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Big E Happenings Damage Control Training Team: Keeping Big E Ready for Anything Story and photo By Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Scott Pittman

USS ENTERPRISE, At Sea – Members of the Damage Control Training Team (DCTT) have been preparing Sailors aboard aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CVN 65) for the worst possible shipboard incidents since the ship left Norfolk in March.

The Sailors of DCTT are individuals from different departments highly trained in the field of damage control (DC) who assist the ship’s Damage Controlmen in training personnel assigned to any of the 10 repair lockers on the ship.

“We have different DCTT members in each locker doing different jobs, covering every aspect of the job,” said Damage Controlman 1st Class Paul N. Conway, repair locker leader for repair locker 7B aboard Enterprise. “Our investigators will have a DCTT Sailor assigned Jonathan Sadler, a member of the Damage Control Training Team, speaks to Sailors to them, who will walk around with them while ET1 during a general quarters drill. they investigate for damage, give them pointers, then re-run the drill to ensure everyone knows what and generally steer them in the right direction.”

DCTT members in the repair locker also make sure they are supposed to be doing during that particular communications are flowing freely between the locker, scenario.”

Additional training can be accomplished in the unit lockers and DC Central. form of an at-sea fire party training scenario. This The training scenarios Enterprise’s DCTT runs are supplementary training is similar to a general quarters based on the operations and needs of the ship. Since drill, but on a smaller scale, usually involving only deploying, the ship has held a general quarters drill one or two repair lockers and one specific scenario, every week, when operations have allowed. This such as a class-charlie fire. is a massive damage control scenario planned and “The more frequently we run drills, the better coordinated by the integrated training team (ITT) and performance we see out of Sailors in the repair training officer (TRAINO), though the individual scenarios for each locker are run by the DCTT Sailors. lockers,” said Porter. “If we go two or three weeks without running a DC evolution, you can really tell.”

“Every week I meet with the ITT to find out what The DCTT meets twice a week to discuss plans kind of overall scenario they want to run and what for the week’s training scenarios, and before general each training team wants to accomplish,” said Master quarters or an individual training evolution.

Chief Damage “Each repair locker leader tells the DCTT leader Controlman what drills they want to run. He consolidates it in Glenn Porter, damage control to one package, and we brief the team on the entire package,” said Conway. “That way everyone is on the coordinator USS Enterprise (CVN 65) same page.” for the DCTT. The Shuttle is published and printed daily underway and The DCTT team primarily consists of E6 and above “Afterwards, I bi-weekly in port by the USS Enterprise (CVN 65) Media Department, FPO AE 09543-2810. This newspaper is an Sailors who have finished all basic and advanced DC meet with the authorized publication for members of the Department qualifications and positions, although there are several of Defense. Please direct all story ideas, questions and rest of DCTT comments to MC1 (SW) Steve Smith at smithsw@cvn65. and we go over E5s on the DCTT. navy.mil.

The Damage Control Training Team will continue what drills we Commanding Officer Executive Officer Capt. William C. Hamilton, Jr. Capt. G. C. Huffman running DC training exercises and scenarios past did not do as Command Master Chief Public Affairs Officer the end of deployment, continuing until the crew of well on, hold ABCM (AW/SW) Eric M. Young Lt. Cmdr. Sarah T. Self-Kyler Enterprise is transferred to new ships or commands a debrief, do a Editors MC2 (SW) Kristin L. Grover following the decommissioning ceremony. little training MCSN Brian G. Reynolds on the scenario,

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World News Long Road Ahead In U.S.-Pakistan Ties After NATO Deal

By Missy Ryan and Michael Georgy, REUTERS

ISLAMABAD--Pakistan and the United States are set to resume broader talks on security cooperation, militant threats, aid and other issues in the wake of an agreement to reopen supply routes into Afghanistan, Pakistan’s envoy to Washington said on Thursday.

But bridging underlying differences that strained U.S.- Pakistani ties close to the breaking point will be daunting as the allies remain at odds over how to handle the twin threats of the Taliban in Afghanistan and militants in Pakistani tribal areas.

The agreement reached this week prompting Pakistan to reopen NATO supply routes into Afghanistan, clinched when U.S. President Barack Obama’s administration ceded to months of Pakistani demands to apologize for the U.S. air attack that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers last November, was a relief for both countries.

“I certainly think it opened the door to many other issues,” Ambassador Sherry Rehman told Reuters.

“There’s a long road ahead, but both sides can use this opportunity to build a path to durable ties,” she added.

After U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton apologized in a phone call to Pakistani Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar, Pakistan permitted trucks carrying NATO supplies to cross into Afghanistan for the first time in more than seven months.

This was a boon for NATO nations that had been paying 2-1/2 times as much to bring supplies in through an alternate route.

While NATO will not pay any new fees for shipping supplies into Afghanistan, Washington will give Pakistan at least $1.2 billion owed it for costs incurred while fighting militants.

A U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said no specific commitments were made to increase military or counter-terrorism activities for Pakistan, but there was a ‘good faith agreement’ to continue talks on those issues.

Top Syrian General Said To Have Defected To Turkey

By Liz Sly, WASHINGTON POST

ANTAKYA, Turkey -- Progovernment news outlets in Syria reported Thursday that a powerful military officer and longtime close associate of the Assad family had fled to Turkey, in what could be the first sign of a crack in the regime’s inner circle.

The pro-Assad Web site Syria Steps was the first to report that Maj. Gen. Manaf Tlas, who heads the elite Republican Guard and is the son of a once-influential former defense minister, had joined the opposition.

It appeared to be the most senior defection since the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad began more than 15 months ago.

The Web site of the Tartous Today newspaper,which supports the Assad government, later carried a report from

the Shaam NewsNetwork saying that Tlas had disappeared in the Syrian capital, Damascus, two days earlier but that the network had not published the information because of the “sensitivity of the situation.”

Although the reports could not be independently confirmed, word of the purported defection quickly buzzed through social media sites run by the opposition, which gleefully posted pictures of Assad and Tlas posing together in a reminder of how close the two had been.

Col. Aref Hammoud, a spokesman for the opposition Free Syrian Army in southern Turkey, and two rebel officers inside Syria said the Free Syrian Army had helped Tlas cross into Turkey earlier in the day.

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Iran’s commercial fleet to be powered by nuclear fuel

TEHRAN, July 3 (MNA) -- The Majlis Industries and Mines Committee has approved a plan which calls for Iranian oceangoing tankers and ships to be powered by nuclear fuel in order to eliminate their need to be refueled while on long voyages, MP Hossein NaqaviHosseini said on Tuesday.

Speaking to the Persian service of ISNA, Naqavi-Hosseini, who is the rapporteur of the Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, said that the plan will obligate the administration to supply the ships that carry energy supplies with non-fossil fuels, including nuclear fuel.

The parliament must endorse the plan before it can be implemented.

Earlier, MP Rouhollah Abbaspour, the rapporteur of the Majlis Industries and Mines Committee, had said that in response to the West’s anti-Iranian sanctions, the administration would be obligated to equip some vessels of the country’s shipping fleets with enhanced propulsion systems that would allow them to operate for long periods without needing to be refueled.

MP Mehrdad Bazrpash, who was the initiator of the proposal, told the Mehr News Agency on Tuesday that the implementation of the plan would eliminate the need of Iranian oceangoing ships to moor in ports of foreign countries for refueling.

An informed source told the Tehran Times on Tuesday that Iran may need to produce uranium enriched to a purity level of higher than 20 percent in order to fuel the ships equipped with enhanced propulsion systems.

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Hall of Heroes Hall of Heroes: Capt. Harley H. Hall Story and Photo By Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Harry Andrew D. Gordon

USS ENTERPRISE, At Sea – If the walls of aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CVN 65) could talk, just think of the amazing stories they would tell. None though, are as dramatic, heroic and inspiring as the stories told on the walls in the Hall of Heroes. There, one can find stories of bravery and patriotism that every Sailor, young and old, strives to emulate.

One Enterprise Sailor who epitomized these attributes was Capt. Harley H. Hall, former commander of the famed United States Navy precision flight team, the Blue Angels. He commanded this squadron between tours of duty in Vietnam.

Hall, a commander at the time of his second tour of duty in Vietnam, was stationed aboard Enterprise in 1973 as the commanding officer of Fighter Squadron 143.

In mid-January of 1973, President Richard M. Nixon ordered a stop to missions flown over North Vietnam. Several divisions of the North Vietnamese Army (NVA) were gathering along the then demilitarized zone (DMZ) on the border of South Vietnam.

The divisions quickly started moving across the DMZ on January 27 to join Viet Cong forces and occupy as much territory as possible before the Paris Peace Accords went into effect. United States and South Vietnamese forces used all assets available in an attempt to stop the large communist offensive

movement.

That same day, Hall took off from the flight deck of Enterprise with his co-pilot Lt. Cdmr. Phillip A Kientzler in their F4J Phantom fighter leading the squadron on their second attack mission of the day.

The afternoon of January 27 was cloudy as he and his fellow pilots flew into North Vietnamese territory.

The attack squadron was conducting a strike mission against a 15-truck convoy of North Vietnamese vehicles moving from North Vietnam into South Vietnam. The cloudy skies prevented the pilots from making visual contact with the targets and it did not help that the area was hot with enemy activity.

The pilots used the clouds as protection, dodging anti-aircraft artillery (AAA) gun batteries firing from south of the DMZ and AAA batteries firing from the north. The communist forces also fired surface-to-air missiles (SAM).

The convoy was spotted around 5 p.m. and the orders were given to engage the targets. Hall made the first pass dropping six MK-82 500 pound bombs.

He hit the convoy. The other fighter planes in the squadron followed, dropping bombs as they passed.

Some were unable to drop their ordnance due to the lack of visibility.

During the third pass a fellow pilot from Hall’s squadron saw the former Blue Angels commanding officer’s plane struck by a SAM. Hall’s plane had been

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Hall of Heroes hit on the port aft side and was on fire. The plane was seen maneuvering east to the South China Sea where a crash area had been designated and search and rescue forces had been deployed in the event of a casualty.

The plane was unable to maintain its eastern course. It uncontrollably rolled to the right. Hall and his co-pilot ejected and multiple aircrews were able to visually follow the men in their parachutes till they had reached the ground. The men had landed near a populated village where the Dam Cho Chua and Cua Vet rivers joined.

Emergency beepers were intermittently heard thoughout the night but voice contact was never established. Due to deteriorating weather conditions, the search and rescue efforts were withdrawn. The two pilots were presumed captured.

Hall’s co-pilot Kientzler was released March 27, 1973. He reported last seeing Hall as they touched down under heavy enemy fire. He had no other knowledge of where Hall was, or what had happened to him. Hall was officially listed as MIA/ POW. During a repatriation ceremony in North Vietnam on January 25, 1993, the Vietnamese turned over to the U.S. government officials Hall’s remains. The remains consisted of three front teeth and bone fragments. Further analysis confirmed that the teeth belonged to Hall. He is now listed by the United States government as “remains returned.”

Capt. Henry H. Hall was shot down on the last day of the war, merely 10 hours before the Paris Peace Accords went into effect. He was the last Navy air casualty of the Vietnam War and was the last American to be classified a POW in the Vietnam War. During his time listed as a POW he was promoted to

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the rank of Captain in the United States Navy.

Captain Harley Hubert Hall is truly an Enterprise and American hero. He will always be honored and remembered aboard USS Enterprise…in the Hall of Heroes.

Housing Support Center Available for Assistance

By Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Brian G. Reynolds resolved.

While Sailors are underway on the final deployment After all of the stress that Sailors endure daily, it is of Enterprise, it is imperative they rest assured that important for them to be assured that their families are any issues regarding thier homes and families are well living in safe and healthy housing. taken care of. The Housing Support Center (HSC) is one Unfortunately, as many are aware, things do happen resource that can help them do exactly that. One of the and, sometimes, they have to be promptly addressed as if primary purposes of the HSC is to engage any issues the servicemember was still stateside. It is important for regarding the residence on the service member’s behalf Sailors to understand that although they are deployed, it while they are on deployment. is wise to notify the proper people or departments in order Servicemembers can get assistance from the HSC by for the issue to be resolved. choosing a link on the home page of the Commander, If a problem does arise involving housing, Sailors are Naval Installations Command (CNIC) website at http:// strongly encouraged to go through the proper avenues to www.cnic.navy.mil. The HSC can not only help in ensure issue resolution. Sailors should bring the issue to maintenance issues, but can also can be used in tenant/ the attention of their chain of command and then proceed landlord mediation and disputes. However, effective to notify the HSC. communication is a great first step in getting the issue

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Sailors of the Day Logistics Specialist 3rd Class Phillip E. Williams

LS3 Phillip E. Williams, from Courtland Manor, N.Y., joined the Navy three years ago to see the world. In his spare time, Phillip enjoys reading and sports. In the future, Williams plans to become dual-warfare qualified, make master chief and to learn about other cultures.

Aviation Structural Mechanic 3rd Class Geoffery Robb

AM3 Geoffery Robb, from Port St. Lucie, Fla., joined the Navy two years ago to meet new people and to experience new cultures. Robb enjoys working out, reading and making people laugh. In the future, Robb plans to advance in rank, further his education and earn a degree.

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