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September 10, 2010 Vol. 67 No. 35 IGGYGalley named finalist forCAFE outstanding food service award Photo by MC3 Leona Mynes Food service employees prepare sweet and sour pork and beef stew for lunch in the Gold Hill Galley Sept. 10. By MC3 Leona Mynes he Naval Station Gold Hill Galley was “Basically, you have to do everything from We added special meals to try and satisfy the named a finalist in the Navy Captain the ground up,” Thackwray said. “It was all customer.” TEdward F. Ney Memorial Awards in about training our cooks, our food servers, The galley staff Ney inspectors visited the the general overseas mess category last week. going through our administrative paperwork Gold Hill Galley Aug. 24-28, and will return In 2008, the galley won the Ney Award for and sanitation.” in October for a final inspection. outstanding food service. This year, galley Sanitation was a key part of the galley’s Galley leadership is preparing for the Ney staff members hope to do the same. success. inspectors by training crew members and Military and civilian staff members spent “We did a lot of deep cleaning,” said fine-tuning their service. several months preparing for the inspection, said Culinary Specialist 3rd Class Emmanuel “In all my years in military food service, Robert Thackwray, the Gold Hill Galley facility Helom, who has been with the galley for this is one of the best crews I’ve worked with manager, who has been working with military more than two years. “We had to go over by far,” said Thackwray. galleys world-wide for more than 33 years. the hits we got last year and improve them. The Guantanamo Bay Gazette GUANTANAMO BAY GAZETTE Fair Winds and Following Seas Vol. 67 No. 35 Chief Logistics Specialist Richard Vargas Chief Logistics Specialist Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba Richard Vargas is piped ashore during his Commanding Officer Capt. Steven H. Blaisdell retirement ceremony Executive Officer Cmdr. William Rabchenia Sept. 3 at the base Command Master Chief CMDCM (SW/AW/EXW) J.D. McKinney, III Chapel. Vargas is a former Public Affairs Officer Terence Peck Postal Clerk and served Leading Chief Petty Officer MCC(SW) Bill Mesta in the Navy for more Gazette Editor MC3 Leona Mynes than 24 years. At GTMO, The Guantanamo Bay Gazette is an authorized publication for Vargas was the leading members of the military services and their families stationed at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay. chief petty officer for the The contents do not necessarily reflect the official views of the U.S. Government, the Department of Defense, or the U.S. Navy, base post office and was and do not imply endorsement thereof. president of the Chief The editorial content is prepared, edited and provided by the Petty Officer’s Association. Public Affairs Office of U.S. Naval Station Guantanamo Bay. Photo by MC3 Leona Mynes The Guantanamo Bay Gazette is printed by the Document Automation & Production Service (DAPS) with a circulation of 1,000. Can NSIPS be accessed via personal computer How does e-Leave work for emergency leave after from home? Does it have to be CAC computer? normal working hours? Yes, NSIPS can be accessed from home if the personal If the Sailor is not able to access the system to input a Q&A:e-Leave computer has a Common Access Card reader with the proper request, the CLA can complete the request and approve When can I use e-Leave? certificates. Anyone that has problems accessing from home based on various forms of communication like email, E-Leave will come online at https://nsips.nmci.navy.mil/ should contact the NSIPS help desk for support. NSIPS Help phone or duty log direction. on Aug. 1, except for afloat commands. The Naval Station Desk Contact Information: Toll Free: 877-589-5991, Comm: will be implementing the program Oct. 1. 504-697-5442, DSN: 647-5442 or e-mail: NSIPShelpdesk@ Will Admin personnel be able to view status of navy.mil. leave in the route chain? How will I access e-Leave? Everyone will be able to view the status of an e-Leave E-Leave access will be through individual Electronic How do e-Leave requests get routed through the request by logging in to ESR, then e-Leave > e-Leave Service Record self service accounts via Navy SIPS online chain of command? Inquiry. There will also be standard reports that the CLA at https://nsips.nmci.navy.mil/. The chain of command will receive email notifications can run as needed. when an e-Leave request is submitted so they may approve/ Should we request access to NSIPS now to use disapprove and route forward. The system will the How will leave corrections be handled, such as e-Leave? automatically assign an LCN to approved leave requests and when a member doesn’t take all leave initially Although e-Leave access will not be available until Aug. process automatically 24 hours after the initial leave is to requested, or called back early from leave? 1, all who currently have access to NSIPS should establish start. The CLA and Approver will receive notification if the If Sailors don’t take all the requested leave, they have an ESR self-service account if not already accomplished. initial approved request is modified by the member. two options. They can go into the system and check Without an ESR self service account, they will not be able themselves in early from leave and the system will to take leave. For all others, once e-Leave is implemented, Can every supervisor, including civilian personnel automatically correct without CLA intervention; or after the Command Leave Administrator (CLA) will have the overseeing military, get a NSIPS access account to the full period has been charged, the CLA can correct the ability to approve and associate new civilian accounts to process a request? leave via the administration section for CLA access under the appropriate command hierarchy. Civilians can request a civilian account as a CLA, Reviewer e-Leave Management. or Approver via the NSIPS homepage under New Users. Will there be training? Who needs training and Will leave still be charged in advance of taking it or who will give the training? Will all our Admin personnel need to have will it be charged upon return? Instructor-led training took place either in the Norfolk,Va., command access to ESR to be able to track leave Leave will be charged 24 hours after the first day of Jacksonville, Fla., San Diego, Calif. and Seattle in mid- program for all our Sailors? chargeable leave. June or July. Further communications will announce when Depending on the size of your command, the command can and where training will take place. decide how many CLAs they would like to have. E-Leave How will e-Leave requests be processed through will have multiple types of standard reports the command DFAS? Do you have step-by-step processing Will e-Leave allow for printing of leave orders to can pull from. instructions that you can send me? show you are in a leave status? Check the Navy instruction for Leave and Liberty Yes. Print capability will be available for all e-Leave Does NSIPS allow for advance leave? in MILPERSMAN 1050: http://www.npc.navy.mil/ requests and reports, both before and after e-Leave request NSIPS will allow a Sailor to request leave in advance. ReferenceLibrary/MILPERSMAN/1000MilitaryPersonnel/ approval. NSIPS will also allow leave requests if the member does 1000General/. not have enough leave on the books. It will be up to the responsible command to see if the member has a soft extension that was not yet made operative. 2 September 10, 2010 Seasonal influenza vaccine update From the U.S. Naval Hospital nfluenza (or more commonly referred to as the “Flu”) is not the common cold. Influen- za, in certain populations, can have severe to life-threatening complications and getting Ian annual influenza vaccine immunization (either the traditional shot in the arm or the nasal spray vaccine) protects individuals and whole communities, from getting the disease or becoming severely ill. Immunization remains the primary method of reducing seasonal influenza illness and its complications. This year the novel H1N1 influenza vaccine has been combined with the seasonal influ- enza vaccine so only one vaccine dose is needed for protection. It is Department of Defense policy that annual seasonal influenza vaccinations are required for all active duty military personnel, Selected Reserves, and healthcare workers. The U.S. Naval Hospital has received partial shipments of this year’s vaccine and will Are you start immunizing according to established population priorities and vaccine supply this month (September). The hospital’s goal is 100% immunization of all beneficiaries onboard Guantanamo Bay by Dec. 1. Please note that FluMist (administered as a nasal spray) will stubborn be given to all individuals under the age of 50 that are healthy and do not have any medical contraindications to receiving the influenza vaccine. Injectable vaccine (traditional “shot By Lt. Douglas Holmes, Chaplain in the arm”) will be given only to those that meet the requirement. There is no option for ? individual preference or choice. have found that there Influenza viruses are thought to spread mainly from person to person through the cough- are many times that we ing or sneezing of people with influenza. Sometimes people may become infected by touch- miss what God wants to ing something with influenza viruses on it and then touching their mouth or nose. Mostly I do in our lives because we healthy adults may be able to infect others beginning one day before symptoms develop and are stubborn.