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VOLUME 1, NO. 45 | 3 FEBRUARY 2012
THIS EDITIONStennis leaves Singapore cultured .................pg. 2
Ode to the soon-to-disappear Bravo Charlies ........pg. 4
Joint Chairman, transition challenges ahead ...pg. 7
USS Maine’s demise to remain mystery ......pg. 9
By GREG [email protected]
A long Saturday night of whiskey, beer and video games ended with a shriek when a drunken sailor passed out in the bed of an unwitting senior citizen.
Dalton Pierson, 24, left his buddy’s apartment in the Vineyards complex sometime around 6 a.m. Sunday and entered a neighboring abode where he stopped to pee in one bedroom before crawling into bed with 80-year-old Evelyn Whitey in another, according to
Partied-out sailor jumps into wrong bed
SEE BED | PAGE 2
Aviation Electronics Technician 3rd Class Jonathan Fox, assigned to the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS John C.
Stennis (CVN 74), plays basketball with boys and staff members at Boy’s Town during a community service event
in Singapore. See stories abot Stennis’ visit and liberty on page 2. U.S. NAVY PHOTO BY MASS COMMUNICATION SPECIALIST 3RD CLASS KENNETH ABBATE
By JJ [email protected]
Earthjustice, an environmental law firm, and the Natural Resources Defense Council filed a lawsuit Jan. 25 on behalf of six environmental groups, including the People for Puget Sound, challenging the Navy’s underwater warfare training exercises in the Keyport Range Complex.
The Navy was permitted by the National Marine Fisheries Service in 2010 to conduct tactical training opera-tions in the area. Activities include the use of sonar as part of training to detect submerged submarines and mines, said Sheila Murray, spokeswoman for Navy Region Northwest.
Sonar is critical in Navy’s operations to “protect global commerce and the nation’s security, in addition to Navy
and other ships,” Murray said. However, environmentalists with
the Puget Sound group argue that the impact on endangered species is too high and that the NMFS did not do its job in protecting endangered species such as orcas and leatherback turtles as well as non-endangered fish populations from Navy training through the language of its permits.
Earthjustice is suing National Marine Fisheries Service for issuing permits to the Navy which give the military “unre-stricted access to areas that are sensitive habits without ensuring the proper pro-tections,” said Heather Trim, director of policy for People For Puget Sound.
She added that marine fisheries ser-vice has the years of expertise on staff and decades of research on native spe-cies so they know the “specific breeding,
feeding and migration” patterns and how they should be protected.
“The Navy proposes to do its exercise, but it is NMFS’s job is to use it’s scientif-ic wildlife expertise to ensure protection. They know where these species are,” said Kristen Boyles, attorney for Earthjustice. “Our contention is that they didn’t do their job.”
NMFS could not be reached for com-ment.
The area where the Navy trains includes the Dabob Bay Range Complex Site on Hood Canal and the Quinault Underwater Tracking Range Site situated along the Pacific Coast in the Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary. The lawsuit focuses on the Quinault range which was expanded to 38 times its
Navy’s Keyport Range Complex faces federal lawsuit
SEE LAWSUIT | PAGE 8
STENNIS ABROAD
USS JOHN C. STENNIS, at sea – Ships from the
John C. Stennis Carrier Strike Group departed the
Republic of Singapore Jan. 30 after a four-day port visit.
Sailors from the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN
74), the guided-missile cruiser USS Mobile Bay (CG 53), and guided-missile destroyers USS Dewey (DDG 105) and USS Pickney (DDG 91), experi-
enced the country’s unique mix of cultures, volun-teered in the local com-munity and hosted more than 1,500 guests aboard the ship for tours and a
reception held in Stennis’ hangar bay.
“The opportunity to visit the Republic of Singapore for us is an honor and a privilege,” said Capt. Jeff Graf, executive officer of Stennis. “Our Sailors have been working very hard for several months and Singapore offers endless opportunities for them to relax and enjoy them-selves.”
Sailors also hosted a young-women’s leadership forum for female students from Nanyang Technical University and Raffles High School.
“It was such a fulfilling experience to be able to share my experiences as a female in the military with this group of young women who will be the future leaders of their country,” said Ensign Colleen White, an information systems officer aboard Stennis. “They were intelligent, full of energy, and I hope I inspired them as much as they did me.”
Upon departure from Singapore, the JCSSG will conduct two days of the-ater security cooperation training with the Republic of Singapore Navy before beginning their return transit to the U.S.
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CHANGI, Singapore (NNS) – Sailors from the Nimitz-class air craft carrier USS John C. Stennis spent some of their limited liberty time volun-teering in the local commu-nity Jan. 27 and 28 during a port visit to Singapore.
Twelve sailors who vol-unteered for community service activities aboard the ship visited the Boy’s Town of Singapore. Boy’s Town was established in 1948 as a home to displaced and troubled children, as well as boys from families stricken with financial hardships. Throughout the day, sailors played basketball, soccer and shared an afternoon meal with the children.
“The experience at the Boy’s Town was over-whelming,” said Aviation
Technician 3rd Class Jonathon Fox. “I felt honored to be there rep-resenting the Navy and be involved in these young men’s lives.”
Another 12 Stennis vol-unteers lent their time at The Singapore Cheshire Home Day Care Center, a hospice for disabled citizens, Jan. 28. Sailors spent sev-eral hours with the residents sharing time, stories and serving meals.
“It was a great expe-rience,” said Damage Controlman 2nd Class (SW/AW) Salena Thomas. `“Everyone was happy and it’s very encouraging to see that even though people have disabilities, they can still overcome their obsta-cles.”
While community service projects allow sailors unique opportunities to learn about life in foreign countries; they also build character and demonstrate the values upon which our Navy was founded.
“It shows dedication,” said Navy Counselor Chief (SW/AW) Jean-Hero Lamy, the command career counselor aboard Stennis. “These sail-ors are well rounded. They are conscientious, caring and are willing to spend their off time helping oth-ers.”
The Stennis is cur-rently conducting Maritime Security Operations and routine training at sea in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of opera-tions as part of a scheduled seven-month deployment.
Stennis sailors lend a hand in Singapore
Stennis Strike Group leaves Singapore
Sailors assigned to the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis play basket-
ball with boys and staff members at Boy’s Town during a community service event in
Singapore Jan. 27, 2012. John C. Stennis is operating in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of opera-
tions while on a seven month deployment. U.S. NAVY PHOTO BY –– KENNETH ABBATE
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WASHINGTON (NNS) --The Navy is asking sail-ors to volunteer for sea duty under a new initiative called the Voluntary Sea Duty Program.
“The Voluntary Sea Duty Program’s goal is to improve manning levels at sea, while providing motivated Sailors the ben-efits of geographic choice and stability as well as the deferment of their Perform-to-Serve window,” said Rear Admiral Tony Kurta, Director, Military Personnel Plans and Policy Division. “This opportunity allows Sailors a chance to improve their record and increase their competitive edge in PTS through sustained superior performance at sea.”
This program does not change eligibility or benefits for the Sea Duty Incentive Pay Program and Sailors may take advantage of both programs concurrently.
Under the program, sailors may apply to extend their enlistment in their current sea duty billet beyond their prescribed sea tour, terminate their shore duty early in order to extend their enlistment to obtain new orders to a sea duty billet, or accept back-to-back sea duty orders. The sea duty assignment may be onboard ships, squadrons, or other quali-fied sea duty assignments.
Volunteers will be assigned to commands within the same geographic location as the current com-
mand if available, providing the benefit of geographic stability for sailors and family members. The Navy will also consider Sailors’ requests for out-of-area moves.
Volunteers will not be
required to accept a bil-let they do not desire. The detailers will work with vol-unteers during two CMS/ID cycles to find desirable orders. If no match is found during this time period, Sailors can reapply.
To be eligible to apply for a short term extension to defer PTS, sailors must meet eligibility criteria to ensure competitiveness in their next PTS window. However, sailors who do not meet these criteria, but have enough obligated service time can still apply for geographic stability or choice.
Requests will be accepted until Sep. 30, 2012. All 1306/7 requests should be forwarded to Navy Personnel Command via the Chain of Command.
For complete informa-tion on eligibility, restric-tions and application pro-cedure as well as benefits of VSDP, read NAVADMIN 043/12 at www.npc.navy.mil.
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By Karen ParrishAmerican Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1, 2012 – The Defense Department’s drug-testing program is expanding to add screening for two addi-tional prescription medications to the range of legal and illegal drugs it currently detects.
Joe Angello, the department’s direc-tor of operational readiness and safety, told Pentagon Channel and American Forces Press Service reporters the two drugs added to the screening program -- hydrocodone and benzodiazepines -- are nationally among the most abused pre-scription drugs now on the market. The program already tests for codeine and morphine, he noted.
As patterns of drug misuse change, the drug testing program responds by adding more testing procedures, he noted.
Hydrocodone is a component of a num-ber of prescription painkillers, including Vicodin, while benzodiazepines are a class of antidepressant medication present in a range of drugs that includes Xanax and Valium.
Angello said DOD announced the new screenings 90 days before they would take effect, which is unprecedented in the more than 40 years since military drug testing began. The memorandum went out yesterday.
“The memorandum is giving you a 90-day warning order,” Angello said. A service member addicted to prescription drugs, he added, should seek medical help.
“Don’t get caught in a drug test,” Angello urged. “There [are] no penalties, there’s no stigma, attached to [self-referral for medical] help here.”
Service members with prescriptions for the two drugs will not be subject to disci-plinary action for using them within the dosage and time prescribed, Angello said.
To anyone who has medication remain-ing from an expired prescription, he added, “Don’t use those.”
Such drugs should be turned in for disposal, but should not be flushed, he noted, as they can contaminate the water supply.
“If nothing else, you can always turn them in through your local military police,” Angello said.
Drug abuse among service members is significantly lower than in the civilian population, he said, but has a potentially much greater effect in the military.
“You’re not at your peak mental acuity when you’re using drugs,” he said. “The military has some of the finest men and women this nation has to offer; we cannot have people in the business of arms with drug impairments.”
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A sailor works the flight
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aircraft carrier USS John
C. Stennis during flight
operations Jan. 31, 2012.
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Honestly, I can’t believe that the Pentagon was still issuing Birth Control Glasses to service members until last month’s news they were going to be issued no more.
Born in 1990, the little rectangles of brown plastic replaced the somewhat horn rimmed “Buddy Hollys” that issued for several decades prior. Those black rocker-ish standards were the issued spectacles in 1987 when I was given my first pair
of glasses by Uncle Sam. They too were called birth controllers.
Though BCs were never, and still aren’t, really required after basic train-ing – when most people switched to “frames of choice” that were to be “conservative,” or back to contact lens-es otherwise forbidden during train-ing – a few bold troops their inner peacock fly with bright frames. For most, BCs became field glasses worn during deployments that themselves largely ruled out chances to father children due to the lack of required
additional participants.In the spring of 1990, I managed to find my eyes behind
the United States Safety Service Co. manufactured glasses known to the millions who’ve served since. In garrison, like most, I wore glasses more likely seen in a boardroom. In the field, as an infantryman, the fancies were simply useless for in putting a 0.224-inch hole in a target 300-yards down-range. They were the days of peep-sights, well before the Pentagon put 4x32 Advanced Combat Optical Gunsights on everything that took bullets.
People can say what they like, but those freaky fames – in their proper context, far removed from the civilian world – just fit the situation stylistically. In my world, the drivers compartment of a Bradley Fighting Vehicle driven on three continents, I sort of felt like they gave a Dean Martin retro-grandpa look to the otherwise bland mission required attire of head-to-toe Nomex, body armor, an M231, a bandolier of cigarettes and jungle boots stripped of all polish by the sand.
Bye-bye Bravo Charlie
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GREGSKINNER This project began out of
desperation. When my three boys—ages 5, 9 and 11— said it would be sad to see their Navy dad’s empty seat at the dinner table while he is away on a year-long deployment, I set out to fill the void.
I called it “Dinner with the Smileys.”
“For each week that Dad is gone,” I told the boys, “we’ll invite a guest to fill his chair at the family table.”
We created a wish list of 52 guests—from friends, family and school teachers to musicians, authors and President Obama—and suddenly, a new dimension to the project was clear: Dinner with the Smileys will fill our weeks and mark the time until Dustin returns.
I bought a calendar to keep track of the din-ners, and our excitement grew when we sched-uled guests for May and June and realized we’d be halfway through the deployment by then.
Yet, the fullness of this project—what it could mean to us, and what it might mean to others—was still mostly unrecognized. Indeed, one month into Dinner with the Smileys, I’m only just beginning to appreciate its many layers.
Military spouses around the country have written to say that they’d like to do a “Smiley Project” of their own when their loved one deploys. I hope that they will. If our first four dinners are any indication, there is much to be gained—as a family and as a community.
Here are a few notes from our January din-
ners:A Sense of CommunityEach week, our special din-
ners offer my boys the chance to connect with people in the community in a way they never could have if not for the “family” table. Only when you’ve passed homemade lasagna to the mayor, or when your minister has helped your
5-year-old butter his bread, can you know these people in a way that goes beyond the small talk and pleasantries that usually fill our days.
Sen. Collins knows my boys’ names. She’s seen their fish tank and Lego creations. Lindell’s preschool teacher has met his older brothers and learned their personalities. The mayor played Wii with the boys and listened to stories about their dad. Our minister helped break up a brawl in the living room. He saw the boys’ rooms. Met their dog. Now he knows where we’re “coming from” on Sunday morning.
Learning to Give BackOur mayor took the boys in a limo to get 18
scoops of ice cream at a well-known truck-stop and bakery in the northeast. He brought them hats and gifts from the Bangor airport (check out FlyBangor.com to see where we send Monty the Moose!). And the dinner didn’t let the boys leave without t-shirts and a trip to see the ice cream machine.
At the end of the evening, one of my boys
Dinner with the Smileys January recap
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SEE SMILEY | PAGE 8
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NORTH CHICAGO, Ill. (NNS) – Results of giving adeno-virus vaccinations to U.S. Navy recruits last October were released Jan. 30, and looked positive.
After a 10-year manufac-turing hiatus, the Captain James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center rein-stituted giving the vaccine to minimize the symptoms of febrile upper respiratory infection.
The average number of infection cases among recruits in 2010 was 93 per week. In 2011, the average was 87 per week. In the first month of 2012, that average was reduced to 23 per week.
In the first week follow-ing the vaccination, the rate of febrile upper respiratory infections went from 105 to 63 cases. The next week, it went to 26. After that, there were only 11 recruits who were treated for febrile upper respiratory infection. The vaccine had effectively cut the number of cases by 89.5 percent.
“The results are undeni-able when you look at the numbers,” said Lt. Cmdr. Carolyn Winningham, Lovell FHCC preventive medicine officer. “The vac-cine is fast, effective and safe. At the end of the day, our job is about keeping U.S. Navy recruits healthy and in training. So, for us, the adenovirus vaccine has been a huge success.”
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the vaccine, has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration for Department of Defense personnel entering basic training.
Military basic training settings offer a distinctive environment for adenovirus to be transmitted. Prior to the vaccine, the close-quar-
ters atmosphere would often allow an illness to spread quickly, resulting in missed training for the recruits. In turn, if a recruit is sick for too long, expensive training time may need to be length-ened.
While the two-pill vac-cination is costly at $111 per dose, its effectiveness keeps healthy recruits coming into the U.S. Navy without medi-cal delays.
According to Lovell FHCC Head of Occupational Health Medicine Mark Lesko, the Department of Defense invested approxi-mately $100 million over a 10-year period to bring the vaccine back to military recruits and basic trainees.
Lesko explained that recruits have been receiving the vac-cine for roughly 25 years, ending in the late 1990s when the original manufac-ture ceased production of the vaccine due to cost effec-tiveness.
Although not currently available to the general pub-lic, Winningham points out that there are many proac-tive measures that can be taken to reduce the spread of febrile upper respiratory infection.
“I’m sure many par-ents would want this type of vaccine for their family members,” explained Winningham. “Unfortunately, it’s just not available at this time. That
said, there are still many pre-ventive measures that each person can take, including hand washing and practicing social distancing.”
Winningham explained that social distancing is a practice of maintaining distance from those who are currently ill, which may include staying home from school or work when sick, coughing or sneezing into a sleeve or tissue, or remaining six to eight feet from people who have a virus.
While the results do
appear promising, Lesko points out that the long-term outcomes must be moni-tored.
“The reinstatement of this vaccine is certainly a public health milestone for the Department of Defense,” said Lesko. “All indications for us show that adenovirus is effectively gone from our recruit community, and we’ll be monitoring to ensure that continues.”
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JUNEAU, Alaska — The Coast Guard Cutter Healy and tanker vessel Renda crews reached the ice-free portion of the Bering Sea late Sunday afternoon.
The two vessels are now parting ways as the
Healy returns to home-port in Seattle.
“Throughout this his-toric journey the Coast Guard has benefited from federal, state and local partnerships to deliver the critical fuel supply to the City of
Nome,” said Rear Adm. Thomas Ostebo, 17th Coast Guard District commander. “Our num-ber one priority in the last leg of this evolution is to continue ensuring the safety of both crews and the safety of the environment.”
During the delivery of more than 1.3 million gallons of fuel to the city of Nome and subsequent return, the Healy escort-ed the Renda through about 800 miles of ice-covered Bering Sea. The delivery was necessary due to an early winter storm that prevented a scheduled fuel resupply to the city.
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WASHINGTON (AFPS) – As the U.S. military faces a con-strained budget environment in the years ahead, it will build on experience gained in expansions and contrac-tions throughout its history, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Wednesday said.
Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey told the audi-ence at a Reserve Officers Association national security symposium that change is nothing new for the nation’s armed forces.
However, he noted, all but the most senior service members have known only a military that has been grow-ing -- one that always has had all of the resources it could possibly need, and in some cases even more than needed.
“Well, that’s going to change here,” Dempsey said.
The new economic real-ity means less money will be available for defense, the chairman added, but he expressed confidence that the military will remain strong. “We will figure it out if we can maintain our sense of trust with each other,” he said.
Dempsey cited Air Force Master Sgt. Roger Sparks of the Alaska Air National Guard as an example. Sparks rescued 12 soldiers off the side of a mountain in the Hindu Kush area of Afghanistan. Under tremen-dous fire, he lowered himself via cable from a helicopter 12 times to rescue the soldiers. Twice, the cable was hit by gunfire. Eight soldiers sur-vived, and four died in the sergeant’s arms, Dempsey said.
“I asked him, ‘What were you thinking of when you lowered yourself time after time after time?’” the gen-eral said. “And he told me, ‘Truthfully, I didn’t have time
to think about it. I just knew they really needed me.’”
That sort of trust and sac-rifice is who people are in the military, Dempsey said.
“And as we go through changes – changes in strat-egy, changes in resourcing, changes in structure, mis-sioning, remissioning, expan-sion, contraction – as long as we keep [the attitude Sparks demonstrated], we’ll be all right,” he added.
The chairman said he faces three principal transitions during his term as the mili-tary’s top officer. The first, he said, will be as the United States transitions from war to peace.
“The surge, counterinsur-gency, that will all be tran-sitioned over to the respon-sibility of the Afghans,” he said. “They want it, we want it, that’s the way these things end, and we’ve got to get there on my watch.”
That means a military that has deployed frequently for 10 years will deploy at
a much reduced level, the chairman said, and deploy-ments will be for training, and not for combat.
“So the mindset of our youngsters will have to adapt to that,” Dempsey said. “They will have to under-stand what it will be like to be in a military that trains to fight as hard as it has fought. We can’t underestimate how challenging that transition will be for a generation.”
Second, Dempsey said, he will be the chairman as mili-tary budgets reduce. “We will have to figure out how we operate with less resources than we had before,” he said. And meanwhile, he added, people should just get to work. He quoted retired Army Gen. Fred Franks, who served in Vietnam and the Gulf War: “It’s literally impossible to wring your hands and roll up your sleeves at the same time.”
Finally, many soldiers and Marines will transition to civilian life, Dempsey noted,
because the force will get smaller. Some will move into the reserve components. Others will go straight to civilian life. In either case, he said, the military needs figure how to keep the right people in the right numbers to maintain itself.
“Right now, we’re focused on ‘What’s our force struc-ture going to be? What’s our budget going to be?’” Dempsey said. “But pretty quickly, we are going to have to focus on ‘How do we do it?’ We need to do what’s right for the nation, our insti-
tutions and the individuals.”A long-range budgeting
plan is essential for the mili-tary, Dempsey said, likening incremental budgeting to “death by a thousand cuts.” Defense leaders have looked ahead to fiscal 2020 in seek-ing to build a joint force the nation will need in that year, he said.
Dempsey said that the military will keep faith with those serving and who have served, but he emphasized it is about more than just money.
“We keep faith with the
men and women who serve if we make sure they are disci-plined, if we make sure they are well-trained, if we make sure they are well-equipped,” he said.
“In some circles,” he con-tinued, “it is only tied to how much money we get to them. That’s part of it, of course, but never forget that when someone says you have to keep faith with service mem-bers, it also means keeping faith with them to make sure they are the best-trained, best-led, best-equipped force on the face of the planet.”
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asked why people want to be so nice to us. It was an opportunity to tell them about Americans’ appre-ciation for the sacrifices of military families. All three boys were visibly proud to know that they are part of their dad’s service-to-country, too.
And then Ford said, “I think we should find someone to be nice to also.”
If the idea had not come from their own overflowing cup, I’m not sure the lesson would have stuck. (In February: Dinner with the Smileys hits the road to give back and help others.)
But there have been other intangible or almost imperceptible gifts as well: The min-ister’s talk about the importance of family.
The way his wife listened intently to the boys’ stories. The preschool teacher’s handwrit-ten, thoughtful note to Dustin. The Senator’s time. The mayor’s base-ball stories.
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There is nothing fancy or impressive about Dinner with the Smileys (well, except for that limo ride). Because it’s not about the food. Or the house. It’s about the opportunity to know each other better. And sometimes that can’t happen until one kid in a cloak has wielded his light saber against another kid in his Mario costume.
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USS Philip (DD-498) helped extinguish raging fires on board Gansevoort.
Then the ship was given the unusual assignment of extinguishing a fire on board the kamikaze-damaged aviation tender Porcupine. The ship was to fire her torpedoes at the ship in an attempt to bole off the flaming portion before fires reached stored aviation fuel.
But fire engulfed the Porcupine any-way and flames licked across the water endangering the Gansevoort.
Gansevoort was towed ashore, her quarters so gutted and damaged that her crew moved ashore leaving only a 20-man skeleton crew.
A month of unsuccessful attacks by marauding Japanese bombers did not buckle the ship which again put to sea in February 1945.
She was in Ulithi in April 1945 for fur-ther repairs and finally to San Francisco in May for final battle damage repairs.
She sailed for the East and was in New York for victory celebrations in October 1945.
On November, she sailed for Charleston, S.C. Naval Shipyard for inac-tivation overhaul.
She was decommissioned February 1, 1946 and entered the Atlantic Reserve Fleet and was berthed at Orange, Texas.
The USS Gansevoort received four battle stars for World War II.
MAINE | FROM PAGE 9
reports from the Kitsap County Sheriff ’s Office.
Eventually deputies released Pierson with no charges saying that he should pay for the rug he urinated on. The sailor was too drunk to book without a medical clear-ance, they said.
“She said she was very scared,” sheriff deputy Jennifer Rice said of Whitey.
Deputies responding to the 9-1-1 call made by Whitey’s son, who found Pierson still passed out in the senior Whitey’s bed. As they roused him, Pierson resisted slightly before being cuffed.
According to reports, as Pierson crawled into bed with Whitey, she screamed then asked him what he was doing.
“Passing out,” Pierson said.
He thought he was in his buddy’s house, Rice said. Authorities described the apartments as “mirror images” of each other.
Sometime during the incident, fellow sailor Shaun Cagle noticed that Pierson was gone and his apartment’s front door was open. Not finding him, Cagle said two other pals left to get more video game con-trollers, authorities said.
Deputies found a urine puddle in the room in which Whitey’s son, John Jaeger, slept. Jaeger was staying with his mother while his sister, who usually lives with their mother was away. He told deputies that he
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Deputy Lee Watson told Jaeger that it was not apparent that Pierson had committed a crime. Jaeger’s mother must be able to “articu-late a reasonable expec-tation of fear.”
“You can’t just shoot someone for coming into your house without having some reason to believe they are going to harm you or your fam-ily,” said Watson.
Whitey asked depu-ties to explain how they knew Pierson had no intention of doing her or her son harm. “[We] could have been killed,” she said.
Watson told Whitey that Pierson was drunk and made a mistake on which apartment he was in.
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BED | FROM PAGE 91
original size within the Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary in 2011.
“Olympic Coast was designated as a sanctu-ary and should be off limits,” Boyles said. She added that the increased frequency and intensity in the Navy’s training in that area since 2010 is “a big issue.”
Under the existing permit, the Navy relies on the visual identification of “watchstanders” who scout for marine mam-mals from the decks of boats with binoculars. If an animal is spotted, sonar or explosive exer-cises are stopped.
People for Puget Sound contend that visual detec-tion misses about 25 to95 percent of species
in the area especially in those exercises conducted at night or during bad weather. Their lawsuit demands that the per-mit language is changed so that the Navy has to stay out of “biologically sensitive” areas in Puget Sound and Hood Canal during certain times of the year.
“The lawsuit is about time and place restric-tions for the Navy, not to stop their operations,” said Boyles.
Trim said that the lawsuit is a “last resort” for Puget Sound environ-mentalists. She explained that the Navy received more than 50,000 pub-lic comments about the training activities and environmental impact in the region during the last two years with no direct response from either the Northwest command or
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“What I can say is that Navy has been training in the Northwest for almost a century, and with sonar for decades, in an envi-ronmentally responsible manner,” Murray said.
The U.S. District court in San Francisco will oversee the case. Earthjustice attorneys expect to have a court hearing by early fall of this year and hope to have the matter resolved by the end of 2012.
“There will be no penalty, just a change in requirements,” Boyles said. “The court will remand the federal agen-cy to do its job.”
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The battleship Maine had a short disastrous life that made her one of the most famous U.S. Navy ships in history.
Ultimately, a deadly yet unexplained explosion on board the ship in 1898 at anchor in Havana Harbor led the U.S. to declare war on Spain.
Maine, a second-class armored battleship, was built at New York Navy Yard and commissioned Sept. 17, 1895. The ship dis-placed 6,682 tons, drafted 21.5 feet, was 319 feet long with a top speed of 17 knots.
The lead ship of her class, 374 men were assigned on board. Big guns bolted to the battleship’s decks con-sisted of four, 10-inch, and six, 6-inch mounts, other smaller gun mounts along with four, 14-inch torpedo tubes.
Maine departed New York Navy Yard Nov. 5, 1895 for Newport R.I., for fit-ting out. Upon completion, Maine sailed for Portland, Maine, to visit its namesake. She put to sea for trials and inspection for two weeks and then was assigned to the North Atlantic Squadron sailing via Newport to Tompkinsville, N.Y., arriv-ing Dec. 23.
The ship sailed the next day for Fort Monroe Va., arriving on Christmas Day. Maine operated out of there and Newport News through June 1896. Maine sailed on June 4 for Key West on a two-month training cruise, returning to Norfolk, Va., Aug. 3. The ship continued extensive East Coast opera-tions until late 1897. Maine then prepared for a voyage to Havana, Cuba to show off the Stars and Stripes and to
protect American citizens in the event of violence from the Spanish struggle with the revolutionary forces in Cuba.
Maine stood out of Hampton Roads Dec. 11, bound for Key West, arriv-ing Dec. 15. It was joined by ships of the North Atlantic Squadron on maneuvers.
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On the evening of the 21st day at anchorage, the battlewagon was torn apart by a massive explosion that shattered the entire forward part of the ship. Out of the 350 officers and enlisted personnel on board the ship that night (four officers were ashore), 252 were dead or missing. During the next three days, eight more died of injuries at Havana hos-pitals.
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More than 12 years later, Congress authorized the raising of the Maine and directed Army engineers to supervise the work. A second board of inquiry appointed to inspect the wreck after it was raised, reported injuries to the ship’s bottom were cause by an external explosion of low magnitude that set off the forward magazine, completing the destruction of the ship. It has never been
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