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Local Girl Music4Life puts guitars Scouts bring in the hands of youth holiday cheer

BY CHRIS BASHAM STAFF WRITER

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BY YVONNE JONES TROOP #5600 LEADER

The Christmas spirit led Girl Scout Troop #5600 to a nursing home in Fort Washington, Md. to spread holiday cheer. The members of the troop prepared more than 120 holiday greeting cards, along with assorted stocking stuffers for distribution Dec. 15, 2013.

The Girl Scouts spent over an hour walking the halls of the nursing home, alongside a local church group that sang Christmas Carols. They knocked

on doors and asked residents if they could come in to drop off their holiday treats, bringing smiles to the faces of many.

“Some of them looked really sad until we arrived,” said Girl Scout Jasmine Burks.

The troop plans to visit again in the new year so that the residents of the nursing home are aware that they have not been forgotten.

When asked “How does it feel to help others,” by their troop leader, they all replied with the same answer: “Great!”

Holiday closures at Malcolm Grow Arrange for prescription refills now Malcolm Grow Medical Clinics and Surgery Center will be closed on the following dates: Dec. 25 – Christmas Day Dec. 26 – Family Day Jan. 1 – New Year’s Day Jan. 2 – Family Day There will be no appointments on these days. The Emergent Care Center at Joint Base Andrews will remain open. The pharmacy will be closed.

Prescription refills called in BEFORE noon Dec. 24 will be available for pick-up after 12 p.m. Dec. 27.

All other refills request-

ed after noon Dec. 24 will be available for pick-up Dec. 31 after 12 p.m.

Prescription refills called in BEFORE noon on Dec. 31 will be available for pickup after 12 p.m. Jan. 3.

All other refills requested after Dec. 31 will be available for pick-up after 12 p.m. Jan. 6.

If an urgent need arises, patients are welcome to use the Emergent Care Center.

If the illness is not an emergency and the condition can wait, the medical group will be open for full services Dec. 27-31 and Jan. 3.

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Each Wednesday evening, a small group of young, budding musicians gathers in the Joint Base Andrews Youth Center to study how to play guitar. The students, usually between the ages of 12 and 16, learn the parts of the guitar, how to play basic chords and songs, but there’s a lot more to it than the class, provided for free by volunteers with Music4Life, a nonprofit organization which offers music lessons to young people at no cost. It’s an opportunity to focus on creative expression, and concentrate on beautiful, meaningful music of their own devising.

It’s a skill, and a joy, volunteer Kevin Kremer hopes today’s crop of young musicians will carry throughout their lives.

The program is officially eight weeks long. Students receive a guitar, tuner and lessons aimed at the absolute beginner. Music4Life has classes offered across the region, generally aiming to reach children who might be otherwise unable to take advantage of music classes outside of the school day, explained Music4Life President Skip Chaples.

Volunteer instructor Kevin Kremer has been part of Music4Life since 2008, when he started teaching guitar at a Boys and Girls Club in Alexandria, Va. The self-taught guitarist and former service member thought of the many children of deployed parents in our area and decided to focus on teaching youth affiliated with local military bases. He taught classes at Fort Belvoir for two years, before moving to Clinton, Md. and launching Music4Life classes at Andrews more than three years ago.

Though he is serious about teaching proper technique and musicality, he knows he’s there for more than just passing down the skills he has developed as a guitarist.

“The great thing about Music4Life is to engage

Josiah Wiggins, 12, practices new chords during Music4Life class.

and mentor kids through music,” Kremer said.

After an eight to 12-week series of classes, students take a test which, if they pass, allows them to keep their guitars, provided for free.

“The costs are borne by the program,” said Kremer.

“Skip does work with the Rotary Club and music festivals (to raise funds) and the teaching is all volunteer, so the only costs are the guitars and tuners.”

Keeping the classes and guitars free for any interested youth makes musical expression possible for

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Music4Life volunteer Kevin Kremer leads a group of young guitar students through introductory lessons.

children who might not feel able to pay for an instrument and the introductory

lessons which will allow them to test their interest in guitar.

Wreaths Across America honors veterans at local cemetery

BY CHRIS BASHAM STAFF WRITER

On Dec. 14, dozens of volunteers gathered at the Maryland Veterans Cemetery in Cheltenham, Md. to honor veterans and the holiday season with a solemn wreath laying ceremony outside the cemetery’s chapel. Accompanied by a Revolutionary War honor guard from the Sons of the American Revolution and the playing of Taps by an Army Reserves bugler, relatives and community members laid wreaths for the Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force, Merchant Marine, Coast Guard and prisoners of war/service members missing in action.

After the formal ceremony, volunteers placed more

than 160 wreaths, purchased through a fundraiser coordinated by Calverton School parent Kelly Urtso, atop grave markers and at the base of columbaria throughout the cemetery.

“We thought it would be a great twofold experience, both a fundraiser and a community service project for the students,” said Urtso, who added that many Calverton School students and parents were among those present for the wreath laying on Wreaths Across America Day, which was also honored at approximately 900 other sites around the country and abroad, according to an email from national Wreaths Across America leadership.

“Our family has been in-

Maj. Tom Vineer of the Civil Air Patrol Maryland Wing hands former Joint Base Andrews Vice Commander Col. Greg Urtso a wreath to be placed on a grave site at the Maryland Veterans Cemetery in Cheltenham, Md.

volved with Wreaths Across America for about four years, now,” said Col. Greg Urtso, husband of Kelly

Urtso and former vice commander of Joint Base An-

see WREATH, page 7

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After laying wreaths, a volunteer takes a quiet moment to reflect.

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BY CHRIS BASHAM STAFF WRITER

Jas Boothe, founder of Alexandria, Va.-based nonprofit Final Salute, Inc., was surprised by the email she received from one of her organization’s supporters, asking if she knew that one of Final Salute’s transitional group homes for homeless, female veterans and their children was being sold at public auction.

“We’d been paying our rent each month, and RPJ Housing cashed the checks, but they didn’t pay the mortgage. They used our rent money to pay their organization’s payroll and operating expenses, until the house went into foreclosure, and never told us,” Boothe said.

This is not the first time RPJ Housing, an Alexandria, Va.-based nonprofit founded by the Presbyterian Church to provide low-income housing across Northern Virginia, has gotten into trouble because of shady financial practices. In 2010, RPJ Housing?s former director, Herbert J. Cooper-Levy, resigned after being accused of forging a zoning document in Fairfax County to secure more than $700,000 in

public loans. In June 2011, the Alexandria City Council voted to bail RPJ Housing out of $9.5 million in BB&T loans to preserve the city’s interests in three low income housing properties for which RPJ was delinquent.

Boothe said that when she learned that one of the homes Final Salute, Inc. has been renting from RPJ Housing Inc. to provide transitional housing for homeless, female veterans was up for auction, “I thought, ‘That can’t be right.’ So, we reached out to RBJ, and their phone number was disconnected. They did not respond to our emails. We reached the lender, who said RPJ had not been paying their bills for months, so the lender had no choice to foreclose, but the mortgage is not with us. It’s with RPJ. That makes our lease null and void.”

Boothe asked the mortgage holder what options she had. Since the property was already on the public auction list, “they said to show up to the auction and bid for it,” Boothe did. Final Salute, Inc. won the house at auction, but now has to find a way to fund its $455,000 mortgage.

“I just basically broke into tears.

Where am I going to get that money from?” Boothe said of the moment she realized that saving the home was possible, if she could raise the money for it.

Boothe said Final Salute, Inc. considered filing suit against RPJ to recover their lost rent, but has been informed that the organization has several other properties in foreclosure.

“They’ve been lining their pockets, not paying the mortgages on any of their nonprofits,” Boothe said. “We’d just be wasting our money, to sue. When we (first moved into) the house, it was not nabitable.

We put a lot of work and money into it. They understood that. They just took the money and ran.”

The Andrews Gazette’s calls to RPJ Housing were not answered.

Boothe is working to raise a substantial portion of the $455,000 mortgage in donations, through her organization’s web site, by Jan. 15. “We hope that if we can raise $200,000 by then, we can get a mortgage for the rest,” Boothe said.

To contribute, visit www.finalsaluteinc.org.

seeing more people access help through the Military Crisis Line, and an increase in users for mental health help across the department,” a spokesman said. Trained counselors are available 24/7 at 800-2738255. In addition, help is available at www.veteranscrisisline.net/ActiveDuty.aspx, with access to counselors in person and through online chats and text messaging. The Department of Veterans Affairs also offers help.

change Service facility at Fort Belvoir, Va., is the largest branded store in the continental United States. It incorporates the main store, food court, home and garden, military clothing sales, concessions and a satellite pharmacy in one shopping complex. Its 22 mall stores are 12 more than were in the previous building. Included are four new outlets in the food court. The former exchange building will be demolished to make room for a new commissary, now located next door.

Retiree Corner COURTESY OF THE RETIREE ACTIVITIES OFFICE

Mental health services can help

Making sure people know where to turn for help during a time of crisis is the continuing goal of the Defense Department’s suicide prevention program. DoD has a plethora of resources specific to service members and their families who have thoughts of suicide. The Pentagon has worked diligently for several years to erase the stigma of seeking help for mental health issues, and it appears to be paying off. “We’re

New Belvoir Exchange grows

The new Army & Air Force Ex-

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Shoppers stuff Capital Area Food Bank truck with donations

BY CHRIS BASHAM STAFF WRITER

The Washington, D.C.based Capital Area Food Bank provides nearly 30 million pounds of food to more than 478,000 people in the Washington metro area, including on and around Joint Base Andrews, through partnerships with local food pantries, soup kitchens, fresh produce “mobile market” distributions and other avenues of aid to people who are struggling to feed their families. For the past twelve years, as part of their effort to reach out to the community, CAFB has operated an annual Stuff A Truck one-day fundraiser, collecting food and monetary donations at grocery stores around the region.

This year, Stuff A Truck was held Dec. 13 at stores in Northeast Washington, D.C., Hyattsville and Rockville, Md. and Fairfax, Va. “We’re getting people who are very generously

donating, and also meeting people who say their food stamps have been cut and they need help, so it’s good to tell them to give us all call,” said Greenbelt resident Shannon Bailey, who works as the executive assistant to CAFB CEO Nancy Roman, and who also was volunteering for Stuff A Truck outside of a Giant Food store in Hyattsville.

Shoppers were welcome to contribute any food they thought suitable, but CAFB has a list of “most wanted” items, prized for their high nutritional value and popularity with families, since most people who rely on food assistance do so to feed their children. Throughout the year, CAFB requests that donors emphasize contributing canned fruits in light syrup or juice, low sodium or no salt added canned vegetables, hot and cold cereals, pasta sauces, rice and pasta, canned chicken and tuna, soups, beans, 100 percent juices, peanut butter, whole grains and

Millicent Lawrence of Hyattsville, left, hands grocery donations to Capital Area Food Bank volunteer Alanah Bailey, 16, of Greenbelt.

granola bars and other healthy snack foods appropriate for children and their busy parents.

“People come by with their car trucks full of donations,” said Bailey’s daughter, Alanah Bailey, who at 16 is a veteran Stuff A Truck Volunteer.

“Basically, at all events (CAFB) has, I volunteer.

I have more than enough hours for school. It’s a lot of fun, and I like to help people and be around peo-

Senate confirms James as next secretary of the Air Force WASHINGTON (AFNS) -- Deborah Lee James will be the next secretary of the Air Force, according to a Senate confirmation vote Dec 13.

James provided testimony to the Senate Armed Services Committee Sept.

19, before the full Senate voted on her confirmation.

Now the president must appoint her before she can assume her new position.

“I view this opportunity as the privilege and an honor of a lifetime. I will work very hard to insure that I live up to what is an enormous amount of trust that may be placed in me,”

said James during her confirmation hearing. “My goal would be to leave our Air Force some years from now on a path toward greater capability and better affordability for our taxpayers, and with the people who underpin everything who are second to none.”

Undersecretary of the Air Force Eric Fanning assumed the role of acting when then-Secretary of the Air Force Michael B. Donley stepped down in June.

President Obama nominated James Aug. 1, 2013.

At that time, she was serving as president of the technology and engineering sec-

ple. And at the end of the day, it’s good karma.”

More than 21,000 CAFB volunteers help collect, sort, package and distribute food so that it can reach hungry area families.

CAFB Communications Manager Shamia Holloway said that this year’s Stuff A Truck drive yielded $56,000.65 in cash doPHOTOS/CHRIS BASHAM nations, and 43,818 lbs. of Angela Yeoman of Hyattsville, left, donates groceries to food. Of that total, 8,246 the Capital Area Food Bank as CAFB volunteer Alanah lbs. of food was collected Bailey, 16, of Greenbelt, looks on. at the Hyattsville site.

Budget, manning cuts further limit base tax preparation center

BY CAPT. CHASE GUNNELL 11TH WING ASSISTANT STAFF JUDGE ADVOCATE

U.S. AIR FORCE PHOTO/JIM VARHEGYI

Deborah Lee James

tor at Science Applications International Corporation.

Pending the president’s appointment, James will be sworn into the position this month.

Due to current budget and manning cuts, the 2014 JBA Tax Center here will no longer be able to offer full-fledged tax preparation services as in years past.

This year, the tax center will operate on a limited basis.

The volunteers at the tax center will serve as advisers to those who want assistance with their tax returns. The advisers will no longer be able to prepare taxes, but will be available to answer

any questions that might arise.

The tax center will be open 8 a.m. - 4 p.m. every Friday starting Feb. 1, 2014, in room 2550 of the Jones Building.

In addition to the tax center, there are many resources available to military members and their families.

For instance, www.militaryonesource. mil offers a free tax filing service for members of the United States Armed Forces.

Additionally, many companies offer free e-filing to the general public for federal returns.

For more information, call the legal office at 240-612-5750.

For more news from other bases around the Washington, D.C. area,

visit www.dcmilitary.com.

Learn to start your own business

BY TRACEY P. WOOD

MOUNT VERNON-LEE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

Military spouses and personnel: Do you ever wonder what it would take to start your own business? Attend a free business start-up roundtable with the Southeast Fairfax Development Corporation on Friday, Jan. 10, 2014.

Three entrepreneurs will share their business start-up success stories and answer your questions. The three speakers are: Tracey Wood—an Army wife for 26 years and business owner for 23 years. Founder, President/CEO of Inkwell Duck, Inc., a business-to-government communications consulting firm that assists businesses with government contract award wins.

Wood enjoys talking with other military families about the entrepreneurial option of making a living.

Sonja Caison—a former Wall Street ex-

ecutive who investigated several franchises as a door to entrepreneurial success, owner of The Cleaning Authority franchise. Caison is also a member of Community Business Partnership, a non-profit organization that offers support and training for business owners.

Vik Patel—the event host and a hospitality entrepreneur who owns the Springhill Suites. He will share how and why he chose to enter the hospitality field and lessons learned through his start-up journey.

Mark your calendar to attend this free event that could make 2014 a financial game change.

8:30 a.m. – 10 a.m., Friday, Jan. 10, 2014 Springhill Suites, 6065 Richmond Highway, Alexandria, Va. For more information contact Edythe Kelleher, Executive Director of the South Fairfax Development Corporation, at edythe.kelleher@sfdc.org, 703-360-5008 or 703-867-5697.

Readers speak out It’s time to grow up

BY AMY MILOR

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA.

I look around at my community and I look hard at myself. I look at our government. I look at the world at large. I am a keen observer. And what I come to at the end of the day is that many of us need to grow up a bit and get over ourselves.

I say that to no one louder than I say it to myself. I am able to do that now, at the age of 53, with an empty nest and lots of time to self-examine. My job has certainly helped me to take this look at things in a new way.

I am blessed with a job as an Instructional Assistant in an inner city elementary school. I work in a preschool classroom with three-year-olds, many of whom have special needs or disabilities. What I am relearning as an adult is so very simple and

yet vital: I want to always be the kind of person that I am teaching these little ones to be. I see my own failings some days.

Our school rules are this: Be Kind.

Be A Thinker.

Be Respectful.

Be Considerate of People, even if they are different than yourself.

Be Safe.

In the classroom where I work we have certain goals for our students over the course of the year, and while many are purely academic, and that is important, the others carry as much weight, in my opinion.

We teach our children to get in touch with their emotions and express them appropriately. We teach them to ask for help

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Operation Red Dawn: A decade of prosperity in Kurdisan, Iraq

BY ZAMAWANG ALMEMAR

SPECIAL TO THE ANDREWS GAZETTE

To most people, Red Dawn is a movie from the 1980s; to me, Operation Red Dawn goes down as one of the most historic events in my lifetime. Dec. 13, 2003 was the day that changed the lives of millions of men, women, and children, when one of the world’s most violent dictators, Saddam Hussein, was captured and his atrocities were put to an end. This operation carried out by the U.S. military special forces marks an unforgettable event that will forever be written into history books.

Hussein, the dictator of Iraq, was unquestionably one of the most violent rulers in the Middle East. Under his regime, millions of men, women, adolescents and children were tortured, exiled and killed. He was a tyrant known for killing his own people, including Kurds and Arabs. He did not take religion or origin into account; his ultimate goal was to kill many so the world could realize his unmatched power. As a Kurd from the mountains of Kurdistan, Iraq, I had no freedom of speech. Hussein needed no reason to torture; often it could be just a passer-by who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Since his first day in office in 1979, as a ruler of Iraq, his priority had been to make the Middle East aware of his endless power by putting his own people through

famine, embargo, war and massacre. This is all I knew growing up in Kurdistan. I believed I would never be able to learn the word democracy, let alone practice it.

Such term did not exist in our dictionary … not until the arrival of the Americans in the early 1990s.

With the American humanitarian organizations moving into Kurdistan, being one of the fortunate ones, my family was introduced to one of these organizations. In 1997, as part of Operation Pacific Haven, the U.S. military gave us a chance at democracy. They helped us realize our rights as human beings and let us get a taste of freedom that we all deserve. They brought us to the United States under asylum status and allowed us to discover the opportunities that democracy could bring to a nation.

The U.S. military helped us realize our freedom once again when they moved into Iraq as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom. On that glorious Saturday night of Dec. 13, 2003, a tyrant’s hideaway was uncovered as Hussein was pulled out of a rat hole. It is difficult to explain in words this scene, but the magnitude of its impact on the Middle East was incalculable. The news of his capture soon went viral and people of all origins took to the streets to celebrate the end of a dictatorship. Although some people still had doubts as to whether or not the images of the captive were factual, they were hopeful that the end of that regime had finally arrived.

I knew in my heart that this day would lead to thousands of doors of opportunities opening for the Iraqis in general, and the Kurds in particular. Never in my lifetime had there been a day when I could freely practice my rights as a human being. My childhood was full of living in constant fear: Fear of my school being bombed the next day, my brothers being forcefully enlisted in Hussein’s army and then ultimately killed, and just constant fear of losing my whole family. This day changed all that and wiped away all my fear!

The successes of Operation Red Dawn re-wrote history, and with the aid of the U.S. Coalition Forces and their Kurdish counterparts, the end was defined for a dictator known for mass genocide.

Fast-forward a decade, and this week we celebrated the 10-year anniversary of one of the most extraordinary and remarkable events ever recorded in Iraq’s history. Ten years later, my emotions still run wild, as that day, the dreams of millions came true. Such an event would have never been possible without the immeasurable bravery of the American Soldiers and their Kurdish counterparts - a true heroism and legacy of valor.

So as you celebrate this holiday season with family and friends, remember those who continue to fight on the front lines and those who stand ready to protect our freedom each and every day.

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From December 6 “Now.. If I can just twist her head a little bit more, I won’t have to finish this.”

--Subrena Alford

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Youth Center students bake for Airmen

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From left, Destiny Bethea, 10; Troyvette Thomas, 11, and James Campbell, 13 place cookie dough on baking sheets.

From left, Destiny Bethea, 10, and Amoni Hawkins, 11, both of Upper Marlboro, pack freshly baked sugar cookies for enlisted Airmen living in the dorms on Joint Base Andrews.

BY CHRIS BASHAM STAFF WRITER

When the Andrews Officers’ Spouses Club put out the call for baked goods to deliver a taste of holidays from home to Joint Base Andrews’ young Airmen living in the dorms, the teens and preteens involved in the JBA youth center’s Keystone Club for high school students and Torch Club for middle schoolers were ready to fire up the ovens at the youth center and bake 360 cookies to contribute to the effort. That’s 30 dozen chocolate chip, sugar and peanut butter cookies, baked with the enthusiasm of youth--and a little super-

vision from Youth Director Anne Tierney Young and Assistant Director Matrisse Adger.

For Keystone Club Vice President Shanazia Thompson, 15, of Morningside, Md., baking cookies for Airmen far from home fits right in with her reasons for joining the Keystone Club.

“I was curious, and they were talking about volunteering in the community, and I like volunteering,” said Shanazia. “The Keystone Club is like a community group. We get to volunteer, plan stuff, travel. Everybody’s friendly, everybody laughs. No one’s like, ‘I don’t like you.’ It’s a

GROW UP, from page 3 when they need it. We teach them to always be kind to their friends and classmates. We teach them to think for themselves and find strategies for solving problems. We teach them to be honest. We instill basic manners - please, thank you, you’re welcome, I am sorry. Those words can change a day from bad to good. We

good atmosphere..”

Youth Director Anne Tierney Young said that there is no specific time of year when students join the Keystone Club or the Torch Club, which each meet on Wednesday evenings throughout the year.

“You can join whenever.

The more involved you are in it, the more opportunities you’ll have to travel and do more stuff,” said Young.

After helping with the cookie drive and last weekend’s Breakfast with Santa on base, the Keystone Club’s next big group activity will take place on Martin Luther King Day. “We’ll be making a Mar-

teach them to be proactive, not reactive.

We teach them how to resolve disputes in a healthy way. We teach them to calm themselves when things get messy and they need a break from it all. We do yoga and deep breathing with them daily. And they are learning to read and write and count.

I think I learn more from them some days than they do from me. And I am not above putting myself in the timeout chair in front of them, when I need a breather.

JBA Buzz

What’s your favorite holiday food or refreshment?

Shandria Jones

“For me it’s this holiday punch that my aunt makes during the holiday season. Because of our South American roots she puts fruit in it like grapes, pineapple chunks, cinnamon sticks and a little cloves. It’s very good.”

“My favorite holiday food is sweet potatoes.”

Daunte Roberts

“I grew up in the South and I have to have some bourbon pecan pie during the holidays.”

Staff Sgt. Brandi Tremmel, 99th Airlift Squadron Communications System operator

Keystone Club Vice President Shanazia Thompson, 15, of Morningside, prepares to bake Christmas cookies for enlisted Airmen living in the dorms on Joint Base Andrews as youth activities coordinator Anne Tierney Young observes.

Distracted driving will get you stopped

BY STAFF SGT. BRANDON J. REED 11 SFS CONFINEMENT NCO

Members of the 11th Security Forces Squadron will be actively enforcing the distracted driving policy starting Jan. 6, 2014.

The 11th SFS will issue an immediate suspension of base driving privileges to offenders who are cited for distracted driving, for example: using a cell phone without a hands-free device, using electronic devices that distract the driver and conducting any actions that prevent the driver from operating the vehicle in a safe manner. Security Forces will take into account all surrounding circumstances while determining if the driver was distracted while operating the vehicle.

Drivers who are ticketed will be issued a citation for their violation, referenced in AFI 31-218 Motor Vehicle Traffic Supervision. There will be an immediate, 30-day suspension of driving privileges, starting from the date the letter was issued. If the operator is cited for distracted driving

within one year of the original citation, a 90-day suspension will be issued for the second violation. Additionally, if the operator is cited for distracted driving while on any type of distracted driving suspension an additional two-year suspension will be issued. Per standard procedure, individuals can request restricted privileges, reinstatement, or a hearing to vacate the suspension.

Upon issue of the citation, patrolmen will annotate that an immediate suspension was issued for distracted driving. If an individual is cited for distracted driving, no points will be assessed toward their on-base driving privileges. The operator will not be allowed to drive their vehicle after the suspension has been issued.

Members of the 11th SFS will follow the same procedures for civilians, contractors or any other non-military personnel who receive a citation. These operators are further required to pay a fine or appear in court for the Maryland traffic offense.

Security Forces Police Blotter

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“My favorite holiday food is mac and cheese.”

tin Luther King video, at the location where he gave his ‘I Have A Dream’ speech, interviewing people about the meaning of the speech,” Young said. The video will be shown on the Keystone Club’s Facebook page and YouTube channel.

Before the project has even started, though, Shanazia is already thinking about the impact King’s speech can have on those who have ears to hear.

“To me, a lot of kids don’t use it, nowadays, and that leads to them being ignorant,” Shanazia said. “If we were really listening to his speech, they’d be more intelligent in their actions in everyday life.”

The Security Forces Blotter is intended to keep members of the Joint Base Andrews Community informed and aware of the crimes and offenses that occur thoroughout the base each week. If you have any information that may help the Security Forces solve a crime or prevent a criminal act, please contact BDOC (Base Defense Operations Center) at 301-9812001, CRIME STOP LINE 301-981-2677 (COPS), or the investigations section at 301-981-5656.

4:01 p.m., Dec. 6, 2013: SF responded to JBA Liberty Park housing for damage to personal property. This incident was referred to 11 SFS/S3I for further investigation.

10:08 p.m., Dec. 6, 2013: A physical altercation occurred on JBA Liberty Park housing area. Both individuals were charged accordingly.

6:32 a.m., Dec. 7, 2013: An Airman

was arrested off base by Prince Georges County law enforcement officials for disorderly conduct. Individual was released to First Sergeant.

1:45 p.m., Dec. 7, 2013: An individual made contact with BDOC and stated that he accidentally struck one of the radiation barriers while entering through Pearl Harbor gate.

2:19 p.m., Dec. 7, 2013: SF responded to a theft at the Base Exchange. Individual was detained by the Loss Prevention office. The individual was charged accordingly. The price of the amount stolen was $33.00.

6:20 p.m., Dec. 9, 2013: SF responded to damage of government property to a government-owned vehicle on the West side flight line. SF determined that the damage was due to a loading pallet that struck the vehicle, causing a dent in the vehicle.

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Fitness Tip

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Do you like your yoga plain or flavored?

Positive thinking and meditation Based on these principles, people who train with yoga can benefit.

Yoga will most likely make you more flexible. That’s probably a good thing. It will also help with everyday mobility and flexibility. That’s especially true for people who perform repetitive motions, such as hunching over a computer. The stretching and strengthening in yoga may help manage body imbalances, as well as improve general flexibility.

Yoga improves your balance and body awareness. Many yoga poses can improve your stability and agility and your awareness of where your body is in space.

Those skills are enormously helpful in sports, and in life.

Yoga can strengthen your core. Strengthening the muscles in your back, midsection, and butt will give you the stability to improve the power of your move-

BY SABINE LOPEZ

FITNESS AND OPERATIONS SPECIALIST WEST FITNESS CENTER

When some people think of yoga they think of stretching, funny looking poses, and maybe yoga pants. However, yoga is more than mastering postures and increasing your flexibility and strength.

Yoga has been practiced for more than 5,000 years. In Hinduism and Buddhism yoga means “spiritual discipline.”

The traditional purpose of yoga has always been to bring about a profound transformation. Even though people often associate yoga with postures and stances, those have been a part of yoga for “only” 2,000 years.

Modern yoga is based on five basic principles: Proper relaxation Proper exercise Proper breathing Proper diet

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ments and reduce injuries.

Yoga provides a chance for active recovery, preventing overtraining. Yoga promotes active recovery, due to relaxation, slower movement patterns, and time off from beating yourself up.

Yoga improves your mental state. The mental attention and mindfulness that yoga teaches can help people learn how to relax, focus, and control breathing.

Beyond improving performance, yoga promotes balance in life as well as body.

A word of caution: Yoga has the potential to hurt you, so take it easy. Yoga can push the muscles past their functional range of motion so be careful. Don’t assume that your ability in other sports means you can jump into an advanced yoga class. Start in a beginner class and make your way up to an advanced class to enjoy the benefits of this 5,000 year tradition.

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Shaquille Luke, 459th Air Refueling Wing guard, navigates between 89th Aerial Port Squadron team members during an Intramural Basketball game at the West Fitness Center Dec. 11. The 459th ARW soundly beat the 89th APS team, 49 to 21.

Rod Robinson, 459th Air Refueling Wing center, goes up strong for two points during the second half of an Intramural Basketball game against the 89th Aerial Port Squadron.

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Known as Code Talkers, Native Americans learned early on the advantages of their tribal tongues, using indecipherable messages to confuse the enemy. The code talker mission remained classified for decades after World War II. Navajo Code Talkers created a code that was within the Navajo language. Even another Navajo speaker would not be able to understand it. Others tribes also coded their languages. The United States did not consider native Americans citizens until 1924. The military first enlisted native Americans to relay messages in their native languages during World War I. The program was expanded during World War II. Soldiers from the Comanche, Meskwaki, Sioux, Crow, Hopi and Cree nations took part in the effort. Out of more than 500 tribes, each with distinct languages, about 200 to 250 dialects remain in use today. The National Museum of the American Indian is one of 18 museums within the Smithsonian Institution. It has affiliate locations at the Cultural Resources Center in Suitland, Md., the National Museum on the Mall in Washington and in New York City.

The Retiree Activities Office is open 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Monday through Friday. Visit the office in Building 1604 at California and Colorado Avenues or call us at 301-981-2726. Our e-mail address is rao@andrews.af.mil. Call the office before your visit to ensure a volunteer is on duty. The RAO has a website at www.andrews.af.mil; Under “Helpful Links” click on “Retirees Activity Office” for information on retiree subjects, including past copies of “Retiree Corner.”

For more news from other bases around the Washington, D.C. area,

visit www.dcmilitary.com.

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Pentagon offers free Fit to Win wellness program

BY NATALIE HEDRICK DILORENZO TRICARE HEALTH CLINIC

Washington, D.C. — In the middle of the DiLorenzo TRICARE Health Clinic in the Pentagon lays a gold mine of information and activities aimed at assisting Pentagon employees in living a healthier life.

The Fit To Win Wellness Clinic was established back in the late 1980s to operationally implement the Army’s health promotion regulation. Over the years, courses have been added and altered to adapt to the military’s progressing wellness programs.

These courses include Healthy Base Initiative, Operation Live Well, and the Army Surgeon General’s Performance Triad.

Nutrition and exercise are the foundations of this health promotion program and Fit To Win offers several classes and activities that will help participants enhance their fitness lev-

els, quit smoking and using tobacco, recognize and manage potential health issues and achieve a healthy weight.

It’s not a secret that a smoke- and tobacco-free life is a healthier life. The three- part Tobacco Cessation class, “Quit to Win” will arm you with the tools you need to quit for life.

Active duty service members will also get the opportunity to meet with a provider to discuss prescription assistance for quitting tobacco. Visit the DTHC website for monthly class schedules.

Fit To Win offers an array of tests to ensure you are functioning at your best when you exercise including Aerobic Capacity testing, Lactate testing, Corrective Exercise screening, Ultrasound Bone Density testing and Body Composition testing using the Bod Pod measures your weight and body fat.

Fit To Win also offers a

A service member walks on a treadmill while wearing a mask as Roberto Ruiz, an exercise physiologist at the Fit To Win clinic located at the DiLorenzo TRICARE Health Clinic at the Pentagon. The mask directly measures a person’s ventilation, oxygen consumption, carbon dioxide production, and lactate threshold while they are put through a test that lasts about 15 to 20 minutes.

Running Gait assessment that assist with finding the right running shoe based on the results from tests that measure your gait, biomechanics and weight.

Eating is a necessity of life. Learn how to do it right. Fit To Win offers sev-

eral classes on how to fuel your body to maximize its efficiency, plan and cook a healthy meal for you and your family and manage weight. Visit the DTHC website for monthly class schedules at www.dthc. capmed.mil.

A service member sits in the “Bod Pod” at the Fit To Win clinic located at the DiLorenzo TRICARE Health Clinic at the Pentagon. The Bod Pod is a device that measures a person’s body composition. The person’s weight will be taken and body fat calculated during the process.

Air Force announces additional force management programs to reduce force size WASHINGTON (AFNS) -- Air Force leaders announced force management programs Dec. 11 designed to reduce the force by thousands of Airmen over the next five years as a result of sequestration.

Fiscal 2014 force management initiatives are in addition to the announcement made in July, stating the Air Force will implement several force management programs to meet budget reduction requirements.

Air Force leaders made the decision to announce the overall strategic plan now so that Airmen have the necessary time to consider all their career options.

During testimony to the House Armed Services Committee in November, Gen. Mark A. Welsh III, the Air Force chief of staff, said long-term impacts of sequestration could force the service to cut about 25,000 Airmen over the next five years.

“The difference from years past is that we announced voluntary programs first, then involuntary,” said Lt. Gen. Samuel Cox, the deputy chief of staff for Manpower, Personnel and Services. “This year, due to the limited time frame, we’re announcing all programs at once to allow Airmen time to consider their options and ensure their personnel records are upto-date.”

Several programs will be announced in the com-

ing weeks. Boards will consider an Airman’s entire record of performance and will be conducted in accordance with Air Force promotion board standards. These programs only apply to active duty Airmen.

The chief master sergeant retention board will include two phases. During phase one, chiefs in specific specialties may apply for voluntary retirement in lieu of meeting a retention board. Chiefs with 20 years of total active federal military service from identified overage career fields who do not apply for retirement before the phase one window closes Mar. 15, 2014 will be considered by the board, Cox said.

The quality force review board will look at senior master sergeants and below with a negative quality indicator code.

Negative codes include r e p o r t i n g i d e n t i f i e r s, grade status reasons, reenlistment eligibility, or assignment availability codes. For a complete list of codes, Airmen should visit the MyPers website once the Personnel Services Delivery Memorandum for this program is released.

Airmen who have declined to obtain retainability for PCS, TDY, retraining/training, deployments or promotion will be looked at under the Date of Separation, or DOS, rollback program.

Voluntary separation pay applies to Airmen on

the active duty list with more than six years, but no more than 20 years, of total active federal military service, and will be offered to enlisted retention board-eligible Airmen as a voluntary incentive prior to the retention boards. The enlisted retention boards will look at senior airmen through senior master sergeants in overage Air Force specialty codes with a date of rank of Jan. 1, 2013 or earlier. Senior NCOs with a minimum of 20 years of total active federal military service by the mandated retirement date will also be considered by the board.

Force shaping boards will consider active duty officers with more than three but less than six years of commissioned service as of Dec. 31, 2014 for separation and will target career fields and year groups based on sustainment levels.

Overages in the officer corps will require the force to conduct an Enhanced Selective Early Retirement Board. An ESERB allows the service to consider retirement-eligible active duty officers below the rank of colonel, lieutenant colonels once deferred for promotion, and colonels with two to four years time in grade.

By law, the Air Force will select no more than 30 percent for each grade in each competitive category.

Voluntary separation pay will be offered to ac-

tive duty officers with six or more years total active federal military service as a voluntary incentive prior to the meeting a board. A reduction in force, or RIF, board will consider regular officers below the grade of lieutenant colonel who have served at least one year of active duty in their current grade, are not on a promotion list, and have six or more years total active commissioned service and less than 18 years of total active federal military service.

Officers and enlisted in over-manned career fields with more than 15 but less than 20 years of service will be eligible for Temporary Early Retirement Authority, or TERA, Phase II. The Air Force will offer TERA in fiscal 2014 with the application window starting in January 2014.

These measures are part of the Air Force’s c o m p r e h e n s i v e Fo r c e Management Program designed to shape the future force.

For more information on force management, force shaping, reduction in force and other personnel programs, go to the myPers website at https://mypers.af.mil.

Pledge to drive sober this season

BY LAURA PFLEDDERER

779TH MEDICAL GROUP MEDICAL OPERATIONS SQUADRON

As part of National Drunk and Drugged Driving (3 D) Prevention month, all Airmen are encouraged to stop by the dining facility to sign a pledge stating they will make responsible decisions regarding intoxicated driving over the holidays.

Mental health technicians manned a table

earlier this month with 3 D pledge cards and information on the financial burden of Driving While Intoxicated (DWI) or Driving Under the Influence (DUI). Pledge cards will be displayed at the DFAC throughout the month of December.

“The holiday season is an especially terrible time to ruin your fun or threaten a life by driving while impaired or intoxicated.

Be sure to have a plan and a back-up plan to stay

safe,” stated Sue Scheddel, ADAPT Program Manager.

During National Drunk and Drugged Driving Prevention month and the holiday season, it is important to remind our peers to be vigilant regarding the physical, emotional, and financial dangers that accompany poor decision making. Make your decisions while sober, to stay safe when you indulge in some holiday merry-making.

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Finley Jordan, 9, of Huntingtown, Md., places a wreath on the grave of Aaron Bing, who served as an Army private first class during World War II.

WREATH, from page 1 drews. “Last year, we were at Arlington National Cemetery, and we’re honored to be here, today.”

Wreaths Across America is most known for laying donated wreaths at the graves within Arlington National Cemetery. Those wreaths, according to an email from a Wreaths Across America spokeswoman, are created each year from boughs tipped from trees grown through the Veteran Remembrance Tree program, which grows memorial trees

tagged in memory of fallen Solders in a 4,000 acre forest owned by the organization’s founder, Morrill Worcester. Those trees, dedicated by the surviving family members of each fallen Soldier, are never cut down.

Wreaths Across America Location Leader for the Maryland Veterans Cemetery at Cheltenham George Sattterthwaite said that local Boy Scouts, Cub Scouts, schools and POW/MIA support organizations were part of the effort, whether selling the wreaths or placing them throughout the cemetery.

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The Military Great Think: An interview with Jim Clark

BY CHRIS BASHAM STAFF WRITER

The Boys and Girls Clubs of America released a white paper Nov. 22, 2013 detailing the results of the recent Military Great Think, a summit for 80 national “thought leaders” who gathered in Arlington, Va. this fall to discuss the challenges facing military youth and to propose measures that the public, private and nonprofit sectors can take to help children from military families thrive, learn and lead. BGCA President and CEO Jim Clark spoke with The Andrews Gazette about the Military Great Think, upcoming efforts to support military children and plans for the next BGCA Great Think.

AG: Why did you have a Great Think on military youth?

JC: We’ve had a strong partnership with all the branches of the military services for over 20 years.

As we look at our strategic plan for the next 20 years we wanted to focus on thought leadership for us as a country and as the Boys and Girls Clubs of America. So, we covened a group to think through services for military youth and families, the first such type convening in the nation on this important topic, and we gathered great information from the session.

AG: Military youth are seen as resilient and vulnerable: How can they be both?

JC: Obviously, by just the nature of the situation they are in, these kids are

resilient, dealing with obstacles that for some of us are unfathomable. But at the same time they need additional resources and support to stay resilient and handle the anxiety and stress of deployment and rigors of a parent’s military career during their formative years --moving town to town, to multiple schools and different environments and experiencing the absence of a parent on multiple deployments.

AG: What improves resiliency in children?

JC: Various things we are looking at: Starting out early for example, being preventative and proactive ahead of deployment and continuing through the duration of deployment--getting out in front of it. Creating more access points for all resources, public and private, especially for families living off the installation. After school programs can integrate school curricula and adult mentoring to overcome obstacles kids face caused by frequent changes in school.

Providing opportunities for kids of military families whether it?s training or great programs for kids to participate in--sports, academic, healthy lifestyle, character and citizenship-all of these are important.

STEM and STEAM careers, or Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts and Math, especially for the armed forces, are an important career track for kids. We need to help kids focus on the future.

AG: Are BGCA programs uniform around the nation?

JC: There are differences in programs. Of our 4,100 club sites, 400 are affiliated with youth centers on bases. Many programs are the same, like Power Hour: Each day after school completing homework and getting assistance and special tutoring. The Youth of the Year program is at every site and every club and now our affiliated youth centers as well. New this year is the Military Youth of the Year program. It?s a competition on each installation, and then they compete with five other regional candidates from across the country. The military track is new in 2013. We?re excited: Our first Military Youth of the Year has already been able to to do great things, including meeting the president of the United States.

This is a baseline program across our sites to recognize kids.

AG: How did you choose your panelists for The Great Think?

JC: We reached out to individuals from the public sector as well as a few from the private sector.

Sloan Gibson --we wanted a representative from the USO at the time, so that we can understand some of the different dynamics and challenges that his organization faces and how we can help integrate with and augment the programs they have. We wanted some expertise regarding child psychology and resiliency questions, as well as human development. We wanted a representative from the private sector that?s been very involved in military support

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and that was Coca-Cola (President and COO, Glen Walter). We included Navy Child and Youth Programs Director Gregory Young, and Aerojet Rocketdyne, and a great moderator. We chose based on disciplines and areas of focus. Of course you could have four to five times the number of panelists we chose.

AG: The Military Great Think recommended the formation of an advisory board to work out its recommendations. Who will participate in the advisory board?

JC: We are putting that together to help us now, to bring to action or bring to life the action steps resulting from this convening.

AG: What will the advisory board’s goals be?

JC: They will lay out an action plan to specifically identify programs and services that we need to implement, and Boys and Girls Clubs of America will certainly be a part of that.

They will work on implementing starting early--what do we need to put in place, to be in front of deployment? They will create a program step by step to address that. A centralized delivery system to make it easier for military families to access programs does not exist today. Through technology, promotion, and other different ways we want to let families know what is available. How do we bring more specific programs to life for kids of military families that we are serving? The focus on STEM and STEAM programs is a direct action item out of The Great Think. This is a specific area where military youth can be a strong talent pool for future careers. We’ll be

partnering with corporate as well as public entities to create a robust STEAM program after school, through youth centers or military programs to roll out in the years ahead.

AG: Do military children benefit from military-focused, base-sponsored activities more than integrated ones held in the civilian community?

JC: Military kids benefit greatly from Boys and Girls Clubs of America programs just as kids across the nation do. That’s one of the key driving reasons we formed this partnership over 20 years ago--we have great programs to offer all kids. We customize that and tailor that to understand the unique challenges of kids who live in military families, providing critical adult relationships and mentors for kids.

It works well for military families because often a parent is deployed or absent for significant periods of time.. That’s what we specialize in. It’s really a natural fit.

AG: What makes a high-impact youth development program?

JC: There’s many components. What makes a youth program successful and meaningful is a focus on quality youth development, a professional youth development staff member who can serve as a role model, coach and counselor for kids, coupled with activities that have outcomes, programs focused on specific areas. We believe in a facility-based experience for kids that gives them an atmosphere conducive to learning. And kids gotta have fun. Otherwise, they won’t be there. They vote with their feet and if

they’re not having a good time they won’t be back.

Kids affiliated with Boys and Girls Clubs and youth centers do better in life. The statistics are clear. They are three times more likely to graduate, three times more likely to stay away from drugs, sex and brushes with the juvenile justice system. We know our kids do better in life. They do better academically, they graduate, stay out of trouble, live a healthier lifestyle. We know it works.

We’re extremely proud of our partnership with the armed services. In a very small way this is our contribution to our nation and to the families who are sometimes making the ultimate sacrifice. From the bottom of my heart, and on behalf of my staff, we are extremely anxious to do more. We stand ready to do more to help support not only these services but all the affiliated youth centers and programs to make sure kids have the best access to programs and success in their lives.

The whole notion of being more proactive was a brilliant evolutions from earlier discussions--how can we do more in advance?

That was a really positive advancement to early thoughts. Also the opportunity for STEM/STEAM programs for military families.

That’s something we?ve been wanting to do anyway.

It’s great to hear the high level of interest.

AG: What is the next Great Think?

JC: The next great think will be focused on STEAM/STEM programs.

It will be held at Oracle in May and will have a component from the Military Great Think. The military will have a piece of that thought process as well.

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