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By Tom Janis NSA Hampton Roads

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BURGER DAY – MORAL BOOSTER

By MC2 Carlos M. Vazquez II USS Arleigh Burke Public Affairs

I love what I do, and I know the crew appreciates it. I never would’ve thought that something as small as burgers could bring the crew together.”

-Culinary Specialist Seaman Isaiah Harris

USS ARLEIGH BURKE, AT SEA

On Wednesdays, at about lunchtime, you can find Sailors assigned to the guided-missile destroyer USS Arleigh Burke (DDG 51) waiting in a line to place their orders for hamburgers, not just any plain hamburger, but one that is cooked fresh, in front of your face, with toasted, handmade buns, however you’d like it.

A savory taste you can only find at 31 Knot Café, the ship’s galley; a catering you can hardly find at your favorite local hamburger joint, even if you knew the owner, and a request almost impossible while ordering at your preferred fast-food chain restaurant.

One of the many Sailors you can find standing in that line wrapped through the passageways patiently waiting with a watery mouth is Sonar Technician (Surface) 3rd Class Michael Dispenza assigned to USS Arleigh Burke (DDG 51).

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MC3 Shane A. Jackson Lt. j.g. Jacqui Maxwell, production officer for Navy Public Affairs Support Element (NPASE) East, pulls weeds from a garden at a local neighborhood as part of a community relations project.

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NPASE Sailors participate in COMREL with ForKids

By MA2 Luke P. Robart Navy Public Affairs Support Element, East

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MC2(SW/AW) Carlos M. Vazquez Culinary Specialist Seaman Sharra Thach serves a made-toorder hamburger off the grill aboard the guided-missile destroyer USS Arleigh Burke (DDG 51).

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Twenty Sailors and four Marines from Navy Public Affairs Support Element (NPASE) East participated in a community relations project (COMREL) with Norfolk’s ForKids charity, July 30.

Service members participated in landscaping and cleaned up a local housing project at one of the ForKids locations. As part of their volunteer project, the group of volunteers picked up litter and conducted landscape maintenance.

Established 26 years ago, ForKids provides transitional and permanent housing for 175 homeless families

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daily in the Hampton Roads area.

“A lot of what we do is driven by volunteers,” said Dwain Jackson, ForKids operations manager. “One, it allows us to operate with lower overhead and have that help. And two, it invests [our] volunteers in what we do and invests the community in what we do. I’m always amazed at the passion they bring to it.”

“We couldn’t do what groups can do in an hour with just one person.

Dwain couldn’t do what you guys are about to do in a whole day and you guys are going to have it knocked out in a couple hours,” said Rachel Newnam, senior development crew chief of ForKids.

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The Office of War Information was created in 1942 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt and it used numerous tools to communicate to the American public.

The World War II effort included many messages designed to support the war effort and to further demonstrate the United States’ commitment to winning the war.

“Ready for anything – thanks to you!” The message may be 70 years old but its meaning isn’t lost in time. The ability of the American public to overcome seemingly insurmountable problems rests with our readiness to face those threats head-on and to take positive action to prepare for them. It rests with our resiliency.

Ready (Ready.gov) was launched in 2003 as a national public service announcement campaign designed to educate and empower Americans to prepare for and respond to emergencies including natural and manmade disasters. The Ready Navy program complements that effort.

Disasters continue to occur, and yearly each event seems to break a new destruction record.

In 2013, there were 7 weather and climate disaster events with losses exceeding $1 billion each across the United States. These events included five severe weather and tornado events, a major flood event, and the western drought/heat wave. Overall, 109 people were killed with damages surpassing $7 billion. This had significant economic effects on the areas impacted.

Disaster or disaster-related losses can affect any person or community. Diseases such as Ebola or West Nile, bombings, public and military base shootings, wildfires, water shortages, and flooding and wind damage all lead to large-scale consequences for our Nation and our communities. We must plan for the best and worst case scenarios, but failing to have a plan is planning to fail and that is just not keeping with the Navy can-do attitude. Ready Navy encourages you to make a plan – formalize your emergency preparations by completing a Ready Navy Family Emergency Plan so that everyone in the family understands what to do, where to go, and what to take in the event of an emergency. Unit or activity level emergency action plans help ensure mission assurance and the welfare of the troops.

Whether on active duty, reserves, civilian employee or family member, you play an important role in ensuring the welfare of our homeland. Our focus in WWII was no more important than today. We can do this – we can Stay resilient and stay Ready!

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Yorktown celebrates 96 years of ordnance support to the fleet

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NSSA PARTICIPATES IN HAMPTON ROADS JOB FAIR U.S. Navy photos Above: The main gate for Navy Mine Depot (NMD) Yorktown, circa 1920, with a Marine sentry.

Left: A U.S. Marine patrols NMD Yorktown and its perimeter, circa 1920.

By Mark O. Piggott NMD Yorktown became Naval Weapons Station Yorktown in 1958, when the Navy expanded the mission of the base.

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August 7, Naval Weapons Station (WPNSTA) Yorktown is celebrating 96 years of service to the fleet providing ordnance and technical support to the U. S. Navy. Since 1918, when President Woodrow Wilson signed a Presidential Proclamation establishing the Navy Mine Depot at Yorktown, the installation has been the hallmark of excellence for ordnance handling operations.

More than 90,000 tons of ordnance is moved annually on and off U.S. Navy ships, U.S. Coast Guard ships, and ships of our allies.

Given the country’s ordnance needs once the U.S. entered World War I, the initial mission of the Depot was to support the Allied underwater mine barrage in the North Sea. However, when the Armistice was signed on November 11, 1918, the station’s mission quickly evolved to receipt and storage of returned mines and provision of ordnance support for the peacetime Navy. Today, WPNSTA Yorktown and its tenant commands continue to provide critical fleet ordnance support for the Navy.

“Naval Weapons Station Yorktown and its predecessor, Navy Mine Depot Yorktown, have a rich and storied history on the peninsula,” said Capt. Paul Haebler, Commanding Officer, WPNSTA Yorktown. “The work we do here today, from ordnance handling to expeditionary combat training, carries on that tradition and will continue to do so for the next 96 years and beyond.”

For construction of the Navy Mine Depot, about 13,000 acres, which straddled York, Warwick, and James City Counties and bordered the York River, were appropriated. At the time of the Proclamation, the Navy Mine Depot was the largest naval activity in the world.

Originally home to Native Americans of the Kiskiak tribe, part of the Powhatan nation, the acquired property had subsequently provided homes to colonists, farmers, and watermen of the area. To this day, much of the land on WPNSTA Yorktown is forest and wetlands, which provides ample protected locations for ordnance operations.

Initial construction of the Naval Mine Depot included 15 storage magazines for mines, depth charges and other explosives, an explosives loading plant, a public works building, a power plant, barracks, mess hall, and other administrative buildings, a railroad connection to the C&O Railroad, a telephone system and a pier…all of this for $3 million dollars!

“A pier construction bid was opened on March 17, 1919 and was awarded by March 20, 1919 for a pier that was to be completed within 120 days,” said Leo Forrest, a retired civilian employee and WPNSTA Yorktown historian. “The pier was a high priority item due to the numerous complaints from the ships that were bringing war materials to Yorktown.”

“The ships had to anchor in the York River and the underwater mines and other material would have to be moved onto barges that would be brought up to an old dock and off loaded, all by hand,” he added. “It wasn’t easy work, by no means.”

The original wooden pier was badly damaged by a hurricane in 1933 and a fire in 1954. In 1962, a modern concrete pier was built. Subsequent improvements to this pier have made it one of Navy’s outstanding ammunition terminals.

Originally, a compliment of U.S. Marines was stationed at the Navy Mine Depot to provide base security.

Due to the immense size of the installation, the Marines patrolled the perimeter on horseback. The horses were eventually replaced by motor vehicles in 1960, making WPNSTA Yorktown the last naval activity to use horsemounted Marines.

During much of its history, WPNSTA Yorktown hosted various tenant commands in support of their mission. One of the more unique was Aviation Field Yorktown. In July 1919, an aviation training camp was established. Its landing field, located in the area adjacent to the Colonial Parkway and Felgate’s

Norfolk Ship Support Activity (NSSA) participated in a job fair hosted by Congressmen Randy Forbes (VA-04) at Greenbrier Middle School, July 28.

The event gave veterans, recent college graduates and others on the job hunt the opportunity to learn about job openings available in Hampton Roads.

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ROOSEVELT SAILORS LEND THE COMMUNITY A HELPING HAND Room after room, objects once owned by someone else lined walls, stacked to the ceiling. The home goods, furniture, clothes and electronics lay scattered, begging for attention. With the help of Sailors stationed aboard aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71), volunteers donated their time from July 22 - July 24 to volunteer with the Habitat for Humanity ReStore in Norfolk.

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"Following the first World War, an aviation training school was established there to provide the first advanced aviation training for naval pilots in bombing, torpedo, and gunnery operations," Forrest explained.

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Submarine Squadron Six changes command Commander, Submarine Forces Public Affairs

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Capt. Paul Snodgrass relieved Capt. Blake L. Converse as Commander, Submarine Squadron Six (SUBRON SIX), during a change of command ceremony onboard the Los Angeles-class attack submarine USS Montpelier (SSN 765) at Naval Station Norfolk, August 1.

Vice Adm. Michael Connor, Commander, Submarine Forces, the feature speaker for the event, presented Converse with his third Legion of Merit award citing him for flawlessly directing the maintenance, operational, and combat readiness for nine nuclear-powered submarines.

“It is truly an honor to be here today as we take the time to come together and pay tribute to two outstanding naval officers, Capt. Blake Converse and Capt. Paul Snodgrass,” said Connor. “This ceremony, and all it represents, is one of our most cherished and impor-

■ SUBRON SIX Submarine Squadron Six exercises operational control over seven Los Angeles-class attack submarines home ported in Norfolk.

The squadron staff is responsible for training and preparing their submarine crews in all facets of operations, including tactical and operational readiness for war, inspection and monitoring, nuclear and radiological safety, and development and control of submarine operating schedules.

tant traditions. It represents the continuing recognition of who we are and what we truly value as a Navy – the absolute nature of accountability, responsibility and the art of leadership. That is important, because the business they preside over is serious business.

CSG 10 CHANGES COMMAND

By MC1 Thomas Miller Harry S. Truman Public Affairs

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Rear Adm. Bruce Lindsey relieved Rear Adm. Kevin Sweeney as Commander, Carrier Strike Group (CSG) 10, during a change of command ceremony aboard aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75), August 1.

Sweeney assumed command of CSG 10 Aug. 17, 2012 and led Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group as it completed a series of complex training exercises, achieved all required operational certifications, and completed a nine-month deployment to the U.S. 5th and 6th Fleet areas of operation.

The July 2013-April 2014 deployment, delayed from its original start in February 2013 due to sequestration, saw the strike group supporting a variety of missions ranging from maritime security operations to supporting Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan.

“It has been an absolute honor and privilege to work with such outstanding professionals over these past two years,” said Sweeney.

“We executed a wide array of operations together throughout an incredibly demanding time and we successfully met every challenge.

We completed a demanding, compressed certification schedule in early 2013 and were ready to deploy before we were delayed in the final hours due to sequestration.

Without missing a beat, we charged through five months of sustainment training before finally deploying

for nine months. I couldn’t be more proud of the young Sailors and Marines of the Harry S. Truman Strike Group for all they accomplished. They executed with the utmost precision and professionalism.”

Two ships assigned to the strike group won the ‘Battle E’ efficiency award during Sweeney’s tenure – USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) and USS Gettysburg (CG 64)- were both named as the best ships in their respective classes on the East Coast.

“I look forward to seeing the continued success in everything the strike group does,” said Sweeney. “With the highly trained professionals of the strike group and Adm. Lindsey’s leadership, there is no doubt in my mind that CSG 10 will continue to set the standard around the fleet.”

Lindsey said he feels very fortunate to be selected to command a U.S. Navy carrier strike group.

“I’m excited to be back on the waterfront with the best Sailors in the world,” Lindsey said. “CSG 10 and the Harry S. Truman Strike Group have a remarkable reputation throughout the fleet and I am honored to be joining such a superb group of war-fighting professionals. I look forward to building on the myriad successes that Adm. Sweeney and his team have achieved over the last two years.”

Lindsey, who most recently served as the deputy director for Operations on the Joint Staff, previously commanded Antisubmarine Squadron 29, USS Dubuque (LPD 8) and USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70).

“Successful organizations are led by visionary leaders who succeed over and over again. High performance organizations like SUBRON SIX are driven by leaders who delegate responsibility and share credit, but accept total accountability. Blake, your greatest accomplishment – your legacy – will be the people you trained, mentored, and took care of.

Our Sailors and their families were always first in your mind and heart. You ensured that they were provided everything we had to maximize their chance of success and quality of life. Your tour here will be remembered as being a pivotal leader, shaping the future of the submarine force.

Blake, congratulations on a job superbly well done.”

A native of Montoursville Pa., Converse assumed command of SUBRON SIX in 2012, during his third tour in Norfolk.

“The primary job at Squadron Six is to train, mentor and certify crews for deployment.

This broad range of responsi-

MC2 Benjamin Malvezzi Capt. Blake Converse delivers his change of command speech during the Commander, Submarine Squadron Six (SUBRON 6) change of command ceremony onboard the Los Angeles-class attack submarine USS Montpelier (SS 765), at Naval Station Norfolk, Aug. 1.

bilities would be impossible without the dedication and hard work the squadron’s staff of Sailors and civilians who eat, drink and breathe submarining. Finally to the commanding officers and crews assigned to Squadron Six, I thank you for your boldness, professionalism, initiative and sheer determination. I have been honored to have served and sailed with each and every one of you.”

Snodgrass reports to SUBRON SIX from SUBLANT where he served in several positions. He holds a Bachelors of Science in

Mathematics from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, a Master of Arts in Strategic Studies from the Naval War College, and a Master’s Degree in Engineering from Old Dominion University.

“I would like to thank Capt. Converse and the Squadron Six staff for a very thorough and professional turnover,” said Snodgrass, a native of Seymour, Ind. “Capt. Converse’s leadership has produced top performing commanding officers, a highly motivated and innovative staff and submarine crews that are well-trained

ready to fight and ready to win wars. Your mentorship will continue to pay dividends to our force for years to come. Best of luck as you move to the next level of leadership in our submarine force.

“For the officers, chiefs and Sailors of the SUBRON SIX staff and submarine crews, it is you who make submarining such an enjoyable profession. It will be an honor and privilege to lead you. I thank you and your families for your hard work and the sacrifice you make for our nation’s security.”

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NEXCOM Public Affairs

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NCTAMS LANT GARNERS ACCOLADES FOR ACHIEVEMENTS ACROSS REGION

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Naval Computer and Telecommunications Area Master Stations Atlantic (NCTAMS LANT) and its detachments have recently been recognized for operational excellence by garnering multiple accolades for achievement across the region.

These accolades include Copernicus awards and Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) Facility of the Year awards.

Lt. Cmdr. Yolanda M. Tripp from NCTAMS LANT and Lt.Tracy L. Culbert from Naval Computer and Telecommunications Station (NCTS) Sicily were presented with the Copernicus awards, which recognized their outstanding accomplishments in C4I/IT related jobs during 2013.

While at NCTAMS LANT, Lt. Cmdr.

Tripp played a vital role in the accomplishment of the command’s mission objectives by excelling in multiple assignments. As the Joint Fleet Telecommunications Op-

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erations Center (JFTOC) director, she superbly managed five watch teams consisting of more than 300 personnel to deliver C4I capabilities to the fleet.

As JFTOC watch officer, she flawlessly led a group of 60 personnel to provide realtime communications support to the units operating in the 4th, 5th, and 6th Fleet Area of Responsibilities (AORs). As operations department training officer, she expertly directed training evolutions for 380 personnel in the Operations Department.

Demonstrating superb initiative, she established a Training Academy and oversaw the development of 57 training modules to improve the watch qualification process and competency of junior personnel.

Lt. Culbert was operations officer at NCTS Sicily where she was responsible for the management and supervision of more than 200 circuits and base-wide network connectivity providing support for operations across EUCOM, CENTCOM, and AFRICOM AORs. During an individual augmentation (IA), Lt. Culbert supported the deputy commander Joint Task Force Horn of Africa J6 as the deputy emergency management officer and served as the NCTAMS LANT Detachment assistant officer in charge. Throughout her tenure at her command, she demonstrated sustained superior performance which resulted in a significant decrease in circuit downtime

and an increase in morale and operational proficiency at the command.

In addition to personnel achievements, NCTAMS LANT and its detachment facilities also won DISA Facility of the Year (FOTY) awards. The DISA FOTY is a prestigious award program that recognizes DISA facilities with exceptional levels of mission readiness and accomplishments.

The various winners and runner-ups from NCTAMS LANT and its detachments for DISA FOTY include: NCTS Jacksonville - the winner of Category II-GIG Transmission Facilities for a medium sized command; NCTAMS LANT - the winner of Category III-GIG Transmission Facilities for a large command; NCTAMS LANT Detachment Hampton Roads - the runner-up for the Category VI-Defense Red Switch Network; and Navy Satellite Communications Facility Northwest - the winner of CONUS [continental U.S.] Category XI Standard Tactical Entry Point (STEP facility with TELEPORT enhancement) and the runner-up for Global Category XI (STEP facility with TELEPORT enhancement).

Recent accolades for NCTAMS LANT and its detachment facilities demonstrate the commitment and dedication of all activities and personnel in providing the warfighters with the best possible communications support.

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Members of the Naval Station Norfolk color guard present the colors during the national anthem at Navy Night, an annual event held by the Tides to celebrate local Sailors and their families.

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Norfolk Tides take local Sailors out to the ballgame Tides won the game against the Buffalo Bisons 2-1

■ about the Tides The Norfolk Tides, founded in 1961, are the Triple-A affiliate of the Baltimore Orioles and have hosted Navy Night at Harbor Park for seven consecutive years.

In recognition of the service members in the crowd, the Tides wore special Navy Working Uniforminspired jerseys.

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By MC3 Edward Guttierrez III Navy Public Affairs Support Element East

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Sailors and their family members gathered at Harbor Park in Downtown Norfolk to celebrate Navy Night, a celebration of the Navy’s presence in the Hampton Roads area, sponsored by the Norfolk Tides Baseball Club, Aug. 2.

Prior to the game, members from the Navy Region MidAtlantic Military Working Dog Unit conducted a demonstration on the field, future Sailors were read the Oath of Enlistment by Capt. Frank E. Hughlett, commanding officer of Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek – Fort Story along the 3rd base line, the national anthem was sung by Chief Aviation Maintenance Administrationman Keisa Hightower and Sailors from around Hampton Roads area threw out the first pitch.

“Enlisting at a baseball game is probably the most American way to do it,” said future Sailor Brandon Randle.

“Baseball is the American pastime and I’m joining the American military. It doesn’t get any better than that.”

According to Rear Adm. Pete Gumataotao, Commander, Naval Surface Force Atlantic, events like Navy Night show the continuing support of the military by members of the Hampton Roads community.

“When people say that in fleet concentration areas like San Diego or Norfolk, that the relationship between the community and the Navy is very important, we all know that.

But tonight, we feel that,” said Gumataotao.

“We see the genuine outreach by the Norfolk Tides and the many sponsors to make the service members and their families know that fellow Americans say thank you and appreciate their service, especially in Hampton Roads.”

Above: MasterAt-Arms Seaman Vincent Cromartie, assigned to Navy Region MidAtlantic Military Working Dog Unit, leads his military working dog through a demonstration during Navy Night sponsored by the Norfolk Tides Baseball Club.

Enlisting at a baseball game is probably the most American way to do it.”

Left: Future Sailors prepare to be read the Oath of Enlistment as part of festivities during Navy Night.

-Future Sailor Brandon Randle

Left: Rear Adm. Pete Gumataotao, Commander, Navy Surface Force Atlantic, left, Capt. Frank Hughlett, commanding officer, JEBLCFS, middle, and Capt. Kit Chope, commanding officer, NAS Oceana, wave to the crowd during festivities during Navy Night.

Right: Rear Adm. Pete Gumataotao gives a radio interview to Norfolk Tides radio announcer Dave Rosenfield during Navy Night.

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BURGERS

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Continued from front “Deployment would be catastrophic without burger days,” said Dispenza. “I don’t know what I would do with myself.”

Burger days have a large significance to the Sailors aboard. This exclusive dining treatment is held on Wednesdays, which marks the middle of the work week, or “hump day” as Sailors like to call it. For these Sailors who are out-to-sea and on deployment, work weeks equal Sunday through Saturday, no days off, with long and strenuous working hours. When putting yourself in that mindset you can start to see how big of a deal this burger day can be.

“Burger day is a highlight of the week,” said Dispenza. “Another hamburger means another week passed, which means we’re that much closer to home. I wake up on Thursday and say, ‘only 6 days until burger day, alright.’”

Each burger day marks one week closer to the conclusion of deployment and some Sailors have even gone as far as keeping tally of the amount of burger days left in an Excel spreadsheet to send to each other via e-mail.

“Burger day is how we track time,” said Dispenza. “It’s our cadence. Sundays are the beginning and end of the week, and lunch on Wednesday is the middle. On top of celebrating hump day, you get a delicious hamburger, everybody wins.”

The Sailors receiving the made-to-order burgers are not the only ones who are awarded with satisfaction, the culinary specialists share in the contentment.

“Burger Days are the highlight of the week for me,” said Culinary Specialist Seaman Isaiah Harris, from Dallas, the man behind the burger day grill aboard Arleigh Burke.

“It doesn’t matter if I’m in a bad mood for that day or week. I feed off the energy of the crew, and the support of the cooks working alongside with me.”

Burger days have the power to change the Sailor’s entire outlook, attitude and mood from the moment they wake up on a Wednesday.

“A lot of times you see people in funky moods throughout the morning,” said Harris.

“Whether it’s not getting enough sleep or waking up to a long list of things that have to be accomplished before the end of the day.

On Wednesday, none of that matters, from the start of the day, the burgers are the only thing everyone is looking forward to.”

Swiss and American cheese, bacon, onions, mushrooms, and jalapeño peppers are just some of the various toppings and condiments

Sailors are able to choose to make their own custom-grilled beef, turkey, or veggie burger.

You can usually find Sailors entering the mess decks to boast and brag about what they ordered to their fellow shipmates.

“I always order both cheeses,” said Dispenza. “That’s the game changer.”

“The crew appreciates the selections and service that we give,” said Harris. “A couple people have gone to the extreme and had burgers tattooed on them. Dispenza wears his burger hat every burger day, and it’s just a good feeling to know that the pride I take in doing my job is appreciated.”

But wait, what happens if there is no burger day?

“We’ve had one horrible day when there were absolutely no burgers on the ship, we ran completely out of stock, and all hell broke loose,” said Harris. “There’s a huge

difference when there is no burger day.”

Though Sailors did not go on strike and a riot did not ensue that day, the lower morale of the crew surely was felt. You could feel it in the air as if your chest was tightened or as if you were a wound up jack-in-the-box but never popped out to produce happiness.

Though being completely out of burgers was not the fault of the culinary specialists, they cooked up a way to make it up to their shipmates by making handmade grilled-toorder burritos. For some, a reasonable substitute, but for burger lovers who were left with emptiness in their hearts, the culinary specialists made it up to them double when hamburgers were received before the following burger day. Happiness once again flowed through the passageways.

“There’s nothing like giving the crew a good meal after a hard day of labor,” said

Harris. “I love what I do, and I know the crew appreciates it. I never would’ve thought that something as small as burgers could bring the crew together.”

This burger day service is a rarity to be found on other US naval ships and according to Dispenza, “the scale of such an operation is understood and respected.”

“Here at the 31 Knot Café we all take pride in what we do, in the preparation, service and presentation we provide,” said Harris.

“You won’t find this on any other ship.”

Hamburgers aren’t the only choice of food on Burger Day though; chicken nuggets, corndogs, and a full salad and fruit bar are also an option.

Yet, if you speak to a passionate 31 Knot Café burger enthusiast, they will tell you exactly how they feel and how much burger days mean to them, their shipmates and to a successful deployment.

“Only rookies get the corndogs,” said Dispenza.

Left: Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Justin Ailes, from Navy Public Affairs Support Element (NPASE) East, trims hedges at a local neighborhood as part of a community relations project.

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Their Jumpstart program provides assistance to children through tutoring and after school assistance.

Summer school is also available for children in the program to keep them engaged on what they learned during the school year.

“Keeping up with the houses and centers’ cleanliness without volunteers would be impossible. For people to respect the charity, and the families living in these houses, well-manicured lawns are important to ensure these houses don’t stick out like a sore thumb,” said

Newnam. “It is important for the families themselves to feel they live somewhere they do not need to be ashamed of.”

The service members laughed and smiled as they worked and many look forward to helping again.

“It’s really great to get out here.

I’ve been waiting for an event like this, ever since I got back from deployment,” said Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Derek Paumen. “I hope we have an opportunity to do more events like this in the future. It shows that the Navy and NPASE East care. The residents are not forgotten. There will always need a helping hand, and the Navy is one of those helping hands.”

MC3 Shane A. Jackson Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Laura Hoover, assigned to Navy Public Affairs Support Element (NPASE) East, weeds a driveway at a local neighborhood as part of a community relations project.

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RIMPAC 2014 concludes with enhanced cooperation among 22 nations

Entomologist Dr. Erica Lindroth from the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research and Lawerence Fakoli from the Liberian Institute of Biomedical Research set a new ruggedized BG-Sentinel mosquito trap for field evaluation in Liberia, Africa.

By MC2 John Sorensen RIMPAC Public Affairs

PEARL HARBOR

The world’s largest international maritime exercise, Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2014, concluded with the participation of 22 nations, 49 surface ships, six submarines, more than 200 aircraft and 25,000 personnel in and around the Hawaiian Islands and Southern California, August 1.

Hosted by U.S. Pacific Fleet, RIMPAC 2014 was led by U.S. Vice Adm. Kenneth Floyd, commander of the U.S. 3rd Fleet (C3F), serving as the combined task force (CTF) commander. RIMPAC is designed to enhance cooperation of the combined forces and improve individual war fighting competencies.

“The relationships that are forged at RIMPAC span oceans and years,” said Floyd. “RIMPAC is a unique opportunity for us to get to know each other, to train together, and provide some level of trust when we are out on the high seas together in the future.

It is the only exercise that can do so to this scale.”

This year’s exercise included units and personnel from Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Colombia, France, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, People’s Republic of China, Peru, the Republic of Korea, the Republic of the Philippines, Singapore,

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Photo: U.S. Marines drive an amphibious assault vehicle ashore during a simulated beach assault as part of Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) Exercise 2014.

Photo by MC2 Corey T. Jones.

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MILITARY RESPONDERS HELP BATTLE EBOLA OUTBREAK

By Terri Moon Cronk and Cheryl Pellerin DoD News, Defense Media Activity

WASHINGTON

Defense Department personnel are on the ground in West Africa and in U.S. laboratories fighting to control the worst outbreak in the African history of the Ebola virus, which a senior Army infectious disease doctor called a “scourge of mankind.”

Army Col. (Dr.) James Cummings, director of the Global Emerging Infections Surveillance and Response System, or GEIS, a division of the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center, said the battle against the virus since the outbreak began in West Africa

in March focuses on trying to stop disease transmission.

At the Centers for Disease Prevention and Control, or CDC, in Atlanta, Director Dr. Tom Frieden has announced that the health agency has raised the travel advisory to Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone where he said the Ebola outbreak is worsening, to Level 3 – a warning to avoid unnecessary travel to those countries.

CDC already has disease detectives and other staff in those countries to track the epidemic, advise embassies, coordinate with the World Health Organization, or WHO, strengthen ministries of health, and improve case finding, contact tracing, infection control and health communication.

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“They will also help strengthen laboratory networks so testing for the disease can be done rapidly,” the director said.

For travelers in and out of the three West African countries, CDC experts will strengthen country capacity to monitor those who may have been exposed to Ebola, and each country in the region has committed to doing this, Frieden said.

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Summer 2014 uniform matters update

By Rear Adm. Fritz Roegge

In this update, I want to provide the results of the 2013 Women’s Uniform Survey and share a number of uniform changes that are in the works.

First, I’d like to thank you for your participation and for the wide range of views expressed. The executive summary of the 2013 women uniform survey can be found on the Uniform Matters website.

Some of the survey highlights include: 1. The survey asked for the satisfaction rating of various uniforms.

■ When asked, “Rate your satisfaction with how professional uniform garments appear on you,” over 50% of respondents answered “Very Satisfied” or “Satisfied” for 26 of 27 uniform items.

■ When asked, “Rate your satisfaction with the comfort of uniform garments,” over 50% of respondents answered “Very Satisfied” or “Satisfied” for 44 of 53 uniform items.

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■ summer vacations sure have changed As a teenager, a trip to a beach cottage could result in a peeling nose and deck splinters. In your forties, medical attention may be needed.

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By Lisa Smith Molinari Miltary Spouse Contributor

I don’t “need a vacation from my vacation,” but after two weeks in a beach cottage with my extended family, I could really use microdermabrasion, arthroscopic knee surgery, a colonic, and a full course of psychotherapy.

Vacations just aren’t the same when you get older. When I was a teenager, I came home from my family’s beach vacations with nothing more than a peeling nose and maybe a few deck splinters. But now that I’m in my forties, simple vacation activities like sunbathing, swimming, and paddleball leave me in need of urgent medical attention.

My family and I left the safe little confines of our military base housing two weeks ago, and drove the twelve hour trek down the East Coast to the Outer Banks of North Carolina.

Just like every year, our family of five, along with my mother, my brother and his family of five, packed ourselves like lemmings into our modest 1970s beach cottage.

At the beginning of the vacation, the adults

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envisioned getting up with the sun every morning to jog along the bike path where other vacationers could see how disciplined we are. As planned, I got up early the first morning, and picked a jogging outfit from the stack of work out clothes I’d ambitiously packed for the trip.

Of course I had to have coffee before setting out, but not enough to awaken my digestive tract. Then, I announced loud enough for everyone to hear, “I’m going on a run!” and let the screened door slam behind me to ensure that anyone within earshot would be impressed that I’m one of those people who run at the beach.

Twenty minutes later, I was only about a mile from our cottage, soaked in sweat and frantic that my bladder might give way. Thankfully, a Port-a-potty at a tiny public park saved me the humiliation of ducking into someone’s shrubbery. I slowly stumbled back through the dunes to our cottage, picking up the pace to a jog only when passing witnesses. I was happy to see four blisters on my feet when I got home, because I knew they would serve as an adequate excuse to not run again during our vacation.

Later that week while lounging on the beach, the adult women did a sort of reenactment of the Quint-Hooper-Brody-drunken-scar-comparison scene in “Jaws” when we took turns pointing out our liver spots, barnacles, and moles. Despite our rational conclusion that sitting out in the sun would only age our skin faster, we all agreed with the old adage that “tan fat is better than white fat” so we stayed out late into the afternoon.

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Louis Schager and Oceana Chaplain Lt. Cmdr. Victoria Chappell present graduation tokens to a child at the conclusion of Vacation Bible School July 14 - 18 for family members ages 5 - 12 at the Chapel of the Good Shepherd.

SOCOM commander praises military support groups

WASHINGTON

Creating better education standards is key to preparing military children for college and future careers, the U.S. government’s top education official and the National Guard Bureau’s chief said last week.

“We want to empower young people to choose what they want to do, what they love and what they’re best at,” Education Secretary Arne Duncan told the Military Child Education Coalition National Training Seminar.

As such, Duncan said the DOE has also fortified its partnerships with community colleges, where he said real training leads to real jobs in surrounding communities.

“Community colleges that are getting this right are becoming economic engines … green energy jobs, [information technology], healthcare, advanced manufacturing,” he said. “It’s amazing what they’re doing when you continue to build their capacities.”

Duncan predicted many future jobs will be science, technology, engineering and mathematics-based, so considering how to maintain the interest of young people in these areas will be critical.

“The more we can build [peer] programs, replicate them and empower young people who are living with this every day and understand the challenges way better than you or I do [the better] … I think we can’t do enough of that,” Duncan said.

Duncan said states have raised college academic standards, a trend he called a “monumental shift in the right direction.”

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Sometime at the end of week one, I made the mistake of agreeing to play beach volleyball. Soon after taking my position as right side hitter, I was forced to jump four inches off the sand to block a shot. This simple move caused my knee to slightly hyperextend.

For the remainder of the vacation, while engaging in simple activities such as paddle ball and wading in the ocean, I was on alert that my weakened knee might buckle backwards like some kind of old Barbie doll.

The other adults in our family suffered similar old age vacation injuries, while our kids frolicked carefree. By the end of week two we had collectively accumulated one wobbly knee, five ugly blisters, a swollen wrist, a strained achilles, three bruises of unknown origin, and four cases of heartburn. The anti-inflammatories and antacids were being dolled out like candy, along with some embarrassing over-thecounter remedies to deal with digestive back up from all the overeating.

Even though we don’t experience vacations the same way we did when we were young, perhaps the benefit of being so weathered, worn and weary after two weeks at the beach is that it is actually a relief to get back to life’s daily grind.

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“Standards are just what you need to know; how you teach those standards [is] the curriculum and … we’re asking more critical thinking skills.”

To help meet the demand of connecting qualified military children to higherpaying, hard-to-fill jobs, Grass of the National Guard Bureau told the seminar that the new GI Bill allows service members to pass the benefits to their child, who may not otherwise have the opportunity to attend school.

“The Guard can create an opportunity for those families … through different youth programs we have today,” Grass said.

But he acknowledged that as the operations tempo changes in coming years with many active-duty service members returning from deployments or retiring, children once ensconced in military communities may find themselves in school systems that aren’t necessarily aware of their backgrounds.

“They won’t have the connection that the Guard and Reserve has – that family support and programs.”

As budget constraints persist, the Guard and Reserve will need to capitalize on community-based non-profit organizations that specialize in supporting military families, Grass said.

The nation owes a tremendous debt of gratitude to military families who face many unique challenges, Education Secretary Duncan said.

“Our goal is simple: to have young people graduate from high school truly college and career ready as they take that next step on their education journey,” he said.

The commander of the U.S. Special Operations Command has credited groups providing support to military families for the success of thousands of young adults who go on to choose a military career, people he characterized as this century’s “Greatest Generation.”

“If they signed up because they loved what their parents did … or loved how well they were treated as military children, then you have done your job,” Navy Adm. William H. McRaven told a seminar conducted by the Military Child Education Coalition, or MCEC, a non-profit group seeking to provide a quality education for military children.

“They wanted to be part of something greater than themselves, they wanted to have military brothers and sisters that have similar values, they wanted to be respectful and they wanted to be respected for their hard work, their initiative and their commitment.”

“Without some of the programs provided by MCEC and the network of parents, teachers and counselors, I’m not sure my [own] kids would’ve been as successful as they are,” McRaven said, noting that being a military child in today’s environment is likely more difficult than ever.

“Consequently, programs like parent-to-parent and student-to-student are essential if we are to continue to build strong, resilient children who are proud of their military roots.”

And while McRaven said he wants to ensure military children are getting the support they need, a thin line separates that from a culture of entitlement.

“This is a difficult balance,” McRaven said. “We don’t want to develop kids who are dependent – we want to raise strong children … who take great pride in their military heritage upbringing.”

McRaven emphasized the “new normal” in the recent years that have seen increased deployments and the associated problems for military families.

“Nothing is more frustrating, more worrisome, more nerve-wracking for spouses and children than not knowing where [the children’s] mother and father are going to be next week, next month or next year,” he said.

McRaven described MCEC as a “phenomenal network’ of educators, counselors, parents, uniformed service members, advocates, and civilian organizations, all of which he said play a critical role in filling the void faced by many families.

“You have the experience and the global reach to help our military children as they struggle with the challenge of the day and they strive to be great young adults. You have instilled in our children a sense of belonging.”

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‘Hollywood to the Navy’ program shows entertainment industry why platforms matter

By MC1 Joshua Nistas

From my perspective as a film

Navy Office of Information West

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SAN DIEGO

Entertainment industry professionals toured Navy commands, July 24-27, as part of the Navy Office of Information West’s (NAVINFO West) ‘Hollywood to the Navy’ (HTTN) program.

Hollywood to the Navy works to familiarize entertainment industry professionals with the Navy’s assets, capabilities and highly-trained personnel.

Tours included the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific (SSC Pacific), Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron Three, the guided-missile destroyer USS John Paul Jones (DDG 53), and the Los Angeles-class attack submarine USS Hampton (SSN 767).

Aditya Sood, president of Genre Films, said he was very interested in the robotics and communications displayed at SSC Pacific; the Navy’s premier research, development, test, and evaluation laboratory for communications, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance systems.

“From my perspective as a film producer, I’m always interested in what cutting edge ideas we can hopefully integrate into the movies that we are making,” said Sood. “There is actually so much value in showing people things they don’t know and haven’t seen before. That is entertaining in itself.”

Sood was particularly intrigued by one of SSC Pacific’s methods of radio communication that uses fountaining water as an antenna to receive music through a receiver.

For Jason Brown, executive vice president at the Sean Daniel Company, tours of John Paul Jones and Hampton assisted his vision for an upcoming, futuristic television project.

“To be authentic to the way our Navy works, which will be the Navy in the future, and to get the authenticity of that and the experience of what it’s like to live in confined spaces ... and how people operate in them, it’s enormously helpful,” said Brown.

in what cutting edge ideas we can hopefully integrate into the movies that we are making.” -Aditya Sood

MCC William Steele Lt. Joe Swindel, public affairs officer at Fleet Logistics Support Squadron (VRC) 30, describes the landing mechanism of the Grumman C-2A “Greyhound” cargo plane to Eric Rechsteiner, an NBC television programming executive.

Naval Base Guam dive locker provides recompression treatment for community Naval Base Guam Public Affairs SANTA RITA, GUAM

On June 14, when 68-year-old retired U.S. Navy Sailor Chuck Bressie was diagnosed with severe type II decompression sickness, U.S. Naval Base Guam’s (NBG) Dive Locker activated their emergency chamber team to treat him.

“I was just sitting on the bench and all of a sudden my toes started going numb,” he said, recalling the day he was diagnosed with decompression sickness after a dive. “Then probably within two or three seconds it was up to my ankle, then I was numb up to my knees, then I got numb up to my waist and then I felt like I couldn’t move anything.

They brought me [to the dive locker], the crew here loaded me up, put me in [the dive chamber] and from there, I don’t remember. I was in so much pain. How many hours I was there, I don’t know.”

After three weeks of treatment from the NBG chamber team, Bressie was able to walk out on his own on July 3.

Decompression sickness, also known as the bends, is a sometimes fatal disorder characterized by sharp bilateral hip pain, paralysis and difficulty breathing caused by the release of gas bubbles from the tissue upon a rapid decrease in hydrostatic air pressure after an extended period of time in a compressed atmosphere.

For divers, this means if you surface too

quickly from a dive, you run the risk of contracting this dangerous disorder.

“When people go down and they dive for a long time and they come back up, it’s a little like taking a soda can and vigorously shaking it and then popping the top, except instead of soda coming out, we’ve got nitrogen, all these nitrogen bubbles coming into our body,” said NBG Navy Diver 2nd Class Mark Dvorak. “Those nitrogen bubbles can accumulate around your spine or brain, and they can cause multiple maladies – personality changes, paralysis, unconsciousness and death. What we do here is recompress the bubbles, allow time for re-absorption while flooding the body with one-hundred percent oxygen, allowing it to heal.”

Bressie suffered from spinal cord decompression sickness, partial paralysis and severe hip pain. After three weeks of intensive care at U.S. Naval Hospital Guam and 17 six-hour oxygen treatments at the NBG Dive Locker, he was able to independently leave the treatment chamber.

“The first three or four rides in the chamber, I don’t remember,” said Bressie, a Guam resident. “I was in so much pain. But as the rides got a long, they got better. I could remember the people; I could remember them taking real good care of me. I couldn’t ask for anything better.”

The experience for Bressie was an emotional one that restored his ability to walk after being paralyzed.

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“These people here and the doctors are very professional, know what they’re doing and how to do it and how to get the results from it,” he said. “As it went along, my days in the hospital got better. I got better at this and I told the master diver, ‘I’m going to walk in there and I’m going to walk out.’And I finally did that. I can’t praise these guys enough that they gave up so much of their time for me.”

NBG Command Master Diver, Master Chief Diver (MDV) Rodney Atherton, said the dive chamber on NBG is the only one in the region that serves to treat both military and civilian personnel.

“Our main mission here is to serve the civilian population and military population and all of the active duty that are actually getting qualified here on Guam,” Atherton said. “We have a huge pool of people and probably one of the largest in all of the military that sees so many dives and then, on top of that, so many diving injuries. Without this chamber, there would be so many people hurt and no ability to get treated.”

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Provide full, accurate mailing addresses and return addresses; ■ Include identical information inside the package, parcel, bag or trunk in case the mailing label comes off; ■

Consider including a phone number and email address inside of the package; ■

Track all mailed items when possible and always confirm receipt with the recipient;

■ Include secure tags on all items, especially duffel bags or trunks with military equipment; and ■ When searching through the Mail Recovery Center, provide accurate, detailed descriptions of missing items, especially unique items.

Officials at the Mail Recovery Center here hope to assist service members in recovering their lost items and offer tips to prevent misplacement or delays.

Lionel A. Snow, Mail Recovery Center manager, shared the mission of the U.S. Postal Service’s only remaining mail recovery center.

“We have an operation specifically designated for the military – all military,” he said. “So anything that comes across those belts or comes in our door that’s military affiliated, we take it and put it in our military operation.”

Workers at the center look at the lost mail and separate it, Snow said. “If it’s a duffel bag, we open it up and see if there are any fatigues,” he said. Other clues they look for, he added, include names, follow-on orders, parents’ address and letters home.

Snow said the Mail Recovery Center uses any means available to quickly assess what’s in the bag or trunk, although not everything is inventoried, “because we’ve probably got about 300 to 400 bags back there now.”

The center has handled just short of a million pieces of mail this year, he said, and last year processed 88 million pieces of mail – letters, flats, parcels and loose mail. Workers try to work quickly, he added, because items are held for only 30 days.

Using the Automated Military Postal System, or AMPS, Snow said, the Mail Recovery Center is able to share data with the military to better facilitate tracking and returning items to their owners.

“It’s a ‘big little operation’ that we call it, that really takes up a lot of space at times,” Snow said.

“As long as we can kind of keep things moving, we’re in good shape.” He also noted that the return rate on returnable mail – items for which the sender or recipient has been located, not the totality of all incoming lost mail – is about 27 to 32 percent.

As the only mail recovery center, the manager said, the facility is unique because it is the only part of the Postal Service that can open mail.

“Every bag that has a lock on it, whether it’s a trunk or a duffel bag, [the lock] gets cut,” he said. “We have to open it to see what’s inside of it and make sure there no bombs inside of it, no unlawful stuff, and to be able to identify what the contents are.”

Once the bags are opened, the locks are recycled, and the item is re-secured using a tag and label for inventory, Snow said. Then, after 30 days, the center’s staff goes back through and checks their searches again.

“We check the AMPS to try to see if we can find this military guy, hoping we got a call,” he said. “If we don’t, we strip it. We pull out all of the civilian clothes. Anything that’s used goes to nonprofit groups or charity.”

To prevent personal items from suffering this fate, Michael R. Miles, communications program specialist for USPS corporate communications, Snow and Aleta Montague, acting supervisor for the Mail Recover Center, offer the following tips: ■ Secure labeling on the outside of packaging using tape; ■ Provide full, accurate mailing addresses and return addresses; ■ Include identical information inside the package, parcel, bag or trunk in case the mailing label comes off; ■ Consider including a phone number and email address inside of the package; ■ Track all mailed items when possible and always confirm receipt with the recipient; ■ Include secure tags on all items, especially duffel bags or trunks with military equipment; and ■ When searching through the Mail Recovery Center, provide accurate, detailed descriptions of missing items, especially unique items.

“All military stuff we call classified stuff, because it’s stuff that doesn’t need to get into the hands of the bad guys,” Snow said. “It might be goggles, Kevlar stuff – things guys are probably reissued. The key is these are military things we can’t dispose of. There’s a way we can dispose of a lot of things. We can’t dispose of ... things that the bad guys shouldn’t get their hands on so.”

Center officials want to get these back into the hands of the military, Snow added.

Montague explained the Mail Recovery Center search process for any service member attempting to locate a missing package, bag or letter.

Service members who call the Postal Service’s toll-free customer service number – (800) 2758777 – should say they are military and provide a tracking number for the missing item, Montague said. “Once you give us that, it comes through our systems and then you get it back,” she said.

Montague noted the word is starting to get out about putting additional information on the inside of mailed items.

“When we get it, we open it up,” she said, “and [the information] is right on the top. Some of have even gotten to where they tape it in there, so that’s good.”

Having identifying information inside the package has helped to reduce the inventory from 1,000 to about 200 items, she added.

Using “locators” contracted with each military service, officials at the Mail Recovery Center are able to track down troops, Montague said, but she noted it is increasingly difficult because of frequent moves.

“That is kind of hard, because the military has to use their travel resources to do that for us and for the soldiers,” she said. “But it gets hard when people get reassigned, move around or travel back and forth.”

Montague emphasized it isn’t enough to simply tape a label to a piece of mailed item.

“It’s imperative that they understand that taping a label to a trunk or a duffel bag is not the way to go,” she said. “We really need to get tags out to every installation.”

In the event that a mailed item is lost and ends up at the Mail Recovery Center, the staff noted, service members must provide as much detail as possible when providing descriptions of lost mail.

“Unfortunately, a lot of guys are not describing their stuff,” Montague said. “It says: ‘A duffel bag with men’s clothes.’ OK, I’ve got 200 duffel bags with men’s clothes. Give me something else.

I need specific information.

“If they give us a better description it helps,” she continued. “You can’t just tell me ‘men’s clothes’ or ‘fatigues’ or something. I need something else.”

Montague said people often are incredulous to the idea of labels coming off of packages.

“I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard, ‘There’s no way the label could have come off,’” she said. “I have 100,000 packages to tell you, ‘Yes, this happens all the time.’”

Despite the difficulty in returning items – especially massive amounts of military equipment and supplies – the Mail Recovery Center’s staff of almost 100 people handles the mammoth job with determination and an appreciation for the service and sacrifice troops and their families make, Snow said.

“It’s not only because we have a bunch of [former] military guys here,” Snow said. “We owe them a great deal of gratitude for all that they do – going into those areas of combat. If it were up to us, we’d keep those things forever and get them to the [troops].”

Below: A Sailor prepares to lower a month’s worth of mail down to the hangar bay on the port-side elevator aboard the multipurpose amphibious assault ship USS Bataan in June.

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RIMPAC

| First time Japan led HA/DR response portion

Continued from B1 Tonga, the United Kingdom and the United States. The training syllabus included amphibious operations, gunnery, missile, antisubmarine, and air defense exercises, as well as military medicine, humanitarian assistance and disaster response, counter-piracy, mine clearance operations, explosive ordnance disposal, and diving and salvage operations.

Royal Australian Navy Rear Adm. Simon Cullen, CTF deputy commander, said RIMPAC helped international participants hone the skills that are critical to ensuring the safety of sea lanes and security on the

world’s oceans. “This was an opportunity for the participating nations to take advantage of the excellent training infrastructure and ranges that are available in the Hawaiian Islands,�

Cullen said. “It enabled individual units to conduct training that they could not otherwise have in their own waters.�

RIMPAC 2014 marked the ďŹ rst time that Japan led the scenario-driven humanitarian assistance/disaster relief (HA/DR) response portion of the exercise that facilitated training and certiďŹ cation for expeditionary forces to respond to foreign disasters as a crisis response adaptive force.

Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force Rear Adm. Yasuki Nakahata served as commander of HA/DR operations. “Through this exercise, we were able to show a well-coordinated effort similar to the United Nations or a civil/military coordination center and conduct our mission with all pertinence. This is a great step forward for all of Japan and a great impact to an international society,� Nakahata said.

RIMPAC 2014 had two new participants this year, Brunei and the People’s Republic of China. Additionally, RIMPAC participants who sent a ship for the ďŹ rst time to participate in RIMPAC 2014 included

MC1 Shannon E. Renfroe Forty-two ships and submarines representing 15 international partner nations maneuver into a close formation during RIMPAC 2014.

Colombia, India, Indonesia and Norway.

This year also marked the ďŹ rst time hospital ships participated in RIMPAC. The Chinese hospital ship, Peace Ark, and USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) conducted personnel exchanges, military medicine exchanges and medical evacuation and mass casualty training, further highlighting the valuable capability hospital ships bring to the PaciďŹ c.

With the theme of “capable, adaptive partnersâ€? participating nations at RIMPAC 2014 demonstrated the exibility of maritime forces to meet regional and global challenges for mutual beneďŹ t.

Sailors discuss their observations about the new female E6 and below service dress blue uniform prototypes they are testing as part of a preliminary, three-week wear evaluation.

UNIFORM | Sailor feedback welcome Continued from B1 â– When asked, “Rate your satisfaction with the ďŹ t of uniform garments,â€? over 50% of respondents answered “Very SatisďŹ edâ€? or “SatisďŹ edâ€? for 45 of 53 uniform items.

2. When asked what changes to women’s uniforms were desired, the changes most requested by women would be to improve the comfort, ďŹ t, and/or function of: â– Slacks (making the waist lower, and adding or increasing the size of pockets) â– Coats (increasing shoulder area and arm hole of SDB and SDW, and adding pockets) â– Skirts (making the hemline narrower and the waist lower) â– Overblouse (add more length to the bottom of the shirt and to add room in the shoulder area) â– Tuck-in shirts for chiefs and ofďŹ cers (add a satin lining on the inside of the collar and add more room in the shoulder for both the SK and SW shirts)

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3. Our way ahead: ■We are working with NEXCOM to determine the scope of work for each recommendation; we’ll pursue those things that have the best return on investment and address the rest in a long range campaign plan.

Three of the items that we will begin work on are: â– Improving the waist and hip design of the khaki slacks and providing belted and beltless options â– Adding an additional functional pocket for the Service Dress Blue (SDB) Coat â– Narrowing the hemline of the khaki and white skirts to have a design similar to the SDB skirt.

This fall, we plan to begin an anthropometric correlation study on body sizing to improve our uniforms’ patterns and consequently our uniforms’ ďŹ t. Once we have concluded that study, we will explore possible additional

changes to female uniform designs that could incorporate some of the other survey ďŹ ndings. â– We’re also working on additional uniform issues and big picture changes. â– Feedback from the Fleet indicates a need for clearer grooming standards that encompass a broader range of women’s hairstyles. In response, we are rewriting Uniform Regulations Article 2201 to update guidance and to better deďŹ ne authorized and unauthorized female hairstyles. I expect a revision to female grooming standards to be promulgated this fall. â– Also this fall, we’ll expand the wear test of the jumper style E6 and below service dress blue uniform for women with the White Hat (Dixie Cup) by approximately 300 Sailors in the Norfolk area. This test will incorporate feedback received from the Preliminary Evaluation conducted earlier during the spring.

| Healthcare workers, home

caretakers, burial workers at risk Continued from B1

We work actively to educate American health care workers on how to isolate patients and how to protect themselves against infection.�

-CDC Director Dr. Tom Frieden

“It's not easy to do,� he added, “but we will have experts from our division that do airport screening and try to ensure that people who shouldn't be traveling aren't traveling.�

Frieden said CDC has spoken with air carriers that service the West African region. “We understand they will continue to y, which is very important to continue to support the response and maintain essential functions in the country,â€? he explained.

CDC gives information to travelers to the region and health care providers in the United States who might care for people returning from the infected area. Frieden said that includes medical consultation and testing for patients who may have Ebola.

Frieden said that in the United States, “we are conďŹ dent that we will not have signiďŹ cant spread of Ebola, even if we were to have a patient with Ebola here. We work actively to educate American health care workers on how to isolate patients and how to protect themselves against infection.â€?

In fact, he added, “any advanced hospital in the U.S., any hospital with an intensive care unit has the capacity to isolate patients. There is nothing particularly special about the isolation of an Ebola patient, other than it's really important to do it right. So ensuring that there is meticulous care of patients with suspected or ‌ conďŹ rmed Ebola is

what's critically important.�

The Ebola virus has no known cure and up to a 90 percent fatality rate and only supportive care can be offered to patients diagnosed with the disease while researchers work to ďŹ nd a vaccine.

DoD researchers think the viral disease originated in rural populations that prepare and eat meat from Ebola-carrying gorillas and monkeys.

The virus is passed among animals or people through body uids.

Only a person who is infected and is showing signs of illness can pass the disease to others.

Health care workers and home caretakers who have direct patient contact and those who prepare bodies for burial also are at risk, the infectious disease doctor said. “We had a large footprint in Africa,â€? Cummings said of DoD’s response to the ďŹ rst Ebola cases reported in 1976 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, formerly Zaire. Since that time, DoD has answered numerous calls for assistance from WHO, nongovernmental organizations and ministries of heath and defense, he explained.

DoD personnel provide a wide array of support to the Ebola-stricken African nations, from logistical help to guides for clinical management of the virus, Cummings said. “DoD personnel bring a level of excellence second to none, working in response to host nations and WHO in the most-affected countries of Sierra Leone and Liberia,� he said.

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As we consider any change to uniforms to improve ďŹ t, function, or appearance, our goal remains to have uniforms that our Sailors will wear proudly at sea and ashore and that project our proud Navy heritage.

Overall, the changes being pursued: â– Are conscious of minimizing cost; in fact, some initiatives will save money â– Are conscious of impact on the sea bag

â– Strive to reect eet feedback â– Will ensure we “do it rightâ€?

to improve ďŹ t and function; for example, we won’t issue a man’s uniform to a woman; we’ll design a woman’s uniform.

We take feedback from the Fleet seriously and look forward to hearing what’s on your mind. Email umo_cmc@navy.mil for feedback on uniform matters and usnpeople@gmail.com for feedback on other personnel matters.

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USO partnership builds veteransâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; leadership skills

By Army Sgt. 1st Class Tyrone C. Marshall Jr. DoD News, Defense Media Activity

The United Service Organizations, in partnership with Team Red, White and Blue, held a leadership seminar Aug. 2, to encourage veterans to use their unique skills to improve their communities.

Held during a rock-climbing camp 7,522 feet above sea level, J.J. Pinter, director of operations for Team Red, White and Blue, led the seminar emphasizing leadership and effective communication.

Team Red, White and Blueâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mission is to enrich the lives of Americaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s veterans by connecting them to their community through physical and social activity.

The organization has more than 100 chapters, Pinter said, noting they are located in every state and in 10 countries with only nine employees. Volunteer leaders make up the bulk of the organizationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s personnel.

To open the training Pinter asked a simple question â&#x20AC;&#x201C; does the country have enough leaders? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Reading the news and whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going on in the world, does anyone think that we have a surplus of leadership?â&#x20AC;? he asked. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Does anyone think thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the case?

Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one of the reasons weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re talking about this.â&#x20AC;?

Pinter noted a recent leadership survey among veterans where they â&#x20AC;&#x153;unanimouslyâ&#x20AC;? said they â&#x20AC;&#x153;still wanted to be leaders and they still wanted to lead after they got out of the service.â&#x20AC;?

â&#x20AC;&#x153;So it just makes sense,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got all of these veterans that still want to continue leading, and some of them have the leadership skills to do it and some of them donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t.â&#x20AC;?

Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s another reason to do seminar like this one, Pinter said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;because we want to help equip veterans to be better leaders.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;We want to make our organization better, but we want to make our country better at the same time,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And we want to make veterans better,â&#x20AC;? Pinter continued. â&#x20AC;&#x153;During the course of this thing, [if] you take one thing that you can go back to your job with and make you a little bit more efďŹ cient after weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve talked about it â&#x20AC;Ś thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a win.â&#x20AC;?

During the leadership seminar, Pinter combined deďŹ nitions of leadership from the 18 veterans in attendance with examples theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve experienced throughout their lives and careers. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Team Red, White and Blue goes out of its way to try to ďŹ nd people,â&#x20AC;? he said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;and try to develop people who can be good local leaders for us.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;We want to build stronger leaders because we want to have a strong organization and stronger communities,â&#x20AC;?

Pinter said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You know whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to do this? Veterans are going to do this.â&#x20AC;?

Pinter pointed to the generation of Americans known as the Greatest Generation as inspiration for leading the nation. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Those guys fought and won World War II and Korea,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They came back and

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DoD photo by Army Sgt. 1st Class Tyrone C. Marshall Jr.

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They grew up in the Great Depression, Pinter said, and then they went and accomplished many great things â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not a single reason our generation of veterans canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t do the same thing,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re at the tail end of the two longest wars our country has ever fought right now, and smaller pools

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Pinter went on to remind the veterans of their response to his initial questions. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The ďŹ rst question I asked you guys was do we have enough leaders in this country and everyone said â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;no,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;So go ďŹ x that.â&#x20AC;?

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tion was very relevant for the group,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I thought it was useful information that we can take back and apply in Red, White and Blue, and apply in our jobs and social lives.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;I thought it was very practical and well presented,â&#x20AC;?

Oldham continued. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The information wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t some sort of a new theory that you hadnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t heard before. It was a good compilation of information in a format that was easy to understand and will be easy to remember and apply in, sort of, day-to-day life.â&#x20AC;?

Oldham, a Golden, Colorado, native, said his personal deďŹ nition of leadership is â&#x20AC;&#x153;a person that can motivate and inspire other people to get outside of their comfort zone and accomplish real, meaningful goals.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think the emphasis, to me, is being able to get people out of their comfort zone,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Get them to push themselves and help push other people in places that they wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t normally go.â&#x20AC;?

Mike Greenwood, an Army veteran from Colorado Springs, Colorado, also agreed the seminar was a valuable resource. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Like J.J. said, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not selling anything except for relationships or people,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;So you can get companies who have this distorted view, but it was simple.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Build that relationship and be that person in the community that veterans can look up to and be there,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;?

Greenwood said.

Being there, he noted, can mean just â&#x20AC;&#x153;shutting your mouth and listening,â&#x20AC;? because thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pretty important to just kind of hear that person out and go from there.

Greenwood said he made his deďŹ nition of leadership â&#x20AC;&#x153;simpleâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201C; belief and motivation. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A leader can motivate people to do something that they believe in,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You have to buy into what youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re doing in order to get other people to do what you want them to do, or they need to do.â&#x20AC;?

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By MC1 (SW/AW) Julia A. Casper Camp Lemonnier Public Affairs

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Forty-eight Sailors assigned to Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti volunteered in part of a Chief Petty Officer 365 (CPO 365) program community relations cleanup project, July 27.

The volunteers focused their efforts directly outside the base beautifying more than 100 yards of fence line filling more than 40 garbage bags with debris.

“It is important for us to remember that we are not just here for personal growth and development,” said Command Master Chief Keith A. Rousseve. “With the active involvement in CPO 365 here at Camp Lemonnier, we contribute not only to the command but also to the Djiboutian community.”

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gether Sailors with a unified goal of contributing to their leadership performance along with providing community involvement.

“Projects like this are not only important but they are a real eyeopening experience,” said Steelworker 1st Class David Brown.

“This is a great way to really get involved with the CPO 365 program, develop better relationships with my fellow service members, and show that we are all here to support one another and the community.”

Community service plays a pivotal part in the CPO selectee season and gives them the ability to make a difference. All participants learn how to support each other while contributing to a stronger Navy.

“Community service makes us better Sailors, and allows for a more successful operation here at Camp,” said Rousseve.

CPO 365, a year-long development and training process for first class petty officers, was first introduced in 2010 under former Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy, Rick West. It includes two phases, the first of which begins annually in September. Phase two of training begins when CPO selectees are announced and concludes with the anchor-pinning ceremony making the selectees full-fledged Navy chiefs.

Camp Lemonnier supports Combined Joint Task Force Horn of Africa (CJTF-HOA) and other tenant commands protecting United States interests in Africa and provides full spectrum individual support to personnel stationed on Camp Lemonnier. Camp Lemonnier partners with its host nation, Djibouti, to be a valued part of the community by fostering long-term common interests.

The Naval Facilities Engineering and Expeditionary Warfare Center (NAVFAC EXWC) completed oil spill response training at Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort, South Carolina, July 14-17.

The training was executed under the NAVFAC Oil Spill Response Program and provided Navy and Marine Corps Facility Response Team (FRT) personnel with the requisite skills to quickly respond to on-water oil spills.

“This course is essential for teaching military, DoD civilian and contracted port operations personnel what they’re required to know as FRT members, and strategies for dealing with serious environmental emergencies of this type,” said NAVFAC EXWC Commanding Officer Capt. Mark. K. Edelson.

“We’ve all seen the environmental damage that results from large and small scale oil spills,” Edelson added. “The Navy

places a high priority on being good stewards of the environment and preventive classes such as these are an important part of meeting that obligation.”

Although the course is primarily intended for FRT leaders and team members, it is also highly recommended for facility spill management team members who are assigned to the Incident Command System Operation and Planning Section billets.

Successful completion of the course certifies each student as a First Responder Operation Level as required by the Code of Federal Regulations for all personnel responding to an on-water oil spill.

NAVFAC EXWC contracted training is provided using EXWC procured oil spill response, containment and recovery equipment for waterfront facilities that manage ship, boat, barge or other marine operations with a potential for oil and fuel spills. EXWC also provides access to other oil spill training, expertise and support associated with on water oil spill response.

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Colonial Williamsburg is offering an unbeatable end-of-summer deal to residents of the region – free one-day tickets to Colonial Williamsburg’s Historic Area and Art Museums Aug. 8 - 15 for adults and accompanying children.

Residents of Williamsburg, James City County, York County and Gloucester County are eligible for the free tickets, as are those who live in Newport News, Hampton, Chesapeake, Norfolk, Portsmouth, Suffolk and Virginia Beach.

“We are extending this offer to people who live in communities that have been strong supporters of Colonial Williamsburg,” said Skip Ferebee, director of consumer strategy and sales. “Colonial Williamsburg is a national treasure located close to home. We invite our neighbors to experience all that a visit to the Revolutionary City offers – the interactive spy game, ‘RevQuest: The Old Enemy,’ 19 historic trades, the DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum and Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum, 90 acres of

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gardens, 88 original structures and nearly 500 buildings reconstructed on the basis of extensive research and, last but not least, the engaging Revolutionary City street theater that puts visitors in the heart of a town in the throes of war.”

The free ticket offer is only available at Colonial Williamsburg’s Regional Visitor Center, located at 101 Visitor Center Drive, accessible via the Colonial Parkway, Virginia Route 132 and U.S. Route 60 Bypass Road. The ticket counter is open from 8:45

a.m. until 5 p.m. daily. Proof of residency is required to qualify for free ticket. Members of the military who have temporary residence status should provide military ID and a piece of mail or other document that includes local address. Ticket must be used on the date of issue.

The regular price of a one-day ticket is $43.95 for adults and $38.75 for children 6 to 15. Children under 6 are free.

Details about the offer are available at http://goo.gl/JcAAqk.

The “Salute toAmerica Sphere and Laser Show” offers a patriotic salute to the people, places and things that make our country great. This spectacular 3-D light show will immerse the Boardwalk of Virginia Beach in a dramatic display.

The free show will take place on the beach at 20th Street, with showtimes at 9:30, 10 and 10:30 p.m.

The presentation tells a richly passionate tale about the best moments of American history using pictures and classic and pop songs accompanied by meticulously choreographed video projection, lasers, patriotic soundtrack, and special effects.

This is a unique multi-media show, created with the use of innovative projection technologies.

The sphere screen is an inflatable five-story projection surface. Special effects are created with two flame towers and three lasers. The show uses 180-degree video projection bursting with color, sound, and emotion.

BeachStreetUSA is collaborating with Image Engineering to create an electrifying and dazzling display that weaves a thrilling story in the nighttime sky over the beach.

For more information about the show, visit www.BeachStreetUSA.com.

ASSEMBLE YOUR MINIONS FOR THE FAMILY GREAT ADVENTURE SERIES VIRGINIA BEACH

The wildly-popular Family Great Adventure Series is all about discovery and entertainment at the Virginia Beach oceanfront. On select nights during the season, families can take part in an interactive adventure that leads them to various sites along the boardwalk and Atlantic Avenue to unravel a mystery.

Sometimes the adventures involve games and contests right on the beach. During each adventure, participants can dress up

as characters, use “brain and brawn” to win the contest at hand, and settle into the sand for a family-friendly movie shown on a giant inflatable screen on the beach at 27th Street. Each night is themed to the particular movie being shown. Today’s film showing is “Despicable Me 2.”

The family interactive adventure begins at 6 p.m., and the movie starts at 8:30. All events are free.

The theme for today’s adventure is “Rowdy Round-Up.” How many villains can your team “capture?” Be the team to bring the most “criminals” to justice, and you could win the highest Anti-Vil-

lain League rank. Be prepared to travel by foot around the oceanfront to uncover the evil-doers. The winning teams take home trophies, but everyone gets a Family Great Adventure Series medal.

Movie synopsis: “Despicable Me 2” (PG) – Universal Pictures presents this sequel to the wildly successful 2010 animated picture following Gru (voiced by Steve Carell), the ex-scheming evildoerturned-parental figure. Gru is recruited by the Anti-Villain League to help deal with a powerful new super criminal.

For more information about the event, visit www.beachstreetusa.com.

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Calendar For a complete list of events in Hampton Roads or to submit your own, visit www.flagshipnews.com/calendar

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Armed ServicesYMCA 8K Mud Run ■ When: Aug. 9; opening ceremonies at 7 a.m.; first wave runners at 8 a.m.

■ Where: Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek, Virginia Beach ■ Cost: $60 per person; $25 for Mini Mud; 10 percent discount for active duty,

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and first responders ■ For more information, visit: www.asymcamudrun.com/ Runners will run through grueling sand, complete obstacles and dredge through mud to raise funds to support programs for junior enlisted men and women stationed in the Army, Marines, Navy, Air Force, and Coast Guard in Hampton Roads. The race is open to the public and includes an after party on the beach. There is also a 1-Mile Mini Mud Run for the kids ages 5 to 12. Register online by Aug. 7. Race packet can be picked up on Aug. 8 from noon to 7 p.m. at the Westin Hotel in Virginia Beach.

USS America Reunion ■ When: Sept. 9 - 13 ■ Where: The Virginia

Beach Resort Hotel and Conference Center, 2800 Shore Drive, Virginia Beach ■ For more information, contact: Walt Waite at (610) 585-2155 or visit online at www.ussamerica.org

Latino/Hispanic attractions including traditional games and contests, authentic food and beverage menus plus five hours of traditional and contemporary Latin music and dancing. The Hampton Roads Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Business Expo will also run from 5 to 10 p.m.

Youth Fishing Event The USS America Carrier Veterans Association will be holding its 2014 reunion in Virginia Beach, Sept. 9-13. Special hotel rates are available until Aug. 16 by calling 481-9000 and mention the reunion.

■ When: Aug. 23; 7 a.m.

■ Where: Mill Point Park, Hampton ■ Cost: Free ■ For more information, contact: Kath-

leen Tylman, VCBA Youth Fishing Chairman at youthfishingVA@hotmail.com

Latino Music Festival ■ When: Aug. 16; 5 to 10 p.m.

■ Where: Town Point Park, Norfolk ■ Cost: Admission is free ■ For more information, visit: https://

festevents.org This popular annual community celebration will feature many new authentic

The Virginia Charter Boat Association would like to extend an invitation to 100 children (ages 10 to 18) of deployed and active duty troops in the Tidewater area. This will be a two-hour event followed by a free picnic. In order to maintain the highest degree of safety, the children will need to sign up in a ratio of 5 children to 1 chaperone.

Main Gate Movies 10 makes upgrades to viewing experience NORFOLK

Phoenix Big Cinemas Main Gate Movies 10 was completely converted to high definition digital projection, 5.1 digital surround sound and RealD 3-D effective Aug. 1. The complete upgrade to digital projection, sound and 3-D had been in the works for several months. These changes will allow the Main Gate Movies 10 (1500 Mall Drive, Norfolk Naval Station) to show all Hollywood blockbusters available and all 3-D films on their national release dates.

Other changes to the site include the introduction of rocking chair seats with lift up retractable arm rests with cup holders in select auditoriums. Soon all of the auditoriums will have rocking chair seats. The auditoriums will also offer the widest row spacing of any theatre in the United States. With almost five feet of spacing between rows, patrons will be able to stretch their legs out as far as they want, walk between rows without interrupting already seated patrons, and come and go to the concession stand or restrooms while the film is playing without disturbing other patrons in their row.

“Being able to finally bring hi definition digital projection, 5.1 digital surround sound,

■ discounted tickets Main Gate Movies 10 offers military discounts, with tickets costing only $6.50, and a $1.50 up charge for RealD 3-D.

RealD 3-D and revolutionary row space seating to our theatre has been a long time goal of ours,” said Phil Zacheretti, President and CEO of Phoenix Big Cinemas, owners of the Main Gate Movies 10. “These theatre upgrades and renovations will improve the overall cinema experience for all of our military and non-military guests.”

Main Gate Movies 10 offers plentiful parking and it’s location provides easy access for the surrounding communities. No pass is needed to access the theatre for off base patrons.

Main Gate Movies 10 offers the lowest military discounts of any theatre in the area, with pricing for all military personnel only $6.50 each at all times. The RealD 3-D up charge price is only $1.50, also the lowest in the area. A free popcorn will be given with each paid admission through Aug. 14.

For more information, visit www.PhoenixBigCinemas.com.

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A few improvements to the home’s exterior will go a long way in making it more inviting and desirable to buyers on the market.

It’s also a great investment. Curb appeal can increase the value of a home as much as 5 percent, according to Realtor.com.

Even if you’re not planning on selling your home anytime soon, simple outdoor improvements can make a dramatic difference. Consider the following tips to add curb appeal to your home without emptying your bank account.

Create a clean slate – Dirt, grime, mildew and more collects on siding, fences, decks and sidewalks, and if it’s not removed periodically it can permanently damage your home and decrease its value. A quick wash will return your home to its original color and provide your driveway and pathways with a fresh, new look. Pressure washers such as the Powerhorse pressure washers from Northern Tool + Equipment will make the task of removing buildup easier.

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– For a bigger transformation, consider building a deck, porch or walkway, or installing a decorative fence. All of these elements can make your yard more welcoming and create spaces outdoors. Before building, be sure to check local building codes, especially if you live in an association.

Install outdoor lighting – Show off all the work you’ve done in your yard and enhance your home’s appeal with outdoor lighting. Lights such as NPower barn lights from Kotula’s can be used to highlight different architectural and landscaping features such as your front door, steps or bushes. You can also use lights to illuminate a walkway, driveway or front entryway to make your home more inviting and safe.

Keep your lawn and gardens well maintained – A well-kept yard not only adds instant curb appeal but also dramatically changes the overall look of your home. During the growing season, it’s important to nourish and trim your trees, shrubs and lawn for optimal growth. Creating a garden can also create a colorful appeal and set your home apart. Gardening tools such as a mini cultivator make it easy to control weeds, work with fertilizer and mix soil to keep your garden looking its best.

Investing in all of these outdoor improvements will catch the eye of both envious neighbors and potential homebuyers.

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles The city needs heroes. Darkness has settled over New York City as Shredder and his evil Foot Clan have an iron grip on everything from the police to the politicians. The future is grim until four unlikely outcast brothers rise from the sewers and discover their destiny as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (voices of Alan Ritchson, Johnny Knoxville, Noel Fisher and Jeremy Howard). The Turtles must work with fearless reporter April (Megan Fox) and her wise-cracking cameraman Vern Fenwick (Will Arnett) to save the city and unravel Shredder’s diabolical plan.

Into The Storm In the span of a single day, the town of Silverton is ravaged by an unprecedented onslaught of tornadoes. The entire town is at the mercy of the erratic and deadly cyclones, even as

storm trackers predict the worst is yet to come. Most people seek shelter, while others run towards the vortex, testing how far a storm chaser will go for that once-in-a-lifetime shot.

Told through the eyes and lenses of professional storm chasers, thrill-seeking amateurs, and courageous townspeople, “Into the Storm” throws you directly into the eye of the storm to experience Mother Nature at her most extreme.

Step Up All In In addition to Ryan Guzman and Briana Evigan, more actors and dancers from the previous installments of Step Up are returning to reprise their roles in the fifth film in Summit’s franchise. In the next exciting chapter of the international phenomenon, all-stars from previous installments come together in glittering Las Vegas, battling for a victory that could define their dreams and their careers.

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

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GETTING HEALTHIER FROM THE INSIDE OUT StatePoint

Heart health should be a year-round consideration for anybody looking to lead a healthy life. While that may sound like a daunting task, better heart health can be possible with a few steps in the right direction.

Iconic television, stage and screen actor, Tony Danza, makes his health a top priority, even when facing a busy schedule. Danza, who knows the importance of diet, exercise and “doing good to feel good,” offers his go-to tips for fitting health and wellness into your daily lifestyle: Turn your daily habits into exercise Most people know that exercise, in addition to a healthy diet, also plays a key role in bettering your overall health. However, many people have trouble fitting exercise into their busy schedule or think they have to look to costly private training options to see results.

What most don’t realize is fitting in exercise

Giving back is good for the soul and really warms the heart. You will be amazed to see how much you do for yourself as a person, when you are helping and giving back to others.”

can be as easy and cost-efficient as taking the stairs instead of the elevator or going for a walk on your lunch break.

Encourage others, like your friends or family, to join you on these mini exercise sessions. Having a support system of people who are looking for ways to be healthier can help provide motivation to keep going on your journey to better health.

Get your fiber up Fiber is a crucial component to our diet, but most Americans are not getting the recommended daily amount of 25 to 38 grams of fiber, according to the American Dietetic Association. Many people know that fiber can help promote digestive health, but few know that it can also promote heart health.

Diets low in saturated fat and cholesterol that include seven grams of soluble fiber per day from psyllium husk, as in Metamucil, may reduce the risk of heart disease by lowering cholesterol.

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Do good, feel good Overall health and wellness also comes from how you feel about yourself as an individual. Danza makes giving back to the community a regular practice and lists it among his healthy habits.

“Giving back is good for the soul and really warms the heart,” Danza said. “You

will be amazed to see how much you do for yourself as a person, when you are helping and giving back to others,” says Danza.

More tips and information on healthy living is available at Metamucil’s Facebook Fan page at www.Facebook.com/Metamucil.

There are many ways to work healthy routines into your daily life.

Going beyond medication to help treat chronic pain StatePoint

Nearly 100 million Americans suffer from chronic pain – that’s more than the number of people living with heart disease, cancer and diabetes combined. Often experienced as pain that lasts over three to six months, chronic pain is a serious and debilitating condition that, if left unmanaged, can negatively impact nearly every aspect of your life.

Chronic pain is the leading cause of longterm disability in U.S. and is a significant burden to the health care economy and society as a whole. It costs as much as $635 million annually in direct medical treatment costs and low productivity, according to government statistics. Surprisingly, 40 percent of work absences are due to back pain, second only to the common cold.

Zac Cover, a former fire fighter and triathlete, knows the devastating impact of chronic pain. In 2006, the Floridian was hit by a car while cycling and suffered multiple injuries, including broken ribs, a badly injured leg, fractured arm and severed nerve in his broken collarbone.

He underwent seven operations and was bedridden for nearly six months. While the surgeries corrected the physical damage to his

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body, Cover was left with excruciating pain that lasted for years. His doctor prescribed medication that helped ease the pain but left him foggy-headed, with a poor memory and unable to enjoy activities he loved.

After months of trying other unsuccessful treatments, Cover’s doctor recommended neurostimulation, also known as spinal cord stimulation (SCS) – an advanced therapy option used to manage chronic pain in the

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arms, legs and trunk, and pain caused by failed back surgery. SCS involves implanting a small device (the size of a silver dollar) along the spinal cord where it emits low intensity electrical pulses that intercept the body’s pain signals before they reach the brain, replacing feelings of pain with a more pleasant tingling sensation.

Dr. Timothy Deer, president-elect of the International Neuromodulation Society, says

he has seen an increase in the number of people receiving SCS. “Spinal cord stimulation is an important therapy option for patients who have not been able to alleviate their chronic pain through traditional methods, such as back surgery or pharmacological options,” Deer said. “Studies have shown SCS can reduce pain by 50 percent or more, and patients have the option to try a temporary implant to see if they’re comfortable with the therapy.”

Over time, Cover was able to resume almost all his normal activities – like biking, swimming and running – because he can now better manage his pain. In fact, he was able to draw from this experience and began working as a clinical specialist at St. Jude Medical, the company that manufactured his device. He now works with patients also suffering from chronic pain who have or are about to receive SCS systems.

Cover urges others suffering from chronic pain to talk to their doctor about the best treatment option for them.

“Spinal cord stimulation has given me back a life I didn’t think I would have again,” he said. “My pain level is much lower and I’ve been able to stop taking pain medication. It’s dramatically transformed my quality of life.”

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On Aug. 3 at Pocono Raceway, a place where pit strategy is as important as pure speed, Dale Earnhardt Jr., his crew chief, Steve Letarte, and the No. 88 team played their hand just right and came away with their third win of the season and a sweep of the two races at Pocono.

Earnhardt’s No. 88 Chevrolet wasn’t as fast as the No. 24 of his Hendrick Motorsports teammate Jeff Gordon in the latter stages of the race, but when the caution flag flew with just over 40 laps remaining, Letarte brought Earnhardt to pit road for four fresh tires while Gordon, the leader, stayed on the track.

Then 10 laps later, under the green flag, Letarte brought Earnhardt back to pit road to top off the fuel tank.

While it may have looked as though Earnhardt was hopelessly behind, as others in front of him made their final stops, he advanced forward and was fourth in line for a restart with 17 laps to go. He surged into second place on the restart, passed Greg Biffle with 14 laps to go and led the rest of the way.

His final challenge came from Kevin Harvick, who battled back from a pitroad speeding penalty and damage to his car from contact with a drain on the track as he steered to avoid a multi-car wreck ahead of him on Lap 117. Harvick lined up alongside Earnhardt for the final, three-lap run to the checkered flag, but Earnhardt motored away and delivered car owner Rick Hendrick his fifth straight Pocono victory.

Harvick finished second ahead of Joey Logano, Clint Bowyer, Biffle and Gordon.

“What it came down to was Steve’s strategy,” Earnhardt acknowledged in his winner’s interview. “He pulled us onto pit road to about four laps short of our window to go ahead and put four tires on and fill it up. With the big wreck on the back straightaway, that eliminated a lot of cars we would have restarted behind, so he had confidence with us restarting just inside the top 10.”

Then came the challenge of fending off Harvick, who was fast despite the damage to his race car.

“I knew he was going to be tough to get around,” Earnhardt said of the final restart. “I think that was where the race was won. If he passes me there, he probably wins the race for sure, and vice versa. We were able to clear him, but

Dillon outduels Toyota drivers to win at Pocono

By Rick Minter Universal Uclick

Courtesy of NASCAR Dale Earnhardt Jr. claimed his third Sprint Cup victory of 2014 in the GoBowling.com 400 at Pocono Raceway.

■ sprint cup standings 1. Jeff Gordon 757 points 2. Dale Earnhardt Jr. 740 points 3. Brad Keselowski 687 points 4. Matt Kenseth 668 points 5. Ryan Newman 642 points 6. Jimmie Johnson 633 points 7. Joey Logano 633 points 8. Carl Edwards 618 points 9. Clint Bowyer 617 points 10. Kyle Busch 611 points

Steve did a great job, really, with his strategy to get in that position.

“We’re not in that position just on car alone. We had a fast car, and I drove a good race, but Steve’s strategy gave us a chance to win.”

Letarte, calling his final race at Pocono before he moves to the NBC broadcast booth next season, said he likes working at that 2.5-mile track, where lap times on the three-turn course are long enough to allow drivers to pit under the green flag and not lose a lap. That opens a multitude of strategy options for a crew chief, but success at the “Tricky Triangle” also requires skill and bravery on the part of the driver.

“What I love about racing at a track like Pocono is [Earnhardt] can’t do without the pit crew; pit crew can’t do it without me or him,” Letarte said. “It

really takes top to bottom, inside and out, everyone that puts on this uniform.

“There are some tracks you go to that there just is not opportunity for a crew chief to make many decisions other than pit and go back out and hope have you a better car. And there are not a lot of opportunities for the pit crew, other than just try to maintain and not lose spots.

“When you come to a track like Pocono, you have to be very creative with your strategy; the pit crew has to understand the strategy and execute it efficiently.”

While the Pocono win continues a string of successes for NASCAR’s most popular driver, Earnhardt is not ready to predict that this will be the magical year that he gets his first Sprint Cup championship.

“Man, you just don’t want to start thinking too far ahead,” he said. “We’ve got the tracks, and the cars, and the job we do is so technical, you really got to approach it one day at a time to be able to do it right, and do it well.”

He said his season has gone amazingly well, but he also doesn’t want to be caught looking too far ahead.

“If you start to count your chickens before they hatch, so to speak, you’re not focusing on the task in front of you,” he said. “That’s all we need to do. We just need to think about what’s going on tomorrow, what do we need to do tomorrow and how do we do it as good as we can do it.”

Sprint Cup regular Austin Dillon, driving a Chevrolet fielded by his grandfather, Richard Childress, outdueled Toyota drivers Johnny Sauter and Clint Bowyer to win the Pocono Mountains 150 at Pocono Raceway, Aug. 2 And after 12 races – dating back to the Phoenix race last fall – Toyota’s winning streak in the Camping World Truck Series has ended.

Dillon started second, and using a road-course-like pit strategy, made his only pit stop under green-flag conditions at Lap 30. As others stopped, he cycled into the lead on Lap 53 and led the rest of the way. But it wasn’t a cruise to the checkered flag, as he had to fend off several challenges on late-race restarts to secure the win.

It was the second win in a week for the Dillon family, as his younger brother, Ty Dillon, won the Nationwide Series race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway the Saturday before.

“Any time you can get a NASCAR win, it’s huge,” Austin Dillon said. “I watched my brother at Indianapolis Motor Speedway get a win last week, and that really rejuvenated me.

“These seasons are so long. I loved watching him do that. It puts the fire back in you, because you want to get to that place again – seeing him in Victory Lane and being with him in Victory Lane. It’s a special place, and from time to time you have to be reminded of how special it is. I attribute some of what Ty did last week to running well [at Pocono]. I’m jacked up and wanting to get a Cup win now.”

Another Cup rookie, Kyle Larson, also ran the Pocono Truck race. He started from the pole and led the first 18 laps before engine troubles took him out of contention.

“Kyle is a great race car driver, but I think I’m just as good or better,” Dillon said. “We’re going to race him every week hard and figure out a way to be there at the end for Rookie of the Year.”

Sauter finished second and moved to second in the series points standings, seven behind Ryan Blaney, who finished fifth at Pocono.

“I gave Dillon the best push I could, and probably pushed him too far away to even have a run at him,” Sauter said of his move on the green-white-checkeredflag run to the finish. “He had a really good truck there at the end of the race. This is my best finish in a place that I’m not particularly that fond of.”

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Silva seeks return to form despite family concerns ■ mma schedule WORLD SERIES OF FIGHTING 12 Aug. 9; 10 p.m., NBC Sports Network Luis Palomino vs. Lewis Gonzalez Cully Butterfield vs. Ronny Markes Elvis Mutapcic vs. Kelvin Tiller Brandon Hempleman vs. Alexis Vila UFC FIGHT NIGHT 47 Aug. 16; 10 p.m., FOX Sports 1 Ryan Bader vs. Ovince Saint Preux Gray Maynard vs. Ross Pearson Tim Boetsch vs. Brad Tavares TITAN FC 29 Aug. 22; 10 p.m., CBS Sports Network Matthew Riddle vs. Ben Saunders Mike Ricci vs. George Sotiropoulos Kurt Holobaugh vs. Lloyd Woodard Mike Bronzoulis vs. Keith Johnson UFC FIGHT NIGHT 48 Aug. 23; 6:30/9 p.m., UFC Fight Pass Michael Bisping vs. Cung Le Dong Hyun Kim vs. Tyron Woodley Zhang Lipeng vs. Brendan O’Reilly Ning Guangyou vs. Jianping Yang UFC FIGHT NIGHT 49 Aug. 23; 8 p.m., FS2; 10 p.m., FS1 Featured bouts: Rafael dos Anjos vs. Ben Henderson Francis Carmont vs. Thales Leites Demian Maia vs. Mike Pyle ■ All cards are subject to change.

By Thomas Gerbasi UFC.com

Anderson Silva didn’t become someone considered by most to be the greatest mixed martial artist of all-time by following the pack or thinking like everyone else. That single-minded pursuit of a goal can leave hurt feelings along the way, particularly among those closest to the Brazilian icon.

So while the 39-year-old Silva had no doubt in his mind that he was going to return to the Octagon after suffering a broken leg in his December 2013 bout against Chris Weidman, telling his wife Dayane and their five children may have been tougher than any rehab he was about to go through.

“To tell you the truth, they are not too happy,” Silva recently said on a teleconference with the media to discuss his return against Nick Diaz on Jan. 31, 2015. “But they respect my wish, and now they’re coping with it. I don’t think anybody’s family would like to see them going to war, and with mine, it wouldn’t be different.”

In Silva’s defense, his storied career has shown that if there is something remarkable or otherworldly to be done in the fight game, he’s the one to do it, and taking a comeback fight that will occur less than three months before his 40th birthday is just the kind of challenge the Brazilian icon craves.

And leave it to Silva to not just come back from injury to face a top-level opponent, but one like Stockton’s Diaz, a longtime welterweight contender and former Strikeforce champion who has long been one of the most intriguing figures in the fight game, albeit one Silva never thought he would share the Octagon with.

“I’ve been paying attention to all the best

Courtesy of UFC After winning his first 16 bouts after joining the UFC in 2006, former middleweight champion Anderson Silva (right) has since lost two straight to Chris Weidman, including a second-round TKO loss last December in which Silva broke a bone in his leg. Silva will return to action for the first time in over a year when he faces Nick Diaz at UFC 183 on Jan. 31, 2015.

fighters in the UFC but I never thought that in my career I would face Nick Diaz,” he said.

“But I’ve watched all his fights, and I know his style really well. He’s got great jiu-jitsu and this fight has all the ingredients to be one of the best fights of all-time.”

He may be right. Both fighters have a style that is conducive to a memorable five-rounder, and though Diaz was non-committal, Silva did hint that this will be a matchup fought solely on the feet.

“I believe it’s going to be one of the best stand-up battles of the UFC,” said the former middleweight champion, who has scored 22 of his 33 wins by knockout.

But in the all the excitement of Silva’s return, the question is, what does he have left at 39?

Some have written off his two losses to Weidman, saying the first one happened because Silva dropped his hands and got caught, while dismissing the second due to the broken leg that

ended the bout. So to his diehard followers, he’s only picking up where he left off. That may be the case, but what of the left leg he broke when Weidman checked a kick in round two?

“I have been doing a lot of physical therapy, and right now it’s at 95 percent and improving,” said Silva, who has been posting videos on social media of his training. “On the day of the fight it will be 100 percent.”

Sometimes believing is half the battle. The rest comes down to skill and heart, and Anderson Silva has never come up short on either attribute. Now it’s just a matter of where he goes from here, and in true Silva fashion, he’s not ruling out a return to the top of the middleweight mountain.

“I have another seven fights in my contract, and right now it’s not a priority, but it’s not out of the question to fight for the title,” he said. “If I have the credentials to fight for the title, I’ll be more than glad to do it.”

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