FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2015
Eye on the Fleet
INDIAN OCEAN
VOL. 26 NO. 43
WWW.CNIC.NAVY.MIL/KEYWEST NAVAL AIR STATION KEY WEST, FLORIDA
School Impact Aid $urvey underway: Be counted NAS Key West Public Affairs (Oct. 18, 2015) Sailors aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt secure a fuel probe from the Indian Deepak-class fleet tanker INS Shakti (A 57) during a replenishment-at-sea exercise as a part of Exercise Malabar 2015. Malabar is a continuing series of complex, high-end war fighting exercises conducted to advance multi-national maritime relationships and mutual security.
U.S. Navy photo by MC3 D’Artanyan Ratley
inside: ONLINE MWR library. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 FAIR WINDS QMCS Clark. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 NAVY BALL Happy birthday. . . . . . . . . . . . 5 WILMA More photos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 TOP OF PAGE ONE: Lt. Cmdr. Mark Tedrow, pilot number five with the Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron, the Blue Angels, performs aerial acrobatics during the 2015 Kaneohe Bay Air Show and Open House at Marine Corps Base Hawaii.
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mpact Aid Survey cards were sent home with local students this week and officials are urg-
ing parents to complete the surveys, which could bring additional funds to school coffers. Impact Aid provides funding to make up for lost property tax revenue.
School districts receive a percentage of property taxes paid by individuals and local businesses. Because properties on military bases and other federal properties aren’t taxed,
Memories of Wilma linger 10 years later From NAS Key West Public Affairs
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en years ago Saturday Hurricane Wilma was making her way into the Gulf of Mexico, with churning seas and increasing winds. Her eye passed 75 miles northwest of Key West, which sustained only tropical force winds. After three previous hurricanes that summer - Dennis, Katrina and Rita - Wilma seemed to be a minor wind event. In the early morning hours, however, Wilma’s wrath made landfall as the first of two storm surges washed across the Keys. The first surge began on the Atlantic side at about 1 a.m. It was low tide as sea water rose across the island. Driven by wind, the water rose up to four feet in some areas. By 5 a.m. it seemed the surge had hit
its crest and was starting to recede. It was then that a second surge from the Gulf of Mexico started to move in from the west. It was high tide and flood waters were up to six feet above normal in some areas of the Keys. Flooding began to recede after 10 a.m. Weather officials called it the worst storm surge inundation throughout most of the Florida Keys since Hurricane Betsy on Sept. 8, 1965. The flooding caused more than $400 million in damages to Naval Air Station Key West’s buildings, housing, vehicles, equipment, infrastructure and to its coastline. Morale, Welfare and Recreation sustained millions in damage to its marinas, food facilities, vehicles and equipment. see wilma page 7
local school districts don’t receive tax revenue from those properties About 12 percent of the students attending Monroe County schools are federally connected, according
to district records. During the fall of 2014, the Federal Impact Aid Survey counted 987 federally connected students countywide. see survey page 3
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U.S. Navy photo by MC3 Cody Babin
MC Mark McDonald, center, congratulates ET2 Jordan Surrey, left, and ET3 Dustin Naeger, right, after the pair received ‘spot’ Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medals Wednesday at Ground Electronics on Naval Air Station Kew West’s Boca Chica Field. The two were recognized for assisting a critically injured motorcycle rider Monday in Key West while waiting for emergency medical personnel.
Navy recognizes Albury for 45 years of service recent high school graduate recognized for 45 years of Peggy Albury has become civil service with a cera 45-year career with the tificate and lapel pin prehat started out as Navy. a temporary job for On Tuesday, Albury was see albury page 4
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