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In June of 1935, San Diego hosted the inaugural Fleet Week celebration as part of the California Pacific International Exposition. Under command of U.S. Navy Admiral Joseph M. Reeves, Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Fleet, 114warships and 400 military planes arrived with more than 3,000 commissioned officers and 55,000 enlisted men. Thousands of San Diegans and other exposition-goers were guests on the various ships. Over time, community and business leaders who understood the great depth of public support for our military cultivated Fleet Week San Diego. They shared a vision to recognize the contributions made by the armed services to the many communities of the greater San Diego region. Fleet Week San Diego honors the men and women of the military through public events and alliances that support and thank these heroes throughout the year. Events such as the Coronado Speed Festival, Enlisted Golf Tournament, Enlisted Recognition Luncheon and Miramar Air Show are sell-outs year after year, and provide a way for the San Diego community to interact with the military in otherwise restricted ways. The event has grown beyond a week-long celebration — beginning in September and running through mid-November. Fleet Week is a United States Navy, United States Marine Corps and United States Coast Guard tradition that has spread cities across the country. For information about Fleet Week San Diego and a full line up of events, go to www.fleetweeksandiego.org.
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INSIDE THE MIND BEHIND ‘THE LAST SHIP’ One-on-one with
Hank Steinberg By Elise Cooper MilitaryPress
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he Last Ship� is an action-packed and explosive TV Show created by the producing team of Michael Bay and Hank Steinberg. It is based on the novel by William Brinkley of the same name, in which a nuclear war destroys much of civilization with the only survivors being those on board this one ship. The TV series modernized the novel’s story line, yet kept the central idea of the lone ship. The first season aired on TNT last year where the episodes had the crew of the naval destroyer U.S.S. Nathan James assigned to find a cure for a pandemic virus that wiped out most of the world’s population. This year the plotline had Commander Tom Chandler (played by Eric Dane), the XO Mike Slattery (played by Adam Baldwin) and those on the ship trying to find a way to save humanity from the brink of extinction. Below is an interview with Steinberg, who also created the hit TV show “Without A Trace.� Elise Cooper: Did you film on a real Navy Ship?
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The creator behind TNT’s drama “The Last Ship,� starring Eric Dane and Adam Baldwin, says the production team strives for authenticity. Hank Steinberg: We film the exterior scenes on a real ship in San Diego. The Navy has graciously coordinated with us and allows us access to ships in port. Active destroyers are usually in port half of the year, so we try to find a ship and work around their schedule. For the interior scenes on the ship we use the sets built in Los Angeles. We use visual effects to show
the ship as moving, when they are supposed to be out to sea. EC: Did you use a model of a destroyer or what we see on the Universal tour, the pond they created? HS: No. We have a special effects person who makes it appear like the ship is moving in the ocean. I don’t know much about technology, so we get the experts to
help. The computerized technology today is amazing on how real everything looks. It would have been very difficult to make this show 15 years ago because of the financial achievability. The visual effects can take anywhere from a few days to a couple of months to finish, depending on how comLAST SHIP, continued on Page 16
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Breast Augmentation & Tummy Tuck: UFC fighter Ronda Rousey surprised Cpl. Jarrod Haschert when she accepted his invitation to the Marine Corps Ball.
Rousey says ‘yes’ to date UFC star to attend Marine Corps Ball for more than 34 seconds The Marine Corps birthday ball is a “Do I call him?� she said in an accepspectacle every year, a celebration of the tance video that went viral as well. “Or do military branch’s founding more than 200 I set up a time and place like “Never Been years ago. In recent years, some Marines Kissed� and wait until the clock runs out have even tried to invite celebrities, such as and be like ‘I’m here!’� actress Mila Kunis, who showed up as one She also said the Marine would have to Marine’s date in 2011. be on his best behavior and would have to This year, the newfound tradition goes find dates for all her single friends. on. Marine Lance Cpl. Jarrod Haschert “He needs to find dates for my girls,� she asked his celebrity crush, the unstoppable said, “and we’ll all go.� mixed martial arts fighter Ronda Rousey, While Haschert hasn’t talked to Rousey to the upcoming Marine Corps 240th directly, he has been in touch with “her birthday ball with a video. people.� Originally she was worried about Rousey responded — with an enthusi- a scheduling conflict with an upcoming astic yes in a video posted to the website fight, but the fight was moved and now TMZ.com, and no one was more surprised she is free and clear to partake in Marine than Haschert himself. Corps birthday activities. “When it happened, I didn’t know Haschert has been in the Marines for a how to contain myself,� said Haschert in little more than two and half years. He’d a phone interview from his barracks at deployed once to the Pacific spent a stint Camp Lejeune, N.C., where he serves in 1st with another Camp Lejeune unit, 2nd BatBattalion, 8th Marines, an infantry unit in talion, 9th Marines. He has had a crush on which Haschert serves in the mortar sec- Rousey since his senior year of high school tion. In 2004, the battalion participated when “she started to get big,� he says. in the battle of Fallujah and has deployed At 22 and as seasoned lance corporal of multiple times to Iraq and Afghanistan in Marines, this upcoming birthday ball is the last 15 years. not his first. Apparently Rousey knew about the invi“The ball is going to be crazy,� Haschert tation but couldn’t accept because training said, referring to the attention he and Rousfor her fight with Holly Holm conflicted ey will surely get. “I was hoping we could with the event. spend some time during the day together to When the fight was moved to November, just talk and hang out or whatever.� she decided to go to the ball but didn’t know ROUSEY, continued on Page 17 how to to contact Haschert. 'PS BEWFSUJTJOH JOGPSNBUJPO DBMM t BEWFSUJTJOH!NJMJUBSZQSFTT DPN
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JOHNSON TO PLAY KEY PASSING ROLE By Art Garcia, Jr. MilitaryPress
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hen Eddie Royal signed a free agent deal with the Chicago Bears early in the offseason, many fans wondered if the Chargers could replace such a productive playmaker. It didn’t take long before General Manager Tom Telesco dipped into the free agent pool and signed the versatile Stevie Johnson to fill the void left by Royal’s departure.
CHARGERS REPORT Entering his eighth NFL season, Johnson’s best years were in Buffalo where during a three-year span, 2010-2012, he had 247 receptions for 3,123 yards and 23 touchdowns. Heading into the opening game versus the Lions, Johnson answered a few questions from MP reporter Art Garcia Jr. following a recent practice. AG: Tell me how it has been working with Philip Rivers throughout the offseason? SJ: It’s an opportunity that’s unreal and I have to take advantage of it. With this being my eighth year, I feel like it’s coming to an end because you can’t play forever and to be able to play with a quarterback like
Stevie Johnson had a breakout game against the Seattle Seahawks in the Chargers third preseason game. He finished the night with four receptions for 63 yards. 17. It’s an opportunity you can’t pass up on. AG: How long did it take you to contact each other after the team signed you? SJ: That day, that day. We started writing messages and texting each other and calling, then the next thing you know OTAs (Organized Team Activities) are
starting and I’m running routes and catching passes. It seemed unreal, but it’s a good situation. AG: I heard you were watching clips of Rivers and the team even before you signed here, true? SJ: Yeah, You Tube highlights of him
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A military flyover takes place ahead of a game between the Jacksonville Jaguars and Indianapolis Colts last year.
The NFL and the military A love affair as strange and cynical as ever
This is the power of the NFL: it can brand only surprise is how efficiently and directly something you respect into something they did it. This sort of behavior is par for nauseous. I have a lifelong fascination with the course with the NFL. Every October, it the military: my grandfathers were pilots puts its athletes in pink shoes, pink towels, in WWII, one also in Korea. My stepfather, gives refs pink penalty flags and sells “aua man I love and respect, only retired from thentic� alternate pink jerseys to promote the Air Force this decade. I attended high breast cancer awareness. The proceeds from school near Eglin Air Force Base, living out these sales do not go breast cancer research, near Range Road, where you could sit on and what little escapes the wholesaler, disyour roof at night and watch the bomb tests tributor and retailer goes toward promoting light up the underside of clouds. Most of screening and awareness. The NFL doesn’t my friends’ dads were in the service. directly profit, but its friends do. But just like that friend’s dad who got Crossing the military-sports boundary is in your face all OORAH about how you nothing new. George Carlin’s famous roucould never dare question him (on any- tine about the difference between baseball thing) when you knew in reality that he ran and football pays off so well because his Quicken for the 101st Chairborne, doing description of football is laden with all the sorties on Excel columns, the NFL doesn’t casual military metaphors self-important have an off switch on its deployment of big NFL commentators have injected into the words like battle and sacrifice. NFL com- game to make sure nobody dares take it missioner Roger Goodell glad-handing anything less than deadly seriously. veterans who’ve lost something, smirking Other sports have gotten in on the act under a flyover, is another avatar of the for mercenary but at least more organic rear-echelon dudes who spent their Iraq reasons. San Diego, a town dependent on War scanning the base doppler for tor- its naval base for its prosperity, features nados in the midwest and up-armoring regular troop acknowledgments at games, their word rage to combat the “libturd� and Padres players take the field in camWar on Christmas, daring you to question ouflage uniforms. Tampa Bay, home to those who do their duty. The NFL is in the MacDill Air Force Base and CENTCOM, business of not being questioned, and the also sends out the Rays in camouflage unitroops are its favorite accessory. forms and sets aside discount sections for Complaints about the creeping militari- active-duty servicemen. Both these teams zation of the NFL are almost as old as com- struggle against the allure of the beach plaints about how current finesse dynasties and vacation nightlife to fill seats, so their always get the defensive pass interference motives aren’t pure, but they are at least calls, and their ubiquity reduces them to the speaking to a significant local population angsty hum of a punk band tuning all their that shapes the region. guitars to drop-D. But this last year reified Beyond teams with local military fanthe issue as something worthy of consid- bases, Major League Baseball learned that eration to more than just teens hoping to releasing authentic camouflage jerseys and annoy dad. The NFL, which swaddles itself red-white-and-blue jerseys for Memorial in camouflage to honor the troops, allowed Day and July 4th meant another vector for 14 teams to charge the Department of De- selling $140 garments that look and feel fense $5.4m for the privilege of their own like grandpa’s old nightshirt designed to honor, over four years. sweat out a fever. That the NFL found a way to monetize NFL, continued on Page 12 patriotism shouldn’t surprise anyone; the 'PS BEWFSUJTJOH JOGPSNBUJPO DBMM t BEWFSUJTJOH!NJMJUBSZQSFTT DPN
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WWII VET CELEBRATES 100TH BIRTHDAY THE SIEGEL SIDEBAR By Heather Siegel MilitaryPress
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on’t make any plans for December,� says Harry Anderson, “I’m having my 100th birthday party, and it’s going to be a big party.� Spry, delightful, almost impish, Anderson lives in a retirement park in San Marcos with a friendly roommate/caregiver. Full of stories, souvenirs and spice, it was a real pleasure to meet someone of that age, with all his faculties, ready for life’s next adventure. Anderson is a World War II veteran and survivor, whose troop ship landed in Tokyo just two days after the official surrender of Japan in 1945. But Harry did not turn around and leave. He stayed for more than two years and lived among the war-torn civilians. To this day, he proudly maintains written correspondence with descendants of his Japanese friends. What keeps him going? An easy question to ask and much harder to answer. Widowed, with many great-children, Anderson has survived most members of his
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Harry Johnson, veteran of World War II, is planning a huge party for his 100th birthday in December. immediate family. His real family members are his fellow residents at Madrid Manor, a resident-owned trailer park. There is much camaraderie and genuine friendship shared among the residents. Harry is very proud of his Japanese souve-
nirs, which include a ceremonial cup and an ancient lantern. He collected rocks during his rockhound days. Part of his concerns now are how best to leave his collections to the right people and organizations. Born and raised in Des Moines, Iowa,
Harry worked in the aviation industry in California. When he was drafted into military service, he was trained to drive a tank. He kept busy being a clerk-typist in the ocBIRTHDAY, continued on Page 12
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New National Commander Dale Barnett is sworn into office by Past National Commander Dave Rehbein.
Legion’s new leader puts focus on duty, honor and country American Legion members will have no the principles that have made this country trouble remembering newly elected Na- great. We will continue to fight for those tional Commander Dale Barnett’s motto. principles. Our country needs us, and we The Department of Georgia Legionnaire must step forward now.� made sure to have it placed on this year’s “So this year, when you see those words, membership shirt. I want to challenge you,� Barnett added. “Duty, honor, country — these three “When you see them with your eyes, I want words have great meaning to my life, and you to live it in your heart, and I want you I hope this year will have great meaning to execute it with your body and soul.� to you,� Barnett told Legionnaires on Sept. A member of Post 105 in Fayetteville, 3 at the 97th National Convention in Bal- Ga., and past Department of Georgia timore. He then broke down what each commander, Barnett was raised in central word means to him. Indiana and attended Whiteland ComDuty. “The first lesson of basic training munity High School, where he was stuwas to know your job and do your job to dent body president, captain of the track the best you could,� Barnett said. and basketball teams and president of the “Your life depended upon it, and the life Whiteland United Methodist Youth Basof your buddies. In The American Legion, ketball Team. He also attended Hoosier people depend on us each and every day Boys State in 1969, which he said was the to do the right thing. To get them to ap- determining factor in his decision to atpointments. To mentor the youth. To help tend the U.S. Military Academy. families in need.� “The American Legion has shaped my Honor. “It was an honor to wear the life,� he said. “When I went to Hoosier military uniform, and I’m sure many of Boys State in 1969, it planted for my atyou still have your uniforms and you’re tendance, and it was only because of The proud to share those stories,� he said. “But American Legion and Boys State that I I’m also proud to wear the uniform of The think that I was selected to attend the American Legion. It’s an honor to be in Military Academy. It led to an opportunity this organization and to serve alongside of service� you. I guarantee you your communities Barnett was an Army infantry officer from respect what you do, and they understand 1974 to 1996, and served from 1990 to 1991 what you do each and every day. That as the battalion executive officer of the 2nd makes their communities a better place.� Battalion, 18th Infantry in Operation Desert Country. “Our country needs us,� he Shield and Operation Desert Storm. After said. “It’s the greatest country on earth. retiring as a lieutenant colonel, he taught I’m so proud to be an American, but I’m high school social studies and coached basso proud to be standing before you today ketball, baseball and cross country. to say I’m part of the greatest organizaLEGION, continued on Page 15 tion that, since 1919, has been fighting for 'PS BEWFSUJTJOH JOGPSNBUJPO DBMM t BEWFSUJTJOH!NJMJUBSZQSFTT DPN
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t 7:47 a.m. Sept. 5, after 28 days at sea, a U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker reached the North Pole, making it the first U.S. surface ship to traverse it on a solo exhibition. It was 21 degrees outside and the crew on the bridge started cheering. The Healy, a medium-duty icebreaker, was there on a National Science Foundation-funded research expedition to document trace elements in every ocean on Earth as part of an international series called GEOTRACES. The ship left Dutch Harbor on Aug. 9 with about 145 people on board, including about 50 scientists from all over the world sampling the Arctic Ocean for the first time. “You literally feel like you’re on a different planet with 24-7 sun and ice all around you,� said Captain Jason Hamilton. “It’s really a sense of accomplishment and pride.� The crew even had a rendezvous with the German icebreaker Polarstern, which was also on a GEOTRACES mission at 90 degrees N and parked about a half-mile away from the Healy. Scientists and shipmates walked across the ice to compare notes and ships on top of the world. “It was great to see our colleagues,� he said. The seawater, sediment and air samples from the Arctic Ocean will help scientists piece together marine ecosystem cycles and their relationships to climate. Even though it only constitutes 3 percent of the world’s ocean coverage, GEOTRACES scientists consider it to be the epicenter of
The crew of U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy and the Geotraces science team have their portrait taken at the North Pole. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Cory J. Mendenhall) climate change. Sampling the North Pole was part of its initial plan from 2006, so it’s an accomplishment shared by the researchers and the U.S. government. Bill Schmoker, a teacher aboard, wrote on a blog while aboard the ship, “We squeezed in what seems like a week’s worth of work and excitement in the last three days at the pole.�
The Healy is a 420-foot, 16,000-ton, 30,000-horsepower icebreaker, capable of breaking more than 10 feet of ice, according to the Coast Guard. It uses as much as 22,000 gallons of diesel a day when it has to back up and ram into the densest pieces. The last time it or any U.S. surface ship was at the North Pole was almost exactly a decade ago, on Sept. 12, 2005.
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The scientific voyage was in collaboration with a Swedish icebreaker and its purpose was to survey marine life under the Arctic ice cap. “Scientific research and operations didn’t require us to make the dangerous trek to the North Pole after the Healy’s 2005 voyage,� said Coast Guard spokesperson Lt. Donnie Brzuska. “This year, (GEOTRACES is) sampling in the Arctic for the first time, which required the cutter crew to sail to the North Pole.� The North Pole was the Healy’s second mission of the season. It sailed hundreds of miles north of Barrow earlier this summer on a science mission to that primarily benefited the Coast Guard’s operations. From bettering communication with iridium satellite walkie-talkies to testing the landing capabilities of an unmanned aircraft that delivers live video feed, it was bustling with different types of research onboard. This trip to the pole was primarily a scientific mission and a lot of research was performed on ice, instead of from the boat, as with earlier research. But the Hamilton said the new challenges were just a testament to the Coast Guard’s capabilities. “The Coast Guard has been operating here off Alaska since the 1860s,� Hamilton said. “Healy continues that proud tradition and we clearly demonstrated the capability to provide access to the furthest regions of the planet.�
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VA denies 300,000 died awaiting care Says own IG’s numbers wrong
The Veterans Affairs Department is rejecting reports that 300,000 veterans likely died while awaiting care, even though the figure came from its own inspector general. The number reflects the number of veterans with pending enrollment applications that the Social Security Administration reports as deceased — but nothing indicates they went without medical care or died while actively seeking enrollment into the VA system, according to a senior official with the department’s Veterans Health Administration. “[The IG] could not determine specifically how many pending records represent veterans who applied for health care benefits or when they may have applied,� Acting Deputy Under Secretary for Health for Operations and Management Janet Murphy said in an official VA blog post. Lawmakers cited the figure as further evidence of mismanagement at the VA, which has been rocked by a series of scandals over the past few years, notably reports that many hospitals kept secret wait lists to conceal the fact that so many veterans were stuck in the system and unable to receive treatment. Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona, said the
IG report is evidence that veterans should be able to get their health care needs met anywhere and not be tied to the VA system. “It is absolutely clear that the way ahead for reform of the VA must be to empower all veterans to immediately get the care they need where and when they need it — regardless of the location — and never allow bureaucrats to deny our nation’s heroes the benefits they deserve,� he said. Rep. Dan Benishek, R-Michigan, called the IG findings “outrageous and ... tragic.� “The endless amount of probing and investigations that it takes before the VA finally reveals the truth about the mismanagement that is occurring has got to stop now,� said Benishek, who spent 20 years as a doctor with the VA Medical Center in Iron Mountain, Michigan. But according to Murphy, the department official, the lawmakers and the media reports based on the IG findings aren’t accurate. Some of the veterans could have applied for health care years ago and gone on to get care outside the VA. Murphy said the department does not have the authority to remove a claim from pending status even if they attempt, but fail, to contact the veteran. For that reason, any number of applications for care could remain in the system, regardless of when it went in and whether the individual is alive or deceased. Murphy did concede that its own system
is the reason the IG was not able to say exactly how many pending records represented veterans who applied for health care benefits or when they applied, calling it “data weaknesses within our system which we are working hard to improve.� Applications stay in pending status if they’re not complete, if a veteran’s record is transferred into the system even though he or she may not have initiated enrollment, or if a veteran accessed VA care prior to 1998, according to Murphy. She also said that the veterans with pending applications are not already enrolled in VA health care, so that it’s a mistake to think that of the deceased had been department patients or enrollees. She criticized media reports suggesting otherwise, saying “VA has repeatedly pointed this out to inquiring media.� Author Kelly Kennedy, a Gulf War veteran and former reporter who now writes on veterans’ issues for the law firm Bergmann & Moore, which specializes in veterans’ cases, responded to Murphy’s blog posting on her own site. The VA posting, she wrote, “started out nicely: a contrite acknowledgement that things need to be fixed. And then it went downhill, into a convoluted statement that things aren’t as bad as the media are making them out to be (it’s always the media’s fault because blame-shifting), but we can’t tell you exactly how bad they are because we don’t know.�
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Troop pay raise at 1.3 percent in 2016
President Obama announced a 1.3 percent pay raise for military members next year, a level that’s less than what’s specified under the law. The change to monthly basic pay will take effect Jan. 1. The presidential order is consistent with the Pentagon’s proposed budget for fiscal 2016, which begins Oct. 1. The spending plan called for a pay raise of 1.3 percent rather than the 2.3 percent estimated increase in private sector-wage growth, which military pay is supposed to track by law. The 1.3 percent figure is slightly higher than the 1 percent pay increase that service members have received the past two years.
Army sent live Anthrax to all 50 states
Deputy Defense Secretary Bob Work has repeatedly said the scandal over the military’s mistaken shipment of live anthrax spores around the nation and the world would get worse — he was right. The number of labs that received live anthrax has more than doubled to 194 NEWS BRIEFS, continued on Page 13
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wants to have a good time. NFL Yes, his son in Northern California wants Continued from Page 6 Continued from Page 5 Harry to move closer to him, but his dad gencupied country. But if these other developments are a bit tly and firmly refuses. Emotions run deep when the elder Harry “This is my home where my true friends mercenary, only the NFL feels like it’s fully remembers what he went through as the are,� Harry said. “I am not planning to start embraced outright camouflage-washing. younger Harry in the immediate aftermath over somewhere else.� Take an embattled brand, wrap it up in Desert MARPAT and dare anyone to start jeering at it. Goodell and company have — barring any generalized sense of competency that we’d ascribe to a functionally non-malignant business — proved that they are masters at a certain kind of craven canniness, of the bombing destruction of Japan. From what Dawn tells me, it appears that and they and plenty of others have noticed “I did whatever I could to help those peo- the trailer park is more like a form of as- the numerous opportunities for cynical ple, who had nothing,� he said proudly. “War sisted living, because neighbors keep helping capitalization. Far from the behavior of the is so stupid.� founders (Washington, say, who deliberneighbors to stay safely in their homes. When the party gets fully planned, Harry Harry is going to apply for the Honor ately patterned his life after Cincinnatus), expects relatives from across the country and Flights and just got registered with VA or even of the Brokaw-dubbed Greatest friends from around the world to attend. Health. He’s too busy sometimes sharing Generation (in which roughly maybe oneDawn, his caregiver, said that that may be a his spirit with his neighbors to take care of sixteenth of personnel saw serious comgood time to suggest who gets what of Har- himself. bat), we have nationally balked at applying ry’s massive collections. Or, not. Harry just any differentiation or critique to the roles A talent that we all admire. of any active duty personnel in the Wars on Terror, Afghanistan, Iraq or ISIS. MSNBC’s Chris Hayes was broadly slammed for suggesting his discomfort at the overuse of hero, because that is the brand now. What a boon environment for a “nonprofit� cartel flush with billions that socializes the debts for new stadiums by plundering municipalities and then privatizing the profits, that threatens to lockout the laborers who give the sport its only reason for existence when they ask for a fraction more money to continue at jobs that give them potentially terminal brain damage. Take a
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n a classic cartoon by Chas. Addams, whose weird characters populated the 1960s TV show “The Addams Family,� the audience in a movie theater is shown facing the screen. Every face is sad; everyone’s eyes are teary — except one. A ghoulish little man with fangs, wearing a black cape, is grinning. There is no caption. I was reminded of it by the stock market’s sudden late-August 10 percent dive that made scary headlines for most investors. What did it mean? How far down would it go? What should I do? Or, as a client once asked me in a similar time: “Should I panic?� Who knows how many people of all ages were saying, “All I know about the stock market is that it makes me want to turn off the TV and take something for my nerves.� So who was smiling? Apart from the short sellers who had bet on a decline by selling stock they didn’t own (don’t try it), those who were smiling — or should be — were the long-term investors who see a steep decline as an opportunity to enhance their growth potential, and income-seekers who see dividend yields go up as stock prices drop. For working people wise enough to be investing regularly and reinvesting the dividends, it’s a time to increase, not cut back, your allotment. If the S&P 500 were to go from 200 to 300 druing the next 10 years, it would be far more profitable for you if it got there, not by a slow, steady rise, but by dropping to, say, 150, in the meantime, because you’d be buying more shares at lower prices. Do the math. For the retired seeking income, a buying opportunity requires having available cash or short-term CDs to liquidate. But before you go all-in, if you are on a monthly withdrawal plan, be sure you retain enough cash or equivalent to cover your needs without having to sell any stocks in a down market. How much cash? Advisers recommend holding anywhere from three to as much as 10 years’ liquid reserves to draw from in order to avoid the need to sell stocks during a possible bear market. As for trying to understand why the market is acting like a yo-yo on steroids, MONEY, continued on Page 17
NEWS BRIEFS Continued from Page 9 since Work and Frank Kendall, the Pentagon’s top acquisition official, released a report in July on the shipments of the deadly pathogen from the Army‘s Dugway Proving Grounds in Utah. The number of states receiving live anthrax also more than doubled to include all 50 states and Washington, D.C., plus Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. The number of countries that received live anthrax went up from seven to nine — Japan, United Kingdom, Korea, Australia, Canada, Italy, Germany, Norway and Switzerland, according to the Pentagon’s updated accounting of the shipments through Sept. 1. There have been no deaths or serious illnesses reported from the military’s 10year program to ship anthrax to private and military labs for testing to develop vaccines and detection devices, according to the Defense Department. However, at least 31 military and civilian personnel were treated with antibiotics as a precaution after a lab in Maryland discovered in May that a supposedly irradiated anthrax sample contained live spores.
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“I want each and every one of you to know that I pledged to the (Department Continued from Page 7 of Veterans Affairs) secretary — you have pledged to the VA — that it is a system Walk of Veterans The former coach is introducing a new worth saving, and we’re in it together,â€? initiative this year: Walk of Veterans. Barnett he said. “We’re going to do everything possible said the walks will take place in communities throughout the nation and are aimed to raise to make the VA health-care system proawareness about the Legion’s impact on its vide the best health care in the world to communities. Barnett wants the walks to in- our veterans because they have earned it clude Legion family members, Legion youth and they deserve it. “We will continue to look at the timeprogram participants and their families, Scouts and local high school JROTC units, as well as community leaders and anyone else interested in participating. “We walk for veterans each and every day in our communities,â€? Barnett said. “We mentor our kids, we do things for our community. I want to walk with all the people we touch, and that’s a lot of people. I want you to walk, and I want you to tell your story about why you joined The American Legion and why you stay a member in The American Legion. I guarantee ‌ that when people in your community walk with you and walk with us, and learn about what we’re doing, we’re going to see people join this organization. We’re going to see goodwill with public relations. And we’re going to get the message of The American Legion out to the communities.â€?
liness of VA claims, appointments and services, as well as the accuracy of that reporting. We will continue to partner — through our network of service officers, volunteers and town hall meeting — to monitor and to work with VA to ensure timely delivery of health care.� Barnett said VA employees must perform their responsibilities in an acceptable manner or deal with the consequences. “We will continue to support further empowerment of the VA management to
hold people accountable in the VA system who do not perform and provide that quality health care to our veterans,� he said. Elected as national vice commanders were George E. Cushing (Arizona), Alan A. Davis (Minnesota), David L. Gough (Wisconsin), John W. Hargreaves (Maine) and Jimmy Lane (Arkansas). Rev. Dr. H. C. “Ted� Kelley (Pennsylvania) was appointed national chaplain, while James E. Copher Sr. (Minnesota) was appointed national historian.
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Caring for those who have worn the nation’s uniform — and monitoring the health-care system designed to care for them — will be a priority for Barnett.
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tists help us formulate how our ideas could happen, making sure the science is actuContinued from Page 2 ally correct. plicated they are. Then there are a few EC: This season it seems the plots are weeks of editing. based on a Holocaust comparison with EC: What about experts, any military? white supremists. True? HS: Yes. There are many military adHS: We did not speak of Nazism so visers on the set who are former Navy, much, but I could see why the compariincluding a few writers. They tell us how sons would come up. I don’t think Ramsey to do the action stuff. We also have people thinks of himself specifically as Hitler, but from the Navy who arrange things logisti- Chandler does comment about a “master cally from being able to film on the ship to race.� The Immunes, led by the Ramsey providing help with the dialogue, the way people move and how they act. We want to be as realistic as possible. We want to make the characters professional and realistic so we consult on how things look, sound, and work. EC: Do you have scientific experts? HS: We have several, including microbiologists and those specializing in kinetics. Some come to the set to make sure we have the correct props and equipment. They work with Rhona, Dr. Rachel Scott, to teach her how to use the equipment. We Brothers, seek biological purity instead of wanted to make everything scientifically racial purity, but do have a sense of their grounded even though what is being ac- own superiority as inheritors of the race. complished is somewhat more advanced There is a sense of primitive tribalism as a than what has been done. For us it must result of the breakdown of civilization. be in the realm of plausibility. The scienEC: What about the episode with the
children found on an island. Did you base it on the Lost Boys from “Peter Pan?� HS: No. We were thinking more of “Lord of the Flies.� We wanted to explore what happens to children when they must survive on their own. We always wanted to do a story on children survivors without any adults. EC: The characters this season have more gray areas than last. Please explain. HS: As the series develops you always want to explore deeper and deeper with the characters. We put them in different
‘We want to be as realistic as possible. We want to make the characters professional and realistic, so we consult on how things look, sound and work.’ situations to show who these people really are — to show their different sides. It is interesting to watch how these people deal with impossible circumstances and find the strength and courage within themselves. For me, I am interested in the ongoing struggle and how they evolve without making them too old-fashioned, because we do give them flaws. The main characters are trying to do the right thing and are up against incredible odds. EC: A lot of fans were upset with Commander Chandler for his reaction to Rachel after she killed someone. Why did he not support her? HS: The commander believes in a moral authority and military discipline. Rachel violated this code as well as his trust by doing it behind his back, lying to him, and allowing rumors on the ship to run rampant. With the president on the ship, there would have been blow back on him as well as the commander because some of the crew thought they condoned it. EC: But she killed evil, so what is wrong with that? HS: We are a country that is based on
rules of law. As the population is starting to create a new society they need to make sure someone is put on trial for their wrong deeds. I know a lot of people were upset with Chandler because Rachel did something that was clearly what they would have done. Yet, she acted emotionally and did not think about the other consequences. There is a saying about values: when you only stick to them when they are convenient, then they are not values. The fact that people were arguing about the commander’s toughness on Rachel is exactly what we wanted to achieve. EC: Why did you decide to kill off certain well-regarded characters? HS: It is based on the direction the story is going. The Israeli soldier, Lt. Ravit Bivas, (Inbar Lavi) bid farewell after getting mortally wounded. When she said the Shema prayer, it was very emotional to me because I am Jewish. We wanted to make it inherently tragic with her. It was a dramatic inevitability based on her frustrated ideology. EC: How do you come up with the antagonists? HS: That is the biggest and most important question for the series. What defines the whole story is the challenges these villains present to the heroes. We try to create very interesting ones that are fresh and make sure never to cannibalize from previous stories. EC: What do you want the viewers to get out of the storyline for “The Last Ship?� HS: The same thing I want viewers to get out of anything I have ever written. I want them to feel for the characters, feel that they are part of a situation, and to feel connected as the story moves along since we live somewhat vicariously through the characters. I want people to think about, “What would I do?� and “How would I react in that situation?� Sitting on their couch but feeling as if they are there. THANK YOU!! “The Last Ship� airs 6 p.m. Sundays on TNT.
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MONEY Continued from Page 13 don’t bother. Commentators are paid to comment, to say something that sounds plausible. Conditions cited as the reason for one day’s 600-point drop didn’t go away when the market bounced back up 500 points the next day. Any time you read about “investors’� sentiments affecting the market’s daily activity, forget it. In this age of computer-driven high-volume trading, you and I are not “moving� the market up or down.
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