Kitsap Navy News April 8, 2011

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Joey Price leads her own recruitment drive

PSNS workers heading home safe following success at sea

By GREG SKINNER

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Where the forward deployed USS George Washington (CVN 73) will call home remains a mystery to the public, but hundreds of Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility workers are headed home after finishing their part in the carrier’s scheduled maintenance at sea – a first for the U.S. Navy.

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Joey Price, past National President of Navy Wives Clubs of America, is hosting an open house to begin a revival membership effort to save NWCA Bremerton 46. She’ll see you at All Star Lanes Restaurant and Solarium Saturday from 2-5 p.m. GREG SKINNER/KITSAP NAVY NEWS

Looking for a few good Navy wives Navy Wives Clubs of America Bremerton 46 looks to national trends of resurgence

By GREG SKINNER Kitsap Navy News

Much has been made of declining enrollment in social clubs, fraternal organizations, service and veterans clubs in the last 15 years. Navy wife Joey Price is out to reverse that trend for one of those

organizations.

Price, a returning member of the Bremerton 46 chapter, a 40-year-member, and a past national president of the Navy Wives Clubs of America, has called some of her friends together in effort to get the word out and grow the membership before her club fades out as so many oth-

ers already have.

“I’m not going to let that happen,” Price said.

What price is selling is simple: a gathering of spouses performing works of good will in their own community and at large. Along the way, wives, and the occasional male spouse that joins, that find themselves new to the Navy have access to decades of collective experience gained by families transiting homeports around the world during long Navy careers.

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None injured in Stennis flight deck fire were ship’s company 11 hurt in blaze after jet engine fails during pilot qualifications

By GREG SKINNER

C Hornet engine exploded and burst into flames seconds before take off, acording to the Navy. Injured were eight sailors, two civilians and one Marine. The pilot escaped injury.

The Stennis and crew left Naval Base Kitsap shortly after a March 18 change of command ceremony wherein Capt. Joseph Kuzmick passed command to Capt. Ronald Reis.

The Nimitz class carrier was operating near North Island, off San Diego Calif. conducting carrier pilot qualifications when the fire

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None of the sailors injured in the March 30 flight deck fire aboard the USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) were from the carriers’ company of sailors, said Lt. Aaron Kakiel, Asst. Public Affairs Officer Commander, Naval Air Forces.

As of Monday, only one sailor injured in the fire remained in hospital care.

A total of 11 were injured, all with non-life threatening injuries when an F/A 18

Sailors from Crash and Salvage participate in recovery drills on the flight deck aboard Nimitz class aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN74) while transiting to Southern California in support of carrier pilot qualifications for fleet replacement squadrons on March 25. Days later, the starboard engine of a F/A 18c Hornet exploded and burst into flames injuring 11 on the flight deck. U.S. NAVY PHOTO BY MASS COMMUNICATION SPECIALIST 3RD CLASS WILL TYNDALL/RELEASED broke out.

Two of the worst injuries reported were a broken femur and a chest wound.

All questions sent to the Stennis command were referred to the Commander of Naval Air Forces.

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not come from the flight deck,” Reis told the Times.

“I am extremely proud of our crew,” said Reis. “The flight deck of an aircraft carrier is an inherently dangerous place, but our personnel are well-trained to operate safely in this envi-

ronment. They responded quickly, professionally and with purpose, extinguishing the aircraft engine fire.”

The incident remains under investigation.

Some reporting from the Naval News Service is included in this story

Paychecks will stop if budget impasse remains

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reported that Reis said the engine failure appeared to be the result of a foreign object being sucked into the engine causing the starboard jet to break apart which severed fuel and hydrolic lines.

“All indications are it did

Chatter on Capital Hill Wednesday afternoon had odds better than not that the federal government would succumb to the budget impasse and shut down at midnight tonight – leaving millions of service members and hundreds of thousands of federal workers without a paycheck next week.

A group of U.S. House Republicans tried to float the Ensuring Pay for our Military Act of 2011 on March 31. The resolution would assure the military would get paid during any funding lag-time resulting from the partisan political bickering in the House over this year’s budget.

The legislation didn’t make it out of committee that day.

Rep Norm Dicks’ office did not respond to requests for comment on the pay issues facing service members in the event of a shutdown.

The Navy Wednesday informed service members that they will continue to work and earn pay, but that money will not be dispersed until the federal government has spending money from a congressio-

nal appropriation.

The Obama administration Wednesday estimated that 800,000 federal workers would be furloughed.

Authorities at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility did not immediately respond to questions asking if shipyard workers would be furloughed or stay on the job if the government shuts down.

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Operation Tomodachi a lasting commitment US forces will stand with Japan through its ongoing disaster relief WASHINGTON, AFPS – The U.S. military will continue to stand squarely with Japan for as long as needed following the devastating earthquake, tsunami and radiological crisis, the U.S. Pacific Fleet commander told American Forces Press Service.

Navy Adm. Patrick M. Walsh, speaking by phone from Yokota Air Base, Japan, said Operation Tomodachi, the U.S. military assistance mission to Japan, shows no sign of waning, even as the focus begins to turn from humanitarian assistance and disaster relief to consequence management. “This is an enduring commitment. This is an enduring relationship,�

Walsh said. “So we are posturing ourselves for a long-term support and an enduring commitment.�

Walsh said the longstanding U.S.-Japan relationship that underpins the mission runs deeper than many people realize. “In this case, we live here. We have homes here,� the admiral said. “And so we want to be here, side by side or one step behind, wherever they would like us to be as they go through this very cathartic process.

It’s one we want to be in a position to support.�

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Sailors assigned to the forward-deployed amphibious assault ship USS Essex (LHD 2) clean up debris from a harbor in Oshima Japan on April 3, 2011. Marines assigned to the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit and Sailors with the Essex Amphibious Ready Group are on Oshima Island to help clear a harbor and assist with cleaning debris from roads and a local school in support of Operation Tomodachi. U.S. NAVY PHOTO BY MASS COMMUNICATION SPECIALIST 2ND CLASS EVA-MARIE RAMSARAN/RELEASED

remains heavily involved in the mission. Since the operation started, U.S. 7th Fleet forces have delivered more than 260 tons of humanitarian assistance and disaster relief supplies to survivors in support of Japan Self-Defense Force efforts.

Defense Minister Toshimi Kitazawa and other senior Japanese officials visited the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan to thank U.S. service members personally for their support. “When you consider the burden that all these men have carried for the past three weeks, to give us that amount of time was quite extraordinary,� Walsh said. “And I think it’s representative of how they feel about the contribution we have made that they wanted to

make this kind of personal connection with us.�

No drawdown Walsh emphasized that maintenance and reprovisioning on some of these ships, and in some cases, the reassignment of some of their forces, in no way signals a drawdown of Operation Tomodachi.

In fact, he said, “we have more people who have come to Japan than have left Japan in support of this operation.�

Any reposturing taking place now, Walsh said, is only to ensure U.S. forces are prepared to sustain operations for the long haul. “From the fleet perspective, we have every ship we have here under way. ‌ That has gone on for

30 days,� the admiral said.

Now, he said, it’s time to consider the best way to “present ourselves and posture ourselves so we can sustain this level of support over time – maybe refocus it, reprioritize it as events and conditions on the ground change.�

Walsh praised progress taking place as Japan begins to recover from the disaster.

“There is an extraordinary level of development that has taken place in a very short period of time,� the admiral said. He called the reopening of Sendai Airport -- initially considered unsalvageable but quickly turned operational for support of humanitarian flights “one of those seminal sorts of stories that will go down as truly remarkable.� “Because we were able to work with the Japanese government to get the runway up and running, we were able to develop a logistics hub,� Walsh continued. “And with a logistics hub now, all kinds of things are possible.�

Even as Japan begins rebuilding, he said, it’s still dealing with the recovery mission. Japan’s Self-Defense Forces are methodically going from location to location and house to house, searching for and recovering victims’ remains, Walsh said.

U.S. support is expected to shift more toward helping Japan deal with nuclear

consequence management and radiological issues, Walsh said. However, he added, the U.S. military will continue to “be on call when they need us to do more support for logistics or humanitarian assistance or disaster relief up north.�

About 400 U.S. service members are currently supporting consequence management missions in Japan, Walsh said, noting that an initial response force recently arrived to provide support.

Its members aren’t physically going into Japan’s nuclear reactors, he noted, but are serving in an advise-and-assist role. “The ability to pivot from the humanitarian assistance [mission] to the consequence management piece, I think, is an important element of an agile organization,� Walsh said.

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eep in the center of any newspaper should be the community it serves.

During recent years, some in the Naval community on and surrounding Naval Base Kitsap have been looking for newspaper space in which to inform and educate fellow service families on issues germane to life in the Navy but that fall outside the various command’s official public purview.

Sometimes those topics and ideas are best left to the voices directly effected or involved rather than professional journalists and public affairs.

Issues range from this week’s federal budget stalemate in Washington D.C., that could result in pay issues for thousands of local sailors and officers, to Autism Awareness Month and the many special needs families stationed at Naval Base Kitsap – home to Military Father of the Year candidate SK1 Christopher Cady and his very dependent son Joshua, to those forward deployed.

To bring any one of the issues into light for all in the local Navy to ponder, and in effort to foster healthy discussions on those issues, we are looking for contributions and columns written from across the community.

It’s a very logical choice for the Kitsap Navy News to seek out thoughtful voices from the shipyard, from the ombudsman programs and veterans organizations as well as those in the health and recreation community. We will also work hard to encourage commands and official Navy voices to communicate through the pages of Kitsap Navy News.

To facilitate that exchange of ideas and issues that can turn these pages into a clearing house of useful information and inteligent debate, we will make a portion of this page and the next available for letters to the editor from the community. Shower us with letters and we’ll open more space as needed.

More editorial space will be opened for guest columns and opinion pieces as we grow our cadre of contributors or command contributions While I’m not Navy, I am a veteran of combat arms and well know that debate is seemingly not an option in military life. Outside mission specific issues, life in the U.S.remains standing upon a foundation of healthy and thoughtful debate. I often find myself thinking that none deserve more the right, and responsibility, to engage in these conversation than those who have put themselves in harms way to protect our particular way of life and the total freedoms that come with it.

Regardless of what I say here, the onus remains on the community to fill the letters page and column space with whatever you see fit.

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Meeting Harry Swigert, the oldest Seabee at the ball He built Jackson Park and put that brace on the leaning utility pole over on Bangor.

He was there when the sub wharf went in too. Before that he built whatever the Navy asked in war zones far from Puget Sound.

His name is Harry Swigert and he was recently the oldest Seabee at the ball.

Now in his mid 80s, with a straight back and a crushing grip, Swigert served in three of five major wars in the 20th Century. That he didn’t make the bookends wasn’t his fault. He wasn’t born for World War I and was too old for the Persian Gulf War – though he tried.

Swigert made it to World War II, Korea and Viet Nam, but the Navy decided he was too old when he volunteered to return to duty for the 1990-91 conflict. At age 65 when he last tried to be an active Seabee, Swigert makes no bones about ability. He loves the work and is nothing but “Can do.”

He has run 1.5 miles and swung an axe for 20 minutes every day since 1965 and I imagine that if the Navy called tomorrow, Swigert would put on the uniform. No doubt it would fit.

I met Swigert by accident when he called on our newsroom to ask if any pictures from the Seabee ball would run in the next newspaper. I know he was looking for a different paper, but I’ve made several attempts at getting those photos of them

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cutting the cake with a whipsaw – he was the oldest Seabee at the ball. At the very least, a man with his background deserves to see a picture in the paper.

A little later, when we met in person to talk about his 42 years of voluntary service to his country, Swigert looked me square in the face and asked, “Skinner. You got any military in you?”

I had to tell him I wasn’t a Navy man, but rather, a dirty old Army boot.

Swigert didn’t blink about it.

What impressed me most about Swigert, more impressive even than surviving Kamikaze attacks, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, Sicily and the Vella Gulf, was that he doesn’t forget were he came from.

His identity as a Navy man resounds in him to this day. It is what stood out clear to me.

I’ve only met one other person in my life that served in those three wars – my uncle Melvin, also an Army boot. That level of commitment is significant, unbending and rare.

Swigert knew by the age of 10 that he wanted to be in the Navy, after a neighbor returned from boot camp. He joined in 1943 here in Bremerton and off he went. I’m not all that sure they’ll be able to keep him out much longer.

Greg Skinner is editor of Kitsap Navy News

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Seventh Fleet to conduct exercise Malabar 2011 with Indian Navy

Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy Rick West testifies before the House Committee Subcommittee, Veterans Affairs and related agencies to discuss quality of life issues March 30.

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WESTERN PACIFIC OCEAN (NNS) – Naval personnel from India and the United States will participate in exercise Malabar 2011, April 3-10.

Malabar is a regularly scheduled bilateral naval field training exercise and has grown in scope and complexity over the years.

Malabar 2011 is the latest in a continuing series of exercises conducted to advance multinational maritime relationships and mutual security issues.

The at-sea portions will be conducted in the western Pacific Ocean, east of the Luzon Strait and east of Okinawa. The location coincides with the Indian Navy’s western Pacific deployment. The exercise is designed to advance U.S.-Indian military-to-military coordination and capacity

to plan and execute tactical operations.

Events planned during the exercise include liaison officer professional exchanges and embarks; communications exercises; surface action group exercise operations; formation maneuvering; helicopter cross deck evolutions; underway replenishments; humanitarian assistance and disaster relief; gunnery exercises; visit, board, search and seizure; maritime strike; air defense; screen exercise; and anti-submarine warfare.

U.S. Navy participants include USS Sterett (DDG 104), USS Stethem (DDG 63), USS Reuben James (FFG 57) and a nuclear powered attack submarine. Indian Navy participants include INS Dehli, INS Ranvijay, INS Ranvir, INS Jyoti and INS Kirch.

MCPON testifies before Emergency operations training Congress on quality of life essential to Guantanamo personnel WASHINGTON (NNS) – Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy (MCPON) (SS/SW) Rick D. West and other senior enlisted leaders testified before the House Appropriations Committee Subcommittee on Military Construction, Veterans Affairs and Related Agencies March 30.

MCPON Rick D. West, along with the other top enlisted leaders from the Marines, Army and Air Force, discussed quality of life, family readiness, recruiting and retention, reserve force, and veteran affairs issues. “In my travels this past year I have enjoyed the visits I’ve had with Sailors who defend America every day. In these visits I have taken special note of the quality of life in which they live and serve,� said West. “As you know, quality of work and quality of life programs for our Sailors, their families and our Navy civilians is directly tied to military readiness.�

Navy’s Homeport Ashore program, bachelor and Navy family housing, and

Continuum of Care were other important issues that were brought up to the congressional subcommittee.

West said that as the environment in which Sailors and their families’ lives change, along with global requirements and world events, new and better ways to support our Navy families must be continuously explored.

West also discussed the integral part deployments play in Navy life. The Navy has been deploying forces since its formation during times of both peace and conflict, but it is important not to underestimate or take for granted the incredible strain that a long deployment imposes on Sailors and their families.

Multiple deployments, frequent relocations and the stresses associated with being part of a military family all impact the overall readiness of the unit, the readiness of the individual Sailor and the readiness of their family. “The strain on our Sailors and their families is greater than ever, but our

Sailors recognize the significance of their mission.�

West said that keeping Navy families informed about resources available to them to mitigate the strain of deployment and provide support is instrumental to their peace of mind while waiting for their Sailors to return from a yearlong assignment in the Middle East or a six-month deployment safeguarding our seas.

The Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy periodically testifies before Congress along with the senior enlisted leaders of the other services. This was his fourth appearance before the congressional committee.

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GUANTANAMO BAY, CUBA (NNS) – Personnel assigned to Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and its tenant commands began their second day of Emergency Operations Center Incident Management Training, April 5.

Commander, Navy Installations Command’s Shore Training Group is instructing 23 service members and civilians on how to operate an EOC during an incident.

Preparedness for incidents that affect the base is imperative, said Kevin Robarge, NS Guantanamo Bay’s installation training officer.

The training is especially important aboard Guantanamo as local resources are limited because the U.S. does not have diplomatic relations with the base’s host country.

Guantanamo Bay’s location near a strike-slip fault line, called the Oriente Fracture, and its location in the Caribbean increases the likelihood that the base may experience an earthquake or hurricane, said Robarge. Training is sched-

uled to conclude April 7 with an EOC exercise.

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USS Enterprise rescues Japanese, U.S. dignitaries, senior military leaders thank Ronald Reagan overboard sailor USS RONALD REAGAN, AT SEA (NNS) – Dignitaries and senior military leaders from Japan and the U.S. visited USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) April 4, to express appreciation to the crew for their support and dedication during Operation Tomodachi.

The Japanese Defense Minister Toshimi Kitazawa; the U.S. ambassador to Japan John Roos; Commander, Joint Support Force, Adm. Patrick Walsh;

and 12 other distinguished guests flew to the Ronald Reagan, currently operating in the Western Pacific Ocean, to personally express their thanks.

“I want to express my heartfelt appreciation and admiration to each and every U.S. service member that came to the aid of the victims of the disaster,” said Kitazawa. “Your warm help will be cherished and engrained in the hearts and souls of the Japanese

people.”

Operation Tomodachi, which is a Japanese word meaning “friend,” is a joint U.S.-Japan mission to provide humanitarian assistance and disaster relief to the victims of a magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan March 11.

Upon their arrival, the distinguished visitors received a tour of the ship, a series of briefings with the Ronald Reagan

and Carrier Air Wing 14 leadership, and held an all-hands call in the hangar bay with the crew.

Kitazawa, Roos and Walsh spoke to the commitment and duty of the Ronald Reagan and CVW 14 Sailors and Marines, and highlighted the strengthened bond between Japan and the U.S. “It is that fabric of friendship between our two countries, represented by each one of you here today that brings our two countries together,” said Roos.

“Today we stand together Japan and the U.S. - side by side on the deck of the USS Ronald Reagan as friends who have worked together, day and night, to uplift this great country.”

ARABIAN SEA (NNS) – USS Enterprise (CVN 65) successfully recovered one of its Sailors who went overboard on April 3, at approximately 9:30 a.m. local time, while the ship was operating in the Arabian Sea. The Sailor was quickly recovered by a SH-60F helicopter from Helicopter Anti-submarine Squadron 11, assigned to Carrier Air Wing 1, which was already airborne as the standby Search and Rescue helicopter. SAR helicopters are frequently airborne during flight quarters as a safety measure.

The Sailor sustained minor injuries and is being treated by the ship’s medical department.

This Week in Navy History April 9, 1813: the British privateer Caledonia, 8, was captured by Sailing Master James Mork on the schooner Nonsuch off the southern Atlantic coast.

April 5, 1839: the Florida Expedition is unified under the Commander Isaac Mayo with the strength of two schooners, Wave and Otsego, several barges, revenue cutters and the side-wheel steamer Poinsett in effort to stem the flow of arms from the Bahamas and Cuba to the Seminoles.

April 6, 1862: from the Tennessee River, gun boats Lexington and Tyler, under the commands of Lt. James Shirk and William Gwin, are instrumental in holding the Confederate advance at the Battle of Shiloh.

April 7, 1905: General Horace Porter, then U.S. Ambassador to France, finds the body of John Paul Jones in an old Protestant cemetery in Paris. The search lasted for six years. The Cemetery holding Jones’ grave was sold shortly after his death and became a garden that hosted animal fights before Porter found the location.

Jones had been preserved in alcohol and kept in a lead coffin, paid for by a French benefactor, in the event the U.S. sought his return. Seven Navy battleships and four cruisers escorted Jones’ body to America. His body was interned at the U.S. Naval Academy on April 24, 1906 presided over by President Theodore Roosevelt.

April 6, 1909: Commander Robert E. Perry reaches the North Pole and raises the U.S. flag. Though first to reach the pole, Perry was on his seventh Arctic expedition. Perry was 52-years-old at the time.

April 11, 1910: the battleship North Dakota (BB 12) is commissioned.

April 12, 1911: Lt. T. Gordon Ellyson becomes Naval Aviator Number One after completing his training at the Curtis Aviation Center. Ellyson’s rating came two months after the first ever landing of an aircraft on a ship, a Curtis Pusher on the USS Pennsylvania in San Francisco Bay, and six weeks after the first Congressional approval of the first Naval Appropriations Act, which included $25,000 for Naval aviation.

April 9, 1943: the Rank of Commodore is revived.

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Ceremony celebrates legacy of ‘Mighty Memphis’ The Los Angeles-class attack submarine USS Memphis (SSN 691) Naval Submarine Base New London to begin her final deployment in this Jan. 2011 Navy File photo.

Memphis will be decommissioned later this year.

Record breaking sub retires to history GROTON, Conn (NNS) – A standing-room only crowd filled the Naval Submarine Base’s Shepherd of the Sea chapel to bid farewell to Los Angeles-class submarine USS Memphis (SSN 691) on April 1.

In a tradition-filled ceremony, the submarine was decommissioned from the active fleet after 33 year of service. “I will not dwell on the sadness surrounding the loss of a tremendous asset to our fleet but rather would like our conversation to celebrate the life of the Mighty Memphis and her significant contributions to our nation,� said retired Capt. Denny Hicks, the first commanding officer of Memphis.

Hicks led Memphis’ first crew when the submarine was brought to life during a commissioning ceremony on Dec. 17, 1977. Before being home ported in Groton, Memphis operated out of Norfolk, Va. as a fleet asset until the late 1980’s when she was designated as the submarine force’s research and development boat to test emerging submarine technologies. In March 1981, Memphis completed a “round-the-world� cruise via the Panama Canal, including operations with both the Sixth and Seventh fleets. Memphis, originally built for the Cold War, deployed against Iraqi insurgency in 2006.

She completed her final

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Next, Memphis will travel to Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Maine to begin an inactivation. As part of that process, her crew of 13 officers and 121 enlisted personnel will transition to different assignments.

Memphis Sailors will be serving throughout the fleet.

deployment on March 2, conducting operations in the Mediterranean. “Much of her life was spent in the Atlantic northern latitudes. She set the record for the fastest under-ice polar transit, but she is equally comfortable operating in the blue waters of the Pacific or the heat of the Arabian Gulf.

Over and over, she defined endurance and flexibility as she visited more than 20 different foreign ports,� said Capt. Bill Merz, commodore of Submarine Development Squadron 12 and a former commanding officer of Memphis.

In her more than three decades of service, Memphis steamed more than 1.4 million miles, the equivalent of circumnavigating the globe nearly 60 times. She also won the coveted Battenberg Cup in 2005 as the best overall

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Strikes were made against Libyan military sites by coalition forces with Tomahawk Land to Air Missiles, the evening of March 19. Amidst the forces were two U.S. Navy ships and three submarines, including the USS Florida (SSGN 728).

This strike against Libyan forces marked the first time that an Ohioclass guided-missile submarine launched a TLAM in conflict. “What an accomplishment for the submarine force,� said Capt. Mark Davis, commodore, Task Force 69. “This multi-mission platform can remain undetected, yet provide a

full range of capabilities to the commander.�

The following day, U.S. Navy EA-18G Growlers were used against hostile forces for the first time, in conjunction with U.S. Marine Corps AV-8B Harriers, as electronic warfare support jamming enemy transmissions.

U.S. Navy and coalition units helped the Libyan people engage Libyan Coast Guard vessel Vittoria and two smaller craft who were firing indiscriminately at merchant vessels in the port of Misrata, Libya, March 28.

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by Capt. Dan Shaffer, analyzed their collected data to move appropriate Joint Force Maritime Component Command forces into position to

observe real time events, making this operation the first time that a sea combat commander has coordinated and executed a combined strike against hostile naval forces.

Vittoria was engaged and fired upon by a U.S. Navy P-3C Maritime Patrol aircraft with AGM-65 Maverick missiles; the first time that these missiles have ever been fired on a hostile vessel by a P-3C. While in pursuit of Vittoria, USS Barry (DDG 52), part of the Kearsarge Expeditionary Strike Group, and coalition naval forces from the French, Italian, Spanish and United Kingdom navies, contributed to the engagement by keeping merchant and humanitarian assistance vessels away from the engagement area and out of harms way.

Repair, maintenance facility assisting with Japan relief YOKOSUKA, Japan (NNS) – U.S. Naval Ship Repair Facility and Japan Regional Maintenance Center Yokosuka has been heavily involved with Commander, Fleet Activities Yokosuka in coordinated efforts for Voluntary Military Assisted Departure and Operation Tomodachi since the launching of both efforts.

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The deadline for submitting application packages is July 1. “STA-21 is a full-time, undergraduate education and commissioning program open to enlisted personnel of all pay grades and ratings to receive a top-notch college education and become commissioned officers,� said Cathy Kempf, head of Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps program selection and placement, and STA-21, at Naval Service Training Command’s Officer Development directorate in Pensacola, Fla. According to NROTC Program Director Dr. C. Jill Stein, the STA-21 program is one of the best officer commissioning programs the Navy has to offer. “STA-21 pays up to $10,000 per year for college costs such as tuition, books and fees,� said Stein. “All the while, Sailors draw their full pay and allowances for their current pay grade. Under the STA-21 program, Sailors have 36 months, including summer semesters, to complete their Bachelor’s degree requirements.�

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NSI is an eight-week course of intense officer preparation and indoctrination. Course enrollment is timed to allow college entrance during summer or fall semesters/quarters after selection.

The STA-21 program benefits Sailors as well as the Navy. The average candidate has at least two years and in most cases more than four years of observed performance which assists in the process of selecting the most qualified Sailors to receive a commission.

In the STA-21 program, as it is in many competitive selection processes, it is often a candidate’s extra efforts which can result in selection.

Reporting seniors who feel they have a Sailor with the potential to be selected

by STA-21 should comment on their leadership skills and potential in their performance evaluations early in their career. These comments are highly regarded by the boards, even in junior Sailors who’s time on board, time in grade or peer ranking will not allow their evaluations to be fully consistent with the comments.

Application packages must be postmarked on or before the July 1 deadline date. The deadline for submission of additional documentation to an applicant’s package is August 1.

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The wives of Bremerton 46 ready to perform a skit at Northwest Regional gathering in 1989. The club is entering a new membership drive.

WIVES | FROM PAGE 1 “And, we have a good time,” Price said of the time spent at club events, meetings, conventions and holiday events.

According to the current national vice president of NWCA, one important thing to remember is that membership is cyclical.

And while the Northwest still faces the same decline that has effected clubs for more than a decade, the East Coast has begun a rebound. The tidewater General consensus from region of Virginia has seen current members pegs the exponential growth with decline on families feeling several new charters, said as if they don’t have time Melissa Worthey. for something extra like The last great growth the club. in clubs like NWCA came Current members during the heyday and respect that issue, they all busy times during World know that 21st century life War II and the Cold War often requires Navy spousthat followed. es to work coupled with Members of the cub generally active lifestyles. agree that the current The Club has a response decline didn’t start until for that situation, members the 1990s. Once numberneed not do more than ing in the hundreds, local they can because belonging clubs now number 30 with is the important part. a total membership esti“If all mated to be you can do 450. is come to “It’s just a the meetdown cycle,” Navy Wives Clubs of ings once a Worthey America Bermerton month, it’s said. “We’re 46 Open House and fine,” said looking for Meet and Greet – Price. growth in Saturday April 9, from Marcia areas like 2 to 5 p.m. All Star Mack, a Bremerton.” thirtyLanes Restaurant Sub head: four-year and Solarium, 10710 benefits member of Silverdale Way beyond Bremerton Simple 46, know but true, its true it’s hard for some wives because she too has to know what the benefits gone from very active of Naval life are and what fully-involved member of support exists for families.

NWCA to “doing what she Price knows from her can.” Her work-life took own first days as a “very more and more time and young shy Navy wife” and grew from the classic Navy with a new husband about housewife in Jackson Park to leave Hawaii for the six to today’s ferry commute months in the Western across to Seattle. It leaves Pacific. Joining the club little time for the club. connected her with the “It’s hard to go to a meetunique community that the ing at 7 p.m. At night,” Navy is.

“I would have totally lost Mack said.

Mack is going to make it sitting there by my self,” time to attend tomorrow’s Price said.

Bremerton 46 “open house Focusing on hospitals and meet & greet” at All and schools for disabled Star Lanes and Solarium children, Price and others in Silverdale. And, she’s did good work while supporting each other through not going to give up her deployments and complica- lifetime of friendships and community. tions of Navy life.

“I’ll support as much as I Most of her friends from can,” Mack said. the old days are still memFull membership is bers of the clubs she’s been open to spouses of enlisted involved with. They still personnel serving in the make time. In Bremerton though, the club is down to Navy, Marine Corps, Coast a few due paying members. Guard and the active reserve units of these serPrice would like to see vices: spouses of enlisted Bremerton 46 grow to 100 personnel who have been members. Its important honorably discharged, that the club survive and retired or have been transbe passed on she said.

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Pentagon and Navy officials and discuss inequality of life issues faced by enlisted families. The wives in the club have a direct

ferred to the Fleet Reserve on completion of duty: and widows of enlisted personnel in these services.

No one is to be rejected and no degree of separation from Naval service is large enough to surpass if someone wanted to join.

“We have a membership for everyone,” Price said.

Sub head: D.C.

One of the biggest potential benefits for keeping the club active through participation and dues is the collective voice that travels to Washington D.C. Each year to speak for enlisted families in the Navy.

Worthy joins the clubs full leadership each year in D.C. To meet with

line to the leaders, said Worthey, who has taken meetings with the Chief of Naval Operations, the Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps, Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy and the Secretary of the Navy.

The club’s national leadership has all walked the walk of enlisted Navy life.

“We give our service families a voice,” Worthey said.

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David Green, a machinist at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, teaches Machinery Repairman 2nd Class Jason Lunstrum, from Roundhill, Va., new machining techniques aboard the aircraft carrier USS George Washington (CVN 73) in this March 23 file photo. George Washington departed from her forward operating port at Commander, Fleet Activities Yokosuka in response to the complex nature of the disaster that struck Japan on March 11.

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Shipyard spokesperson Darcy Jenne said the workers will be met by their own leadership as they land in the U.S.

The mission Shipyard workers went to seas with the George Washington early on March 21 as a precaution against the growing nuclear disaster that followed the March 11, 9.0 earthquake and tsunami that flattened much of the northeastern part of the Island nation.

The move to continue work previously scheduled for Yokosuka Naval Base at sea was made and 10 days later the ship was underway. “There were approximately 600 individual jobs accomplished in the past few weeks – which equates to about 10,000 man-days, and that’s quite a lot of work in a short amount of

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While many of the shipyard workers have Navy backgrounds most had never been to sea before joining the George Washington in local Japanese waters. “I’ve had a great time being deployed,� said Michael Hagstrom, Puget Sound Naval Shipyard ship fitter. “I have a brother that’s in the Navy, and I signed up to do a Tiger Cruise with him on the Lincoln—after my work in Japan was to be over. After the disasters stuck Japan, I’m glad to have gone underway with George Washington instead. I got the full Navy experience instead of a Tiger ‘Fun’ Cruise. I’ve gotten to see what it means to be a Sailor.�

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Returning are those who’s jobs are complete.

More than 100 workers remain on the George Washington to complete their portion of the maintenance on the Nimitz class carrier. Prior to this week’s returning workers, nonessential workers came home.

None of those working for PSNS & IMF were injured in the earthquake, tsunami or the following nuclear disaster, Jenne said.

And though some radiation was detected in areas that shipyard workers entered, readings were so low they posed no health threat, she said.

Housing and facilities supporting the shipyard workers in Japan escaped long-term damage from the temblor and tsunami, she said. “The health and safety of our work force and their families in Yokosuka have never been in danger due to the low levels of radioactivity detected by sensitive instruments,� Jenne said.

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of the shop, handing out the tool kits and providing sage mechanical advice falls on service technician Richard Stroud.

Saturday he ran the lifts, handed out tools and kept a few guys from making big mistakes.

Giving an example of the kind of mistakes made Stroud said, a guy rented space in the shop and spent three days on a torque converter in a Ford Bronco before finding a seal was replaced incorrectly and had to start over.

Bangor’s self-serve auto repair shop provides the space and the tools for aspiring mechanics

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The decked-out garage is home to full vehicle lifts, huge tool kits, specialBANGOR – In the 21st ized tools and one of the century there is no guarmore unique experiences antee that anyone would an amateur mechanic can know the first thing going have – putting tires on on under the hood of their rims. car or truck, but the Navy The real advantage in provides a fully funcworking at the Corner is tional and not the equipped lifts or the shop if tools, said sailors Richard and their Mehs, a families retired have the submariinclinaner. Mehs tion to spent bang most up their Taking time to read to read the of last knuckles a manuel at Mechanic’s Corner.

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GREG SKINNER/KITSAP NAVY NEWS morning Shadereplacing tree and a cooling backyard mechanics of hose and performing basic all stripes gather to fix, maintenance on his daughmaintain and modify cars ters Subaru. and trucks in the bays of Having the knowledge Mechanic’s Corner at Navy and expertise available at Base Kitsap Bangor. the window is great, he Some know their said. transaxle from a rear difChanging oil yourself is ferential while others not necessarily a money struggle to change their oil saver, but it’s a great introwithout causing thousands duction to vehicle mainteof dollars in damage. nance. Depending on the Kitsap Navy News

George Moncada (above) installs a transmission cooler in a custom location on his 2000 Camaro Z-28 in one of the stalls at Mechanic’s Corner on Naval Base Kitsap Bangor Saturday. Howard Blakes Sr. (left) watches and advises Jr. as he works to lower his truck suspension by as much as five inches Saturday. year make and model of the car, doing your own

tune-ups can save hundreds along with other

major repairs and work Overseeing the operation

The heavy use period for the shop comes on the weekends when the bays are full from one end of the shop to the other. It’s the logical time for auto maintenance.

“Especially when it’s raining,” said Stroud Parts for most jobs are available at a discount next door to the shop and NAPA will deliver, in most cases, in an hour or less. The Corner has a sand blaster for cleaning parts and soon will have a engine block and transmission cleaner as well.

Though most work is basic, a mechanic can do just about anything in the bays at the Corner.

No serious painting and no welding are allowed inside. But there is a welding station out back if you bring your own machine.

“The rule of thumb: the older the vehicle the more likely we’ll have the tool needed,” Stroud said.

The place sees its fair share of amateur spills and do-overs.

Last weekend, one man used a wrench to tighten his oil filter before Stroud

SEE SHOP | PAGE 13

Port Orchard VFW donates a Harley The raffle for veterans services nets 500 new members to the organization

By KATHY REED

Kitsap Navy News

OAK HARBOR – Bob Nielsen of Oak Harbor made two very important decisions last October.

First, he decided to join the

Whitehead-Muzzall post 7392 of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, located on Goldie Road in Oak Harbor.

Then he decided to buy not just one, but two raffle tickets for

a chance to win a motorcycle.

Both decisions appear to have been good ones.

In a drawing held March 26, nearly six months after buying his tickets, Nielsen found out he was the winner. He was presented with his brand new Harley Davidson motorcycle last Friday evening, and while there was a lot of joking and good humor at the award ceremony, it was no April Fool’s prank.

“A couple of fellas asked me if I

was interested in buying a ticket for $20, and I said, ‘OK, I’ll take a ticket,’” Nielsen recounted. “I’d never bought a $20 dollar raffle ticket before, so I decided to buy another one. It was the second ticket that won – number 1-57-7.”

Nearly all the members of the local post’s new motorcycle group, the VFW Riders, were on hand at Friday’s presentation, where Nielsen was handed the title and keys to his new Harley.

Not a bad outcome for a $40 investment.

“It was a damn good investment,” Nielsen said while perched on the saddle of his new bike. “I’ve never had the money to afford a bike like this. It’s just incredible. It’s beyond belief.”

In addition to his new bike, Nielsen has the satisfaction of knowing the money he spent went to a good cause. Half the

SEE HARLEY | PAGE 13

Navy releases reimbursement guidelines WASHINGTON (NNS) – Guidance on reimbursement of travel and transportation allowances and expenses for Sailors, civilians and their family members who were authorized departure from Japan or were

directed to stop movement to Japan was released March 30.

Sailors, civilians and families should keep all receipts for expenses incurred and submit travel and reimbursement claims to the

central processing site, Travel Processing Center, Hampton Roads, Va. Documents needed include a copy of completed and signed orders, travel itinerary issued by a commercial transportation office, lodging receipts, airline tickets purchased and any other expenses incurred during travel.

Lodging receipts are required for reimbursement. In accordance with the Joint Travel Regulation U6054-B1, Sailors, civilians and family members who stay with friends or relatives are not authorized lodging reimbursement, even if lodging payment is made to a friend or relative.

Since meals are part of the per diem allowance, receipts are not required for submission, but it is recommended that all receipts be kept.

Personnel entitled to safe haven pay and

allowances may request a 30-day advance payment of per diem. Requests can be sent to evacuations@navy.mil. For advanced pay questions, contact TPC-HR at 1-866-2390303 or evacuations@navy.mil.

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All travel and reimbursement payments will be deposited into the sponsor’s regular payday bank account. Contact TPC-HR if a change in financial institutions is required.

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The remaining proceeds will be divided among other programs the VFW supports.

Howard Blakes Jr. works to bolt on new mounts during a suspension-lowering project in the bay at Mechanic’s Corner last weekend. The first-time mechanic saved $1,500 doing the work himself. GREG SKINNER/KITSAP NAVY

A big donation The motorcycle raffle was the brainchild of Deborah Cahill, a member of the Port Orchard VFW’s Ladies Auxiliary, and the head of the fundraising committee. She purchased the Harley for the raffle. “I knew we couldn’t bake enough cookies and banana bread to do any real good,� Cahill said. “I decided we needed to ‘go big or go home.’ We went big.�

Cahill is a prime example of what the VFW is about. Her husband, Army Sgt. Stephen Cahill, was a career military man who served his country for 34 and a half years. He suffered a traumatic head injury in Iraq on his last tour of duty and came home for treatment. “When he came home from Iraq as an injured soldier, the military was just setting up the Wounded Warrior Battalion,� Cahill said. “The first place he took me when he got home was Fisher House. He took me there because he knew I did a lot of fundraising with the VFW and the place needs a lot of help.�

Sgt. Cahill died of a brain aneurism three years ago. Deborah found strength through her connection to the VFW. “They’re my family. If they weren’t here when my husband died, I don’t know what I’d have done,� she said. “I got calls from someone every day to check on me. And they did that the whole time he was deployed, too. [VFW members] take care of their own and their families.�

REPAIR | FROM PAGE 11

(Above) Raffle organizer Deborah Cahill of Port Orchard shakes Bob Nielsen’s hand last Friday after he was presented with the raffle prize – a new Harley Davidson motorcycle. (At left) Nielsen grins as he shakes hands with Oak Harbor VFW Post 7392 Commander Pete Sill.

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Oak Harbor post commander Pete Sill said that is exactly why the VFW exists. “Our mission is ‘to serve the living while honoring the dead,’� Sill said. “If people were to come in and ask about our programs, I’m sure they would be impressed by what we do.�

The local WhiteheadMuzzall post, which was established in 1946, is the fifth largest post in the state, boasting 983 members along with a Ladies Auxiliary of nearly 400.

The dollar amount of disability claims brought in for local veterans last year alone is staggering. “The two volunteer service officers here brought in $800,000 in claims for disability last year,� said Keith Wooldrige, commander of VFW District 15. “We serve our vets, absolutely. They can be 85 years old and come in 60 years after serving to apply for disability benefits, or

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More than claims While helping veterans with disability claims is a large part of what the VFW does, the local post and auxiliary are involved with other programs as well, such as the National Home for Children and the United Services Organization, and a multitude of other national programs. Local posts help support them through fundraising efforts like the motorcycle raffle.

But the VFW doesn’t just support national programs.

Post 7392 will loan medical equipment to anyone who asks, veteran or not.

Wooldrige and Sill say gaining new members is the biggest challenge they face. The motorcycle raffle, held at posts across the state, was a big boost. “The best part of the whole raffle was watching the VFW posts and their

auxiliaries pull together as one to achieve a worthy goal,� Cahill said. “And we recruited 500 new VFW members.�

Sill has been the commander of the WhiteheadMuzzall post since 2009.

He will be stepping down as the leader when his term ends June 30, although he plans to remain an active member.

His advice to the next commander? “Stay with our mission – that’s supporting our veterans,� he said.

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The rowdiest thing Stroud has seen in the shop was a man that came in and swapped the clutch on a 1992 Camaro in four hours. “It was just maddeningly quick,� Stroud said.

Howard Blakes Jr. spent the better part of last week on his back under a Ford truck working on a suspension-lowering project.

Though he installs competition audio systems in cars and trucks, the suspension work was Blakes’ first major endeavor as mechanic. Tackling his own suspension was as much about saving money as having the experience and gaining the knowledge.

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