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Searchers Find Wreck of Uss Nevada Career Advice AutoMatters & More DOD launches financial education website Hot Wheels at the SEMA Show Your FREE for military spouses - Greater than the sum of its parts weekly paper See page 6 See page 9 Take one! Navy Marine Corps Coast Guard Army Air Force ARMED FORCES San Diego Navy/Marine Corps Dispatch www.armedforcesdispatch.com 619.280.2985 SIXTIETH YEAR NO. 3 Serving active duty and retired military personnel, veterans and civil service employees THURSDAY, MAY 14, 2020 SEARCHERS FIND WRECK OF USS NEVADA WWII BATTLESHIP THAT ENDURED BOMBS, TORPEDOES & NUKES by Wyatt Olson, for most of the 1930s, Nevada trated on Battleship Row in Pearl Stars and Stripes was moored at Pearl Harbor, Harbor, sinking or crippling ................................................... when the Japanese Imperial most of the ships, which had he sunken hulk of USS Navy launched a surprise attack been moored closely together. TNevada has been found on the Pacific Fleet on Oahu on off the coast of Hawaii, where the morning of Dec. 7, 1941. The Nevada took one torpedo the battleship - dubbed “unsink- and several bomb hits during able” for its endurance through The attacking aircraft concen- see Nevada, page 2 World War II - lay since 1948. ................................................... May is Asian American Pacific Two private firms working to- gether, Search Inc. and Ocean In- finity, discovered Nevada almost Islander Heritage Month three miles underwater and about The Department of Defense 65 nautical miles southwest of Asian American Pacific Is- Honolulu, the firms said in a lander Heritage Month posters statement May 11. Search Inc., are the third in a series of posters a cultural resource management commemorating the 75th An- firm, specializes in archaeology; niversary of World War II. Ocean Infinity surveys the seabed Each commemoration poster with marine robotics, according or poster set highlights the sig- to their websites. nificant contributions of special that speaks to American resil- two atomic blasts. The physical Top of USS Nevada’s fore- observance groups towards The Nevada’s lifespan was ex- ience and stubbornness,” James reality of the ship, resting in the mast, which would have achieving total victory in this ceptional, given the troubled wa- Delgado, the lead maritime darkness of the great museum towered more than 100 watershed event. Each poster ters in which it sailed. It stayed archaeologist on the mission, of the sea, reminds us not only feet above the sunken is reminiscent of the colors and afloat through two world wars said in the statement. “Rising of past events, but of those who battleship’s deck. Photo styles found in the 1940’s Re- and two nuclear-bomb tests. from its watery grave after being took up the challenge of defend- courtesy of Ocean Infinity cruitment and Victory posters sunk at Pearl Harbor, it survived ing the United States in two from the World War II era. “Nevada is an iconic ship torpedoes, bombs, shells and global wars.” during World War I, according Celebrated in May, each year, to an account posted online by Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month recognizes the chal- Photos and video of the excur- the Naval History and Heritage lenges faced by Asian Americans, Pacific Islanders, and Native Hawaiians MAY 16, 2020 sion show portions of the ship, Command. and their vital contributions to the American story.The Asian American such as an anti-aircraft gun and Pacific Islander Heritage Month poster consists of three versions, each hatch for a 5-inch gun room, still It spent the interwar years of which is identical except for the individual depicted as the subject of intact. Portions of the hull num- cruising everywhere from the the poster and the background support image. ber are visible, as are inscrip- Caribbean to Australia. In the Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month was introduced in the tions in the steel, all preserved late 1920s, the ship was modern- House of Representatives in June 1978. This joint resolution was passed because of the lack of light and ized, including installation of by the House and Senate, and was later signed by the President on Oct. oxygen at the extreme depth. new anti-aircraft guns and other 5, 1978. This law directed the President to declare a seven-day period, beefed-up firepower. beginning May 4, 1979, as ‘Asian/Pacific American Heritage Week.’ Nevada was commissioned in It wasn’t until 1992 that Congress designated May as ‘Asian/Pacific 1916 and headed to Great Britain After operating in the Pacific American Heritage Month.’ For more, visit https://www.deomi.org/. What month is it? Clean Air, Women’s Health Care, Asthma Awareness ALS Awareness Building Safety Food Allergy Action Huntington’s Disease Apraxia Awareness Celiac Awareness Freedom Shrine Awareness APS Awareness Chip Your Pet Gardening for Wildlife Int’l Audit Arthritis Awareness Clean Air Month Get Caught Reading Int’l Business Image Aramanth Month Creative Beginnings Gifts From The Garden Improvement Asian American & Pacific Cystic Fibrosis Awareness Global Civility Awareness Int’l Civility Awareness Islander Heritage Drum Month Global Health and Fitness Int’l Mediterranean Diet Asthma Awareness Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome Go Fetch! Food Drive for Int’l Victorious Woman Awareness of Medical Awareness Homeless Animals Jewish-American Heritage Orphans Family Reunion Haitian Heritage Latino Books Better Hearing & Speech Family Wellness Heal the Children Lupus Awareness Bladder Cancer Awareness Fibromyalgia Education and Healthy Vision Maytag Month Brain Tumor Awareness Awareness Home Schooling Awareness see What month, page 2 Flag officer assignments of interest U.S. Pacific Fleet reaffirms confidence The secretary of the Navy and chief of naval operations recently announced the following assignments: Rear Adm. (lower in USS Theodore Roosevelt half) John E. Gumble- ton is currently serv- Courtesy of U.S. Pacific Fleet in isolation while their nearly ing as deputy assistant Public Affairs 1,100-foot, 97,000-ton carrier secretary of the Navy ................................................... went through a massive, aggres- for Budget (FMB); and PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii sive cleaning. director, Fiscal Manage- - Two days after returning from ment Division, N82, Guam, the Pacific Fleet’s senior The multiple stops left the Office of the Chief leaders stressed their apprecia- men confident with the spirit of Naval Operations. tion and confidence in the multi- of the Sailors and those taking Gumbleton previously service, multi-agency response care of them. served as commander, to the Navy’s COVID-stricken Expeditionary Strike Group Three, San Diego. aircraft carrier. “The joint team - the Marine Rear Adm. (lower half) Philip E. Sobeck is currently ................................................... Corps, Air Force, Army, and serving as commander, Expeditionary Strike Group Three, “After being able to get to Coast Guard - all came together San Diego. Sobeck previously served as director, 21st Century Guam and seeing the opera- to support shipmates in need,” Sailor Office, N17, Office of the Chief of Naval Operations. tion in action, Fleet (Master Aquilino said. “They maintained Chief James Honea) and I were the quality of health, quality Secretary of Defense Dr. Mark T. Esper recently announced enormously impressed, hav- of care, and quality of life for Pacific Fleet commander Adm. John C. Aquilino ad- that the president has made the following nominations: ing watched the Sailors fight the TR crew across multiple dresses Sailors assigned to the aircraft carrier USS Vice Adm. Lisa M. Franchetti for reappointment to the through this adversary to get locations on the island. An op- Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) May 2. Navy photo by rank of vice admiral and assignment as deputy chief of naval back on their ship,” said Fleet eration such as this has not been MC3 Dartanon D. Delagarza operations for warfighting development, N7, Office of the Commander Adm. John C. Aqui- executed in my 36 years of doing Chief of Naval Operations. Franchetti is currently serving lino. “I’m more proud than ever this business.” said. “We thanked them for their this virus,” said Morris, from as commander, Sixth Fleet; commander, Task Force Six; having seen firsthand what our endurance and their strength of Oak Harbor, Wash. “It’s a new commander, Striking and Support Forces NATO; deputy com- Sailors have had to do.” The Pacific Fleet Master Chief will and character to face this world that we live in that we virus and to get back to sea.” mander, U.S. Naval Forces Europe; deputy commander, U.S. agreed. “The magnitude and have to adjust to.” Naval Forces Africa; and Joint Force Maritime Component Both leaders, separately self- complexity of the support opera- Thousands of Sailors returned On board the carrier, Yeo- commander Europe, Naples, Italy. quarantining now that they’re tions that they’re running over to USS Theodore Roosevelt as man 2nd Class Amber Bennett, Rear Adm. Kenneth R. Whitesell for appointment to the back in Hawaii, spent the week- there are very well detailed and end on Guam visiting USS well-orchestrated,” Honea said. the aircraft carrier prepares to from Fayetteville, N.C., said rank of vice admiral and assignment as commander, Naval Air Theodore Roosevelt, as well “It was developed without any return to sea. she’s “being deliberately, overly Forces; and commander, Naval Air Force, Pacific Fleet, San as various commands, Guam’s kind of script or playbook to paranoid” and has “a big thing of Diego. Whitesell is currently serving as deputy commander, leaders, and some of the roughly go by.” “The Sailors are extremely sanitizer” in her office that she U.S. Pacific Fleet, Pearl Harbor. 5,000 Sailors who were man- eager to get back to sea,” Honea ensures everyone uses before ning the ship, quarantined, or Aquilino credited Guam’s said. “This is a tough team that conducting business. governor and “the people and you wouldn’t want to take on.
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