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“We are Legend”

Runs for Cystic Fibrosis

May 7, 2012 Issue

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Big E Hosts Cystic Fibrosis Walk-A-Thon Story and Photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Scott Pittman

USS ENTERPRISE, At Sea – Sailors and Marines aboard aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CVN 65) participated in a flight deck walk and run to raise awareness for cystic fibrosis May 6.

Chief Warrant Officer Two Rahzine Brown, of Enterprise’s Reactor department, began organizing the event in honor of Brady Keep, the 3-year-old son of Brown’s long-time friend and shipmate, Chief Electronics Technician Jeff Keep, who serves aboard Los Angelesclass attack submarine USS Norfolk (SSN 714). Brady is currently battling cystic fibrosis.

“We came out to show support for our friends and families back home so they know, just because we’re on deployment, we still remember them and their struggles,” said Brown. “There was a cystic fibrosis walk in Virginia Beach Saturday, so we decided to show our support by having one on the ship today.”

Cystic Fibrosis, also known as mucoviscidosis, is a genetic disorder affecting the lungs, pancreas, liver and intestinal tract. The most serious symptom is difficulty breathing caused by frequent lung infections. Other symptoms include sinus infections and stunted growth, along with pancreatic scarring and cyst formation.

“I got an e-mail saying that there was a run to support a little boy with cystic fibrosis,” said Logistics Specialist 3rd Class Patricia Melendez. “I’m a runner and hate running on treadmills, so I said ‘why not?’ It’s for a good cause.”

The event was coordinated by Brown in conjunction with Enterprise’s Morale, Welfare and Recreation (MWR)

staff and was approved through the chain of command.

“It didn’t take as much to organize this as I thought it would,” said Brown. “I received support from everyone I talked to about this event, including the Executive Officer, who approved the Walk-A-Thon, and the Handler who secured part of the flight deck for us for the run. It came together quite well.”

MWR staff and volunteers were on the flight deck providing water to the runners to help combat the Arabian Sea’s heat and humidity.

“It feels like an honor to be able to show someone back home that we care even in the middle of deployment,” said Chief Aviation Ordnanceman Tabitha Gentry.

“It’s a nice Sunday morning to get out and run for a good cause.”

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In the News U.S. Special Forces Commander Seeks To Expand Operations

By David S. Cloud, LOS ANGELES TIMES But some Pentagon officials and WASHINGTON — A top U.S. outside experts warn that giving secret commander is seeking authority to soldiers too much additional authority expand clandestine operations against outside the normal chain of command militants and insurgencies around might lead to abuses. the globe, a sign of shifting Pentagon The little-known Special tactics and priorities after a grueling Operations Command, which decade of large-scale wars.

McRaven heads from his headquarters Adm. William H. McRaven, a in Tampa, Fla., oversees more than Navy SEAL and commander of the 60,000 military personnel and raid that killed Osama bin Laden, has civilians. developed plans that would provide The command includes Army far-reaching new powers to make Green Berets who specialize in special operations units “the force of training foreign military forces; choice” against “emerging threats” over the next decade, internal Defense Ranger light infantry units; Navy SEALs; Air Force squadrons flying Department documents show. drones and aerial gunships; and the America’s secret military forces Pentagon’s most elite combat units, have grown dramatically over the last Delta Force and the Naval Special decade as the Pentagon and the U.S. Warfare Development Group, known intelligence community have as DEVGRU, which conducted the increasingly merged missions, Bin Laden raid. including drone strikes and counterCongress has ordered the Pentagon terrorism operations.

to cut its budget growth, and President Obama has proposed reducing ground forces by 80,000 soldiers and 20,000 Marines. The White House has proposed increasing the 2013 Pentagon budget in only two areas: putting more forces in the western Pacific to counter China’s growing clout, and expanding special operations.

McRaven’s ideas, outlined in draft plans obtained by The Times, provide the first unclassified blueprint of how the Pentagon would achieve that goal.

“We are in a generational struggle,” McRaven says in a draft paper circulating at the Pentagon. “For the foreseeable future, the United States will have to deal with various manifestations of inflamed violent extremism. In order to conduct sustained operations around the globe, our special operations forces must adapt.”

Americans Favor Limited U.S. Role in Afghanistan

By Deborah Charles, REUTERS

WASHINGTON—Most Americans want U.S. troops out of Afghanistan and oppose a significant long-term commitment to support that nation’s economy and security, a Reuters/Ipsos poll showed.

But the poll also indicated that most Americans favor keeping some U.S. forces in Afghanistan to help train that nation’s troops, and to continue missions targeting al-Qaeda.

Taken together, the findings suggest “Americans essentially want to be done with Afghanistan,” said Ipsos pollster Chris Jackson.

NATO’s roughly 130,000 troops there - of which about 99,000 are from the United States - are scheduled to withdraw by 2014.

U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has said the Obama administration would like to remove most U.S. combat troops by the end of

next year.

The poll was conducted in the days after President Barack Obama marked the one-year anniversary of Osama bin Laden’s death with a surprise trip to Afghanistan and the signing of an agreement laying out a long-term U.S. role in Afghanistan.

The agreement is not particularly specific, but it calls for the United States to provide training for Afghan troops and other aid through 2024.

Almost two-thirds of the 776 Americans surveyed in the online poll said they did not want Washington to be committed to supporting Afghan economic and security development that long.

Seventy-seven percent said they wanted all U.S. combat troops - excluding trainers and special forces - to leave Afghanistan by the end of 2012. Nearly the same amount, 73 percent, said they did not

want the United States to establish any permanent military bases in Afghanistan.

“But if you start to talk about some specifics like hunting down al-Qaeda or even providing trainers for the Afghan security forces, you have a small majority of people who support those notions,” Jackson said.

Six out of ten Americans said they favored having the United States keep forces in Afghanistan to conduct missions targeting al-Qaeda and 57 percent were in favor of having troops in the country to help with training.

“Basically since before the 2008 election there’s been an increasing sense of war fatigue with the American population,” Jackson said.

“They want things to be done with but they don’t want them to be done in a way that makes it seem like we’ve lost or were defeated. They want to end it with a win.”

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Cystic Fibrosis Walk

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Big E Sports “I’ll Have Another” Wins Derby From No. 19 Post LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) -- I’ll Have Another looked like just another horse at the Kentucky Derby.

Until the final furlong, that is.

That’s when the chestnut colt -- sold for a paltry $11,000, ridden by a rookie jockey hardly anyone knew and stuck in an outside post -- blazed past highly regarded Bodemeister to win by 1 1/2 lengths on Saturday, beating one of the deepest fields in years.

I’ll Have Another stormed out of post No. 19 -- the first winner from there in 138 runnings of the Derby -and bided his time back in mid-pack while Bodemeister set a blistering pace on a muggy, 85-degree afternoon at Churchill Downs.

“He’s an amazing horse. I kept telling everybody, from the first time I met him, I knew he was the one. I knew he was good,” jockey Mario Gutierrez said. “I said in an interview, even if they allowed me to pick from the whole rest of the field, I would have stayed with him, 100 percent, no doubt about it.”

Making his Derby debut at 25, Gutierrez got his chance to ride I’ll Have Another after trainer Doug O’Neill and owner J. Paul Reddam happened to see him at Santa Anita in Southern California.

“I don’t know if he won or not, but he really looked good in the irons to me,” said Reddam, who owns CashCall, a lending company in Anaheim, Calif. “I said, `We need to try some new blood.”’

It was another chapter in Gutierrez’s unusual route to the Derby winner’s circle. He followed in his father’s footsteps as a jockey, getting on quarterhorses in Veracruz, Mexico, at 14. After a stint in Canada, he eventually started getting noticed on the West Coast, especially after winning the Santa Anita Derby last month.

“Top trainers, top owners, of course, they’re not going to know anything about me,” he said.

Still, Gutierrez was largely a mystery to the record crowd of 165,307, who didn’t know 15-1 shot I’ll Have Another or the jockey had the right stuff until the 20-horse field turned for home. That’s when Gutierrez, who moved up between horses around the final turn, positioned his colt not far from the rail and set him down to run.

“I know my horse was reaching every single step of the way, but I wasn’t going to stop riding until I was passing the wire,” he said. “That is when the horse race is finished.”

I’ll Have Another overhauled a tiring Bodemeister to win by 1 1/2 lengths. He paid $32.60, $13.80 and $9. He ran 1 1/4 miles in 2:01.83.

Bodemeister, trained by three-time Derby winner Bob Baffert, was second and returned $6.20 and $5.60 as the 4-1 favorite. Dullahan was a neck back in third and paid $7.20 to show.

O’Neill didn’t waste any time vowing that I’ll Have Another will go on to the Preakness in two weeks.

“Maryland, here we come, baby!” he said.

They’ll go to Pimlico as one of the favorites as a result of I’ll Have Another’s Derby win and his catchy name. It has nothing to do with alcohol; it’s Reddam’s response to his wife’s nightly query of “Do you want any more cookies?” as he lounges on the couch.

It’s an offer the portly Reddam rarely refuses.

I’ll Have Another made his way to the starting gate accompanied by his stable pony, Lava Man, another cheap purchase turned into a career winner of more than $5 million by O’Neill. The trainer has made his name predominantly in Southern California, although he’s won three Breeders’ Cup races.

Mayweather Passes Test, Defeats Cotto LAS VEGAS -- Floyd Mayweather Jr. finally found himself in a real fight, complete with a bloody nose and an opponent in Miguel Cotto who never was going to quit.

As usual, he found a way to win.

Mayweather used his speed and accuracy Saturday night to take a unanimous decision over a game Cotto in a bruising bout to win a piece of the 154-pound title. But it wasn’t easy, as Cotto landed some hard punches and kept attacking all the way to the final bell.

“You’re a hell of a champion,” Mayweather told Cotto in the ring afterward. “You’re the toughest guy I

ever fought.”

Mayweather dominated late, rocking Cotto in the 12th round to pull out a win and remain unbeaten in 43 fights. Unlike most of his fights, though, Mayweather got his nose bloodied and engaged in some bruising exchanges he usually likes to avoid.

Two judges scored the fight 117-111 and the third had it 118110. ESPN.com had it 116-112 for Mayweather. The Associated Press had Mayweather winning 116-112.

Fighting just a few weeks before he enters a county jail to serve a threemonth sentence for domestic abuse,

Mayweather found himself in a tough fight against a game opponent who never stopped moving forward. But he was faster and more accurate than Cotto and seemed to wear him down in the final rounds.

In the last round, Mayweather landed his best punch of the night, a left uppercut that seemed to hurt Cotto. He followed that with several flurries to the head to wrap up a decision that until the later rounds had been in doubt.

The decision was roundly booed by the crowd at the MGM Grand arena, which cheered wildly every time Cotto landed a punch.

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Closing Photo

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Sailors of the Day Seaman Jeffrey Devlieger

Aviation Structural Mechanic 3rd Class Nicholas A. Chicarello

SN Jeffrey Devlieger, from Lakewood, N.Y., joined the Navy one year and one month ago to better his life and make his family proud. Devlieger enjoys working out in his spare time. In the future, he plans to make rank as a Boatswain’s Mate and serve honorably.

AM3 Nicholas Chicarello, from Alamonte Springs, Fla., joined the Navy four years ago to provide a better life for himself and learn new skills. Chicarello enjoys spending time with his wife and son. His future goals are to advance in the Navy, provide for his family and be a positive influence for his children.

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Big E Entertainment

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