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January 2015 Commander, Navy Installations Command

SUPPORTING THE FLEET, FIGHTER AND FAMILYSUPPORTING THE FLEET, FIGHTER AND FAMILYSUPPORTING THE FLEET, FIGHTER AND FAMILY

Congratulations to the Navy Installation Excellence Award winners!

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In This Issue:

Navy Installation Excellence Award Announced

New Housing Website

Nutrition

Energy Awards

Vietnam War Commemoration

Health Weight Month

COMMANDER Vice Adm. Dixon R. Smith

PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER Cmdr. Wendy L. Snyder DEPUTY PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER Fred Henney

PUBLIC AFFAIRS STAFF MC1(SW/AW) John Belanger Dave Lee Ed Wright Sandra Niedzwiecki

Shoreline is a monthly publication of Commander, Navy Installations Command Public Affairs Office: 716 Sicard St. Bldg. 111, Washington Navy Yard, DC 20374

Cover Photo: Naval Air Station (NAS) Pensacola, "The Cradle of Na-val Aviation", is a U. S. Navy base located next to Warrington, Florida, a community southwest of the Pensaco-la city limits. NAS Pensacola is the Navy's nominee for the Commander in Chief's Annual Award for Installa-tion Excellence. (U.S. Navy Photo)

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Navy Commands Receive Federal Energy and Water Management Awards By Navy Installations Command Public Affairs

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The United States of America Vietnam War Commemoration From Vietnam War 50th Commemoration Website

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New Housing Website By Navy Installations Command Housing Program

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Navy Announces Installation Excellence Award Winners By Navy Installations Command Public Affairs

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Navy and Marine Corps Public Health Center Launches Weight Management Initiative By NMC Corps Public Health Center, Public Affairs

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COMMANDER’S CORNER

Happy New Year Navy Installations Command Team, and Welcome to 2015! I hope everyone had a chance to enjoy the holiday season. For the New Year, we are off and running full speed ahead. We are completing our strategic guidance for the enterprise which will provide our overarching vision moving forward to support our mission. This is a robust product that takes time to develop. We anticipate having this to you by March. Below are our 2015 Objectives, which we’ll accomplish together in the months ahead. Setting these objectives is just the beginning. Much work remains ahead of us to include establishing working teams, defining success, and measuring progress. This is a team effort and I remain confident that your hard work, aligned with our Guiding Principles, will lead us to success.

In our daily efforts, we must remember that achieving these objectives is vital in enabling the defense of our Nation. Our Fleet, Fighter, and Family are counting on us. Thanks for what you do every day.

All the best, Vice Admiral Smith

Vice Adm. Dixon R. Smith

Improve the Security / Emergency Management Programs to enhance the professionalism of our force and mitigate manning, training, and equipment shortfalls. Improve Human Resources hiring and retention practices to reduce labor lapse and develop the workforce. Improve FSRM and FHN execution to avoid end of year obligation "spike" and posture the Shore Enterprise to best leverage additional mid-year and end of year funds. Improve CNIC financial control business rules to enable flexibility in addressing shortfalls at the Region level while maintaining required program discipline and visibility. Improve and standardize Installation master planning and visioning processes to enable long-term Installation enhancements, including appearance, despite the resource constrained environment in which we operate. Improve Shore Enterprise output metrics to allow better program management (in both quality and capacity), and enable HQ to better articulate program requirements (and effect of funding changes) during the POM process.

2015 Objectives

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FORCE MASTER CHIEF

Team, I hope the beginning of the new year finds you all refreshed and feeling healthy and happy! I always think it’s odd that we go from one year to an-other in a matter of seconds and somehow that translates to starting new, starting now, starting over. You can wake up any morning of the year and do that – if you want. We all get sucked into the new year “resolutions,” but that’s ok. If you’re setting them (no matter what you call them), it’s a GOOD thing. There’s nothing negative about setting goals, particularly when it’s something you want to get better at. Your goals should have a few parameters. I’m sure you’ve heard the acronym S.M.A.R.T. – Specific, Measureable, Attainable, Realistic, Timely. Write them down. Mine are posted up on my white board in the office, so that when someone asks me

about it, it will help me reinforce my own goal when I talk with others. Telling others about your goals helps you keep them too, so here they are: Number 1: Work on the last 30 minutes of my work day -- it’s a time management issue. I’m very productive in those last minutes, but why can’t I find that a little earlier in the day. Number 2: Stay out of all the candy dishes around the building! It may be a great opportunity to help someone else, maybe your cubemate or Shipmate. Not everyone sails along so easily, especially this time of year when all the bills start to come in from the holidays. Stress comes in all sizes, but we generally know when our co-worker isn’t their usual self. Make sure you take time to ask how they are doing, and then follow up if it seems they aren’t ready to share. We just need to take care of each other. Be safe in your travels, the weather has been turning a bit frosty for us in DC, and more white stuff predicted in the future. Very respectfully, FORCM(SW/AW) Nancy Hollingsworth

FORCM(SW/AW) Nancy Hollingsworth

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WASHINGTON (NNS) -- Com-mander, Navy Installations Com-mand (CNIC) has announced the Navy's 2015 Installation Excellence Award winners.

The annual Installation Excellence Award recognizes the top three large and small installations world-wide and rewards installation performance consistent with Office of the Secre-tary of Defense (OSD) strategic cri-teria for the Department of Defense (DoD)-wide Commander in Chief Installation Excellence Awards.

"I am proud to congratulate all of our Navy Installation Command winners," said Vice Adm. Dixon Smith, CNIC. "Competition this year was very tight and each of the nomi-nation packages was impressive."

Both Naval Air Station (NAS) Pensacola, Fla. and NAS Whiting Field, Fla. as first-place winners au-tomatically compete for the nomina-tion to represent the Navy for the DoD-wide 2015 Commander in Chief's Annual Award for Installa-tion Excellence, which will be an-nounced in the spring.

"I am delighted to announce that Naval Air Station Pensacola is the Navy's nominee for the Commander in Chief's Annual Award for Instal-lation Excellence," said Smith. "Congratulations to Capt. Hoskins, and the men and women of NAS Pensacola who worked diligently to make their installation the best in the Navy, and hopefully in all of DoD."

Established in 1985 by President

Ronald Reagan, the Commander in Chief's Annual Award for Installa-tion Excellence recognizes outstand-ing efforts in the operations and maintenance of U.S. military instal-lations. Each branch of the military submits its nomination and an award is presented to the installation whose command has made best use of available resources to accomplish its assigned mission over the course of the preceding fiscal year.

Smith also praised the other awardees and said that all 19 nomi-nation packages detailed the hard work and outstanding accomplish-ments for the submitting installa-tions, which is indicative of their commitment to supporting the Fleet, the Fighters and their Families.

Navy Announces Installation Excellence Award Winners From Navy Installations Command Public Affairs

The Navy's Top Installation Winners:

Large: 1st Place: Naval Air Station Pensacola (Capt. K. W. Hoskins commanding)

2nd Place: Naval Air Station Oceana (Capt. C. W. Chope commanding) 3rd Place: Naval Base Ventura (Capt. L. R. Vasquez commanding)

Small:

1st Place: Naval Air Station Whiting Field (Capt. M. Coughlin commanding) 2nd Place: Naval Support Activity Souda Bay (Capt. M. R. Moore commanding)

3rd Place: Naval Support Activity Annapolis (Capt. L. Jones commanding)

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WASHINGTON (NNS) -- The Navy, along with the other military branches, has announced a new web-site, HOMES.mil, that is dedicated to helping service members, Depart-ment of Defense (DoD) civilians and their families with home finding ser-vices.

The new DoD website provides a vehicle for community housing land-lords and property managers to cre-ate and update their profiles and list-ings.

HOMES.mil is a secure website that allows property managers, land-lords and service members a means to market their properties. Those us-ing the website are able to control their listings, and upload photos and floors plans to the website.

"The Navy has worked alongside the other services to offer the best housing options to service members around the world," said Greg Wright, Navy Housing program director. "HOMES.mil modernizes the way Navy Housing provides information on local rental properties and im-proves the Housing Service Centers' customer service to Sailors and their families while helping to alleviate some of the burden and stress of PCS."

Landlords and property managers, who have worked with the Housing Service Centers (HSCs) in the past, can create a login for HOMES.mil and are able to access their previous-ly listed properties. Once a landlord or property manager creates a login, they can manage their property list-ing. These listings can include a list of amenities, photos and additional information to assist service mem-bers in making informed housing decisions.

"The Navy is focused on assisting

Sailors and their families in finding safe, suitable and affordable housing wherever they choose to live. HOMES.mil, in conjunction with the HSC's professional housing staff, will provide an improved experience for our customers," said Wright.

HOMES.mil offers a secure site for landlords and property managers wishing to list their properties for DoD service members and govern-ment civilians stationed near military installations. HOMES.mil is integrat-ed with the HSC's management soft-ware, allowing a streamlined experi-ence for service members looking for community housing.

HOMES.mil is now available for landlords and property managers to begin uploading information on properties they want to list. On Dec. 29, the HOMES.mil website will be available to all service members and their families to find housing. The HOMES.mil website address is https://www.homes.mil.

For questions about HOMES.mil and other housing information, please visit the Navy Housing web-site: www.cnic.navy.mil/HOUSING.

New Housing Website From Navy Installations Command Housing Program

Navy family members relax on their front lawn while movers deliver household goods to their new 

home on Ford Island.  U. S. Navy photo by Photographers Mate 1st Class William R Goodwin. 

(RELEASED)  

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Getting in Shape for the New Year No matter what your fitness goals are, good nutrition can help improve your exercise performance, decrease your

recovery time from strenuous exercise, prevent injuries due to fatigue, and provide the fuel required during times of high-intensity training and weight control. Combining good nutrition with exercise also can help reduce the risk of numerous chronic diseases, such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease, hypertension, obesity, osteoporosis and some cancers. Learning how nutrition and exercise work together for optimal health is essential. For more information on fitness and nutrition visit http://www.navyfitness.org

Oatmeal Brown Rice High Fiber Cereal Quinoa 100% Whole Wheat Bread

Grains: “Come Back to Earth” ● Carbohydrate = FUEL for the brain & muscles Main sources are: Breads, cereals, grains, beans, fruits, and vegetables.

What to look for in a grain: The least processed forms of grain you can find.

Think brown and found close to the ground

The best choices will have more than 3g of FIBER per serving.

Protein: “The Less Legs the Better” ● Protein = Building blocks for our bodies Protein builds muscle and maintains the immune system

Main sources are: Lean Meats, Low Fat Dairy, Eggs, and Beans/Legumes

What to look for: Lean protein sources. Typically the less legs on the animal the protein came from, the better it is for you.

Try to include a lean protein source with every meal.

Protein needs increase with activity. Intake ranges from 0.5g (recreational exerciser) to 0.8g (building muscle mass) of protein per pound of body weight. You will never need more than 1g per Pound for health or muscle mass gains. The palm of your hand equals about 30-40g of protein.

Tuna / Fish Chicken/Turkey Breast Lean Red Meat Low Fat Dairy Eggs

Fats: “Eat Healthy Fat” ● Healthy Fats = Energy Density Healthy Fats provide energy, help to regulate blood sugar, improve cholesterol, and keep you feeling full.

Omega-3 fatty acids improve cognition, decrease inflammation, and enhance heart health. they are considered essential because your body cannot make them, you must get them through food. Omega-3s are found in fatty fish like salmon, trout, and tuna, as well as flaxseed, walnuts, and omega-3 fortified foods.

Try to get one serving of healthy fat per meal (2 total servings of fatty fish per week).

Salmon Oils Fish, Flax, Olive Flax Seed Products Avacados Pecan, Walnuts & Almonds

1 Serving Size = The Tip of Your Thumb

1 Serving Size = The Palm of Your Hand

1 Serving Size = Your Fist

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Washington D.C. – Four U.S. Na-vy Commands were honored with the Department of Energy’s (DoE) Federal Energy Management Pro-gram (FEMP) 2014 Federal Energy and Water Management Awards at the National Archives, Dec. 9.

“The Department of Energy pre-sents these awards annually with assistance from participating agen-cies and of the Federal Interagency Energy Management task force,” said Dr. Timothy Unruh, U.S. De-partment of Energy FEMP director. “Since the first of these awards was presented in 1981, FEMP has recog-nized more than twelve-hundred winners.”

This year FEMP honored 25 indi-viduals and teams with Federal Ener-gy and Water Management Awards. The recipients collectively contribut-ed to saving approximately 2 trillion British thermal units (Btu) of energy, 1.3 billion gallons of water, 18.1 million gallons of fuel, and $115.8 million in energy and water cost in fiscal year 2013.

The Navy has 70 installations around the globe, all of which are engaged in energy and water man-agement efforts. Out of those, four commands stood out as exemplary for the DoE’s FEMP award. They are:

Naval Air Station (NAS) Oceana, Virginia Beach, Va., which received an award for their energy program initiatives that saved 18 billion Btu and 39 million gallons of water.

Naval District Washington, Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Washington D.C., which received an award for their comprehensive ener-gy program that reduced energy in-tensity by nearly 19 percent and 13 percent from the respective baselines across the region’s six installations.

Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake, China Lake, Calif., which re-ceived a project award for complet-ing construction of a 13.78 megawatt solar photovoltaic system, the largest solar plant in the Navy.

Public Works Department, Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti, which received

a project award for implementing an air conditioning improvement pro- ject that saves 61 billion Btu and $2 million annually.

“The accomplishments of these individuals and teams and others like them throughout the government have all contributed greatly to our progress,” said Unruh. “They contin-ue to reach our goals across the gov-ernment and the challenge set by the President; Lead by example.”

Navy Commands Receive Federal Energy and Water Management Awards By Navy Installations Command Public Affairs

Naval  Air  Weapons  Station  China  Lake,  Calif., 

energy  program  team  receive  their  Federal Energy 

and  Water  management  award  for  energy 

initiatives. The awards were founded in 1981 by the 

Department of Energy and  the Federal  Interagency 

Energy  Policy  Committee  to  recognize  federal 

employees for outstanding efforts related to federal 

energy, water,  and  fleet management.  (U.S. Navy 

photo by Sandra Niedzwiecki/Released)  

EMERGENCIES HAPPEN! Disasters affect hundreds of thousands of people every year, some with little to no advance warning. It may hap-pen at your local Navy installation. It may happen to you. While the Navy, emergency management, and first responders are committed to helping those in need; assis-tance may be delayed during a disaster. As part of the Navy community, you have a role in planning for emer-gencies -- Be/Stay informed. Make a plan. Build a kit. Go to http://www.ready.navy.mil/ for more information

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The United States of America Vietnam War Commemoration

On May 25, 2012, President Barack Obama declared the period of May 28, 2012 through November 11, 2025 as a 13-year commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of the Vietnam War. This commemoration is to honor and give thanks to those who served their country during one of the most challenging periods in American history.

"The United States of America Vietnam War Commemoration" is the official title given to the Depart-ment of Defense program in the 2008 National Defense Authoriza-tion Act.

For information about the Vietnam War commemoration activities visit: www.vietnamwar50th.com

From Vietnam War 50th Commemoration Website

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(NNS) -- The Navy and Marine Corps Public Health Center (NMCPHC) announced the launch of its weight management initiative, Jan. 7 as part of "Healthy Weight" month.

The initiative encourages Sailors, Marines, their families, and health educators to access relevant healthy eating, active living, and psychologi-cal and emotional well-being re-sources that help achieve and main-tain a healthy weight.

The timing of the announcement is aligned with NMCPHC's "Healthy Weight" Month and the "New Year, New You" Month observed by the Military Health System and Navy Medicine.

"Addressing healthy weight is im-portant for Sailors and Marines be-cause exceeding body composition assessment (BCA) standards can negatively affect their career and compromise mission readiness," said Cmdr. Connie Scott, the Health Pro-motion and Wellness Department Head at NMCPHC. "Exceeding BCA can also be an impediment to readiness because extra pounds can decrease quality of life and increase health problems such as heart dis-ease, diabetes, stroke, and some types of cancer."

In support of the Secretary of the Navy's (SECNAV) 21st Century Sailor & Marine Initiative, NMCPHC's "Healthy Weight" Month increases awareness about the benefits of achieving and maintain-ing a healthy weight, and offers re-

sources that equip Sailors and Ma-rines to take charge of their weight management by developing life-long healthy behaviors including healthy eating, active living, and psychologi-cal and emotional well-being.

Weight management is part of the spectrum of wellness that maximizes each Sailor's and Marine's personal readiness. Resources offered include a comprehensive listing of posters and infographics; fact sheets; bro-chures; and interactive tools, includ-ing quizzes and games developed by both NMCPHC and other leading health organizations. Newly created NMCPHC materials include One Day at a Time: 31 Day Challenge for a Healthier Life, a fact sheet series addressing the safety and health im-pacts of supplements, and Better Eating Habits in 7 Days food log.

Sailors and Marines can also achieve weight management goals with the ShipShape Program, the

official Navy weight management program that assists Active Duty and Reserve military service members, beneficiaries, and government civil-ians with making healthy behavior changes in order to lose weight. The program consists of eight sessions that focus on three important compo-nents for weight management: mind-set, nutrition, and physical activity.

The ShipShape Program is highly recommended for active duty per-sonnel who have failed or are at risk of failing their BCA standards. The program is managed by NMCPHC and aligns to the missions of the 21st Century Sailor and Marine Initiative, and Navy Medicine to maintain a healthy, fit, and ready force.

For more information and re-sources on weight management, visit NMCPHC's website at: http://www.med.navy.mil/sites/nmcphc/health-promotion/Pages/hp-toolbox-january.aspx

Navy and Marine Corps Public Health Center Launches Weight Management Initiative From Navy and Marine Corps Public Health Center, Public Affairs

The Navy and Marine Corps Public Health Center (NMCPHC) is committed to providing Sailors and 

Marines with the tools they need to learn how to make healthier choices to achieve or maintain a 

healthy weight.