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Kadena Airmen Put out Local Fire KIDS, TELL US YOUR STORY! Check out more military children VOLUME 13 NO. 13 MARCH 21 − MARCH 27, 2019 stories at: SUBMIT STORIES TO: [email protected] STRIPESOKINAWA.COM FACEBOOK.COM/STRIPESPACIFIC militarychild. FREE stripes.com • Send your Month of the Military Child submission to MilitaryChild@ stripes.com by April 30! INSIDE INFO Keramashoto National Park Simply a piece of paradise USO OKINAWA STAFF SPOTLIGHT Pages 4-5 PAGE 2 KADENA VOLUNTEERS TEAM UP WITH RED CROSS IN SAIPAN PAGE 3 Win a $300 Kadena airmen put out local fire gift card BY STAFF SGT. JESSICA SMITH, 18TH WING Vote online by 4HYJO KADENA AIR BASE – Two aircraft recovery airmen from the 18th Equipment Maintenance Squadron put out a local sugar mill fire Jan 11, 2019 in Uruma, Ja- pan. On their way to dinner, Tech. Sgt. Argo Cesareo and Senior Airman Justin Kannenberg noticed smoke com- ing from a building on the opposite side of the four- lane road. Alarmed, but unable to tell what exactly it was, they kept an eye on the building until it was closer in view. SEE AIRMAN ON PAGE 6 ILZ[VMWHJPÄJZ[YPWLZJVT Courtesy photo 2 STRIPES OKINAWA A STARS AND STRIPES COMMUNITY PUBLICATION MARCH 21 − MARCH 27, 2019 Max D. Lederer Jr. USO Okinawa staff spotlight Publisher Lt. Col. Richard E. McClintic Commander NAME: Yoneko Tamanaha Joshua M Lashbrook Chief of Staff POSITION/TITLE: Center Operations Michael Davidson Specialist Revenue Director TIME WORKED AT USO: June 9th, 2003 - Chris Verigan Engagement Director Present Marie Woods CENTER/OFFICE LOCATION: USO Futenma Publishing and Media Design Director Chris Carlson Publishing and Media Design Manager About Yoneko: Kentaro Shimura Ms. Yoneko Tamanaha was born and Production Manager Rie Miyoshi raised here in Okinawa. She has been with Engagement Manager USO Futenma since June 2003 support- Scott Wheeler ing Marines, sailors, and families. Yoneko Okinawa Area Manager Denisse Rauda enjoys coming in everyday and provid- Publishing and Media Design Editor ing a home away from home for everyone Publishing and Media Design Writers that walks through the doors. Her passion ChiHon Kim Shoji Kudaka to support the community of the Marine Takahiro Takiguchi Corps Air Station Futenma is inspiring for Layout Designers Ayako Kamio everyone on the USO Futenma team. Yukiyo Oda Yuko Okazaki Her hobbies include spending time with Kayoko Shimoda family as well as dancing. A fun fact about Multimedia Consultants Max Genao Doug Johnson her is that pri- Jason Lee Hans Simpson or to coming Chae Pang Yi Gianni Youn Robert Zuckerman aboard with Graphic Designers the USO she Kenichi Ogasawara Yosuke Tsuji was a profes- Why do you love What is your favorite Sales Support Kazumi Hasegawa Hiromi Isa sional compe- Q. working at the USO? Q.memory of working at Ichiro Katayanagi Yoko Noro Yoichi Okazaki Yusuke Sato tition dancer! the USO? Chae Yon Son Saori Tamanaha The young Marines & Sailors are As well, Yo- A. here and so far away from their One our old USO volunteers re- neko enjoys traveling and from 1978 - 1979 For feedback and inquiries, home, and I enjoy taking care of them until A. turned to Okinawa and came to contact [email protected] she conducted a trip around the world visit- visit me, and I found out that they’re now To place an ad, call DSN 645-7419 ing 60 countries. it’s time for them to go home. married and that they have a baby. stripesokinawa.com/contact – William Stanley, USO Okinawa MARCH 21 − MARCH 27, 2019 A STARS AND STRIPES COMMUNITY PUBLICATION STRIPES OKINAWA 3 Matthew Douthit, David Hormaza, Marc Acosta and De’Quinn Cooper deployed to Saipan to provide disaster relief after Typhoon Yutu. Courtesy photo Lending a hand in Saipan BY BETHANY KIRK, materials in the stressful envi- AMERICAN RED CROSS ronment; one example is how they placed items in a staging f you lived in the Pacific dur- area to allow for forklift access. ing the summer of 2018, one With an additional focus on word probably comes to mind I logistics and operational risk - Typhoons. During last year’s management (ORM), the volun- storm season, the Pacific islands teers from Kadena continued to were tormented by what felt like improve relief processes. Cooper typhoon after typhoon. In Octo- relied on his prior military expe- ber, while residents and military rience as well. “The unique thing DO YOU HAVE A STORY TO SHARE? personnel on Okinawa were still about my job in the military was reeling from the devastation left being part of a squadron based IF SO, LOG ON TO by Typhoon Trami and later Ty- on contingency readiness - disas- phoon Kong-Rey, another small ter interment, food preparation, Pacific island was bracing for im- distribution. We were trained to pact. Super Typhoon Yutu made STRIPESOKINAWA.COM landfall over Saipan on Sunday, be fully operational in the event October 25th, and was recorded of an emergency. And those were as the strongest typhoon to pass principles I applied while in over the island. Saipan,” he said. The island of Saipan is part Like Douthit and Cooper, of the Northern Mariana Is- Acosta’s military experience land chain. Measuring 14 miles brought value to the relief efforts (23 km) long and 5 miles (8km) in Saipan. Acosta, a Staff Ser- across at its widest point, this geant in the 18 EMS, reflected small island was no match for on previous readiness training Typhoon Yutu. The Category as well as communication and 5 cyclone flattened houses and leadership skills. “A part of your left thousands without power for readiness is being resilient and weeks. Despite the destruction, being able to adapt,” he recalled, the people of Saipan remained “Sometimes you are on the spot, resilient. and you have to make a decision Meanwhile, on Okinawa, quickly on how to proceed.” Marc Acosta, Matthew Douthit, The teams faced several and De’Quinn Cooper were pre- challenges during their time in paring for an imminent disaster Saipan. Downed power lines, hot deployment to the small island. and humid conditions, coupled In order to deploy, the Red Cross with logistical challenges all volunteers used personal leave led to a stressful environment - knowing the valuable impact at times. Employing ORM, the they would have on the small team weighed risks and opportu- island’s community. These vol- nities, which allowed them to be unteers are all members of the successful while also ensuring Kadena Station Disaster Action the safety of everyone involved. Team. Acosta, Douthit, and Coo- Leveraging their military ex- per made up one of five teams perience, these Red Cross vol- that distributed goods to those unteers led distribution efforts affected by the storm. They on Saipan. From assembling re- worked between 9-14 hours per lief kits, delivering the kits from day, reaching 300-400 homes - house-to-house, and managing providing food, water, hygiene the challenging logistics of this kits and comforting gifts to small operation, the three worked like children. a “well-oiled machine.” In one instance, the team no- Douthit, a Senior Airman in ticed a metal sign asking the Red the 18th Munitions Squadron, Cross and FEMA for help. “We focused on best practices to en- sure effective distribution of SEE SAIPAN ON PAGE 6 4 STRIPES OKINAWA A STARS AND STRIPES COMMUNITY PUBLICATION MARCH 21 − MARCH 27, 2019 Keramashoto National Park Discover a Japanese island nature paradise ringed by piercing blue seas JAPAN TRAVEL whether you arrive by ferry, speedboat or char- beyond that, and clustered at each port are a tered helicopter, the collection of islands that satisfying number of inns and friendly res- s an island nation that itself is subdi- forms Kerama feels instantly a world apart from taurants ready to invite you into the wel- vided into smaller and smaller islands the relatively developed island of Okinawa. coming community-led island culture. A across the archipelago, Japan lends it- Granted protected national park status as of The inns offer local food, can also self well to being understood as a series of self- 2014, the vast majority of Kerama is guaranteed help schedule activities on the is- contained cultures within cultures, all bound to stay in its pristine form, all in addition to the land and offer recommendations, together strongly, which only accentuates their ongoing efforts of local people to gather any de- offering a pleasant alternative differences. Nowhere is this perhaps more evi- tritus that washes on its fair shores. to conventional hotels in keep- dent than on the far-flung southern islands some On arrival it is easy to see where this pride ing with the unspoilt islands of forty kilometres west of the Okinawan islands comes from as no-matter the season the waters Kerama entirely free of high- towards the very end of the archipelago where of each harbour and cove sing blue, running rise developments. we find Keramashoto National from palest turquoise through ceru- When you are ready to ven- Park. On one hand the tropical lean and deepest blue no-matter the ture out from the island villages, climate, pure white beaches, and season. Indeed, that moment when the top priority for most visitors deep blue waters are difficult to you shift from looking at the is the whale watching that can pair with the mainland to some island paradises from a be enjoyed from many lo- degree, but on the other hand in distance as you make cations, including the Za- the twisting trees and familiar flowers, nature your approach, to the one when mami Whale Watching As- never lets you forget that you are in Japan.
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