www.thelighthousenews.com Vol. 13, No. 8 | Thursday, April 18, 2013 WHAT’S INSIDE No Blue Angels, no air show for 2013
The Naval Base Ventura EXERCISE BALITAKAN 2013 County (NBVC) Air Show scheduled for Sept. 28-29 at Point Mugu has been canceled as a result of budget shortfalls due to sequestration. “The Navy is the shield of our nation,” said Capt. Larry Vasquez, NBVC’s commanding officer. “As a military organiza- tion, protecting that mission is paramount. The community In this photo by MC1 John Curtis, here in Ventura County is very UCCM Douglas Heiner of NMCB 5 supportive, and we appreciate looks at a display during an April 9 their understanding while we candlelit Holocaust Remembrance navigate the fiscal constraints Walk at Camp Shields in Okinawa, we’ve faced this year.” Japan. Naval Base Ventura County Recognizing budget realities, also commemorated Day of current Department of Defense Remembrance. Page 9 policy states that outreach events can only be supported with local assets at no cost to the government. This policy required the cancellation of all military flight demonstrations, including those by the Navy’s flight demonstration squadron, the Blue Angels, which had been scheduled to headline the NBVC Air Show. BU3 Galadriel Pope of Naval Photo by MC1 Chris Fahey / NMCb 3, JCMotF The Navy is taking several Construction Group 1 applies ZAMBALES, Philippines — Mary Rose from Shepherd of the Hills (SOTH) Children’s Foundation dribbles steps to ensure resources are in sealant to a fence during an April a basketball around CE1 Isaac Barajas, a staff member of the Joint Civil Military Operations Task Force place to support forces operat- 11 community relations event at an (JCMOTF) who’s with Naval Construction Group 1, homeported at Naval Base Ventura County, Port Hueneme. ing forward now and those Oxnard senior garden. Page 6 Barajas is among 40 volunteers who took part in this recent community relations project, one of several scheduled by JCMOTF units in support of exercise Balikatan 2013, currently taking place in the Republic of training to relieve them. Can- the Philippines. More coverage of exercise Balikatan, Pages 17-19. celing the air show is one such step. “There is definitely value to holding these air shows,” NBVC in first place in Corporate Games Vasquez said. “They are excel- By Andrea Howry fee of $1,300 — more for multiple monthlong countywide competi- lent recruiting tools and great BU2 Khiaro Promise of Underwater Lighthouse teams — but it didn’t stop Naval tion, the NBVC team is in first community experiences. We Construction Team 2 removes a Lack of funding may have pre- Base Ventura County (NBVC) place in its division. will continue putting on these concrete form during restoration vented Morale, Welfare and Rec- employees from pooling their Robert Bonner, a mechanical events in the future once the of Hotel Pier at Joint Base Pearl reation (MWR) from ponying up own resources and competing. current budget issues are re- Harbor-Hickam in Hawaii. Page 4 the 2013 Corporate Games entry And now, two weeks into the See CorporAte, pAGe 21 solved.” ws .com
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