Serving the NATO, Naples and Gaeta Military Community in Italy
61th year, No. 3
Friday, January 22, 2016
NSA Volunteers Visits PCF By MC3 Robert S. Price
Twenty Naval Support Activity Naples activeduty Navy Sailors and base community volunteers visited the Pontifical Collegio Filipino (PCF) in Rome on January 16, 2016, to donate humanitarian items. The NSA Naples Chapel and the Filipino American Association (FIL-AM) conducted the Community Relations (COMREL) Project with PCF to reach out to the spiritual and physical needs of migrants in Southern Italy and religious leaders from Third World Countries. The humanitarian items donated Saturday will be shared by PCF with migrants living in the Rome area. Cmdr. Don Biadog Jr., a chaplain based at Navy Region Europe, Africa, Southwest Asia was one of the main coordinators for the COMREL project last Saturday. “Our COMREL Project called “Operation Help” ministry has been impacting PCF for nearly four years saving the Collegio
CNO Adm. John Richardson
Naval Support Activity Naples active-duty Navy Sailors and base community volunteers unload donations to the Pontifical Collegio Filipino (PCF) in Rome, Italy January 16, 2016. The NSA Naples Chapel and the Filiipino American Association (FIL-AM) collaborate the donation of humanitarian items to PCF for reaching out to migrants living in the Rome area. Photo by MC3 Robert S. Price
hundreds of thousands of dollars through multiple COMREL Projects and by providing humanitarian items and manual labors performed by more than 250 sailors and U.S.
Marines,” Biadog said. The 20 volunteers broke bread as a late “Holiday” fellowship with nearly 50 Collegio priests, nuns and staff during a late afternoon luncheon before
heading back to Naples. “We are thankful when you visit,” Father Gregory Ramon D. Gaston, Rector of PCF, said. “It is a nice opportunity for us to meet new people.”
Determined Tiger Sharks Bring Home Gold From Aviano and Vicenza By Lyndsey Hale
Determination definitely defined the Naples Tiger Sharks performance at this past weekend’s back-to-back swim meets in Aviano and Vicenza and once again brought home gold. The sharks won by one point in overall scores on Saturday at Aviano, and held many of the first, second and third place awards for the Pentathlon events on Sunday in Vicenza. Also, 95 percent of the team set personal bests over the two days of competition. “Winning our swim meet by one point was a big boost for the whole Tiger Shark swim team in the Aviano meet,” swimmer Ryan Rayos said. TIGER SHARKS Page 11 “Swimmer of the Meet” 12-year-old Lindsay Sharp hanging tough in Aviano. Photo by Brenda Dye CAPTAIN’S CORNER. . . . . . . . . 2 BASE NOTES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 NAVY HISTORY . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 FFSC CALENDAR . . . . . . . . . . . 5 SOUND OFF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 MOVIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 JOBS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
DECEMBER BIRTHS . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 5
CIVIL RIGHTS ACT SIGNED . . . . . . . . . . . .page 14
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CNO Announces Five Initiatives to Drive Sexual Assaults to Zero From Chief of Naval Operations Public Affairs
A line of effort in the recently released “Design to Maintain Maritime Superiority” is to strengthen our Navy team which is composed of active and reserve Sailors, Navy civilians, and families. On January 14 Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson announced a new set of sexual assault prevention and response initiatives to lower the obstacles to reporting, provide added support to survivors, and prevent revictimization. During the announcement Richardson told reporters an important element of this effort is to eliminate self-inflicted destructive behavior, sexual assault being among the most egregious. He went on to say sexual harassment and sexual assault have absolutely no place in our Navy and are contrary to our core values. “Eliminating sexual assault requires more than words, zero-tolerance requires an all-hands effort,” Richardson said. Here are the five initiatives CNO announced to help “end the scourge of sexual assault” in our Navy: 1) A Shipmate is not a “bystander.” If you see something wrong, do something right. CNO
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