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October 31, 2013 • DAILY

inside: Training new pilots and Heart Saver Course

TR Welcomes New Pilots for Training Story by MCSN John M. Drew Photo by MCSN Jennifer Fournier

Pilots from Training Air Wing (TW) 2, land T-45C Goshawks aboard the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71). TW-2 trains pilots on how to properly land on and launch from the deck of an aircraft carrier. Theodore Roosevelt is currently underway conducting carrier qualifications.

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ilots from Training Air Wing One (TW-1), of Naval Air Station Meridian, Miss., and Training Air Wing Two (TW-2), of Naval Air Station Kingsville, Texas, made their first carrier landings aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71).

Both training wings flew out of Naval Air Station Jacksonville, Fla., and conducted traps, touch-and-go landings and catapult launches to earn their carrier qualifications. They practiced take-offs, landings and taxiing on an aircraft carrier flight simulator as well as actual low-altitude-short-runway landings before landing on Theodore Roosevelt.

“I am currently in advanced training, or phase two, which is the beginning of the strike syllabus where you start completing your carrier qualifications,” said Lt. j.g. Nathan Shuey, a pilot from TW-1. “After this we’ll join a weapons detachment out of Naval Air Facility El Centro in California, where we will practice air ground armaments and finish with air-to-air combat, all in the T-45C.” The pilots will begin the last steps of their training by bombing simulated surface targets and conducting simulated air combat maneuvers immediately upon receiving their carrier qualifications.

The pilots fly the T-45C Goshawk, which has greater maneuverability but half the maximum speed of the standard F/A-18C Hornet. The T-45C Goshawk entered service in 1997.

Breath of Fresh Air Story and Photo by MCSN Anthony Hilkowski

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ailors aboard USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) learned how to perform Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) during the ship’s command indoctrination class.

Sailors from Theodore Roosevelt’s Medical department taught students the proper techniques to perform CPR and become a first responder. ”CPR is very important when the ship is out to sea,” said Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Tereca Harris, the ship’s assistant heart saver coordinator. “With this training someone other than a corpsman is capable of being a first responder.”

Properly trained Sailors can make the difference in a medical emergency situation even if they are not corpsman.

“With most of the crew not being corpsman, having the training helps keep the crew safer,” said Harris. “This allows the casualty to get the treatment needed until medical arrives.”

Medical department holds training every Wednesday while in port and by appointment while underway. Call medical at J-Dial 5078 to make an appointment.

Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Tereca Harris teaches a CPR class aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71). Theodore Roosevelt is currently underway conducting carrier qualifications.

YOURNAVY IN THE NEWS First Zumwalt Class Destroyer Launched From Naval Sea Systems Command

General Dynamics Bath Iron Works successfully launched the Navy’s first Zumwalt-class destroyer Oct. 28 at their Bath, Maine shipyard.

The future USS Zumwalt (DDG 1000) will be the lead ship of the Navy’s newest destroyer class, designed for littoral operations and land attack.

The ship began its translation from Bath Iron Works’ land-level construction facility to a floating dry dock on Friday. Once loaded into the dry dock, the dock was flooded and the ship was removed from its specially designed cradle. By late Monday, the dock had been flooded and the ship was floated off and tied to a pier on the Kennebec River.

“This is the largest ship Bath Iron Works has ever constructed and the Navy’s largest destroyer.

The launch was unprecedented in both its size and complexity,” said Capt. Jim Downey, the Zumwalt-class program manager for the Navy’s Program Executive Office, Ships. “Due to meticulous planning and execution, the operation went very smoothly. I’m extremely pleased with the results and applaud the combined efforts of the Navyindustry team.”

Construction began on DDG 1000 in February 2009, and the Navy and its industry partners have worked to mature the ship’s design and ready their industrial facilities to build this advanced surface combatant. Zumwalt is currently more than 87 percent complete, and the shipbuilder will continue remaining construction work on the hull prior to delivery.

Navy Seeks Ideas from Across the Fleet on Balancing Capacity and Capabilities in Times of Constraints From Navy Warfare Development Command Public Affairs In order to generate innovative ideas on how to best maintain the capabilities and capacity of the Navy and mitigate risks in an era of constrained resources, the Navy is hosting an online collaborative event to solicit input from a broad, diverse audience. cap2con MMOWGLI - or Capacity, Capabilities and Constraints Massive Multiplayer Online War Game Leveraging the Internet - seeks creative ideas to spread mission requirements across the active, reserve and civilian forces to keep “warfighting first.”

The game will be played in two phases: Phase I - an idea discovery phase - will take place Nov. 4 - 10. Phase II, which will focus on further refining the ideas from Phase I, will be played Dec. 2 - 8. cap2con MMOWGLI is sponsored by the Chief of Navy Reserve, Navy Warfare Development Command (NWDC), Office of Naval Research and the Naval Postgraduate School.

“Some of the best ideas come from the deck plate,” said Vice Adm. Robin Braun, chief of Navy Reserve. “I believe this exercise will draw out ideas that can help the Navy best leverage the talents of our active and reserve component Sailors.”

Results of the game will be used to inform high-level discussions about future Navy force structure, strategies and capabilities across the active, reserve and civilian components.

The internet “card-based” game is easy to play. Root cards start off the game, and players build on, counter, refine or seek further information by placing their own cards on top of root cards.

Promising “card chains” form the basis for action plans that further develop the participants’ ideas. Participants can play for as little or as long as they want, 24-hours a day, from any internet browser.

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Staff Commanding Officer Capt. Daniel Grieco

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Executive Officer Capt. Mark Colombo Public Affairs Officer Lt. Cmdr. Patrick Evans

Photos by MCSN Anthony Hilkowski

Media Officer Ensign Jack Georges

Sailors from Aircraft Intermediate Maintenance Department (AIMD), IM-2 division, perform maintenance on an F/A-18 Super Hornet engine in the jet shop aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71). AIMD is responsible for the maintenance and upkeep of all jet and prop engines.

Theodore Roosevelt is currently underway conducting carrier qualifications.

Senior Editor MCC Gino Carr Editor & Layout MC3 (SW) Heath Zeigler Rough Rider Contributors Theodore Roosevelt Media MCSN John M. Drew MCSN Jennifer Founier MCSN Anthony Hilkowski Command Ombudsman April Kumley Linda Watford Michelle V. Thomas cvn71ombudsman@gmail.com

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