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Friday, September 15, 2017
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Marine Corps Gen. Joe Dunford
Mattis, Dunford Honor Pentagon’s Fallen, Survivors, Families 16 Years After 9/11 By Cheryl Pellerin DoD News
Chief selectees and their mentors from the Naval Support Activity Naples area pulled up weeds and picked up trash and debris from around the ruins of the Capua Amphitheater on September 7, 2017. The group collected nearly 80 trash bags of weeds and litter from among the ancient ruins. Photo by MC1 Daniel Barker By MC1 Daniel Barker
Twenty-five chief selectees and their mentors from the Naval Support
Activity Naples area participated in a community relations (COMREL) project at the ancient Amphitheater of Capua
September 7. The COMREL participants spent about three hours in the morning cleaning around the
perimeter of world-famous amphitheater, which is located about 30 minutes north of Support Site. FUTURE LEADERS Page 11
Trident Joust Exercise Kicks Off in Poland By U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Mark Patton
Exercise Trident Joust 2017 officially kicked off September 11, 2017, at the Bydgoszcz, Poland-based Joint Force Training Center. During the exercise, the headquarters of Allied Joint Force Command Naples, under the banner of the NATO Response Force, will train on hybrid threats within a non-Article 5 crisis response operation. The exercise has the NRF deploying to prevent an escalation of hostilities in a fictional scenario. The multinational
staff from JFC Naples will also practice interoperability with partner nations participating in Trident Joust. “Trident Joust 17 is a great opportunity for our team to come together and showcase our ability to meet the modern security challenges facing the Alliance,” Canadian Army Lieutenant-General Christian Juneau, commander of the NATO Response Force and deputy commander of Allied Joint Force Command Naples, said. “I look forward to what we’ll accomplish over the next couple of weeks here in Poland as we further demonstrate our capabilities under the ban-
ner of the NATO Response Force.” Exercise organizers said participants will also have the opportunity during the exercise to practice cooperation, coordination and liaison with a variety of local and national officials as well as international and non-governmental organizations. The NRF, launched in 2002, is a highly ready and technologically-advanced, multinational force made up of land, air, maritime and Special Operations Forces components that the Alliance can deploy quickly, wherever needed. The decision to deploy the NRF is taken by the North Atlantic Council, NATO’s highest political decision-making body. CAPTAIN’S CORNER. . . . . . . . . 2 BASE NOTES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 HISTORY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 FFSC CALENDAR . . . . . . . . . . . 5 SOUND OFF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 MOVIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 JOBS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
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AARRGH - SHIVER ME TIMBERS MATEY! . . . page 14
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During a Pentagon remembrance of the 16th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Marine Corps Gen. Joe Dunford honored those who died, the survivors and the families left behind. On that day, 184 people lost their lives in the halls of the Pentagon and on American Airlines Flight 77, Dunford said in remarks he made before introducing the secretary. “Sixteen years ago, when terrorists attacked the Pentagon, the World Trade Center, and as they attempted other attacks in Washington, D.C., they did so with a sense of purpose. They were attacking symbols that reflect our way of life and our values,” the general said. The terrorists believed that the attacks would shake U.S. commitment to those values, he added, and quoted then-President George W. Bush, who hours after the attacks said the terrorists thought they could frighten Americans into chaos and retreat. But they were wrong. PENTAGON 9-11 OBSERVANCE Page 11