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November, 2009 Navy.TogetherWeServed Newsletter - November, 2009 In This Issue GROWING STRONG FIRST CALL: Notes & Ramblings From The Pilothouse Featured Updates President orders review of Fort Hood prelude In Memoriam... Did You Know? Petraeus spends Thanksgiving aboard Nimitz Contract values announced for Littoral Combat Ships 3 & 4 OIF & OEF Maps IT Diversity, Part 2 Got discounts for Sailors? Feds pledge support for hiring veterans NTWS Member adopts fallen Sailor, begins knowledge quest Happy Birthday US MARINE CORPS! HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS! VET TOPICS TWS Coins, Coffee & More - the TWS Cafe! The staff of TWS salute the Marine Corps as it celebrated its 234th birthday AMERICANS AT WAR this month. OFF DUTY Originally founded on Nov. 10, 1775, the Marine Corps was composed mainly THE HOIST - NTWS Newsletter of infantrymen serving aboard Navy ships. They were responsible primarily for the security of the ship and “This nation will never forget the provided offensive and defensive service of those we lost at Fort Hood, boarding parties; and helped just as we will always honor the protect the ship's officers from service of all who wear the uniform of mutiny. In 1921, Marine Gen. the United States of America. Their John A. Lejeune issued Marine legacy will be an America that is safer Corps Order No. 47, Series 1921, and stronger -- an America that reflects that directed the history, the extraordinary character of the men traditions and mission of the Marine Corps to be read to all Marines on Nov. 10 to honor the service's and women who serve it.” creation. And in 1925, the first formal Marine Corps Birthday Ball was held in - President Barak Obama Philadelphia. in remarks at Fort Hood, TX Nov. 2009 Today, the Corps is an amphibious expeditionary force that also supports missions from the White House and the State Department. The men and women who proudly claim the title "United States Marine" embody a tradition of honor and selfless service dating back to the ADVERTISEMENT establishment of the Continental Marines in 1775. Today, they and the thousands before who earned the right to be called "Marine" continue to uphold these most hallowed traditions by serving proudly around the globe. To all current active duty and Reserve warriors, along with those who have formerly worn the Marine Corps uniform with pride, have all truly lived up to the Corps' sacred motto: 'Semper Fidelis.' All of us at TWS salute and celebrate the culture that all Leathernecks embody -- honor, courage and commitment. Happy Birthday and Semper Fi! ---------- We've gone MOBILE! Now you can now easily read and answer new Messages, view the Profiles of old Friends, post or read latest SitReps and Forum Posts, purchase something from the TWS Store and much, much more in an easy to navigate ADVERTISEMENT version of your favorite Army networking website! To enable the wider TWS screen to fit on the vertical screen of iPhones and similar mobile devices, our programmers placed the right hand page underneath the left hand page and reconfigured the tabs. TWS Mobile works very well -- especially if your mobile phone screen will display in "landscape" (sideways) mode. For a quick preview of the layout, click on the "Mobile Layout" at the bottom right of the binder. TWS Mobile is a free application for all TWS Members and we would love to hear how you like this new feature. ---------- November thoughts... Two holidays always occur during November every year - Veterans Day and Thanksgiving. In the UK and other Commonwealth nations, Veterans Day, HELMAND HALT - HM3 Eric Nobriga halts during a foot also called Remembrance Day, reflects the same sentiment. Whether you patrol in the Nawa district, Helmand province, Afghanistan. refer to it as Remembrance Day, or Veterans Day, it's a time to think about Nobriga, a hospital corpsman assigned to the 1st Battalion, veterans who have served and those who sadly -- but heroically -- made the 5th Marine Regiment, is deployed with Regimental Combat ultimate sacrifice in past and present wars. Team 7 to conduct counterinsurgency operations with Afghan national security forces in southern Afghanistan. Thanksgiving is the one day each year we Americans watch football, and - USMC photo by LCpl. James Purschwitz gorge ourselves on loads of turkey, stuffing, green bean casserole and pumpkin pie. More importantly, it should be a day for us to consider those - Navy Working Uniform roll-out accelerated things we are truly most thankful for -- our families, friends, freedom and - Navy Public Health Center website offers flu-related hopefully, the servicemembers who protect our freedom. info - Some 20th-Century Navy records, cruise books to be published online While I've lived for some 50 years with Veterans Day and Thanksgiving only - NAVSO hosts 1st senior enlisted leaders maritime weeks apart from one another, it wasn't until recently that I truly realized conference how intertwined those two holidays are. - USS Constitution designated 'America's Ship of State' - USS Lassen visits Vietnam in storybook return of its For more than 230 years, our nation has celebrated Thanksgiving as a time to commander recognize the many priceless gifts we enjoy as Americans. It's a time to appreciate and celebrate our families and our friends; a time to reflect on how privileged we are to live in such a great land of opportunity. On the other hand, President Lincoln recognized the men that died on the field at Gettysburg and challenged Americans to not forget what they did there. He also challenged all Americans to remember them for their sacrifice. I will give thanks on Thanksgiving Day for the hundreds of civilians who listened to that speech in Pennsylvania many years ago, who demonstrated their appreciation for those who answered our nation's call to military service. COLORS ON OKINAWA - Sailors unfurl and hoist aloft the And for the next 50 plus years of my life, I'll have a new appreciation for why Veterans Day and Thanksgiving Day are so close to one another on the COLORS ON OKINAWA - Sailors unfurl and hoist aloft the Holiday Ensign during morning colors on Veterans Day Veterans Day and Thanksgiving Day are so close to one another on the aboard USS Harpers Ferry while moored at Naval Facility calendar. White Beach, Okinawa. --------- - US Navy photo by PO2 Joshua J. Wahl Taps... It's been one rough month for Guardians, Marines, Soldiers and civilians -- and now we've lost a member of the TWS family. The original Chief Administrator for NTWS, Chief Mess Management Specialist Art Gazelle, USN (ret.), passed-away on December 1 in Tampa, FL due to complications from pancreatic cancer. Words escape me at the moment -- and coming VIETNAM VETS - A group of veterans at the Vietnam from a retired Journalist, that's very unusual... Veteran’s Memorial Wall surround a plaque commemorating POWs and MIAs on Veterans Day. In the background are My friend and shipmate Art was the one who the names of some of the more than 58,000 fallen troops guided me when I first joined this outfit a few etched into the granite partitions of the monument in years ago. I appreciated his candor, his wisdom and his sense of humor. Washington DC. - DoD photo by John Kruzel Hawaii -- Honolulu in-particular -- was Art's spiritual home. He used to tell me how he missed it. Being a Hawaii native, we'd occasionally break-away and speak Hawaiian pidgin like two "local-kine bruddaz" back on the block in the islands when he'd phone me. TWS on the Radio VFW's National Defense Radio Not too many people can do that...especially one haole who can talk like one Interview with Major Wes Prater kanaka... TWS is proud to announce the introduction of the new TWS Following services in Florida, Art will be cremated and his ashes taken back to Associations Support Program. This is Honolulu, where a military internment ceremony will be conducted at the a unique feature that provides specially family's plot in a memorial park. constructed Association Profile pages that present a unique set of tools To Art's ohana (family): "Aloha na hale 'oukou i makamaka 'ole" (Love to available for free to any Military your home which has lost a member)... Association to use for member/roster management, outreach to the TWS Community, and to publish news and --------- information about the Association. We want to hear from you!! This is YOUR newsletter, folks... Of particular note, TWS is extremely proud of a growing partnership with the Veterans of Foreign Wars. The VFW Got an interesting story to share? 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