Navy Marine Corps Coast Guard Army Air Force ARMED FORCES DISPATCHSan Diego Navy/Marine Corps Dispatch www.armedforcesdispatch.com 619.280.2985 FIFTY EIGHTH YEAR NO. 40 Serving active duty and retired military personnel, veterans and civil service employees THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 2019 Veterans History Project A hero’s welcome presents ‘Women of Four Wars;’ calls Americans to interview female vets during Women’s History Month The Veterans History Project, a program of the Library of Con- gress American Folklife Center, commemorates Women’s His- tory Month with a special Web presentation spotlighting female veterans. “Women of Four Wars” is a call to action for volunteer interviewers to record the sto- ries of America’s female wartime Logistics Specialist 2nd Class Tre Francisco greets his veterans and is available online wife and meets his newborn son for the first time at www.loc.gov/vets/stories/ex- upon returning from deployment March 1. Photo by war-women4wars.html. MC2 Jesse Monford “Thanks to volunteers nation- Essex Amphibious Ready Group wide, the Library of Congress has preserved the recollections concludes deployment in S.D. of thousands of veterans,” said Bob Patrick, director of the Vet- SAN DIEGO - Sailors and Marines of the Essex (LHD 2) Am- erans History Project. “Yet, few phibious Ready Group (ARG) returned to their homeport of San of those interviews are from Diego following a deployment to the Indo-Pacific, Middle East, women. We need more personal Mediterranean, and Horn of Africa regions, March 1. accounts from female veterans, More than 4,500 Sailors and Marines of the Essex ARG and and we need the American public embarked 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) conducted mari- to record them.” time security operations and theater security cooperation efforts in support of regional security, stability, and the free flow of maritime Rich in detail, photographs and historic reference, the profiles commerce. in “Women of Four Wars” are “This deployment was a great example of dynamic force employ- grouped into two segments: ment,” said Capt. Gerald Olin, commander, Amphibious Squadron interviews from the Korea and (PHIBRON) 1. “We were successful on our deployment because Vietnam Wars and interviews we operated the way we trained. Our team was manned, trained from the Persian Gulf and Iraq- and equipped successfully so that we were able to meet mission Afghanistan conflicts. requirements in every fleet.” During the ARG/MEU’s deployment, the ships conducted sub- The series covers nearly 60 years ject matter exchanges and important theater security cooperation and documents the changing role of American women in wartime exercises with regional partners in 5th, 6th and 7th fleets as well as service. participated in military operations. “Our dynamic Blue-Green team performed admirably and their Commissioned by Congress to accomplishments speak wonders to the resolve, resiliency and incred- collect and preserve the recollec- ible sacrifice the Sailors, Marines, and their families made to make tions of Americans who served this a successful deployment,” said Olin. “I am proud to have been during wartime, the Veterans His- Saluting women’s contributions in American history part of this deployment with this team, and after such a successful tory Project relies on volunteers deployment, I know our Sailors and Marines, as well as their friends to interview veterans and submit Every year March is designated the following year. 1994, Congress passed additional and families, are excited to be home.” their recollections, along with let- Women’s History Month by Presi- In 1980, a consortium of women’s resolutions requesting and authoriz- Essex ARG is comprised of Essex, amphibious transport dock ters, photographs, memoirs and dential proclamation. The month is groups and historians—led by the ing the President to proclaim March other documents, to the Library Anchorage, and amphibious dock landing ship Rushmore, and of Congress to be archived and set aside to honor women’s contribu- National Women’s History Project of each year as Women’s History embarked commands. shared with future generations. tions in American history. (now the National Women’s History Month. Since 1995, each president Alliance)—successfully lobbied for has issued an annual proclamations Navy Installations Command celebrates Individuals, schools, libraries and Women’s History Month began national recognition. In February designating the month of March as community organizations are as a local celebration in Santa Rosa, 1980, President Jimmy Carter issued “Women’s History Month.” the 104th year of the Navy Reserve encouraged to commemorate California. The Education Task Force the first Presidential Proclamation WASHINGTON - March 3 marked the 104th birthday of the Women’s History Month by inter- of the Sonoma County (California) declaring the Week of March 8th The National Women’s History Navy Reserve and celebrates the flexibility, responsiveness, viewing female veterans. Those Commission on the Status of Women 1980 as National Women’s History Alliance selects and publishes the and unique skills that members of the reserve force bring to the interested can download a VHP planned and executed a “Women’s Week yearly theme. The 2019 Women’s Navy. Field Kit from the Veterans His- Within Navy Installations Command, there are approximately tory Project Web site at www.loc. History Week” celebration in 1978. History Month theme is “Visionary gov/vets/, request a kit via email The organizers selected the week of Subsequent Presidents continued Women: Champions of Peace & 3,500 reservists augmenting units around the world. From safety at [email protected] or call the toll- March 8 to correspond with Inter- to proclaim a National Women’s His- Nonviolence.” The theme honors and security to family readiness, reservists are playing a vital role free message line at (888) 371- national Women’s Day. The move- tory Week in March until 1987 when “women who have led efforts to throughout the shore enterprise. 5848. ment spread across the country as Congress passed Public Law 100-9, end war, violence, and injustice and The flexibility of the reserve force is never better showcased http://www.loc.gov/vets/stories/ other communities initiated their own designating March as “Women’s pioneered the use of nonviolence to than when there is an emergency, whether it be a natural disaster ex-war-women4wars.html Women’s History Week celebrations History Month.” Between 1988 and change society.” or a hostile act against our country. 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See page 14 2 www.armedforcesdispatch.com THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 2019 National Military Officials explain U.S. Space Force need, culture Gladiator by Jim Garamone official said. “As a result, they Pending passage, DOD will It will take some time for WASHINGTON - The U.S. are integrating space into their begin transferring personnel Space Force service members baby Space Force will allow DoD to forces, and they are developing from the Air Force to the new to build that culture. “When you deliver space capabilities and weapon systems to take away service in fiscal year 2021 - most grow up in your service, you results faster, better and ahead of our advantages in a crisis or of the personnel in the U.S. are a part of a culture and that adversaries, Pentagon officials conflict.” Space Force will come from is your mindset and focus,” a said March 1. the Air Force. Army, Navy and senior military officer said. “The A Warfighting domain Marine Corps personnel will be Air Force includes space, but Officials spoke with reporters Space has changed the char- affected in later years. Civilian the personnel still grow up in an on background this morning in acter of war. “Space is not just a employees will come to the new Air Force culture today. I would advance of the announcement support function, it is a warfight- service under the auspices of the argue that if you ‘grow up’ in a that DOD delivered a proposal ing domain in Space Force where you are solely for establishing the sixth branch focused on the space domain, and of its own The Space Force is a strategic of the armed forces to Congress right where your ability to think clearly and MANAMA, Bahrain (Feb. 24, 2019) - A toddler sits today. The proposal calls for the w e r e a l l y step forward that will bring great- focus on that domain will get in the bell of USS Gladiator (MCM 11) after being U.S. Space Force to lodge in the need to be er focus to people, doctrine and after the problem set much more christened in it during his baptism on the ship’s Department of the Air Force. prepared to capability needed to wage a war effectively.” focâ’sle. Gladiator is forward deployed to the U.S. compete, de- in space, officials said. 5th Fleet Navy photo by MC2 Samantha P. Monte- “What underpins the entire ter and win,” The force will look for people negro discussion is the importance of he said. with a technical background to space to life here on Earth,” an Department of the Air Force, apply toward warfighting. “We official said. “Space truly is vital The Space Force is a strategic just as civilian employees of the need people who, at their core, to our way of life and our way step forward that will bring U.S. Marine Corps work for the understand what warfighting is Armed Forces Dispatch of war, and that has really been greater focus to people, doctrine Department of the Navy.