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Snohomish teenager is second woman in infantry

By Kari Bray Herald Writer Loren Ross, a 17-year-old student from Monroe, is the first woman in Washington and second in the country to enlist in the Army Infantry.

In December, U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter ordered the military to open all jobs to women, including combat positions that previously were available only to men.

Ross grew up in a family of military men. Her father, two grandfathers, two greatgrandfathers and uncle were in the military. Her dad is retired Army.

She’s the first woman in her family to enlist. As soon as she heard the infantry was an option, she knew it was the right fit for her, she said.

The infantry is the Army’s main land combat force. It’s the front line.

“I really wanted a combat job,” Ross said. “I’m definitely a person to be the first one out, I’m definitely the person to take the lead. I’m very comfortable with people following me and that’s what the

infantry is. You’re the first in line, and that’s really thrilling to me.”

discipline, and discovered she could be a strong and thoughtful teammate.

She’s known since she was in eighth grade that she wanted to join the military. She got serious about enlisting a few months ago. She met her recruiter while studying criminal justice at the Sno-Isle Tech Center her junior year of high school. Now a senior, Ross is a full-time running start student through Everett Community College. She’s scheduled to graduate from Monroe High School on June 11.

“I’m definitely a leader,” she said. “I am very methodical.

I don’t just jump the bullet. I think a lot before I do something.”

Ross has lived in rural Snohomish all of her life.

She works as a dog trainer in Bothell and spends much of her free time fixing up her 27-year-old pickup truck. Her family has French bulldogs and German shepherds at home that she plays and works with, but her closest canine pal is a 5-year-old Irish water spaniel named Brynn.

Ross was an explorer through the Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office her freshman year of high school.

That’s where she learned that she liked structure and

She thought a lot about her decision to enlist in the infantry. She knows she made the right choice, she said. She wants to make a career out of the military.

For now, she’s staying busy with homework and getting ready to graduate. She plans to start working with trainers to get ready for basic training. She’s scheduled to leave for Fort Benning, Georgia, in June 2017.

She’s ready to leave home and strike out on her own, she said.

Ross enlisted April 12, as did Levani Ilasa of Port Orchard, the first woman in the country to be recruited as a combat tank operator.

Ross didn’t expect her enlistment to be a big deal to anyone but herself, family

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At Wilmot Gateway Park in Woodinville, Loren Ross, 17, of Snohomish, rests with her Irish water spaniel, Brynn (foreground) and her mother’s Beauceron, Shade. Ross, who also trains dogs, is the first woman in Washington, and only the second in the country, to enlist in the Army Infantry, which previously did not allow women. and friends, but she’s received a lot of encouragement from people since the Army announced she was the first female infantry recruit from Washington.

“It’s kind of empowering,” she said. “I’m not joining to be

a public picture or anything.

I’m joining for myself, but it does feel good getting the acknowledgement and support from people.”

She wants to make America proud, she said. She expects to be challenged and at times

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TRIPLE NICKLES

FIRST ALL-BLACK PARACHUTE INFANTRY BATTALION BECAME SMOKE JUMPERS IN PACIFIC NORTHWEST

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By DEBRA VAUGHN uring World War II, black men serving in the Army were generally relegated to menial jobs in a segregated military.

is partly because 17 of the original members were from the 92nd Infantry (Buffalo) Division — a “colored test platoon.” Their symbol is made up three buffalo nickels in a triangle.

They drove trucks, served meals and hauled ammo.

There was no shortage of frustration for the men, who wanted to join the war effort overseas. Traveling to the Pacific Northwest was a culture shock and an even more frustrating place to live and work.

In 1943 at Fort Benning in Georgia, the Army instituted the 555th Parachute Infantry Battalion, the first all-black unit of its kind. The men were a top-notch bunch that included university students and professional athletes. Despite being trained for combat, they ended up in a different role — as smoke jumpers in the Pacific Northwest.

Dr. Robert Bartlett, a professor at Eastern Washington University, shared the littleknown story to an audience at Oak Harbor library in April.

He became fascinated by the story in part because of his father’s and uncle’s service as combat medics during World War II. “This is a unique story for the military, the Forest Service and the Pacific Northwest,” he said. “We are all responsible in the history books for where it belongs.”

The battalion is known as the “Triple Nickles” — an old English spelling. The name

Although the men were helping fight fires, they couldn’t patronize many restaurants, hotels and other businesses in the communities they were helping.

The men also were thrown in the situation with little training for smoke jumping — a very different style of parachuting than they were trained for in the Army. They had nine days of training in smoke jumping.

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The 555th Parachute Infantry Battalion was nicknamed the “Triple Nickles” because of its numerical designation and most of the original members were from the 92nd Infantry (Buffalo) Division. The spelling derives from old English. produced thousands of balloons made of paper skins.

Attached were 40-foot-long ropes rigged with 30-pound high-explosive bombs. The goal was to start forest fires that would instill panic and divert resources from the war effort. The U.S. government wanted the balloon bombs kept secret.

The only direct casualties were a pastor’s wife and

five children from a Sunday school group out on a picnic in the woods near the logging town of Bly, Ore. After the war, the men returned home. They received the same decorations and honors as their white counterparts overseas because of Gen. James Gavin, who recognized the importance of their service. He made sure the men were honored in a

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NAS Whidbey crew rescues civilians as part of training

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hings were going well in Ashley Stephens’ pregnancy until they weren’t.

At 32 weeks along, the Oak Harbor woman ended up at Whidbey General Hospital facing an imminent early delivery. She needed to get to a hospital with a neonatal intensive care unit — fast.

To her rescue came Naval Air Station Whidbey Island’s Search and Rescue.

That March night, it was raining hard and blowing. When the weather is that bad, Navy SAR

can fly in conditions their civilian counterparts can’t.

Stephens didn’t feel comfortable talking about what happened in public. Her mother-in-law Chrissie Dunlap was with her in the hospital.

“That Wednesday evening was a stormy night with strong winds and rain,” she said. “If anyone could fly through that mess, it would be a SAR helicopter pilot and crew.”

Later, crew chief Ricardo Rosado described it this way: “The weather was extremely tough and we encountered really heavy winds and rains throughout the flight.”

The SAR team whisked Stephens to Paine Field in Everett, where crews rushed her to Providence Regional Medical Center Everett. Doctors were able to stop labor and Stephens and her baby are doing OK. At press time, she was pregnant and

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“She was worried about the baby,” Dunlap said.

“She felt safe the whole time.”

The Navy SAR team exists to save downed Navy pilots, but it’s often civilians who benefit from the training. In 2015, the unit conducted 19 medical evacuations, 11 searches and sevens rescues — in all, they helped save 29 lives.

Many of those evacuations are from Whidbey and the San Juan Islands, where someone facing a serious medical emergency can’t wait for a ferry ride and a trip by ambulance to a larger hospital in Everett or Seattle. Unlike a civilian medical air transport, which can leave an uninsured patient with a bill for thousands of dollars, the ride is free for the patient. Tax dollars foot the bill.

That’s because the crew needs to train constantly and the rescue missions help do just that, explained John Seibert, a medic with the unit. He and other members of the team gave a show-andtell presentation at the library recently.

“Ninety-nine percent of our business is civilian,” he said. “Thank God our jets don’t crash that often.”

But very rarely it happens. When it does, the SAR crews are a pilot’s best friend. In 1989, an A6-E Intruder crashed just after take-off from Whidbey. That day a search-and-rescue helicopter pilot was reportedly sitting down for lunch at the Officer’s Club on base when he saw the Intruder go down. He left lunch and raced like a bat out of hell to the tarmac and was in the air in a matter of minutes.

Pilot Denby Starling, now a retired vice admiral, recounted how he and his bombardier-navigator had to eject when the Intruder’s hydraulic systems failed that day. Both men floated down to the frigid November waters below. It was a beautiful sight, he said, when they saw the SAR crew arrive. An air crewman leapt into the water SEE SAR, PAGE 5

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 4 to buckle the men into hoist seats, lifting them to safety. They were cut and bruised and Starling was hypothermic — but alive.

Today the unit operates three MH-60S helicopters as search-and-rescue platforms for EA-18G Growler as well as for other squadrons and personnel at NAS Whidbey. The base has an agreement to help the state with medical evacuations and search and rescue activities.

They can be called on to operate anywhere from Mt. Hood in Oregon to the Canadian border. NAS Whidbey’s SAR team is unusual — only one of four in the country — that is trained to not just pluck distressed people from the water but to handle anything in the mountains too.

The five-person crew consists of two pilots, a rescue swimmer, a crew chief and a medical technician, said Adam Trump, who is trained for

overland and swim rescues. He’s also a crew chief, and in that role he runs the back of the helo and manages the hoist that sends rescuers down and brings them back up.

The team sends rescue swimmers leaping out of the bird into frigid waters, and it can pull hurt hikers and climbers from the bottom of snowy crevasses and wooded canyons. It’s only the limitations of the bird itself that limit where the helo can fly.

It’s often hairy work in dangerous conditions.

The crew is sometimes forced to do some fairly tricky maneuvering, including landing with one wheel on the side of a cliff.

In one incident recently, a man was climbing in the Enchantments when he slipped and fell 50 feet, landing on a rock pinnacle. Trump sent his med-tech down a rappel line and the man had to scramble up the rock face to reach the seriously injured climber, who suffered multiple broken bones.

The danger of this work can’t be understated.

The weather and geographical challenges posed

by the Puget Sound and the Olympic and Cascade mountains makes this one of the most dangerous duty stations in the country for SAR teams.

In 1980, a NAS Whidbey SAR twin-rotor SeaKnight CH-46 crashed in foggy conditions in the North Cascades trying to rescue an injured climber. Of the seven on board, only the co-pilot and a sheriff’s deputy survived.

The crew are well aware of the dangers, but the reward of helping gets Trump, the crew chief, to work.

“When we get to save someone — when it’s all said and done it’s an amazing thing,” he said.

One mission sticks in his mind in particular.

A few summers ago a group of children on a summer camp kayak trip with their instructors got caught in a kelp field off Rosario Beach near Deception Pass — an area with notoriously strong currents. The SAR team worked with the Coast Guard to rescue seven children and their two adult instructors.

“When someone is having the worst day of their life, we’re there,” he said. “Our guys and gals train hard every day. We have such great people going in and risking their lives to save another.”

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eturning from deploy ment , many service members carry with them something much heavier than the weight of their rucksack as they step onto U.S. soil.

Several carry with them the weight of physical wounds, disabilities and limitations. Others carry the weight of psychological wounds, such as post-traumatic stress, military sexual trauma, anxiety and depression.

Whatever their condition, each of these men and women return, too, with a story.

But what if there is no one there to listen?

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Shawn Wong, an author and English professor at the University of Washington, speaks at Clinton Community Hall about The Red Badge Project.

Shawn Wong, an author and English professor at the University of Washington, is one of six faculty members at The Red Badge Project working to help Wounded Warriors discover and give voice to these unique stories.

In March, Wong visited

“You can’t control what happened to you, but you can control the message of what happened to you.”

Shawn Wong, professor the Clinton Community Hall to talk about his experiences working with these individuals, and the remarkable results he has witnessed time and again.

The Red Badge Project was cofounded in 2013 by actor and Air Force veteran Tom Skerritt and Evan Bailey, Skerritt’s neighbor and a former Army captain.

Skerritt was dismayed to learn that, according to data released by the Department of Defense, more active duty service members committed suicide than were killed in combat in Afghanistan in 2012.

The main reason soldiers cited for their suicide, gathered from notes as well as the testimonies of those left behind, was that no one would listen to their stories.

They feel their stories are lost, Wong said.

According to the organization website, the intent of the project is to support Wounded Warriors in reconstructing their individual sense of purpose, selfworth and place in community, as they discover and give voice to their stories.

The organization offers three programs: The Main Course, In Your Voice and Women’s Voices.

Students are never pressured to write, though Wong said the majority of his students, unlike those at the university, are eager to do so. Topics are usually benign and sequential. Much of the time, subjects are chosen by the SEE STORIES, PAGE 7

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CONTINUED FROM 6 participants. Participants can also choose in which form they’d like to write, including poetry, prose or song.

al of the initial eight students had been diagnosed as delusional; three were diagnosed paranoid schizophrenics.

Students are referred to the organization via veterans’ centers and Task Force Phoenix at Joint Base Lewis McChord.

In his time with The Red Badge Project, Wong has seen numerous permutations of mental and physical pain.

Though Wong has been a member of the University of Washington faculty since 1984, he said he had never taught a class quite like his first with The Red Badge Project.

In addition to those wounds sustained while on active duty, he observed that numerous service-people brought existing issues into the military, including childhood trauma or neglect.

The first group of eight students were selected by Army social workers. The majority were National Guard, and each was a member of the Warrior Transition Battalion, a group of active duty servicemen and women who were unable to continue their service due to physical or mental ailments.

Wong noted that sever-

Though no two participants’ experiences are identical, “every single one of our students are very angry,” Wong said.

Their anger isn’t directed at Wong, or any of his colleagues, but at what had happened to them.

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Some had been severely injured. Others had returned to broken homes and unexpectedly severed relationships. Still others had lost their jobs, like one high school teacher who had been deployed and sustained nine concussions from roadside bombs. The traumatic brain injury had rendered him unable to use his hands,

and thus unable to perform his job.

This soldier was provided with Dragon dictating software but at first declined to write a word.

The man took the course five times, Wong said. By the end of his fifth session, he’d regained the ability to write and was rehired.

“Creative activity rewires your brain,” Wong said, noting that he and his colleagues had never anticipated such results.

Though results vary, all participants have appeared to benefit, Wong said.

One of the classroom mantras is, “Tell the truth, not the facts.”

Discovering this truth, Wong said, aids in the healing.

“Guys, I think we’re practicing medicine without a license,” Wong recalled saying to his colleagues in the initial stages of the project.

Nearing the end of his

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Grandmother broke barriers, granddaughter follows footsteps

By Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Marcus L. Stanley

PHILIPPINE SEA — In May 2015, 95-year-old Jean Marie Dorn Lowman wanted nothing more than to see her granddaughter, Midshipman 1st Class Amber Lowman, graduate from the U.S. Naval Academy and toss her cap high in the sky.

Determined, Jean made her way to Annapolis, Md., but, hampered with declining health, was physically unable to make it inside the stadium to see the commissioning ceremony.

That day, Ensign Lowman graduated, became a commissioned naval officer, and achieved a milestone in the Lowman family that began in a historic movement more than 70 years earlier.

After the attack on Pearl Harbor, there was a great need for additional military personnel. The country was pulled into World War II, and things began to drasti-

cally change.

“The attack on Pearl Harbor changed my grandmother’s life,” said Lowman.

“She felt compelled to serve, but found herself limited in her options, as women could not yet serve in the armed services.”

All of that was about to change with a movement allowing women to join the military, and Jean became a leader in that effort.

In college, Jean joined the civil service and worked for the Navy in human resources and personnel at Moffett Field, Calif. There was an urgent need for administration workers in Honolulu, Hawaii, so she and 19 other women moved there to work as civilian administrators, in a successful trial program that helped lead to the creation of the wellknown Women Accepted for Voluntary Emergency Service, or WAVES. In 1942, the WAVES program was officially launched,

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“My grandmother spoke often to me about her time in Pearl Harbor and her contributions to the Navy,” said Lowman. “She is my hero, and if she were here today, I would say ‘thank you,’ and mean it more than ever before.”

In November 2015, while on her first underway as the main propulsion officer aboard the guided-missile destroyer USS Chung-Hoon (DDG 93), Lowman received the unfortunate news that her grandmother had passed away.

“What I was sad about most, was the fact that I would not be able to call and tell her about all the exciting things I was doing,” said Lowman. “I am living out her dream.”

After her Naval Academy graduation, Lowman spent her final quality moments with her grandmother. They traveled to D.C., and Jean was able to see the World War II

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By LT Devin Bezold

On Feb. 23 VAQ-131 successfully fired an advanced medium range air to air missile, or AMRAAM, while flying from Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida.

By DEBRA VAUGHN Congressman Rick Larsen introduced a bill that, if passed, would help get cutting-edge electronic warfare technology to the Navy and other service branches faster.

The bill, the Electronic Warfare Capabilities Enhancement Act, acknowledges the need to treat the electromagnetic spectrum as a critical operational domain and would create a more coordinated approach to electronic warfare investment at the Pentagon.

The military faces a wide range of threats — everything from terrorist groups that use cheap, commercially-available technology to rival nations deploying innovative electronics, said Larsen, who cosponsored the bill with Rep. Jackie Walorski of Indiana.

They are co-chairs of the Electronic Warfare Working Group, which attempts to raise the profile of electronic warfare issues. Congress established the group to strengthen the country’s defense. Both also serve on the House Armed Services Committee.

“Too often our women and men in uniform are using outdated technology in the increasingly contested electromagnetic spectrum,” he said. “The way we develop, buy and roll out EW technology must focus on getting the right capabilities fielded more quickly.”

As the military relies more on technology, the U.S. needs to ensure those systems aren’t vulnerable to hacking, jamming and other forms of electronic warfare, Walorski said.

The bill would give Congress the tools to properly fund and provide resources for electronic warfare programs.

“In the global and now digital fight against terrorism, we cannot ignore the serious ramifications of failing to keep up with the ever-changing pace of military technology,” she said.

Naval Air Station Whidbey Island is the home of the Navy’s tactical electronic attack squadrons flying the EA-18G Growler.

The Growler protects other aircraft, ships and troops by neutralizing communications and anti-aircraft defenses. No aircraft carrier deploys without them.

Navy officials at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island and in Washington D.C. declined to comment on the significance of the bill.

“It is Navy policy not to comment on pending legislation,” said Kara Yingling, a spokeswoman for the Navy’s Office of the Chief of Information. “However, the Navy remains committed to working with Congress to further advance our electronic warfare technology to better meet today’s force demands.”

The bill is a companion to Senate bill 2486.

VA secretary pledges to donate brain for research The Secretary of Veterans Affairs Robert A. McDonald announced that he, along with three-time Olympic gold medalist swimmer Nancy Hogshead-Makar and former NFL player and Super Bowl champion Phil Villapiano, have pledged to donate their brains to advance brain research conducted by VA in partnership with the Concussion Legacy Foundation.

The announcement was made at the VA-hosted Brain Trust: Pathways to InnoVAtion, a public-private partner event which builds on the trailblazing efforts of a number of distinguished VA brain researchers and brings together many of the most influential voices in the field of brain health to identify and advance solutions for mild traumatic brain injury and post traumatic stress disorder.

Issues related to brain health and head trauma transcend the Veteran and military community, impacting all Americans.

The successful missile shoot was the culmination of months of planning and preparation by the “Lancer” team and was both the first time that VAQ-131 has employed an air to air weapon in the squadron’s history

and the first time that they have fired ordnance from an EA-18G. “The missile shoot went really well,” said Aviation Ordnanceman Second Class (AO2) Jay Hogue, a native of Kentucky. “We were able to successfully load it onto the jet very quickly.”

The Lancers leveraged their squadron mates’ experience, worked as a team and loaded the missile very quickly.

“Actually loading a live missile was exciting,” Hogue said. “You’re used to seeing all these blue bands [indicating a training missile] and you see a brown one and you think ‘ok, live rocket motor, this is real life stuff.’”

The VAQ-131 Lancers are concluding their first year after transitioning to the EA-18G Growler. The missile shoot showed how quickly the squadron as a whole, and particularly the AO shop, has progressed in

this time.

“They’re gaining a lot of experience, learning real fast,” said AO2 Leavens, “at Tyndall, they were just as confident and proficient as the VFA ordnance shops I have worked with.” The Lancers will soon take their training and skills to another level as they enter workups with their air wing, CVW8, in preparation for their first deployment with the EA-18G.

Tree cutting planned near runway The Navy is accepting written public comments through May 13 on an Environmental Assessment project to clear 7.6 acres of alder trees on Naval Air Station Whidbey Island’s Ault Field that are becoming hazardous for aircraft landing on one of the base’s runways.

obstructions for aircraft approaching that runway for landing. The proposed action is planned to occur between September and December 2016. Future vegetation clearing at the 9.5-acre site would occur in perpetuity to prevent re-growth of visual obstructions to runway operations.

The proposed plan is to cut down and leave in place 7.6 acres of alders located east of Runway 25, the eastern approach runway at Ault Field, to eliminate visual

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Aviation memorabilia will also be available for purchase as well as a variety of food and beverages.

Naval Air Station Whidbey Island will hold a public open house on Saturday, June 25 at Ault Field from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

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VA begins new effort to improve access to care The Department of Veterans Affairs’ top health care official recently announced progress and new steps VA is taking to improve veterans access to health care.

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