Nimitz News Daily Digest - July 30, 2013

JULY 30, 2013

CHANGING THE

CULTURE

CSADD RETURNS TO USS NIMITZ Story by MCSA Aiyana Paschal

The Coalition of Sailors Against Destructive Decisions (CSADD) recently started holding meetings again aboard the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68) including elections for their cabinet held July 26.

CSADD is a program geared toward Sailors 18-25 years old. It’s designed to help the culture of shipmates helping shipmates and their communities while preventing destructive behavior and promoting building leadership skills, and lasting relationships.

“My favorite thing about CSADD is that it provides a voice for Sailors who feel they wouldn’t be heard otherwise,” said Ship’s Seviceman 1st Class Melvin Mallety, one of the senior enlisted advocates (SEA) of CSADD. “I’ve been the lowest guy on the totem pole, felt alone and unimportant.

CSADD gives you that voice, that feeling of involvement in the command and community. It also makes it cool to do the right thing, because you are surrounded by other Sailors who want to do positive things and make a difference in the command and the community.”

Along with Mallety, Command Master Chief Continued on page 3

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Sailors of the Day

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or her outstanding performance, Machinist’s Mate 2nd Class Tracy D. Cales, a native of Middleberry, Ind., was selected as the Sailor of the Day aboard the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68) July 29.

“Being named Sailor of the Day feels pretty good,” said Cales. “It just goes to show that eventually your hard work will be recognized.”

Cales performed her demanding duties in an exemplary and highly professional manner hitting the ground running with a relatively junior work center following the emergent replacement of 2B reactor coolant pump. She implemented schedules and ensured the proper completion of more than 200 preventative maintenance items with no rework.

Demonstrating superb initiative, she revitalized the reactor plant material history database, ensuring proper documentation of all equipment status under her cognizance. Her exceptional leadership ability and administrative prowess were key in the completion in two nuclear propulsion mobile training team visits.

Stories and Photos by MC3 Derek W. Volland

or his outstanding performance, Naval Aircrewman (Helicopter) 3rd Class Alfredo Robles, a native of Huntington Park, Calif., was selected as the Sailor of the Day aboard the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68) July 26.

“It feels good to be named Sailor of the Day,” said Robles. “It’s an honor and I feel that I owe it all to of the pilots and crewmen of my squadron.”

Robles performed his duties in an exemplary and highly professional manner. He is responsible for logging 3,793.4 pilot and aircrew flight hours, writing 91 flight schedules and updating 61 pilots and aircrew logbooks.

While personally flying over 88.2 hours this quarter, Robles qualified Anti-Surface Warfare level III, Personnel Recovery level II and Special Operations Forces level II making him an invaluable asset for the 2013 deployment.

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Continued from page 1 Teri McIntyre and Chief Cryptologic Technician Sherita Collins are also SEAs. “We ensure the program stays in command concurrence, and on track with the CSADD guidances on a regional and national level,” said Mallety.

CSADD offers different opportunities to spend your time doing something productive and fun and helping those who need it.

“You could spend your four-day weekend roaming the ship or laying around on the couch, or you can join CSADD and help to build someone in need of a home, feed the homeless or read a child a story, do a marathon for cancer awareness, all while meeting other shipmates and having a good time,” said Mallety. “We also do group events like movie nights, hikes, visiting theme parks and taking tours.”

At CSADD meetings a variety of topics

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are covered including Fleet and Family Support Centers, unplanned pregnancy prevention, physical health readiness, sexual assault prevention, suicide awareness, driving safety, off-duty recreation, volunteer outreach, domestic violence, smoking and drunk driving.

Besides covering a variety of topics at meetings, CSADD also plans on hosting various events aboard Nimitz.

Anyone can bring up his or her ideas at CSADD, like Electrician’s Mate 3rd Class Suzan K. Chisholm, originally from Jamaica.

“This last meeting was the first one I attended, but I really liked it,” said Chisholm. “I kept telling everyone my ideas. It’s a good thing to be involved in because what you do there directly influences the boat.”

You can become a part of CSADD by contacting Mallety via email or at J-Dial 5100.

DEFENSE OF THE

FUTURE

Story by MC1 Peter D. Lawlor CNO Public Affairs Office

those platforms too.

“My view is, what we are finding is not that significantly different from the Perry class of the ‘60s and ‘70s, the Spruance class of the ‘70s, nor even the Arleigh Burke class when it comes to the size and the impact on it,” Greenert said defending the initial hiccups of the LCS. Not one for excuses and understanding of our nation’s budget constraints Greenert added, “But we need to be vigilant, we need to follow up, and we have work to do.”

For CNO, that work continued yesterday, July 24 less than a week after the Pentagon press brief as he toured the Marinette Marine Corporation shipyard July 24 to observe the progress of several Freedomclass variants of the LCS currently under construction.

During his tour, Greenert walked through several of the $74 million improved Marinette Marine shipbuilding facilities to see firsthand future LCSs: (LCS 5) Milwaukee, (LCS 7) Detroit, (LCS 9) Little Rock, and (LCS 11) Sioux City not only being built, but being built better with integrated feedback from

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he Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) program was under a microscope this week after news of an electrical problem resulted in a brief loss of power for USS Freedom (LCS 1) over the weekend and the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a critical, 72-page report today scrutinizing the cost of the program.

However, top Navy leadership including the Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) Adm. Jonathan Greenert view the performance problems as common for any first-in-class platform--especially in an innovative platform such as the LCS with its interchangeable modular payload design enabling the ship to conform to its battle space.

Greenert spoke about the GAO report that was leaked days in advance during a Pentagon press brief held July 19 to discuss the status of the Navy with the Pentagon Press Corps. In his comments Greenert compared the LCS with debuts of previous first- inclass ships and said there was initial skepticism with 4

The littoral combat ship USS Freedom (LCS 1) transits the South China Sea during a photo exercise with other U.S. and Malaysian navy ships.

- Photo by MC1 Cassandra Thompson

Greenert reiterated to the Marinette reporters that historically, it’s not uncommon to have to modify a first-in-class ship’s design once it becomes operational despite best efforts to fix and find all of the bugs during the testing period.

“It really isn’t about the quality of the workmanship, I think the question is what decisions the Navy has made to build this type of ship, the decisions we collectively made as to how we were going to build them in sequence, design and changes, that’s not unusual,” Greenert said. “We need to take them deliberately and seriously and we are in as much of a partnership as we can with the General Accounting Office.”

Ultimately, the Navy is committed to the LCS Greenert said.

“This class of ship is so important to us, for its modularity, its speed, its volume,” Greenert said.

“I came here to see how are the changes coming around, what is the relationship more long term,” Greenert said to reporters at the conclusion of his confidence visit and tour of Marinette Marine. “We’re only in the starting pieces of this long program.”

industry and Sailors in the fleet.

President and CEO of Marinette Marine Chuck Goddard said efficiencies in the building process resulting from upgrades to the shipyard will drive down costs per unit of the LCS over time while the fleet’s feedback is resulting in a more superior product for our Sailors charged with protecting the world’s sea lanes.

“I’m very impressed,” Greenert told a group of Marinette reporters following his tour of the shipyard.

Greenert was equally impressed by the communication between the LCS industry and Sailors in the fleet who’s valuable feedback is enabling Marinette Marine to change designs and manufacturing processes as necessary to fix issues with current LCS models and prevent them from being integrated into future LCSs. “We have a team effort,” Greenert said about the Sailors who operate the ships and the shipbuilders in Marinette Marine. “Their feedback and connection with what Freedom is undergoing, with what Fort Worth is undergoing back into the design is impressive and it turns quickly into the shipyard.”

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By MC3 (SW) Nathan McDonald

AEAN Mathew Hanck, left, AE3 Rickey Frazier work on an F/A18C Hornet.

RPSN Michael Archer, right, and AO3 Wilbert Mitchell arrange books in the library .

ADAN Christopher Naranjo cleans an MH-60R Seahawk helicopter.

By MCSA Kelly M. Agee

By MC3 Chris Bartlett

SN Vanessa McClelland fights a simulated fire during a damage control training exercise.

By MC3 Raul Moreno Jr.

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