Rocky Mountain Navy Association
News The Rocky Mountain Navy Association (RMNA) is a not-for-profit, organization to promote the United States Navy and the Naval Reserve in the local community. Specific out reach efforts have been extended to civic organizations, educational institutions, and the business community. RMNA also provides mission support to the local recruiting command and offers a wide variety of professional development assistance programs to the naval reserve community. Newsletter Contact: James Garrett, CAPT, USNR (Ret.), garrettj3745@yahoo.com Vol. 2 Issue 1
January 2017
Reminding you of our monthly RMN Luncheon at the American Legion Post, 5400 East Yale, Denver (southeast corner of I-25 and Yale), on Wednesday, February 1st, gathering around 11;30 a.m. January’s meeting had a superb speaker, CAPT Steven Maffeo, USN Ret. Who spoke to members about his books, specifically, Most Secret and Confidential (featured in the book review on pg 4.)
See You There! This newsletter is posted online to our website at (www.navrescolorado.org) and Facebook page at (https://www.facebook.com/RockyMountainNavyAssociation/)
RMNA Interests and Activities Denver Council of Navy League https://www.facebook.com/Denver-Navy-League-295522804808/ Colorado ESGR
https://www.facebook.com/colorado.esgr.1
Navy Recruiting District Denver http://www.cnrc.navy.mil/Denver/ Navy Reserve Officers Training Corps (NROTC) http://www.nrotc.navy.mil/ U. S. Naval Academy Blue and Gold http://www.usna.edu/Admissions/BGO/ USS Colorado (SSN 788) Commissioning Committee http://usscoloradocommittee.org/ Members Annual Golf Tournament
Do you have an idea or a success story to share? Maybe you’ve heard of an upcoming event that we should all support. Send me your ideas @ garrettj3745@yahoo.com. There are so many interesting experiences and opportunities to learn andVideo…. our newsletter is just one way that information can be shared. 1 Click on links or photos for websites or more information
New Secretary of Defense James Mattis
James Mattis became the 26th Secretary of Defense on January 20, 2017. A native of Richland, Washington, Secretary Mattis enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve at the age of 18. After graduating from Central Washington University in 1971, he was commissioned a second lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps. During his more than four decades in uniform, Secretary Mattis commanded Marines at all levels, from an infantry rifle platoon to a Marine Expeditionary Force. He led an infantry battalion in Iraq in 1991, an expeditionary brigade in Afghanistan after the 9/11 terror attack in 2001, a Marine Division in the initial attack and subsequent stability operations in Iraq in 2003, and led all U.S. Marine Forces in the Middle East as Commander, I Marine Expeditionary Force and U.S. Marine Forces Central Command. During his non-combat assignments, Secretary Mattis served as Senior Military Merchandise‌‌.. Assistant to the Deputy Secretary of Defense; as Director, Marine Corps Manpower Plans & Policy; as Commanding General, Marine Corps Combat Development Command; and as Executive Secretary to the Secretary of Defense.
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Stackley To Serve As Acting SECNAV; Tom Hicks Will Perform Duties Of Under Secretary
On Jan. 20, 2017, Mr. Sean J. Stackley became Acting Secretary of the Navy. He previously served as Assistant Secretary of the Navy (ASN) (Research, Development & Acquisition (RD&A)) following his confirmation by the Senate in July 2008. Prior to his appointment to ASN (RDA), Mr. Stackley served as a professional staff member of the Senate Armed Services Committee. During his tenure with the Committee, he was responsible for overseeing Navy and Marine Corps programs, U.S. Transportation Command matters and related policy for the Seapower Subcommittee. He also advised on Navy and Marine Corps operations & maintenance, science & technology and acquisition policy. Mr. Stackley began his career as a Navy surface warfare officer, serving in engineering and combat systems assignments aboard USS John Young (DD 973). Upon completing his warfare qualifications, he was designated as an engineering duty officer and served in a series of industrial, fleet, program office and headquarters assignments in ship design and construction, maintenance, logistics and acquisition policy. From 2001 to 2005, Mr. Stackley served as the Navy’s LPD 17 program manager, with responsibility for all aspects of procurement for this major ship program. Having served earlier in his career as production officer for the USS Arleigh Burke (DDG 51) and project Naval architect overseeing structural design for the Canadian Patrol Frigate, HMCS Halifax (FFH 330), he had the unique experience of having performed a principal role in the design, construction, test and delivery of three first-of-class warships. Mr. Stackley was commissioned and graduated with distinction from the United States Naval Academy in 1979, with a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering. He holds the degrees of Ocean Engineer and Master of Science, Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Mr. Stackley earned certification as professional engineer, Commonwealth of Virginia, in 1994.
GHWB Carrier Strike Group to Depart for Deployment
NORFOLK, Va. (NNS) -- Nearly 6,000 Sailors attached to the George H.W. Bush Carrier Strike Group (GHWBCSG) will depart Norfolk and Mayport, Florida, Jan. 21, for a regularlyscheduled deployment. More…….. 2 Click on links or photos for websites or more information
Internet Mining Factoids
Document: U.S. Navy Surface Force Strategy January 9, 2017 8:49 AM
The following is the U.S. Navy’s new Surface Force Strategy, which was released on Jan. 9, 2016. Fifteen page pdf https://news.usni.org/2017/01/09/document-u-s-navy-surface-forcestrategy?utm_source=USNI+News&utm_campaign=5a3525328fUSNI_NEWS_DAILY&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0dd4a1450b5a3525328f-230375909&mc_cid=5a3525328f&mc_eid=9b8f6a6f77
USS Colorado Floats 06. January 2017 ·
On December 29th reached another milestone as the boat became waterborne. Previously rolled out of the Construction Hall after the Christening Ceremony and into the dry dock, the “Float off” was conducted the day before New Year’s Eve. Prior to flooding the dock, the shipyard held another mini-christening ceremony, with a bottle of sparkling wine broken over the fillet, the curved portion of the hull joining the sail. In earlier days of course, submarines slid down the ways into the water at Christening. The size of modern U.S. submarines however makes that no longer possible.
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Book Review
January Guest Speaker
http://www.stevenmaffeo.com/
A naval intelligence officer himself, author Steven Maffeo illustrates the role of this "dark craft" by concentrating on the experiences of Lord Nelson and his contemporaries. A profoundly complex figure, Nelson epitomized the active acquisition of intelligence and the bold execution of decisions based on an understanding of the material, and Maffeo offers fresh and illuminating information that supports the admiral's high regard for intelligence work. Reading at times like a cloak-and-dagger mystery, the story is filled with examples of how Nelson and his associates dealt with intelligence obstacles and how the outcomes affected their own futures, and, in some cases, the history of the modern world. Maffeo's anecdotes give marvelous insight into the thoughts of the era's important figures, Bonaparte, Pitt, Spencer, and Cochrane-not to mention C.S. Forester's Horatio Hornblower and Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey and Maturin. The author's winning combination of vibrant narrative and zeal for accuracy assures this book a place in the libraries of military and intelligence professionals, historians, and Forester and O'Brian aficionados.
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In today's world of satellites and electronic eavesdropping it is hard to appreciate the difficulties involved two centuries ago in collecting and disseminating secret intelligence in time of war. This book treats readers to a close-up look at the ingenious methodsBio... used to obtain and analyze secret material and deliver it to operational forces at sea. It brings together information from a variety of sources to provide the first concise analysis of the use and development of intelligence in the days of fighting sail. The British experience from 1793 to 1815 is the book's main focus, but it also includes French and American activity. In addition the book examines how commanders used the information to develop strategy and tactics and win--or sometime lose--battles.
The Colorado General Assembly is holding their annual Military and Veterans Appreciation Day at the State Capitol on Friday morning, January 27, 2017. And you’re all invited. There is an informal reception (7:45 to 8:45) in the West foyer on the first floor of the State Capitol. Then at 9:00 a.m., we will be in the gallery of the House of Representatives to observe House Joint Resolutions being considered and Tributes to the Military being presented. It is business suit attire, but if a number of us also wore our Navy Parkas, they really do stand out, and if all our RMN folks would sit together, it would probably be the best publicity for the Navy and the Rocky mountain Navy we could ask for. I will be there. I would hope a number of you will make a real effort to attend, You will be thanked many times. Remember, you go through security to get into our Capitol. On the south side, you go in at street level. On the north side, you climb up the front steps and enter there. No entrances on the east or west sides. Dick Young
Information referencing a list of bills being tracked by UVC on behalf of Colorado Veterans and Military as of Jan 20, 2017. is available at the UVC website. http:// www.unitedveteranscommittee.org/index.php/state-legislative/328-legislative-report-january-21 -2016 Also Noteworthy: the new chairman of the Federal House Armed Service Committee (HASC) PERSONNEL subcommittee is Congressman Mike Coffman of Colorado's District 6. His phone number 1-720-280-0511. Email:https://coffmanforms.house.gov/ contact/
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