Written By: CS2 Ernesto Fuentes &

BMSN Andrea Dombovari

32,000 - 80 - 1,500 Those are the grim statistic numbers of suicide. 32,000 a year, 80 a day, and 1,500 unsuccessful attempts in the United States alone. It is esti-mated that nearly 1 million peo-ple worldwide commit suicide each year. That means, by the time you have read up to this point, a life has been lost to sui-cide somewhere in the planet. Suicide is the third leading cause of death for people ages 10-24 and the tenth leading cause of death in the United States. Be-tween the years of 1950-1990, the fre-quency of suicides increased by 300% and from 1990-2003 that rate decreased by 35%. However, from the year 2003 to 2006, the rate of sui-cide had gradually increased in the age groups of 10-24 and 25-64. As for the military; the Army suicide rate of 20.2 per 100,000 personnel is higher than that registered among males ages 19 to 29, the gender age bracket with the highest rate among the civilian population. Before 2001, the Army rarely suffered 10 sui-cides per 100,000 soldiers. Our Navy lost at least 47 active duty personnel in 2009, The Marine suicide rate has soared since 2001 from 12 to at least 19.5 per 100,000. Although untreated depression is the number one cause of suicide, military mem-bers are frequently exposed to situations that may feel out of their own

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Asian Pacific

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Are We There Yet? 6

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Cell Phones for

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Hard Charger of the

Month

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control and eventually lead to suicide. Some triggers include:

-The death of a loved one.

-A divorce, separation, or breakup of a relationship.

-Losing custody of children, or feeling that a child custody deci-

sion is not fair. -A serious loss, such as a loss of a

paygrade, house, or money. -Being victimized (domestic vio-

lence, rape, assault, etc). -Physical, verbal, and sexual

abuse. -Feeling "trapped" in a situation

perceived as negative.

-Feeling that things will never "get better."

-Feeling helpless. -Feeling "taken advantage of."

-Alcohol and drug abuse. -Feeling like one has not lived up to his or her high expectations or

those of another. -Low self-esteem.

We are all too familiar with casual-ties such as the USS Cole or the USS Stark but we rarely hear about the sailor who kills himself by jumping off the bridge wing or the sailor who is found bleeding out in his apartment floor or the sailor who hangs herself in berthing un-derway.

One can’t always know what the en-emy is plotting to disrupt the mission at hand, but one as a Shipmate can pick up the signs of someone who is depressed and sees no other option than ending their own life. The death of one affects us all. It is the responsi-bility of all of us to read into the signs and symptoms of someone on the edge. Sailors who take their lives usu-ally exhibit some of these symptoms:

-Making a will

-Getting affairs in order -Suddenly visiting friends and fam-

ily -Alcohol abuse

-Insomnia -Loss of interests in hobbies

-Hopelessness OS2 Norvell Sebas-tian is a Sailor onboard who has experienced the loss of someone close to him due to suicide. As a high school stu-dent, his teacher was found in a cemetery with a self-inflicted gun shot to the head after being falsely accused of a crime he didn't commit. “I don’t know what would cause

my teacher to take his own life even if the allegations turned out to be true. All I know is that he left a lot of fam-ily, friends, and students upset and confused. Its amazes me that some-one that gave so much, could be so selfish. The truth is that suicide hurts not only you but think of the family and friends that you are leaving be-hind,” commented OS2 Sebastian.

Always remember that there are phone numbers that you can call

24 hours a day, 7 days a week, from any location in the United States:

1-800-SUICIDE (1-800-784-2433) 1-800-273-TALK (1-800-273-8255)

The Death of One Affects Us All

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Written By: FC3 Annie Zhen The night before the Tro-jans went to battle, they probably feasted on mounds of meat since they considered it a delicious mira-cle food that gave them strength. Today, animal protein is still re-garded as an essential element to building a strong, lean body. Its B12 content gives you energy while its amino acids sup-plies materials for your muscle fibers to rebuild. However, eating meat also affects you in ways that might make you think twice about ordering that steak. Meat production contrib-utes a striking amount to the waste that pollutes our environment. Slaughterhouse waste is dumped into rivers and streams, eventually making their way into our water supply. Factory farms generate close to 20 billion tons of animal waste each year. Due to the high demand for meat, roughly 20 tons of live-stock waste is generated for each household in the U.S. It all has to go somewhere, and unfortunately ends up being dumped into waterways, seeping into groundwater, and end-ing up in the food we eat and the water we drink. Butchering, process-ing, and shipping of animals con-sumes over one-third of the fossil fuels used in the United States. As a result, toxic chemicals are dumped into the air we breather, further in-creasing the toxic load that our bod-ies absorb. Factory farmed animals live in incomprehensible and inhu-mane conditions. Instead of grazing on grass grown in the pasturelands and moving freely in the fields, these animals are nearly piled one on top of another with very little space to move. Not surprisingly, disease and fecal contamination spread easily. Anti-biotics are fed to the animals as a preven-tive measure.

Written By: SN Karla Valdez To maintain our health, we should spend at least an hour each day doing moderate exercise. But, this isn't written in stone and, if you can't find an hour, that's no reason to swear off exercise entirely. The trick is to use whatever time you do have to your best advantage. This means doing the things you already know to do: walking more often, taking the stairs, standing up every now and then to move around, etc. However, you still need more than that. One way to get your workout time in is to break up workouts into short segments throughout the day. 5 minutes here, 10 minutes there...it all adds up. The key to burning calories during short workouts is to crank up the intensity and work harder than usual. To burn more calories shoot for 10 minutes of: Running - You don't have to sprint, but try to run faster than normal Speed Walking - Walk as fast as you can without breaking into a run. It's harder than you think! Walking the stairs - Run or walk up a flight (or more) and recover by slowly walking back down Hill-walking - Find a medium-sized hill and walk or run up as fast as you can. Recover with a slow walk back down and repeat Any gym machine - hop on any cardio machine for a 10-minute blast. Try something different--the Versa climber and the rowing machine are two tough ones.

Ten Minute Cardio Your Steak In addition to antibiotics, the ani-mals are also given growth hor-mones to reach maturity far more quickly than their natural life cycle allows. The feed they are given are also laden with pesticides and chemical fertilizers. Traces of these inorganic substances are left in the

meat of these ani-mals. Every time we eat meat, we ingest the residue left from the un-natural concoction which they are fed. Excessive consumption of inorganic sub-stances (which the human body can-

not fully process) creates toxic sludge in the body, therefore pre-venting efficient digestion of food and absorption of nutrients. Antibi-otics found in meat also kill the beneficial flora in the colon, disrupt-ing your intestinal health. The colon is one of your body’s main organs for detoxification. If it is not func-tioning properly, your colon cannot fully eliminate the toxins that will ultimately age you. The human body has a pH of about 7.0, which veers towards the alkaline side of the pH scale. Meat on the other hand is acidic. When acidic food enters the body, it disrupts the body’s pH balance, causing the cells to function improp-erly. In order to restore balance, alkaline minerals (such as calcium, magnesium, and potassium) are leeched from the cells and bones. Constant pulling from the body’s own resources causes free radical formation that accelerates the aging process and bone demineralization.

For most of us, it’s unreal

to completely cut out

animal protein from our

diets. It is up to the indi-

vidual to decide whether

or not the benefits of fried

chicken or barbecue ribs

outweigh the costs. Just

know that the next time

you order a steak, you

might be getting more

than you’re asking for.

Nutrition & Wellness

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Asian Pacific Heritage Month Written By: BMSN Andrea Dombovari

May was proclaimed "Pacific American Heritage Week" in the year 1978 by congress to com-memorate Asian American accomplish-ments during the first week of May. Asian Pacific American Heri-tage Month is celebrated with com-munity festivals, government-sponsored activities, and educational activities for students. This year's theme is "Leadership to Meet the Challenge of a Changing World." This date was chosen be-cause two very important anniversa-ries that occurred on this month. The first Japanese immigrants arrived in

America on May 7, 1843 and the com-pletion of the transcontinental rail-

road, by Chinese laborers, on May 10, 1869. Congress voted to expand it from a week to a month long cele-bration in 1990 and in May 1992 President George Bush signed the law permanently designat-ing the

month of May as "Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month". Asian-Pacific encompasses the entire Asian con-tinent and the Pacific islands of Mela-nesia, Micronesia and Polynesia.

Statistics show that from 1960 to 2002, the U.S. Asian Pacific Ameri-can population grew from about 1 mil-lion to over 12.5 million, making it the fastest growing segment of the coun-try. After Spanish, Chinese was the most widely spoken non-English lan-guage in the country. Tagalog, Viet-namese and Korean were each spoken

at home by more than 1 million people. About one in five veterans 65 years and older that have served our country are Asian Pacific American. Pacific Asian Americans have contributed to this country's progress in gov-

ernment, business, science, and tech-nology.

A Few Notable Asian Americans in History Are:

Dalip Singh Saund First Asian representative

from California, 1956

Hiram Fong One of Hawaii's first two

senators, 1959.

Patsy Takemoto Mink The first female Asian American elected to

Congress as a representa-

An Wang Invented pulse transfer

controlling device leading to magnetic core memory,

Ellison Onizuka First spaceflight in 1985;

Died in the 1986 Challenger disaster.

Young Oak Kim First to command a combat

battalion. The 100th Infantry Battalion, 1943.

Katherine Sui Fun Cheung First female aviator,

licensed in 1932.

Bruce Lee Chinese American martial

artist and actor.

EMCS CHRIS JONES Go out to dinner and eat a nice big rib eye steak.

Enjoy sleeping in my OWN bed!

Relax in peace and quiet

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CSADD would like to welcome aboard our newest sailors to the USS The Sullivans:

LT ROLFS LTJG GEBICKE PSC CHANEY QMC SMITH

OS2 SEBASTIAN GSM3 OGLESBY

SN FORD SN ALLEN

Also, farewell and following seas to the sailors departing this month:

HT1 FARMER FC2 SISK

FC2 MIDKIFF AG3 DeGROFF

MR2 ELLIS LS2 THOMPSON

HM2 BROWN AG2 COVAULT

OS3 DAVILA

V O L U M E 1 , I S S U E 3

Written By: BMSN Andrea Dombovari

On a windy October morning, sailors manned their sea and anchor stations as they made preparations to go underway. Anticipation

filled the air as a nervous crew was about to make way towards the Mediterranean Sea. Finally, the whistle blows and the call of un-

derway echoes in the air. Like clock work, the crew brings in the lines, flags are flown, and families on the pier wave good bye to

loved ones as they try to hold back their tears. It seems like it was just yesterday that USS THE SULLIVANS left Mayport, Florida.

Yet, like all deployments, eventually the ship has to return home. For us on board The Sullivans; this is what we are all looking for-

ward to. Many of us have similar ideas on what we are planning on doing when we return home. I went around the ship and asked a

few of our shipmates what their plans where when we get back. This is what they had to say:

We are in the final stretch of the deployment, yet we need to maintain our work ethic and get the ship and crew back home in one

piece. The mission is not over until we are all home safe. As for me, it has been a true pleasure to serve on board with all of you. As

I return to my home to my fiancé Eliese and my command- Fleet Weather Center in Norfolk VA. I wish all of you the very best of

luck in future endeavors and fair winds and following seas.

CS3 MICHAEL E. ASHWORTH Spend time with my wife. Go eat at the Irish Pub right off of base. Get the final touches done for my wed-ding.

STGSN BRENNA R. FITZGERALD

Spend time with my family

Spend time relaxing on the beach

Start looking for a car.

ARE WE THERE YET!?

Written By: AG3 Sean DeGroff

QM3 ADAM DEWITT Meet my son Atlas for the first

time, and kiss my wife.

Go eat some good food at

either the Cheesecake Factory or Red

Lobster. Finally go and

play the drums for a while.

DCFN BRYAN E. GREEN Make plans to go back to VA

and spend time with family and

my brothers at my old Fire

department. Get situated in the

barracks and get a truck. Spend

time relaxing and spending time

with friends and family.

CDR SAM de CASTRO, XO I’m looking forward to hugging my children and giving my wife a kiss. Heading out for a nice family dinner. Of course I have to call my mother. (Like all good sons should do!)

Rules of the Road

Written By: AG3 Sean DeGroff

* When riding a motorcycle, your headlights should work and remain on at all times.

* Your motorcycle’s rear view mirrors should be in place and unobstructed.

* Proper PPE includes: A helmet, eye protection, long sleeved shirt and jacket, gloves,

sturdy footwear (boots), and brightly colored outer garment by day, reflective jacket by

night.

ALL PERSONS OPERATING MOTORCYCLES MUST ATTEND A COMMAND-APPROVED MOTORCYCLE SAFETY

TRAINING COURSE!

Courses are offered at no expense to the military member. All motorcycle operators shall be licensed with a state motorcycle

endorsement. Where states require special licenses to operate motorcycles, such license requirements shall apply to operate

motorcycles on naval installations. All regulations and policies regarding motorcycles are considered General orders.

Violators of these regulations are subject to punishment under the UCMJ. (OPNAVINST 5100.12)

For more information, please contact your command motorcycle coordinators:

ENC Mudd, STGC Wester, and IC1 Snyder

Before you rev up your engine and take to the roads this upcoming leave period,

CSADD would like to remind you to please ride responsibly and follow these guide-

lines:

When Petty Officer Jason Rosetty reported to USS The Sullivans he was

bright eyed, over whelmed, confused, and excited. In the 5 months IT3 Ro-

setty has been onboard, he has achieved great goals: becoming the ship’s

CMC for a day, obtaining his ESWS, and all other qualifications that were

assigned to him. IT3 Rosetty was also promoted to the rank of Information Systems Technician

Petty Officer 3rd Class while on board USS The Sullivans. IT3 has a great and promising career

ahead of him, as he continues his journey in the Navy, and on board USS The Sullivans DDG-68. Written By: IT2 Christopher J Curran

Hard Charger of the Month

Cell Phones for Soldiers

Written By: GSMFN Xavbryelle A. Carpenter

“The Coalition Monthly” Newsletter Staff

Senior Chief Jeany S. Cooper

Chief Editor

CS2 Ernesto Fuentes

Layout Design / Editor

Writers: CS2 Ernesto Fuentes

IT2 Christopher Curran

AG3 Sean DeGroff

FC3 Annie Zhen

SN Karla Valdez

BMSN Andrea Dombovari

GSMFN Xavbryelle A. Carpenter

Photographer: CS2 Ernesto Fuentes

*ANY QUESTIONS, SUGGESTIONS, OR

IDEAS ON THIS OR FUTHER ISSUES OF

“The Coalition Monthly” PLEASE CONTACT

SENIOR CHIEF COOPER, CS2 FUENTES OR

AG3 DeGROFF.

Cell Phones for Soldiers is a

non-profit organization

dedicated to providing

deployed and returning

troops cost-free methods to

communicate with family

while serving in the United

States military. Cell Phones

for Soldiers was founded by

Robbie and Brittany Ber-

gquist of Norwell, Mass., at

the ages of 12 and 13. The

organization has raised more

than $7 million in donations

and collected more than 10

million cellular devices.

Since 2004, Cell Phones for

Soldiers has raised more

than $7 million and provided

more than 150 million min-

utes of

free talk time, mails ap-

proximately 12,000 calling

cards each week, recycled

more than 10 million cell

phones, and has remained

a family-run, non-profit

organization operated

almost exclusively by

Brittany, Rob and her

family.

This recent

deployment has showed

each and every one of us

how important it is to be

able to keep in contact

with loved ones when

duty calls and you are not

able to be there and wake

up and see your family

and friends everyday. -

CSADD has decided to join

the fight and assist this pro-

ject by conducting our very

own cell phone drive. I’m

sure when we get back to

Mayport a lot of us will be

upgrading our cell phones

because in almost 8 months

we are definitely behind the

“What’s hot” curve with the

phones that we currently

have. Instead of trashing

your old phone why not

recycle it to our cell phone

drive and help a fellow ship-

mate out by giving them the

opportunity to be able to talk

to their loved ones.

The drive will

begin May 22 and end June

27.

The drop box will be lo-

cated in Supply Support. You can also visit the

website if you don’t have

an old cell phone and you

would like to make a

donation. Each $5 contri-

bution, or do-

nated device valued at $5,

will provide troops with

2.5 hours of FREE talk

time. Check out the web-

site to view the awards

that the company has

received as well as the

funding and even some

FAQs.

IT3(SW) Jason Rosetty

If all else fails get in touch with a fellow CSADD

member and we will be glad to answer any ques-

tions you may have.

www.cellphonesforsoldiers.recellular.com