February 21, 2019 Edition HAZWOPER training is example of joint HIGHLIGHTS cooperation in real-world environment FAMILY HOUSING RESOLUTION PROCESS

NUWC ENGINEERS RECEIVE DON AWARDS

NAVAL WAR COLLEGE TEAMS UP WITH HARVARD

NEX RENOVATIONS NEARING COMPLETION

Members of NS Newport assigned to Port Operations undergo annual Inside This Issue HAZWOPER training required by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) last Friday inside their building on Pier 2. NS Around the Station 2-6 Newport Fire Department assisted with the training, as they would in the event of a real world contamination onboard the installation. Port BZ Shipmates 7 Operations routinely train on booming and containment of fuel and oil Fleet & Family 8 spills potentially resulting from one of the many ship movements alongside the pier annually. At the Clinic 9 HAZWOPER is an acronym which stands for Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response. Meat & Potatoes 10 According to OSHA, the HAZWOPER standard applies to five groups MWR 11 of employers and their employees and specifically includes any Now Hear This 12-14 employees who are exposed to hazardous substances and who are engaged in several operations including clean-up, treatment, storage and Gate Hours & Hot jobs 15 disposal of hazardous waste. In addition, workers involved in an emergency response operation dealing with hazardous waste and Around the Fleet 16-17 workers who have to perform duties at a waste site where hazardous Veterans News 18 contamination are equally expected to be fully trained and protected. 1 AROUND THE REGION...

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2 AROUND THE STATION ... Change of charge ceremony held at NUWC Division Newport’s Atlantic Undersea Test and Evaluation Center

Naval Undersea Warfare Following Center Public Affairs commissioning to ensign in August 2002 Cmdr. Michael A. through the Limited Woodcock assumed Duty Officer program, responsibility as officer-in- he served as damage charge (OIC) of the Naval control assistant and Undersea Warfare Center auxiliaries division (NUWC) Division Newport officer on USS Emory Atlantic Undersea Test and S. Land, in Evaluation Center (AUTEC) on LaMaddelena, Italy, Friday, Feb. 15, in a ceremony where he earned his held on Andros Island in the surface warfare officer Bahamas. Woodcock relieved qualifications. He Cmdr. Craig Shillinger, who transferred to San has been OIC at AUTEC since Diego, California, in Sept 27, 2016. March 2005 to the AUTEC provides three- floating dry-dock, dimensional instrumented Arco (ARDM-5), operational areas in a real where he served as world environment to satisfy docking officer. In research, development, test and May 2008, he reported evaluation requirements and to USS Frank Cable operational performance stationed in Guam as assessment of war fighter the main readiness in support of the full propulsion assistant spectrum of maritime warfare. until its conversion to Woodcock was raised in the Military Sealift Warr Acres, Oklahoma and Command in April enlisted in the U.S. Navy in Cmdr. Michael A. Woodcock assumed 2010. In May 2010, he August 1988. Upon responsibility as officer-in-charge (OIC) of the served as the completion of recruit training, Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) Division mechanical branch he attended Machinist’s Mate Newport Atlantic Undersea Test and Evaluation officer at Naval “A” School in Orlando, Center (AUTEC) on Friday, Feb. 15, in a Intermediate Florida, and then completed ceremony held on Andros Island in the Bahamas. Maintenance Facility, Basic Enlisted Submarine Pacific Northwest, in School in Groton, Connecticut, in November of 1989. Bangor. His enlisted tours of duty include: USS Georgia In June 2011, he returned to the floating dry-dock, (SSBN 728) in Bangor, Washington, as an Auxiliary Arco, in San Diego, California, where he served as the Division mechanic where he earned his submarine executive officer. warfare qualifications; Trident Refit Facility in Bangor, He reported to Naval Special Warfare Logistics and as an outside Machinery Repairman on Trident and Support Unit THREE in November 2013, located in special projects ; USS Florida (SSBN 729) in Pearl City, Hawaii, where he served as the repair officer Bangor, as the Auxiliary Division leading petty officer; of SEAL delivery vehicles and dry deck shelters. His and USS Asheville (SSN 758) in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, most recent duty was as the Weapons Repair Officer at as the leading chief petty officer, which included a Trident Refit Facility, King’s Bay, Ga., from September homeport move to Bremerton, Washington, in December 2016 to November 2018. 2001 where he coordinated the Depot Modernization Shillinger is retiring and moving back to Kings Bay Period. with his wife Judy.

3 AROUND THE STATION ... U.S. Naval War College and Harvard seek to improve access to surgery around the world. NWC Public Affairs ready making so many positive influ- able to experience a fraction of that in NEWPORT, R.I. – U.S. Naval War ences through their own specialized this simulation while I managed new College (NWC) hosted 21 distin- work, and yet are still willing to col- problems and potential solutions.” guished visitors from Harvard Medi- laborate with others to have an even Kathryn Wall, program coordinator cal School for a disaster-response larger impact,” Polatty said. for PGSSC, said this event and part- simulation on Jan. 31 as part of a bur- “As we face myriad daunting hu- nership with HRP offers a unique op- geoning academic partnership fo- manitarian crises around the world portunity to expand the efforts of cused on improving humanitarian re- where surgical interventions and hu- global surgery. sponse and access to essential surgi- manitarian health action are essential “The resources that the military cal care during natural disasters and to helping vulnerable people, I know commands and the efficiency with complex emergencies. that partnering with PGSSC is going which they can be mobilized is un- “This partnership represents a to help us strengthen humanitarian paralleled by other aid organiza- unique opportunity for both parties to civil-military coordination from a tions,” she said. “During disaster re- benefit from the experience, perspec- medical perspective.” sponse, as well as long-term engage- tive and expertise of the other,” said The PGSSC team is currently en- ments, the military skillset affords Dr. John Meara, director of the Pro- gaged in projects far from its unique opportunities for the armed gram in Global Surgery and Social office designed to strengthen local forces to conduct operations in a Change (PGSSC) at Harvard Medical surgical capacity, improve cost effec- manner that supports and enhances School as well as the plastic surgeon- tiveness and clinical outcomes, and local surgical systems.” in-chief of the Department of Plastic implement innovative technologies in As the event came to a close, & Oral Surgery at Boston Children's resource-limited settings. Meara shared his thoughts with the Hospital. That means Meara’s team has no audience about the tangible value of As both an academic and a medical lack of exposure to challenging envi- the collaboration. practitioner, Meara has a unique in- ronments. They are currently engaged “Each field approaches systems sight into the surgical needs faced by in projects in Brazil, Ethiopia, Guin- development in slightly different communities around the globe. ea, Haiti, India, Pakistan, Peru, ways, but we have similar goals when “Nearly 5 billion people worldwide Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Zimba- it comes to aid – quick restoration of have no access to essential surgical bwe, Laos and Cambodia. baseline health and improved re- care,” Meara said. “We are very fa- The simulation, which was held in sponses in the future,” he said. miliar with the role that governments NWC’s historic Mahan reading room, “While the global surgery community and NGOs (nongovernmental organi- challenged PGSSC’s seasoned staff is best equipped to address issues of zations) play in the provision of and surgery fellows to use military surgical access outside of the disaster emergency surgical care. However, I platforms and protocols to coordinate setting, HRP faculty provide military was not as familiar with the role of a humanitarian operation in response expertise on what happens during and the military during humanitarian to a notional hurricane in South after a disaster,” Meara said. emergencies, and it was a fascinating America. HRP and PGSSC staff and fellows experience to learn about their ap- During an informal debrief follow- plan to conduct collaborative research proach, their strengths and limita- ing the half-day simulation, the and publish multiple articles in the tions.” PGSSC participants shared their ob- coming year on the intersections be- Dave Polatty, director of the Hu- servations as well as a wide range of tween military humanitarian assis- manitarian Response Program (HRP) potential areas for shared research. tance and disaster response opera- at NWC, said the PGSSC staff and Multiple participants noted the tions, humanitarian civil-military co- Paul Farmer Global Surgery Fellows unique value of experiential learning ordination and increasing global ac- on Meara’s team are uniquely talent- for immersion in a new field. cess to essential surgical care. ed. “The disaster simulation gave an Naval War College’s College of “We’re incredibly excited about experience that simply cannot be Maritime Operational Warfare. Its future collaborations with PGSSC. It learned in a lecture setting,” said goal is to improve the U.S. Navy’s is an honor and a privilege to have Rolvix Patterson, a PGSSC research and international militaries’ effective- the opportunity to partner with such associate from Tufts School of Medi- ness in conducting humanitarian as- an inspiring and knowledgeable cine. “Disasters are inherently con- sistance and disaster response opera- group of professionals who are al- fusing and logistically difficult. I was tions.

4 AROUND THE STATION ... Newport Navy Exchange supports military, families in unique ways The Newport Navy Exchange first day “Taste of New England” Complex is comprised of seven retail was filled with tastings of local food locations and a Navy Lodge. Each and drink for the delegates and their store is unique in assortment and families. On the second day the support to our military customers. exchange held a shopping day The Newport NEX employs an special for the spouses. Both events average of 130 associates. Of these were very successful and sales 130 associates, 36 are military generated exceeded the previous spouses or dependents. The NEX is years by 1.29 percent. a non-appropriated Department of NEX Newport is also utilized as Defense operation. Being non- a training exercise venue to help appropriated allows NEX to give a naval station personnel sharpen their individual student to be measured by percentage of their profits to support military skills in the event of a real- a tailor. local Morale, Welfare, and world emergency situation. An Another breakthrough addition to Recreation programs here on base. active shooter drill was conducted by the uniform center was a new NEXCOM’s mission is to Naval Station Newport Security on Vanguard Kiosk, which allows provide authorized customer’s Sept. 27 and Oct. 24. customers to quickly browse uniform quality goods and services at a The Joint Police Response Active items and order any Vanguard items savings and to support Navy quality Shooter drill in October was they may need. of life programs for active duty conducted with Middletown, The NEX hosted the Naval military, retirees, reservists and their Newport, Portsmouth, and State Academy Preparatory School families. Police participating, along with base (NAPS) family day on July 23. The NEXCOM’s parent command is security forces and NCIS. The drill NEX setup a mini “shop” at the John the Naval Supply Systems included 25 Marines that stood in as H. Chaffee Fitness Center, selling Command. NEXCOM provides “customers” for training purposes. NAPS and Navy Pride souvenirs to oversight for 104 NEX complexes NEX partnered with the Naval incoming NAPS students and their made up of more than 300 individual War College and opened a Green families. stores, 40 Navy Lodges, 161 ships Beans Café inside Hewitt Hall on The Newport uniform center held stores, the Navy Clothing Textile and Oct. 22. The new café has an five chief petty officer events Research Facility, Uniform Program expanded assortment of coffee, throughout the month of August to Management Office, and Personal pastries, sandwiches and salads for congratulate the promotions of many Telecommunications Services, which the NWC faculty and its students. new chiefs. They also issue provides personal telephone and Wi- Navy Gateway Inn and Suites uniforms to more than 4,000 students Fi services afloat and ashore. (NGIS) opened in Nov. 2018 and coming into both the Officer The Newport NEX began its NEX Newport opened a new 24/7 Development and Officer Candidate $8.7m renovation in May 2017. The Micro Mart inside the hotel. School programs. entire store is being renovated with a NEX Newport’s uniform centers’ Some of the additional services projected completion date of late mission is to provide, in cooperation the NEX offers include: western spring 2019. Numerous updates, with our business partners, 100 union; a barbershop; vending including a new customer service percent availability of approved, machines located throughout the and checkout area, a decorative certified, highest-quality uniforms base; a small selection of flowers; staircase which was added to create and professional tailoring at the Blue Rhino LP Gas located at better access to the second floor, and lowest possible price for the military Bayside Mini Mart and Greene Lane; a brand new sight and sound customer. discounts on PODs storage units and department. A 14-door cooler and One of the improvements was the a discount tire program! beer cave was installed to support the addition of a state-of-the-art Body Their dedicated associates are transfer of the package store over to Scan Machine, which allows for size committed to providing exceptional the main store. predictions for both Navy Working customer service to all active duty NEX Newport held 2 days of Uniform (NWU’s) and Service Dress military, retirees, and incoming events for the International Seapower Uniforms. This machine drastically students aboard the installation. Symposium late last summer. The reduces the time used for each 5 AROUND THE STATION ... Logisticians find unmatched internship opportunity in the Naval Acquisition Development Program

Job Lot headquarters doing work in systems engineering. He found out about the NADP from his father, who is a NUWC employee. He was accepted as an intern and began working in NUWC Newport’s Undersea Defense and Intelligence Support Division doing logistics support for surface ship torpedo defense, which includes warehousing, sparing and inventory. “I’ve become very familiar with Phil Campo Jr. of Warwick, R.I (above left), who works in the Naval the pillars of logistics,” Campo said. Undersea Warfare Center Division Newport (NUWC Newport) After working as an Army Undersea Warfare Weapons, Vehicles, and Defensive Systems logistician for 20 years, Veronica Department, is one of three employees about to graduate from the LaFleur got a job at Good Samaritan two-year, entry-level Naval Acquisition Development Program. Veronica LaFleur (above right, from left) of Acushnet, Mass., who Hospital in Brockton, Mass. She works in the Sensors and Sonar Systems Department, and Taylor found work in the private sector to be Velasco of Portsmouth, R.I., from the Undersea Warfare Weapons, a big adjustment after military work. Vehicles, and Defensive Systems Department, are about to graduate Her sister-in-law, a NUWC employee from the two-year, entry-level program (photos by Dave Stoehr, and former NADP intern, alerted her McLaughlin Research Corp.) to the NADP internship opportunity, and soon LaFleur was accepted into Navigating the opportunities at from the two-year, entry-level NADP the program and working in the the Naval Undersea Warfare Center internship. towed array depot in NUWC (NUWC) Division can be Marie Bussiere, head of the Newport’s Sensors and Sonar challenging. With so many Undersea Warfare Combat Systems Systems Department. departments, programs and projects, Department, guided them as NUWC All three interns agree that the it could take years to find the right Newport’s career field manager for experience of rotating through career path. the NADP. different departments was invaluable. Three NUWC Newport Velasco graduated from “The biggest thing for me was the logisticians were able to find their Northeastern University in 2011 and rotation in the Ranges, Engineering career paths through the Naval began working at NUWC Newport’s and Analysis Department and seeing Acquisition Development Program Undersea Warfare Weapons, how different the departments (NADP). These paid entry-level and Vehicles, and Defensive Systems operate,” Velasco said. “It’s different journeyman internships offer the Department as a contractor. After a hardware and a different way of ability to rotate through different few years, his branch head suggested doing things. With the Ranges, departments and positions with the the NADP internship as a way of Engineering and Analysis added bonus of travel and rapid getting a government job. He applied, Department, I got to do some advancement for those interested in was accepted into the two-year research and development on projects the acquisition, logistics and program in 2017, and will graduate in and some onsite testing at Dodge technology programs that support of March. Pond, located in New York.” the Navy. “The way the program works is Both Velasco and Campo did a Phil Campo Jr. of Warwick and you can end up anywhere,” Velasco rotation in the Undersea Warfare Taylor Velasco, of Portsmouth, both said. “There’s a lot going on at Combat Systems Department that in the Undersea Warfare Weapons, NUWC and you may never see it. brought them to facilities in Groton Vehicles, and Defensive Systems This program lets you see what’s and New London, Conn., where they Department and Veronica LaFleur, of happening.” got to see more in-depth work on the Acushnet, Mass., who works in the After graduating from the construction of a Virginia-class Sensors and Sonar Systems University of Rhode Island in 2013, submarine. Department, are about to graduate Campo began working at Ocean State

6 BZ SHIPMATES ... NUWC Division Newport’s AUTEC range manager earns Meritorious Civilian Service Award Mike Knecht, of Stuart, Florida, skills in coordinating and Naval Undersea Warfare Center executing complex test events (NUWC) Division Newport’s range for critical U.S. Navy and manager for the Atlantic Undersea Allied Forces and in times of Test and Evaluation Center crisis such as the stabilization (AUTEC) in the Bahamas, has and recovery efforts associated received the Department of the Navy with Hurricane Matthew in Meritorious Civilian Service Award. 2016. His expertise and The third highest Navy honorary leadership have contributed to award recognizes meritorious the world-class reputation civilian service contributions that are AUTEC enjoys today. of high value or benefit to the Navy. Knecht was presented with Over the past 35 years, Knecht the award by NUWC Division Mike Knecht (center), range manager for has built a well-deserved reputation Newport Commanding the Naval Undersea Warfare Center as a highly capable technical leader Officer Capt. Michael Division Newport’s Atlantic Undersea at AUTEC as team leader for test Coughlin and Eric Spigel, Test and Evaluation Center in the operations and competency head for head of NUWC Newport’s Bahamas, was presented with the DoN Atlantic testing and operations. Ranges, Engineering and Knecht has risen to the challenges of Analysis Department, during Meritorious Civilian Service Award by managing these dynamic and a ceremony held on Feb. 13 at Division Newport Commanding Officer responsible positions concurrently. West Palm Beach, Fla. Capt. Michael Coughlin (right). His wife, Throughout his career, Knecht Knecht plans to retire on Barbara (left), attended the Feb. 13 has consistently demonstrated his March 2, 2019. ceremony held in West Palm Beach, Florida. (U.S. Navy photo) NUWC Division Newport engineer receives DON Meritorious Civilian Service Award By Jeff Prater total commitment to the fleet. You Naval Undersea Warfare Center met and exceeded T&E Public Affairs Office requirements for all new Thomas Perron, of Niantic, construction submarines in the Conn., an engineer in the Naval Virginia-class fleet and worked Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) diligently to improve process Division Newport’s Platform efficiency. Acquisition Division of the Undersea You performed all this while Warfare Combat Systems driving innovations and Department, was presented with the guaranteeing T&E accuracy to Edwin Rahme (from left), presented Department of the Navy Meritorious ensure that the U.S. Navy was Thomas Perron, with the DoN Civilian Service Award by Edwin provided with significant Meritorious Civilian Service Award Rahme of the Virginia-class advancements in platform and Submarine Program Office (PMS (MCSA) during a ceremony held at warfare capabilities. Progeny Corp. in Groton on Jan. 24. 450) during a ceremony held on Jan. You conducted yourself with 24 at Progeny Corp. in Groton, Conn. (U.S. Navy photos by Rich Allen, McLaughlin the utmost professionalism and Research Corp.) The citation, signed by Program confidence when shepherding to Executive Officer, Submarines, Rear completion all dockside and at-sea Adm. David Goggins reads: of duty has gained you the respect of events. You simultaneously supervisors, colleagues, collaborators “Your tenure as trials manager for undertook numerous collateral the Virginia-class test and evaluation and staff. responsibilities that benefited not “Your continued leadership and (T&E) program at NUWC has been only the Virginia-class team, but characterized by your skilled unswerving dedication has been of many other organizations. Your substantial benefit to the submarine leadership, technical acumen, tireless work ethic and strong sense constant drive toward efficiency and fleet, the U.S. Navy and the nation.” 7 FLEET AND FAMILY SUPPORT ... Fleet & Family Support Center seeks volunteer help FFSC is looking volunteers willing to give some of their time greeting customers, answering the telephone and performing some light admin work beginning mid-March through mid-June. Volunteers must be 18 or older and have installation access AND enjoy working with people. FFSC is located in building 1260, right beside the Navy Federal Credit Union and they are open Monday through Friday, 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Any amount of time would be appreciated. For more information, just stop in their office or call (401) 841-2283 and just say “I’d like to help.” Thank You

8 AT THE CLINIC ... Building Navy Medicine’s Future: Taking a bearing

By Vice Adm. Forrest Faison Phase one started last U.S. Navy Surgeon General and Chief, U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery October and, for Navy, was the transfer of Naval Military medicine, including Hospital Jacksonville and Navy Medicine, is undergoing some its branch clinics. So far, of the most significant changes in that transition is going decades. From changes mandated by well. Congress, to Department of Defense- For beneficiaries, the directed reforms, we have an bottom line is the opportunity to successfully navigate transition of the MTFs to these changes and improve Navy the DHA shouldn’t cause Medicine to support our Navy and you to experience any Marine Corps. In doing so, our focus significant changes. will be on three major areas: a If you’re a patient at a JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (Oct. 26, 2018) Hospital renewed emphasis on readiness, the Navy facility, you’ll still Corpsman 3rd Class Gisell McVey, a respiratory next fight, and reorganization. continue to receive high technician onboard Naval Hospital Jacksonville, quality medical care. performs a pulmonary function test on a patient. (U.S. Navy file photo by Jacob Sippel) Focusing on the next fight While the transfer of medical clinics continues, First, Navy Medicine is not a focus exclusively on readiness for the Navy is simultaneously standing building, nor is it just peacetime our Navy and Marine Corps. We are up new commands, Navy Medicine healthcare. Navy medicine’s priority also exploring changes at our third Readiness and Training Commands is being ready to go and save lives “regional” command – Navy (NMRTC), at each location. where it counts, when it counts. Medicine Education, Training and Currently, our military medical For the past 18 years, the heroic Logistics Command – to ensure personnel are assigned to platforms service and sacrifices of our hospital continuity in our training and (such as a ship). While they are not corpsmen, nurses and doctors on the functional command missions. on a deployment, they will take care battlefield, have resulted in As we undergo this of Sailors, Marines, their families, unprecedented combat survival rates. transformation, I want to share three and retirees. As the NMRTCs stand As we look to the future and the commitments that we will keep. First, up across the enterprise, our military possibility of peer or near-peer we will continue to ensure our Sailors medical personnel will continue to be adversaries, it will be a different fight and Marines are medically ready for assigned to platforms, but with duty and it is clear we cannot assume the the fight tonight. Second, we are at the NMRTC. The goal is a same advantages we have enjoyed. going to set the DHA up for success command dedicated to tracking how As the military moves toward during and after transition – we our medical personnel develop and more distributed operations, casualty cannot be successful if they are not maintain operationally relevant skills care and survival, may depend on the successful. And finally, we will do and competencies – those useful on individual medical personnel on a right by all the members of our Navy the battlefield. ship or in a unit, potentially for Medicine family – both military and extended periods of time. The civilian – by keeping them fully readiness of every single member of Navy Medicine’s new organization informed as decisions are made and the Navy Medicine team is we move forward. paramount to combat survival in the As Navy Medicine establishes these NMRTCs, we are also Change can be challenging and future. sometimes daunting. It can also be restructuring our headquarters – called the Bureau of Medicine and good if it provides new opportunities Renewed emphasis on readiness to do things better, refocus on You may have heard about the Surgery – and our regions, which are currently designed to manage Navy priorities, make more of an impact transfer of management and and help those we are privileged to administration of our military MTFs on the East and West Coasts, and all of our other subordinate serve. Change is part of life. In treatment facilities (MTFs) to the medicine, we know this better than Defense Health Agency (DHA). commands around the globe. Navy Medicine East and West will be most because our profession is These transfers are slated to occur in always changing, always improving, phases over the next several years. replaced by Medical Forces Atlantic and Pacific, respectively, and will always moving forward.

9 THE MEAT & POTATOES OF LIFE ... Girls will be girls: The hidden dangers of social aggression Lilly was our easy openly about the child. potential dangers of As a baby, she sat chalking aggressive contentedly on my hip male behavior up to while I did home “boys will be boys.” therapy with her In the #MeToo era, developmentally girls are told they delayed older must band together brother, or while I Lisa Molinari to fight the real argued with her problem — male stronger-willed big sister. In school, aggression. Few Lilly made friends easily at every would suspect that duty station. Her teachers would girls might actually move Lilly’s desk away from her pals hurt each other, and to stop her from chatting, but she subtle “mean girl” would simply strike up new manipulations often go unnoticed ringleader to scream at her to, “Get conversations with whomever sat until lasting psychological damage is the f*** out of my room!” Even nearby. done. though the dozen other girls present One afternoon while stationed in Although “relational aggression” later admitted that the ringleader’s Germany, I raced out of our base has long been considered a form of behavior was completely unjustified, apartment to our minivan, because I bullying that can include “gossip, not one of them came to Lilly’s had forgotten to pick Lilly up from rumor spreading, public defense. She was not accepted back elementary school, and it was raining. embarrassment, social exclusion, and into the group for a week. Gunning the engine up a hill, I saw alliance building,” this behavior is Also, comments made within the Lilly happily running alone down the sometimes accepted by parents and friend group about weight profoundly sidewalk, arms outstretched and eyes educators as a right of passage for affected Lilly. On one occasion, closed, her backpack flopping under girls. However, research indicates Lilly’s friend held up a very large pair her bob of sandy brown hair. As fat that this type of subtle bullying can of pants she found in her room and raindrops splatted on her sweet face, lead to the development of low self- said in front of the group, “Lilly, she grinned from ear to ear with pure esteem, eating disorders, anxiety, these are way too big for me, but it joy. depression and even suicide for both looks like they might be your size.” I That was Lilly. the victims and the mean girls assume this friend hadn’t meant to Not surprisingly, she amassed a themselves. hurt her, but soon Lilly stopped eating group of seventeen girlfriends in high Although Lilly hid her angst from in the dining hall. This and other school, despite being the military kid us to keep her “happy-go-lucky” weight-related comments were on scholarship at a prestigious private reputation in our family, she has now permanently burned into her fragile school. I snapped copious photos of admitted what was really going on in adolescent psyche. her fun-loving group dolled up for high school. Although she still Now, I grit my teeth. I should dances, so proud that Lilly’s easy- fiercely defends her friend group, she have asked more questions when I going personality had allowed her to admits there was a social ladder that had the chance. But instead of seeing breeze through the complex social she clung to precariously, with two the insidious dangers under the quagmire of adolescence. particular girls consistently at the top. surface, I obliviously snapped photos But now, Lilly is a freshman in These “ringleaders” were often mean of those beautiful, glittering girls. college, struggling with negative in subtle ways — using their control body image issues, low self-esteem, to temporarily exclude or shame and depression. members of the group over minor Lisa’s syndicated column Not Lilly! How did this happen? conflicts. The ringleaders were appears in military and In an attempt to help, I am intimidating enough that the other civilian newspapers looking back at Lilly’s seemingly girls in the group did not stick up for including Stars and Stripes, problem-free adolescence for each other, for fear that they might be and on her blog at answers. It turns out, her situation the next victims of embarrassment or themeatandpotatoesoflife.com. was not as simple as it seemed. In isolation. She can be contacted at today’s violent society, parents, Petty jealousy over a boy who had [email protected]. educators and experts are talking a crush on Lilly prompted one 10 MORALE, WELFARE & RECREATION ...

11 NOW HEAR THIS ... THIS WEEKEND! GO AND LEARN ABOUT HOW THE NAVY PROTECTS MARINE MAMMALS

The New Bedford Whaling Museum is hosting "Navy Day" on Saturday, 23 February 2019, offer- ing free admission for all valid Department of Defense identification card holders and their families. There will be special events and activities scheduled between 9:00 am. and 4:00 pm. NUWC Division Newport is teaming with the New Bedford Whaling Museum on a new exhibit that explores the U.S. Navy's long history of marine mammal research, its role in protecting the ocean environment and its significant contributions to marine mammal science and conservation. In addition, Division Newport will provide technical lectures on two examples of research projects being conducted at the Center. Dr. Thomas Howarth, a senior technologist for transduction and acoustic sensors with NUWC Newport's Chief Technology Office, will speak on "The Thermophone: The use of heat to produce sound" at 10:30 a.m. Karin Dolan, an ocean engineer and marine biologist with NUWC Newport's Ranges, Engineering and Analysis De- partment, will speak on "Studying Blainville's beaked whales using bottom mounted hydrophones and passive acoustic tracking" at 12:30 p.m. Learn how the U.S. Navy contributes to the protection of marine mammals and celebrate the debut of "WHALES TODAY," the Whaling Museum's newly expanded whale ecology, ocean health, and marine mammal conservation exhibition. Enjoy guided tours of the new exhibition and "Skeletons of the Deep." Explore inside a life-size blue whale heart model. See the film "A Whale of a Time in the Gulf of Maine" and go below deck on the world's largest ship model, the "Lagoda." Check the Museum's website calendar for details at https://www.whalingmuseum.org/ or on Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/events/377089569754259/

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Winter winds and our disposing of trash and friends, the sea gulls, are recyclables. adding significantly to the The annual base clean-up amount of trash blowing will be coming up in April around the installation. (around Earth Day) but we Please help keep the base don’t have to wait to do our clean by picking up litter part. Thank You. when you see it, not throwing things out the windows of Capt. Ian Johnson your cars and closing the Commanding Officer bins to the dumpsters after Naval Station Newport, R.I.

2019 NEWPORT SEABEE BALL NGIS MICROMART OPEN 24/7 participate in the Hometown News SAVE THE DATE: March 9, 2019 will Need something in the middle of Release Program. This program helps be the annual Newport the night but don’t feel like leaving the Navy and Marine Corps team in Seabee Ball with guest base? Head over to the newest Navy recruiting new members as well as speaker Command Gateway Inns and Suites just inside Gate instilling pride in the service. Military Master Chief Delbert 1 and shop at your convenience any can check with their public affairs Terrell, Jr., Director of time of day or night. officers at their commands or email: the Senior Enlisted [email protected] for more Academy. STAY INFORMED! details. The event will be held at the Naval On base military and civilian Station Newport Officers Club. Tickets personnel should be registered for PROPER PROTOCOL DURING THE are not on sale yet but stand by—for AtHoc notifications. Registration is PLAYING OF COLORS ONBOARD more information email: done via an NMCI computer MILITARY INSTALLATIONS [email protected]. (www.ready.navy.mil/stay_informed/ Individuals driving onboard the waan.html). Some of the tenants have Naval Station should stop their vehicles FIRE SAFETY TIP OF THE WEEK their own automated notification upon hearing the first notes of morning Did You Know? Smoking materials systems so make sure you find out if you or evening colors. Individuals who are are the leading cause of fire deaths. are assigned to one of them and get not in vehicles, but outdoors and hear Smoking material fires are preventable. enrolled. the notes being played, should stop and Keep cigarettes, lighters, matches, and Additional methods of staying on face the music or the nearest flagpole other smoking materials up high out of top of operational impacts/emergency and render the appropriate honors. the reach of children, in a locked situations are to follow the installation This time honored courtesy to our cabinet. on social media: www.facebook.com/ national ensign is one of the privileges NAVSTANewport; Instagram.com/ of serving and working on a federal ISSUES IN NATIONAL SECURITY navstanewportri and/or Twitter.com/ installation and should be followed by LECTURE SERIES NAVSTANewportRI—winter weather all individuals who do so. Per U.S. Navy The next lecture of this series, open often impacts installation operations so Regulations, Chapter 12, “the to anyone with routine installation make sure you are in the know. ceremonial hoisting and lowering of the access and their guests, is: March 5, A national ensign at 8 a.m. and sunset at a New Nuclear Arms Race? With Prof. HOMETOWN NEWS RELEASE naval command ashore or aboard a ship David Cooper, NSA. No RSVP necessary Are you a military dependent proud of the Navy not underway shall be but parking is limited. of the accomplishments of your Sailor or known as morning and evening colors, Marine? If so, encourage him or her to respectively … “Attention” shall be

13 NOW HEAR THIS ... sounded, followed by the playing of the benefit Navy-Marine Corps Relief National Anthem by the band (or Society and Newport Navy onboard NAVSTA we use a loud speaker Choristers. system mounted on buildings Donation Recommendations: throughout the installation). Adults $10 | Seniors/Children $8. At morning colors, the ensign shall Tickets available from chorus be started up at the beginning of the members and at the door. For music and hoisted smartly to the peak more information, call Pat or truck. At evening colors, the ensign McGuire 401-849-1135 or Lori shall be started from the peak or truck McDowell 401-862-3334. For at the beginning of the music and the more information, visit: lowering so regulated as to be www.newportnavychoristers.org. completed at the last note. At the HOW'S YOUR PRESSURE? completion of the music, “Carry On” When was shall be sounded. During colors, vehicles OPERATION ID the last time within sight or hearing of the ceremony A voluntary program offered to all you had your shall be stopped. Persons riding in such military, civilians and dependents blood pressure vehicles shall remain seated.” onboard Naval Station Newport. This is taken? Stop by a chance for you to mark all your the BOOT CAMP BREAKFAST personal valuables with a unique owner commissary for R.I. Disabled applied number to assist in recovering some special American Veterans and returning stolen property to its savings next (DAV), Lawson- rightful owner(s). Tuesday Raiola Chapter 15 is In, addition the owner will now have between 9:30 and 11 a.m. and the NS hosting their annual a list of their personal property stored Fire Department will be happy to check Boot Camp at a separate location from the actual your blood pressure as part of their Breakfast on Saturday, March 2 property. If you are interested in American Heart Month outreach. Heart beginning at 8:30 a.m. at the R.I. participating in the Program please attacks kill- take care of yours by eating Veterans Home, 480 Metacom Ave., contact the Physical Security/Crime well and monitoring your vital signs Bristol. All veterans, active duty and Prevention office at -401 841-7399/7172 regularly. their guests are welcome to join in on a Monday through Friday 7 a.m. – 4 p.m. full breakfast and an opportunity to for an appointment. learn about benefits, entitlements and appeals. Naval Station Newport There will be a guest speaker from Veterinary Clinic the VA Regional Officer providing an Hours of Operation update on their services. Cost to attend the event is $5.00 per person. Please send checks made payable to “RI DAV Monday - Closed Chapter 15” to: Lawrence Matika, 35 Tuesday - 9 a.m. to Noon Adams Point Rd., Barrington, RI 02806 Wednesday - 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. (include your full name, contact Thursday - Closed information and number of guests). Friday - 9 a.m. to Noon Deadline for reservations is Feb. 25. Saturday/Sunday - Closed For more information, call 508-965- 1557. Sheila Hancock, clerk, in the Tuesdays and Fridays we will only Veterinary Clinic at Naval be open to schedule appointments, THE NEWPORT NAVY CHORISTERS Station Newport, poses with OTC sales, and client registrations. Under the direction of Lori Max Barker, a beautiful For last minute closings you can McDowell present “Music for a Sunday German Shepard service check our Facebook page Afternoon” Sunday, March 3, 2019 at 4 dog. The clinic is located www.facebook.com/ p.m. St. Barnabas Church, 1697 East behind Leisure Bay on the newportvetclinic. main Road, Portsmouth, RI, proceeds to station.

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Gate 1: Open 7-days-a- week / 24-hours-a-day for routine traffic. Gate 2: Open for a.m. commute Monday through Friday, 6:30 to 8:30 a.m. to alleviate Gate 1 backups. Gate 10: Closed until further notice. Gate 17: Open Monday through Friday from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. (CLOSED ON HOLIDAYS) Gate 7: NHCNE Gate, open Monday through Friday, 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. Gate 23: NUWC Gate open 24/7 for commuters. Gate 32: Open Monday Fri 6:30 to 9 a.m. and 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. for commuters.

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MWR will be holding a job fair next month—March 13. They will be featuring many current openings along with seasonal employment opportunities. Come with your resume and you could be selected and start the hiring process right there at the job fair. Come work onboard Naval Station Newport!

15 AROUND THE FLEET ... Chief of Naval Operations Shares Vision of Maritime Superiority with NPS

By MC2 Patrick Dionne

Monterey, Calif. (NNS) -- The Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson returned to the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) to impart his vision of overcoming the biggest challenges facing today’s Navy during the latest Secretary of the Navy Guest Lecture (SGL), Feb. 13. Newly-appointed NPS President retired Vice Adm. Ann Rondeau introduced Richardson, who detailed the service’s way forward to a packed auditorium of NPS students, faculty and staff. “What a pleasure it is to be back here ... We scoured the entire planet for the right person to lead this institution and I am confident we made the right choice. I very much look forward to your tenure,” Chief of Navy Operations (CNO) Adm. John Richardson speaks Richardson said to Rondeau. to students, faculty and staff of the Naval Postgraduate School Richardson addressed the about the Navy’s reassessment of its maritime strategy as recently-released second version of outlined in A Design to Maintain Maritime Superiority Version his “Design for Maintaining 2.0 for the school’s Secretary of the Navy Guest Lecture Maritime Superiority,” coined program, Feb. 13. NPS’ Secretary of the Navy Guest Lecture Version 2.0, a 20-page document program provides a series of professional lectures by senior which reaffirms the growing leaders throughout defense, government, industry and presence of great power competition academia designed to help the university's students and faculty and seeks to align the U.S. Navy’s link their studies, teaching and research efforts to the defense strategic guidance with both the needs of the nation. (U.S. Navy photo by Javier Chagoya) National Security Strategy and the National Defense Strategy. ourselves ... As we had achieved since then,” said Richardson. “The “One of the reasons that we put many of those goals, it was time to rivals have changed. The rise of out Version 2.0 is that so much has come up with the next set of China has presented us with a lot of happened since we put out the first objectives so we could continue to unique obstacles, and even though version in 2016,” said Richardson. “I make progress down this track.” Russia is still around and some things say ‘we’ very deliberately, because Version 2.0 maintains that it has are reminiscent of the Cold War, even though I had the privilege of been decades since the U.S. last most are different." signing this document as the Chief of competed for sea control, sea lines of He added that the rules of the Naval Operations, it really represents communication, access to world game have changed. the collective input from all of Navy markets, and diplomatic partnerships. “The pace of change is quicker leadership. Richardson asserts that U.S. Naval now than ever before in the 10,000 or “The thought driving the forces must adapt to this change and more years that human beings have publication of the first version is that, respond with urgency in order to tackled the seas. even in 2016, we were getting the aggressively compete in a modern “In fact, since the end of the Cold sense that things were changing,” he security environment. War, maritime traffic has multiplied continued. “We were entering an era “The last time we dealt with great by four and carries 90 percent of the of great power competition and we power competition was about 28 world’s GDP, which has doubled in laid out a number of tasks for years ago, and a lot has changed the past 25 years.” 16 AROUND THE FLEET ... U.S., British Navies Conduct Maritime Security Drills

By MC1 Greg Johnson, CTF 73 Public Affairs SOUTH CHINA SEA (NNS) -- U.S. Navy fleet replenishment oiler USNS Guadalupe (T-AO 200) and HMS Montrose (F236) conducted Feb. 18 maritime security and logistics training in the South China Sea. The drills involved Royal Marine commandos, Royal Navy sailors and Guadalupe crew members. During a visit, board, search and seizure (VBSS) scenario, Montrose’s boarding team embarked and secured Guadalupe, which simulated a vessel engaged in high seas trafficking. The ships also practiced replenishment at sea using NATO procedures, which ensured that the two ships, despite GULF OF THAILAND (Feb. 18, 2019) Royal Marine commandos never having worked together before, and Royal Navy sailors attached to the Royal Navy Duke-class could safely and efficiently transfer frigate HMS Montrose (F 236) conduct a visit, board, search fuel while underway. and seizure (VBSS) drill aboard the Henry J. Kaiser-class fleet “This was a valuable exercise for replenishment oiler USNS Guadalupe (T-A 200). During the us, keeping our integrated Royal drill, commandos and sailors coordinated with Guadalupe Navy and Royal Marines boarding crew members to simulate maritime interdiction operations team sharp and ready to deliver any and execute proper VBSS procedures. Guadalupe is mission assigned to them,” said conducting operations which provides logistical support to Cmdr. Conor O’Neill, commanding U.S. Navy and allied forces operating in the U.S. 7th Fleet area officer of HMS Montrose. “That we of responsibility. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication were able to achieve this training, and Specialist 2nd Class Tristin Barth) the replenishment drills afterwards, is testament to the close working relationship between the Royal and United States forces operating in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of Navies, both in the Pacific and globally.” responsibility. “It helps expand our capabilities and I believe it helps them, as well,” said Eric Naranjo, civilian mariner chief mate aboard Guadalupe. “It’s important because if you don’t practice these scenarios, you won’t have the skills necessary to succeed when the time comes.” This is the third cooperative deployment between the U.S Navy and the Royal Navy in as many months. USS McCampbell (DDG 85) and HMS Argyll (F231) operated together in the South China Sea in January, and a trilateral anti-submarine warfare exercise was held Dec. 21-22 between the U.S. Navy, Royal Navy, and Japan Maritime Self Defense Force. Guadalupe, the 14th Henry J. Kaiser-class replenishment oiler, is conducting routine operations, providing logistical support to U.S. Navy and allied

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