Whidbey Crosswind, December 28, 2012

Whidbey Crosswind The Puget Sound Veterans’ Monthly | January, 2013

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Whidbey’s veteran service groups stir up plans for growth z pg. 5 Serving WHIDBEY ISLAND’S VETERANS, retired military personnel and families

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Marine of the Year, Staff Sgt. Albert Goodson, Sea Sailor of the Year AWF1 (NAC/AW) David Smith and Shore Sailor of the Year, CTT1(NAC/AW) Stephanie Henning smile as they pose for photos at a luncheon in their honor Friday, Dec. 14 at the Officers’ Club on NAS Whidbey Island.

Sailors, Marine of year chosen

By Kathy Reed

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he Oak Harbor Area Council of the Navy League and the Oak Harbor Rotary Club joined forces in December to honor the best of the best at the groups’ 39th annual Sailor and Marine of the Year awards.

At a ceremony held Dec. 14 at the Officers’ Club on Naval Air Station Whidbey Island, Naval Aircrewman Mechanical 1st Class David Smith, Cryptologic Technician Technical 1st Class Stephanie Henning and Marine Corps Staff Sgt. Albert Goodson were selected the Sea Sailor, Shore Sailor and Marine of the Year, respectively.

“This is our opportunity to recognize the best the Navy and Marine team has to offer and to honor them for the superb job they do,” said Rotary Club President Mike Hakanson.

The packed room gathered for the award ceremony included many active duty personnel, community leaders and members of the

Navy League and Rotary. NAS Whidbey Island commanding officer Capt. Jay Johnston welcomed those present and commended both organizations for their contributions to Team Whidbey. To the personnel being honored, Johnston said they are the epitome of what sailors and Marines should be, adding he was honored to be their base commander.

“This was not an easy decision, but it is welldeserved,” he said. “Please accept my personal congratulations on a job well done.”

“This is just a small way for us to thank them for their exceptional service to our nation and to show our appreciation for the many sacrifices they, and their families, endure in that service,” said Navy League President Jim Slowik.

After the sea sailor, shore sailor and Marine of the year were announced, they were literally showered with gifts from the community. Oak Harbor Mayor Pro-tem Danny Paggao presented the honorees with a proclamation from the city declaring it their day and they received gifts and recognition from several businesses and organizations.

Each of the honorees took a few moments to share their thanks and appreciation.

“I am truly pleased to receive this recognition,” said Goodson, who serves with Marine

Air Training Support Group (MATSG) 53.

“We don’t do this for recognition,” said Henning, from Patrol and Reconnaissance Wing 10, whose hours of volunteer service in the community helped in her selection as Shore Sailor of the Year. “But thank you for giving us this award.”

“I appreciate all the support I’ve had over the years and I hope I will have the same opportunity to help other sailors the way I was helped,” said Smith, Sea Sailor of the Year from Patrol Squadron 69.

The sailors and Marine of the year were chosen from a large pool of candidates. The finalists for shore and sea sailor were also recognized. Shore sailor finalists included: AT1(AW) Sonny Composano, Center for Naval Aviation Technical Training Unit; IT1(IDW/AW) Brandon R. Smith, Naval Information Operations Command; LN1 Shannon Banks, Electronic Attack Wing, U.S. Pacific Fleet; and AM1(AW) Paul R. Donner, Fleet Readiness Center Northwest.

Sea sailor finalists included: CTR1(IDW/ NAC) Matthew J. Strauss, Naval Information Operations Command; AME1(AW) Joel Pacleb, Electronic Attack Squadron 136; and PR1(AW/SW) Elton R. Kaler, Fleet Readiness Center Northwest.

As the ceremony drew to a close, Slowik once again expressed his appreciation to the awardees as well as the thousands of other sailors and Marines.

“We are grateful for all you do to protect our freedom,” he said. “We hold you highest in our regard, always.”

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The local Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 7392 is cooking up some creative ways to help build membership and community good will.

Fancy Footwork Have breakfast or dinner at the VFW, then work it all off in dance classes at the American Legion in Langley. This veterans group is also getting creative in getting the word out to its community.

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Right: The four Marines were reunited for the first Oak Harbor Veterans Day Parade, Nov. 10, 2012.

Honoring a Legacy of Service

A local veteran has the honor of participating in a ground breaking ceremony for the new Education Center at The Wall in Washington, D.C.

Resolutions of service

don’t know what it is about the New Year that inspires such a burst of good intentions. Anyone who remembered my commitment last year to get my husband to come up with space for me in the garage for a craft area will be thrilled to know I was able to see that resolution through.

The fact that my husband has now filled my space up with paraphernalia doesn’t take away from the fact that the space exists, right?

Of course, having the space isn’t synonymous with using the space. I did, however briefly, get to enjoy it, which leads me a simple renewal of last year’s resolution.

A more important resolution for anyone might be to see how we can invest in our community — not financially, but with action.

Our veterans groups are a prime example of service. The VFW has claimed an active role in the community, providing meals for our senior community at the holidays, providing clothes and household items twice a year at the

Ladies Auxiliary’s Giveaway Days and turning fundraisers like serving breakfast and dinner into ways to interact with the community and build its membership.

The American Legion in Langley is also using unconventional means to get its message into the community. Dance lessons and karaoke are fun ways to meet people and to break the ice. But the Legion, both in Langley and in Oak Harbor, as well as the VFW and Disabled American Veterans, know what service is all about.

Perhaps it started with their military service. At any rate, all those organizations will bend over backwards to serve our community of veterans on Whidbey Island as well as our communities. If ever you need an example of what community service looks like, any one of those organizations would be a good place to start.

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The next NRA Basic Pistol Class will be held Jan. 18 and 19 at the NWSA range, located at 886 Gun Club Road, off Oak Harbor Road in Oak Harbor. This class introduces students to the knowledge, skills and attitude necessary for owning and using a pistol safely.

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Those interested in eating a hearty breakfast have only to travel to the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 7392 in Oak Harbor for two opportunities to chow down.

The VFW Men’s Auxiliary will serve breakfast from 10 a.m. to noon on Sunday, Jan. 13. The meal will include French toast, eggs, hash browns, biscuits and gravy, bacon, sausage and toast. Cost is $6.50 a plate and all proceeds benefit programs of the Men’s Auxiliary.

The Post will serve breakfast from 10 a.m. to noon on Sunday, Jan. 27, featuring pancakes, eggs, hash browns, breakfast meats and biscuits and gravy. Cost is $7 for adults, $4 for seniors over 62 and children under 12. A chicken-fried steak breakfast is available for $9. All are welcome.

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eterans of Foreign Wars Post 7392 is cooking up all kinds of new ways to help raise awareness of the organization, raise money for its many programs and raise its membership.

And when we say cooking, we mean that quite literally.

“Food? We have the facility to do it, so why not?” said Thomas Catoire, president of the VFW Men’s Auxiliary, which serves up a buffet breakfast from 10 a.m. to noon the second Sunday of every month.

For $6.50 diners will get a plate loaded with bacon, sausage, French toast, scrambled eggs, biscuits and gravy, toast, coffee and juice. Proceeds from the second Sunday breakfast benefit the Men’s Auxiliary.

Attendance varies widely from week to week, although Catoire has a good-natured theory on that.

“It seems like every second Sunday is a holiday — Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, Veterans Day,” he said.

Catoire, who grew up in Louisiana and spent 12 years in the Navy, is also putting his other culinary skills to good use. He’s begun a Men’s Auxiliary Cajun Night from 5 to 8 p.m. every other Wednesday.

“I’ve been cooking since I was 5,” he said. “People in San Francisco think a blackened steak is a burned steak. A lot of people like the Cajun food restaurants serve, but that’s not authentic.”

A recent Wednesday evening found Catoire stirring a giant kettle of Shrimp Étouffée, a tasty mixture of shrimp, garlic and vegetables in a not-too-spicy sauce served over a bed of rice and accompanied by garlic bread. Other Cajun night meals have included jambalaya and chicken and sausage gumbo.

“I don’t make it too spicy. I let people add their own spice,” Catoire said. “I love to cook. I like seeing people come in and eat.”

Post 7392, despite the fact it is one of a few VFWs in Washington with a canteen, sells more food than anything else, according to canteen manager Kevin Collins, who took over as manager about a year ago.

“We’ve made great strides. Food outsells everything, even beer,” he said as he prepared King Salmon slices with a white wine marinade.

Collins has several years of experience in the restaurant industry and says he’s got a “knack” for it.

Although not a veteran himself, he was very interested in working with the VFW. “Because of what it stands for and what they do,” he said.

And the VFW is not just for members. Invited guests are always welcome and the post holds several functions throughout the year for members of the public. Most recently, the post was full of senior citizens, who came to the post’s annual Senior Christmas Party, which included a buffet lunch of ham, mashed potatoes and gravy, corn, salad and dessert, plus a visit from Santa, who passed out hugs, kisses and gifts, with the help of his trusty elf, Sugar Plum.

Post members recently remodeled part of the facility, which is available for group parties, dinners and meetings. Full service catering is also available. The Post hosted its first squadron holiday party in December, which earned rave reviews, Collins said.

“We’ve raised the bar,” said Collins. “We’ve brought gourmet food to a VFW-priced venue.”

Price is another thing that Catoire feels appeals to a lot of people these days.

“Military people don’t have as much money as some people think,” he said. “We try to make it where it’s inexpensive.

“That’s why a lot of people are joining the club,” he continued with a laugh. “It’s a lot cheaper on the pocket.”

The VFW serves dinner every Monday, Wednesday and Thursday, but there is a canteen menu patrons can order from seven days a week.

“You can get a six-ounce steak and fries for $7,” said Collins. “Nobody else is crazy enough to do that.”

Bottom line, Collins thinks business is growing because people are learning the VFW’s secret.

“The secret is outstanding food,” he said. “The food has to be spectacular.”

What’s cooking at the VFW? Breakfast: 2nd Sunday of each month, 10 a.m.-noon Last Sunday of each month, 10 a.m.-noon Dinner: Cajun night every other Wednesday 5-8 p.m.

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The VFW is located at 3037 N. Goldie Road, Oak Harbor.

Call 360-675-4048 or go to www.vfwpost7392.org for information.

Wizards stand out

ACTIVE DUTY Lancers Change Command The Lancers of Electronic Attack Squadron 131 (VAQ131) recently observed their Skipper, Cmdr. Stephen Flaherty, pass the Lancer spear to Cmdr. Richard Knapp in a Change of Command ceremony held aboard Naval Air Station Whidbey Island.

Commander David Fields assumed the role of Executive Officer.

The Lancers operate the EA-6B Prowler out of NAS Whidbey Island and are currently assigned to Carrier Air Wing Two (CVW-2) aboard the USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76).

The Lancers recently returned from an eight-month, around-the-world combat deployment this past August aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72). Most notably, the Lancers were involved in direct support of U.S. and Coalition forces conducting Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan.

During this deployment the Lancers executed 925 sorties, 2,400 mishap-free flight hours and an impressive 100 percent combat mission c o m p l e - Cmdr. Flaherty tion rate in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.

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Our extraordinary accomplishments over the past couple of years are a testament to the dedication of the entire Lancer Cmdr. Knapp team. It has been an honor and a privilege to be Skipper of the Lancers.”

Cmdr. Flaherty assumed command of the Lancers in August of 2011. Under his leadership, the Lancers earned the 2011 Commander, Naval Air Forces, Battle “E” — the Navy’s most comprehensive award recognizing operational excellence and tactical readiness.

Cmdr. Knapp, assuming command of the Lancers, is a native of Seminole, Fla. He enlisted in the Army Reserve in 1987 and later transferred to the Marine Corps as an Aviation Electrician in 1989. He then received an appointment to the U.S. Naval Academy, graduating with a degree in Aerospace Engineering in 1995. Cmdr.

Knapp has accumulated over 3,270 flight hours, including 482 arrested landings.

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Flaherty offered this statement: “My Command tour with VAQ-131 has been the highlight of my career. It is truly humbling to lead some of

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The VAQ-133 Wizards recently completed a port call in Bahrain after supporting Operation Enduring Freedom in the 5th Fleet area of operations from the flight deck of USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74).

The stop in Bahrain offered the Wizards some much deserved liberty and a chance for some holiday shopping.

Also while in the Arabian Gulf, sailors continued to strive towards earning their Enlisted Aviation Warfare Specialist and Enlisted Surface Warfare Specialist pins while studying for their advancement exams and supporting daily flight operations.

Sailors to earn their EAWS were PS3(AW) Aristide, AD3(AW) Beckley, A D3(AW) Bledsoe, ADAN(AW) Chamberlain, PR3(AW) Diehl, AEAN(AW) Hall, YN3(AW) Hunt, LS2(AW) McCaw, AOAN(AW) Moen, ADAN(AW) Okene and AZ3(AW) Wardlaw.

“These young sailors are getting their EAWS pins much earlier in their careers than I did,” said AZ1 Giles, who runs the Wizard EAWS

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Cmdr. Christopher DeMay congratulates Aviation Structural Mechanic 2nd Class Gardner on his recent advancement to 2nd Class Petty Officer while deployed onboard the USS John C. Stennis. program. “It is great to see their initiative and desire to accomplish this while on deployment.”

The most recent Sailors to earn their ESWS were: AME1(AW/SW) Pelz, AME1(AW/SW) Baguio, MA2(AW/SW) Brooks and MA2(AW/SW) Smith.

The 2012 second cycle advancement results were recently published and many Wizards were rewarded.

The newest 1st Class Petty Officers are: AD1(AW/SW) Arios, AD1(AW) Johnson and AT1(AW) Silvey.

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Making the leap to 3rd Class Petty Officer were AD3(AW) Allen, IS3(AW) Armstrong, AD3(AW) Beckley, AM3 Braaten, AM3 Coulson, AT3 Dicesare, HM3 Goemaere, AT3 Herrera, CTT3(AW) Hjort, AE3 Keener, AD3(AW) Kindell, AT3 Ladd, AM3 Noe, AO3(AW) Ortega, AT3 Rubio, AE3(AW) Skibsted, AM3 Sossaman and PR3 Stromas.

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Bill Hughes shares dance tips with Georgia Meehan, left and center, and Melissa Downard, right.

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’mon, I’ll teach you to two-step,” Bill Hughes tells me.

With that, I find myself out on the dance floor as Hughes patiently runs through the steps to the simple dance.

“Step-together, step, step; step-together, step, step,” he chants, directing me around the dance floor.

It is similar to the lessons Hughes has started teaching from 7 to 8 p.m. every Friday evening at the American Legion Post 141 in Langley.

From two-steps to waltzes to line dances like the “Electric Slide,” everyone is welcome to join in an hour of free lessons, followed by an hour of karaoke. No Legion membership is required for either.

The lessons and singing are part of the American Legion’s effort to remind the Whidbey community of its presence and to get people to think of trying a night out at the local legion for some good, clean fun. All ages are welcome until 9 p.m., at which time state regulations prohibit anyone under age 21.

“It’s a way to draw people

in and get new members,” Hughes said. “We’re trying to get something going every week.”

Hughes said it’s part of his duties as the post’s second vice commander to handle promotion and public relations. That explains how the former Navy SEAL has found himself on the dance floor every Friday evening.

Of course, it doesn’t hurt that he loves to dance.

“My grandfather always told me that if anything every enters your mind, you should go do it,” he said. “So, I took a couple of dance classes, then a couple of more. It’s fun for me and it’s a real release.”

Hughes, a Vietnam veteran, said he has found that dancing is very good for helping him deal with symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome.

“I think it’s the music and the rythmn,” he said.

“It allows me to concentrate on something pleasant and takes my mind off everything else.”

The lessons are just one more way for the legion to plug into the community,

said Hughes.

“It’s a social club, yes, but it allows veterans and their families to get together. It’s a big family,” he said.

That is certainly true for Georgia and Pat Meehan, of Freeland. Their membership in the American Legion helped whenever they took a long driving trip.

“We used the legion as our Chamber of Commerce,” said Georgia, who took several turns on the dance floor with Hughes.

“It’s like home,” said Pat. And it seems as though the effort is paying off. Dance lessons are followed immediately by an hour of karaoke, which appealed to Melissa Downard of Freeland.

“I come for the dancing and I stay for the karaoke,” she said. Downard took lessons for about a month, then joined the Legion Auxiliary.

Membership in the American Legion is open to anyone who is on active duty, who has been honorably discharged or anyone who served one day during any of the eligible war eras.

Men and women who are

veterans or who have a close family connection to someone who served, such as a spouse, parent, sibling, grandparent or great-parent, can join Sons of the American Legion or the American Legion Auxiliary, respectively. Post 141 has an active chapter of each, plus a fairly new and quickly growing Legion Riders motorcycle group. All the groups take their commitment to veterans and to their community seriously.

“It is the most amazing thing to watch the giving,” said Auxiliary president Melody Bryant of Langley.

“The last few years we’ve done Santa pictures, we sponsor girls for Girls’ State, we offer scholarships, we collect for Sweats for Vets and coupons for service members to use in commissaries overseas.”

The Legion Riders are also getting an early start on serving the community. A ride and barbecue in November

brought in nearly $700 that the group was able to to present to Good Cheer Food Bank in Langley. The group also collected canned food and was able to donate almost a quarter ton of food.

“There are a lot of people here who care,” said Hughes.

Contact South Whidbey American Legion Post 141 by calling 360-321-5696 or go to www.southwhidbeypost141. com.

Coming home

By Dr. Fred McCarthy

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or one of our veterans on South Whidbey “coming home” each day was getting to be a challenge because of the deep ruts in his graveled driveway and an unfortunate brush with a medical challenge.

His home is nestled onto the top of a knoll and is surrounded by verdant pastures populated with horses, dogs, cats, and family including a special grandson. It’s the kind of pastoral scene a veteran pictures when in a trench, foxhole, the jungle or desert of some far away war zone.

The veteran who lives on this farm in South Whidbey is a volunteer board member and coordinator of volunteers for the Veterans Resource Center. His fellow veterans were aware of the hours he invested calling volunteers to cover the phones. They were also aware of the many other veterans he had helped with

information and referral services and the hours he spent helping veterans know where to go for medical help and how to navigate the VA health system.

In October he was afflicted with an illness that caused him a great deal of back pain and limited his mobility significantly. It has been a long road to recovery and was marked by regular doctor appointments, ferry trips, tests, and a painstakingly slow recovery. He had to pull back from his daily interaction with fellow veterans, board responsibilities and the work of the Veterans Resource Center to focus on getting better. His fellow veterans continued to visit him in his home and noticed the approaching winter season and the deep ruts in the roadway leading into his farm.

The veterans I have met tend to be very independent

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and industrious people. At this particular place, this veteran enjoyed fixing the fences, tending the grounds, feeding the animals, and owning a little piece of the American dream.

A local business was approached and agreed to donate half of a 10-yard dump truck full of driveway gravel.

Friends from the veteran support group he attended weekly chipped in the remainder of the cost of the gravel. One

day in October five veterans showed up, met the truck driver and spread the gravel into the ruts and smoothed out the driveway. His wife and he had purchased donuts and maple bars and had made coffee for the workers.

He came out on the porch, taking small painful steps to say “thank you” to his friends and to welcome them in to his home. The next day the rains came and the winter season began in earnest.

He wouldn’t have asked for the help fixing his driveway.

That’s not the way veterans approach their challenges.

But his friends were there in the difficult times just the way he had been there to help others in their need. It’s what veterans do. They are there when they are needed to help each other and the people in need in their communities.

The VRC is a nongovernmental charitable tax deductible Veteran Service Organization made up of volunteers. We are supported by your donations.

Photo courtesy of Frank McCarthy

Volunteers from the South Whidbey Veterans Resource Center help fill in potholes and smooth the driveway of a fellow volunteer and veteran.

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Mike McClung speaks about his family’s legacy of service during the groundbreaking ceremony for the Education Center at The Wall in Washington, D.C. in November.

Honoring a legacy of service

By KATHY REED

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t was a humbling, surreal experience for Coupeville resident and U.S. Marine Corps veteran Mike McClung.

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The Education Center at The Wall is sponsored by the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, the non-profit organization that raised the funds to build the Vietnam Veterans Memorial (The Wall) in Washington, D.C. For information or to make a donation, go to www.buildthecenter.vvmf.org.

No one remembers Joe. Those are the people whose stories need to be retold.”

And that is exactly the purpose behind the Education Center at The Wall. Based on the premise that there is a face and a story behind every name on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, the goal is to bring those stories to life. Through digi“It was humtal technology, the bling to be there,” faces of the 58,282 McClung said. whose names are “Rubbing shoulders on the wall will with some of the be displayed and a most influential peocollection of perple in the country sonal items left at was quite an interestthe memorial will ing feeling; for me it be on display. The was a somewhat surcenter will also feareal experience.”

Courtesy photo ture a history of McClung was one Mike McClung, far right, helps break ground America’s conflicts of the speakers at for a new education center at the Vietnam and an exhibit capthe ceremony, shar- Veterans Memorial Wall in Washington, turing the homeing that honor with D.C., along with Dr. Jill Biden, third from coming experience.

Secretary of Defense left and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, A portion of the display will serve as Leon Panetta, center. an interim national among others. A memorial to those Vietnam veteran, McClung is also the Gold Star Father of Maj. lost in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Megan McClung, the first female Marine “If we don’t remember those who have officer killed in action in Iraq. His speech on gone before us, we’ve lost part of our history,” the legacy of service earned him a standing McClung said. ovation.

McClung said it’s important to try to “I talked about my family’s legacy — my remember why the US did what it did in father was in the Army, my father-in-law Vietnam and that it’s important to remember was in the Navy and flew PBYs out of Oak the same thing about Iraq and Afghanistan.

Harbor. I served in Vietnam and then of And, considering how long it has taken to course, there’s Megan,” he said. “I also talked complete national memorials for conflicts about the wives and mothers of the World like Vietnam and World War II, McClung War II era who served this country in their is pleased those lost in Iraq and Afghanistan own way. will be recognized sooner rather than later.

“And I talked about Lt. Joe Laslie, who “It’s recognition,” he said. “We don’t want was killed May 25, 1968, in Vietnam,” to make the families of the fallen to have to McClung continued. “His family is gone. wait 30 years to get it.”

That’s how he described taking part in the groundbreaking ceremony for the Education Center at The Wall, which took place at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. in November.