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Status of the Navy BOXER TRIAD TABLE OF CONTENTS CAPT. COMMANDING GATOR RONALD OFFICER THE CS DOWDELL 3 10 CYCLE ON THE CAPT. Yulong Wang EXECUTIVE OFFICER DALE HEINKEN 4 12 STREET A Sailor’s Story Cpl. Kasey Goolsby Shelbyville, Indiana USS BOXER LHD 4 CMDCM(SW) COMMAND 1 What are your goals for this deployment? VERONICA MASTER Golden To lose weight. CHIEF HOLLIDAY 6 14 2 What are you looking forward to in Bahrain? OPERATIONS Gators I’ve always heard about getting gold there, so I might try MIDDLE EAST to get that. ROMANIA 30 UKR. 40 50 60 Aral KAZAKHSTAN Bucharest Sevastopol' Sea Krasnodar RUSSIA Constant¸a KAZAKHSTAN C A Gora Elbrus Sofia U C A S (highest point in Aqtau¯ U S Varna Europe, 5833 m) (Aktau) Black Sea BULGARIA M Groznyy Nukus O U N Sokhumi T A AmuUZBEKISTAN I N Bosporus S Caspian Dasoguz Thessaloníkí GEORGIA Darya Istanbul D O Batumi Tbilisi G Samsun Sea 3 U Where do you see youself in 5 years? 40 K A Trabzon 40 R A Bursa D E N Sumqayit I Z Bukhara Aegean Ankara D ARMENIA AZERBAIJAN Dardanelles A G L A R I Yerevan Baku Türkmenbas¸y TURKMENISTAN GREECE Erzurum Turkmenabat . Sea Izmir Balkanabat G A R A G U M TURKEY K O P P E H D A G H Athens Denizli Kayseri Van Ashgabat Mary T Konya S Tabriz¯ The Faces A Lake Diyarbakir Married with a happy family and kids. N U I Van R A Antalya U T Lake N Adana Rasht S U Gaziantep Urmia O E M LB Zanja¯n UR Mersin Z Mashhad MTS. Aleppo Euphrates Mosul Qazvin¯ Nicosia Erbil Tehran Crete Middle East Hera¯t Latakia Tigris Z Kirkuk D A S H T - E A Qom ¯ CYPRUS SYRIA K A V I R Homs G Beirut R Mediterranean Sea Damascus Kerma¯nsha¯h O Ara¯k K A V I R - E L U T AFG. LEBANON S Y R I A N Baghdad S M Es¸faha¯n ¯ of ISRAEL Port O Tel Aviv-Yafo Said West Bank D E S E R T I R A Q U What has been your favorite part of deployment? Alexandria Amman N I R A N 4 8 Jerusalem T Dead Sea Ahva¯z Suez A 30 (lowest point in Asia, -408 m) I 30 Canal Gaza Strip N Kerma¯n An Na¯s¸iriyah¯ QATTARA Cairo JORDAN Aba¯da¯n S 15 Suez DEPRESSION Al Jizah¯ Al Al Bas¸rah Za¯heda¯n SINAI ‘Aqabah Shiraz¯ PAK. Gulf Kuwait of City Bandar-e Suez MapKUWAIT Bu¯shehr Wog day and the Steel Beach picnic! Tabu¯k H¸ afar Bandar - Asyu¯t¸ Gulf of al Ba¯t¸in¯ ‘Abbas PUBLIC PUBLIC AFFAIRS W E S T E R N Aqaba H¸a¯’il¯ Persian Al Jubayl Gulf Boxer Ad Damma¯m Manama Strait of EGYPT Buraydah Dhahran Hormuz OMAN D E S E R T Luxor H BAHRAIN QATAR Dubai Abu Gulf of E Doha Dhabi Oman J AFFAIRS A Riyadh Aswa¯n Medina Tropic Muscat of Cancer Z Yanbu‘ SAUDI UNITED ARAB EMIRATES Administrative OFFICER MCCS(SW/AW) ADAM VERNON boundary H¸ ala¯’ib Jeddah ARABIA OMAN 20 N U B I A N Mecca 20 D E S E R T Red A S Nile Port Sudan U B' A L K H A L I I Sea R R PUBLIC Abha¯ S¸ala¯lah SUDAN Jazan¯¯ Al Ghayzah¸ MC1(SW/SCW/AW/IW) Omdurman Khartoum AFFAIRS ERITREA Massawa Kassala ABHAN Adam Doyle Sanaa YEMEN Wad Asmara Whi Medani Al Mukalla¯ Arabian Sea te Al H¸udaydah Blue Nile Ta‘izz LPO Nile BRIAN CARACCI Aden Lac Assal YEMEN Lake (lowest point Socotra Ta n a Bab el Gulf of Aden in Africa, -155 m) DJIBOUTI Mandeb Pineville, Louisiana Dese¯ Djibouti Boosaaso 10 10 Berbera The United States recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital in 2017 without taking a position STATUS OF THEScale 1:21,000,000 NAVYDire¯ Hargeysa on the specific boundaries of Israeli sovereignty. Addis Ababa Y E SOMALIA The West Bank is Israeli occupied with current status L Dawa Lambert Conformal Conic Projection, L subject to the Israeli-Palestinian Interim Agreement; A V permanent status to be determined through standard parallels 12°N and 38°N T further negotiation. IF R 0 300 Kilometers ETHIOPIA The status of the Gaza Strip is a final status issue to be EDITOR MC2(SW/AW) JUSTIN RANKIN T Provisional 1 What are your goals for this deployment? A resolved through negotiations. E administrative line 0 30 300 Miles R 40 50 Boundary representation is not necessarily authoritative. 60 G As of June 14th, 2019 19-3696 4-19 To lose weight. CONTRIBUTORS 2 What are you looking forward to in Bahrain? Amphibious Assault I’m looking forward to some real food, maybe an iPad Mini case. Active Duty: 332,507 Ready Reserve: Ships underway MC2(SW) JOHN MCGOVERN Officers: 54,263 101,865 USS Boxer (LHD 4) Where do you see youself in 5 years? Enlisted: 273,832 3 MC2(SW/AW/IW) DAVID ORTIZ Selected Reserves: 7th Fleet MC2 DALE HOPKINS Midshipmen: 4,412 58,801 USS Wasp (LHD 1) Either as a first class or out of the Navy. MC3 ZACHARY BEHREND Pacific MC3 JESSICA HATTEL 4 What has been your favorite part of deployment? MC3(SW/AW/IW) Navy Money. Tax-free money. ALEXANDER KUBITZA Department Deployable Battle MC3(SW) KEYPHER STROMBECK Individual Ready Civilian Force Ships: Aircraft MC3(SW) JUSTIN WHITLEY Reserve: Employees: 289 (operational): 43,064 274,854 Deployable Battle 3700+ Reserves currently Force Across the Fleet: AT1 Dion Jefferson mobilized: 83 Lithonia, Georgia 3,071 1 What has been your favorite part of deployment? Deployed Ships Aircraft Carriers Underway: Underway Being able to visit Phuket. 54 (19%) USS Eisenhower (CVN 69 FAIR USE NOTICE Ships Underway for Atlantic 2 What are your goals for the next few months? Local Ops / Training: USS Lincoln (CVN 72) To get myself home safely. 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) My family, my PS4, and my king-sized bed. 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 5 years? This publication is an authorized publication for military members aboard amphibious assault ship USS BOXER (LHD 4). Becoming a father, making Chief, and finishing my Master’s. 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 months, I can buy a used People come help you. That’s Yulong Wang car. In China? No.” love. You just go, people will It took nearly 3 years, but help you.” Wang finally became a lawful Wang wants to do shore permanent resident in 2015, duty after his tour on Boxer, and with it, a sense of hope. but after, he says he’d like to go “I see hope now, I have a back to school and get a doctor’s future, I can make more, I license, this time for practicing can do more. Now I have a in the states. “I still want to help plan. I come to America, and people. Or I can buy a restaurant, I think, you have the best because I know how to cook. I education, best opportunity, have a lot of choice, I can save if you just give a little bit, money, I can do it myself. In you can be rich. Just make a China, you buy a house, they take Wang and his parents. plan, take advantage of that. it all, they take your future.” told me I could have help because Go to college, go to study, Of course, home will always of my religion. He wrote a case build your money.” be just that, despite the struggles for me, I told him my story. He And that was where his story associated with it. “I miss my Story by MC2 Justin Rankin helped me a lot.” intersects with that small, single home, I miss my parents. I miss percent of Americans who serve. the food. My cousin, my friends, mmigrants in the American Armed Forces have a long and storied history dating back to the “In China if you’re a Wang had endless opportunities my classmates. They watched me revolutionary war. The United States is one of a handful of countries that allows non-citizens to Christian, you can get in trouble I available to him, yet he chose a grow up.” join their armed forces, and is arguably the most accepting of them, perhaps second only to the French for that. They will watch you, The details of Wang’s Foreign Legion. Like anyone who serves, the reasons and stories behind their service are multicolored. and you have to go story could overflow a For some it’s simply a path to naturalization, for others it’s pursuit of a better life, a family tradition, a call every week to the police book - the struggles, the to serve, or simply a yearning for adventure.
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