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FFSC Holds Sexual Assault Awareness Events in April

Yeoman 1st Class Meaghan Russell, left, and Yeoman 3rd Class Jimmy Rivera, place teal flags in front of Naval Station Guantanamo Bay’s Navy Lodge in honor of Sexual Assault Awareness Month, April 2.

Fleet and Family Support Center (FFSC) at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay held a Sexual Assault and Prevention

month proclamation signing ceremony, April 1.According to Veronica Wruble, Fleet and Family Support Center

Sexual Assault Response Coordinator, the message is to treat others with respect. The ideal exists beyond sexual assault and extends to all relationships and behaviors.

“While we’re always taught to treat others the way we would want to be treated, perhaps we should treat others the way we believe ‘they’ would want to be treated,” said Wruble. “When we do this, we automatically reduce sexual assault, engage in bystander intervention, and become more professional in the process.”

Navy leaders announced March 30, the 2016 Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month (SAAPM) theme of “Eliminate Sexual Assault: Know your part. Do your part.”

April awareness month is designed to build momentum for year-round efforts to eliminate the crime of sexual assault, making sure all Sailors are treated with dignity and respect.

“While I always operate with the assumption that readers, listeners, and training attendees are good people, we continue to receive reports of behaviors that are in direct contrast to this belief. We are called upon to care for others and to do that which is good and right – we should not exploit an individual’s vulnerabilities,” said Wruble. “Further, when we see exploitation occurring, it is morally wrong ‘not’ to stop it. As service members and good

citizens, we know this – Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month is simply a reminder.”

FFSC also invited community members out to place teal flags in front of the Navy lodge to remind everyone to do their part.

Yeoman 3rd Class Jimmy Rivera said he came out to participate because he felt it was an important cause to get behind.

“I felt it was important to go out and volunteer for the ribbon planting at the Navy Lodge because it was for the victims of sexual assault,” said Rivera. “That’s one of the things that hits deep in myself and I’m sure to the other people that came out to volunteer. Not one person in this world should be sexually assaulted or even harassed for any reason. It’s just not right in any way, shape, or form.”

FFSC has several other events lined up for the month and encourages participants to wear teal in recognition.

“On April 9, the Sexual Assault Prevention and Response program will partner with a Child Abuse Awareness and Prevention Month activity and host a 5K Fun Run. Show time is 7:30 a.m. for an 8:05 a.m. start time at Cooper Field – again, wear teal or blue as April is the awareness month for both programs,” said Wruble. “Then from 4 p.m. on the 14th of April to 4 p.m. on the 15th, SAPR is hosting a 24 hour walk at Cooper Field as well. Units and groups can call 4141 to sign up for an hour long time slot to be a part of this function – it is an excellent way support the program, build unit cohesion, and engage in command PT activities.”

MCC Keith BryskaGazette Editor

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VOL. 73 • NO. 12

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NS Guantanamo Bay Commanding Officer, Capt. David Culpepper congratulates CS2 Solomon on his selection as Sailor of the Week.

■Job/Department: Clerk and Transfer Supervisor/ Personnel Support Detachment■Age: 28■Hometown: Cleveland,OH■Hero(es): Mother■Sports Team: Cleveland Cavaliers■Movie: Coach Carter■Book: 48 Laws of Power■Hobby: Basketball, Football, and Boxing■Greatest Passion: To become a good leader like my current CS1■Favorite Quote: “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.” ■Sailors of the Week Because: As the Leading Petty Officer from Mar. 28- Apr. 4 he demonstrated superior performance and exceptional service in the preparation for CNRSE “5 Star” inspection of all 4 Galley’s in Naval Station Guantanamo Bay. His attention to detail led the Food Service division to attain a 100% score in financial returns and 100% inventory with an overall score of OUTSTANDING. Additionally, he performed his turn over above and beyond by volunteering his off time training his junior CS’s ensuring a proper turnover is conducted and zero lost in operation.

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April 8, 2016• PAGE 3

First Female Recruits Issued ‘Dixie Cup’ Covers at RTC Susan KrawczykRecruit Training Command, Great Lakes Public Affairs

The first female recruits at Recruit Training Command were issued their new enlisted white hats, or Dixie cups,

as part of the Navy’s efforts for uniformity in service members’ uniform, April 4.

While the rest of the enlisted female E1-E6 Sailors have until Oct. 31 to begin wearing their Dixie cups, the recruits at the Navy’s only boot camp have already begun to do so as per NAVADMIN 236/15.

The Navy redesigned several uniform elements for Sailors that improve uniformity across the force as well as improve the function and fit of their uniforms. The changes will eventually make uniforms and covers more gender neutral.

“This feels incredible as we are making a part of history,” said Seaman Recruit Madeleine Bohnert, of St. Louis, Missouri, as she tried on her cover. “It’s really awesome how something as simple as our cover is so symbolic in regards to equality and the uniformity in the military. It’s a sense of pride knowing that we are a part of getting the first Dixie cups.”

During uniform issue, the female recruits lined up wearing their new covers as their Recruit Division Commanders ensured they were being properly worn.

As Engineman 2nd Class Shanice Floyd, RDC, helped adjust her recruits’ covers for proper fitting, she instructed those with longer hair in braids or buns how to make correct adjustments to accommodate the Dixie cup.

“We’re already part of a team and this just promotes it in a better way,” said Floyd. “Junior enlisted males and females

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already wear the same dress white uniform so this way when we get into the same dress blues uniform we’ll look more as a unit.”

The Alternative Combination Cover (ACC) and current male combination cover for officers and chief petty officers can now be worn by both men and women in service dress uniforms. All officers and chiefs will be required to wear the ACC Oct. 31.

“I am very excited to be one of the first females to be given the opportunity to wear the Dixie cup, and I believe we’ve come really far as a country and as a service,” said Seaman Recruit Maria Frazier, of Springfield, Ohio. “I think it’s really beneficial because as we work side by side, we have to work as a team. For me, it’s important that as we’re working together, we look uniform so we can work in uniform.”

The Dixie cup will match the recently redesigned Service Dress Blue uniforms in jumper style for both men and women, beginning Oct. 1.

The jumper will incorporate a side zipper and the slacks will have a front zipper to help with changing in and out of uniform. This will be the eventual end of the female version of the “crackerjack” uniform with a jacket and tie for female petty officers and junior Sailors.

“I feel that females have been performing to the standard equal to their male counterparts, and right now, with these new covers, we look more as a team,” said Floyd.

For more news from Recruit Training Command, visit www.navy.mil/local/rtc/.

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For more news from Recruit Training Command, visit www.navy.mil/local/rtc/.

March 29-31 saw Naval Station (NS) Guantanamo Bay getting to experience an unique fundraising

tradition, the Navy and Marine Corps Relief Society’s (NMCRS) Radiothon, and Jail and Bail.

“NMCRS is a non-profit, volunteer service organization; they use both financial and non-financial resources to identify solutions to meet emerging needs. They help clients improve personal financial skills and encourage individual financial responsibility,” remarked Navy Career Counselor 1st Class Sean McCormick, head of the NMCRS committee.

“The biggest events we have to raise money for NMCRS are the Radiothon, and Jail and Bail,” added Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class John Harris, NMCRS committee member. “Our local radio station, AFN Guantanamo Bay, supported the event with eight hours a day for three days of live radio broadcasting. The Radiothon was broadcasted on all three radio frequencies each day.“

The Radiothon stared off at 8 a.m. with Adele’s “Hello” playing at the top of the hour and as a repeater song until someone would call in and pledge money to replace it or bump it.

“Anyone can call in, request a song, and give a shout out to someone on our local airwaves,” explained McCormick.

It didn’t take long before the pranks started to pour in. People listening to AFN Guantanamo Bay would hear shouts out from “someone” requesting their “favorite” song,

only to have that person’s office laughing as “It’s Raining Men” or “Hit Me

Baby, One More

Time” started to play.Getting revenge was easy and all for good cause, a person

just had to do was call in and pay money to have a song bumped off the air or even retaliate with a different song for that person who pranked them provided they knew who it was.

Some people were so swift in getting certain songs removed or determined to have their song play that many songs were bumped within seconds or a bidding war would start, raising the price to bump a song higher and higher.

Soon the airwaves were filled with rock classics, old school country, pop, military service songs and even random obscure songs such as “Tie Me Kangaroo Down,” by Rolf Harris.

Making sure the Radiothon ran smoothly took a lot effort from the volunteers and service members working at AFN Guantanamo Bay. The studio could get quite hectic as people answered the ringing phones, took down song requests, verified the songs were available, getting them on the air and keeping track of all the pledges. It took a lot of coordination and commitment from those involved.

“As the Operations Manager at the radio station, I was able to set up the event with all the knowledge of three previous Radiothons that I’ve been a part of to make this event a success,” said Harris. “With the support I received from fellow NMCRS committee members and the base commands, this Radiothon was the best one that I have ever seen.”

Requesting songs however was not the only highlight of the event. On the last day, NS Guantanamo Bay’s Security Force also assisted the NMCRS committee members and AFN Guantanamo Bay with their Jail and Bail.

“The Jail and Bail was a fun way

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RADIOTHON &for anyone to put whomever they wanted into a make-shift jail down at the NEX Atrium,” explained Harris. “With the ability for the jailed person to bail themselves out and send the other person to jail instead, it became an exciting event that kept our jailors very busy.”

According to McCormick, while NS Guantanamo Bay Commanding Officer, Capt. David Culpepper, was in lock-up at the Jail and Bail, they received a shout out to Capt. Culpepper, with the song ‘Folsom Prison Blues’ by Jonny Cash.

While the Radiothon, and the Jail and Bail event is over, the NMCRS committee is still collecting pledges.

“We collected over $2,700 dollars, and have another $1,200 that was pledged that still must be received,” said McCormick. “We’re extremely grateful for the charitable contributions and generous outpouring of support for the NMCRS Fundraising efforts. “

For anyone still needing to pay can call McCormick at 4488 or 84740, or stop by his office on the 2nd floor of Bulkeley Hall or call Yeoman 2nd Class Roger Smithee at 4855.

The fundraising season for the NMCRS last until April 29 and the committee members will have a booth at the NS Guantanamo Games on April 22 at Cooper Field from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. to raise more money and bring awareness to service members regarding the NMCRS and what they do.

“From my past experience, when my co-workers are in a tight spot financially, their work performance suffers, and it tends to snowball into other personal problems,” added Harris. “If I see my shipmates having money troubles and need money now, I can go with them to the NMCRS website and find the information to help them out.”

For more information regarding NMCRS please visit their webpage at http://www.nmcrs.org/.

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This past week the Wind Turbine Operations and Maintenance Teamof the Centerra Group LLC., under the Direction of Jacob Hansen, underwent a week long training event to obtain Global Wind Organiza-tion – Basic Safety Training Certification through ENSA North America.

Certification in the Global Wind Organization - Basic Safety Training

is designed to impart knowledge and education of hazards encoun-tered when working within the wind industry and how to control andmitigate these hazards. And also equip recipients with the knowledge,

skills and confidence to appropriately respond in the event of an

emergency.

The training provided through ENSA North America introduces the

recipient to safe work at height practices involving vertical rescue sce-narios specific to wind turbines, fire prevention and manual handling

exercises necessary to the work environment and essential first aid

training addressing the need to understand trauma at height.

The Centerra Group LLC. Procurement Team led by Tracey Miller in- vested in the ENSA A.P.E. Micro Rescue System a specially designed

rope rescue and escape system with a reputation for unparalleledperformance for ‘long line’ rescue scenarios (for persons working andaccess heights greater than 250 ft.).

(ENSA A.P.E. Micro Rescue System was designed to exceed OSHA

response times for self and assisted rescue) Jake and his team willalways be climbing with a personal rescue system capable of ‘prompt’response in the event of an emergency.

In addition ENSA’s GWO Basic Safety Training curriculum took in

hand a high level of training in Trauma Kits, AED’s, Bag Valve Masks,

Cervical Splints and Immobilization Techniques. The equipment was

demonstrated to proficiency under a scenario based training program

involving multiple impact injuries and special movement consider-ations culminating in full tower emergency descent. (Full tower de-scent was carried out utilizing multiple rescue escape systems underprofessional rescuer supervision)

Ben Miller, Centerra Group Safety Director participated and organizedincident command response participation by the Guantanamo Bay Fire and Rescue Team, who enacted all down tower casualty interven-tion, to be lowered on multiple rescue systems.

Rob Siegel Director of ENSA North America, stated, “This is really

good to see and experience, this is the first time, I can personal-ly recall a military contractor, operating at the forefront in rescue

practices and technologiesspearheading innovationwithin the wind industry.”“It shows the dedication

and commitment to work atheight safety my hat is off

to Jake and the CenterraGroup Safety Team, underthe Direction of Ben Miller.”

Other industry earlyadopters of the ENSA

APE Systems and training

include EON, Vestas, EDP

Renewables, BP, MFG, and

EDF in addition at least four

of North America’s top wind

technician training collegesare teaching their studentsENSA training and APE

systems.

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FILIPINO FOOD SALEThe Filipino-American Cultural Association is hosting a food sale fundraiser selling lumpia, rice, pancit, and adobo for $5 at the NEX Atrium on Sun., April 10 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Money goes to support the 2016 Philippine Independence Day Celebration.

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