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Snipes Run the Navy We BOXER TRIAD TABLE OF CONTENTS CAPT. COMMANDING GATOR RONALD OFFICER Osprey Rides & DOWDELL 3 Patch Swaps ON THE 10-11 CAPT. Aerographer's EXECUTIVE OFFICER DALE Snipes Mate HEINKEN 4-5 Lament STREET 12-13 CS3 Naomi Acosta East Hartford, Connecticut CMDCM(SW) COMMAND 1 What was your favorite part of Thailand? VERONICA MASTER USS Thailand The food, especially the pad thai, it was only 3 dollars! CHIEF HOLLIDAY 6-7 BOXER Operations 2 What are you looking forward to most on deployment? 14-15 Hitting all the ports and experiencing new cultures. 3 What are your goals for this deployment? Golden My surface warfare pin. PUBLIC PUBLIC AFFAIRS 8-9 4 Where do you see yourself in 10 years? AFFAIRS OFFICER MCCS(SW/AW) ADAM VERNON Gators I don’t know, maybe on a farm in Idaho. PUBLIC AFFAIRS MC1(SW/SCW/AW/IW) LPO BRIAN CARACCI SHSN Jocelyn Garcia EDITOR MC2(SW/AW) JUSTIN RANKIN STATUS OF THE NAVY South Bend, Indiana 1 What was your favorite part of Thailand? LAYOUT MC2 RANKIN, MC3 STROMBECK As of June 14th, 2019 + The food, my favorite was chicken curry. DESIGN 2 What are your goals for this deployment? Amphibious Assault CONTRIBUTORS Get both my pins. Active Duty: 332,507 Ready Reserve: Ships underway Officers: 54,263 101,865 USS Boxer (LHD 4) First thing you’re going to do when we return? Enlisted: 273,832 3 MC2(SW) JOHN MCGOVERN Selected Reserves: 7th Fleet MC2(SW/AW/IW) DAVID ORTIZ Midshipmen: 4,412 58,801 USS Wasp (LHD 1) Going to chic-fil-a. MC2 DALE HOPKINS Pacific MC3 ZACHARY BEHREND 4 Where do you see yourself in 10 years? MC3 JESSICA HATTEL Navy Owning a home, being financially stable and no kids! MC3(SW/AW/IW) Department Deployable Battle ALEXANDER KUBITZA Individual Ready Civilian Force Ships: Aircraft Reserve: 289 MC3(SW) KEYPHER STROMBECK Employees: (operational): 43,064 274,854 Deployable Battle 3700+ MC3(SW) JUSTIN WHITLEY Reserves currently Force Across the Fleet: EM1 Therese Sanpascual mobilized: 83 Quezon City, Phillipines 3,071 1 What was your favorite part of Thailand? Deployed Ships Aircraft Carriers Underway: Underway Wearing flip flops. 54 (19%) USS Eisenhower (CVN 69 2 What are your goals for this deployment? FAIR USE NOTICE Ships Underway for Atlantic Local Ops / Training: USS Lincoln (CVN 72) Gain some weight. Not withstanding the provisions of sections 106 and 106A, the fair use of a 29 (10%) 5th Fleet copyrighted work, including such use by a reproduction in copies or phonorecords or USS Truman (CVN 75) 3 What do you miss the most about home? by any other means specified by that section, for purposes such as criticism, comment, Atlantic USS Reagan (CVN 76) Wearing comfy clothes and going to concerts. news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or Pacific research, is not an infringement of copyright. 4 Where do you see yourself in 10 years? Having my own family. This publication is an authorized publication for military members aboard amphibious assault ship USS BOXER (LHD 4). The contents of Bark of the Boxer are not the official views of, or endorsed by the U.S. Government, the Department of Defense or the United States Navy. 3 USS BOXER (LHD 4) | BARK OF THE BOXER | 2019 e all depend on the engineering department, from I: What would you say is your favorite passage? Wair conditioning to the water we drink we owe it B: The one that really strikes the most, “In every hour of all to their hard work. But what do we really know about every day, they keep the watch in hell, for if the fires ever them aside from the rumors about how hard their life must fail, the ships a useless shell.” be? I sat down with Boncardo to ask some questions and I: Wow you knew that right of the top of your head. try to get inside the mind and history of engineers to see Would you go as far to say you love your job? Thus is a general rule, what makes them tick. B: I can honestly say I love my job, the hours come with Interviewer: So why did you choose engineering? Or the territory but I love it. was it even a choice? I: So what do you love most about your job? don’t hear of these men of steel. Boncardo: I came in rated. Believe it or not I chose B: The thing I love most about my job is working with my MM. I never knew about the engineering department hands and meeting great people. The fact that specifically specifically before I joined the Navy, I just knew that here on Boxer there’s a watch team hierarchy and you So little known about this place before I joined some of my favorite classes were history, can see the visible progress as you move up through your shop classes, metal working, and wood working. At first I different watch stations. was thinking about being a Seabee but eventually I found my way into the engineering world and I haven’t looked I: You mention meeting great people, and a watch team, that Sailors call the hole. back since. would you say it’s a “team sport”? B: On Boxer one watch stander simply cannot do the job I: I see how the shop classes fit into your job, but how alone. We have to rely on four or five watch standers in But I can sing about this place, does liking history class play into being an engineer? the space. The team building while everyone in the space B: Back in “A” School there was this one guy who came is pulling together to accomplish a task really builds a level into class and you could tell he had a few screws loose. of trust and pulls it all together. and try to make you see, He started talking about the life style of an engineer, about the hard work and the long hours. Then he started I: So what was your defining moment when you realized telling this generic story about a guy with a generic name you loved being an engineer? The hardened life of men down below, named John Snipe. He said back in some war that Snipe B: I remember at my last command at Mid Atlantic shut down the entire engineering plant of a ship because Regional Maintenance Center in Norfolk, there was this he was tired of how engineers were treated back in the one job that I got, it was a brake assembly for a sliding because one of them is me.” day. Back in the day there was really only two main pad eye. They took it to the shop and it was just rusted departments; you had deck and you had engineers. The up. There was so much corrosion and my object was to officers in deck were considered line officers and the crew break it free. The second classes in the shop were having was treated with a certain level of respect. The engineers a hard time, I was a fireman at the time and they told me however were treated like work horses. to try. So I had the idea to just cover it in penetrating oil Snipe eventually got fed up and shut down the entire and eventually I started breaking the parts free. I didn’t engineering plant on the ship and refused to bring it back know it at the time but there was this private contractor up until his crew started getting more respect. Eventually named Chris Tony watching me. He was a retired Navy we started getting called snipesmen and then it boiled engineer who had been in for like 20 years. I looked up down to snipes. That was a hard story to buy because after I had just broke all the parts free and I see him do it just seemed too generic but I started looking around this simple head nod and my first class tells me, “you see all the walls at the school house it had these poems of what that is,” I said, “no what’s going on,” and he said, “ these acquired professionals just struggling to keep an You just got the Chris Tony nod of approval, that’s the engineering plant running so everyone else is comfortable. highest reward a fireman can get.” That was one of the first times I felt good about my job and what I do. The Snipes A look into the “Snipe’s Lament” I: Do you feel like engineers are still treated the same as fact that as a fireman I was able to surpass second classes they were in the past? “I’ve seen these sweat soaked heroes fight through super-heated air to keep just out of brute level of knowledge and work ethic alone B: People definitely look at me in a different manner, their ship alive and right, though no one knows they are there, and thus was a crowning achievement for me. Run because they know we live a hard life and give me a little they’ll fight for ages on until war ships sail no more, amid the boilers mighty bit more courtesy because of the unfathomable reasons of I: That’s a great story. Thank you for sharing that. Is there heat and the turbines hellish roar. So if you see a ship pull out to meet what I go through. I’ve definitely had some people go by anything else you would like add? The a warlike foe, remember faintly if you can the men who sail below,” said and ask me, “what’s your rate.” When I tell them I’m an B: Being an engineer is not for the faint hearted.
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