VETERANS ADVOCATE ■ Page 3 Where to get free professional help when applying for VA benefits.
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FOR SPOUSES ONLY ■ Page 6 Organizations must be more welcoming to male spouses and newcomers.
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FEATURE ■ Page 8 Book character turns out to be Navy dad at “Where’s Waldo” party.
MilitaryTimes MilitaryTimes The Voice for Kitsap County’s Active-Duty
August 2016
Personnel, Veterans and their Families
Court rules Sailors assist at Canoe Journey for Navy BY ALLISON TRUNKEY and RICHARD WALKER Kitsap Military Times POULSBO — The state Court of Appeals upheld on July 26 the state Department of Natural Resources’ sale of an easement on the west side of Hood Canal to the U.S. Navy. The decision from a three-member panel of the Court of Appeals upholds a May 2015 Jefferson County Superior Court ruling that DNR “had the authority to grant the easement to the United States Navy” and the easement “was not arbitrary, capricious or unlawful.” Navy public affairs officer Sheila Murray said the Navy intends to move forward with an application for a similar easement on the east side of Hood Canal. “The Navy will consult with DNR to determine when to resume processing on this easement application,” Murray told the Herald on July 28. “The Navy uses easements when necessary to meet land-use requirements. The easement was challenged because it removed DNR’s discretion to lease the bedlands to Hood Canal Sand and See NAVY, Page 2
Wife’s CPR saved ‘dead’ Marine’s life By TERRYL ASLA tasla@soundpublishing.com
Volunteers from Naval Base Kitsap, in yellow shirts, help bring Native canoes ashore July 24 at Point Julia during the 2016 Canoe Journey/Paddle to Nisqually. Richard Walker / KMT
NBK volunteers lend a hand at annual cultural gathering POINT JULIA — Naval Base Kitsap sailors helped carry ashore Native canoes, some weighing over three-quarters of a ton, during a visit to the lands of the Port Gamble S’Klallam Tribe, July 24. The landing was part of the 2016 Canoe Journey/Paddle to Nisqually, an
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POULSBO — Today, Jeff Sherlock is doing pushups. Four months ago, he was clinically dead. Now, this veteran Marine sergeant and the Poulsbo Fire Department have made it their mission to tell others not to ignore the symptoms of a heart attack and the importance of immediate CPR. March 16: Sherlock Home on Big Valley Road Sherlock had been having pains in his Today, retired Marine sergeant chest and both arms Jeff Sherlock is doing pushups all afternoon, but he instead of pushing up daisies, had written them off to his fibromyalgia and thanks to CPR. Terryl Asla/KMT ignored them. “He wouldn’t let me call 911,” his wife Desiree said. “Then the pain got to my jaw,” said Jeffrey. “You can’t ignore a pain in your jaw.” Desiree added, “Then he told me to call 911.” 5:12 p.m.: Desiree calls 911 But by then it was too late. Desiree saw his eyes roll up toward the back of his head, his arms flex up into a fetal position, and he lost consciousness. 5:14 p.m. Poulsbo Fire units dispatched “I had been trained in CPR,” Desiree said. “But that was a long time ago. The nice 911 operator , Operator 85, told me how to do CPR. She walked me through it and stayed on the phone and counted with me until [Poulsbo Fire EMTs] got there.”
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