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Beirut Tragedy Remembered HIGHLIGHTS October 25, 2018 Edition Beirut Tragedy Remembered HIGHLIGHTS NUWC’s 60 years of diving —— CO’s Corner —— NGIS Billeting Beautification —— MWR Job Fair Lt. Col. Jonathan Kenney, USMC, escorts Jean Giblin, mother of Sgt. Timothy Giblin, to lay a wreath in front of the Portsmouth Historical Society on Tuesday as part of the annual Beirut Memorial ceremony. Nine Rhode Island Marines lost their lives in that explosion on October 23, 1983. They were: Sgt. Timothy Giblin, Providence; Cpl. Rick Crudale, West Warwick; Cpl. Edward Iacovino, Jr., Warwick; Cpl. David Massa, Warren; Cpl. Thomas Shipp, Woonsocket; Cpl. Edward Soares Jr., Tiverton; Cpl. James Silvia of Middletown and his brother-in-law, Cpl. Stephen Inside This Issue Spencer of Portsmouth and Lance Cpl. Thomas Julian of Portsmouth. It was thirty-five years ago Tuesday, on a sunny Sunday morning when a truck weighed down with explosives rammed through the perimeter and into the lobby of the US Marine Corps Barracks in Beirut Lebanon and detonated. The explosion, the worst non-nuclear detonation since World War II, Around the Station 2-6 killed 220 American Marines, 18 Sailors and 3 Soldiers. Nine of the Marines who lost their lives that day came from the Ocean State. The annual ceremony remembers their sacrifice and shares the CO’S Corner 7 communities support and condolence with their families who continue to mourn them, was held at the Portsmouth Historical Society—home of the monument to their service. The event, hosted by the Portsmouth Historical Society and organized by Marine Corps At the Clinic 8 Detachment Newport and the Marine Corps League, included the participation of Navy Band Northeast and benediction and invocation support by Chaplain Robert Lancia, Cmdr, US Navy, Morale Welfare & Rec 9-10 Retired. Senator Jack Reed, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse and Congressman David Cicilline provided brief remarks to those assembled and Kasim Yarn, Director of RI Department of Veterans Affairs read a proclamation issued by RI Governor Gina Raimondo declaring October 23, 2018 as a Day of Meat & Potatoes 11 Remembrance for the Beirut Bombing in Rhode Island. Guest speaker at the event was Lt. Col. Jonathan Kenney, USMC who is currently enrolled at the Now Hear This 12-13 US Naval War College. Lt. Col. Kenney began his remarks by offering his comfort, support and prayers to the families in attendance. “Whether we remember the loss of Marines from recent conflicts or from thirty-five years ago—we remember,” he assured those assembled. Lt. Col. Kenney Traffic & Commuting 14 served as a company commander in the 1st Battalion, 8th Marines—known as the Beirut Battalion— in Afghanistan in 2010. “The Marine Corps is a brotherhood that does not suffer self pity,” said Kenney. “The Marines, Around the Fleet 15 the RI 9, are looking down upon us today, every moment, and they are probably smiling.” He then called the audiences attention to the last 3 lines of the Marine Corps Hymn: “If the Army and the Navy ever look on heaven’s scenes; They will find the streets are guarded by The United States Veteran’s News 16-17 Marines.” 1 AROUND THE STATION... Typical Interior SPRUCING UP THE BILLETS! Renovation of Navy Gateway Inns and Suites (NGIS) buildings 678 and 172 wrapped up earlier this year. The renovation contracts were awarded to NUTMEG Companies on Sept. 29, 2016 for $18,161,020. The work included the renovation of the exterior and interior of building 678 which is located off of Meyerkord Rd. in training country and the interior of building 172 located behind the Chalet on Coasters Harbor Island. Depicted above is the exterior of building 678 with an inset picture showing typical progress on the interior. Construction began Jan. 17, 2017 and the work on building 172 was completed at the end of April with building 678 wrapping up in late August. In addition to these two buildings—a major hallway renovation was completed in building 447 and exterior painting is wrapping up on building 443. In total, including the new building, a total of $83,318,636 has been spent since 2016 on improvements to billeting onboard NS Newport. Each year, over 17,000 students pass through one of the many schools on the installation —the Navy’s Center of Excellence for Officer and Senior Enlisted Education and Train- ing. GATEWAY INNS & SUITES GRAND OPENING The ribbon cutting commemorating the completion and official grand opening of the newest Navy Gateway Inns & Suites Build- ing, (building 1688), will be held at 1 p.m. next Thursday, No- vember 1. The new 200 room facility will house the main central check-in for NGIS, making the process much more convenient for those individuals arriving via Gate 1. There are 194 single rooms and 6 suites in the building, a small conference room, in- dustrial laundry, office spaces, various staff areas, Navy Ex- change Micro-Mart and outdoor areas for the guests. The cere- mony begins at 1 p. m., followed by tours of the facility for inter- ested guests. Anyone with installation access is welcomed. NAVSTA Newport Public Affairs Office PAO Office Line: (401) 841-3538 Base Condition Line: (401) 841-2211 Operational and Exercise Impacts are often E-Mail: [email protected] communicated to the public first using the installation Capt. Ian L. Johnson, Commanding Officer Facebook Page—’like’ us at: Facebook.com/ Lisa Rama, Public Affairs Officer NAVSTANewport to stay informed! Kalen Arreola, Public Affairs Specialist Also follow us on Twitter: @NAVSTANEWPORTRI 2 AROUND THE STATION... NUWC’s Engineering and Diving Support Unit’s 60-year legacy began during Cold War By NUWC Public Affairs This year marks the 60th anniversary of the Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) Division Newport Engineering and Diving Support Unit (EDSU). Much like when the team formed in 1958, the EDSU of 2018 employs diving and engineering expertise to provide waterborne engineering solutions for the fleet. Typical duties may include troubleshooting for towed array handling systems, cleaning and inspection of submarine wide aperture arrays, inspection of waterfront infrastructure, search and recovery of unmanned underwater vehicles, and development and testing of various port security technologies. The EDSU also has experience executing waterside security scenarios utilizing divers, swimmers and In 1976, Naval Underwater Systems Center (NUSC) surface craft. They have a great understanding of diver Ken Beatrice aligns a transducer during tests off systems and the ability to provide effective feedback Puerto Rico. (Photo courtesy Roy Manstan) coupled with the thorough data analysis of test results phone call from the Naval needed to support test teams in making informed Sea Systems Command recommendations. (NAVSEA) would send 1950s–1960s divers within hours to During the early years of the Cold War, many meet the ship in locations members of the U.S. Navy and Underwater Sound such as the coast of Laboratory staff participated in oceanic expeditions Africa, in the studying deep-water environments where submarines Mediterranean, Persian were now capable of operating. It became apparent that Gulf, Indian Ocean, in the to fully understand underwater acoustics, some of those Philippines, Singapore, civilian scientists, engineers and technicians — typically the Panama Canal, and confined to shipboard lab spaces — would have to be nearly every naval base in trained to work within the environment. the United States. Over the next decade, several more Sound Lab By the mid-1980s, the engineers trained as Navy divers. Originally a loosely Naval Underwater organized team, diving was and continues to be a Systems Center (NUSC) collateral duty in conjunction with each diver’s primary divers had transitioned engineering tasking. In the 1960s, ocean acoustics drew the sonar dome tiger team In the 1960s, Sumner "Joe" the divers into many off-shore research operations, some activities to fleet divers, Gordon, an Underwater of which saw the use of deep submergence vehicles. and shifted their emphasis Sound Laboratory (USL) div- 1970s–1980s er, tests a diver communica- The successful acoustics research during the Cold to submarine sonar. The EDSU had already begun tion system designed and War led to the development of high-powered patented by USN/USL engi- work on the hull-mounted antisubmarine sonar for surface ships in the 1970s, neers. (Photo courtesy Roy Wide Aperture Array, and including what became the hull-mounted sonar array Manstan) with an active and passive capability. Carrying this new the Seawolf-class sonar, ships accompanied carrier groups into all of the submarine (SSN 21) bow sphere would soon follow. oceans, anticipating that Soviet submarines would lurk Meanwhile, the new thin-line towed arrays were being unseen and always be a potential threat. When a designed for installation on all Los Angeles (SSN 688)- problem occurred with the sonar, there was an opening class attack boats. Several of the divers were fully in the protective bubble surrounding the sonar system, involved as research, development, test and evaluation and a tiger team would immediately deploy to assess engineers for these systems. and correct the damage. When divers were required, a 3 AROUND THE STATION... NUWC’s Engineering and Diving Support Legacy, cont’d 1990s waterfront The threats from Soviet submarines remained a focus NUWC asset of sonar development, and the EDSU was fully engaged. working on Towed arrays and their handling equipment continued to underwater anti- be improved, and as 688-class boats were commissioned terrorism and sent out to sea, they carried one of these systems. technologies. Already well versed in the system design and the The DHS work implementation of pier side upgrades, EDSU divers soon merged worked directly with fleet divers, conducting formal with the Navy’s training and participating in fast-response tiger teams force protection around the world.
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