Panorama May 20, 2016

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61st year, No. 20

Serving the NATO, Naples and Gaeta Military Community in Italy

Friday, May 20, 2016

Navy Youth Swim Test Now Required at MWR Pools Worldwide From MWR Aquatics

The Guinness World Records “World’s Longest Pizza” was created in Naples, where pizza was born. Officially 1.8 kilometers long, the pizza was kneaded and baked in six hours, 11 minutes on the Naples seafront by 250 pizza makers from all over the world using more than 2 tons of Caputo flour, 1.5 tons of tomatoes, 2 tons of mozzarella cheese, 200 liters of oil and 66 pounds of basil. After the recordbreaking pizza was made, it was shared with onlookers and the needy. Photo by MC1 Daniel Barker

Peak PCS Moving Season: Ready, Set, Move! By Sutten Thomas Navy Household Goods Personal Property Program Manager, NAVSUP Fleet Logistics Center Sigonella

(Part 2 of 3) Setting up the Move By now, most service members know about Defense Personal Property System (DPS). Before you decide to start your upcoming move application in DPS or contact the local PPSO, visit the Navy’s official Portal at http://navsup.navy.mil/household for updated information, customer information videos and articles, regarding shipping entitlements, claims, privately owned vehicles and much more. Provided you’ve done all the leg work upfront, your next step is to visit the www.move.mil to set up your DPS account in order to create and submit your move application. Although “self-counseling” is highly encouraged, you must contact the personal property shipping office if you’ve submitted a self-counseled application and received no response from a household goods counselor. Although an application

was submitted, it is not complete until you’ve signed the application forms and returned them to the servicing PPSO. Too many times, service members claim they submitted their application and thought they had an arranged move set up only to find out their plans have to change because the application was not finalized and the moving dates they wanted are no longer available. Counseling is by far the most important part of a successful move. Customers must ensure they have all the information they need. Carefully read all DPS application instructions do not just skip screen pages without fully understanding the information or following the instructions. Having

valid and updated contact information (phone numbers, e-mail, etc.) in DPS is the key to a service member’s successful move. Customers should arrange early, remain flexible with their pack out or pick up dates, and try to schedule before or after the peak of the peak season whenever possible. Initial pack out or pick up dates are your “desired” pack or pick up and are not confirmed until official orders are turned into the PPSO and the moving company contacts the service member to finalize the pack and pick up dates, conduct the pre-move survey and establish the Required Delivery Date (RDD). DPS will generate a Desired Delivery Date MOVING Page 7 CAPTAIN’S CORNER. . . . . . . . . 2

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USNH & WOMEN'S HEALTH SCREENING . . . . . . . . page 5

GREAT EVENTS ARE EVERYWHERE . . . . . page 14

The Centers for Disease Control reports that drowning is the second leading cause of unintentional death for children ages 1-14. To help stop this trend, Navy Fitness is launching its first Drowning Prevention Campaign: SPLASH. Through SPLASH, we strive to educate parents and youth on the importance of pool safety and dangers associated with unsupervised swimming. In conjunction with this campaign, all children under the age of 17 who wish to use the deep end areas, slide and diving board, must take and pass a mandatory swim test. Children ages 10 and 16, if left unattended at the pool, must demonstrate the ability to pass the Navy Youth Swim Test. The Navy Youth Swim Test consists of swimming 25 meters of a recognizable stroke (front crawl or breast-stroke, no underwater swimming or swimming on back); treading water for one minute; and a deep water entry, recovery to surface, and unassisted exit. “We realize that this means a lot of our community kids must now take a swim test, whereas they were not required to in years past,” MWR Aquatics Director Deborah Moors said. “However, to make things easier, MWR has scheduled swim testing dates to help get everyone the chance to take the Navy Youth Swim Test prior to the Support Site pool seasonal opening.” The initial swim test dates are May 26 and 27, from 3 to 6 p.m., at the Support Site pool. Additional testing dates will be available in June, prior to pool daily operations beginning and during pool weekend operations during adult swim breaks.

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