Panorama May 15, 2015

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Serving the NATO, Naples and Gaeta Military Community in Italy

60th year, No. 19

Friday, May 15, 2015

CNIC Visits NSA Naples Vice Adm. Dixon Smith, Commander Navy Installations Command, tours the child development center on Naval Support Activity (NSA) Naples May 8, 2015. Smith toured the NSA Naples area while touring regional installations. Photo by MC3 Mat Murch

JFC Naples Commander announces exercise, increased NATO capability in Romania

Force Protection Level Boosted at DoD Facilities Nationwide By Cheryl Pellerin DoD News, Defense Media Activity

Romanian Lieutenant General Nicolae-Ionel Ciucă, Chief of General Staff of the Romanian Armed Forces and U.S. Navy Admiral Mark Ferguson, Commander Allied Joint Force Command Naples, salute during an honors ceremony at the Ministry of Defense in Bucharest, Romania, May 5, 2015. Admiral Ferguson visited Romania to announce the first deployment of a Joint Force Command headquarters to Romania in support of a NATO Response Force exercise. U.S. Air Force photo by 1st Lt. Kay M. Nissen

From Allied Joint Force Command Naples Public Affairs

BUCHAREST, Romania – Allied Joint Force Command Naples Commander, U.S. Navy Adm. Mark Ferguson and the Romanian Minister of Defence Mircea Duşa, jointly announced plans for the first time deployment of a Joint Force Command

headquarters to Romania as part of a NATO Response Force exercise. The commander and minister also publicized the progress of the NATO Force Integration Unit and Multinational Division Southeast, both being established in

WASHINGTON – The commander of U.S. Northern Command has elevated the force protection level for all Defense Department facilities in the continental United States on May 8, 2015, but not because of a specific threat, Pentagon spokesman Army Col. Steve Warren said. Force protection condition levels, or FPCON levels, range from Alpha, which applies when an increased general and unpredictable terrorist threat exists against personnel or facilities, to Delta, which applies in an immediate area FORCE PROTECTION Page 5

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CAPTAIN’S CORNER. . . . . . . . . 2 BASE NOTES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 ITALIAN NEWS . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 NAVY HISTORY / SPOTLIGHT. . 4 FFSC CALENDAR . . . . . . . . . . . 5 SOUND OFF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 MOVIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 USO TOURS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 WORD SEARCH / COLOR ME 12

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Nation Honors World War II Vets on V-E Day Anniversary By Jim Garamone DoD News, Defense Media Activity

WASHINGTON – They may move a little bit slower than they did in 1945, but World War II veterans were out in force at the National World War II Memorial on the National Mall to remember their comrades on May 8, 2015, the 70th anniversary of when the guns stopped in Europe. More than 500 veterans turned out – the youngest in their late 80s – to represent the generation that went to war to save liberty and democracy. Susan Rice, the U.S. national security adviser, represented President Barack Obama at the ceremony. Katherine Korbel stood in for her sister, former Secretary of State Madeline Albright, at the ceremony. Rice told the crowd that on V-E Day celebrations were mixed with sorrows for what was lost. “As the news spread, and people poured into the streets to celebrate in New York, London and Paris, cheers and laughter mixed freely with tears,” she said. “[But] even in the midst of one triumph, we vowed to fight on and finish the war in the Pacific.” Now 70 years from that turning point America remembers the sacrifices made to preserve freedom, Rice said. She remembered the allies from Britain, WORLD WAR II VETS Page 7


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