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Supporting the Military, Veterans, and their Families across The Liberty Coast

On Base • In Town • Pro-Military

Easel On Stribling How the U.S. Naval Academy shaped an artist

Jacksonville’s Air National Guard Base: Defending the Homeland Here and Abroad

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Submissions@LibertyLifeMedia.com Liberty Life’s mission is to support The Liberty Coast’s military, Veterans, and their families by informing and connecting them to the community. I look forward to seeing how we evolve and what we will learn. We know the indisputable about the installations and operations. We eagerly anticipate discovering the unknowns and adding those to The Liberty Coast’s story. The evolution will come as subtle shifts we may not immediately notice, as well as Blinding Flashes of the Obvious (BFO)—what fun!

I just finished listening to a podcast by Malcolm Gladwell. He visited Jacksonville to see a scatterplot developed by Built for Zero leader Dawn Gilman, the CEO of Changing Homelessness. Gladwell wanted to understand how knowing each individual by name has radically changed their efforts to end Veteran homelessness. And there it was: a great big BFO! The Military and Veteran Registry was born.

Now, being a retired squid, I wanted to call it a Cruise Book. Anyway, as we encourage you to tell us the news, stories, events, resources, services and history of The Liberty Coast, we also want to get to know you, each of you who serves and has served: Liberty Lifers. Tell us your story—okay, the basics.

From there, we will unearth the sea stories and battlefield tales, the transition to civilian life and career stories, and all the others we don’t yet know. You share YOUR story or tell us someone whose story should be told.

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Liberty Life

AUGUST 26 2020//VOL.1 ISSUE 4

CONTENTS

Cover Photo Credit: Kristin Cronic

4 News Briefs 4 Support: Face Masks

5 Liberty Knowledge: USS Orleck (DD-886)

6 Feature: Kristin Cronic

8 Liberty Coast: FANG

9 Liberty Calendar

11 Coronavirus Guidance

12 City of Jacksonville Preparedness Guide

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News Briefs Swamp Foxes Return After 206 Days at Sea Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron 74 (HSM-74)— the “World Famous Swamp Foxes”—returned home from a seven-month deployment on Aug. 7. The Naval Air Station Jacksonville-based helicopter squadron was part of a Carrier Strike Group that spent a record-breaking 206 days at sea without a port call due to the coronavirus pandemic. HSM-74 was deployed for seven-months U.S. Navy photo by Kaylee LaRocque/Released aboard the aircraft carrier USS Eisenhower (CVN-69) to the 5th Fleet, whose area of responsibility includes the Persian Gulf, Red Sea, Arabian Sea, and parts of the Indian Ocean.

Veterans Memorial Wall Recognition of Invisible Wounds A group of Duval County Florida Veterans wants to ensure that Veterans who succumbed to the “invisible” or “hidden” wounds of war after they left the battlefield are remembered. The “Westside of the Wall” committee wants those Veterans names engraved on the west side of the Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Wall. The east side is where the names of those who fell serving during combat operations are traditionally placed.

The invisible wounds include those from Post Traumatic Stress, Traumatic Brain Injury, Agent Orange and Mustard Gas exposure.

The group hopes to ensure that those who have had to live with and die from the wounds of war after they left the front lines are honored.

ArmedForcesMedia.mil For more information contact Steve Spickelmier at 904.705.4849.

Jax Navy Federal Credit Union Founding Member was 99 Cecil Wesley Acree, a WWII U.S. Navy Veteran and Robert E. Lee High School graduate, departed this life peacefully on August 9, 2020, 29 days shy of his 100th birthday. Acree attended the University of Florida, later serving in the U.S. Navy during WWII. After the war, he began his 38-year career with the Federal Government at NAS JAX. Acree was very proud of being one of the founding members of Jax Navy Federal Credit Union, now Vystar Credit union. In 1952, Acree and 11 others pooled $60 and chartered the credit union. The mission of the founding members was to provide civil service and military personnel and their families a safe place to save and borrow money. Vystar now has over 500,000 members and is headquartered in a prominent 23-story building in Downtown Jacksonville’s riverfront skyline.

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LIBERTY SUPPORT: PROTECT YOURSELF AND SUPPORT VETERANS Veteran groups on The Liberty Coast are selling face masks to raise funds for their Veteran programs. Be protected. Support Veterans. Order yours today.

All proceeds from the Nicholas J. Cutinha Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 1046 face masks will directly support in-need Veterans. Their two mask options—Vietnam Veteran and Associate—are below.

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The proceeds from the Operation New Uniform face mask will support their nationally recognized programs that train Veterans and their families for fulfilling careers.

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A BOLD SHIP FOR THE BOLD CITY: Jacksonville’s role in preserving history

Contributed By: Justin Weakland, Chief Electronics Technician (Surface Warfare/ Information Warfare/ Aviation Warfare) United States Navy (Retired), Vice President, Jacksonville Historic Naval Ship Association (JHNSA)

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n the Fall of 2018, it was determined hat the U.S. Navy would not donate the decommissioned USS Charles F. Adams (DDG-2) to the Jacksonville Historic Naval Ship Association to (JHNSA). While this was a blow the group’s 10-year effort, the overall mission remained the same: bring a retired historic naval ship to Jacksonville and create a naval warship museum.

Not long after that announcement went public, the JHNSA received a phone call from the USS ORLECK Naval Museum Ship in Lake Charles, Louisiana. The conversation went something like this: “I see you have a great pier without a ship, and we have a great ship without a pier. Maybe we can work together.” JHNSA—in collaboration with Jacksonville’s Downtown Investment Authority (DIA) and the City Council—has since been pursuing the objective of bringing the former USS Orleck (DD-886) to Jacksonville.

The plan is for ORLECK to be moored to Pier #1 of the original Jacksonville Shipyards property, located near the stadium complex.

Final details are being worked through, to include ticketing office and gift shop design, parking lot construction and pier modifications.

JHNSA and the DIA are coordinating over city ordinances, permitting and leasing issues.

The ORLECK would be the initial anchor of the Jacksonville Naval Museum’s theme: the “U.S. Navy Cold War Experience.” Serving the length of the Cold War, ORLECK earned 18 battle stars from the Korean and Vietnam Wars. With Jacksonville’s sustained maritime, military and naval history, the JHNSA believes the ORLECK will make a great addition to Downtown Jacksonville.

The Jacksonville Naval Museum will preserve naval history and promote service to one’s country. The heart of the museum will honor both active-duty personnel and Veterans, inspire future generations of patriots through STEM + History education, and contribute to the economic growth of Downtown Jacksonville. JHNSA is excited to bring this bold ship here to the “Bold City.”

The JHNSA is a community-led non-profit organization with board members and supporters—just like you—who are passionate about making a difference in their community. We invite you to explore our website to learn more about our effort to save and preserve this wonderful piece of living history!

The JHNSA is conducting a fundraiser to help cover towing expenses at Charity.gofundme.com and can be found by searching “USS Orleck go fund me” in Google.

For more information, including virtual tours, please visit the museum website at www.jaxnavalmuseum.org.

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EASEL ON STRIBLING

How the U.S. Naval Academy shaped an artist

by Courtney Stringfellow

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he had just been processed out of the Navy when Hurricane Irma flooded her growing family’s home in Arlington. Months later, crammed in one upstairs bedroom with her husband and daughter, she realized she couldn’t run from it anymore: Kristin Cronic was meant to be an artist.

“When the panic attacks started waking me up at night, I started to paint again, and that was when I realized this has kind of been enough. I need to do this,” Cronic said. “And so I painted an entire body of work during that time, with everyone living upstairs, and doing my job, being a new mom, and pregnant, because it was making me happy.”

Cronic immersed herself in art throughout her childhood. Being an only child, painting was a solitary activity she could appreciate. Her aunt was an artist who also had a day job, and her life served as a realistic example of the level of freedom Cronic could expect as a future artist.

Cronic carried that love with her through high school, taking every art class Episcopal School of Jacksonville offered. It is in those halls that she met who would become another influential figure: Vietnam Marine Veteran Richard Chamblin.

“I remember that being a pretty pivotal moment, because I could see that he also did other things with his life and was an artist. And so it really empowered me to pursue all of the dreams I had, which was not just art, even though that was a huge part of who I was,” Cronic recalled. Growing up in Florida, she automatically considered attending the University of Florida, Florida State University and other schools in the region, but none of them captured her attention. She remembered a middle school trip to the Chesapeake Bay area from years prior, which is when she first noticed the United States Naval Academy (USNA). One of her school counselors recommended she seriously consider applying.

“And then I went up for a recruiting trip for swimming, and I fell in love. I loved the structure, I loved the fact that it was just like really great education, and I wanted the adventure and the opportunity to lead. And just everything

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that it offered, I was really drawn to,” Cronic said. “So I was looking at other art schools at the time, but, honestly, once you get accepted to something like that, ‘No’ is not an answer.”

Cronic chose USNA over art school, knowing she could always develop those skills later in life, but she didn’t leave her passion for art behind. She kept a sketchbook during Plebe Summer—the rigorous two month training program incoming freshmen (aka plebes) must endure on their journeys to becoming midshipmen. In the weeks that she prepared for this next chapter of her life, she discovered Pete Souza, the photojournalist who would later become the chief official White House photographer for former President Barack Obama.

“Back then, I found [Souza’s] photographs of Plebe Summer in a book, and they were so raw and so honest, and this was before social media, so it was really the only thing I had to mentally prepare. I had no military in my family, and I really didn’t know what to expect,” Cronic said. “I was able to look at something that was the art of somebody else, and it really helped me prepare. And so I kind of made this promise to myself that one day I would tell the story the way I would, which is through painting.”

Throughout those next four years, 2007-2011, Cronic would take mental notes of her experiences at the academy—such as replacing the dixie cup cover at the top of the greased Herndon Monument—and reproduce them on paper when she could. Long days stood between Cronic and her sketchbook, but she found her break during her third year in the form of a forgotten studio on campus.

“You had to walk up this spiral staircase and this turret, and it was at the top of this tower, and I had to track down the keys; no one had been in it for years. So I got to open it up, and we had a little art club, and a girl from out in town came and taught us,” Cronic said.

She and a group of four or five others would meet once or twice every week or so to learn new art skills and take a break from their everyday lives as midshipmen. It wasn’t much, but it kept the fire burning until graduation.

Then in 2011, two weeks after Cronic was commissioned into the Navy, she married her best friend: Caleb Cronic. Then came the hard work.

“Being new on a ship is just this firehose, and it’s intense, and my husband was my very best friend. We met the very first day of Plebe Summer, and

we spent every single day together for four years, and so all of a sudden we were on two different ships going in different directions, and it like broke me,” Cronic said.

What did she do to cope during their first tours? In between deployments, when her husband was at sea and she had what seemed to be an infinite amount of time to conquer alone, she picked up her paintbrush. Years of memories flooded canvases for days on end until she left for the sea again. It must have worked: when she was on the ship, she gave it her all, and because of that, she was able to earn a qualification early.

Her second tour saw a move from Norfolk, Va., to Cronic’s hometown of Jacksonville, Fla., and steady hours (typically 8 a.m.-5 p.m.) when she wasn’t deployed. This allowed her time to truly develop her art skills when she wasn’t on duty as a surface warfare officer.

“My husband was gone the majority of that tour, and so I found an artist in Jacksonville who had retired as a professor, and I started just studying in his studio at night,” Cronic said. “I kind of attribute that year to the most significant growth in my art, because it was like one-on-one or one-on-two and immediate feedback, and I was painting like two to three paintings a week on top of my job.”

That professor was Paul Ladnier, and Cronic worked with him on and off for about a year and a half until she was comfortable branching off. Over the next couple of years, she switched to shore duty and became an engineering duty officer. She and her husband started planning out their future in more detail: he would separate, she would stay in for 20 years, they would eventually have children, they would move up to Boston and she could finally go to MIT (a dream she had since she was 19), and she could continue painting at night. And then she got pregnant with their daughter.

“As soon as I had my daughter, everything changed. And about two weeks after she was born, I was like, ‘This is not the plan for me.’ And so I resigned the day I got back from maternity leave,” Cronic said. “I realized I couldn’t do everything, and I obviously wasn’t going to stop being a mom, and I definitely wasn’t going to stop painting, and it was just that the military wasn’t the lifestyle that I really wanted, and moving all around, and all those things. And I realized that the more I was running from painting, the more I needed to have it in my life.”

After resigning in January of 2017, she rejected MIT’s verbal admission offer, obtained a civilian job in sales, and focused on her growing family.

Caleb also left the Navy that year—as the couple had previously planned— and he was fully processed out in July.

While navigating their transition back to civilian life as individuals and as a family, their life was disrupted once more. The weekend after Kristin was processed out—and six weeks pregnant with their second child—Hurricane Irma flooded her family’s home along Pottsburg Creek, and everything seemed to fall apart. “We were both dealing with this huge identity crisis from, you know, the only thing we had known for 10 years was the military, and all of a sudden our house was destroyed, and it was dealing with that. I didn’t really thrive in my sales job, and I was

pregnant, so there’s hormones,” Cronic said. “And so during that time, I kind of hit rock bottom, and I would honestly say between all of those things, the transition was the hardest part, because it was like I didn’t know who I was outside of the uniform, and I think a lot of people can relate to that feeling, and there’s words I don’t know, there’s this culture that has existed parallel to me that I don’t know, and I’m not in it.”

Two months after Irma, with her family still undergoing renovations and living upstairs, panic attacks started waking her up at night. So Cronic did the only thing that never failed to lift her spirits: she painted.

By the time she had her son in May 2018, she was ready to embrace her future as a full-time artist.

Money was tight, as her family primarily lived off of one income. She started painting home portraits for realtors. Over the next two years, as she stepped into her new lifelong career, she booked a couple of solo shows and made a body of work for Twisted Compass in Fruit Cove. She also worked on separating and further establishing the military side of her art: Easel on Stribling (aptly named after the main brick pathway that runs through the heart of USNA to Bancroft Hall).

“I think [Stribling is] this really cool thread that connects generations of people, but everyone has their own flavor. So I’m trying to capture these universal moments that can tie us together,” Cronic said. “I’m hoping that when people see the paintings, they can talk about their experience, and if it wasn’t a good one to work through that. Because it was a very formative time in life—we’re all like 18-22, maybe a little older—and it’s an interesting way to come of age, and it’s important to talk about it. So I hope that this can facilitate some of these conversations, but also to remember some of the good times, too.”

For those who are transitioning back to civilian life, having to discover what’s next can be intimidating, and starting a new business is no different. According to Cronic, it’s important to be passionate about whatever industry you’re considering entering.

It will likely take a couple of years before you get back on your feet, depending on how far away that dream is from your military background.

“Have a plan. For me it was always, ‘Okay, I can keep doing this for six more months, and if I get to the end of six months and it hasn’t brought in this amount of dollars, I need to get a job,’” Cronic said.

It’s also important to build up as much savings as possible before you dive in (Cronic recommends 3-6 months), connect with others in the industry, and find mentors to guide you. As Onward to Opportunity’s Patty Piazza told Liberty Life, you don’t have to navigate life after service alone; there is a network of people and organizations who want to help you thrive.

To connect with Cronic or to explore her gallery and USNA-inspired gifts, visit EaselOnStribling.com.

Between All Of Those Things, “ The Transition Was The Hardest Part,

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Because It Was Like I Didn’t Know Who I Was Outside Of The Uniform

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FANG TO GET F-35A IN 2024

JACKSONVILLE’S AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE: Defending the Homeland, Here and Abroad

by Joe Snowberger

U.S. Air National Guard photo by Staff Sgt. Carlynne King

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his is the third story in a series introducing our readers to the military bases and major commands on The Liberty Coast.

Located adjacent to the Jacksonville International Airport (JIA) is the Jacksonville Air National Guard Base, home to the 125th Fighter Wing, whose main mission is in its name: Fighter.

Commercial passengers landing and taking off in Jacksonville can locate the Florida Air National Guard’s (FANG) Jacksonville air base by seeing the Air Force F-15C fighter jets parked under canopies on the other side of the airport’s runways. Those Eagles are “combat ready” to take off and carry out either of their two missions: state and federal.

The primary role of the base and the 125th Fighter Wing is to protect life and property under the Governor as part of the Florida Air National Guard. In its federal mission, the F-15s are a U. S. Air Force asset. Some of the aircraft are always “on alert status” to respond to threats to the homeland. Routinely, the F-15s and their combat-ready crews are called on to deploy across the globe to perform air superiority and air dominance assignments.

The FANG’s F-15C is a single-seat jet that is the decades-long reigning champion of air superiority. The pilot doesn’t even have to look down at the cockpit instruments to track and destroy enemy aircraft—s/he need only continue looking at the windscreen, which displays all vital information in any light condition. Talk about focus!

The Jacksonville Air National Guard Base is staffed by both full-time and the more traditional, part-time Air Force National Guard personnel. Several of the pilots are flying for commercial airlines. Some of the ground crew have full-time civilian jobs as nurses, teachers, welders and IT specialists.

The Jacksonville Air National Guard base is one of the seven military bases on The Liberty Coast. Also in this issue is the breaking news that the FANG will receive the Air Force’s newest jets in 2024. Watch for more stories about our “citizen soldiers” and airmen in future issues of Liberty Life.

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AIR FORCE NEWS SERVICE, Washington D.C. – The Air Force plans to replace the Air National Guard’s aging F-15Cs in Florida and Oregon with the service’s newest air superiority aircraft.

Jacksonville Air National Guard Base, Florida, will begin receiving F-35s in 2024; Kingsley Field, Oregon, will host the Air Force’s first F-15EX formal training mission beginning in 2022; and the unit at Portland Air National Guard Base will become the first operational F-15EX squadron in 2023.

The Air Force’s F-15Cs are aging and expected to run out of service life by the mid-2020s.

The Air Force also plans to replace the remaining Air National Guard operational F-15C/D bases (Barnes Airport, Massachusetts, Fresno Yosemite Airport, and Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base New Orleans) with either F-35As or F-15EXs. Naval Air Station Lemoore is also being considered for F-35As. “The Air National Guard has consistently stepped up to meet the challenges of countless national contingencies over recent years,” said Maj Gen Mike Loh, Director of the Air National Guard. “Transitioning to these new weapon systems will maintain our effectiveness as a member of the Total Air Force into the future.”

The Air Force will now conduct on-the-ground site surveys at each of these locations to assess operational requirements, potential impacts to existing missions, infrastructure and manpower, and costs before deciding which aircraft will replace the F-15C mission.

The Air Force will complete the required Environmental Impact Analysis Process before making a final decision.

Currently, four active-duty operational locations—Hill Air Force Base, Utah; Royal Air Force Lakenheath, United Kingdom; Eielson AFB, Alaska; and Tyndall AFB, Florida—have been identified to host the F-35A. Additionally, three Air National Guard locations—Burlington ANG base, Vermont; Dannelly Field, Alabama; and Truax Field, Wisconsin; and one Air Force Reserve location–Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth, Texas–have been identified as F-35 locations.

Colonel Matthew J. French, the commander of the 125th Fighter Wing, shared this response to the pending receipt of F-35s: “The unrivalled professionalism, dedication and innovative spirit of our Thunder Airmen is the reason why now is the perfect time for our unit to take this leap into the future. I could not be more excited for our Airmen, the great State of Florida, and our surrounding communities, as together, we usher in this new era of enhanced air defense provided by your Florida Air National Guard. Let everyone know that when they see the Lightning, the Thunder is the sound of freedom!”

Photo by Capt. Leslie Westmont 115th Fighter Wing/Public Affairs, (WI Air National Guard)

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COVID SURVIVAL TOOLS This event will include practical information about the virus, best practices, how the VA is working to keep Veterans safe while providing care, techniques to cope with associated stress, and what additional resources and funding are available to Veterans in the mid-Florida area most affected by the pandemic. Thursday, Sept. 3, 10 a.m.-noon, register at Eventbrite.com, search COVID Survival Tools, free.

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