Panorama November 20, 2015

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Serving the NATO, Naples and Gaeta Military Community in Italy

60th year, No. 44

Friday, November 20, 2015

NCTS Volunteers Help Spread Holiday Cheer By IT1 (IDW/SW/AW) Sherri D. Hill

Five volunteers from Naval Computer and Telecommunications Station (NCTS) Naples visited children at the Centro Laila Orphanage at Castel Volturno, Naples, Italy, November 14, 2015. The volunteers headed out there to spread some holiday cheer to the children. The NCTS Sailors participated in several events to include arts and craft activities, and coloring holiday pictures that were later displayed on the wall in the auditorium, for the children to enjoy. They also helped the children decorate holiday ornaments which they later placed on a Christmas tree, which was donated by the volunteers. This is just the first visit in coordination with the command’s Angel Tree Project for 2015. While at the orphanage, Sailors took down the names of each child to bring back and place on the command’s Angel Tree. Military, civilians and contractors participating in this year’s Angel Tree Project will do so by remov-

Carter: Information Systems Technician 2nd Class Sean D. Snell from Naval Computer and Telecommunications Station (NCTS) Naples helps a child from Centro Laila Orphanage at Castel Volturno decorate a Christmas tree November 14, 2015. Photo by IT3 MaryBernadette C. Gutierrez

ing an angel from the tree to view the requested gift for purchase. The donated gifts will be dropped off near a designated

location at NCTS. The NCTS First Class Petty Officer’s Association will later dress up in holiday costumes and make a special delivery to the

orphanage on December 10. They’ll then have the opportunity to spend a few more hours enjoying holiday activities with the children.

New Big Voice: Clearer, More Efficient

Prayers for the Paris Victims

By Emily Donovan NSA Public Affairs

Sailors, Vatican Swiss Guards, the Ambassador to the Vatican from the Republic of the Philippines, priests from Rome, Reparatrix Sisters from Montella, Italian priest from Succivo, Filipino-American members, military and Department of Defense family members, and Naval Support Activity (NSA) Naples Chaplains joined hearts and spirits at the chapel on board the NSA Naples Chapel November 14 to pray for the victims of the recent terrorist attacks in Paris. Photo by Cmdr. Don Biadog Jr.

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United States Stands With France in Wake of Attacks From DoD News

The United States stands with France in the wake of today’s terrorist attacks in Paris, Defense Secretary Ash Carter said. “This evening’s horrific and barbaric attacks in Paris were more than an attack on the nation or people of France,” Carter said in a statement. “They were an assault on our common human dignity.” Estimates of the number of people killed vary in reports, but range in the dozens. Carter noted the close relationship between the United States and France, including their roles in the NATO alliance and in the fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. “As NATO allies, as leaders of the counter-ISIL coalition, as nations working shoulder to shoulder from West Africa to the Indian Ocean, the United States and France will only strengthen our resolve,” the secretary said. Earlier, President Barack Obama pledged U.S. assistance to French authorities and vowed to join France and other nations to bring the terrorists to justice and to “go after any terrorist networks that go after our people.” FRANCE Page 11


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