On the Way Out? Put Me in Coach
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Volume 10, Issue 38 Friday, November 13, 2009 THE A JTF Journal Around t h e JTF Put me in coach JTF Troopers coach youth sports On the way out? Not so fast, have you outprocessed? Around t h e JTF JTFJTF GUANTANAMOGUANTANAMOJTF-GTMOJTF-GTMO Commander:Commander: Commander:Commander: Perfection or NavyNavy RearRear Adm. Adm. TomDavid Copeman M. Thomas, Jr. CommandNavyJointNavy Rear Rear Task Adm. Adm. Master Force Mark Mark CommandChief: H. H. Buzby Buzby Master Chief:Navy MasterJointJoint Chief Task Task ForcePettyForce CMC: CMC:Officer NavyNavy Air ScottCommand Command Force A. ChiefFleming Master Master Master Chief Chief Sgt.Brad Brad BrianLeVault LeVault T. OfficeSchexnaydre of Public Affairs OfficeOffice of of Public Public Affairs: Affairs: excellence Director:Office of Public Affairs: Director:Director:Navy Lt.Navy Navy Cmdr. Cmdr. Cmdr. Brook Rick Rick Haupt: Haupt:DeWalt: 9928 9928 9928 Deputy: Army Lt. Col. Edward Bush: 9927 Navy Senior Chief Petty Officer DeputyDeputy:Navy Army Director:Cmdr. Lt. PaulineCol. Edward Storum: Bush: 99289927 Supervisor:Supervisor:DeputyArmy Maj.Director: Army Army Diana 1st 1st Sgt. Sgt. Haynie: Patrick Patrick Sellen: Sellen:9927 3649 3649 Robert Kelley Supervisor:Army Capt. Kim Kleiman: 9927 ________________________________________JTF Guantanamo Supervisor:Army 1st Sgt. TheThe Shellie WireWire Lewis: 3649 Army 1st Sgt. James Venske: 3649 I’ve always considered myself a goal-oriented person Editor:Editor: during my 25-year naval career. It has been a pretty good The Wire ArmyArmy Staff Staff Sgt. Sgt. Paul PaulThe Meeker: Meeker: Wire 3651 3651 career at that; but I did not achieve what I thought would be Executive Editor: the perfect end. So, I’ve looked back at what I did and how I ExecutiveArmy 1st Lt.Editor: AssistantChrisAssistant Cudney: Editor: Editor: 2171 got here. 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Spc.the ShanitacontinentalShanita Simmons: Simmons: United 3589 3589 States: do from our successes. Editor’sArmyCommercial:Army Spc. Spc. Desk: Daniel Daniel 011-53-99-3651 3594Welch: Welch: or 3589 3589 2171 I was a young trouble shooter in my first squadron FromDSN: the 660-3651 continental United States: performing my pre-flight systems checks on board Commercial:Email: [email protected] 011-53-99-3594 us:us: the USS Nimitz when I found a discrepancy. I knew DSN:Online: 660-3594 www.jtfgtmo.southcom.mil what to do to fix it and felt I had plenty of time. All Email:BaseBase Information:Information: [email protected] 20002000 I had to do was move a couple of assemblies around PublicOnline:Public Affairs Affairs www.jtfgtmo.southcom.mil Office:Office: 36513651 oror 35963596 and the crew would have perfect systems to complete their mission. Well, it didn’t go as I had planned. The FromFrom thethe continentalcontinental UnitedUnited States:States: flight deck coordinator saw that I was having trouble Commercial:Commercial: 011-53-99-3651011-53-99-3651 COVER: getting one of the assemblies back in place. He had to DSN:DSN:Air Force 660-3651660-3651 Senior Airman Edward Edwards, down that aircraft and move the flight crew to another with the Commissions Support Group, plane to make the sortie. He didn’t chew me out to explains defensive strategies with his my surprise. He gave me encouragement for giving it youth sportsCoverCover flag football PhotoPhoto team, By:By: Nov. 5. – JTF Guantanamo photo by Army Spc. Tiffany a good try. AddairNavyNavy PettyPetty OfficerOfficer 2nd2nd ClassClass An interesting tradition still followed by many (if not all) Navajo rug makers is making sure that a RobertRobert ClowneyClowney “spirit string” is part of the completed rug. You see, the BACKOnline:Online: COVER: Navajo rug maker puts a lot of time and effort into each Wind turbines at Naval Station Guatnanamo Bay providewww.jtfgtmo.southcom.milwww.jtfgtmo.southcom.mil a source of energy for the handmade rug. They believe that part of their spirit, or residents of the base. – JTF Guantanamo soul, gets trapped in the rug as it is woven on the loom. photo by Army Spc. Cody Black They purposely leave a small piece of yarn, called the “spirit string,” sticking out slightly from the surface of the rug. This will allow their spirit a way to get out of the rug. Also, the Navajo believe that only God is perfect and that what humans do cannot be on the same perfect level. Therefore, they will make sure some little imperfection is part of anything they create. Usually, one has to look very close to find the imperfection, so it does not detract from the The WIRE is the official news magazine of Joint Task Force The WIRE is the official news magazine of Joint Task Force beauty of the item. Guantanamo. It is produced by the JTF Public Affairs Office Guantanamo. It is produced by the JTF Public Affairs Office to inform and educate the Troopers of JTF Guantanamo Perfection is defined as the quality or state of being perfect or to inform and educate the Troopers of JTF Guantanamo through news, features, command guidance, sports and through news, features, command guidance, sports and complete, so that nothing requisite is wanting. Remember, each and entertainment. The WIRE seeks to provide maximum entertainment. The WIRE seeks to provide maximum every one of us has our own little piece of yarn; so striving only disclosure with minimum delay with regards to security, disclosureTheThe PublicPublicwith minimum AffairsdelayAffairs with regards OfficeOffice to security, accuracy, propriety and policy. This DoD news magazine is for perfection leads to disappointment and frustration, even when accuracy, propriety and policy. This DoD news magazine is JointTaskForce-Guantanamo,anJointTaskForce-Guantanamo, authorized publication for the members of the Department an authorized publication for the members of the Department you succeed. My advice is to work to achieve excellence, do of Defense. Contents of The WIRE are not necessarily the ofproducesproduces Defense. Contents TheThe of The WIREWireWire are, , not whichwhich necessarily istheis official views of, or endorsed by, the U.S. Government, the your best and take pride in what you do. That way when you official views of, or endorsed by, the U.S. Government, the printedDepartmentprinted of Defense,underunder or Joint thethe Task provisionsForceprovisions Guantanamo. It Department of Defense, or Joint Task Force Guantanamo. It come to the end of this career, you can look back with is printed by the Document Automation & Production Service isofof printed DepartmentDepartment by the Document Automation ofof & ProductionDefenseDefense Service satisfaction and a sense of accomplishment, even if you with a circulation of 1000. came up short of your goal. InstructionwithInstruction a circulation of 1,000. 5120.45120.4 PAGE 2 | THE WIRE TROO P ER -T O -TROO P ER | FRIDAY , NOVEMBER 13, 2009 JSMART; here for Troopers Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Frank A. Robinson, Navy Capt. Robert M. Schlegel, Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Kyle K. Lafond and Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Joy F. Wilson, members of the JSMART team, stand in front of their new sign in Camp America, Oct. 28. – JTF Guantanamo photo by Army Spc. Tiffany Addair Army Spc. some of the stress and concerns involved both Lafond and Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Tiffany Addair with being deployed. The JSMART team Frank A. Robinson, a neuropsychiatric ____________________________JTF Guantanamo Public Affairs puts forward a numerous amount of services technician and lead petty officer with for Troopers to take advantage of. Whether JSMART, stated that they get to look out The mission at Joint Task Force you have a deployment-related issue, for their fellow Troopers and take care of Guantanamo is a difficult one. Aside from an operational stress issue or have been their own. being away from family, spouses and diagnosed with depression or a behavioral “It gives us that warm and fuzzy friends, there are operational situations health problem, JSMART has resources to knowing that they have something hard which can hinder an individual Trooper or help.