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Penicillin Warriors Meet Black Soldiers Allergy Tests Vice President Broke Barriers - Page 4 - Page 5 - Page 12 2 Thursday, February 23, 2017 The Journal Navy Announces New Personnel Web Portal Bethesda From Chief of Naval Personnel Public Affairs The Navy announced Friday that it is beginning a beta test of a new web portal designed to aggregate Notebook several personnel, training and education websites into one location. Black History Month Today, the content and applications Sailors need to The Multicultural Committee at access their personnel information is spread across Walter Reed Bethesda will host a multiple websites. Over time, that capability will be Black History Month observance integrated into My Navy Portal. on Feb. 23 at noon in Building 2’s My Navy Portal is intended to become the central PHOTO BY MC2 LORENZO JOHN BURLESON Memorial Auditorium. Everyone is on-line location for Sailors to access all of their My Navy Portal is a single self-service portal that invited to attend. personnel information. Additional capabilities and consolidates personnel training and education functions will be added in phases before becoming High Blood Pressure, Stroke websites into one location for Sailors to access their In observance of American Heart fully operational. information. The portal is intended to become the “Sailors have been asking for a platform that Month, staff from Cardiology will central on-line location for Sailors to access all of provide information at a table display allows them to access their personnel information their personnel information. in one location,” said Chief of Naval Personnel, in Building 9, Feb. 28 from 11 a.m. to 1 Vice Adm. Robert Burke. “While there is still much be notified by email. Sailors should see continued p.m. in the west mezzanine. Everyone work to be done on My Navy Portal, this is the first improvement with each software update to My Navy is invited to stop by the table to learn step in providing a consolidated one-stop shop for Portal, expected quarterly. Upon completion of the about high blood pressure, stroke Sailors’ personnel information. Our Sailors deserve beta test, My Navy Portal will be launched Fleet and heart disease, prevention and a modern personnel system and we are committed wide and be available to Sailors as the central on- treatment with healthy lifestyle to giving it to them.” line location for their personnel information. choices. The initial release of My Navy Portal will Sailors can access My Navy Portal’s public Brown Drive Changes allow Sailors to access their Physical Readiness homepage by viewing https://my.navy.mil. From The road closure on Brown Drive Information Management System (PRIMS) data there, individuals can securely log into the website shifts March 6. Brown Drive will and Official Military Personnel File (OMPF). and view their personnel information using their be closed between the entrance and Additionally, Sailors will be able to view Navy CAC. Sailors experiencing difficulty logging on the exit of the staff parking garage Knowledge Online (NKO) content, the Navy should email the My Navy Portal help desk at (Building 54). The entrance will be Advancement Center, Navy Schools and Learning [email protected] for assistance. accessible only from South Brown Centers, Personnel Qualification Standards, and Additionally, with the launch of MNP, Navy Drive via Palmer Road South. The General Military Training. My Navy Portal will Knowledge On-line (NKO) has been tentatively exit will be accessible only from North also provide links to Career Management System- scheduled for retirement after the Spring Navy Brown Drive via Palmer Road North. Interactive Detailing, Sailors’ Electronic Training Wide Advancement Exam Cycle is complete. The Fleet, Family Support Center jackets, their Joint Services Transcript, Navy NKO data will be incorporated into MNP. The Fleet and Family Support eLearning, Navy Credentialing Opportunities The Navy is seeking Sailors’ feedback and Center (FFSC) on Naval Support Online (COOL), Navy Standard Integrated Personnel recommendations on how to improve the portal, Activity Bethesda offers programs System (Electronic Service Record and eLeave), especially during the beta test. Fleet users who are intended to assist service members Pay/Personnel Standard Operating Procedures, U.S. not designated beta testers are strongly encouraged and their families with military life. Navy Awards (NDAWS), and more. to provide comments and recommendations for the FFSC’s workshops and seminars The beta release of My Navy Portal will serve as improvement of the portal’s capability using the include: job search strategies for a field test for how to improve its functionality and site’s feedback option located at the bottom right of military spouses; federal resume capability. There are currently known challenges every My Navy Portal page. writing; time management; credit for platforms with limited, low, or intermittent More information about the portal can be found management; consumer financial bandwidth/connectivity, and we are working to on the My Navy Portal Help tab, and on the Navy awareness; interview skills; pre- develop a solution that will be more responsive in Personnel Command Career Toolbox website at: deployment briefings; return and shipboard environments. http://www.public.navy.mil/bupers-npc/career/ reunion briefings; and more. For more Those individuals identified as beta testers will toolbox/Pages/My-Navy-Portal.aspx. information, call 301-319-4087, or visit FFSC in Building 11, first floor.

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PHOTOS BY MC2 HANK GETTYS Defense Health Agency Director Vice Adm. Raquel Bono speaks to a crowd assembled for the Naval Dosimetry Center’s ribbon cutting ceremony Feb. 16. The center finished moving to this location in January in anticipation of Walter Reed National Military Medical Center’s upcoming remodel. Naval Dosimetry Opens New Temporary Location

By Andrew Damstedt The Journal A new temporary building housing the Naval Dosimetry Center was praised at a ribbon cutting ceremony Feb. 16. Building 84T will be the center’s home until its new space in the upcoming Walter Reed National Military Medical Center (WRNMMC) remodel is completed. According to Lt. j.g. Kristina Jones, the ribbon cutting was ceremonial. Celebrating the opening recognized the completion of the physical move which took place mid-January. The new building is host to 40 people who work at the center and provide centralized dosimetry services for the entire U.S. Navy and Marine Corps. The center provides whole-body counting services, which measures radioactivity in the human body. The center also maintains the Navy’s exposure registry, which has 3.9 million radiation exposures from 350 commands worldwide dating back to 1946, according to Jones. The center also monitors exposure trends, she said. “The Naval Dosimetry Center was located just across the street...for more than 32 years,” said Cmdr. Thad Sharp, officer-in-charge, Naval Dosimetry Center. “Today marks a milestone. Today, with the opening critical service. The remodel of the hospital is part of The center is the first clinic to move as part of the of our new high-quality temporary fix facility, our that forward progress, she observed. remodel, and will soon get new neighbors. Over the world class personnel along with the new equipment “I’m excited that you are here now in this building, next year, more clinics and labs from WRNMMC will continue to provide our Navy medicine, Marine having visited your other place back on the fourth will move into new temporary buildings scheduled Corps, industrial radiography, nuclear weapons and floor,” she said. “And the fact that you at the time to be built nearby. nuclear propulsion customers around the world, were turning out the level and the quality of work Other attendees at the ceremony included Deputy better products and services that they have come to you did at that time was no surprise. It’s just that Surgeon General of the Navy Rear Adm. Terry expect from the Naval Dosimetry Center.” now you deserve to have something that’s just a Moulton, Navy Marine Corps Public Health Center Defense Health Agency Director Vice Adm. Raquel little more state-of-the-art and a little more livable. Commanding Officer Capt. Todd Wagner, NSAB Bono recognized the move as a significant step in I’m so glad that we’re able to embark on this and get Commanding Officer Capt. Marvin L. Jones, and improving the capability of a team that provides a you into this new facility.” John Hallworth, Naval Reactors. 4 Thursday, February 23, 2017 The Journal WRNMMC Program Tests Beneficiaries for Penicillin Allergy By Bernard S. Little WRNMMC Public Affairs “Are you allergic to any type of medication, such as penicillin?” This is generally one of the first questions you are asked before receiving care from a health-care provider. For approximately 10 percent of all U.S. patients, the answer is “yes” to having had an allergic reaction to a penicillin class antibiotic in their past, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). However, less than 1 percent of the whole population is truly allergic to penicillin, the CDC added. “[In the military], this is also a readiness issue, as many active duty service members wear red dog tags indicating a likely non-existent penicillin allergy,” said Navy Lt. Cmdr. (Dr.) Taylor Banks, assistant service chief at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center for Allergy/Immunology/ Immunizations. He is also clinic chief of WRNMMC Allergy/Immunology Clinic, and associate program director for the National Capital Consortium’s Allergy/Immunology Fellowship. To better determine if service members and other Military Healthcare System beneficiaries are allergic to penicillin, Banks oversees WRNMMC’s Antibiotic Stewardship Program, which screens and tests individuals for penicillin allergy. He said approximately 95 percent of patients reporting penicillin allergy can be cleared, with many having outgrown the allergy. “Providers and patients remain woefully under- informed about the availability of testing and how clearing patients is to the benefit [of the patient], as well as that of their providers and the health system generally,” Banks stated. “Penicillin allergy is associated with health-care costs of 9.5 times that of the testing itself,” he added. “For the patient, it provides access to first-line agents which often have better side-effects profile and are better tolerated. For providers, it gives them access to the best practices which they can follow with the best recommendations [for treating] infections. For the health-care system, it provides enhanced antimicrobial stewardship,” Banks continued.

Discovered in 1928, penicillin is a group of PHOTO BY BERNARD S. LITTLE antibiotics found to be effective against a number Navy Lt. Cmdr. (Dr.) Taylor Banks, assistant service chief at Walter Reed National Military Medical of bacterial infections caused by staphylococci and Center for Allergy/Immunology/Immunizations, performs a physical on Navy Lt. Preston Campbell streptococci, such as pneumonia, erysipelas, strep prior to testing him for a penicillin allergy. Banks said providers and patients are under-informed throat, ear infections and more. Penicillin is also the about the availability of testing for penicillin allergy, and how clearing patients is to the benefit [of the base of other front-line drugs and when someone patient], as well as that of their providers and the health system generally. is allergic to it, he or she often has to take more expensive alternatives, which can produce increased which required an overnight stay in the hospital. He program in cooperation with the Internal Medicine side effects, thereby also increasing the chance for recalled having a rash and being nauseated. Medical Home Ports. Patients can also receive a more hospital visits, Banks explained. Because of the passage of time, and usually referral through their provider for evaluation,” The WRNMMC’s Antibiotic Stewardship Program individuals being told at such a young age they Banks said. screens and tests beneficiaries “in a proactive may have a penicillin allergy, people not recalling “Our dedicated penicillin clinic occurs weekly, but fashion to optimize the availability of these often specific details of a possible allergic reaction is we also conduct testing and evaluation of patients first-line, low-cost, low side-effect antibiotics to the “pretty typical,” said Banks. who have referrals through our regularly scheduled 10 to 20 percent of patients labeled with an allergy,” Screening and testing for penicillin allergy at clinic appointments,” he added. said Banks. WRNMMC includes a patient history, physical and, “Our patients, providers, and the MHS at large Many people, such as Navy Lt. Preston Campbell, when appropriate, a skin test and/or challenge dose. will all benefit [from the Antibiotic Stewardship who Banks recently tested for penicillin allergy, Banks said the testing is “very safe.” Testing can Program] by understanding the capabilities of are told they may have had an allergic reaction take from one to two hours, and patients should rigorous penicillin allergy assessment and testing to penicillin, such as a rash or other side effects, avoid antihistamines for the five to seven days prior and the manifold benefits of clearing patients at a young age. Most are unclear on the details of to their appointment, he added. of these reported allergies. We know we can do it actually taking penicillin, Banks added. “We currently use a self-referral for active duty successfully,” Banks said. Campbell explained he may have been about 10 patients presenting to the Medical Readiness For more information about the Antibiotic years old when he experienced what he can recall as clinic and the Brigade Medical Clinic at the Naval Stewardship Program, call Lt. Cmdr. Taylor Banks an allergic reaction to what may have been penicillin, Academy. We are expanding our outreach with a pilot at 301-295-4511. The Journal Thursday, February 23, 2017 5 Wounded Warriors Attend VP Dinner By Andrew Damstedt The Journal Capt. Karen Roddy-Spikes along with 20 other Wounded Warriors from the Warrior Transition Brigade attended a dinner honoring Vice President Mike Pence Jan. 18 at the Smithsonian’s American Art Museum. Roddy- Spikes said she was honored to attend the dinner and that she could feel the vice president’s sincerity when she met him. “I shook his hand about three times and he took selfies with me,” Roddy- Spikes said. “He was doing the selfies himself because I wasn’t good at taking them.” She said he went to everybody’s table and there were more than 300 people in attendance and by the end she noticed that Pence and his wife’s food was still at their table uneaten. “That’s nice, that’s dedication,” she said.

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From Navy Environmental outbreak investigations, establishing and Preventive Medicine community disease surveillance programs, Unit 2 Public Affairs and principles of health risk communication. Sailors from Navy Environmental and The course culminated in a simulated Preventive Medicine Unit (NEPMU) 2 outbreak investigation where participants hosted an outbreak investigation workshop, translated their enhanced knowledge Feb. 8, as part of Continuing Promise into best practices for maximizing the 2017’s (CP-17) training for partner nation effectiveness and efficiency of conducting community health workers who may outbreak investigations in limited-resource participate in investigations of infectious settings. disease outbreaks. “This workshop, and activities like it, are The workshop was one of several public discrete opportunities to fundamentally health knowledge exchanges hosted by strengthen the health care capacity NEPMU-2 Sailors currently deployed in of partner nations,” said Johnson. support of CP-17. “Participants from today’s workshop are not “The recent Zika virus pandemic in only prepared to independently conduct an Central and South America highlights the outbreak investigation themselves; they’re critical roles surveillance and outbreak prepared to teach other community health investigations play in protecting the health professionals their new skill set.” of the public,” said Lt. Cmdr. Lucas Johnson, CP-17 is a U.S. Southern Command- PHOTO BY ANDREW DAMSTEDT officer in charge of CP-17’s preventive sponsored and U.S. Naval Forces Southern Naval Support Activity Bethesda Commanding Officer Capt. Marvin medicine detachment. Command/U.S. 4th Fleet-conducted L. Jones signs a proclamation declaring Feb. 27 to March 4 as ‘Military The one-day workshop was attended deployment to conduct civil-military Saves Week.’ at the Navy Federal Credit Union inside the Navy by 36 health professionals from Puerto operations including humanitarian Exchange. Holding the proclamation is Navy Federal Credit Union Barrios, Guatemala, and surrounding rural assistance, training engagements, and Regional Manager David Jones, left, and Branch Manager Ryan Flynn. communities. Course content included a medical, dental, and veterinary support Military Saves Week encourages services members and their families review of common types of infectious disease in an effort to show U.S. support and to set personal savings and debt reduction goals, make a simple savings outbreaks, preparation and execution commitment to Central and South America. plan and work on that plan throughout the year. NOWLIVE!

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Sarah Cantrell, clinical librarian in the Darnall Located in room 3458, on the third floor of the center, echoed Sierocka’s sentiments. “We support historic Tower (Building 1), the resource center, physicians and nurses as they provide medical care also called the medical library, houses a wealth of to patients. We are supporting them by providing health-care knowledge and information. evidence-based resources, articles, and the latest Initially called the Darnall Dental Library, the information – the research that comes out, that center expanded its services and became the Darnall they can make their clinical decisions based on the Biomedical Learning Resource Center in 2010. evidence,” she said. In 2015, the center was honored by the Federal Cantrell explained her duties as a clinical librarian, Library and Information Network (FEDLINK) tagging it as a “hyper-specialized” medical librarian. as its Small Library of the Year, a national award “[Clinical librarians are] someone who attends recognizing innovation in how the facility fulfilled rounds with a patient-care team in an effort to the information needs of its customers. support evidence-based decision-making at the According to the resource center’s mission, it seeks point of care to work with the team,” Cantrell said. to be a “forward-looking, innovative service valued She added, “…we are learning about the patient, by the WRNMMC staff as an integral component of about their condition, about their treatment options, PHOTO BY KALILA FLEMING quality health-care delivery.” the diagnoses that they may be tossing around, and Darnall clinical librarian, Michele Mason-Coles Kimberly Adams, director of the resource center, [we] play an active role in that team to help them (right) takes notes in preparation for conducting stated “…[the Darnall] medical librarians go on locate evidence, whether that is through journal a medical search during rounds in the Neonatal rounds, assist with systematic reviews, help with articles, book chapters, or other factual up-to-date Intensive Care Unit at Walter Reed National research, and [assist with] data management, information in real time.” Military Medical Center on Feb. 14. Clinical which is now required when [medical center staff Cantrell said Darnall librarians host workshops librarians support physicians and nurses as they members] submit grant applications.” for Walter Reed Bethesda staff and beneficiaries on provide medical care to patients. Their goal is to Walter Reed Bethesda’s vision of innovation is how to use the resource center’s services available. provide evidence based resources and articles, so evident in the work that is conducted in collaboration “We also have strong roles in graduate medical that they can make clinical decisions based on with clinical librarians and medical providers, education, teaching residents and interns how to the evidence. Adams added. become savvy consumers of information,” she said. Adams added, “We are always thinking of how to expand the services we offer, and to become more integrated into the health-care activities of the hospital. 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Inside a floral them of his actions and they took over from there. shop in Haganta, Guam, the sounds of crying and “You think you’re ready for something like that, but incomprehensible speech filled the room. when it actually happens, you revert back to your Though they could not understand English, he training,” said Slicer. “It felt really good knowing that used gestures to assure the family he could help. He I had the potential of changing someone’s life forever.” examined the child’s body; no signs of breathing. He Capt. Drew St. John, Frank Cable’s commanding placed two fingers on his neck; no pulse. With his officer, said he was glad to know Slicer did not hesitate palms sweating and his heart pounding, he got down to react when he saw someone who needed help. on the floor. He leaned in, gave two short breaths of “Petty Officer Slicer is a great example of the air, and then began chest compressions. professional Sailors who crew the Frank Cable,” said Machinist’s Mate (Auxiliary) 2nd Class Chase St. John. “I have no doubt that each and every one Slicer, assigned to submarine tender USS Frank of them would have reacted in much the same way.” Cable (AS 40) and native of Vacaville, California, Slicer said he hopes his actions can be an example used his Navy training to save the life of a child he for his shipmates and other Sailors in the fleet. didn’t know. “It’s as simple as stopping to help change a flat “There was no second guessing in my mind that if tire,” said Slicer. “We may think that’s a simple task, the baby needed help, I would be the one to do it,” but for some people, it’s not. You don’t know that if PHOTO BY MC2 ALLEN MICHAEL MCNAIR Machinist’s Mate Auxiliary 2nd Class Chase Slicer, said Slicer. “As far as I knew, I was the most qualified you keep driving someone else will come along.” a Sailor assigned to the submarine tender USS in the room.” On Friday, Jan. 28, Capt. St. John awarded Slicer Frank Cable (AS 40), poses for a portrait on the Slicer was in his car at a red light at approximately with a Navy and Marine Corps Commendation ships flight deck, Feb. 14. Slicer was awarded the 4 p.m. Dec. 12, 2016, and saw a family behaving Medal for his bravery and swift action. Navy and Marine Corps Commendation medal for frantically as they carried a child into a floral shop. “I’ve always tried to be a good citizen; if people need taking swift action and successfully resuscitating Slicer’s intuition told him something was wrong, so help, I always stop,” Slicer said. “I don’t help people an unconscious child. instead of continuing on through the stop light, he for the award. I appreciate the award but I did it made a U-turn and went to investigate. because it’s who I am.” different. When the grandfather came up to me He walked into the shop and the employees told As Slicer took the stage to receive his award, he and gave me a formal bow, even though he couldn’t him the child was not responsive and they asked if received a standing ovation from a crowd full of his communicate, it signified to me that I did the right he could help. shipmates. Though he appreciated the response from thing.” “Going into the room in uniform, people instantly the crowd, it didn’t compare to what he received as he Frank Cable is forward deployed to the island of look to you as a figurehead,” said Slicer. left the scene that December night. Guam and conducts maintenance and support of About 30 seconds after beginning chest “The Japanese have several ways of bowing,” said submarines and surface vessels in the 5th and 7th compressions, the child’s eyes began to open. Slicer Slicer. “Each degree of bow represents something Fleet areas of operations.

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Carderock’s Additive the first winner to visit the MAKE Lab to prototype to come up with fresh ideas to increase safety and Manufacturing Project Office, along with the Corrosion his idea for an expended rounds counter in December. efficiency for their unit or mission. and Coatings Engineering Branch, have partnered to The counter is a device designed to be attached to the Three of the winners of this past year’s challenge provide support for the competition. Picatinny rail, specifically for the M16 rifle. have been given the opportunity to visit Naval Surface With this support, the winners will move forward “You’re supposed to keep track mentally of how Warfare Center, Carderock Division in West Bethesda, with field testing at their respective units and finally many shots you have taken, but if you’re in a firefight that might not be one of your priorities,” Lacount said. “Having a counter there to display instantly and accurately to provide you with that number can be of great benefit for the operator.” RETIRE HAPPY Lacount worked with Bryan Kessel, an engineer from Carderock’s Additive Manufacturing Project Office, to SecureYour Future create the inertial mass design. “Bryan designed it for the left side, which is great Health and Life because on the left side there’s not really anything to worry about other than the firearm’s magazine ejector,” Lacount said. “We have it on a low profile so that it should Best Rate Annuities be able to fit underneath the scope or anything on the Life top of the Picatinny rail. There’s nothing the operator should be focused on [the] left side of the weapon. Even Medical Supplement if you’re left-handed and you’ll be focusing more on the right side of the weapon, you can adapt the counter because — using the Picatinny rail system — we can Representing over 40 add a swivel and allow the counter to adapt to either side. It is the same concept with scopes, which is based highly rated companies. on user preference.” We research best insurance Lacount said the counter is designed to react to the recoil of the rifle upon being fired, giving the operator opportunities for clients. an accurate 1-1 ratio no matter what direction the weapon is fired. Innovating firearms is not the only concept which Call Bruce, your friendly benefits the warfighter. Staff Sgt. Daniel Diep visited Carderock’s MAKE Lab Jan. 23-Feb. 10 to work on a MD licensed insurance agent. prototype of a rather practical device — a cable cap. “We have a piece of artillery known as the M777 301-695-2775 Howitzer, and it has a component on it called the Chief of Section Display (CSD) used for aiming navigation,” Diep said. “There’s a cable on there that runs from the M777 to the CSD, and this cable tends to get damaged a lot because the cap is not properly replaced. The way the cap is designed, it’s a female head encased around a male head, so there’s pins inside of this female head and when it gets dropped to the deck it will collect sand and debris. When you try to put the cap back on it’ll get pancaked, the pins will get damaged, or they’ll take the cable itself and stick it in the CSD and it’ll get damaged that way, as well.” Diep, who is currently working on a master’s degree in computer engineering from the University of Maryland, said he has tried to repair the cables in the past, but it is a daunting task which requires a week of work per cable. According to Diep, the cables are usually thrown out because it is not cost effective to repair them. Diep estimated it costs the Marine Corps $3,000 per cable. The-newly designed cap to protect the cables would cost about $10, which would greatly remedy the financial burden. “Ultimately we’re trying to maximize the Marine Corps’ dollars. The less money we have to use on parts for cables and things like that, we can use it on other things like gear and food and something that actually benefits the warfighter,” Diep said. The third winner of the challenge, Capt. Kyle McCarley, will be visiting Carderock in May to work on a prototype for a modification to field backpacks; enabling the warfighter to easily carry Bangalores, explosive charges used by combat engineers to clear obstacles in the field. 12 Thursday, February 23, 2017 The Journal These intrepid African-American Soldiers broke barriers, paved the way

By Carrie McLeroy (compiled) American victory at the Battle of www.army.mil Yorktown. Despite his bravery in Throughout the nation’s history, service, as a slave-spy he wasn’t African-Americans have served in eligible for emancipation under uniform with honor and distinction the Act of 1783 for slave-Soldiers. during times of war and peace. However, with the help of the As a result of their sacrifices and Marquis de Lafayette, who was intrepid spirits, today’s highly his commander during the war, capable and mission-ready Army he petitioned for his freedom, leverages the strength of a diverse, which was granted in 1787. all-volunteer force that includes SGT. WILLIAM CARNEY more than 103,000 African- After being shot in the thigh American Soldiers. during the assault on Fort In recognition of African- Wagner, South Carolina, July 18, American History Month, here’s 1863, Sgt. Carney crawled uphill a look back at those brave on his knees bearing the Union Soldiers who broke barriers, flag, inspiring his fellow Soldiers saved lives, and paved the way to follow and never allowing for today’s force. the flag to touch the ground. JAMES ARMISTEAD Although severely wounded, LAFAYETTE Carney would survive the war Born into slavery, Lafayette and finally receive the Medal of served on behalf of the Honor, May 23, 1900. While he Continental Army during the wasn’t the first African-American Revolutionary War as a double to receive the medal (Robert agent. The trust he earned from Blake, a Sailor, was presented British Gen. Charles Cornwallis the medal in 1864), his actions PHOTO COURTESY NATIONAL ARCHIVES and Benedict Arnold allowed The 369th Infantry Regiment served on the front lines for 191 days during World War him to gain access and pass See SOLDIERS I, longer than any other American unit. In that time, the Soldiers of the regiment, information that would lead to an Page 14 known as the “Harlem Hellfighters,” never gave up any ground they captured.

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were repatriated to the United States, SOLDIERS he was buried with full military honors From at Arlington National Cemetery. Page 12 THE HARLEM HELLFIGHTERS The 369th Infantry Regiment, “The were the earliest to merit the nation’s Harlem Hellfighters,” was the first highest military medal for valor. African-American regiment to serve By the end of the Civil War, about with the American Expeditionary 180,000 African-American men had Forces during World War I. The served in the U.S. Army — 10 percent regiment served on the front lines of the total Union fighting force. About for 191 days, longer than any other 90,000 of them were former slaves American unit in the war, and was from the Confederate states. Forty the first unit to cross the Rhine into thousand African-American Soldiers Germany. In all that time, the unit died in the war: 10,000 in battle and never lost a prisoner or gave up any 30,000 from illness or infection. ground it captured. CATHAY WILLIAMS BENJAMIN O. DAVIS JR. Williams was the first African- While many know that Benjamin American woman to enlist in the U.S. O. Davis Sr. became the first African- Army, and the only one documented to American general officer in the U.S. serve posing as a man. She enlisted military in 1940, his family’s military PHOTO COURTESY U.S. ARMY under the pseudonym William Cathay Tank crews from the 761st Tank Battalion await orders to clean out scattered legacy didn’t end with him. His son, in 1866 and was given a medical Nazi machine gun nests in Coburg, Germany, April 25, 1945. The 761st Tank famed Tuskegee Airman Benjamin discharge in 1868. Battalion was the first African-American tank battalion to go into battle, O. Davis Jr., was the fourth African- COL. CHARLES YOUNG and spent 183 continuous days in combat. The unit earned four campaign American to graduate from West Point Col. Young was the third African- medals, 11 Silver Stars, 69 Bronze Stars and about 300 Purple Hearts. A and the first to attain general officer American to graduate and receive a and a Presidential Unit Citation came later. rank in the U.S. Air Force. commission as a second lieutenant FREDDIE STOWERS, from the U.S. Military Academy at volunteer cavalry during the Spanish- career, he also served as a park HENRY JOHNSON West Point in 1889. He was the last American War, and 2nd Squadron superintendent when the Army As a result of racial discrimination, to do so until Benjamin O. Davis Jr. in of the 10th U.S. Cavalry during the administered national parks, a not a single African-American Soldier 1936, and the first to advance to the Mexican Expedition of 1916-17. professor of military science at was awarded the Medal of Honor rank of colonel in the regular Army. After his promotion to colonel, he Wilberforce University in Ohio, and a during World War I or World War In addition to assignments with the commanded Camp Grant, where he military attaché at different times to II. It wasn’t until 1991 that Stowers 9th and 10th Cavalry as a platoon supervised the training of African- Haiti, and twice to Liberia. He passed would be posthumously awarded the leader and troop commander, Young American recruits during World War I. away of natural causes at Legos, medal — 73 years after he was killed commanded an all-black squadron of In the course of his distinguished Nigeria, in 1923. After his remains in action while leading an assault

2693550-1; AD Auction Journal; LARRY LEIZEAR; Color; 6 x 6; XPos: 0 YPos: -0, Width: 738 x 432 The Journal Thursday, February 23, 2017 15 on German trenches in World War I. In 2015, Johnson would receive the Medal of Honor, 85 years after his death, for his heroic actions fighting against a German raiding party during that same war. VERNON BAKER In 1993, after an exhaustive review of records, seven African-Americans would receive Medals of Honor for their actions during World War II. Baker was the only living recipient, as the six other Soldiers were killed in action or died in the more than 50 years since the war ended. THE 761ST TANK BATTALION During World War II, the 761st Tank Battalion became the first African- American tank unit to go into battle. Its Soldiers would earn 11 Silver Stars, 69 Bronze Stars, about 300 U.S. ARMY PHOTO Purple Hearts and, eventually, a U.S. ARMY PHOTO Cpl. Alyce Dixon (right) poses with other members of the 6888th Central Brigadier Benjamin O. Davis Sr. Medal of Honor. Postal Directory Battalion during World War II. The only African-American became the U.S. Army’s first African- THE 555TH Women’s Army Corps unit to serve in Europe during World War II, the American general officer in 1940. PARACHUTE INFANTRY battalion was responsible for clearing a massive backlog of mail in first Not only were the members of England and then France. Viewing their jobs as crucial to morale at the the 555th Parachute Infantry the On July 26, 1948, President Harry front, Soldiers processed some 65,000 pieces of mail per shift and worked U.S. Army’s first African-American Truman issued Executive Order 9981, three shifts a day. At the same time, they faced constant prejudice and paratroopers, they were some of the which declared “that there shall be broke gender and racial barriers. nation’s first airborne firefighters. equality of treatment and opportunity The Soldiers were detailed to the for all persons in the armed services and the first since the Revolutionary William Henry Thompson were both U.S. Forest Service in 1945 as part of without regard to race, color, religion War to see African-American and killed in action. Operation Firefly, which was a joint or national origin.” This order would white Soldiers fighting side-by-side Note: The information for this article military-civilian effort to combat bring an end to racial segregation in in the same units. Only two African- was sourced from various documents wildfire threats from Japanesethe U.S. military. American Soldiers would receive provided by the U.S. National Archives, incendiary bombs that landed from SGT. CORNELIUS CHARLTON, the Medal of Honor for action in the Army Historical Foundation, U.S. Canada to Mexico and as far east as PFC. WILLIAM HENRY . Both Soldiers served with Army Center of Military History, The Idaho. During Operation Firefly, the THOMPSON the 24th Infantry Regiment, one of the U.S. Vietnam War Commemoration 555th had 36 fire missions, which The Korean War was both the last last remaining segregated regiments. and the U.S. Army Heritage and included 1,200 individual jumps. armed conflict to see segregated units, Sgt. Cornelius Charlton and Pfc. Education Center.

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