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VOLUME 1, NO. 41 | 6 JANUARY 2012
www.kitsapnavynews.com New Year’s Eve at Sea
Broken water main floods intersection at Naval Base Kitsap Bangor By JJ Swanson jswanson@soundpublishing.com
A water main pipe burst on Naval Base Kitsap Bangor around 2 am on Jan. 1 releasing thousands of gallons under the street and temporarily shutting off water to about 180 homes, according to facilities service officials. The twelve-inch main “T” pipe was located near the intersection of Thresher and Ribalo
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Sailors celebrate New Year’s Eve in the aft mess decks aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74). John C. Stennis is deployed to the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility conducting maritime security operations and support missions as part of Operation Enduring Freedom. U.S. NAVY PHOTO BY MASS COMMUNICATION SPECIALIST 2ND CLASS TIMOTHY AGUIRRE.
Occupy Trident protestors tried and fined Anti-nuclear protestors not deterred by court’s decision By JJ Swanson jswanson@soundpublishing.com
The Kitsap County District Court, on Jan. 4, ruled against four antinuclear protestors charged with civil infractions for blocking off traffic to the main entrance of Naval Base Kitsap Bangor. The defendants Anne Hall, a Lutheran minister, Brenda McMillan, a retired book keeper, Frances Lamb,
a retired Catholic lay minister, and Thomas Rogers, a retired Navy nuclear submarine captain, are all members of the Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action in Silverdale. Ground Zero Center has protested the nuclear presence in Kitsap County for 34 years. Washington State troopers accosted the four individuals for violating the traffic code of “pedestrians on roadways” on Aug. 8 when they crossed the fog line onto State Route 308 near the Trigger Avenue gate carrying a 44-foot long inflatable Trident II D-5 missile replica into the street. All defendants testified that the intent was to block off traffic to Bangor base for as long as possible. “I wanted to reach as many people as
I could driving by on the illegality and immorality of what is going on inside that base,” Hall said in her testimony. Video footage submitted as evidence to the court documented a “missile dance” between state troopers and protestors who shoved the inflatable missile back and forth across the road. Kitsap County District Court Judge James M. Riehl, during a pretrial hearing, decided that defendants would be allowed to show this footage as well as testify to the necessity and cause of their actions at the bench trial. “We hear people’s explanations of why they did what they did often on the civil calendar. Rarely do we find it a basis for the infraction, but mitigating
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THIS EDITION TRICARE pharmacy options ..................pg. 2 Diet pills removed from NEX ......................pg. 3 Changes to separation bonuses .................pg. 6 USS Thomas served in both WWII theatres ..... pg. 12