Vol . 29 No. 7 www.dcmilitary.com/journal/ February 23, 2017 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. 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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.