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Fostering communication and listed below that may indicate DEFENSE MEDIA ACTIVITY to choose a fixed monthly payment at “The Military Star Pay Your Way their needs.” plans receive two reward points per encouraging connectedness among someone is having difficulty a reduced, fixed APR of 9.99%, using program will assist Sailors and their NEX shoppers can estimate monthly dollar. Cardholders earn a $20 reward team members are two strategies to navigating stress. Trust your gut SEA / SENIOR EDITOR their existing Military Star line of credit. families in planning and paingy for payments using the payment card every 2,000 points. increase protective factors against and ACT (Ask, Care, Treat), even if MCCM David Crawford hipmates, we are approaching the suicide. Negative attitudes about it seems like someone is joking or if Navy Region Southeast Urges Sailors/Families Sholiday season, which is a good mental illness can keep people something seems out of the ordinary. EDITOR-IN-CHIEF opportunity to stop and reflect on our from reaching out for help. Lead by Be a friend…be a shipmate. Andrew Carlson shared responsibility to be there for example and reassure your Sailors It is absolutely vital we get after this to Use Housing Resources one another. This is not something that mental health issues are together. You are all too important, LCPO / MANAGING EDITOR From Navy Region Southeast Public Affairs we should only do during the holiday common and are treatable. not just to the Navy, but to your MCC Ryan Tabios season, but we must understand this I strongly encourage everyone to friends, family, and nation. Thanks onstantly moving every two to Housing offices maintain the priority office and includes condominiums, help the service member identify any DESIGNERS can be a particularly difficult time for talk about mental health openly, for all you do each and every day. MC2 Timothy Hale Cthree years is one of the toughest, lists to get set up with base housing, apartments and single-family homes. discrepancies in the unit. MC3 Angeles A. Miron and most rewarding, aspects of a which can sometimes take months. That Credentialed housing staff perform A proper checkout is an important military lifestyle. While the chance is hardly all they do. For example, NAS property inspections every three years part of the move out process. Service MyNavy Family app update focuses All Hands Number 12, 2019 is published by to see the world is one of the appeals Jacksonville has 310 housing units on to enable the home to remain in the members must contact the housing the Defense Media Activity, Navy Production for a career in uniform, finding a new base, but around 21,000 people working Rental Partnership Program. office 30 days prior to their move out Department, 6700 Taylor Avenue, Fort George G. house, wondering what community on the installation. The Housing offices Not only can the housing office help to schedule their checkout inspection. on improved services Meade, Maryland 20755. From Cmdr. Erik Wells, Sea Warrior Program (PMW 240) Public Affairs to live in, and uprooting family provide key resources that help answer you find your next home, but if you That way, the housing office can FRONT COVER: A Sailor assigned to Naval Special members creates significant stresses important questions about where to live in base housing, they can help inspect the home, along with the he Navy continues to focus on feature on the "Welcome Screen" and From its inception, the app was Warfare Group 2 conducts military dive operations off for service members. live: “Where is most affordable?” “What ensure your check-in and check-out service member and the management Tfamilies with the latest update of three additional content areas. There built to provide an interactive user the East Coast of the . (U.S. Navy photo by The Navy Region Southeast Housing are the high crime areas?” “Where are goes smoothly. company, and write down the items the MyNavy Family app. First released in is now sections on family financial experience that contains relevant MCCS Jayme Pastoric/Released) Service Centers throughout the the high traffic areas?” “What are the “By adding additional assistance with the Sailor needs to take care of prior to May, the free app has been downloaded planning, survivor’s resources, and and timely information. southeastern installations may not best schools?” the move-in and move-out process, leaving the home. over ten thousand times. parents and family members of Sailors. “All of the apps we develop are BACK COVER: Explosive ordnance disposal technicians be able to remove all the pressure of a “We know areas where Sailors have Service members and their families While that service is not normally “The app has done exactly what “Whether a spouse or family member is updated on a regular basis to assigned to Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit military move, but they sure can ease had issues,” Steele emphasizes. “Call have another layer of protection to provided for service members living we intended which is to both inform new to the Navy or they have been part of provide accurate information (EODMU) 8 conduct military free-fall training in Rota, the burden a little. us and tell us what you are thinking help make their housing experience away from base housing, the housing Spain. (U.S. Navy photo by MC1 Scott Bigley/Released) families and encourage them to continue our family for ten years, it can be difficult that Sailors and their families The excitement of that new set of and we can advise you on where you positive,” Regional Housing Coordinator office can help mediate disputes to provide feedback to improve the app,” to know where to turn for support,” said can rely on,” said David Driegert, orders is understandable, but before should be looking.” Rich Dye said. between a landlord and military said Amanda Burns, the MyNavy Family Perry Christiansen, lead policy analyst assistant program manager for the anyone starts making decisions on Additionally, through the Rental These checkouts are important to affiliated tenant. If the mediation is app product owner. with the Family Readiness Program Sea Warrior Program (PMW 240) where to live, the housing office Partnership Program, housing offices ensure the family receives the full unsuccessful, then the housing office The May release included 12 main Office. “This app allows our Sailors and mobility program which developed recommends that one of your initial maintain lists of landlords whose security deposit back, and Navy will assist the military member and content areas, Navy Spouse 101 families to quickly find information and the app. “The MyNavy Family app calls be to them. properties have met strict Navy Installations Command is working connect them with Navy Legal Services. Information, links to Naval Services resources to let them navigate to find the is a good example of how we work as OUR MISSION IS SHARING THE NAVY STORY “Absolutely, the first call when inspection requirements and who have to increase the staffing at installation The key thing for Sailors and their FamilyLine website and other pertinent information they need.” an integrated agile team to quickly relocating should be to the housing agreed to a number of concessions, such Housing Service Centers to help Sailors. families to remember is that they are not websites. Based on feedback from the Additional links were added that respond to suggested improvements office and the first internet search as reduced fees and a waiver of at least The increase in qualified housing alone in the relocation process. Housing initial release, the app was updated help Sailors and their families and implement them to benefit should be to the housing website,” a portion of the security deposit. The specialists will enable the office to Service Centers across the region are in June to include links for Spouse during a permanent change of Sailors and their families.” Naval Air Station Jacksonville Housing program is open to all service members, more fully focus on important parts of staffed with experienced professionals Licensure Reimbursement, Blue Star station move including a link to the The app is located in the Navy App Director Lorenzo Steele said. “Before and no one can be denied based on their the check-in and checkout processes, who can not only assist you in finding Families and Navy Gold Star Program. Navy Lodge which offers safe, clean Locker along with 23 other apps that you ever leave your base, finish the credit history. such as a thorough inspection of the that ideal new home, but also ensure This month, the app underwent several and affordable accommodations at focus on everything from fitness and housing process. People who wait until Property owner participation in the unit during the check-in. The housing your move into and out is as worry-free improvements to include a new search 39 locations worldwide. training to education and life skills. they get here are already behind.” program is promoted by the housing office has a comprehensive checklist to as possible.

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World War II came to the United States of America on Sailors, Marines, and Soldiers fought back with Ensign Francis Flaherty and Seaman First Class J. they achieved technological surprise with aircraft and Sunday morning, 7 December 1941, with a massive extraordinary courage, often at the sacrifice of their Richard Ward, onboard the battleship Oklahoma, weapons far better than anticipated — a lesson in the surprise attack by the Imperial Japanese Navy. “Like a own lives. Those without weapons to fight took great sacrificed their lives to enable turret crews to escape danger of underestimating the enemy that resonates to thunderclap from a clear sky,” Japanese carrier attack risk to save wounded comrades and to save their ships. before the ship capsized. Onboard the battleship this day. planes (in both torpedo and high-level bombing roles) Pilots took off to engage Japanese aircraft despite California, Chief Radioman Thomas J. Reeves, Each year on Dec. 7, Pearl Harbor survivors, veterans, and visitors from all over the world come and bombers, supported by fighters, numbering 353 the overwhelming odds. Countless acts of valor went Machinist’s Mate First Class Robert R. Scott and Ensign While damage to the U.S. Pacific Fleet’s battleline together to honor and remember the 2,403 service members and civilians who were killed during the aircraft from six aircraft carriers, attacked the U.S. unrecorded, as many witnesses died in the attack. Herbert C. Jones stayed at their posts at the cost of proved extensive, it was not complete. The attack failed Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor in two waves, as well as Fifteen U.S. Navy personnel were awarded the Medal their lives to keep power and ammunition flowing to to damage any American aircraft carriers, which had Japanese on December 7, 1941. An additional 1,178 people were injured in the nearby naval and military airfields and bases. The of Honor — ranging from seaman to rear admiral — for the antiaircraft guns as long as possible. Rear Admiral been providentially absent from the harbor. Our aircraft attack, which permanently sank two U.S. Navy battleships (the USS Arizona and the USS Utah) and enemy sank five battleships and damaged three; and acts of courage above and beyond the call of duty, ten Isaac C. Kidd and Captain Franklin Van Valkenburgh carriers, along with supporting cruisers and destroyers sank a gunnery training ship and three destroyers, of them posthumously. onboard the battleship Arizona, and Captain Mervyn S. and fleet oilers, proved crucial in the coming months. destroyed 188 aircraft. damaged a heavy cruiser, three light cruisers, two Bennion onboard the battleship West Virginia directed The Japanese focus on ships and planes spared our destroyers, two seaplane tenders, two repair ships Among the Sailors recognized with our nation’s highest the defense of their ships under heavy fire, until the fuel tank farms, naval yard repair facilities, and the and a destroyer tender. Navy, Army, and Marine Corps award for valor were Chief Water Tender Peter Tomich ships were sunk and they were killed. submarine base, all of which proved vital for the tactical On Aug. 23, 1994, the United States Congress designated Dec. 7 as National Pearl Harbor Remembrance facilities suffered varying degrees of damage, while onboard the ex-battleship Utah, who sacrificed his operations that originated at Pearl Harbor in the ensuing Day. Every year, remembrance events are held at the Pearl Harbor National Memorial, culminating in 188 Navy, Marine Corps, and U.S. Army Air Force life to prevent the boilers from exploding, enabling Japanese forces were astonished at the quick reaction months and played a key role in the Allied victory. planes were destroyed. Casualties amounted to: killed boiler room crews to escape before the ship capsized. and intensity of U.S. antiaircraft fire. That more American technological skill raised and repaired all but a commemoration ceremony. or missing: Navy, 2,008; Marine Corps, 109; Army, 218; Another was Chief Boatswain Edwin J. Hill, who cast off Japanese aircraft were not shot down had nothing to three of the ships sunk or damaged at Pearl Harbor. Most civilian, 68; and wounded: Navy, 710; Marine Corps, the lines as the battleship Nevada got underway, swam do with the skill, training, or bravery of our Sailors importantly, the shock and anger that Americans felt in 69; Army, 364; civilian, 35. Japanese losses amounted through the burning oil to get back on board his ship, and other servicemembers. Rather, U.S. antiaircraft the wake of the attack on Pearl Harbor united the nation to fewer than 100 men and 29 planes. where he was killed by Japanese strafing after being weapons were inadequate in number and capability, for and was translated into a collective commitment to credited with saving the lives of many junior Sailors. not only had the Japanese achieved tactical surprise, victory in World War II. Master Chief Personnel Specialist Ren Hockenberry, currently serving aboard USS Port Royal (CG 73) in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, was on a site visit at the Marshal Fahim Training Facility in Afghanistan in 2014 when shots were fired. After a two-minute fire fight, Hockenberry had been shot five times; 15 others were also injured or killed.

Nine months of physical therapy and countless surgeries in recovery followed at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, all while Hokenberry’s desire to deploy again slowly grew.

“I heard it on that gurney,” said Hockenberry. “Return to theatre unlikely, return to active duty unlikely, return to operational status unlikely. Because of good people I got here, and I don’t want my last deployment to be the one that was taken from me, I want to deploy, at least one last time.”

Hockenberry said that during her recovery she thought a lot about the attack and how hard that was on her as well as how dangerous down-time and overthinking can be for someone in recovery. Two factors that played a significant role in helping her bounce back during recovery were junior Sailors and the desire to get back to work.

“During Chief initiation season, a lot of Chief selects came to speak with me as well as other junior Sailors throughout my recovery,” said Hockenberry. “It helped me remember that I was a Chief and that junior Sailors were watching so I couldn’t be a baby. I couldn’t not do what I was supposed to do because Chiefs do what they need to do.”

There were moments during her time in the hospital when Hockenberry lost her motivation and she was on the brink of giving up. Every time that happened there was a junior Sailor around that she couldn’t bear to disappoint.

“I remember one day laying in a hospital bed and they had come in and said that it was time for PT (physical therapy) and I said no, I’m not going to PT, and the physical therapist was like no, you have to get up and I said no, my leg hurts, I’m not going,” said Hockenberry. “And this HM3 (Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class) popped in and he said, ‘Hey Senior are you going to PT?’ and I was like yep! I was just getting up, because there was this young Sailor expecting me to get up and do the right thing.”

After everything that happened in Afghanistan and during her recovery time Master Chief Hockenberry still serves on active duty with a goal to continue to deploy and motivate and inspire the junior Sailors around her.

“If I can convince a Sailor that’s going through some stuff to get off the couch and reach out for help then I’ve done my duty, I want my Sailors to know that it’s okay to fail, it’s okay to have a bad day and it’s okay to fall down, over and over and over, but you just need to keep getting back up,” said Hockenberry. August 15 Sailors assigned to Naval Special Warfare Group TWO conduct military air operations in the United States. EST OF Photo by MC2 Russell Rhodes Jr. May 15 B January 19 2019 October 11 Sailors assigned to the aircraft The Arleigh Burke-class guided- carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN June 15 The U.S. Navy Flight Demonstration missile destroyer USS Donald Squadron, the Blue Angels, 70) and the Arleigh Burke- Three MH-60R Sea Hawk Cook (DDG 75) transits the diamond pilots fly over San class guided-missile destroyer helicopters line the seawall Bosphorus Strait, en route to Francisco during the 2019 San USS Grimley (DDG 101) practice at Naval Air Station the Black Sea. Francisco Fleet Week Air Show. firefighting skills and techniques Jacksonville as the sun rises Photo by MC2 Ford Williams Photo by MC2 Timothy Schumaker March 1 by battling a simulated fire over the St. Johns River. Marines and Sailors assigned to Photo by MC2 Wyatt L. Anthony Photo by Jeff Morton Maritime Raid Force, 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), ride in a rigid-hull inflatable boat during a visit, board, search and seizure exercise. Photo by Cpl. Matthew Teutsch

September 18 A Sailor assigned to Naval Special Warfare Group (NSWG) 2 conducts military dive operations off the East Coast of the United States. Photo by MCCS Jayme Pastoric November 1 May 25 July 4 February 4 Members of the U.S. Navy Band An MH-60R Sea Hawk helicopter The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier from the Magicians of Helicopter Damage Controlman Fireman Sea Chanters chorus perform USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) Maritime Strike Squadron (HSM) James Moore fights a simulated at the Hatch Memorial Shell on transits the Gulf of Alaska after 35 conducts a hoist exercise with fire during a drill aboard the the Charles River Esplanade in participating in Exercise Northern the Peruvian navy submarine BAP Arleigh Burke-class guided- Boston. Edge 2019. Angamos (SS-31) off the coast of missile destroyer USS Porter Photo by MUCS Adam Grimm Photo by MC3 Erick A Parsons San Clemente Island. (DDG 78) in the North Sea. April 1 Photo by MC1 Patrick Menah Photo by MC2 James R. Turner Chief petty officers aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Boxer (LHD 4) run in formation on the ship’s flight deck in celebration of the 126th chief petty officer birthday. Photo by MC3 John Luke McGovern BEST OF 2019