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FY2017 Busy Year at NAS Key West Base, Facilities Close for Holidays FRIDAY, DEC . 22, 2017 EYE ON THE FLEET ARABIAN GULF Vol . 17 no . 47 WWW .CNIC .nAVY .MIL/KEYWEST NAVAL AIR STATION KEY WEST, FLORIDA Newest LPD docks at Mole for liberty call (Dec . 17, 2017) PS1 Jeni Gray decorates a tree FROM NAS KEY WEST aboard the aircraft carrier PUBLIC Affairs USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) . Theodore he Navy’s new- Roosevelt and its carrier est San Antonio- strike group are deployed class amphibious to the U .S . 5th Fleet area T transport dock ship, USS of operations in support of maritime security Portland (LPD 27), docked operations . at Naval Air Station Key U.S. Navy photo by West’s outer Mole Pier MC3 Spencer Roberts Friday for holiday liberty. Portland, which recent- ly joined the fleet as it sailed from the shipyard in inside: Pascagoula, Mississippi, on Dec. 14 is making its way to BRIEFLY its homeport of San Diego. Upcoming activities . 3 U.S. Navy photo by Jolene Scholl The transport is one of 2017 Sailors with Naval Air Station Key West’s Port Operations catch mooring lines as USS Portland (LPD 27) docks at the Outer Mole the largest Navy ships to Pier on Truman Annex Friday . Portland and her crew of 380 Sailors and Marines are here for holiday liberty before continuing on Photo review . 4, 5 their journey to the warship’s new homeport in San Diego . see LPD 27 page 2 MWR What’s up? . 6 TOP OF PAGE ONE: FY2017 busy year at NAS Key West Base, facilities close for holidays An F/A-18F Super Hornet assigned to the ‘Fighting FROM NAS KEY WEST lizing NAS Key West assets, like FROM NAS KEY WEST Monday, open regular hours (10 - 5 Redcocks ‘of Strike PUBLIC Affairs the Mole Pier and Port Operations. PUBLIC Affairs p.m.) Dec. 31 and open 10 a.m. - 5 Fighter Squadron (VFA) 22 Here are the numbers for Fiscal p.m. on Jan. 1, 2018. makes a final approach t’s been a busy year at Naval Year 2017, which began October aval Air Station Key West The Boca Chica Field and to the aircraft carrier USS Air Station Key West - a year 2016 and ended Sept. 30, 2017: administrative offices Trumbo Point mini-marts are open Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) . Theodore Roosevelt Icapped with recovery from NAS Key West provided 30,000 Nand facilities will close in 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Saturday and and its carrier strike group Hurricane Irma Sept. 10. square miles of training range observance of Christmas and New Sunday, closed Monday, closed are deployed to the U .S . 5th And it wasn’t just the airfield services to 64 detachments with Year’s Day. Dec. 31 and open 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Fleet area of operations . that was busy. Our 39 tenants, 527 aircraft and more than 6,515 Air operations will cease as Jan. 1, 2018. including Coast Guard Sector pilots and crew, including the first- Sailors take time to spend with The commissary on Sigsbee Park Happy Holidays! Key West, Joint Interagency ever training detachment of Strike their family and friends. is closed Sunday and Monday, Dec. Be Merry, Be Safe! Task Force South and U.S. Army Fighter Squadron (VFA) 101, with The Navy Exchange on Sigsbee 31 and Jan. 1, 2018. Special Forces Underwater Dive Park is open regular hours (10 School, were busy as well often uti- see 2017 page 7 a.m. - 5 p.m.) on Sunday, closed see HOLidaYS page 2 2• •Dec. 22, 2017 be accounted for by the human of days to focus on this Holy cel- ‘God with us’ race at all. He is not man becom- ebration of Christmas. ing God, but God Incarnate, God Please come and join us on ehold, a virgin shall coming into human flesh, com- Sundays at 10:30 a.m. this forth a son, and they ing into it from outside. His life Sunday we will be at the COmmaNDING OFFICER Capt. Bobby J. Baker shall call His name is the Highest Community Center on Sigsbee ‘B EXECUTIVE OFFICER Emanuel, which interpreted is, CHAPLAIN'S and the Holiest Annex for worship service Cmdr. Greg Brotherton God with us.” Isaiah 7:14 CORNER entering in at with our Praise Band and Oswald Chambers explains it the Lowliest Children’s Church. Please visit PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER Trice Denny well in just a few words what door. Our Lord’s our Facebook page (NAS Key Christmas Day is with “His birth was an West Chapel) for upcoming EDITOR Jolene Scholl Birth in History.” advent.” events. This Sunday at 7 p.m. Dec. 22 STAFF “Therefore also that holy thing If you want to we will have a Christmas candle- MC2 Cody Babin 1942 - Sue Dauser takes the oath of which shall be born of thee shall find the story of light service at the Community NAS Key West This newspaper is an authorized office as Superintendent of Navy Nurse be called the Song of God. (Luke Command Chaplain Christmas look Center. publication for members of the Corps, becoming the first woman with 1:35.) Jesus Christ was born into for it in the book If you are in need of chap- military service and their families. Lt. Cmdr. the relative rank of captain in Navy. this world, not from it. He did not of Luke Chapter lain care, please call your chap- Its contents do not necessarily Scott Mason reflect the official views of the U.S. evolve out of history; He came 2 verses 1-20. lains at 305-293-2318, Naval Air Government, the Department of into history from the outside. So as you sit Station Key West, or 305-292- Defense, or the U.S. Navy and do Dec. 23 not imply endorsement thereof. Christ is not the best human around with family or by your- 8788, Coast Guard Sector Key The editorial content of this newspaper is prepared, edited 1910 - Lt. Theodore Ellyson becomes the being. He is a Being Who cannot self, take time these next couple West. and provided by the Public Affairs first naval officer sent to flight training, Office of Naval Air Station Key West, Florida. Additional copy reporting to the Glenn Curtiss Aviation and photographs provided by Camp at North Island, San Diego. through Dec. 31: Center, Truman Annex - closed the readers of the Southernmost Flyer should be addressed to: Holiday • Airlanes Grill on Boca Chica Sunday and Dec. 31. continued from page 1 Editor, Southernmost Flyer, Field - closed Friday. • Boca Chica Fitness Center, Public Affairs Office, Naval Air Dec. 24 Station, Box 9001, Key West, FL • Auto Skills Center, Boca Boca Chica Field - closed 33040-9001. Copy can also be 1950 - Under cover of naval gunfire All MWR facilities will be Chica Field - open 9 a.m. - Sunday, open 6 a.m. - 7 p.m. e-mailed to jolene.scholl@ navy.mil. Telephone (305) support, Task Force 90 completes a closed on Monday and Jan. 1, 1 p.m. Saturday, closed Tuesday, open 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. 293-2425/2434. DSN 483- 14-day evacuation of 100,000 troops and 2018 except for the NGIS Front Tuesday, open 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. Dec. 30 and closed Dec. 31. 2425/2434. Deadline for all editorial copy equipment and 91,000 refugees from Desk, Bldg. A-648 on Boca Chica Wednesday, and 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. The Southernmost Flyer, pub- is 4 p.m. the Friday preceding Hungnam, North Korea. Field. Select MWR facilities Dec. 30. lished digitally on Fridays, won’t publication. All articles must be submitted on disk in text format, will have adjusted hours Friday • Beach Patio Recreation publish on Dec. 29. written in upper/lower case style. Dec. 25 1944 - USS Barbero (SS 317) attacks ing amphibious assaults, spe- a Japanese convoy and sinks transport LPD 27 cial operations or expedition- Junpo Maru. continued from page 1 ary warfare missions; it can also serve as secondary avia- tion platforms for amphibious Dec. 26 visit the Mole Pier, measuring ready groups. 1944 - Harriet Ida Pickens and Frances at 684 feet long. Hill noted the crew has Wills are commissioned as the first two The crew of more than 380 worked hard to prepare them- African-American WAVES officers. Sailors Marines is looking for- selves and the ship for its mis- ward to meeting the commu- sion. Dec. 27 nity and enjoying Key West “The crew successfully com- for the holiday, according to pleted their certifications for 1990 - Lt. Cmdr. Darlene Iskra, the first Commanding Officer Capt. their equipment and their abil- female commanding officer of a Navy Jeremy Hill. ity to work together to accom- warship, reports for duty on board USS “The overall expectation is to plish the missions assigned,” Opportune (ARS 41). enjoy the outstanding hospital- noted Hill. “They remain ity of this great city,” stated enthusiastic and continue to Dec. 28 Hill. “We look forward to going gain confidence in themselves ashore and visiting the sites and their equipment.” 1990 - USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN the city has to offer.” USS Portland will have its 71) and USS America (CVN 66) carrier The LPD is used to transport ceremonial commissioning battle groups deploy for the Middle East and land Marines, their equip- April 21, 2018, in Portland, to join Operation Desert Shield. ment and supplies, support- Oregon. Dec. 22, 2017 • • 3 VAs complete SAPR training BY DANIELLE MARTIN information such as victim Sexual Assault Response Coordinator rights, military and com- NAS Key West FFSC munity resources, as well as restricted and unre- ongratulations to stricted reporting options.
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