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ASHINGTON URVEYOR W S May 14, 2018 THE ASHINGTON URVEYOR W S May 14, 2018 By Naval Heritage and History Command By MC3 Trey Hutcheson PRELIMINARY EVENTS MOTHERHOOD THE BATTLE OF MIDWAY IT TAKES A VILLAGE By MCSN Zack Thomas By MCSA Adam Ferrero NOT A SHIP IN SIGHT OPTING TO OPT-IN THE BATTLE OF THE CORAL SEA THE BLENDED RETIREMENT SYSTEM On the Cover: (May 1942) View on the flight deck of USS Lexington (CV-2), at about 1500 hrs during the Battle Of The Coral Sea. (Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives) The Washington Surveyor SAILOR of the Commanding Officer PHOTO CAPT Glenn Jamison WEEK of theWEEK Executive Officer CAPT Colin Day Command Master Chief CMDCM Maurice Coffey Public Affairs Officer LCDR Gregory L. Flores Deputy Public Affairs Officer LT Andrew Bertucci Departmental LCPO MCCS Reginald Buggs Divisional LCPO MCC Mary Popejoy Editor MCSN Zack Thomas Content MC3 Kashif Basharat (May 3, 2018) AIMD Sailors huddle up after a football game during the 2018 AIMD spring picnic at Huntington Hall. (Photo by MC3 Alan Lewis) MC3 Carter Denton MC3 Jamin Gordon MC3 Alan Lewis MC3 Shayla Hamilton MC3 Trey Hutcheson QUESTIONSof theWEEK MC3 Brian Sipe MC3 Kristen Yarber MCSN Michael Botts MCSA Adam Ferrero Q: WHAT SHOULD BE SECURED WHEN ISOLATING A FIRE AREA? MCSA Steven Young MCSA Marlan Sawyer DC A: DOORS, HATCHES, VENTILATION AND ELECTRICAL POWER. WHO MAY GRANT PERMISSION FOR PERSONNEL TO PERFORM AO2 Celeste Adafin Q: VISUAL INSPECTIONS OF NON-DERANGED ENERGIZED ELECTRICAL COMPONENTS? The Washington Surveyor is an authorized 3M THE CHIEF ENGINEER, REACTOR OFFICER AND COMBAT SYSTEMS publication for Sailors serving aboard DEPARTMENT: Training A: USS George Washington (CVN 73). OFFICER. Contents herein are not the visions of, or endorsed by the U.S. government, the Department of Defense, the Department HOMETOWN: Alexander City, Alabama of the Navy or the Commanding Officer Q: WHAT ARE THE PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT of USS George Washington. All news REQUIREMENTS FOR FORKLIFT OPERATIONS? releases, photos or information for SAFETY publication in The Washington Surveyor must be submitted to the Public Affairs WHY SHE JOINED THE NAVY: “To venture out, get A: HARD HATS, FOR OPERATOR AND BOTH SAFETY WALKERS, Officer (7726). away from home and receive a free education.” WHISTLE AND REFLECTIVE VESTS. *For comments and concerns regarding The Washington Surveyor, email the editor at [email protected]* Wake Island Raid, 24 February of POWs, and the civilian workmen Lae and Salamaua, New Guinea. 1942 and Marcus Island Raid, 4 (Contractors Pacific Naval Air Dauntlesses (VB 2, VS 2, VB 5, THE BATTLE OF MIDWAY: March 1942 Bases) retained on the island to VS 5) and Devastators (VT 2, VT 24 February 1942, TF 16 (VADM continue work on defenses. One 5), supported by Wildcats (VF 3 Halsey) raided Wake Island to Dauntless was lost, and its crew and VF 42) from carriers Lexington destroy Japanese installations there. taken prisoner. The two men were and Yorktown sank armed Planes from Enterprise and heavy later lost on 13 March 1942 when merchant cruiser Kongo Maru, PRELIMINARY EVENTS cruisers Northampton and Salt submarine Gar (SS-206) sunk the auxiliary minelayer Ten’yo Maru, Lake City bombed installations Japanese victualling stores ship in and transport Yokohama Maru; By Naval Heritage and History Command on Wake. Bombardment unit which they were being transported and damage light cruiser Yubari; consisting of Northampton, Salt to Japan. destroyers Yunagi, Asanagi, Oite, n 7 December 1941, the to Samoa in late January 1942, then by Japanese reconnaissance flying Lake City and destroyers Balch Asakaze, and Yakaze; minelayer U.S. Navy counted seven steam for the Marshalls and the boats. Although the American (DD-363) and Maury (DD-401) Lae and Salamaua Raid, 10 Tsugaru; seaplane carrier Kiyokawa O aircraft carriers active in Gilberts to carry out the first of the attack was aborted, Japanese naval (RADM Raymond A. Spruance) March 1942 Maru; transport Kokai Maru; and commission, three in the Pacific carrier raids of early 1942. land-based bombers attacked TF shelled the atoll . Combined efforts Planes from TF 11 (VADM minesweeper No.2 Tama Maru. and four in the Atlantic. The latter On 1 February 1942, TF 8 11, centering their efforts upon of Enterprise’s planes (bombing Brown), which included ships of TF One Dauntless, of the 104 planes deemed the primary theater given (VADM William F. Halsey Jr.), Lexington. In the ensuing battle and strafing) and ships’ gunfire 17 (RADM Fletcher), on the heels that carried out the raid, was lost to the undeclared war with Germany formed around Enterprise, and TF off Bougainville, combat air patrol sunk two guard boats. Fortunately, of initial nuisance raids by RAAF antiaircraft fire and its crew killed. that had essentially been underway 17 (RADM Frank Jack Fletcher), Wildcat fighters and Dauntless the bombing and shelling of Wake Hudson bombers, flew through USAAF B-17s and RAAF Hudsons since spring 1941. The Japanese formed around Yorktown, raided scout bombers. didn’t harm any of the American the only pass in the Owen Stanley conducted follow up strikes but navy deployed six carriers to the the Marshalls and Gilberts. A third The Dauntless utilized in the anti- marines, Sailors and construction Mountains. They used this passage inflicted no appreciable additional surprise attack on the U.S. Pacific task force, TF 11 (VADM Wilson torpedo plane role, together with workers too badly to have been to surprise a Japanese invasion fleet damage. Fleet at its Pearl Harbor, T.H., base, Brown, Jr.), formed around carrier ships’ antiaircraft fire, annihilated evacuated in the initial increment (RADM Kajioka Sadamichi) off and the surrounding naval and Lexington, supported the operations the enemy formations. Lt. Edward military airfields and installations. from the vicinity of Christmas H. O’Hare, in a Wildcat, shot down Island. five bombers in six minutes, a Marshalls and Gilberts Raids, 1 phenomenal performance for which February 1942 Battle off Bougainville, 20 he received the Medal of Honor. In Enterprise and Yorktown (CV- February 1942 one battle, the Japanese land-based 5), the Yorktown had recently On 20 February 1942, TF 11 bomber strength in the immediate arrived from the Atlantic, covered (VADM Brown), en route to attack theater was wiped out. a reinforcement convoy of Marines Rabaul, New Britain, was spotted Shell damage to the laundry building (foreground), following the raid carried out by Japanese destroyers Ushio and Sazanami on 7 December 1941. View looks about southwest, along Sand Island’s southern side. This building was hit again, by Japanese air attack on 4 June 1942, during Fire-gutted bow section of a PBY-3 Catalina patrol bomber (Bureau # 0824), photographed on the morning after the 7 December 1941 night the Battle of Midway. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. bombardment by Japanese destroyers Ushio and Sazanami. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. children if they need me to. One time I problems with duty days.” especially if you’re a single mother,” sat at the hair salon while a Sailor got As a Sailor and a mother, Beckett said Roberts. “If you have friends that their hair done, and I watched her boys shares the same hardships as all you work with that you trust, you can the entire time. I’ve also helped Sailors mothers who wear the uniform. rely on them to help pick up your kids while deployed by watching their “The biggest challenge that I am when you can’t. It’s a relief knowing children while their significant others faced with being a mother in the Navy that you have other people that you were at work or when they stood duty is the time that is lost with my son trust that can take care of your child in on weekends.” from constantly being underway or your time of need.” Beckett, who has been in the Navy deployed,” said Beckett. “The one With Sailors like Roberts and ERH for 12 years and has an 11-year-old thing that you can never get back Beckett sharing their experiences, TH O son to care for understands that is time and the milestones that you future mothers serving in the Navy can O motherhood in the Navy is about missed.” be prepared to face the challenges of O D teamwork. Like teachers educating their motherhood that they may encounter. M “It’s about the child,” said Beckett. students, mothers currently serving in It’s like the old adage goes, ‘It “It’s about knowing that I made a Navy have great lessons to pass on to takes a village to raise a child’, and difference in that hour or many hours future mothers serving in the Navy. sometimes that village wears the by caring, nurturing and educating that “The advice that I would give is cloth of our nation, supporting those child or children. I help others because try to make good friends because in that need extra help during those I know there have been times when my the Navy you can be sent anywhere, challenging times so they can continue shipmates have helped me, especially anytime and most of the time you will to meet their military obligations. when I was that junior Sailor having have to depend on your shipmates IT TAKES A VILLAGE By MC3 Trey Hutcheson t’s no secret that being in the duty days for instance, I have to be on have to know them and trust them. I military and balancing family the ship for 24 hours.
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