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Navy Marine Corps Coast Guard Army Air Force ARMED FORCES DISPATCHSan Diego Navy/Marine Corps Dispatch www.armedforcesdispatch.com 619.280.2985 FIFTY NINTH YEAR NO. 49 Serving active duty and retired military personnel, veterans and civil service employees THURSDAY, APRIL 2, 2020 APRIL IS MONTH OF THE MILITARY CHILD WE HONOR THE SACRIFICES THAT MILITARY CHILDREN MAKE AS THEIR PARENT(S) SERVE April is designated as the Month breakthrough,” Kainath said. unteer (SEED India) of the Military Child, underscoring Service/Leadership • Genius Olympiad (2019): Gold the important role military children Operation Homefront announces Highlights: Medal in Science play in the armed forces commu- • Founder/President San Diego • Naval Medical Center: Camp Youth Environmental Associa- Pendleton S2M2 Intern nity. Sponsored by the Department • Prudential Service Award/ of Defense Military Community Military Child of the Year recipients tion Emperor Science Award (Cancer President’s Service Award and Family Policy, the Month of Founded in 2002, Operation genes can increase the likelihood Research) • UCSD Mentorship Assistance the Military Child is a time to ap- Homefront is a national nonprofit of addiction. Kainath, through her • TEDx Speaker: February 2020 Program plaud military families and their organization whose mission is to intensive research on the RNA and • Battered Women’s Shelter Vol- See HONOREES page 11 children for the daily sacrifices build strong, stable, and secure DNA gene sequences of fruit flies, they make and the challenges they military families so that they can wants to find the genes that are overcome. thrive – not simply struggle to get responsible for synaptic regenera- Navy Exchange Service Command by – in the communities they have tion so that a person’s brain will The Month of the Military worked so hard to protect. not develop an dependency on closes Tailor/Embroidery, Laundry, Child is part of the legacy left by addictive substances. Dry Cleaning shops due to COVID-19 former Defense Secretary Caspar Their annual Military Child of the Year® Awards recognize Kainath is the daughter of Navy Weinberger. He established the from Navy Exchange Service Command Public Affairs seven outstanding young people Cmdr. Mohammad Kamil and Defense Department commemora- NORFOLK, Va. - On March 26, in response to the COVID-19 ages 13 to 18. Six of them will Ayesha. She has a brother, Khalif, tion in 1986. outbreak, the chief executive officer of the Navy Exchange Service represent a branch of the armed 15. Kainath said her father is her Command (NEXCOM) directed the closure of all NEX Tailor/Em- forces - the Army, Marine Corps, inspiration. Last year, the fam- DoDEA joins the Department broidery shops, Laundry and Dry Cleaning locations, with a few Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard, and ily was supposed to move, which of Defense and the military com- exceptions. All NEX Embroidery Tailor shops, Laundry and Dry National Guard - for their scholar- Oceanside resident Kain- would have been the family’s munity in celebrating April as the Cleaning locations are directed to close within 24 hours of the ship, volunteerism, leadership, ath Kamil, 2020 Innova- fourth, but he took a hardship Month of the Military Child. In NEXCOM’s directive and these closures include all locations world- extracurricular involvement, and tion Award Recipient assignment in Bahrain for a year DoDEA communities around the wide. Exceptions to embroidery and tailoring, where locations will other criteria while facing the chal- to make it easier for the children’s world, our most essential strategic of addiction—which means even remain open include the tailor shops at Recruit Training Command, lenges of military family life. The education. While he was gone, imperatives are: establishing an more weekends with her fruit Officer Training Command and NEXCOM’s Pensacola e-commerce seventh award is the Military Child Kainath read a climate report educational system that progres- flies. tailoring and embroidery operation. Exceptions to laundry and dry of the Year® Award for Innovation about the Amazon burning and sively builds the college and cleaning, where locations will remain open include the laundry presented by Booz Allen Hamil- A student at Mission Vista High how greenhouse gases will dam- career readiness of all DoDEA plants located at Naval Station Great Lakes and Guantanamo Bay ton. This award goes to a military School in Oceanside, Kainath age the planet. She wanted to students; and establishing the Naval Base. NEX Dry Cleaning locations won’t be accepting new child who has designed a bold and views innovation as a powerful make her dad proud and used her organizational capacity to operate garments, however pickup will remain available. NEX coin-operated creative solution to address a local, tool that can transform societies passion for science to genetically more effectively and efficiently as laundromats are deemed essential and will not close. Those facilities regional or global challenge. and benefit humanity. modify the bacteria Micrococcus a model, unified school system. will continue to follow heightened sanitation and social distancing luteus to absorb carbon dioxide She is currently working on an guidelines. NEX Embroidery Tailor shops, Laundry and Dry Clean- and methane. She also founded the Kainath Kamil, addiction research project with ing locations will remain closed for 14 days, or until further notice. San Diego Youth Environmental the San Diego Biomedical Re- Once all existing work is completed, NEXCOM Human Resources 2020 Innovation Association. search Institute. She first became will assess whether administrative leave or reassignment is applicable Award Recipient interested in the process of addic- “As a thank you for my dad’s for those associates whose facilities have been closed. “As we’re As our 2020 Military Child of tion while volunteering at a soup sacrifice, and as a way to har- continuing to navigate the impacts associated with COVID-19, the the Year for Innovation, Kainath kitchen and taking part in their ness my scientific abilities for the safety and security of all NEXCOM patrons and associates remain Kamil, 16, wants to continue rehabilitation program. greater good, I conduct scientific my number one priority,” said Rear Adm. (Ret.) Robert J. Bianchi, studying the genetic mechanisms Scientists are aware that certain research in hopes of discovering a chief executive officer of NEXCOM. Captain of Theodore Roosevelt requests nearly 4,000 Sailors be isolated as coronavirus spreads by Caitlin M. Kenney open shared sleeping areas, disease is ongoing and accelerat- carrier. Crozier’s letter was first quickly to take all necessary the ship would stay in Guam or Stars and Stripes shared restrooms and workspac- ing,” Crozier wrote. reported by the Chronicle. measures to ensure the health how many positive cases there The captain of USS Theodore es, and confined passageways Now docked in Guam, Roos- A Navy official, who spoke on and safety of the crew of USS are on the ship. Roosevelt has requested permis- to move through on the ship. evelt was on a scheduled deploy- condition of anonymity to Stars Theodore Roosevelt, and is pur- The plan is to “take the ap- sion to remove most of the air- He wrote the Roosevelt’s crew ment in the Indo-Pacific region and Stripes about the issues suing options to address the con- propriate number of people off craft carrier’s crew from the ship is unable to follow Centers for before diverting to the island raised in the letter, said Crozier cerns raised by the commanding and test, quarantine, isolate and isolate roughly 4,000 sailors Disease Control and Prevention after the first several virus cases had alerted leadership in U.S. officer,” the official said. while some number is running to help curtail a coronavirus out- or Navy procedures to protect aboard the ship were reported Pacific Fleet on Sunday eve- None of the Sailors infected the ship,” Aquilino said. “Once break aboard the vessel. the health of Sailors through last week. ning about ongoing challenges on Roosevelt are in critical con- those Sailors are quarantined, Capt. Brett Crozier wrote in an individual isolation on the ship The number of cases on Roos- with stopping the spread of the dition or on ventilators, Adm. isolated, and retested, when they unaddressed letter March 30 to for 14 or more days. evelt now is between 150 and coronavirus and requesting to John Aquilino, the commander are full-up [coronavirus] free, Navy leadership that the ship’s “Due to a warship’s inherent 200 Sailors, according to a San have more of the crew in better of Pacific Fleet, told reporters the plan will be to rotate them environment is “most conducive limitations of space, we are not Francisco Chronicle report cit- isolation facilities. March 31 during a phone confer- back onto the ship and finish the to spread of the disease” with doing this. The spread of the ing a senior officer on the aircraft “Navy leadership is moving ence. He wouldn’t say how long remainder of the ship.” Joint staff ops official breaks down DOD aid to fight coronavirus byJim Garamone, DOD News The Defense Department is going all out to support civilian agencies confronting the COVID-19 pandemic, the vice director of operations for the Joint Staff said. Air Force Maj. Gen. Jeff Taliaferro told Pentagon reporters in a teleconference March 30 that hospital ship USNS Mercy has begun admitting patients and conducting surgeries in Los Angeles. USNS Comfort arrived in New York Monday and began seeing patients March 31. Taliaferro emphasized that the Navy hospital ships are designed to treat casualties in war zones.