FRIDAY, JUNE 16, 2017
Eye on the Fleet
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VOL. 17 NO. 24
CNRSE commander tours NAS Key West By Trice Denny
NAS Key West Public Affairs Officer
(June 12, 2017) FC2 Jason McEntire, assigned to the Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Lake Erie (CG 70), works with Sri Lankan marines to repair levees in Matara, Sri Lanka during humanitarian assistance operations in the wake of severe flooding and landslides after recent heavy rainfalls.
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Rear Adm. Bette Bolivar, commander of Navy Region Southeast, visited Naval Air Station Key West Wednesday as part of a tour of installations in the region. During Bolivar’s visit, she toured the air station’s seven annexes from the air and on the ground. NAS Key West’s Search and Rescue team, with their MH-60S Seahawk, provided the aerial tour, which Bolivar said was the best way to see the installation and the surrounding community as a whole. Bolivar said she used to
give tours to the chain of command this way when she was commander of Joint Region Marianas in Guam and the Marianas Islands. “It’s an excellent way to provide a big picture of the Navy’s scope in an area,” she said. Bolivar got an up-close look at all aspects of NAS Key West, and capped it off with a visit to NAS’ Surface/Subsurface/Port Operations Department at Truman Harbor, where she spent time talking to Port Operations Sailors and Navy divers. U.S. Navy photo by Trice Denny “This trip to Key West Commander, Navy Region Southeast Rear Adm. Bette Bolivar, center, meets Sailors at Port Operations was very informative, Wednesday while touring Naval Air Station Key West with Commanding Officer Capt. Bobby Baker, far right. Bolivar also took an aerial tour with Search and Rescue, visited Sigsbee housing units and see CNRSE page 7 toured U.S. Army Special Forces Underwater Operations School.
Trumbo site of nuclear materials response training ‘Loco Corvina’
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aval Air Station Key West’s transportation department was integral in supporting a recent six-week training exercise focused on testing the response of mobile nuclear facilities. From April 17 - May 31, Department of Energy and
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National Nuclear Security Administration experts teamed up with the U.S. Army on the tarmac of Trumbo Point’s C-1 hangar to test assets that deal with responding to nuclear materials. Under the project name “Exercise Corvina Loco,” a team numbering about 100 practiced the operations and procedures necessary
to deploy mobile plutonium and uranium facilities, making it possible to promptly respond and characterize, stabilize, package, and remove nuclear materials. No real nuclear materials were packaged during the exercise and there was no public hazard. NAS Key West’s Transportation Commodity Manager Wallace Moore
said planning for the Corvina Loco event - the first at NAS - began in November 2016. “Transportation provided logistics support coordinating deliver and pick up of more than 60 tractor-trailers delivering over 120 containers,” Moore noted. A NAS crew of 10 civilians and two Sailors worked with Corvina Loco staff in
setting up the exercise site at Trumbo. “We provided equipment operators for the assembly and disassembly of the mobile uranium and mobile plutonium rapid response facilities,” said Moore. “We also provided mechanic services to repair broken equipment, trash see Exercise page 6