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VOLUME 1, NO. 28 | 7 OCTOBER 2011

THIS EDITION

Extreme cooking tips for region’s cooks ........pg. 2

Nimitz sailors stay sharp in dry dock .................pg. 3

Levy is not ploy to dangle vets before voters. .pg. 4

Destroyer Patterson always close to frontines pg. 13

By Tom Jamestjames@kitsapnavynews.com

Veteran enrollment is up for the second straight year at Olympic College, and more vets than ever are putting the school’s new Veterans and Military Support Center to good use.

Veteran enrollment booming at O.C.

SEE ENROLLMENT | PAGE 7

By Tom Jamestjames@kitsapnavynews.com

Not every vessel has one. Being attached to one actually means a sailor stays home while their ship goes to sea. Chances are, that sailor earned it.

Welcome to Beach Detachment.“It’s a chance for them to get focused

again on Navy operations,” said Jonas Carter, senior chief in charge of the USS John C. Stennis beach detachment.

“[It’s] not ground-pounding, not prison camps,” he said.

Known as “Beach Det,” the goal of the Stennis beach detachment is to keep track of and put to use sailors that are left behind when the ship deploys, said Carter. That group includes sailors returning from “Individual Augmentations” - tours with the other armed services in places like Iraq

and Afghanistan.After those deployments, which can last

twelve months or more, Carter said, sailors get up to one year of non-operational time, or “dwell time.” During that time, he said, the sailors are still active duty, but they don’t deploy with their ship, Carter said. Instead they stay behind for some well-earned time in port, with their families.

“It’s because of the types of exposure, like [being a] prison guard,” said Petty Officer James Mercer, who came to the beach after a tour as a prison guard at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

“You’re standing guard 12 hours a day on guys who want to kill you,” he said.

Part of a sailor’s dwell time, Carter said, is spent doing the day-in, day-out of military life - physical training, on-the-job training, paperwork and clean-up. A second component, however, makes Beach Det unique: volunteering.

In addition to his regular duties, Mercer coordinates with non-military programs around the region that need volunteers.

Recently sailors from the group set up the New Life Church’s Festival of giving at Cheney Stadium.

Sailors also regularly help move senior citizens around the county into assisted living, Mercer said, and part of their offi-

cial duty is moving furniture and install-ing heavy appliances for spouses of sailors deployed on their ship.

Helping out isn’t required. Instead, after coordinating with an organization Mercer makes a morning request for volunteers.

“It is not forced that they do this,” said Carter. “But more times than not we have more volunteers than we need.”

Since the Stennis’ July departure, Carter said, Beach Det has put in more than 13,000 hours, all volunteer and all on local projects.

Tuesday found nine of those beach detachment sailors working at a housing complex under construction by Kitsap County Habitat for Humanity.

Nathan Jeffries, an aviation electrician who stayed behind to be with a sick family member, was busy installing a shed door.

“In the Navy you usually work on a very small part of a big picture,” said Jeffries, adding that he spends most of his time working with tiny electronic components. “Out here when you’re working with your hands, you can actually see what you’ve done. It gives you a really good sense of accomplishment.”

Even in his situation, though, Jeffries

On the beachBilly Rhea, Nick Bowlin, and Michael Tamburri work to construct a french drain at a Habitat for Humanity house Oct. 4, 2011. The trio are staying behind while the John C. Stennis deploys to the Middle East. TOM JAMES/STAFF PHOTO

Stennis detachment helps at home

with 13,000 volunteer-hours

SEE BEACH | PAGE 7

New vet center seen as valuable resource

NAVY NORTHWEST (NNS) – Culinary Specialists from around Navy Region Northwest participated in various culi-nary training exercises with the recent winner of the Food Network series “Extreme Chef,” at the Trident Inn on Naval Base Kitsap, Bangor, Sept. 22.

Chef Amadeus, a former Navy culinary specialist, is participating in the Navy’s Adopt-a-Chef program to help give back to the military.

Culinary Specialist 2nd Class Travis Rhinehart, galley watch captain of Trident Inn at NBK Bangor, considered the chance to work with the chef a privi-lege.

“It’s not every day that a professional chef can come out and teach us their skills,” said Rhinehart. “It’s things like this that keep a level of excitement in our job, and I consider it a treat.”

Amadeus taught the chefs different techniques to add complex f lavors to their food while staying within the stan-dards of the Armed Forces Recipe Card.

“I’ve taught them different types of techniques such as f lavor profiling, different spices and different f lavors that they can put into their recipes while staying inside the recipe card,” said Amadeus. “Teaching and giving back to the Navy cooks, I want them to experience everything that cooking has to offer.”

Culinary Specialist 2nd Class Kevin Duncan, assigned

to Naval Air Station Whidbey Island galley, appreciated the opportunity.

“Learning techniques such

as f lavor profiling gives me a chance to make the food bet-ter, have a richer f lavor while staying inside the basic recipe,”

said Duncan.“It’s a great experience to do

something basic while thinking outside of the box.”

Amadeus offered some prac-tical advice for Sailors.

“I would tell them to enjoy traveling the world. When you

get to those new ports, go out and try the food.”

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Chef Amadeus, a private chef and a winning contestant on the Food Network television program “Extreme Chef,” demonstrates food presentation techniques for culinary specialists from Navy Region Northwest at the Naval Base Kitsap, Bangor galley last month. Amadeus visited the galley to provide training to local Sailors and to cater a meal for several Navy and civilian personnel. U.S. NAVY PHOTO BY SEAMAN CHRIS D. BARTLETT

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SUBIC BAY, REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES (NNS) -- The Ohio-class guided-missile sub-marine USS Ohio (SSGN 726) arrived in Subic Bay Oct. 1 for a visit as part of its deployment to the Western Pacific.

With a crew of approximately 160, Ohio will conduct a multitude of missions and showcase the latest capabilities of the subma-rine fleet.

“The Officers and Crew of Ohio are extremely excited to visit one of our oldest and most steadfast allies in the region,” said Capt. Brian N. Humm, Ohio Blue crew’s commanding officer. “The Philippines and the U.S. Navy enjoy a long and rich his-tory together, and many of our very best sailors can claim heritage from this great island nation. My crew is extremely excited to experience the people and culture of the Philippines, and they are looking forward to some well deserved time off.”

Measuring 560 feet long and displacing more than 18,000 tons of water when sub-merged, Ohio is one of the largest and most versatile submarines in the world. Ohio is capable of supporting a vast multitude of missions, including anti-submarine warfare, anti-surface ship warfare, tomahawk strike, naval special warfare involving special opera-tions forces, and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance. Ohio is equipped with advanced sonar, fire control, and weapons systems and state-of-the-art sound silencing equipment allowing it to conduct its missions while remaining completely undetected.

“The crew has been working very hard

this past year,” said CMDCM(SS) James G. Miller. During our current deployment, we have excelled in every assigned mission to include a coordinated multinational Special Forces insertion training exercise. This will be our first port visit in two deployments, and it gives our dedicated sailors some well-deserved liberty.”

For many of the crew members, this is their first time visiting the Philippines.

“I am looking forward to the time off in the Philippines,” said Machinist’s Mate 3rd Class Christopher D. Christian. “All I have heard are good things, and I am very excited to see what is in store.”

Commissioned in 1981 as SSBN-726, Ohio was once the lead boat of the Ohio-class bal-listic missile submarine. From 2002 to 2005, Ohio underwent an extensive refuel and over-haul where it was converted from a ballistic missile submarine into a guided missile sub-marine. Ohio was re-commissioned in 2005 as SSGN-726. Equipped with dual drydock shelters, Ohio is uniquely capable of support-ing extensive naval special warfare operations. Ohio is armed with up to 154 tomahawk cruise missiles, far more than any other sub-marine or surface warship, and can launch its entire payload in a matter of hours while remaining submerged.

Ohio is homeported at Naval Base Kitsap in Bangor, Wash. but remains forward deployed out of Apra Harbor, Guam, for most of its 16-month operational cycle. Ohio is manned by two separate crews (Blue and Gold) who alternate every four months.

Ohio stops in Subuc Bay during deployment

Sailors assigned to the guided-missile submarine USS Ohio (SSGN 726) moor the sub-marine in preparation for its voyage repair and crew swap period. Ohio is assigned to Submarine Squadron (SUBRON) 15 and is the U.S Navy’s only forward deployed subma-rine squadron, providing maintenance, training, logistics and administration support for the submarines assigned to the U.S. 7th Fleet. U.S. NAVY PHOTO BY MASS COMMUNICATION SPECIALIST 1ST CLASS WILLIAM TONACCHIO

BREMERTON (NNS) – The aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68) con-ducted a general quarters (GQ) drill early Sept. 23 while in dry dock as part of a shift from a mainte-nance-centric focus to an emphasis on operational readiness.

“We’re at the impor-tant phase of transition-ing from maintenance production to getting ready for our operational mission during our 2012 deployment,” said Nimitz Executive Officer Capt. Mike Donnelly. “That’s a step-by-step approach that we need to begin now. By deploy-ment, we need to be fully mission capable, and by December, we need to be fully capable to support casualties underway.”

Donnelly said Nimitz was in the early stages of mastering GQ, since as many as 1,000 new per-sonnel have come aboard since the ship entered dry dock in December 2010.

The purpose of the drill was to educate new personnel, refresh the proficiency of the veter-ans and ensure equip-ment worked properly.

“We have to dress out in four minutes or less,” said Aviation Boatswain’s Mate (Handling) Airman Esther Gootee. “We have to put on the pants, rub-ber boots and jacket and make sure we have all of the proper equipment.”

During GQ, many divisions and repair lockers conducted indi-vidual training sessions. Damage Controlman 3rd Class Martin Whitaker held training for bound-arymen.

“We focus on control-ling and preventing the spread of the damage,” he said. “The Sailors I taught received the train-ing well. Participation is key, and the more you participate, the better the training is.”

As the training pressed on, Aviation Boatswain’s Mate (Handling) Airman Daniel B. Bymer-Schultz and Aviation Boatswain’s Mate (Handling) Airman Walter Zaldaña from air department’s V-3 divi-sion simulated overhaul-ing an aircraft fire.

“It was pretty much refresher training,” said Bymer-Schultz. “We did pretty well for not doing it for over a year. It all

came back pretty easily and we received great training from senior per-sonnel.”

Even up until the drill was secured, V-3 divi-sion continued to press on with their training. Aviation Boatswain’s Mate (Handling) 1st Class Anthony Fripp, the division’s leading petty officer instructed the hose team on how to properly extinguish an aircraft fire.

“It was rough, but they’re coming along,” he said. “We have a lot of new guys, so we have to train harder and more extensively.”

Fripp said this amount of training was necessary in preparation for getting underway again.

“The aspect of the drill I was most impressed with was the enthusiasm towards the safety of the crew and the ship,” said Donnelly “We were able to accomplish all of the objectives, which is vital-ly important as we move towards more complex scenarios. We got good data points of where we are and where we need to go in terms of qualifica-tions.”

Nimitz crew stays sharp while in dry dock

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There are all sorts of issues with the opposition argument against the Kitsap County Veterans and Human Services Levy that will appear on the November ballot. It’s an argu-ment rich with conspiracy and fear mongering.

Chief among the falsehoods is that homeless or disadvan-taged veterans, to be served with an equal number of non-veteran poor, by the levy, are being used as political pawns and thrown before the voting public as a marketing tool in favor of Proposition 1.

“...’veterans’ and ‘military families’ are not ‘victims.’ They cannot be exploited by politicians for personal benefit,” Jack

Hamilton, chairperson, Committee Against the Measure argued in his written opposition that will appear on the ballot. Hamilton’s idea comes from thin air. One actual fact on the mat-ter is that the Kitsap County Veterans Advisory Board last spring decided to look down their budgetary road and saw veteran needs passing incoming resources. The veterans then decided to pursue the levy.

It’s also true that Hamilton was not in the room when that critical decision was made.

Before taking the levy idea to the county for approval, the vet advisory

board identified a clear advantage in joining forces with the Kitsap Continuum of Care Coalition. Four years into a failed economy, the board voiced clear knowledge that attempting to sell any tax increase, in this case a real estate tax of $.05 per $1,000 in value, would be a tough prospect and made a tactical choice to better the veterans’ own chances of see-ing additional funds to help the growing number of veterans while also opening that same helping hand to non-veterans trying to find a living in Kitsap County.

The second troubling point of the misguided opposition argument is that the $9 million that the levy is estimated to generate during its six year lifespan would be used by the Board of County Commissioners in effort to close general budget shortfalls as they struggle to balance the budget for a fourth year in the Great Recession.

It’s true that the BOCC legally took and estimated $316,000 from the proceeds of the current veteran’s levy, which is required by state law, to balance their beleaguered 2010 bud-get.

Vets aren’t decoys

Looking for letters... We encourage letters from the community. Please do not exceed 300 words and we ask that you include your full name and phone number for verification. Letters may be edited for publication. Fax: (360) 308-9363; email: gskinner@kitsap-navynews.com or mail to Editor, Kitsap Navy News, 3888 NW Randall Way, Suite 100, Silverdale WA, 98383.

GREGSKINNER The true meaning of “you

can’t please everyone” can’t be fully understood until you write something. And then publish it.

I gave up pleasing everyone when my first column was published 10 years ago. “You’ll always make 50-percent of your readers angry,” my first editor said.

He appeared to be correct.However, I revisited the idea (“Maybe you

can please some of the people all of the time?”) when my second child was born. I mean, really, how can an infant complain if you wear him against your chest from morning to night and feed him every two hours?

I finally abandoned any of these crowd-pleasing fantasies for good after becoming the mother to three boys. It’s hard to split a cookie, much less a mother, three ways. Sometimes, in fact, I feel like I’m playing Whack-a-Mole: as soon as one child is fed and happy, a voice from the other room says,”Moooooooom?”

Someone should have warned me sooner: You can’t please everyone. You can’t even please some of them. And for no amount of time.

A few years ago, I wrote a column about impatient drivers. I was reading James Kunstler’s “Geography of Nowhere” and felt a recurring urge to blame automobiles for all of society’s problems. In particular, I was mad at the drivers going 20 mph over the speed limit down our residential street. What’s the

big hurry? I asked. And I described how my children sometimes had to ride their bikes up onto the grass to avoid getting hit.

They weren’t riding their bikes on the interstate, but often it felt that way.

I anticipated support for the column. Who could be against children playing out-

side in a neighborhood where the speed limit is 25 mph?

Answer: lots of people.Online message boards were abuzz: Sarah

Smiley lets her kids play outside. In the street. In traffic.

I was pegged as a neglectful mother. Someone even threatened to call Child Protective Services.

So I wrote a follow-up column and asked: How, in just one generation, have we become a society in which “good parenting” does not mean shooing your kids outdoors to play with the neighborhood kids but rather keeping them locked inside with a television and video games?

When I was a kid, a “good parent” limited the amount of time her children spent playing Atari. A “good parent” made her children go outside.

Now, I was being persecuted for it.That storm blew over just in time for a new

You can’t please all readers...NAVY WISESARAHSMILEY

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I am U.S. Navy. I retired with 22 years active service, and a Vietnam Veteran with four shipboard deploy-ments to Vietnamese waters – also known as the combat zone.

During the 1960s and 1970s Agent Orange (Dioxin) was used in Vietnam as a defoliate. Approximately 21,000,000 gallons were sprayed. Presumptive Exposure to Dioxin may have caused a variety of illnesses to those serving in the Armed Forces in Vietnam. Some Land, Air and Sea service members, better known as hav-ing boots-on-ground, were infected by suspect elements of Agent Orange and in some cases receive Veteran Administration compensation for their disability.

For most Navy veterans and airmen, not ever having put boots-on-ground, who served onboard Naval ships within the coastal waters, Vietnam combat zones are known as “blue water sailors” are not eligible for VA compensation.

Naval ships all over the world turn sea water into fresh water. It is pre-sumed that Dioxin contaminated that same fresh drinking water.

Our government and the VA are in denial of this sea water as Presumptive Exposure to Dioxin contamination that can and has infected blue water sailors and airmen.

Anyone who has served onboard a ship during the Vietnam war, in the combat zone during the aforemen-tioned time, and has had or has an ill-ness listed by the VA, take note. If these service members have made claim to the VA and were denied compensation because they were blue water sailors and airmen, never having boots-on-ground, are urged to write their respec-tive members of congress and senate and ask why we are not recognized.

Presently there is a House Bill (HR-812), the Agent Orange Equality Act. This bill is pending by the Veterans

Affairs Congressional Committee.

The bill was intro-duced Feb. 18, 2011. To date, no action has been taken.

More than 21,000,000 gallons of Agent Orange was sprayed in Vietnam to defoliate crops, to lessen the food supply

and to thin out foliage.

Agent Orange became airborne, car-ried by wind out to sea. It was also in the rivers that f lowed into the sea. In retrospect, many American lives were saved by this operation, better known as “Operation Ranch Hand.” However, unbeknown by service members on Land, Air and Sea, this deadly chemical would one day be presumed to cause several health problems by Presumptive Exposure. Some illnesses are, but not limited to: Multiple Myeloma, Lymphoma, Prostate Cancer, Type 2 Diabetes, Respiratory Cancer, Soft Tissue Sarcoma and Spina Bifida.

Years later, in the aftermath, lives are now at risk and some have been taken due to Presumptive Exposure.

We Veterans, blue water sailors onboard Naval ships and all branches of service deserve equality, bar none.

We served with pride and honor, not questioning our jobs in time of war.

We ask the American public to join the fight and write to your members of Congress and Senate. Urge our elected officials to do what is right for the long-forgotten Vietnam Veterans.

We need House Bill (HR-812), the Agent Orange Equality Act for swift action with strong approval by the Veterans Affairs Congressional Committee.

This bill must be sent to the House f loor for recommended approval.

We veterans who never put boots-on-ground with Presumptive Exposure to Agent Orange need your help.

We want equal compensation for our military service related disability.

Agent Orange can be deadlyGUEST COLUMNJOHN J. BURYU.S. NAVY (RET), VIETNAM VETERAN

No on Prop 1Proposition 1 (Veterans and

Homeless levy) is perhaps the worst funding request ever put to Kitsap voters. The proposal does not replace existing funding but is in addition to monies already allocated. There is no defined use for the funds. Instead, the initial actions under the levy will be to “review” how the funds might be spent and to then prepare two “oper-ating” plans. The levy will also pay for a study to determine how to extend the tax after the initial six years. In addition, the proposal would circum-vent existing law regarding exactly who qualifies as a veteran.

This proposal is little more than a “give us your money and we will figure out how to spend it” scheme. If your children asked you for money, using the same logic as this proposal, you would refuse them. In the past, we have defeated numerous school levies that did not properly identify, in some detail, how the funds would be used. Why would the commissioners think we would react any differently to this proposal? Perhaps they thought using “veterans” as victims was a way to draw more of our money into the gen-eral fund. Nice try, but no thanks.

Jack HamiltonSilverdale

Against Prop 1I do not support passage of

Proposition 1, aid to Veterans and Homeless. Why not? I am a veteran of Korea and Viet Nam Wars, but I do

not like to have veterans considered victims or used by our commission-ers to achieve another purpose. Did you know that there is already a tax to collect monies for veterans? And that the commissioners considered the amount collected last year to be more than was needed, so decided it was OK to confiscate $460,000 from the fund and put it into the general fund to balance the budget?

So, if they already have a tax and it is more than sufficient, why another tax on top of it? Why don’t they just call it what it is - a tax to care for the homeless? At least I think that is what it will be used for but since they do not even have a plan for its use, who knows? Sounds more like a blank check to me.

My point, if it looks like a boon-doggle and sounds like a boondoggle, chances are it is not really meant to benefit veterans. Perhaps you would vote to support a tax to benefit the homeless. Perhaps not. But at least you should get to decide where your money will really go. Wouldn’t it be nice if they just told us the truth?

John H. McAuliffeSilverdale

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one: Sarah Smiley lets her children watch SpongeBob Squarepants.

After I wrote a column defending SpongeBob against a new “scien-tific” study claiming he is bad for 4-year-olds, online commenters alluded to the presum-ably tough road ahead for my supposedly brain-less children who watch something as dumb and offensive as SpongeBob.

Readers asked, “What ever happened to mak-ing kids go outside to play?”

Oh, I’ve tried that.But between the

people playing NASCAR driver and the critics demanding that my par-enting be evaluated, I figured having my kids watch television would be welcomed.

Wait, what’s that you say? I’ve got it all wrong? I’m supposed to keep my kids indoors but do crafts with them and teach them Chinese, too?

Forget automobiles,

the real problem with today’s society is that we demand everything from mothers, then we tie their hands and slap their wrists when they get it all “wrong.” We’ve turned mothers into crowd-pleasing robots who ignore their own better judgement and sway to whatever the most recent research says or what the woman next door is doing.

Readers didn’t like that my boys ride bikes in the neighborhood. Readers also didn’t like that my boys watch SpongeBob. If only readers knew that I sometimes let my boys eat Wendy’s for dinner, go two nights without a bath or that the older ones have seen all of the Star Wars episodes. (Yes, even Episode Three.)

If only readers also knew that we play base-ball together as a family, grow pumpkins in the backyard, make snow globes every Christmas, read together before bed,

go to church on Sunday and eat as family, at a table, every night.

If only readers knew that my boys write books, build forts, play musical instruments and ask questions about things like “Is it possible to be truly self less?”

I suppose I could shuttle my kids from organized activity to organized activity so that they have less time to ride bikes and watch SpongeBob. However, the truth is some days they sit around and watch television, but most days they are busy doing...stuff. I don’t know exactly what they do. I don’t pretend to think I should. I hear them laughing and screaming in the backyard, and my only hope is they don’t trample the pumpkins.

Each night, they come to the dinner table tried, dirty (sometimes wet) and hungry. And that seems like a pretty good day to me.

I am pleased.

SMILEY | FROM PAGE 4

It is true that operating procedures and detailed management plans for the 50/50 fund that would result from voter approval of the Proposition 1 remains largely to be determined.

What is false and implied in the opposition argument is that the vot-ing public cannot affect future BOCC decision making, should the commis-sioners seek to repeat the mistake of raiding veterans coffers.

More true yet is that after 11 years and dual wars, the county’s veteran population is growing and those ex service members that find a troubled

or complicated life after their return should not be punished and left to the streets, bridges and tent camps because of the short-sighted decision making by disconnected commis-sioners scrambling to cover county costs.

In a county with 35,000 veterans and 15,000 active duty personnel, those hurting veterans should be given a hand up, which Proposition 1 proposes to do.

Perhaps Mr. Hamilton could better use his considerable angst to make sure the commissioners properly spend tax money raised for indigent veterans.

OPINION | FROM PAGE 4

Bremerton’s Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 239 is offering a full-service breakfast open to the public every weekend.

In a September release, the post invited the entire community, including families with children, to drop by for breakfast between 9 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. A full breakfast menu will

be offered both morn-ings, according to the release, for about $8.

All proceeds from the sit-down, full-service breakfast go to support Post 239, said Dean Miller, senior vice com-mander of the post.

Although summer is often slow for the event, Miller said the break-fast is usually well-attended in the rainy

months. The breakfast has been a weekly event for as long as he has been at the post, said Miller.

“This weekend was pretty good,” Miller said, adding that over both days the post served about 40 people. “Now that the weather’s cold it’ll start to pick back up.”

Friday night is also steak night at the Post, Miller said. An 8 oz steak is $10, with a baked potato, a veg-etable, salad and bread. Chicken is also offered.

Breakfast servedPost offers weekend

dinner, breakfast

Friday, Oct. 7 to Friday Oct. 14Oct. 7,2001: Operation Enduring Freedom begins. U.S. and British aircraft and U.S. and U.S. ships begin bombing Afghanistan in response to the attacks of Sept. 11.

Oct. 8, 1812: Two British brigs, the Detroit and the Caledonia, are captured off Fort Erie.

Oct. 9, 1985: Over objections raised by the U.S. ambassador, the Egyptian government compromises with pirates aboard the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro, promising

them safe conduct to a destination of their choice in exchange for the safe release of their hostges.

Oct. 10, 1985: The plane given to the pirates by the Egyptian government is intercepted by planes off the carrier USS Saratoga and forced to land in Italy. Italian courts later sentence the hijackers to four to nine years in prison each.

Oct. 11, 1776: The Battle of Valcour Island commences, lasting three days and ultimately becoming known as the greatest victory won by Naval forces during the Revolutionary War.

Oct. 12, 1942: The Battle of Cape Esperance. Three heavy cruisers and two destroyers under Japanese flags are intercepted a few minutes before midnight off Guadalcanal by an American force consisting of two heavy cruisers, two light cruisers, and five destroyers. One Japanese cruiser is sunk, as is one U.S. destroyer.

Oct. 13, 1943: Italy declares war on Germany.

Oct. 14, 1962: The Cuban Missile Crisis begins when an American U-2 spy plane photographs a Soviet missile site under construction 100 miles west of Havana.

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In the first two weeks of fall, the center saw the num-ber of veteran students sign-ing in to its register almost quadruple, said Lawrence Smith, a student employee at the center. Staff at the center had been expecting an increase, Smith said Monday, not only with the start of the busier fall quarter, but as vets seek to gain an edge in a competitive economy. Vets are leaving the services and using Post 9-11 GI Bill to fall back on.

“We knew it was gonna happen as soon as Obama announced the troop draw-down,” Smith said.

Dan Oranski, a Navy veteran using the center, said he appreciated having the center available, and had definitely noticed the vet presence at the college in his two quarters.

“Even over the summer, I would say most of my classes were at least 15 percent [vet-erans],” Oranski said.

Oranski said he didn’t feel like he needed the center, but that for some reason he felt more comfortable there.

“It’s a more comfortable environment for me. I don’t

really know why.”Opened in spring of 2011,

the center provides a place for veterans to hang out, relax and get help finding services they need, said Ron Shade, Vice President of Student Services at OC.

Wendy McFadden, who oversees the college’s pro-cessing of veteran applicants seeking to use their GI Bill benefits, said that fall 2011 has been “the biggest quar-ter ever” that her office had experienced.

Documents provided by McFadden and the Student Services Office showed an increase in the number of students McFadden’s office served every quarter since 2009, with the exception of summer. While this summer and fall’s numbers are still unavailable, McFadden said this fall was definitely prov-ing even busier for her office than last fall.

The 2010 school year saw the largest jump in veteran enrollment in the last three years, said Dianna Larsen, dean of enrollment services at the college. That year, the school’s fall veteran enroll-ment jumped 15 percent

from the year before. This year’s veteran enrollment is already keeping pace with last year’s, Larsen said, even though they showed only those students that had registered by the ninth day of the quarter. Usually, Larsen said, the college continues receiving registra-tions throughout the first two weeks of the quarter, meaning this year’s numbers could still rise.

Larsen said her office does not track other student demographics like income, and that she couldn’t com-ment on the effect of veter-ans on or compared to other demographics within the student body.

For the college as a whole, veterans are valuable for the experience they bring, Shade said.

“The diversity brings an awareness of things you wouldn’t have if everyone was the same cookie-cutter type of person,” Shade said.

Still, Shade said, some-times that experience also comes at a price. Having already adjusted to a career and life outside of school, Shade said, veterans gener-ally have a larger adjustment to make than those students

coming straight from high school. Adding to that post-traumatic stress disorder and off-campus commitments unique to older students, Shade said, and the result is a population that brings diversity and a unique set of needs.

Sterne McMullen, a his-tory professor at the college, said he sees that diversity in his classes. The veterans he encounters, he said, are often more focused and patient. Some veterans, he said, are frustrated by what they see as a disconnect between presented material and their experience, particularly in history or politics. At the same time, he said, those veterans that can find ways to share their broader knowl-edge in the classroom typi-cally excell, often becoming some of his best students.

Dr. Lori Zoellner, an associate professor of psy-chology at the University of Washington, said that the transition out of military life and into a more ambiguously structured institution like college can be tough for any veteran, whether they have PTSD or not. Zoellner is also the director of the Center for Anxiety and Traumatic

Stress at the university, and works with veterans in her practice as a psychologist.

At college, Zoellner said, “there’s a whole new set of rules, and a whole new set of expectations.”

In general, Zoellner said, the more different a new system is from someone’s previous experience, the harder it is for them to adjust, making strong social nets all the more important. Still, Zoellner said, the social experience can be even more enriching when it includes not only people who share experiences, but those who don’t.

“Part of the college experi-ence is meeting people who don’t see things the exact same way and being chal-lenged by those people,” Zoellner said.

David Siemen, a 22-year Navy veteran and retiree in his first term at the col-lege, headed back to school after two careers: one in the military, one in the civilian world, working in electron-ics. Even though he wasn’t fresh out of the service, he said, the transition was still a difficult one that the Veteran and Military Support Center was helping him navigate.

“We’re all used to things being very structured, very black and white, but here there’s a lot of non-struc-tured stuff. And that takes some getting used to. We’re used to ‘hit the ground run-ning, 100 miles an hour and go,’” said Siemen. “Here it’s a slower pace.”

In the military, Siemen said, “you’re used to a set routine.” From books to tests to grades, he said, every-thing in his experience was “A, B, C, or D.” In college he said, tests suddenly had essay questions, grades were sud-denly on a curve, and even showing up late was sud-denly apparently OK.

The center, he said, is a place where he can study and relax, and also be around other vets who share some of the same experiences.

“Everybody helps every-body in there,” said Siemen. “Sometimes it’s nice just to talk shop with guys who know what you go through. “

Recently, Siemen said, a vet came in who just needed to talk. Vets at the center, he said, listened.

“We understand where he’s coming from, so we don’t judge. We’ve been there.”

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said he felt guilty sometimes that he wasn’t with his team on the ship.

“But,” Jeffries said, “I feel better being out here doing something.”

Right now, the Stennis’ beach detachment is made up of 33 sailors. That num-ber is subject to change with the transient nature of the assignment, Carter said,

Similarly, Mercer said, each volunteer project requires a different number of sailors over a differ-ent time frame. Although the group is working with Habitat for Humanity just two half-days per week, a

previous project, building a playground, consisted of almost a week of full days.

Billy Rhea, Nick Bowlin and Michael Tamburri were working digging a french drain and filling it with gravel, and had different experiences of being left behind by their ship.

Tamburri, who had to stay behind to have surgery, said he felt like he was los-ing ground in his specialty, computer security, by miss-ing deployment.

“My best friends are on the ship,” Tamburri said. “I kind of feel like I’m slacking being left behind here.”

Rhea and Bowlin, both back from IA’s in Iraq were less bothered.

“I’m enjoying the dwell time because I was on a 15 month deployment,” said Bowlin. “I bought a house three years ago and I’ve only lived in it a couple of months.”

Some of the sailors, Mercer said, will rotate back to the ship as the reasons for their being held back, like medical conditions, are resolved. Most of those returning from IA, though, he said, have more dwell time than the Stennis has left on its deployment.

Until then they work together, getting to know

each other, having a good time, recovering from sur-gery or getting used to the idea that that semi driving toward them isn’t packed with explosives, Mercer said.

“We’re here to support our command and put our name out in the communi-ty,” Mercer said. “It’s a pret-ty good group of people.”

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USS WASP, AT SEA (NNS) -- The Navy and Marine Corps Team made naval aviation history Oct. 3 as the F-35B Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) test aircraft BF-2 landed safely on USS Wasp’s (LHD 1) f light deck, the first at-sea vertical landing for the Marine Corps’ F-35 JSF version.

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WASHINGTON, – The United States remains com-mitted to Taiwan and to peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait, a Pentagon official Tuesday told the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

“Stability in the Taiwan Strait is critically important to the Obama administra-tion, and has a strong bear-ing on our enduring inter-ests in and commitments to peace and stability in the Asian-Pacific region,” said Peter Lavoy, principal assis-tant secretary of defense for Asian and Pacific security affairs.

“The Obama administra-tion is firmly committed to our ‘One China’ policy, which is based on three joint U.S.-China com-muniqués and the Taiwan Relations Act,” he added.

The Taiwan Relations Act of 1979 has governed policy in the absence of a diplomatic relationship or a defense treaty with Taiwan. Additionally, key state-ments that guide policy are the three U.S.-China Joint Communiqués of 1972, 1979 and 1982 and the “Six Assurances” of 1982.

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more than $12 billon in defense aid for Taiwan in the last two years, Lavoy said. “We will continue to make available to Taiwan defense articles and services to enable it to maintain a sufficient self-defense capa-bility,” he told the panel.

Lavoy said the adminis-tration’s relationship with Taiwan “encompasses much more than arms transfers.”

“The Department of Defense has a responsibility to monitor China’s military developments and to deter aggression and conflict,” he said, noting that China’s armed forces have made significant advances in technology and strategic ability.

“China’s economic rise has enabled it to transform its armed forces from a mass army designed for wars of attrition on its own territory to one capable of fighting short-duration, high-intensity conflict along its periphery against high-tech adversaries,” he said.

China’s ability to sustain military power at a distance remains limited, he said, but its armed forces are developing and fielding advanced military technolo-gies to support attacks and anti-access and aerial denial strategies. China also has positioned advanced equip-ment opposite Taiwan’s military regions, Lavoy said.

“Beijing fields advanced surface combatants and submarines to increase its anti-surface and anti-war-fare capabilities,” he said. “Similarly, advanced fighter aircraft and integrated air defense systems deployed to bases and garrisons in the coastal regions increase Beijing’s ability to gain and maintain air superiority over the Taiwan Strait.”

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and land attacks against Taiwanese forces and critical infrastructure, he explained.

“In response to this growing threat, Taiwan authorities have undertaken a series of reforms designed to improve the island’s capacity to deter and defend against an attack by the mainland,” he said.

Pointing to investments in infrastructure, war reserve, crisis response and other reforms, Lavoy said these improvements would help to secure the island.

“[These reforms] have reinforced the natural advantages of island defense,” he said. “Taiwan’s defense reforms today are important and necessary, and further efforts are needed.”

Lavoy referred to the Taiwan Relations Act as “a good law that makes for good policy,” and said it has created the conditions for the two sides to engage in peaceful dialogue.

“Our strong security commitment to Taiwan has provided them the confi-dence to intensify dialogue with the mainland and has resulted in improved cross-strait relations,” he said. “A Taiwan that is strong, confident and free from threats or intimidation is best postured to discuss and adhere to whatever future arrangements the two sides of the Taiwan Strait may peacefully agree upon.”

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Built at Puget Sound Navy Shipyard in Bremerton, the World War II-era destroyer USS Patterson (DD-392) earned a baker’s dozen in battle stars during sterling service in the Pacific.

The 340-foot destroyer was 35 feet at her beam and was commissioned in September 1937.

The Patterson’s 158-man crew did battle with four 5-inch guns, four 40mm guns, and eight 20mm guns.

She was truly a “pocket rocket” and capable of speeds in excess of 40 knots.

After shakedown and ini-tial training between the West Coast and Hawaii, Patterson was moored at Pearl Harbor during the Japanese attack on Dec. 7, 1941.

Her gunners blasted one plane out of the air and the ship quickly got underway searching for submarines at the entrance of Pearl Harbor.

Returning from patrol on Dec. 28, 1941, she rescued 19 surviving crewmen of the merchant ship Marimi, which had been adrift for days after a Japanese torpedo attack.

Patterson was literally all over the Pacific during World War II.

She escorted the USS Lexington battle group into the South Pacific in early 1942.

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1942 photo showing the Bagley class torpedo tube arrangement. Some of the Bagleys lost two of these mounts in later refits, to make room for A.A. guns. OFFICIAL U.S. NAVY PHOTOGRAPH

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Time in the World (PG) MONDAY, OCTOBER 10 1:00 pm - Cars 2 (G) WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12 FREE Movie Night6:00 pm - Green Lantern (PG-13) THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13 6:00 pm - Conan the Barbarian (R) FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14 Double Feature Night6:00 pm - Our Idiot Brother (R)7:45 pm - The Debt (R) SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15 FREE Matinee1:00 pm - Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer (PG)Double Feature Night6:00 pm - Warrior (PG-13)8:35 pm - Apollo 18 (PG-13) SUNDAY, OCTOBER 16 5:00 pm - Contagion (PG-13)

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LOUNGELocated in the Bremerton Recreation Center, Building 502. Free family friendly movies are shown Friday and Saturday nights at 6 p.m.Wednesdays are Premier Movie Nights; $5 gets you in the door for the show and covers Pizza and bowling. Call 467-3178 for more information.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7 6:00 pm - Cars 2 (G) SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8 6:00 pm - Cars 2 (G) THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13 Premier Movie Night - Movie, Pizza & Bowling!6:00 pm - Bad Teacher (R)Open to ages 18 and up only.FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14 6:00 pm - Monte Carlo (PG) SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15

6:00 pm - Monte Carlo (PG) THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20 Premier Movie Night - Movie, Pizza & Bowling!6:00 pm - Green Lantern (PG-13)Open to ages 18 and up only.FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21 6:00 pm - Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer (PG) SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22 6:00 pm - Judy Moody

and the Not Bummer Summer (PG) THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27 Premier Movie Night - Movie, Pizza & Bowling!6:00 pm - Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (PG-13)Open to ages 18 and up only.FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28 6:00 pm - Mr. Popper’s Penguins (PG) SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29 6:00 pm - Mr. Popper’s Penguins (PG)

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PEARL HARBOR (NNS) -- Los Angeles-class subma-rine USS Bremerton (SSN 698) returned to Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam Oct. 5, after a scheduled six-month deployment.

“Bremerton completed a very successful deploy-ment operating in both the U.S. 5th and U.S. 7th Fleets and accomplished numerous missions vital to national security.” said Cmdr. Caleb Kerr, Bremerton’s commanding officer. “Although we are the oldest submarine in the United States invento-ry, we were able to remain at sea and accomplish all assigned tasking, never having to return to port due to a material issue.”

Bremerton departed Pearl Harbor April 5. The crew returned with a wealth of submarine expe-rience and advanced quali-fications, which included 17 Sailors that became submarine qualified and are now authorized to wear the Submarine

Warfare insignia or “Dolphins.”

The crew of 140 also experienced many differ-ent cultures and lifestyles during their port visits to Singapore, Bahrain, Diego Garcia and Guam.

“This was the first deployment for approxi-mately half the crew, and their professional-ism and motivation for continuously performing at an optimum level in a multitude of scenarios was inspiring,” said Kerr. “Our extensive pre-deployment training fully prepared all of us for a six month deployment to two sepa-rate theaters of operation in some of the most chal-lenging littoral environ-ments on the planet.”

Bremerton is named in honor of the city of Bremerton, Wash., home to Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and a city with a long association with both the Navy and the Submarine Force. She is the tenth ship of the

Los Angeles-class. Her keel was laid by General Dynamics’ Electric Boat Division in Groton, Conn. May 1976. She was com-missioned March 28, 1981. Bremerton is 361-feet long and displaces over 6,100 tons. Los Angeles-class

submarines are ideally suited for covert missions. This stealth, when com-bined with the submarine’s Tomahawk cruise missiles and torpedoes, provide the operational commander with an unseen force mul-tiplier.

USS Bremerton back at Pearl

Electrician’s Mate 1st Class Brian Lanham is greeted by his wife as he is the first to disembark when the Los Angeles-class fast attack submarine USS Bremerton (SSN 698) returned to Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam after complet-ing a six-month deployment to the western Pacific region. U.S. NAVY PHOTO BY MASS COMMUNICATION SPECIALIST 2ND CLASS RONALD GUTRIDGE

BETHESDA, MD. (NNS) – Navy Medicine wel-comed a new force master chief and director of the Hospital Corps during a change of charge cer-emony held at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center Bethesda on Oct. 5.

Master Chief Hospital Corpsman Laura A. Martinez, U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery was relieved by Master Chief Hospital Corpsman Sherman E. Boss, formerly the com-mand master chief at Navy Medicine National Capital Area and Walter Reed.

“Thank you for being the force behind the force,” said Martinez. “Our successes and chal-lenges are too numerous to list, but today with each of you I celebrate the successes and I know as

I leave you will continue to work the challenges with the same dedication and passion you’ve always shown.”

U.S. Navy Surgeon General, Vice Adm. Adam M. Robinson pre-sided over the ceremony. In his remarks, Robinson discussed the importance of commitment and ser-vice.

“This change of charge ceremony today reflects the ethos of honor, cour-age, and commitment,” said Robinson. “The ethos that we have a self less ser-vice that we must provide to every man and woman that we call Shipmate and anyone who we work with is our shipmate, no matter whether they are civilian, Army, Air Force, Marine Corps, or Coast Guard. I absolutely ask you to continue to focus on serving others and

on providing patient and family-centered care.”

Robinson reflected on Martinez’s accomplish-ments as being a vital part of Navy Medicine’s history. In particular, he highlighted Martinez’s role in the establishment of the Medical Enlisted Training Campus (METC), San Antonio, Texas, and the legacy she will leave behind.

“Martinez focused on putting the sailor first,” said Robinson. “Through her hard work, sacrifice, and dedication, countless young men and women will be educated and trained at METC in the coming decades who will then go on to provide medical support around the world to our men and women in the air, at sea, on land, and on the battlefield.”

As a time honored

tradition during the cer-emony, Martinez trans-ferred the cutlass to Boss, representing the official change of charge.

During her remarks, Martinez said words of encouragement to Boss as he also takes over as the director of the Navy Hospital Corps.

“The state of the Hospital Corps is strong,” said Martinez. “Nearly six out of ten prospective sailors in recruiting sta-tions ask to be a Hospital Corpsman and wear the caduceus of the Corps. I am certain with your leadership and dedica-tion, you will successfully guide and serve the most decorated Corps in the U.S. Navy.”

After receiving the cut-

lass from Martinez, Boss addressed all hands for the first time in his new role.

“Right now, I stand in awe of greatness,” said Boss. “I make a promise to you to focus on the Sailor, and focus on the mission. I look forward to the tasks that lie ahead.”

Boss, a Florida native, with more than 28 years in his naval career, has served during multiple tours and comes with many distinguished awards. Most recently, Boss has played a sig-nificant role as com-mand master chief during the BRAC inte-gration of Walter Reed Army Medical Center Washington, D.C., and the National Naval

Medical Center, Bethesda, Md., into WRNMMCB.

Martinez’s 32-year naval career will culmi-nate with a retirement ceremony held Friday, Oct. 7 at the WRNMMCB Memorial Auditorium where she will receive the Legion of Merit award.

Navy Medicine is a global health care net-work of 63,000 Navy medical personnel around the world who provide high quality health care to more than 1 million eligible beneficiaries. Navy Medicine person-nel deploy with Sailors and Marines worldwide, providing critical mission support aboard ship, in the air, under the sea and on the battlefield.

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OCT. 7FIRST FRIDAY ARTS WALK, Bremerton from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. in Bremerton’s downtown Arts District.

OCT. 8GRAPE STOMP - Eagle Haven Winery. Includes round-trip transportation, light snacks, bottled water, movies en route, entry to Grape Stomp and lunch. Register by September 22 (myFFR #5411281B). 360-315-2137/476-3178

OCT. 10COLUMBUS DAY HOLIDAY BOWLING Bangor Olympic Lanes, noon to 6 p.m., shoes included. 360-535-591.

OCT. 11REGISTRATION DEADLINE: OKTOBERFEST FLAG FOOTBALL TOURNAMENT. Dates: Oct. 15 and 16.

OCT. 14 “SPOOKTACULAR” TEEN LATE NIGHT 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. at the Jackson Park Youth & Teen Center. 360-315-2141

OCT. 15MT. RAINIER TOUR Register by Oct. 13 (myFFR #5411288B). 360-476-3178

AMATEUR DISC GOLF TOURNAMENT NAD Park in Bremerton. Day of registration begins 8:45 a.m., first round begins at 9:15 a.m. Register ahead by phone at 360-473-5425 or online at www.ci.bremerton.wa.us.

OCT. 21KIDS’ NITE OUT: SPOOKY TREASURE HUNT form 7p.m. to 10 p.m. at Litehouse at NBK-Bangor, all SchoolAge Care eligible families may attend. Children must be in grades K-6. Free for currently enrolled

families. 360-535-595

OCT 21TWO DAYS OF THE SENIOR CRAFT FAIR begins at 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday, and 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sat.

at the Sheridan Park Community Center, 680 Lebo Blvd. Hand-crafted items from over 90 local vendors. Food, fun, local entertainment and free admission. Info line, 360-473-5357.

OCT. 22SALT-WATER FISHING TRIP. Includes round-trip transportation, boat, boat fuel, all bait and tackle and experienced guide. Register by October 20 (myFFR #4411295B). 360-315-2137/535-5919

OCT. 28“FRIGHT NIGHT AND HAUNTED TRIP” Teen Late Night 6p.m. to 10 p.m., Admiral Boorda Center, cost TB.

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