird Roadster Red HT Conv 3.9L DOHC V8 120,000 mi runs good Mich tires $10,000 4823681 call before 5pm

OCEAN VIEW’S BEST-5 Locations, 1-2 BR, extras Near beach, air, laundry. www.capitalrentalsva.com

Some/Most Utils. 625-7110. 623-8383 Wards Corner - 1BR, $650 & 2BR, $750

NEED A CAR?

ZERO DOWN? BAD CREDIT?

Move in Special! Ocean View-1 & 2 bdrm units.

Gregory Realty 855-3315 gregoryrealtycorpofva.com

Volvo 2003 C70 Convertible Only 81.5K miles, auto, Blue Top, New tires $5,500 - 630-5132

Mercedes Benz 1999 500SL Color Sand w/ Beige Leather, Both hard & soft tops, Fully loaded, Low mileage - 24,650 miles, Excellent condition inside & out, $17,500 Call Gerald at 757-284-8076, Isle of Wight Motors VADLR

Fun and Games

AUTOS ACCEPTED - Any Year, Make Or Model

MISSING!-MY 1ST CAR-ORANGE 1973 VW SUPER BEETLE! PLEASE HELP find Gertie.

Bought her 1973,VW dealer Laskin Rd.,sold 1993-94,someone Va. Bch. Gertie had CB antenna on top,vin 1332325451. PLEASE CALL 757-412-0506 if you see Gertie,or own this car.

I would like to make offer to buy her back. I MISS HER!

Mercedes 2011 E550 Convertible Black ext. Beige int., 8cyl. auto, Perfect condition, Title in hand, LOW mileage. $27,800 Call 757-650-9617

NEED A CAR?

Little Creek Rd-2 BR Twnhse. Central heat/air, carpet. $700-$730. Credit 4 req’d. (888)368-5920 Ask About Our Specials Meredith Mgmt. www.RENTMEREDITH.com

Wanted Automobiles $ABSOLUTELY ABLY ACQUIRING AUTOS All Makes & Models, Best Price Paid!!

FREE TOWING. 749-8035

Harley Davidson 2007 FLSTSC Old No7 custom softail new all around must see to appreciate call 7576362169 asking 11500

amps, 2 speakers more. $3750 obo. 757-228-6656

Corvette 1989 Convertible corvette convertible 89 auto red tan top a steal at $4900 252-207-9086

For Rent-Norfolk Apts

Toyota 1990 Land Cruiser FJ62 4WD, Automatic, 90,371 original miles, LIKE NEW $ 2.600 Call: (540)227-4035

TOP DOLLAR, FAST, FREE TOWING. 757-737-2465 Or 757-754-9675

MASERATI 2008 QUATTROPORTE - LOW 34,218K MILES, 4-DOOR LUXURY SEDAN, SILVER EXT. W/ BLACK LEATHER & WOOD INTERIOR, AUTO, NAVIGATION, 400HP FERRARI ENGINE! AM/FM/CD IN DASH CD CHANGER, NEW TIRES & BRAKES, RECLINING REAR SEATS, JET-LIKE PERFORMANCE, MUST SEE TO BELIEVE. CURRENT BOOK VALUE $46,800. ON SALE $33,890. (757)373-3257 VaDlr

CALL 757-717-1715 VA DLR

Antiques & Classics

Chesapeake 1200 & 1500 sq. ft. Call 485-1323.

1 & 2 BR, free heat & hot H20, $650-$995.

Meredith Mgmt. 622-8233 www.RENTMEREDITH.com

Harley Davidson 2005 Road King 757-435-5996 $10k OBO, Garage kept, $6k chrome pkg, a steal!

ZERO DOWN? BAD CREDIT?

Motel 6-Ocean View. New rms, near fishing pier,

For Lease-Industrial

HARLEY DAVIDSON 2004 Sportster 1200 CLX Screamin’ Eagle Big Sucker Air Cleaner,New Battery,Corbin Seat, Windshield, Additional Handlebars & Double Seat, Leather Saddle Bags,Luggage Rack,Lowering Kit, many other extras $5,900 Call Mary at 757-740-0262

Harley davidson 2006 wideglide Great looking bike.

Custom Harley paint, lots of chrome,38000 mi.

Vance hinds exh. power commander. Must sell 5800 .00 Exc cond. 7572568124

Portsmouth-Prentis Park on Piedmont Ave. $500 mo. 757-373-1983.

Freemason PilotHouse Condominium 1975

$230 wk, kitchenette avail. Pet ok. 757-480-9611

Lexus 1998 400SC 2 dr sport coupe all power, sunroof,140k in great condition driven daily, $5000 firm. 757-641-0559.

Utils incl. Priv. entrance. 757-338-7188, 469-4355

Real Estate Services

SF 2 BR,2 1/2 Bathrooms, 2 story town-home on cobblestone street, boat slip, 2 car gated parking, city&water views, All new spa-like MB, Coastal Living in City! $2750 MO 757-286-6460 leave VM

BENTLEY 2008 ARNAGE RL - VERY RARE EXTENDED WHEELBASE, EXTREME LUXURY SUPERCAR, NAVY BLUE EXT., TWO-TONE TAN & REAL WOOD INT., REFRIGERATOR WITH BAR AND CONCEALED GLASSWARE, PICNIC TABLES, BLUETOOTH, NAVIGATION, BACK UP CAMERA, LIKE NEW, MUST SEE TO BELIEVE, BENTLEY SERVICED RECORDS, CLEAR CARFAX, ONE OWNER. NEW OVER $296,000! CURRENT BOOK OVER $103,000. OFFERED AT $67,500. CALL 1(757)373-3257 VaDlr

Norfolk, Wards Corner-On busline, $550 mo.

Norfolk-Newtown South. 3 BR, 2.5 BA, central

Forest Lawn-Norfolk...2 plots in Live Oak sect.-flush plaques only, $1200 Each..757.362.1169

Motorcycles

Ches-furnshd rm w/internet. Clean rmr only.

Ship Building Ship Repair

Burial/Cemetery Plot

Winnebago 1998 Tioga Ready for summer fun. Everything works. 31 ft. Ford Triton V10. 31K. Sleeps 6. 1 slide. Good condition. Low hours on generator.

New tires. Needs new awning fabric. $9500 757812-4338

free n/s no pets Furnd $135per wk+dep

Great Neck Area-Professional person, non

MK is now hiring Pipe Fitters and Welders.

Work in Pascagoula, MS. Pays $26.05-$26.35/hr + $48/day per-diem. Drug test /background check.

1-800-573-6269 or www.mkpro.com.

Automobiles for Sale

Campostella 7577182317 Clean quiet drug

PT/FT RETAIL SALES

Flex Hours. Apply in person Christmas Mouse, 1116 Atlantic Ave., Oceanfront.

Automobiles for Sale

FLAGSHIPNEWS.COM | MAY 25, 2017 | THE FL AGSHIP | C9 Campers/RVs Trucks

Toyota 2012 Corolla LE Exc condition, 97K mi, LE, new tires, new battery. $9050. 757-535-6175.

TOYOTA 2016 CAMRY SE AUTO AC 4DR FULLY LOADED ONLY 12K MILES MUST SEE 17,900.00 CALL 963-2299 TRINITY PRE-OWNED va dlr

Volvo 2012 S60, silver, 27K, very clean, tint-

Subaru 2014 Forester 2.5Touring,38K,Loaded+Ext ras,2yr warranty,Sweet,757 513-3333,$24,900

Campers/RVs

Volkswagen 2013 Tiguan S One owner, 2WD, 2.0L 4 cyl engine w/200 HP; 6-speed automatic; 63k miles. NEW tires; Night Blue Metallic; $11,000 OBO; 757-477-4013 or 2013vwtig@gmail.com

ed windows, like new inside. $18,000. 319-7979.

Big Country 2011 3250TS 5th wheel RV. Visit WWW.RTV.COM search ad #6839836 for info, price, and contact info.

CONSIGNMENTS WANTED! Let us clean,

Trucks

Cougar 2013, 37’, outside kit., rear bunks,

RAM 2015 1500 SLT QUAD CAB AUTO FULLY LOADED 1 OWNER PRICED TO SELL FINANCING AVAIL. CALL 963-2299 TRINITY PRE-OWNED vadlr

sell, & finance your RV. Snyders RV 499-8000.

$24,995. Snyder’s RV 499-8000.

Sudoku

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last week's answers

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THANKS TO ALL THE BRAVE MEN AND WOMEN FOR YOUR SERVICE TO OUR COUNTRY.

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SEE PARTICIPATING DEALER FOR DETAILS. **PURCHASERS CAN RECEIVE $2000 CASH BACK FROM TOYOTA ON RAV4 AND COROLLA OR $2500 CASH BACK FROM TOYOTA ON CAMRY OR CAN APPLY CASH BACK TO DOWN PAYMENT. ***$500 BONUS CASH FROM TOYOTA IN ADDITION TO SPECIAL APR FINANCING. CUSTOMERS CAN APPLY $500 BONUS CASH TO DOWN PAYMENT. †0% APR FINANCING UP TO 72 MONTHS AVAILABLE TO QUALIFIED BUYERS THRU TOYOTA FINANCIAL SERVICES. TOTAL FINANCED CANNOT EXCEED MSRP PLUS OPTIONS, TAX, TITLE, LICENSE AND DEALER FEES. 72 MONTHLY PAYMENTS OF $13.89 FOR EACH $1000 BORROWED. NOT ALL BUYERS WILL QUALIFY. ††ALL LEASE OFFERS: LEASE OFFERS AVAILABLE ON APPROVED CREDIT TO QUALIFIED CUSTOMERS FROM TOYOTA FINANCIAL SERVICES. CUSTOMER IS RESPONSIBLE FOR EXCESSIVE WEAR AND EXCESS MILEAGE CHARGES OF $.15 PER MILE IN EXCESS OF 36,000 MILES. NOT ALL CUSTOMERS WILL QUALIFY. C-HR LEASE DUE AT SIGNING INCLUDES $2740 DOWN, FIRST $259 PAYMENT, AND NO SECURITY DEPOSIT. EXAMPLE BASED ON 2018 C-HR MODEL 2404, MSRP $23,460 AND CAPITALIZED COST, WHICH MAY VARY BY DEALER, OF $23,536. HIGHLANDER LEASE DUE AT SIGNING INCLUDES $2670 DOWN, FIRST $329 PAYMENT, AND NO SECURITY DEPOSIT. EXAMPLE BASED ON 2017 HIGHLANDER LE MODEL 6948, MSRP $35,080 AND CAPITALIZED COST, WHICH MAY VARY BY DEALER, OF $33,612. TACOMA LEASE DUE AT SIGNING INCLUDES $2700 DOWN, FIRST $299 PAYMENT, AND NO SECURITY DEPOSIT. EXAMPLE BASED ON 2017 TACOMA MODEL 7540, 4X4 DOUBLE CAB SR5 V6 SHORT BED, MSRP $34,575 AND CAPITALIZED COST, WHICH MAY VARY BY DEALER, OF $33,529. LEASES DO NOT INCLUDE $350 DISPOSITION FEE DUE AT LEASE END. INCENTIVE AVAILABLE ON APPROVED CREDIT TO QUALIFIED CUSTOMERS THROUGH TOYOTA FINANCIAL SERVICES. CAPITALIZED COST IN EXAMPLES INCLUDE $650 ACQUISITION FEE AND ASSUMES DEALER PARTICIPATION. YOUR PAYMENT TERMS MAY VARY BASED ON FINAL NEGOTIATED PRICE. DEALER FEES ARE EXTRA. 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