Volume 16, Issue 15 May 30, 2014 Special all-color MemorialMemorial DayDay IssueIssue Around the Bay The Wire poetry contest of the week We want to publish your poetry! Send us any verses, sonnets, limericks or song lyrics before Friday, June 13. The first place artist will have their work published in the June BM1 Tyler Dunn 20th edition of The Wire. Please send all submissions to Port Security Unit 312 [email protected]. Be sure to include a title, SGT Joseph Caissie your name, rank and unit. 747th Military Police Company Volunteer opportunities MWR is currently in need of volunteers for a variety of events and activities. They are looking for coaches and Cover photo: Marine Sgt. Derrick Wyatt leads the officials for sports teams and volunteers for all upcoming drill team responsible for the 21-gun salute, Monday, runs to man water stations and guide runners. Call 2113 at the annual Cuzco Wells Memorial Day Ceremony. for more information. Wyatt is part of the Marine Corps Security Forces on Naval Station Guantanamo Bay. (Photo by Sgt. Spencer Rhodes) FEATURES 6 • Cover Story Guantanamo residents, both civilian and mil- itary gathered to pay their respects to fallen heroes during a somber Memorial Day service Monday morning. 8 • Vigilant Warrior The Soldiers of the 525th Military Police Battal- ion tested their physical and mental fortitude with the Vigilant Warrior Challenge. Later that evening they competed in more recreational challenges in their quarterly Pig Bowl. 10 • Fit for the fallen GitmoFit participated in the Murph Challenge, an annual fundraiser that honors the memory Photo by Pvt. Kourtney Grimes/The Wire Pvt. Kourtney by Photo of Navy Seal Lt. Michael P. Murphy, who died The Joint Task Force’s newest Vigilant Warrior, Army Sgt. Maj. heroically in combat. Janet M. Harris, stands in front of the 525th Military Police Battalion during the change of responsibility ceremony at Bulkeley Field May 22. 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Flying toward Kathmandu er. I have had conversations with Troop- RINES: ‘I’LL NEVER STOP’ you can look out the window of the ers facing mountains here at GTMO, or By Andrew deGrandpre, Staff Writer, Marine Corps plane and see dozens of mountain peaks back at home. It might be a stressful job. Times above 20,000 feet. The highest of It might be uncer- MIAMI -- One of the military’s most respected them all is Mount Everest, and it is tainties about the leaders has taken aim at an amorphous “chattering class” within the Pentagon and beyond who’ve a magnificent mountain. It rises to a future, or financial questioned the mettle of today’s Marines. majestic height of 29,029 feet above pressures, or tensions Using impassioned oration and drawing on raw personal experience, Marine Corps Gen. John Kelly sea level. I have seen it and admired in family or personal is leveraging his clout as a Gold Star dad and the it from a distance, but there is no relationships. Our head of U.S. Southern Command to strike back at way I could climb it. I am in awe mountains might feel those who would suggest Iraq and Afghanistan vet- erans somehow don’t meet the measure of previous of anyone who accomplishes such as insurmountable as generations. To the contrary, Kelly argues, today’s a feat. Mount Everest. Sir troops “will do anything we ask if well led and they are confident we have their backs.” Sir Edmund Hillary and his Nep- Edmund Hillary was The full article can be found at http://www.marinecorpstimes.com. alese guide, Tenzing Norgay, were determined to climb the first people to make the historic that mountain, but climb of Mount Everest in 1953. Sir Cmdr. Stephen Gammon wise enough to know OBAMA: U.S. TO KEEP NEARLY 10,000 TROOPS Edmund Hillary became famous he could only do so IN AFGHANISTAN IN 2015 because of this accomplishment, but if with help. If Hillary had attempted to By Nick Simeone, American Forces Press Service it were not for his partner he would not climb it alone he would have failed. He have survived to tell the story. Coming would have died. We all need someone WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama today announced the United States plans to keep nearly down from the peak, Sir Edmund lost like Tenzing Norgay. We must climb 10,000 American troops in Afghanistan next year -- a his footing. Tenzing held the line taut mountains together. level largely in line with what U.S. commanders had requested -- and that nearly all U.S. forces will leave and kept them both from falling by dig- I have witnessed such teamwork in the country by the end of 2016, bringing to an end a ging his ax into the ice. Later, Tenzing JTF GTMO. I want to thank you for U.S. military mission that began in response to the refused any special credit for saving every way you have been like Tenzing 9/11 terrorist attacks. “The bottom line is it’s time to turn the page on Sir Edmund Hillary’s life. As he put it, Norgay, looking out for others who are more than a decade in which so much of our foreign “mountain climbers always help each with you on this expedition.