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Navy cop faces life sentence

By GREG SKINNER

Kitsap Navy News

Master at Arms Jason Brown, 35, stood for a General Court Martial this week on charges that he raped one of his stepchildren several times a month for years, assaulted another and provided alcohol to others as young as young as age 10.

The alleged crimes were committed between 2004 and 2009 in several family homes in Minmar, Calif., while the mother of

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Pearl Harbor survivor Don Green greets the crowd at the 2011 Bremerton Armed Forces Day Parade. Green watched one of the bombs that fell on December 7, 1941 penetrate the dock and explode under his ship. GREG SKINNER/KITSAP NAVY NEWS

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Service to remember

Underwater texting in the Arctic Ocean ..........pg. 2

State chair of Pearl Harbor Survivors Association working on written account of Japanese attack

The next CNO offered up by Gates .................. pg. 10

By SARAH KEHOE

Kitsap Navy News

Donald Green, 89, wants to talk about his time serving in Pearl Harbor to anyone willing to listen.

“I feel very fortunate to share my story,” he said. “Not many Pearl Harbor survivors will talk about their experience, but here I am, putting my time there into a story.”

Green has spoken at schools, navy forums and other local events over the past several years.

“I like doing it because it lets me live that experience I forgot about, it keeps my mind and body active and it’s just fun,” he said.

Green is the Washington State Chairman for the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association. Most days you can find green wearing a light blue hat, which reads, “Pearl Harbor Survivor” and carrying a brown suitcase full of information he calls

memories.

“It takes a big old suitcase for me to explain my life,” he said, laughing. “I think it’s important for all of us to know our history because it brought us to where we are today.”

At 19 years old, Green left his job on a farm decided to sign up for the Navy.

“The Navy seemed the most promising thing for me at the time,” Green said. “It was something I could do to give myself a good life.”

Green served as a petty officer aboard an ammunition ship, Pyro (AE 1), during the early 1940s. His memories of fighting during Pearl Harbor are bittersweet.

“On one hand, Pearl Harbor was a beautiful place,” Green said. “But the loss of great lives during that war was hard to deal with.”

After sailing on Pyro, Green was sent to serve as petty officer during the war at various locations including Alaska, Bremerton, the South Pacific and the New Hebrides Islands.

“What I like most about the Navy is the fact that you meet amazing people,” he said. “It was just perfect for a guy like me.”

After 20 years of service, Green retired from the Navy in 1960 and worked as a Puget Sound Naval Shipyard pipefitter foreman.

After retiring from the shipyard, Green devoted his time to

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“Spice” use not showing aboard NBK ...........pg. 3

Remians of three MIAs home at last ................. pg. 11 pg. 9

Navy steaming toward the frozen gates Forces train for the eventuality of open waters in the Arctic Ocean

By MC2 Andrew Breese and MC1 Dustin Q. Diaz [NNS] – In the Arctic, vast expanses of ice stretch farther than the eye can see.

This region, while largely uninhabitable, is expected to grow in importance in years to come. The ice is giving way as the Earth’s climate changes. When it does, it will become a crucial strategic interest.

U.S. submarines train in the Arctic environment to refine and validate procedures and required equipment, and the Arctic Ocean serves as a route for submarines to transit between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. The submarine force conducts Ice Exercises (ICEX) in the Arctic to ensure continued access to this unique region.

The Navy has been conducting

The USS Connecticut (SSN-22) after breaching the icepack in the Arctic Ocean during the recent ICEEX 2011. The NBK based fast attack submarine surfaced through the ice multiple times in support of scientific and tactical training missions geared to the future. U.S. NAVY PHOTO ICEX since the 1960s. ICEX 2011 is the latest in a series of these Arctic exercises, that are key to ensuring naval forces are trained and ready to support U.S. interests in the region.

The Navy’s submarine fleet began conducting under-ice operations in the region in support of inter-fleet transit between

the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, training, cooperative allied engagements and operations more than a decade prior to the initial ICEX in the Arctic. USS Nautilus (SSN 571) made the first transit in 1958.

USS Skate (SSN 578) was the first U.S. submarine to surface through Arctic ice at the North

Pole in March 1959.

“Submarines have been taking measurements about ice thickness for operational purposes, but they’ve been storing that information since the 1950s,” said Jackie Richter-Menge, a naval research engineer who participated in ICEX 2011. “And that information gives us the best history we have of how thickness is changing as a function of time, and right now, as a function of climate change.”

The Arctic Ocean’s small share of Earth’s ocean water – less than 4 percent – belies its strategic importance. Of the Navy’s ships today, that won’t always be the case, and the Navy must ensure it can operate safely and effectively in these conditions.

“The Arctic has warmed since 1980 by two to four degrees,” Richter-Menge said. “In an ice environment, that’s a lot, because if ice warms, it melts. It changes the environment in a whole variety of ways and it has implications for the safety and security for the nation. With the retreat of the ice cover, you have a lot more access by ships, surface ships primarily.”

Capt. Rhett Jaehn, ICEX offi-

cer in tactical command said the importance of operating in the Arctic as we move into the future will only grow.

“The submarine force has been operating in the Arctic for many years and will continue to hone our skills to ensure access throughout the Arctic to meet national security objectives as well as homeland defense,” Jaehn added.

Two fast-attack submarines, USS New Hampshire (SSN 778) and USS Connecticut (SSN 22), participated in ICEX 2011, which took place at the Applied Physics Laboratory Ice Station about 160 miles north of Prudhoe Bay, Alaska. This was New Hampshire’s first time operating under these conditions.

“We had a few roles in ICEX,” said Cmdr. John McGunnigle, commanding officer USS New Hampshire. “We took scientific data, like ice thickness and water samples for scientists – that was one mission. Our primary mission was to validate the Virginiaclass submarine systems in its ability to effectively conduct sustained operations in the Arctic.

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‘Spice’ use not seen on Kitsap bases Fake marijuana use not an issue for local commands

By Sarah Kehoe

Kitsap Navy News

So far, U.S. Navy authorities report that sailors and officers in Kitsap County have managed to avoid getting caught up in a form of synthetic marijuana use catching fire around many U.S. Navy bases.

“Spice,” also known as “K2” and “fake weed” that has been traditionally sold as incense or potpourri, was added to a list of substances banned by the Navy in late March 2010. The U.S. Marine Corps followed in October with a service-wide ban.

The synthetic marijuana products contain chemicals that mimic marijuana highs, but do not show in a traditional drug test panel, according to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.

“It is against our ‘Zero Tolerance’ policy here, it is not condoned and is not allowed,” said Douglas Stutz, public affairs officer for the Naval Hospital in

Bremerton. “Our officers are told not to use it, but that is easier said than done because a lot of the product is not illegal and it can be purchased over-thecounter.”

The Navy added a new policy to include spice in its drug laws, which states, “any member found to be unlawfully using, possessing, promoting, manufacturing or distributing drugs will be disciplined and administratively separated,” according to their Web site.

The latest policy gives any substance that “is used with the intention to induce, intoxicate or cause stupefaction to the nervous system” the same consequences

as illegal drugs.

Overall, the Navy separated 1,610 sailors from October 2009 through December 2010 for drug abuse. There have not been any reports of use in Kitsap County yet. Spice use has become a cause for concern in the San Diego naval community. Naval Hospital San Diego released a report last month saying 15 sailors had been treated during the last five months of 2010 for medical issues related to spice use. In January 2011, seven Navy midshipmen were discharged from the U.S. Naval Academy due to the synthetic drug According to the March 17, 2011, Navy Rhumblines, 192 sail-

ors have been held accountable for the use or possession of spice or a spice derivative since fiscal year 2011.

“We haven’t heard of any problems here and I don’t think we have any case for concern,” Stutz said.

Navy Region Northwest Police offer a training session on spice at their facility. The courses consist of educating sailors about user statistics, consequences and peer pressure issues.

“I think the Navy here has done a great job to go out of our way to ensure our sailors and officers know exactly what will not be tolerated and why,” Stutz said.

Cady collects national fatherhood award Dedicated father humbled by limelight BREMERTON, WASH. (NNS) – A Naval Base Kitsap Sailor received the 2011 Military Fatherhood Award during a ceremony in Bremerton, June 16.

The National Fatherhood Initiative (NFI) selected Logistics Specialist 1st Class Christopher Cady,

leading petty officer at priority material office headquarters aboard Naval Base Kitsap, from nominees around the world.

NFI honors a military father every year who is dedicated to his children and displays ongoing commitment to father from a distance while deployed, balances military life and family life, and helps mentor other military fathers and children who are separated from each other.

“It’s extremely humbling,” said Cady. “I didn’t learn about the award until I found out I was nominat-

ed – extremely humbling.”

Out of nearly 600 nominations, Cady was narrowed down to one of the three finalists by NFI. The public then was able to vote for the winner through a special Facebook page that had video stories of each finalist.

Cady said NFI sent the finalists video cameras and instructions for making their video submissions.

“I don’t think I’m doing anything that any other father wouldn’t do,” Cady said. “I am honored and humbled to receive this award.”

NFI President Roland C. Warren said Cady exemplifies the best of what involved, responsible and committed fatherhood is all about.

He said Cady has fully dedicated himself to caring for his son, but also honorably serves the nation as an

exemplary sailor.

“NFI is truly honored to give this award to a truly amazing dad and sailor,” Warren said.

Cady is a single father who cares for his 11-yearold son, Joshua, who was born with Cytomegalovirus (CMV) and is legally blind

and deaf. CMV affects muscle control and can cause seizures.

Cady says he’s not comfortable being in the limelight but he likes the attention CMV is getting throughout his experience.

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Sailors assigned to USS Constitution heave a line during sail training aboard Friendship of Salem, June 19, 2011.

Constitution Sailors hope to use this training for the possibility of sailing Constitution under her own power for the bicentennial of the War of 1812. U.S. NAVY PHOTO BY MASS COMMUNICATION SPECIALIST SEAMAN SHANNON HEAVIN.

Saluting our nation’s warriors Editor’s note: The following address was delivered by Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates at the Stand Up For Heroes Wounded Warriors Reception, June 16 in Washington D.C.: ***** o the families of our wounded warriors – you have sacrificed and suffered for our country in the most challenging ways.

America is grateful and eternally in your debt for the care and support you provide every single day to our heroes.

To all the wounded warriors here tonight: I am continually amazed by your grit and your resilience.

To be honest, when I first learned at the beginning of this job that part of my duties as Secretary of Defense was to visit the wounded at Walter Reed and Bethesda and Tripler and Balboa and all the other hospitals, I wasn’t sure I could handle it – or what ROBERT I would say.

Seeing firsthand the incredible M. GATES sacrifice our men and women in uniform had made, I frankly wasn’t sure I could keep it together. But people kept telling me, “You don’t understand, they’ll lift you up.” And you have, more than you can possibly imagine.

To the supporters of the Woodruff Foundation and all of those in the private sector who in so many ways support our troops our wounded warriors and their families, thank you for being here and all that you do.

When I first took this job, four-and-a-half years ago, I made a pledge to myself, to Congress, to countless moms and dads, husbands and wives, that other than winning the wars we are in, my highest priority would be to provide the best possible care for those who were wounded in combat.

That is why I was so concerned when – after only a few months in this job – I read in the Washington Post reports

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More deployment prep: battling the weed whacker Military marriages are delicate balancing acts. Spouses fluctuate between dependence and independence, and the seesaw tips on a moment’s notice.

While my husband is home, he is responsible for most of the household’s physical labor. He takes out the trash, mows the lawn, shovels the driveway and carries heavy grocery bags from the car to the front door.

When he is gone, I could probably lift a car off my child if I had to.

I witnessed this same phenomenon with my own military mother. Once, when my older brother choked on a piece of steak, Mom ran out the front door screaming. She ran right to the cul-de-sac across the street. Dad calmly stayed behind and did the Heimlich Maneuver. My other brother and I were stunned, more by Mom’s freak-out than anything else.

“What if Dad hadn’t been here?” we asked.

Mom didn’t hesitate when she said, “Then I would have done the Heimlich.”

And on some level, we knew she meant it. We had seen the way she mowed our relatively large lawn in under 30 minutes while Dad was deployed.

Today, as Dustin and I enter pre-deployment mode, I feel myself easing to the other side of the

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seesaw, ready to fulfill the roles of both Mom and Dad while AVY Dustin is gone.

I begin with the outdoors.

ISE “You need to have a plan in place,” Dustin says. He is referARAH ring to the winter and snow MILEY cleanup. “For instance, I get up early enough to rake the roof (always rake the roof first, Sarah), shovel the walkway and then plow the driveway. And don’t forget to leave yourself time to scrap the windshield.”

I’m only half listening because before I tackle winter, I need to learn how to start the lawn mower.

One day, while Dustin was at work, I decided it was time. The Toro waited for me in the garage like a bucking bronco that needs to be broken. It was covered with grass, evidence of previous battles, and reeked like gasoline. But the lawn wasn’t going to cut itself.

I rolled the lawn mower out onto the driveway, breathed in, and ... stared at the ground.

“Um, what are you about to do?” Ford asked, coming up behind me.

“I’m going to mow the lawn,” I said.

Ford ran off to warn the others. “Move out of the way; my mom is going to use the lawn mower!”

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$100 million pledged for STEM through 2015 Federal commitment to technology, innovation ALEXANDRIA, VA. (NNS) – Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus announced his plan to strengthen the service’s future workforce at the Naval STEM Forum being held June 15-16 in Alexandria, Va. The plan reinforces President Obama’s call to improve America’s science, technology, engineering and math education over the next decade. “I have committed to doubling the Navy’s investment in STEM education over the next five years,� Mabus said in his keynote speech as he kicked off the 2011 Naval STEM Forum in Alexandria, Va. “We are going to double it in a targeted and innovative way so that we reach the maximum number of people and have the maximum impact.�

Mabus used his keynote speech to introduce a roadmap aimed at renewing the Navy’s focus on providing educational opportunities for future naval scientists and engineers.

Mabus said the Navy’s STEM priority areas will inspire the next generation of scientists and engineers; engage students in STEM-related hands-on learning using Navy-centric content; educate students in the STEM disciplines, so they are prepared for the Navy and Marine Corps’ hightech careers; employ, retain and develop naval STEM professionals; and collaborate across the naval STEM enterprise with organizations around the country to maximize the benefit to the Navy and Marine Corps.

This roadmap, Mabus said, introduces exciting new programs that will help increase participation by students and teachers in under-represented communities and also address gaps in the current naval STEM portfolio.

The move will increase the Navy’s financial commitment to STEM education initiatives to more than $100 million by 2015,

from $54 million in 2010. “In the fleet and in the operating services, Sailors and Marines are called upon every day to do a lot of really difficult things,� Mabus said. “They work on the world’s most complicated and best anti-air and anti-missile systems; they maintain avionics systems; they hang ordnance on aircraft heading out for combat missions; and they operate the nuclear power plants on subs and our carriers.�

These technically challenging missions, he said, takes more than intelligence; they require critical thinking skills received from a great education. “It is more clear now than it has ever been that our nation’s security depends on our smarts as well as our strength,� said Mabus.

The Department of the Navy’s emphasis on STEM initiatives is due in part to an aging science and technology (S&T) workforce. More than 50 percent of the Navy’s scientists, engineers and related disciplines will be retirement eligible by 2020.

To establish a strong naval STEM program requires collaboration, Mabus said. To achieve this, ONR will become the coordinating body for naval STEM, facilitating efforts across the service, he said. The Department of the Navy’s science and technology agency will develop and promote common policies and tools to support STEM education, establishing a “one-stop� information portal for public exchange of naval STEM programs and develop partnerships with federal agencies, stakeholders and other services. “The U.S. is a world technology leader and the goal of Navy STEM is to keep it that way,� said Rear Adm. Nevin Carr, who as chief of naval research, leads ONR. “Each of the member organizations across the naval research enterprise are deeply committed to actively supporting the secretary’s plan.�

U.S., Japan bands play SEATTLE (NNS) – Navy Band Northwest performed a free concert with the traditional Japanese Taiko drummers and Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force Fleet Band at Westlake Plaza in Seattle, June 17.

The JMSDF flagship Kashima visited Seattle’s port June 15-18, as part of a four-month deployment to multiple ports in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Peru and Chile.

During the training the JMSDF band is embarked as the ship’s crew. “We felt very welcomed, and we felt we received

a lot of energy from the crowd performing,� said Lt. j.g. Masamichi Tanabe, bandmaster, JMSDF Training Band. “It was absolutely wonderful, and we were absolutely honored to play with the U.S. Navy band.�

The Consulate-General of Japan in Seattle, said this year’s visit is especially meaningful to Japan, which has received significant assistance from the U.S. and its military, in response to rescue and recovery efforts immediately following the devastating earthquake and tsunami which struck the Tohoku region

this past March. “This type of concert gives us awareness of each other’s talents,� said Musician 3rd Class John Head, a member of Navy Band Northwest. “It’s a joy to be a part of.�

The mission of Navy Band Northwest is to provide musical support for official Navy functions and Navy recruiting efforts, and to serve the communities of the Pacific Northwest in a public relations capacity. “It’s an honor to play with these great musicians from Japan and they are all very good musicians,� said Head. “It’s very humbling.�

Secretary of the Navy the Honorable Ray Mabus presents the Department of the Navy science, technology, engineering and mathematics strategy at the Naval STEM Forum June 15, 2011, hosted by the Office of Naval Research. U.S. NAVY PHOTO BY JOHN F. WILLIAMS

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Feds tab $37 million for vet training Most will go to homeless vets WASHINGTON (AFPS) – As part of an interagency effort to support America’s veterans, the Labor Department June 15 announced $37 million in grants to provide job training for about 21,000 veterans, many of them homeless or at risk of becoming homeless.

The awards are intended to continue already successful programs into their second and third years.

Twenty-two grants totaling more than $9 million will provide job training to about 4,000 veterans to help them succeed in civilian careers, Labor Department officials said. Those funds, provided through the Veterans Workforce Investment Program, emphasize training in “green� jobs related to energy efficiency and renewable energy, modern electric power development and clean vehicles. “Our veterans sacrifice so much for our country, so it is important that we provide assistance to them when they return home from active duty,� Labor Secretary Hilda L. Solis said. “These grants will help veterans

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access the resources they need to find good jobs and build a bright future for themselves and their families.�

Solis also announced 122 grants totaling more than $28 million to provide job training to about 17,000 veterans who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless.

These grants, awarded under the Labor Department’s Homeless Veterans Reintegration Program, include $4.3 million for the Homeless Female Veterans and Veterans with Families Program and $3.9 million for the Incarcerated Veterans Transition Program that helps veterans who have served time in justice facili-

FORT DETRICK, MD. (NNS) – Naval Medical Logistics Command announced the award of a contract for two mobile Magnetic Resonance Imaging systems to Philips Healthcare June 7, to aid in the diagnosis and treatment of traumatic brain injury of wounded warriors in Afghanistan.

The Navy has been working closely with the

Find out more More information on the Labor Department’s unemployment and re-employment programs is posted at http://www.dol.gov/vets. ties, officials said.

Homeless veterans may receive occupational, classroom and onthe-job training, as well as jobsearch and placement assistance and follow-up services, through the programs. “The Homeless Veterans Reintegration Program is recognized as an extraordinarily efficient and effective program, and

Army and Air Force to field an unprecedented MRI capability for deployed forces as part of the overall comprehensive approach to diagnosing and treating concussive injuries.

The procurement of the MRI systems has been a joint initiative between NMLC’s technical and operational partners including: Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, U.S.

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is the only federal program that focuses exclusively on employment of veterans who are homeless,� Solis said. “I am pleased that the department can assist these veterans and their families.�

The Labor Department grants are awarded to state and local agencies, boards and nonprofit organizations that have demonstrated through first-year funding their ability to administer effective programs to veterans within their geographic areas, officials said.

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Navy Adm. Mike Mullen has been anadvocate of programs to support veterans who have transitioned from service.

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While there is no clinical requirement for MRI systems in battlefield trauma care, they will be informative and may lead to discoveries in the diagnosis, treatment and enhanced follow-up care for wounded personnel with Traumatic Brain Injuries. “The acquisition of an MRI system for use in a combat theater is something new and provides some interesting challenges, but it’s amazing to see those challenges being overcome so quickly,� said James B. Poindexter, com-

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According to Poindexter, the MRI systems destined for Afghanistan are unlike anything commercially available. The units need to be self-contained, requiring that they be designed from the ground up to account for the unique and challenging working environments that will be encountered in combat theater such as vast temperature differences, fine blowing sand and power issues.

Unmanned mine hunter on display Demo hosted

by NSWC Panama City PANAMA CITY, FLA. (NNS) – The latest advances in unmanned mine countermeasures technology are undergoing tests and exhibition during a science and technology demonstration hosted by Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City for the Office of Naval Research, June 13-23.

“This event is an opportunity for the Navy to bring together sets of technologies that we’ve been working on for the past five years to demonstrate

TRIAL | FROM PAGE 1 the four teenagers testifying – included the victim – was gone working as a nightshift nurse.

Following a six-month investigation, the Navy ordered Brown’s prosecution on 17 charges of violating six articles of the Uniform Code of Military Conduct, for which he faces life in prison without parole.

The charges include rape, aggravated sexual assault, aggravated sexual abuse, child endangerment and indecent acts and liberties.

Brown, who works at Strategic Weapons Facility Pacific Bangor, has no prior criminal record. But does have a non-judicial history of Captain’s Mast in Bahrain for sexual harassment and once lost his computer privileges aboard the USS Nimitz because of pornographic images of an adult women, according to court testimony.

Following nearly three days of evidence and testimony, Military Judge Kevin O’Neil Wednesday gave the case to the jury of 10 officers and enlisted Navy personnel for closed door deliberations. As of press time Thursday, they had returned no verdict.

“We express our deepest sympathies to the victims in (this case), but at the same time we want to ensure that the rights of the accused are upheld as well,” NBK Spokesperson Dale Davis said. “The

and evaluate them,” said Dr. Sam Taylor, NSWC Panama City Automation Dynamics and Special Programs product line manager and branch head.

“It also allows us to show technologies working in a relevant environment, under conditions similar to how they will be deployed once fielded.”

Many of the demonstrated technologies are intended for incorporation into the littoral combat ship program, such as the LCS mine countermeasures mission package’s SUMMIT project.

SUMMIT, or Supervision of Unmanned Vehicles Mission Management by Interactive Teams, is the consolidation of multiple

software suites, combining them into one user-friendly interface – similar to a personal computer’s operating system – to control the mission package’s systems.

“We have a seven-man watch team, and SUMMIT gives us the ability to better manage our people while we’re on watch by sharing the tasks that have been assigned to our team,” said LCS Mine Countermeasures Det. member, Senior Chief Petty Officer Robert Olson.

According to Taylor, SUMMIT was designed to remove the requirement of an individual operator dedicated to control one specific system, and can be used to control unmanned vehicles in shallow or deep

waters.

“For the past three to four days, we’ve been demonstrating SUMMIT’s ability to control multiple unmanned vehicles underway in St. Andrew Bay rotating several different operators to different control stations located here dockside,” Taylor said. “SUMMIT effectively allowed tasks to be handed off among the watchstanding operators.”

With the completion of successful dockside control tests, SUMMIT will move forward for underway, shipboard tests.

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Uniform Code of Military Justice, much like the civilian justice system, is based on the principle that a person is considered innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Navy Region Northwest is committed to ensuring that justice is served in cases such as these.”

Throughout the prosecution’s case, the four teenagers painted a picture of life in a home with an absentee, dysfunctional mother and an abusive stepfather who plied children with alcohol and pornography with a primary goal of subduing three in order to access one sibling for sex from ages 11-15.

“Can you image creating a better environment for a sexual predator?” said Lt. Cmdr. Dave Peck, one of the two prosecutors for the government. “It was a prime environment for him to gain access to ( the victim).”

themselves. The witnesses were all liars who conspired against Brown, who was doing nothing more than trying to “improve” the dysfunctional family, Lt. Tom Whiteside, serving as defense attorney, told the jury.

Whiteside referred to one witness during closing argument as a “liar” or “thief ” more than a dozen times.

On the stand in his own defense, Brown admitted to using handcuffs to discipline one child, teaching drinking games to all, and allowing a child as young as 10 to have alcohol. The accusation that he struck one child with a closed fist was denied.

Whiteside told the jury that the victim fabricated the alleged years of rape disguised massages, from age 11 to 15, after watching “Georgia Rule” a film in which a stepdaughter divulges a rape and a dysfunctional mother while spending the summer at her grandmother’s house.

The victim’s goal, Whiteside said, was to get attention and to go live with her biological father.

“The seed was planted long ago,” Whiteside said.

On the stand, Brown admitted to letting the children have alcohol, but claimed he didn’t buy it as the children said. His wife was overbearing and would not let him socialize with buddies and he was lonely, he said.

Brown admitted to disciplining one child in

the family with handcuffs, once allowing her to “smell” pepper spray from a baggy, but it was not assault and battery and he denied punching her in the face out of anger when she interfered to protect her younger sister. A forearm to that girl’s throat was explained as “self defense” by the defense.

Brown denied raping his youngest stepdaughter, but admitted to getting massages from her. It was during the massage sessions

The defense Little physical evidence was presented by either side, and Brown only presented one character witness who was tripped up by the cross examination by the prosecution for failing to note discipline issues he knew of.

Brown’s attorney’s employed a defense of discrediting the victim and witnesses while forwarding counter-accusations against them, including the idea the children took the alcohol and pornography

The Reliant unmanned underwater vehicle project is deployed during the 2011 Mine Countermeasures Science and Technology Demonstration of the Office of Naval Research June 13, 2011. The demonstration, hosted by Naval Surface Warfare Center, Panama City Division, is a two-week, in water demonstration testing the latest mine countermeasures mission naval capability technologies.

Thirteen projects are participating in the event from June 13-24 off the coast of Panama City Beach, Fla. U.S. NAVY PHOTO

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that the prosecution argued the rapes occurred.

“It never happened,” he said of sexual intercourse, the standard for rape under the UCMJ at the time of the alleged crime.

The original complaint filed in April 2010 in Pacific County, Wash., started several civilian agencies in California, Washington state and Naval Criminal Investigation Unit investigation that took more than one year.

Brown has been stationed at NBK since 2009 and civilian authorities passed the case to the Navy because the defendant was active duty and most of the principals were living in Kitsap County when the investigation began.

Today, the children no longer live in the area and are estranged from both mother and stepfather.

The jury was expected to offer its verdict by today, including any changes or amended charges.

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Since then, we have worked to ensure that the incredible care our wounded receive on the battlefield, is continued long after they return home.

To be sure, there is more work to do. But I am confident that with the commitment, and help, and advocacy of military leaders like Admiral Mullen and his wife Deb, and local communities and organizations such as the Bob Woodruff Foundation, this Department of Defense and this country will do what is necessary to continue to fulfill our obligation to our wounded heroes.

Because at the heart of our volunteer force

“The debt owed by all Americans to those of you who have given so much, can never be fully repaid.”

– Robert M. Gates, Secretary of Defense

Secretary of Defense (SECDEF) the Robert M. Gates (at right) takes a tour of the USS Missouri Memorial. Gates is visiting the memorial before going to a conference in Singapore. U.S. NAVY PHOTO BY MASS COMMUNICATION SPECIALIST SEAMAN SEAN FUREY

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An inviolable promise, that when young

Americans step forward of their own free will to serve, they do so with the expectation that they and their families will be properly cared for.

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His words echo through time, calling on us today to “care for him who shall have borne the battle.”

Every day in this job I have felt a deep sense of

personal responsibility to our young men and women in uniform, as if they were my own sons and daughters.

The debt owed by all Americans to those of you who have given so much, can never be fully repaid. You have my deepest gratitude and respect for all that you have given – and know that I along with many others here tonight and across the country will be an advocate for you for the rest of my days.

May God bless each and every one of you.

SERVICE | FROM 1 researching Pearl Harbor and incorporating the information to his experiences.

“All this research has made me learn a lot about myself and about recorded history,” he said.

“I believe that if you don’t take the time to share history; it can slip out of your fingers and be lost for good.”

Green also has many plans for the future.

He is working with a writer to put together a story on his experiences as a sailor during Pearl Harbor.

Green is using a mix of archives and his speeches to craft it together.

“I’m going to do my best to record it the right way,” he said.

He is planning a trip to return to Pearl Harbor someday.

“It is a beautiful place and now a part of my life I talk about,” Green said.

awkward machine from his hands.

Tony watched as I started around the first flower bed. Mulch pelted my bare Kids bolted across the street, flinging skin.

Bits of gravel wedged between my themselves to safety on the neighbor’s toes. lawn. Owen came around the corner and And my life flashed before my eyes begged, “Please, Mom, you don’t have to when a stick flew right past my face. do this. Just wait for Dad. Or hire some“Maybe I’ll go in and change,” I said. one.”

An hour later, my hands were permaBut I was determined to prove...somenently buzzing from the weed whacker, thing...to myself, and to them. and I’ d lost all hearing in my left ear.

Turns out, mowing is fairly easy. I Most of plants did not survive this little zipped up and down the grass, waving at experiment. I whacked everything in my passersby like an old path… and then pro. Sure, when I hit some. that baseball in the Patches of grass backyard, it nearly Tony calmly explained were among the list flew up and hit me of casualties. the deceptively “easy” in the face, and what “Don’t tell Dustin was left of it looked steps to start a weed about this,” I told like a molten meteTony. orite, but that was whacker: set it to “A,” The next day, I just a minor glitch. gave our lawn mower pull three times; set it And that plastic and weed whacker to shovel I mowed? to “C,” pull again; then my parents to use at Well, we didn’t really their camp. back to “B,” five more need it anyway.

“Sure you won’t Next, I moved on pulls; and then let the need it?” Dad asked. to the weed whacker.

“It’s best if I don’t,” My neighbor Tony thing “warm up a bit.”

I said. watched from his Dustin, however, lawn. “You need frugal as ever, still some help with insists that I need that?” he asked. a plan.

Maybe a friendlier mower or less “Only to get it started,” I said confiaggressive weed whacker.

And then there’s dently. that whole “winter agenda” of his.

Tony calmly explained the deceptively But I have a plan of my own: as soon as “easy” steps to start a weed whacker: set it Dustin leaves, I’ll whip out my checkbook to “A,” pull three times; set it to “C,” pull and pay the nearest teenager to take care again; then back to “B,” five more pulls; of my lawn and snow. and then let the thing “warm up a bit.”

– Sarah Smiley is a syndicated columnist, Tony looked down at my legs and yelled author and Navy wife. Her column appears over the noise, “You’re not going to wear weekly in the Kitsap Navy News. those shorts and flip flops, are you?”

SMILEY | FROM PAGE 4

“I’ll be fine,” I said, taking the heavy,

designer and builder of our acoustic range.”

Jaehn continued, “We also support work for the Navy Postgraduate School and test long-range acoustic communications processes, as well as sampling ocean water in the Arctic environment. A lot of very dynamic events are happening while our submarine exercises are ongoing.”

deliver the Navy into the future in many ways.

“We have conducted, or supported, scientific and technical testing into ice mechanics, upper ocean structure, underwater and high-latitude communications, and ice burn-through technology.

We’ve participated in new and innovative work, and intermingled with two outstanding submarine crews.

We have also been fortunate to be part of a diverse, international group of dedicated people who have done all of this on little more than three delicious

meals each day,” Gossett said on his blog.

“I’m sorry to be leaving it behind. But it’s good to get home,” he said. “Oh, did I mention that it was cold?”

This story was originally published in the June issue of “All Hands.”

Coldest of cold Sailors head to ice camp at the center of a 10-mile grid of ice under which communicaiton tests occur . U.S. NAVY PHOTO

ICE | FROM PAGE 2 We also performed a tactical development exercise with USS Connecticut. We tested sub-on-sub weapons systems and sonar systems.

We also tested whether we could hear or detect another submarine, and whether they could detect us.”

The Arctic presents unique tactical advantages the ICEX team will continue to analyze, according to Richter-Menge.

“A lot of people think the ice has a flat surface, but if you see underneath, it almost looks like a mountain range that’s been flipped upside-down,” Richter-Menge said. “From a tactical standpoint, the submarine needs to know the thickness of the ice. It can use that rough ice as a way to hide. Also, it can find a thin or smooth surface and use that as a place to surface and send communications.”

Stress on hull New Hampshire and Connecticut both performed these surfacing evolutions during ICEX. According to McGunnigle, submarines ordinarily surface from depth at an angle, a maneuver which minimizes stress on the vessel’s hull. But the nearly four-foot-thick ice the subs operated under required vertical surfacing.

“The biggest challenge in the Arctic is that you can’t go up to the surface any time you want,” he said. “There’s a lot of ice up there, so you have to find a place you can go up, and you have to make sure your crew is trained and systems are ready to operate for lengthy periods of time under the ice.”

McGunnigle continued, “We also treat casualties differently. Some operations are done differently than when you are able to come to periscope depth.

The ice camp has a grid

that extends about 10 miles around. Within that grid we communicate via underwater telephone and your voice goes through the water to the ice camp.

We also use another communication tool called ‘Deep Siren,’ which is, essentially, an underwater modem we can use to send short text messages with information we might need to pass.”

The Deep Siren system was used for the first time during a previous ICEX. Communication like this is especially important because this camp was set up on an ice floe that drifts constantly – sometimes miles in a single day.

The camp was manned

by American, British and Canadian service members and scientists. The Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) University of Washington built and managed the station as one of the Navy’s many partners in ICEX. “We would not have been able to execute this exercise without our allies,” Jaehn said. “They’re integrated into our watchbills and stand watch together and have executed the test plan flawlessly. Our collaboration with the engineering and scientific communities is also critical. APL University of Washington is also the

Jeff Gossett, exercise director, said the uniqueness of the experience made ICEX fly by, but it wasn’t without its challenges.

As the exercise was taking place, temperatures varied from 20 degrees Fahrenheit to 40 below zero – temperatures so low that camp team members had to eat more than 5,000 calories just to stay warm.

“Nothing could completely prepare me for the actual experience on the ice,” said Lt. Bremen Schultz, undersea medical officer. “In the Arctic, small things like sweating will cool the body’s temperature down, resulting in hypothermia.”

Mabus said the team’s ability to overcome and adapt to form a fully functional camp speaks highly of everyone involved.

“You take off from Prudhoe Bay and fly over featureless ice for over an hour, you land here and here’s the camp. You’ve got satellite communications set up, computers, scientists working, a mess hall –you’ve got everything you need right here. To be able to do it on the ice this remotely; to be able to live here, to do the work here that we need to do; to do scientific experiments; it’s an amazing feat of ingenuity and an amazing feat of engineering.”

According to Gossett, the ICEX team helped

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Speaking on background

at a Center for Strategic and International Studies conference on maritime security in the South China Sea, the official reiterated Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates’ and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s support for peaceful resolution

regarding territorial disputes in the strategically critical region. “The United States, like every nation, has an interest in the freedom of navigation and open access to Asia’s maritime commons and with respect for international law in the South China Sea,� the official said at the forum.

He cited Gates’ comments earlier this month at the ShangriLa Dialogue security summit in Singapore, where the secretary emphasized U.S. support

for “freedom of navigation and unimpeded economic development and commerce and respect for international law.�

Gates warned at the summit that lack of a strong multilateral mechanism for nations to settle their disputes peacefully could cause problems to escalate. “Given recent events, we would hope that all parties will be able to make tangible progress� toward creating this code of conduct, the defense official said.

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Veterans, guests and a joint service honor guard rendered full military honors as the flag-draped coffins arrived, returning the fallen service members to U.S. soil for the first time since they were lost during the Vietnam War and World War II.

A military honor guard carries a transfer case with the remains of a service member who was missing in action during an arrival ceremony hosted by Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command June 17, 2011. The mission of JPAC is to achieve the fullest possible accounting of all Americans missing as a result of past conflicts. U.S. NAVY PHOTO BY MASS COMMUNICATION

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“It really is an honor for us to be here to remember them,� said Jack Hirai, a retired Army veteran who served in the Korean War. “I don’t think we can ever forget what they did out

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Two service members were lost in the Vietnam War and were recovered from the Socialist Republic of Vietnam and the Lao’s People Democratic

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The third service member was recovered from the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, and was lost during World War II. Service members

assigned to JPAC escorted the remains back to JBPHH aboard an Air Force C-17 where they will be taken to JPAC’s laboratories for analyses and identification. “I think it is very important and impacts in that it begins to reunite families,� said Air Force Capt.

Anthony L. Wiggins, a chaplain who gave the invocation during the ceremony.

JPAC’s mission is to achieve the most accurate accounting possible and to return the remains of service members who were lost during past conflicts. “For the people who work at JPAC, this gives them the opportunity to see how valuable their work is and how meaningful their work is,� said Wiggins.

More than 83,000 service members, dating back to World War II, are classified as missing in action. Once identified, the remains will return to the families for reburial.

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Many roles for USS Runner The Tench-class diesel attack submarine USS Runner (SS-476) was laid down July 10, 1944 by the Portsmouth (N.H.) Naval Shipyard.

Displacing 2,414 tons submerged, Runner was 312 feet in length and had a draft of 15 feet. The boat could make 20 knots but was slowed to a maximum nine knots under water. A total of 76 sailors were assigned on board. Topside firepower consisted of one 5-inch and two 20mm antiaircraft gunmounts. Runner was also equipped with two, 30-caliber machine guns, and 10, 21-inch torpedo tubes.

With Cmdr. R.H. Bass in charge, the boat was commissioned Feb. 6, 1945 and proceeded to sea for shakedown operations and preliminary training off the Atlantic coast.

After taking on supplies at New London, Conn., Runner sailed for the Pacific and Pearl Harbor., Hawaii, arriving May 21, 1945. The boat then proceeded further into the Pacific and started its first patrol off the east coast of Honshu, Japan. The boat’s primary mission was to scout for the presence of defensive minefields guarding Japanese home islands.

On July 10, while on patrol in the Sea of Japan, Runner intercepted two worthwhile targets, a tanker and a minesweeper. The tanker and its two escorts escaped the spread of torpedoes Runner fired at them, but the mind-sweeper, identified as W-27, was splintered by three of Runner’s torpedoes. Before departing the area, Runner

received 16 downed aviators from sister submarines USS Gabian (SS-252) and USS Aspro (SS-309) for further transfer to Guam, where it arrived July 24.

The second patrol for the USS Runner began a week before the Japanese capitulation and by the time the boat had arrived on station off the east coast of Honshu Island, peace was formally announced.

Runner and 10 other U.S. submarines entered Tokyo Bay Aug. 31 and represented the U.S. submarine service at the formal surrender ceremonies. Runner and the other submarines departed Japan Sept. 3, and arrived at Pearl Harbor Sept. 12.

Runner continued eastward and arrived at New London, Conn., Oct. 6. A few weeks later, in the company of other units of Submarine Squadron 6, Runner proceeded south arriving for duty at Balboa, in the Canal Zone Feb. 14, 1946.

For the next three years, Runner was based at Panama and participated in annual fleet exercises in the Caribbean.

Runner was reassigned to Norfolk, Va., in June 1949, and remained homeported there for the next seven years. In the autumn of 1957, Runner participated in North Atlantic NATO exercises, vising ports in France and England. In July 1958, the boat arrived at San Juan, Puerto Rico, where it was homeported for exactly one year, while it operated in the Caribbean as a Regulus missile guidance submarine.

After returning to Norfolk, Runner operated with the fleet along the Atlantic

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NM Indian Island hosts run and walk for fitness Naval Magazine Indian Island and MWR will host the Deer Run/Walk on Saturday, 2 July at 10 a.m. The day’s events are a 1.2 mile and 5k terrain run/ walk.

All eligible patrons and the general public are welcome and will have access to this event. All eligible MWR patrons may pre-register online at www.navylifepnw. com, click myFFR and search for course #62240001 or #62240002. Public participants may register by visiting www.active. com and searching “Deer Run”.

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Starboard broadside view of the Runner (SS-275), photographed during her shakedown period while off the Portsmouth Navy Yard on 16 October 1942. In less than a year from the date of this photograph, Runner and all her company would be listed as M.I.A. US NAVY PHOTO NO. 1422-41, COURTESY OF DARRYL L. BAKER coast for the next three years.

Deploying to the Mediterranean from January to early May 1962, Runner operated with U.S. and NATO units. The remainder of 1962 was taken up with ASW exercises near Norfolk followed by an overhaul.

Throughout 1963 and 1964, Runner engaged in various anti-submarine warfare exercises in the western Atlantic.

The summer of 1964 was spent in the Great Lakes, training Naval Reservists.

After operating with the fleet in the spring of 1965, she entered Norfolk Naval Shipyard for another overhaul. In 1966, operations included services for ASW exercises, type training, and participation Exercise Springboard in the early Spring. Runner deployed to the Mediterranean with the sixth fleet from

July 8 to Oct. 28, 1966. The boat served as a floating school for future submariners during all of 1967.

In 1968, Runner provided services for UDT school at Little Creek, Va., and ASW training off the East Coast. Runner departed Norfolk on its last deployment April 4. The boat participated in NATO Exercise Dawn Patrol and also made port visits to Spain and Portugal.

Runner was decommissioned Jan. 25, 1969 at Boston Naval Shipyard. It was then towed to the Great Lakes Naval Training Center where it was redesignated AGSS 476 and served as a Naval Reserve Training vessel until it was stricken from the Navy’s list Dec. 15, 1971.

USS Runner (SS-476) received one battle star for its World War II service.

Former US destroyer sails under Polish flag The former USS Wadsworth was decommissioned in 2002 BALTIC SEA (NNS) – A decommissioned U.S. Navy ship is participating in Baltic Operations 2011 as part of the Polish navy.

USS Wadsworth (FFG9) was decommissioned in 2002, after 24 years of service.

Now, as the Polish ship ORP General Tadeusz Kosciuszko (273), it is one of two Oliver Hazard Perry-class guided-missile frigates in the Polish Navy. “She is very capable,� said Cmdr. Grzegorz

Muchia, ORP General Tadeusz Kosciuszko commanding officer. “We are very proud of her.�

Lt. Robert Legiedz, ORP General Tadeusz Kosciuszko, said the Polish sailors have taken great pride in their ship, and any remnants of corrosion or wear and tear on the ship are almost nonexistent. “After supper, we have a cleaning period of one hour per day,� said Legiedz, “On Friday, we have a general cleaning that lasts

three to four hours.� “I’ve had the chance to sail with many ships from many different countries over the years, and the

American ships are my favorite,� says Warrant Officer Peter Bieniek. “The American-made ships are different in modern tech-

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JUNE 29 Fletcher Bay Evening Kayak: Do NOT need a kayak card to participate.

Register by June 27 (myFFR #4411180B). 360-315-2137 Duathlon Bangor: 1.5-mile run, followed by a 3-mile bike,finishing up with 1.5mile run. Ages 16 and under must be accompanied by a parent. 360-315-2134

JUNE 30 - JULY 2 PEO two-for-one canoe rental: Canoe safety card required and can be obtained at PEO. 360-535-5919

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Baltic Operations 2011. “It’s been a great experience to work alongside the Polish navy and to see them breathe new life into an old U.S. Navy vessel,� says Lt. Geoffrey Hill, BALTOPS assistant surface warfare syndicate. “They are an extremely proud and professional group of people.�

Now in its 39th year, BALTOPS is a multinational naval exercise focusing on peace and security in the region. Nations participating in BALTOPS 2011 include Belgium, Denmark, France, Georgia, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, The Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Sweden, and the United States.

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JULY 6 Scuba Class: Mondays and Fridays for 3 weeks, 5-9 pm.Minimum age is 10.

360-315-2137/535-5919 Parenting Young Children: For parents of children ages 5 and under.

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JULY 7 Deployment: “HOMECOMING DAY� 10 a.m.-noon, Jackson Park Community Support Facility.

JULY 11 Pioneer Farm Tour & NW Trek: Price includes farm admission. Register by June 2(myFFR #5411162B).

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