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VOLUME 1, NO. 22 | 26 AUGUST 2011

THIS EDITION

Bremerton Medal of Honor winner honored ......pg. 3

Navy fails on spice deterance .............pg. 4

NBK could see bio fuels from national program ...pg. 5

USS Renshaw, sees action in three wars.........pg. 13

By TOM JAMEStjames@kitsapnavynews

Naval Base Kitsap has implemented no new training in response to orders from the Navy Surgeon General that all commands be fully engaged in preventing the abuse of spice, also known as synthetic marijuana, even though at least one Navy officer has called it a problem in the area.

The Surgeon General’s Aug. 2 instructions specified that all commands “Do everything

Local Navy does little to curb spice use

SEE SPICE | PAGE 8


“If you’re in the league,” a voice bellowed across the field, “get over here!”

So began the 2011 Navy touch football league pre-season Tuesday, as a quick huddle to explain the rules kicked off the first series of scrimmages in a three-evening jamboree this week.

Following the Jamboree, the season will begin next week, giving Navy personnel, families, and veterans the chance to play a favorite sport without the pads and helmets,

and without the potential injuries.“It stretches beyond the field,” said David

Sitarski, coach of Team Michigan. named for the USS Michigan, “you’re out there with your command so you are really just hanging out and having some fun with the guys you work with.”

While some teams chose to use the name of their vessels or commands, the lineup also includes teams with names like The Takers, Lou Blue Foo, The Illegal Motions, and The Secret Squirrels.

Daniel Dean, coach of another creatively named team – Swab ‘Em and Stick ‘Em, a team of medical personnel – explained the game succinctly. “Basically, it’s like regular football, but with flags.”

In the game, each player wears a belt from which three colored flags hang, and that attaches via velcro in front. Instead of tackling, players only have to grab an oppo-nent’s flag and tear the belt off to ‘down’

him or her. There’s the inevitable brush or bump, but throughout the scrimmage the referees could be heard reminding the play-ers that it was a no-contact sport.

The priority in the preseason, Dean said, is to take it easy, familiarize everybody with the rules, and make sure no one gets hurt.

“It’s good, friendly competition,” said Robert Rayon, coach of the HSB Heavy Hitters. “They really do a good job of keep-ing it friendly.”

“It’s one of the coolest things we’re allowed to do,” said Greg Hurst, who said that because of deployment schedules he often misses the opportunity to take part in other team sports. Hurst said he also played in South Carolina, where his team won its league’s championship.

The jamboree, said Hurst, “gives every-body plenty of time to just kind of check each other out, see who plays hard, see who

No Harm no foulA player on the NSSC Raindevils flag football team loses his flags Tuesday. In flag football, tearing the flags from another player is the equivalent of a tackle, stopping the play. TOM JAMES/STAFF PHOTO

Navy flag football league preseason

begins with jamboree

SEE FOOTBALL | PAGE 6

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Longtime Bremerton resident and Medal of honor recipient John “Bud” Hawk was honored Friday in a Joint Base Lewis McChord ceremony naming a new education center after him, in recognition of his ser-vice in World War II and of his long teaching career in Western Washington.

Steven Perrenot, director of pubic works at Joint Base Lewis-McChord and chairman of the memorialization board in charge of deciding to whom selected facilities at the installation are dedicated, said that the board wanted to find a local medal of honor recipient who was also involved in education in the area.

“We take naming very seri-ously,” said Gary Stedman, sec-retary of the same board. Even if a street or facility named by the board is demolished or decom-missioned, “We will take that name and put it on a building or street or something else to make sure that memorial is preserved.”

Stedman said Hawk’s teach-ing experience in the area was central to the board’s decision. After leaving the military, Hawk

took a teaching job at Tracyton Elementary in Bremerton, and continued working in education in the district for 31 years, teach-ing later at Brownsville before rising to principle.

The new facility, to be named the John “Bud” Hawk CMH Army Education Center, is locat-ed on the north portion of Joint Base Lewis-McChord, where it will provide a place for service members from nearby barracks to take classes and meet with rep-resentatives from local colleges. The facility includes eight class-rooms, a 165 seat auditorium, a computer center, and a student lounge.

Due to ill health, Hawk could not be present at the event, but was represented there by his daughter, Marilyn Harrelson, along with other members of his family. In a speech delivered before the official unveiling of the building’s plaque honor-ing Hawk, Harrelson said that although Hawk was proud of his service in the military, “Really, again and again he said, the thing he was most proud of was his years as a teacher.”

Harrelson also related another story, one that showed Hawk’s determined, dedicated side.

Before becoming a principle, Hawk had been working with the administration at a school he taught at to open a new classroom by removing a wall between two existing spaces. As the process dragged on, however, Hawk grew frustrated. Finally, she related, one weekend he sim-ply let himself into the building and tore the wall down himself. When the principle summoned him the following Monday, Hawk simply said, “well, I can’t say I wouldn’t do it again.”

“Mr Hawk’s story didn’t end in a combat zone or on a battlefield in World War II,” said Colonel Thomas Brittain in remarks at the event. “It actually took off from there. If you want to talk about heroes, you can talk about the thousands of students he worked with in the classroom.”

Hawk received the nation’s highest military honor for his actions on August 20, 1944 at the Falaise Gap in near Chambois, France. There, during an attack by Allied forces he manned a light machine gun, his fire forced the enemy infantry to withdraw, until an artillery shell struck his position, destroying his weapon and wounding him in the leg.

Hawk then secured a bazooka, and with another man stalked the enemy tanks, driving them back into a wooded section. A lull

in the fighting followed, during which time Hawk reassembled two machine gun squads, and directed the assembly of one working machine gun from two damaged units, even as enemy fire began again.

In the face of an enemy coun-terassault, Hawk retreated but continued directing fire from Allied tank destroyers. When a hill blocked there view of the enemy targets, Hawk climbed the hill, directly into the line of fire, and then ran back to the tank destroyers to communicate tar-geting information to them.

Hawk “was in large measure responsible,” according to litera-ture distributed at the event, for the success of the attack and the

capture of over 500 enemy pris-oners.

A video shown at the event featured a recent interview with Hawk. Filmed standing in a classroom, he said, “There are no winners in a war. What would you give for an answer if one of these little darlings, if they looked up at you and asked, ‘Mr Hawk, what’s it like to kill anoth-er human being?’”

“It’s not dedicated to me,” Hawk said of the Medal at his home, Wednesday. “It’s dedicated to service. I just happened to be one of the people who was not in the right place – I was in the wrong place – but it came out alright.”

Bremerton WW II Hero HonoredMedal of Honor recipient recognized with dedication of Ft Lewis building

Medal of Honor winner John “Bud” Hawk poses for a photo taken with a camera taken from a German soldier after a battle during World War II. An education center at Joint Base Lewis McChord was recently named in honor of Hawk and his life dedicated to teaching after the war. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO

Medal of Honor winner John “Bud” Hawk stands among the marker stones place at Mt Tahoma National Cemetery for those who fell during World War II. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO

Medal of Honor winner John “Bud” Hawk during the days of World War II. An education center at Joint Base Lewis McChord was recently named in honor of Hawk and his life dedicated to teaching after the war. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO

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Don’t read too much into the fact that we pitted a former drug dealer against the official Naval Base Kitsap response to our ques-tions about the local efforts in response to the U.S. Navy Surgeon General’s call for the entire chain of command to get involved with the education of Navy personnel on the dangers of using syn-thetic cannabis, knows also as Spice and K2.

Quite frankly, the former dealer was more approachable, hon-est and forthcoming than any Navy representative contacted for information or a response to questions regarding the local Navy response to the Surgeon Generals Aug. 2 request – at least with

regards to the local usage of spice, a largely undetectable marijuana-like high sought out by sailors aboard NBK and many of the local 64 tenant commands also aboard.

According to the one spokesperson in Navy Region Northwest that would answer any questions regarding the effect of spice usage on Navy discipline and order, the only training going on within local commands happens twice a decade and is a general class on drug and alcohol abuse. Spice is not a general drug and should not be treated as such.

Service members have long known how to beat drug testing on the classically abused, yet seemingly easily detectable, drugs such as cocaine, marijuana, LSD, amphetamines and opiates. But spice is sought out by sailors because it requires a different and more expensive test that the Navy is not likely to pay for when facing constant cuts and overall reduction of force size and personnel. Sailors know it.

Undoubtedly, NBK commander Capt. Pete Dawson has asked his subordinates to do something about spice usage and the nega-tive effects it currently has on order and discipline in his com-mand. The same thing can be reasonably assumed for the other commands as well.

Regarding informing the general tax-paying public and local sailors and their families, the Navy would have been better giving the press a more typical dog-and-pony-show response to our ques-tions. Continuing to say there is no problem and than none have been injured using the drug known as spice and that no special training is underway is simply fruitless.

If the Navy wants to reduce the usage of spice among their rates and paygrades, they are going to have to test for it and enforce the ban the old fashioned way – the UCMJ.

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GREGSKINNER For three years, I have dis-

appointed Mainers and non-Mainers alike. When you live in a place like Maine, espe-cially northern Maine, people want to know: Have you seen a moose? Have you seen Stephen King? And not necessarily in that order.

Until last week, I had not seen either. I was beginning to think that both were a creation of the Maine Tourism Department. Unlike our former home state, Florida, where alligators (the mascot, if you will) are as plentiful as the Love Bugs in September, northern Maine’s attractions are elusive and fabled to the point of frustration.

I finally conceded that Stephen King is indeed real after hearing too many accounts of people seeing him here and there. But the moose! Well, I had even convinced my children that there probably is no such thing, outside of the stuffed ones in every store at Bar Harbor.

Dustin said he saw a moose’s rear end while he was riding a snow mobile in the west-ern part of the state. Sure, I thought. A rear end. Could have been a horse or a deer. I saw friends’ moose antlers hanging like trophies on the walls of their basement, and I decided they were in on the scheme. Especially since one of those friends works for the state.

That same friend called me one day to tell me that a moose was on the loose in downtown Bangor. “Meet me at Tri City pizza,” he said, “and you will see it.” A few minutes later, he

called back. “Now the moose is in the Kenduskeag Stream. Oh, wait, now it’s behind the post office.” Really?

When I finally caught up to our friend, the moose was supposedly “already gone.” Of course.

I dreamed about the day when I would finally see a moose, if, of course, they

weren’t an imaginary ploy. I dragged my fam-ily north and west in search of the animals. I always imagined that the one I saw would be about 10 feet tall, standing in a beam of light on the top of a boulder, like the father deer in Bambi. Or, I envisioned seeing one rising up from the surface of a lake, water pouring down its antlers. I continued to hold out hope, even as my suspicions grew.

It seemed a moose was always just behind or in front, but always eluding us. If we left Mt. Katahdin at 3:00, someone saw a moose there at 3:10. If we were at Moosehead Lake on Sunday, someone had seen a moose there on Saturday. Once, I overheard my son telling a friend, “Moose aren’t real. They are just an advertising strategy for the state.”

I saw these huge yellow warning signs on the side of the road: Caution, Moose Crossing. For the first two years, I slowed down and my heart beat faster. I didn’t want to run into a moose on a dark highway. Our Realtor had told us that is

We saw a moose. Or did we?NAVY WISESARAHSMILEY

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Washington State is among those in consideration for a $510 million initiative aimed at spurring development of bio-fuels Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus said last Tuesday.

In April of 2010, the Navy set a goal of having half of its fuel – about 8 million barrels per year – come from alterna-tive sources by 2020. In addi-tion to funding the initiative, the Navy will be a customer for private companies receiving the funds.

Eli Zupnick, a spokesman for Senator Patty Murray said she “believes that Washington State, in general, and the Kitsap peninsula in particular, is well-positioned for these programs.” He said Murray will continue working on placement of the bio fuels proj-ect in the region generally.

The initiative aims to hasten development by the private

sector of advanced ‘drop-in’ fuels, or fuels that can replace existing fuels such as gasoline and aviation fuel without mod-ifications to distribution infra-structure or the engines con-suming the fuel. The funding will come equally from three agencies, the U.S. Departments of Energy and Agriculture and the Navy, and would need to be matched at least one-to-one by private companies receiving the funds.

“We want this biofuel indus-try to be geographically diverse across the United States,” said Mabus. “But the ability to deliver to navy bases — whether they’re in Norfolk, San Diego or Washington state — the ability to get the fuel there is something we’ll look at when we address the proposal.”

On a conference call with journalists and heads of the involved agencies, Mabus said that proximity to exist-ing Navy facilities would be a consideration in deciding

which firms or facilities would receive portions of the funds. Mabus specifically named Washington, along with two other areas with major naval installations, as areas of con-sideration for receiving the funds.

Local Navy officials did not respond to requests for com-ment on where in Washington

biofuels facilities would need to be positioned to be consid-ered favorably located in rela-tionship to Naval Base Kitsap.

Congressman Norm Dicks’ office did not return a call for comment on the issue.

Jared Leopold, a spokesman for Senator Maria Cantwell said that both imperium renewables, a Grays Harbor

company, and Targeted Growth, of Seattle, were dis-cussed as potential applicants for the funds, but that applica-tions are not yet available.

Leopold said he could not comment on whether Cantwell planned to advocate for a specific site or region in Washington.

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A T-45C Goshawk training aircraft assigned to the Salty Dogs of Air Test and Evaluation Squadron 23 con-ducts a test flight Aug, 24, 2011 110824-N-at PATUXENT RIVER, Md. using a biofuel blend of JP-5 jet fuel and plant-based camelina. U.S. NAVY PHOTO BY KELLY SCHINDLER

INDIAN ISLAND (NNS) – Sailors from Navy Region Northwest assisted local Native American tribes to seed three million manila clams along the beaches of Naval Magazine Indian

Island, Aug. 9-11.The seeding project is

part of a larger agreement between the Navy and the local Native American tribes in the Pacific Northwest to recognize the

tribes’ rights and satisfy the Navy’s mission require-ments while sharing shore-lines.

This particular project is a seeding mitigation effort related to the installation

of a port protection secu-rity barrier for the ships and submarines, said Bill Kalina, environmental site manager NAVMAG Indian Island.

“We entered into a 10-year memorandum agreement to seed their tribal beaches, so the money they lose from crab and shrimp is recuperated down here with clam,” said Kalina. “This is a beach that they would normally har-vest from for manila clams.”

The seeding process improves clam growth density, allowing the tribes to harvest heavier bags of clam.

“It’s like stocking a fish lake,” said Kalina. “You can go to fish a lake and you’ll catch a few fish. You stock

it and you can catch tons of fish.”

Six beaches on Indian Island have been labeled as tribal harvest beaches, allowing the tribes to seed and harvest those particular beaches every year of the agreement.

The tribes will “farm” more than an acre a year, checking on the clams every year until they’re ready to be harvested, which usually takes about three years, said Kalina.

“It’s like farming crops,” said Kalina. “You rotate your crops. It’s the same thing at the beach. This is actually shellfish aqua cul-ture.”

This year, the project started on Aug. 1. For three days, tribal members and Navy personnel staked out predator nets along the beach. Then on Aug. 9, they began seeding the protected areas.

“There are ducks and crab that like to come in and eat the baby clam, so these nets provide a higher rate of survival,” said Kalina.

The opening of Indian Island’s beaches allows tribes to harvest shellfish, such as the clams seeded this week, for the purpose of subsistence.

“It helps a lot because the tribal members harvest commercially for their existence and for ceremo-nies, so the more resources available for them is the extra income,” said Viviane Barry, shellfish program manager Suquamish Fisheries Department.

“It’s a tradition that’s been going on for thou-sands of years,” said Barry. “Tribes have been liv-ing off the tide lands in Washington State and it’s a

tradition that they want to continue.”

Indian Island has had a long-standing relation-ship with the local tribes. The installation has part-nered with the tribes for decades to mutually agree on policies and procedures to achieve both the Navy’s mission as well as preserve the tribes’ cultural tradi-tions and harvesting rights even before any federal requirement or mitigation were discussed, Kalina said.

“They’re water people and we’re a water mission agency, so we have that in common,” said Kalina. “We can keep the Navy running and supply the fleet with ordnance and weapon stor-age here, but we can also maintain the eco-system here and provide the tribes here harvest treaty rights.”

In 2003, the Navy established the Northwest Navy-Tribal Council, which provides a means for ongo-ing collaboration between the Navy and 24 feder-ally recognized tribes in Washington State, accord-ing to Kalina. The Navy and tribes share unique federal “usual and accus-tomed” shoreline rights in the Puget Sound area. Mitigation projects — like clam-seeding at Indian Island — help support these mutual interests within the Navy’s third-largest fleet concentration area.

“We want to be good neighbors. We work well with the tribes and we always have,” said Cmdr. Gary Martin, commanding officer NAVMAG Indian Island. “The Navy does a great job with all the tribes in Puget Sound. We just want to continue to have that good relationship.”

Seeding and harvesting manila clams on Indian Island may also provide additional environmental benefits to the surrounding community.

“One of the main goals of the tribes is to maintain the water quality were the water quality is good enough where you can have open harvest areas,” said Barry. “Second is to improve the water quality in areas where’s there’s pollution, or you can identify the pol-lution sources and correct them, so eventually you can open more beaches.”

The local tribes partici-pating in the project are the Suquamish from Poulsbo, Wash., the S’Klallam from Port Gamble, Wash., and Jamestown, Wash., along with the Lower Elwah Klallam from Port Angeles, Wash.

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outs for its own official flag football team, which will compete with the Army later in the year. That champion-ship, however, is different from the base league’s, and players have to try out for it seperately.

After the preseason, which lasts only a week, the league will divide evenly into two divisions. The top eight teams will then play a cham-pionship to end the season.

FOOTBALL | FROM PAGE 1

A referee explains the rules of flag football to players during a Naval Base Kitsap flag football league scrim-mage Tuesday. The league’s preseason runs through this week. TOM JAMES/STAFF PHOTO

Region’s sailors seed millions of manilas around Indian Island

By Jim GaramoneAmerican Forces Press

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WASHINGTON – China’s military is modernizing, but the Chinese govern-ment needs to be more forthcoming on why it needs these new capa-bilities, according to a Defense Department report delivered to Congress Wednesday.

Michael Schiffer, deputy assistant secretary of defense for East Asia, briefed Pentagon reporters on the report.

“The United States wel-comes a strong, prosperous and successful China that contributes to interna-tional rules and norms and enhances security and peace both in the Asia-Pacific region and around the globe,” Schiffer said.

The United States is working to engage China in economic, peacekeeping and humanitarian areas, among others, Schiffer said. A good military-to-military relationship is one part of that engagement, he added, noting that China

is working with the inter-national community, for example, to counter piracy off the coast of Somalia and in the Gulf of Aden. The Chinese military also has contributed to earthquake relief in Pakistan and played a role in delivering humanitarian aid to Haiti, he said.

“However,” he added, “the pace and scope of China’s sustained military investment have allowed China to pursue capa-bilities that we believe are potentially destabilizing to regional military balances, increase the risk of misun-derstanding and miscalcu-

lation, and may contribute to regional tensions and anxieties.”

The capabilities could pose a temptation for the Chinese government to use military force “to gain diplomatic advantage, advance its interests, or resolve … disputes in its favor,” Schiffer said. This danger, he told reporters, re-emphasizes the need for a sustained and reliable military-to-military dia-logue between the United States and China.

China’s army is on track to realize its goal of build-ing a modern, regionally focused military by 2020, the report says. But China’s ability to sustain military power at a distance today remains limited.

This may change shortly, Schiffer said. This month, China has conducted sea trials of a Kuznetsov-class aircraft carrier it purchased

from Ukraine and refur-bished.

“The aircraft carrier could become operationally available to China’s navy by the end of 2012, we assess, but without aircraft,” Schiffer said. “It will take a number of additional years for an air group to achieve the sort of minimal level of combat capability aboard the carrier that will be necessary for them to start to operate from the carrier itself.”

The Chinese continue to invest in submarines, and China’s navy is investing in new surface combatants designed for anti-surface and anti-air warfare, Schiffer said, and construc-tion of a major naval base on Hainan Island is com-plete. “And this base, we assess, is large enough to accommodate a mix of bal-listic missiles, submarines and large surface combat-

ants, including aircraft car-riers,” he added.

China is also investing in aircraft and missiles. In January, the Chinese air force flight-tested its next-generation fighter proto-type. The aircraft includes stealth attributes, advanced avionics and supercruise-capable engines, Schiffer said.

Space also is a focus of China’s military modern-ization, with a record 15

launches in 2010.While relations with

Taiwan and China have improved markedly in most areas, Schiffer said, the Chinese military still focuses on a cross-strait contingency. China also seems to be stressing mari-time territorial claims in the South China Sea – an area where roughly 50 percent of the world’s trade

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Lt. Terrance Polk fishes off the fantail of the guided-missile cruiser USS Anzio (CG 68) during a “steel beach picnic” last week. Anzio is assigned to Combined Task Force 151, a multi-national, mission-based task force established by the Combined Maritime Forces in January 2009, to conduct counter-piracy operations in the Red Sea, Gulf of Aden, Somali Basin and Arabian Sea. U.S. NAVY PHOTO BY MASS COMMUNICATION SPECIALIST 2ND CLASS BRIAN M. BROOKS.

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PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI (NNS) – The Continuing Promise 2011 mission team, embarked aboard USNS Comfort (T-AH 20), was scheduled to return to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Aug. 24 to resume medi-cal, dental, veterinary and engineering operations.

The ship weighed anchor and got underway the eve-ning of Aug. 21 in anticipa-tion of the then approach-ing Tropical Storm Irene, which has since grown into a hurricane. Comfort was directed by Commander, United States Naval Forces Southern Command (COMUSNAVSO) to

depart the area and seek safe haven until the storm had passed. Comfort waited as Hurricane Irene passed north of Haiti and then made her way back towards Haiti Aug. 23.

Haiti is the ninth and final stop of the CP11 deployment, a five-month humanitarian assistance mission providing medi-cal, dental, veterinary and engineering support to the Caribbean Basin and Central and South America.

Comfort initially arrived in Port-au-Prince Aug. 18 and treated approximately 1,450 patients and per-

formed 15 surgeries over two days of operations.

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in their power to increase awareness of the serious health consequences and legal ramifications” of use of the drug. The announce-ment came on the heels of the Navy’s July expulsion of 16 midshipmen from the Naval Academy for traffick-ing in the synthetic mari-juana.

Tom Danaher, a spokes-man for Naval Base Kitsap, said NBK personnel are subject to random urinaly-sis drug testing, as well as searches of their vehicles and personal quarters. Additionally, all enlisted personnel above E-5 must attend a one-and-a-half-day alcohol and drug abuse management seminar once every five years, while personnel rated E-4 and below must attend a similar half-day drug and alcohol prevention course.

The typical urinalysis tests Danaher mentioned do not detect spice, which requires more expensive testing instead, according to David Beck, medical direc-tor of Kitsap Mental Health, who has seen patients affect-ed by the drug.

Still, according to data provided by the Washington Poison Control Center and Harrison Medical Center, although use of the drug is unquestionably on the rise in the state as a whole, there is some question as to whether spice is popular in Kitsap.

While reports to poison control are on track to more than double from 2010 for the state as a whole, they have actually decreased in Kitsap in the same period. And Harrison spokesperson

Darcy Hine said that from anecdotal reports from the Hospital’s emergency room director, the drug is not something Harrison staff frequently see.

In May the Naval Medicine Center in San Diego – which serves a base similar to NBK in size – reported treating 15 patients in the preceding five months for medical issues relating to the use of spice. Some of the patients required months of inpa-tient treatment for persistent psychotic symptoms.

While Naval Hospital Bremerton spokesman Douglas Stutz did not return calls for comment, Danaher said that no medi-cal cases related to spice have been encountered aboard NBK.

According to Danaher, four sailors and five Marines have been subject-ed to unspecified disciplin-ary action resulting from use or possession of the drug, in the last year.

In a July 5 column in the Northwest Navigator, Commander Tony De Alicante of the Navy Judge Advocate General’s office said that spice “continue[s] to destroy careers and lives throughout Navy Region Northwest.”

The Navy and FDA have both banned the drug beginning with March 2010, but manufacturers have evaded the civilian ban, which lists specific chemical ingredients, by slightly alter-ing the chemical makeup of their products and labeling them as “incense” or “pot-pourri.”

Generally called syn-

thetic marijuana, but also known as Spice, or K2, the drug consists of chemicals sprayed onto dried plant matter, which users then smoke. Despite its label, synthetic marijuana is considered more powerful than marijuana, and users have reported symptoms including general psycho-sis, extreme paranoia, fear, anxiety, and dramatic mood swings.

James Rainey, a 19-year-old former Bremerton resident and roommate with a now deployed sailor, said he sold Spice around Bremerton for about six months. Rainey was arrest-ed last December after he was caught on video steal-ing case of spice and a case cigarillos from a Bremerton gas station.

Rainey described young sailors and Marines as his best customers. With no dependents, they get that money, that check every month, said Rainey. Often, he would go from house to house, selling to as many as thirty people – most of them military – in a day.

“They got nothing to spend it on, and they go crazy for [spice],” he said.

Even though the product is available in a legal form of incense, many of Rainey’s military customers did not want to be seen entering area smoke shops and seen purchasing the product. Rainey said he knew his customers were in the mili-tary because they would buy from him at informal gath-erings after work, and were often in uniform.

Some sailors specifically mentioned that they were buying the drug to replace marijuana habits detectable by urinalysis. Others, he said, “were so into it they’d smoke it on breaks.”

Rainey said sailors asked him for the product in a form they could use on base, or when they had to per-form overnight watch. To

accommodate them, Rainey would empty cigarettes or cigarillos of their tobacco, then re-pack them with spice, which is odorless.

Navy Surgeon General Vice Adm. Adam Robinson, Jr., also emphasized in his Aug. 4 announcement that commanding officers do not need a positive urinalysis to begin disciplinary proceed-ings.

Marketed originally as Spice’ or K2, the drug first appeared in 2000 as a “legal high.” Product materials at the time often described it as a mix of natural herbs, but later analysis found many of the products con-tained chemicals known as synthetic cannabinoids, including cannabicyclo-hexanol, JWH-018 and JWH-073.

At one area tobacco shop, a laminated copy of a letter signed by Naval Base Kitsap Commanding Officer Pete Dawson hung on the door last Thursday. Dated June 7, the letter explained the Navy prohibition of the products, including those sold legally, and threatened businesses that were report-

ed selling the products to military personnel with boycott.

“If a business is reported to sell any of the above sub-stances to military person-nel,” the letter stated, refer-ring to an earlier mention that included even products sold legally, “that business may be placed temporarily off-limits to military mem-bers for all purposes.”

Joey Wesner, who until earlier this year owned a market in Seabeck, said that she had received simi-lar letters during her two years in operation, some of which included mention of the possibility of sting-type operations to identify businesses selling to Navy personnel.

In addition to the Navy and FDA bans of 2010, vari-ous states enacted their own bans throughout that year as well, including Washington, which passed an emergency ban Dec. 30.

Currently, all the bans list the exact chemical makeup of the substances they pro-hibit, meaning that manu-facturers need only modify a product’s makeup slightly to escape the law.

Donn Moyer, a spokes-man for the Washington State Department of Health, said he didn’t know of any plan for a new type of more generic ban on the drug.

“Its clearly going to be a continuing issue,” said Moyers, “as long as it’s going to require a specific chemi-cal makeup, makers are going to find ways around it.”

Today the product is readily available at pipe and tobacco shops in Bremerton. One store displayed 24 dif-ferent brands Thursday, packaged in rounds tins, foil bags, and plastic boxes. The products had names like

GI Joe, Gi Jane, Spice Extra Strength, and Cloud 49 and ranged in price from $17.99 to $45.99.

Each package was clearly labeled “Not for human consumption.” One brand, labeled Monkey Funky, car-ried an additional label that read, “Lab certified. Does not contain JWHO-18, 73, 200, CP47, 497, or any pro-hibited ingredients.”

Although the drug first appeared nationally several years ago, said Jim Williams of the Washington Poison Control Center, the first medical case reported to the center involving the drug in Washington State was not until 2010. In that year, the center recorded 80 calls related to the drug, said spokesman Jim Williams. In the first seven months of 2011 the center tracked 95, a 238 percent increase over the year before.

Beck, of Kitsap Mental Health, said that the effects of synthetic drugs can be severe. Within the last six months, Beck said, he had seen at least one patient put into a state of unremitting psychosis from which he or she did not recover.

Beck said his staff has difficulty gauging how widespread the use of any synthetic drug really is, because reports are usually anecdotal. And, since many recreational drug users take more than one drug at a time, he said, “It’s really hard to know in a lot of cases what … an individual may have consumed.”

The difficulties of distin-guishing what a user may have taken aside, Beck said the facility had definitely seen an increase over the last year in cases of drug-induced psychosis and behavioral destabilization.

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Ships will make final preparations overnight in anticipation of getting underway early Aug. 25.

The setting of Sortie Condition Alpha does not mean the actual sor-tie is inevitable.

Should overnight weather forecasts indicate a decrease in the strength or change in the track of the storm, the sortie condition may be downgraded.

Vice Adm. Daniel Holloway, commander, U.S. 2nd Fleet, said that the decision to sortie the ships from Hampton Roads is based on Hurricane Irene’s current track that indicates the storm will produce at least 50 knots of wind and a five to seven foot storm surge, which meets the criteria for getting the fleet underway to avoid storm damage.

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KEYPORT, WASH. (NNS) – The Trident ballistic missile submarine USS Kentucky (SSBN 737) prepared for its upcoming refueling overhaul by com-bining its Blue and Gold crews during a change-of-command ceremony at the Keyport Undersea Museum, Aug. 12.

Cmdr. Joseph Nosse, Gold Crew commanding officer, assumed full com-mand of Kentucky’s com-bined “Green Crew” from Cmdr. Eduardo Fernandez, who had led Kentucky’s Blue Crew since March 2009.

“I will miss seeing the boat and the crew the most - I really love having those two elements in my life,” Fernandez said. “There are few Americans in the mili-tary, and fewer in the Navy, and even fewer on subma-rines. I had the greatest privilege of commanding a submarine and I will miss it every day.”

Nosse and his Gold Crew returned, Aug. 8 after completing a 95-day strategic deterrent patrol, as well as embarking nearly 200 midshipmen for Career Orientation and Training for Midshipmen and Professional Training of Midshipmen.

Soon, Kentucky will prepare for its trip to Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility in Bremerton, where it will begin a two-year engineered refueling

overhaul. The overhaul, which will include a refuel-ing of the submarine’s reac-tor, is expected to extend Kentucky’s service for 20 more years.

“The mission that we are assigned over the next 2 1/2 years isn’t very glamorous, and we won’t be getting many medals for our effort, but it is no less important than what the SSBNs on the front lines are doing right now,” said Nosse. “The effort and work we put in today

will ensure that Kentucky remains a credible deter-rent to those who desire to harm this great nation.”

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BREMERTON, WASH. (NNS) – Trident-class bal-listic missile submarine USS Pennsylvania (SSBN 735) completed a major step in its 27-month, engi-neered refueling overhaul when it departed Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility Aug. 5.

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The third destroyer named USS Renshaw (DD-499) honors a family of Union Civil War naval officers.

The ship displaced 2,940 tons, was 376 feet long and had a draft of nearly 18 feet. The ship carried its crew of 329 men swiftly over the world’s oceans at 35 knots. It was armed with: five, 5-inch guns; four, 40mm guns; eight, 20mm guns, and 10, 21-inch tor-pedo tubes. The Fletcher-

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On the last day of 1944, Renshaw sailed with a transport formation to the Lingayen Guld and despite heavy enemy air attacks during the trip through the Sulu and South China Seas, the powerful invasion force reached its destination without serious damage.

While in the Mindanao Sea in February 1945, an enemy submarine torpe-doed the Renshaw. The torpedo exploded on con-tact about ten feet below the waterline, f looding firerooms. The ship lost all power, a large section of the hull was warped by the explosion, and bulkheads and decks were fractured.

Unfortunately, 19 men died with another 20 injured. Damage control, however, kept the ship afloat and propulsion was never lost.

Temporary repairs were made and the destroyer sailed for Todd Pacific Shipyards, Inc., Tacoma, Wash., where permanent repairs were completed in early October 1945.

USS Renshaw was then the platform on Oct. 27, 1945 for President Harry Truman when he reviewed the greatest vic-tory parade in naval his-tory in New York harbor.

Renshaw was decom-missioned in February 1947 and placed in the Atlantic Fleet reserve force.

In 1949-50, she was converted to a special ASW vessel and recom-missioned in June 1950 as DDE-499.

Renshaw had two tours of duty in the Far East during the Korean War, first from May to November of 1951, then from November 1952 to June 1953, when she was an escort, patrol, search and rescue, and bombard-ment vessel.

During a sail to the Far East in summer 1954, Renshaw rescued a British airman from the sea while acting as plane guard for the carrier HMMS Warrior.

Renshaw sailed for her fourth tour in the Far East on Aug. 8, 1955, doing hunter-killer exercises and task force operations. She subsequently made four additional Far Eastern deployments out of Pearl Harbor from 1956 to 1960.

On Dec. 17, 1961, she recovered the nose-cone of Discoverer 36 as part of the nation’s then-fledgling space program.

On Oct. 3, 1962, Renshaw participated In the recovery of a Project Mercury spacecraft f lown by astronaut and Navy Cmdr. Walter Schirra.

In March, 1965, Renshaw sailed to the South China Sea. In June she was on Taiwan patrol, returning to Vietnamese waters in July, where she remained until September before steaming via Japan for Pearl Harbor.

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also has demonstrated in recent years the capability to conduct limited peace-time deployments of mod-ern forces outside Asia.

“This includes multiple counterpiracy deployments to the Gulf of Aden and increasing participation in international humanitar-ian and disaster … relief efforts,” Schiffer said. “Investments in large amphibious ships, a new hospital ship, long-range transport aircraft and improved logistics have made these sorts of mis-sions a practical reality.” These peacetime operations provide China’s military with a valuable operational experience and also serve

the government’s diplomat-ic objectives, he added.

The modernization shows no sign of slow-ing, the report says, as the Chinese military received a 12.7 percent budget increase this year. The report acknowledges the difficulty in figuring how much China spends on its military, but estimates it at around $165 billion. “That continues more than two decades of sustained budgetary growth,” Schiffer told reporters.

The Chinese have made some incremental improve-ments in transparency in recent years, he said, but a number of uncertainties

remain.“We will continue, and

we do continue, to encour-age China to improve transparency and open-ness, to act in ways that support and strengthen common political, econom-ic and diplomatic interests of the region and of the international community,” Schiffer said.

In the past, the Chinese have objected to the release of the report. Schiffer said he hopes the Chinese gov-ernment and military will look at it differently this year.

“The report can best be read not simply as a piece of analysis, but really as the

sets of questions and issues that we would like to be able to engage in dialogue and discus-sion with our Chinese counterparts about,” he said. “These are the questions and the issues that we think that it’s important for us to be able to understand.

“We know our Chinese friends have questions for and about us,” he continued, “and that’s the sort of dia-logue and discussion that we welcome and that we think contrib-utes to regional and global security and sta-bility.”

CHINA | FROM PAGE 7

Logistics Specialist Seaman Rachel Foster wraps cargo nets on the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) Monday during a vertical replenishment. The John C. Stennis Carrier Strike Group is on a scheduled deployment to the western Pacific Ocean and the Arabian Gulf. U.S. NAVY PHOTO BY MASS COMMUNICATION SPECIALIST 3RD CLASS BENJAMIN CROSSLEY

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MONTEREY, CALIF. (AFPS) – Citing the myriad threats facing the United States, Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta Wednesday said that one of the biggest challenges to U.S. national defense is the so-called “doomsday mechanism” that will trigger across-the-board budget cuts if Congress doesn’t make the decisions necessary to avert it.

Speaking to a standing-room-only audience at the Navy Postgraduate School’s King Hall here, Panetta told the students and faculty the across-the-board reductions

could take another $500 bil-lion to $600 billion from the defense budget over 10 years.

“It will be devastating to the defense budget,” result-ing in a hollowed out force, weakened defenses and an inability to meet U.S. alli-ance obligations, he said. “It will break faith with troops and their families,” he said, adding that is a breach the United States must never allow.

“This is a moment when the leadership of our country is going to be tested” more than ever before, the secre-tary said.

Panetta said he firmly believes that the United States doesn’t have to choose between fiscal responsibility and national defense. “Both can be accomplished,” he said, “with smart, albeit dif-ficult, and courageous deci-sion making.”

“We have an opportunity to do this in a way that pro-tects our national defense,” Panetta said, ensuring agile, deployable forces without breaking faith with service members and families.

“The opportunity is there” for the department to iden-tify and institute its own cost reductions “in a way that makes us better,” he said, and preserves what he called the strongest military force in history.

Allowing that force and those capabilities to wane, isn’t an option, Panetta said. The country “is at a point in time where we can’t afford to weaken our national defense,” he said.

Panetta said he spends every day looking at the myriad challenges facing the nation from many different directions.

Approaching the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, al Qaida’s leader-ship has been weakened,

along with its ability to plan attacks against the United States, the secretary said. But al Qaida “is still a threat,” he said, recognizing the grow-ing influence in places like Yemen, Somalia, and North Africa.

“We must never stop” pursuing terrorists until they have “no place to hide and… represent no threat to this country,” Panetta said. “We should never give up until we have defeated their intent to attack this country”

As the United States draws down forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, Panetta said it must be done in a way that ensures stability and security, and builds on the many sacrifices of those who served there.

Meanwhile, Panetta cited threats from rogue nations such as Iran and North Korea as they attempt to develop nuclear weapons capabilities. “We must attempt to do everything we can” to make sure these threats don’t destabilize their region and beyond, he said.

Panetta also pointed to what he called “the battle-field of the future” of cyber attacks that threaten not only U.S. military systems, but power grids and the

economy.“We are the target of hun-

dreds of thousands of attacks every day,” the secretary said, noting they are becom-ing increasingly technologi-cally advanced. “The ability to paralyze this country is very real,” he said.

These and other threats demand that the United States be able to project its military force and ensure that potential enemies understand that “we are a force to be reckoned with,”

he said.Maintaining that capabil-

ity is a partnership, Panetta told the students and faculty. “Your fight is to get out there and continue to do your duty and serve your country,” he said. “My duty is to fight to make sure you have every-thing you need to do your job.”

The visit was Panetta’s first to the school since tak-ing office July 1, although he is a familiar figure here in the town he calls home.

Panetta warns of ‘Doomsday’

More cuts could remove half trillion from defense budget

Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta responds to a question from an audience member at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, Calif., Aug. 23, 2011. Panetta also addressed students at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center during his visit. DOD PHOTO BY U.S. AIR FORCE TECH. SGT. JACOB N. BAILEY

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