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Vol. 27 No. 48
December 17, 2010
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NAS Sigonella participates in training exercise By MCSA Cameron Bramham The Signature Staff
Token Barnthouse, MWR Community Activities Director, Richard Aubrey, MWR Librarian, and NAS Sigonella Executive Officer, Capt. Joe Beadles cut a ribbon to open the Navy's first library to achieve Premier Status. There are 82 different Core requirements that must be met in addtion to 17 Premier standards for a library to be named Premier Status, including infrastructure, equipment and services that exceed the norm and ensure that NAS Sigonella has the most up-todate library and information services available to support readiness, military mission, quality of life, education and more.
NAS Sigonella Library reaches Premier Status By Tracie Barnthouse The Signature Editor Naval Air Station (NAS) Sigonella’s Library has accomplished a Navy first; it has been named the Department of the Navy’s initial Premier Status library. To celebrate the milestone, a ribbon was cut today, Dec. 7 outside the library on NAS Sigonella’s Support Base to officially open the doors to the Navy’s first library to reach Premier Status. There are 82 core standards that must be met for Navy
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Flossing is essential to obtain and maintain good oral hygiene. Everyone must remember that the purpose of both brushing and flossing is to reduce the number of bacteria which inhabit our mouths.
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Naval Air Station (NAS) Sigonella Sailors participated in a joint task training exercise between Security, the NAS Sigonella Fire and Emergency Services and U.S. Naval Hospital Sigonella (Flightline Clinic) using mannequins as simulated victims behind the Hazardous Materials Building on NAS Sigonella's Operational Base Dec. 7. "We demonstrated a single motor vehicle accident with three personnel." Assistant Fire Chief John Burgess Jr. said. "The driver was trapped inside, the passenger was ejected through the front windshield of the vehicle and there was a five year old child in the backseat who needed to be extricated. Once everybody got on scene, they did a pretty good job." "We try to have an exercise like this about once every month," Burgess said. "There's always room for improvement and we think that once we combine the dispatches together early next summer, it will
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Looking for something cool and memorable to do this New Years Eve? This will be one New Years Eve party you won’t want to miss!
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shield. The corpsmen worked simultaneously with the firemen to aid each victim. While the firemen and hospital corpsmen attended each patient on scene, security master-at-arms set and secured a perimeter around the scene while awaiting the hospital corpsmen to remove each patient from the scene so they could conduct a simulated traffic accident TRAINING, continued on page 21
GMC Jeremy Elmore, Installation Training Officer, oversees hospital corpsmen and firemen attending to a victim played by a mannequin during a simulated car crash training exercise located behind Haz Mat on Dec. 7.
libraries. In order to be called Premier Status, 17 additional standards must be met in the fields of infrastructure, personnel, training, and obtaining the technology to ensure the readiness of Sailors, quality of life for family members, and ongoing professional and personal training, said MWR Community Activities Director Token Barnthouse. “By attaining this level, it demonstrates that we are an active part of this community,” he said. “You cannot attain Premier Status unless you are fully LIBRARY, continued on page 21
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cut responding time down." The training exercise started off with a simulated distress call into the Flight Line Clinic, followed by the Fire Department on scene with two fire trucks. Fire Fighters used the "Jaws of Life" rescue tool to pry the passenger side door open and remove the victim from the car which had a smoke machine placed in the back of the car to simulate a fire. Once the first passenger was removed, the firemen went back for the child in the back seat and pulled the child out of the c a r . During that time, hospital corpsmen attended to each victim, starting with the first who w a s thrown through the front w i n d -
**Notice** Due to the printers being closed for the holiday, The Signature will not be printed on Dec. 24 or Dec. 31. The next issue can be found around base on Jan. 7. The Signature staff wishes you and your family the happiest of holidays and all the best in 2011. Dec. 20 H: 64 L: 47
The Liberty program is offering a trip to Egypt for service members! Check out page 10 for more information.
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Feel like going off the beaten track this winter? How about the town of Mazzarone, which is famous across Europe for its table grape.
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Sicilian desserts around the holidays might be different than what you are used to.
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Traffic Numbers Jan. 10-
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Accidents Injuries
340 58
257 46
DUIs
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DWIs
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Traffic Deaths
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