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The Volume 12, Issue 15 Thursday, March 31, 2011 JTF UNDERWATER REENLISTMENT Pfc. Justus Rallis carries the flag, March 25 during a reenlistment ceremony for Staff Sgt. RoseAnne Dundon. - photo by Army Staff Sgt. Christopher Begnoche KEEPING A WATCHFUL EYE Machinery Technician 3rd Class Jason Miller a qualified coxswain attached to U.S. Coast Guard Maritime Security Detachment Joint Task Force Guantanamo, stands watch aboard a safety vessel during a training exercise with the Naval Station Guantanamo Bay Harbor Security team, March 25. – photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Maddelin Angebrand. UNITED THROUGH READING Spc. Meredith Vincent reads a book for her children as chaplain’s assistants record the session as part of the United Through Reading program. – photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Joe Ebalo. March Madness Gets Hairy The history, the heroes and the horror! PUNCHING FOR FITNESS Master-at-Arms 2nd Class Nancy Mora attached to Navy Expeditionary Guard Battalion Joint Task Force Guantanamo practices her boxing routine, March 25. – photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Maddelin Angebrand. Trooper to Trooper featuring Command Sgt. Major Daniel Borrero Senior Enlisted Leader, 525th MP Battalion With each passing moment you for helping me with Although my explanations to that we serve there are always my aliment.” the Soldiers was more specific challenges to be faced. The The challenge of based on the question, you kind of challenge can be something as walking away from an see where I am heading with this. simple as properly wearing your individual who has just So I challenge the leaders in the uniform to something more spit in your face or has units to take the time out to talk demanding like charging into a thrown feces in your with their Troopers and explain firefight to pull a fellow Soldier face for the third straight the why behind decisions made out of harm’s way. The challenges day, yet you still remain without using the terms “They that each of us face each day are all professional in all that said” or “They are making us” and unique, special and significant to you do. Clearly, I could go on and via the Battalion comment box, accept that we - the senior leaders that individual and at times to that on listing the various challenges addressing a Soldier’s challenge - are now, “They” and should hold unit. Here at JTF-GTMO these one individual could face and for of trying to understand why a ownership in decisions made by anomalies hold just as true. All some of us we have faced all of particular decision was made the the respective commands. The Troopers here face individual as the above listed here and maybe way that it was. To this question, Warrior Ethos and our service well as unit specific challenges that even more. a part of my response was, we core values are tools that help us force each Soldier, Sailor, Airmen, As a Senior Enlisted Leader as a command place the needs as leaders answer the questions of the mission to the forefront; Coast Guardsmen and Marine to, for my unit, balancing the mission of our Troopers and help us in Wounded rebel fighters are treated in a hospital in Ajdabiyah after being brought in from the road to Ras Lanuf, in Libya, which kind of sounds like “I will at times, fall back on what we term while keeping a watchful eye on all overcoming our challenges as March 30. – photo by Reuters “Warrior Ethos” and/or our own the individual and unit challenges always place the mission first.” well. To the Troopers, you are service specific core values. is a charge all SEL’s take on. We While doing this we balance the all empowered with these same For example: do this through our subordinate safety of our forces against the ethos and core values. I now The challenge of standing unit leaders. In the Army this resources available which kind of “CHALLENGE” you to use sounds like “I will never leave a Gadhafi forces drive rebels from key oil town a post for 12 hours knowing starts with the team leader and them when you face adversity or full well that the person you are squad leader and carries on fallen comrade” to ensure mission whatever size hurdle comes your Voice of America News Service On Tuesday, pro-Gadhafi troops reversed the rebel’s push, guarding would harm you at a through the platoon sergeants success which kind of sounds like way. To ask for clarification and Libyan rebels are frantically fleeing eastward after forces loyal hammering them with tank and artillery fire and forcing a panicked to leader Moammar Gadhafi drove them Wednesday from a key retreat to Ras Lanuf. Opposition fighters pleaded for allied air moments notice. Or the challenge and first sergeants. All the while “I will never accept defeat.” While assistance and know that your oil port. strikes as they fled. of providing professional medical working hand in hand alongside we persevere against the enemy shipmates, battle buddies and and turn their non-compliant Western news reports from outside Ras Lanuf say rebels are Loyalist troops also continued to besiege Misrata on Wednesday, care to an individual that would use our officer counterparts to make friends stand by your side to help retreating amid intense fighting with pro-government forces the last significant rebel holdout in the west. your exceptional skills against you mission happen and take care of behavior toward a compliant status you overcome any challenge, and peacefully which kind of sounds shelling them and firing rockets. Western nations began enforcing a United Nations-authorized by saying you provided inhumane our Troopers. Recently, I received that your leaders stand poised The reports said large numbers of rebels fled in pickup trucks, no-fly zone over Libya on March 19. On Wednesday, NATO like “I will never quit.” treatment versus saying, “thank an anonymous letter sent to me to assist you in anyway possible. giving up nearly all the ground they had taken since a weekend push member states begin enforcing all military operations in the North westward. African nation. JTF Guantanamo The Wire Contact us Commander Executive Editor Editor’s Desk: 3499 Lawmakers, 9-11 Commission Warn U.S. vulnerable to terror threat Navy Rear Adm. Jeffrey Harbeson Army Staff Sgt. Benjamin Cossel: 3499 From the continental United States Voice of America News Service Command Master Chief Assistant Editor Commercial: 011-53-99-3499 States is better prepared to prevent attacks federal agency or official is in charge. Command Sgt. Maj. Spc. Meredith Vincent: 3651 DSN: 660-3499 The former leaders of the bi-partisan like those on the World Trade Center and Kean and Hamilton also raised concerns Mark Porrett Photojournalists: E-mail: [email protected] 9-11 Commission say the United States has the Pentagon, there are significant gaps that about the emergency command structure for Office of Public Affairs Director Mass Communications Specialist 2nd Class Elisha Dawkins Online: www.jtfgtmo.southcom.mil not done enough to protect itself from the require urgent attention. cities and towns across the country, saying Navy Cmdr. Tamsen Reese: 9928 Mass Communications Specialist 2nd Class Jason Tross ever evolving terrorist threat. He said the terrorist threat has become many communities have yet to decide who Deputy Director Mass Communications Specialist 2nd Class Jordan Miller Commission Chairman Thomas Kean, more complex and diverse, making small is in charge, if and when there is an attack. Air Force Lt. Col. Don Langley: 9927 Mass Communications Specialist 2nd Class Wesley Kreiss Operations Officer Mass Communications Specialist 2nd Class Joe Ebalo The WIRE is the official news magazine of Joint Task Force former Republican governor of the eastern attacks from groups like al-Qaida more Lawmakers at the Senate Homeland CW2 Raymond Chapman: 3649 Mass Communications Specialist 2nd Class Guantanamo. It is produced by the JTF Public Affairs Office to state of New Jersey, and Vice Chairman likely. He also warned there is a growing Security and Governmental Affairs inform and educate the Troopers of JTF Guantanamo through Senior Enlisted Leader Maddelin Angebrand news, features, command guidance, sports and entertainment. Lee Hamilton, a former Democratic threat from would-be terrorists in the committee hearing agreed that more needs Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Spc. Justin Pierce The WIRE seeks to provide maximum disclosure with minimum congressman, testified before a Senate United States who are not affiliated with to be done. Sally Hendricks: 3649 Spc. Kelly Gary delay with regard to security, accuracy, propriety and policy. This DoD news magazine is an authorized publication for the committee in the first of a series of hearings any group. Committee Chairman, Senator Joe members of the Department of Defense. Contents of The WIRE to review the U.S. response almost 10 years Hamilton said he is concerned the Lieberman (Connecticut) said the United COVER: A Trooper gives some furry lip service for The Wire. – photo by Spc. Meredith Vincent are not necessarily the official views of, or endorsed by, the U.S. Government, the Department of Defense, or Joint Task Force after the September 11, 2001 terrorist country has not done enough to streamline States has sometimes avoided disaster Guantanamo. It is printed by the Defense Logistics Agency attacks. communication between its intelligence thanks to an inept bomb maker or a faulty Document Services with a circulation of 1,000. Kean told lawmakers, while the United agencies, and it is still not clear which fuse. THE WIRE | PAGE 2 TROO P ER T O TROO P ER | | NE W S YOU CAN USE THE WIRE | PAGE 3 Trooper reaches education milestone, earns degree Story and photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Jason Tross Grady, who currently works Navy Operations Specialist as a guard with the Naval Stories and reporting by Spc.