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January 24, 2019 Edition NGIS opens its’ doors as emergency shelter HIGHLIGHTS THOUSANDS LOSE NATURAL GAS IN NEWPORT -- NAPS WINTER SPORTS ICING THE COMPETITION -- NWC LEANING FORWARD TO STAY AHEAD IN CHANGING TIMES Inside This Issue Welcome in from the cold! Carol Gray, Front Desk Manager, Navy Gateway Inns and Suites, welcomes a guest seeking shelter from the Around the Station 1-7 National Grid natural gas outage that impacted thousands of homes on Aquidneck Island this week. At the Clinic 8 NEWPORT, R.I. – In light of the experienced a low gas pressure situation Fleet & Family 9-10 recent natural gas outages across affecting Newport and Middletown Aquidneck Island, the Navy Gateway customers after freezing temperatures Meat & Potatoes 11 Inns and Suites (NGIS) at NS Newport damaged a valve. Up to 1,000 gas MWR 12 welcomed 106 families with installation workers and support personnel have been access seeking refuge from the bitter deployed to help resolve the issue as At the Chapel 13 cold after more than 7,000 National Grid soon as possible. utility customers were left without gas Monday was the coldest day in Now Hear This 14-15 starting Saturday afternoon. several years for the Newport area, Traffic Updates 16 “There were military families according to AccuWeather Chief needing help and we were happy to take Meteorologist Elliott Abrams, and sent Around the Fleet 17 them in.” said Operations Manager Ali families scrambling to find heat. Sukackas, NGIS. Veterans News 18-19 In a statement, the company said it Continued on page 2 1 AROUND THE STATION ... NGIS support: continued from page 1 “We knew we could count on Rooms were available for NGIS to welcome and take care of military personnel, DoD civilians, us”, retired civilian Joyce Novak retirees and sponsored civilians. “I said. “In the middle of a crisis, we am so happy we had the availability,” went back to what was familiar and said Sukackas. comfortable for us.” “I was thankful to find a room According to National Grid, with heat and hot water so close to significant progress has been made to my home,” said Navy Capt. (Ret.) bring the natural gas system on Kim Lyons as she checked in. “None Aquidneck Island back to full of the hotels in Newport had rooms pressure and begin the full restoration available.” process which could last until the end In order to accommodate as many of the week. families as possible, the Navy Gateway Inns and Suites opened Amy Schilling, her husband rooms in additional buildings and and dog Murfee, are at home and eased pet restrictions. staying warm inside their room at NGIS building 447. U.S. Naval War College creates faculty senate to modernize institution, increase ability to compete with outside academia Jeanette Steele to increased faculty-shared U.S. Naval War College governance and guidance of your Public Affairs Naval War College,” Harley said in an email. NEWPORT, R.I. -- U.S. The senate is made up of 21 Naval War College has appointed faculty members who established a faculty senate to Harley described as having modernize the institution’s strong reputations in their structure and increase the academic departments. Each was faculty’s role in shaping the nominated by his or her college, administrators said. respective dean. Harley’s first Rear Adm. Jeffrey Harley, request of the senate was to Naval War College president, provide input back to him on announced the action in a criteria for faculty promotions. message to the faculty and staff “They will become the voice on Jan. 14. of the faculty that advises the Members of the newly created U.S. “As we begin the New Year, provost and me as we strive to Naval War College advisory faculty Provost (Lewis) Duncan and I modernize the Naval War senate gathered in front of the are pleased to announce the College to best suit the needs of college’s Mahan Rotunda following establishment of the Advisory today’s great-power competition the group’s first meeting on Jan. 15. Faculty Senate, which is our path focused Navy,” Harley wrote. (U.S. Navy photo by Jaima Fogg) NAVSTA Newport Public Affairs Office PAO Office Line: (401) 841-3538 Operational and Exercise Base Condition Line: (401) 841-2211 Impacts are often E-Mail: [email protected] communicated to the public first using the installation social outlets: Command and Staff FB: Facebook.com/NAVSTANewport Capt. Ian L. Johnson, Commanding Officer Twitter: @NAVSTANEWPORTRI Lisa Rama, Public Affairs Officer Instagram: @navstanewportri Cmdr. Corey Barker, Public Affairs Officer LinkedIn: LinkedIn.com/company/navstanewport Kalen Arreola, Public Affairs Specialist 2 AROUND THE STATION ... U.S. Naval War College holds groundbreaking workshop on educating the future U.S. cyberforce Jeanette Steele U.S. Naval War College Public Affairs NEWPORT, R.I. -- U.S. Naval War College gathered cyberwarfare experts and military educators Jan. 17-18 for a workshop tackling how to prepare U.S. military forces for the cyber realm. Attendees included leaders from U.S. Cyber Command, the U.S. Naval Academy, the U.S. Military Academy, the Naval Postgraduate School, Air Force University and the U.S. Marine Corps University. The college’s Cyber and Innovation Policy Institute coordinated the conference, which officials called the first to bring together the military schoolhouses to Coast Guard Rear Adm. John Mauger, U.S. Cyber Command examine how they teach cyber topics. director of exercises and training, delivers the Friday keynote Rear Adm. Jeffrey Harley, Naval address at the 2019 Professional Military Education and Cyber War College president, told the Domain Workshop, held Thursday and Friday, Jan. 17-18, at group that the battle in cyberspace is U.S. Naval War College in Newport, R.I. (U.S. Navy photo by Jaima underway. “I feel, as a war fighter, that this Fogg) war has already begun. One of the exercises and training, told the group and Operational Research big realizations here in the past few that his organization is taking new Department, said part of the value of years is that a war doesn’t just start strides to address what he called “a the workshop was to ensure that the when the bullets fly,” Harley said. revolutionary change that’s sweeping military’s cyber educators know each “Many things are happening in through our society” and affecting other. parallel. One of the questions we deal the world’s power balance. “How to do cyber in a war- with here is the changing character of “In the last two years to 15 fighting context is something that all war, and how this cyber arena affects months, our government has taken a the services and all the PME our principle occupations.” new strategic approach to this,” (professional military education) Jerome Lynes, deputy director for Mauger said in the Friday keynote institutions are struggling to, not just joint education and doctrine at the speech. understand, but also learn how to U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, said “Within CYBERCOM, we have teach,” Kollars said. defense officials have started turned that into an operational “That has meant that everyone is measuring U.S. abilities versus approach that is actively engaging doing it beautifully but in different adversaries in multiple military with our adversaries, contesting them ways, so we don’t yet have a good disciplines, including those related to in cyberspace and imposing costs on village map of what that looks like cyber superiority. them.” and how to prioritize.” “The United States needs a In breakout sessions, the group Professor Peter Dombrowski, competitive advantage in all of those discussed cyberspace education for Cyber and Innovation Policy Institute areas. And those just don’t fall out of junior and senior war fighters and director, said he hopes that the the sky,” Lynes told the group in the methods and topics for cyber conversation continues at future Thursday keynote address. research. workshops, either at one of the other Coast Guard Rear Adm. John Nina Kollars, associate professor educational institutions or again in Mauger, CYBERCOM director of in the Naval War College’s Strategic Newport. 3 AROUND THE STATION ... SPORTS NAPS boasts impressive winter sports season (Above) Raphael Dohman fires a pass on an open Naval Academy Prep School (NAPS) shooter while surrounded by University of Connecticut Avery Point defenders. (Below) Caden Billak drives off the takeoff board in the long jump at the Boston University Season Opener. The Naval Academy Prep School’s (NAPS) winter sports teams have been impressive thus far in their 2018-2019 campaign. Men’s basketball is leading the way with an 11-4 record highlighted by wins over archrival Army Prep and perennial prep powerhouse St. Thomas More of Oakdale, Conn. Women’s basketball has a winning record of 9-8 with a very strong performance 71-69 win over former U.S. Collegiate Athletic Association national champion Central Maine Community College. The wrestling team has competed in tournaments against tough collegiate level competition and has had four individual champions. They are led by Jacob Koser who has a recover of 18-3 in the 197 pound weight class. Rounding out the winter programs is indoor track. They competed at Boston University in December where they were led by a Ian Bartlett with a second place finish in the 800 meters (1:56.02) and Caden Billak with a fourth place finish in the long jump (21’ 10.75”). 4 AROUND THE STATION ... SPORTS NAPS sports: continued from page 4 (Right) Nyah Garrison (10), Faith Butler and Nia Silver (11) surround a UCONN Avery Point ball handler. (Bottom Right) Ian Bartlett (407) strides past a St.