Nimitz news 30 mar 2017

VOL. 6 | ISSUE 7 March 30, 2017

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in this issue:

NIMITZ NEWS Capt. Kevin Lenox Commanding Officer Capt. Todd Marzano Executive Officer CMDCM Jimmy Hailey Command Master Chief

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Lt. Cmdr. Theresa Donnelly PAO Ens. Meagan Morrison DIVO MCC Ahron Arendes Media LCPO MC1 Porter Anderson Media LPO MC2 Jimmy Cellini Production LPO MC2 Andrew Price Creative Lead MC2 Holly Herline Phojo WCS MC3 Marc Cuenca Lead Designer

Serving the Future By Honoring the Past: When one generation of excellent female leadership passes the mantle down to the next, it’s hard not to keep the trend moving. Chief Sannita Boughter is taking what she learned from her aunt, and passing it on to her Sailors to continue a legacy of strong leadership in the Navy.

MC2 Jessica Gray MC2 Jose Hernandez MC2 Siobhana McEwen MC2 Ian Zagrocki MC3 Chad Anderson MC3 Samuel Bacon MC3 Kenneth Blair MC3 Colby Comery MC3 Deanna Gonzales MC3 Austin Haist MC3 Erickson Magno MC3 Weston Mohr MC3 Liana Nichols MC3 Bethany Woolsey MCSN David Claypool MCSN Ian Kinkead MCSN Cole Schroeder MCSN Leon Wong MCSA Cody Deccio MCSA Emily Johnston

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March Madness Continued: Read more about this year’s NCAA basketball tournament. Gonzaga, South Carolina, North Carolina and Oregon have all made it to the final four, which takes place on “April Fool’s Day.”

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March 21, 1917 marked the day the first female Sailor enlisted in the Navy.

Nimitz honored women’s time in service with the 100 years, 100 stories project.

More about 100 years, 100 stories at: nimitznews.wordpress.com facebook.com/cvn68/

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SERVING THE FUTURE

BY HONORING THE PAST MCSN COLE SCHROEDER

hey lead from the front and inspire others to reach beyond their own potential. They instill a positive mindset and cultivate a healthy work environment through public praise and private discipline. They know how to bring individuals together and teach them the sum is greater than its singular parts.

Senior Navy leaders pass on their knowledge accumulated over the years to ensure there is always someone ready to step up and take on a greater responsibility.

“I live by the golden rule,” said Chief Cryptologic Technician (Networks) Sannita Boughter, a native of Columbus, Ga., and Sailor aboard the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68). “It’s something I tell people all the time. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. I always treat people with the upmost respect. I think that has taken me a long way because when you treat people well and take care of them, they are inclined to do the same thing to you.

After 16 years and six duty stations, Boughter continues the Navy tradition of strong leadership through careful guidance.

“I’ve always preached a family atmosphere, no matter where you are in your career or your rank,” said Boughter.

“If you’re in my department or division, we are brothers and

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sisters because we all put on our uniform the same way.”

As with most things in life, her ability to lead and influence wasn’t self-taught, but passed down from another great leader.

Boughter’s Aunt, Jacqueline Mapp, served for 27 years and retired as a Senior Chief Information Systems Technician. Mapp’s highly successful career included serving as a Navy Recruiter, a Recruit Division Commander at Recruit Training Command Great Lakes, Ill., and the Senior Enlisted Leader at King’s Bay Submarine Base in Georgia.

From a very early age, Boughter took an interest in her aunt’s Naval career.

“I looked up to and emulated her, I actually named my first child after her,” said Boughter. “She’s played a pretty big part in my life. Even when I was a kid she took the time to mentor me and tell me things I should be doing in life.

She made sure to keep me on the straight and narrow as much as she could.”

Before Boughter had any aspirations of joining the Navy, she was enrolled in the Army ROTC. When her plans for that fell through, Mapp personally brought her in to a Navy recruiter to get her started on the right foot. As a previous recruiter, Mapp put all of Boughter’s paperwork together and made sure she had everything she needed to get

"I live by the golden rule. It's something I tell people all the time.

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."

-CTNC SANNITA BOUGHTER

her going on the path to success.

Even after Boughter was well into her career, Mapp has kept up on her niece and ensured she is successful.

“I didn’t even know it, but she would call and tell me she had been talking to people and checking up on me,” said Boughter. “She was probably just calling chiefs and asking how her niece was doing.”

Mapp has never stopped mentoring her. Every time they see each other or talk on the phone, she would ask Boughter about her career, what her next step is, and what her latest obstacles were.

Boughter’s greatest obstacle is juggling her career and being a mother of two girls. She said that the only aspect that makes her family sacrifices worth it, is the Sailors she serves with.

“I missed out on my kids and being a mom, so it was a tug of war for me” said Boughter. “But I was able to make those sacrifices because of the people that I served with, who later became family. If it hadn’t been for the people that I’ve met I would not be in the Navy now.”

Boughter has been a Chief for only three years, but that doesn’t mean she’s not proficient in getting people to work together and prosper. She promotes a healthy environment for not only her junior female Sailors but all the sailors that work within her guidance.

“It’s important to me that you are successful and the person next to you is successful, because we are all family,” said Boughter. “Your success breeds other success and also happiness, and that’s what I want for myself which means I want that for you.”

She contributes to history by molding a future generation of strong female leaders in the Navy. In her time as a chief, Boughter has already had the opportunity to sponsor a new chief during training season.

“For a chief, it doesn’t get any more intense than those six weeks. Having her thank me for her success after her

granddad, a retired master chief, pinned her was a big deal to me,” said Boughter.

This mentorship and leadership can be considered a driving force behind the success of the Navy. For a secondgeneration female chief like Boughter, and her predecessor Mapp, the success of their careers comes from the success of those serving under their guidance. The Navy prides itself on its creed, and these two women live it every day. They represent those who came before them and make the Navy a better organization because of it.

“My military family is what kept me in, and I want to take care of my sailors now and pay homage to those that took care of me and kept me in,” said Boughter. “I want to turn around and give that back.”

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MARCH MADNESS Part 3

MCSN IAN KINKEAD

The Final Four is set, and the true hype of March Madness is at its peak as the four best college basketball teams have been decided. The clash of the last four teams will begin and end on April Fool’s Day. Then two days later the final two teams will set foot on the hardwood to decide who gets to cut the nets. At this point it is a toss-up who will win, but that makes this year’s big dance no different than most.

There have been free throws missed, dunks thrown down and nets ripped with three-pointers through the first half of the tournament. The end of the big dance is within sight, sadly unlike the end of COMPTUEX. The drama of March Madness continues as Oregon (3) upsets Kansas (1), and Gonzaga (1) puts an end to Xavier’s (11) Cinderella story with a steamroll victory. North Carolina (1) beats Kentucky (2) in the last second of the game, and South Carolina (7) continues to scrap along as an underdog.

FINAL FOUR BOUND

GONZAGA (1): After being condemned by some critics for riding through the season with an easy schedule. The Zags have proved that they are worthy of the first seed placement that they received. They dismantled Xavier (11) with a final score of 83 to 59, as Nigel Williams-Goss scored 23 points and snatched 8 rebounds. They currently maintain a record of 36 wins and 1 loss.

OREGON (3): This is the biggest surprise to a lot of fans who have been following college basketball this season. Going into the tournament Kansas (1) was one of the most commonly picked teams to cut down the nets, but after a dominant first half and a fundamentally sound second. The Ducks were able to bring down Kansas with a final score of 74 to 60 behind Tyler Dorsey’s 27 points.

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SOUTH CAROLINA (7): It has been a tough road for this tournament’s lowest seed to make it to the Final Four. Their first strong opponent was Duke (2), a team nobody gave them a chance against, who they surprisingly beat in a high-scoring game 88 to 81. Sindarius Thornwell scored 26 points, and the Gamecocks shot 13 for 14 from the charity stripe in a victory against Florida (4), which earned them their spot in the Final Four.

NORTH CAROLINA (1): No surprise here that the Tar Heels are still in the running. After a tight game with Kentucky (2), coach Roy Williams is probably feeling some relief to finally get his team back to the Final Four. Behind Kennedy Meeks’ 17 rebounds and Luke Maye’s go ahead shot with .3 seconds left in the game. The Tar heels were able to climb past the Wildcats, and get one step closer to the championship.

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weekly throwback Sailors aboard Nimitz host a ship-wide broadcast announcement while on deployment in 1976.

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through | the | lens

Chief Boatswain’s Mate John Parkowski, a native of North Baltimore, Ohio, supervises an underway replenishment-at-sea with the guidedmissile cruiser USS Princeton (CG 59). Photo by MCSN Cole Schroeder The guided-missile destroyer USS Shoup (DDG 86) and the guided-missile cruiser USS Princeton (CG 59) steam in formation during a training exercise. Photo by MC3 Samuel Bacon Lt. j.g. Virgilio Fermin, a native of Miami, fires an M240 machine gun under the instruction of Master-at-Arms 1st Class William Elliott, a native of Perris, Calif., during a live-fire exercise. Photo by MCSN Leon Wong

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FROM capt. DAVID OWEN, INSURV CHIEF OF STAFF he difference between a good ship and a great ship basically comes down to the crew. This was indeed the case for Nimitz. Despite being the first in its class, and the Navy’s oldest aircraft carrier coming in at a cool age of 42, Nimitz looks like she can go on for another 40 years without missing a beat.

With the majority of Nimitz’ Sailors not even born into this world when she first started defending our country and went into harms’ way for the first time, they are most certainly the reason Nimitz was so impressive during their recent Material inspection (MI). The ship was exceptionally clean with sparkle on the shine with little imperfections that showed her true age.

The crew was well organized and with ample khaki leadership on the deck plates, Nimitz successfully executed her Schedule of Events (SOE), finishing the bulk of functional areas and material checks in record time.

During her MI an old dog taught our Board a couple of new tricks. The long range and self-defense Detectto-Engage underway demonstrations were expertly executed in a manner that had not been seen before, scoring out with perfect 100’s.

What was most impressive however was how the Tactical Action Officer, who’s call sign is “Struggle Bus” for undisclosed reasons, expertly orchestrated and maneuvered the evolutions. His simultaneous handling of the two aircraft, both conducting steps of the two events concurrently, flexed the systems and the watch standers, who were both very much open to the challenge.

It was like watching a 1980’s video game phenom racking up high scores on Space Invaders with one hand and PACMAN on the other.

Overall, Nimitz had a great showing and exceptional performance by the entire crew. Bravo Zulu Nimitz on completing an impressive MI. I anticipate the ship shining for many years.

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