Serving the NATO, Naples and Gaeta Military Community in Italy Russell Egnor Navy Media Awards – 2016 Best Newspaper in the Navy
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NSA Naples Celebrates Navy’s 243rd Birthday
Reminder: Workplace Should be Politically Neutral for DoD Service Members, Civilians
Four-hundred-seventeen Naval Support Activity Naples Sailors, family members and guests attended the 243rd Navy Ball on October 19, 2018, at the Grand Hotel La Sonrisa in the municipality of Sant’Antonio Abate, about an hour southeast of Support Site and near Sorrento. One of the Navy’s most sacred traditions is the birthday cake-cutting ceremony. The cake is traditionally cut with a sword as a reminder of both the Navy’s commitment to our nation’s quest for peace and freedom worldwide, and to signifying the passing of experience and knowledge from the oldest to the youngest members of our Navy family. This year’s birthday cake was cut by youngest Sailor Seaman Recruit Nerissa Monico, oldest Sailor Chief Warrant Officer Ken Ingle and Guest of Honor Rear Adm. Rick Williamson. Photo by Lt. Charles Olivier
By Donna Miles American Forces Press Service
U.S. Forces Ready for NATO Exercise Trident Juncture 18 From U.S. Joint Information Center Trident Juncture 18 Public Affairs
More than 14,000 U.S. service members from the U.S. Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps will take part in Exercise Trident Juncture 18, which began October 25, 2018. The month-long exercise will take place in Norway and the surrounding areas of the North Atlantic and the Baltic Sea, including Iceland and the airspace of Finland and Sweden. The exercise will include a live portion, from October 25 to November. 7 and a command post exercise from
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November 14-23. Trident Juncture 18 is designed to test NATO’s ability to plan and conduct a major collective defense operation – from troop training at the tactical level, to command over large elements of a NATO force. “Trident Juncture demonstrates our credible capability, and together we deter potential adversaries,” U.S. Navy Adm. James Foggo, commander of NATO’s Allied Joint Force CommandNaples and the senior NATO commander oversee-
Reminder: On Sunday at 3 a.m. clocks are to be turned back one hour. Sunrise and sunset will be about one hour earlier, resulting in more light in the morning.
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ing the exercise, said. “All 29-member NATO nations will participate in the exercise, along with our partners from Sweden and Finland and we are delighted about that.” U.S. military personnel and equipment began their movements from their U.S. and European bases to Norway in September, with II Marine Expeditionary Force, based at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, executing the complex and logistically intensive task of transporting thousands of Marines and their
equipment across the Atlantic Ocean. The transition to prepare for the exercise was in itself for these Marines a test of their ability to rapidly deploy to Norway and quickly integrate into the NATO command structure, should they ever be called upon to fight. Last week, the Iwo Jima Expeditionary Strike Group carried out a simulated air assault, employing naval assets, tactical aircraft and Marines from the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit to seize a simulated military objective in Iceland. NATO EXERCISE TRIDENT Page 11 CAPTAIN’S CORNER. . . . . . . . . 2 BASE NOTES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 HISTORY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 FFSC CALENDAR . . . . . . . . . . . 5 SOUND OFF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 MOVIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 JOBS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 USO TOURS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 WORD SEARCH / COLOR ME 14
With election activity steadily picking up, the Department of Defense reminds members of the military and Defense Department civilians that they’re subject to rules regulating their involvement in political activities. Gone are the days when the military posted troops at the polls after the Civil War, an act that ultimately intimidated many southerners into not voting. Today, there are two sets of rules help protect the integrity of the political process: a DoD directive for active-duty service members and the Hatch Act for federal civilians. These rules keep the military out of partisan politics and ensure that the workplace remains politically neutral, he said. That’s not to imply that military members and civilian employees can’t participate in politics. The DoD encourages both groups to register to vote and vote as they choose, and to urge others to vote. NEUTRAL WORKPLACE Page 7