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Career & Education AutoMatters & More Navy could return to using photos for pro- Z Proto story in Nissan Z: 50 Your FREE motions, personnel chief says. Years of Exhilarating Per- formance. weekly paper See page 6 See page 9 Take one! Navy Marine Corps Coast Guard Army Air Force V-J Day Aug. 15, 1945 V-J Day in Times Square, a photograph by Al- ARMED FORCES fred Eisenstaedt, celebrating the victory over Japan and the end of World War II. San Diego Navy/Marine Corps Dispatch www.armedforcesdispatch.com 619.280.2985 SIXTY-FIRST YEAR NO. 16 Serving active duty and retired military personnel, veterans and civil service employees THURSDAY, AUGUST 12, 2021 THIRD FLEET HQ DEPLOYS TO HAWAII FOR NAVY’S UNPRECEDENTED FIVE-FLEET GLOBAL COMBAT EXERCISES by Wyatt Olson, entire maritime of the globe,” oversees includes USS Carl Stars and Stripes he said. Vinson aircraft carrier and some of its strike group, which ar- JOINT BASE PEARL HAR- The global exercise force rived in the Hawaiian Islands BOR-HICKAM, Hawaii - For - which also includes elements on Sunday. the remainder of August, the San of the Navy’s 2nd, 4th, 6th and Diego-based 3rd Fleet will be 7th Fleets - includes about 36 Cruiser USS Lake Champlain headquartered in a scrum of tents vessels at sea, from carriers and destroyers USS Chafee and in Hawaii while its command to submarines, as well as “an USS Stockdale from Destroyer takes part in unprecedented, unlimited array of constructive, Squadron 1 are also taking part worldwide Navy drills. or computer-generated units,” in the exercise. 3rd Fleet said in a news release Large Scale Exercise 2021 Aug. 9. The core of Large-Scale Ex- kicked off last week, with syn- ercise 2021 involves “leverag- chronized training taking place The exercise fleet Koehler see Exercise, page 7 among five numbered fleets within U.S. Fleet Forces Com- Carlos Del Toro confirmed as mand, U.S. Pacific Fleet and U.S. Naval Forces Europe. the 78th Navy secretary “The training is based on WASHINGTON - Carlos Del Toro, a Navy veteran and CEO for a progression of fleet battle an engineering and consulting firm, was confirmed by the Senate as problems and scenarios that the 78th Navy secretary, Defense will assess and refine modern Vice Adm. Steve Koehler, commander of the Navy’s 3rd Fleet, speaks with re- Secretary Lloyd Austin said. The warfare concepts, including porters at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, Aug. 9. Navy photo by MC1 Senate on Saturday confirmed distributed maritime operations, Danny Kelley Del Toro as the Navy’s top ci- expeditionary advanced base op- vilian leader two months after erations, and littoral operations 21 incorporates the Army, Navy, this expeditionary mock capabil- modern era, Koehler said. President Joe Biden nominated in a contested environment,” Air Force and Marine Corps for ity,” fleet commander Vice Adm. him for the position. Del Toro, the Navy said in a news release training with military forces Steve Koehler told reporters “When you’re looking across who immigrated to the United last week. from the United Kingdom, Aus- while standing near the tents. the large-scale naval exercise States in 1962 with his family, tralia and Japan through Aug. here that we’re doing, certainly is now the first Navy secretary The worldwide exercise is a 27. “So, I’m command-and-con- in my 35 years this is the first of born in Cuba. Del Toro gradu- subset of the even more exten- trolling all of 3rd Fleet - both a kind where we are bringing in ated from the Naval Academy, Carlos Del Toro, sworn in sive Large Scale Global Exercise Roughly a dozen dark-green within the exercise and real all of the naval forces together, Naval Postgraduate School and as the 78th Secretary of 21, according to a separate news tents were pitched a week ago at world - from here,” he said. synchronized across the whole Naval War College and spent the Navy. Courtesy photo release last week by U.S. Indo- Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam The fleet includes 100 ships, Navy, in the meetings that we’re 22 years on active duty in the Pacific Command, whose job it to serve as 3rd Fleet’s temporary 400 aircraft and roughly 68,000 having all day long across these service, according to his biography on the academy’s alumni asso- is to make the joint force, multi- home. personnel, he said. 17 time zones,” he said. ciation website. He also spent five years as a civilian employee for national exercise a reality. the Navy, including as senior military assistant to the director for “I’ve brought the entire head- The scale of the maritime “Right now, we’re exercising programs analysis and evaluation. He was sworn in as Secretary of Large Scale Global Exercise quarters function here, inside training is unprecedented in the combat scenarios across the the Navy on Aug. 9 ACTIVE DUTY GOLF TOURNAMENT TO KICKOFF FLEET WEEK SAN DIEGO ‘21 SAN DIEGO - The San Diego and team prizes as well as the ning a full schedule of live scheduled to honor those who Fleet Week Foundation. “We’re ebrate the men and women of Fleet Week Foundation will kick Fleet Week “Inter-Service Tro- events to honor and thank San serve and have served include proud of the work our military the military through public off its 2021 schedule of events phy” which will be awarded to a Diego’s active duty and veteran a Military/Veterans Art Show, men and women perform, both events and alliances that support to honor and thank the men and four-person team from the Navy, community. A 16-team double as well as the General Atomics in their service to our country and thank these heroes. The women of the Navy, Marine Marine Corps, or Coast Guard elimination softball tournament sponsored Fleet Week/SDMAC and in our community, and we Chamber of Commerce gave Corps and Coast Guard with an that posts the lowest score. with military teams from the Breakfast and the Cubic spon- know that the people of San birth to Fleet Week San Diego all active duty golf tournament All enlisted members as well bases in the area as well as teams sored Enlisted Recognition Diego join us in honoring and in 1997 and by 2001 the event on Sept. 8 at the Singing Hills as junior officer, (04 & below) of first responders from the cit- Luncheon. The series of events thanking these outstanding men had grown into a nonprofit Cali- Golf Resort in El Cajon. can register to play at the Fleet ies around San Diego Bay will will wrap up on Nov. 11 with and women.” fornia Public Benefit Corpora- Approximately 150 junior Week website at: FLEET WEEK start on Oct. 121 at Naval Base the 2nd annual Veteran Day For more information about tion. By expressing its support officers and enlisted men and ACTIVE DUTY GOLF TOUR- San Diego. Starting on Nov. 4 Boat Parade around San Diego San Diego Fleet Week 2021 for the contributions made by women will be hosted to a full NAMENT 2021 – Fleet Week events will shift to downtown Bay and a post parade concert events, visit https://fleetweek- the sea services to the many day of golf which will include San Diego There is a nominal San Diego with military displays at Broadway Pier. sandiego.org. communities of the greater San lunch and a post golf reception charge of $10 per golfer. and ship tours at Broadway Pier “San Diego is definitely a About Fleet Week San Diego Diego region, Fleet Week San as well as on course refresh- The San Diego Fleet Week as well as the Innovation Zone, military town,” said Bill Baugh a Fleet Week San Diego was Diego helps to maintain the vi- ments. Golfers will compete in Foundation is celebrating its Student STEM Days and Mili- retired Army colonel, who is the created by community and busi- sion of San Diego as a patriotic, a scramble format for individual 20th anniversary and is plan- tary Family Day. Other activities 2021 president of the San Diego ness leaders to honor and cel- pro-military city. 2 www.armedforcesdispatch.com THURSDAY, AUGUST 12, 2021 National Military Defense official outlines U.S. security assistance, cooperation in Middle East by Terri Moon Cronk, ant, capable and accountable management, defense, budget- build upon it, by encouraging “Improved integrated regional and equipment to meet partners’ DOD News partner forces who will work ing, training and advising, as relationship-building between security among partners is key as needs, she said. alongside the nation to achieve well as the transfer of defense Israel and Arab militaries’ co- the United States right-sizes its A Defense Department offi- mutual objectives based on articles and services within each operation to counter the threat of posture in the region,” she said. Congressional consultation cial testified about U.S. security shared threats and shared in- of these categories,” she told attack unmanned aerial vehicles and oversight is critical, she assistance in the Middle East terests, she said. A long-term the panel. versus drones. As for strategic competition said, adding, “Thank you for before the Senate Foreign Rela- proposition, security coopera- in the Middle East, building the Congressional bipartisan sup- tions Committee Subcommittee tion programs are also designed There are opportunities and “Given the shared regional capacity of partners is critical port for security cooperation on the Near East, South Asia, to ensure that the United States requirements for DOD to dem- threat of the Iran-supported to reducing their vulnerabilities authorities, programs and fund- Central Asia and Counterter- maintains access to key areas onstrate and impart U.S.