WASHINGTON SURVEYOR THE
August 21, 2016
By MCSA Krystofer Belknap
trash
talk Sailors in waste management SHARE their Experience
By MC2 Jennifer O’Rourke
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hostf-35peo By MC3 Wyatt Anthony
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PHOTO of the DAY
ATLANTIC OCEAN (June 20, 2016) – The pilot of an F-35C Lightning II carrier variant, assigned to the Salty Dogs of Air Test and Evaluation Squadron (VX) 23, prepares to exit the cockpit onto the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS George Washington (CVN 73). VX-23 is conducting its third and final developmental test (DT-III) phase aboard George Washington in the Atlantic Ocean. The F-35C is expected to be Fleet operational in 2018.
Photo by MC3 Wyatt L. Anthony
TRASH
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SAILORS IN WASTE MANAGEMENT SHARE THEIR EXPERIENCE
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rown burlap sacks pile on the floor of the ship’s incinerator room; a misleading sepia setting that suggests a monochromatic life for Waste Management. Sailors routinely sort trash into labeled brown paper bags, or burlap sacks for sinkable materials that could potentially damage machines in the trash stations. The burlap sacks get tied up with copper wire and thrown overboard to dissolve in the bottom of the ocean.
Sailors assigned to Waste Management maintain and operate equipment used for the mass disposal of the creWWw’s trash. Three thousand three hundred Sailors aboard the aircraft carrier USS George Washington (CVN 73) shed their scraps after meals, snacks, job-related daily consumables and more while at sea. Neglecting to dispose of trash can become a hazard to the comfort and health of Sailors.
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here once was broccoli and asparagus left in a sealed plastic bag for about a week in the seventh deck,” said Machinist’s Mate Fireman Ryan Durnil. “It’s so hot down there that the once-edible veggies became a disgusting stew of liquefied grossness. It was finally brought to the mid-ship pulp room where the bag was cut open so that the liquid can seep into the pulper.” Durnil said the stench of rotten broccoli and asparagus stained the second deck mid-ship pulper, which could be smelled all the way at the third level of the ship. Waste Management had to deep clean the entire room. Sailors working in Waste Management dig their hands and
arms into every bag to ensure the trash was properly separated. “Collecting trash is the most tedious task,” said Durnil. “People don’t want to separate their trash like they’re suppose to. They’ll hide the trash that’s not suppose to be in the bag at the bottom of bag, expecting us not to search the whole thing.” Machinist’s Mate 1st Class Joanna Ratcliffe agrees with Durnil, and shared a story where the carbon monoxide alarm went off in the incinerator room while she was the waste management leading petty officer aboard another ship. “We had an incident where there was rotten meat that was left in the incinerator room,” said Ratcliffe. “Everyone was wondering ‘what
is that smell?’ Nobody could see what it was. We found it buried under a bunch of trash.” Other dangers of not sorting trash properly include having hazardous materials and other materials camouflaged in trash, such as lighters and aerosol cans. These could combust while being processed, causing damages to machine operators and their machinery. Durnil described the layout of trash stations on George Washington. In the aft end of the ship is an incinerator room. Next to the incinerator room is one of the pulp rooms, which has one pulper, two compressed melting units (CMU), and one plastic shredder. The other pulp room is located mid-ship near the aft galley, and in
there is one pulper, three CMUs, The CMU transfers seawater cylinder when it is compressing, through coils inside the ram and which can cause the ram to get and a plastic shredder. Burnable material is placed in door during a cooling process to stuck. This causes the operator to have the chamber of the incinerator to avoid burning the CMU operator, who is responsible for pulling out to perform corrective maintenance, turn it into ash. “The pulper works the same way the puck from the ram inside the requiring a drill and wire wheel to grind off the trash manually from a garbage disposal does when you CMU. Each of these stations has the cylinder to allow the CMU’s put waste, food, paper or cardboard in it,” said Durnil. “It gets grinded qualified operators capable of ram to function. “I like working in Waste all up into a mush and ejected immediate response to emergencies Management,” said Durnil. “It’s through an eductor that takes it regarding the machinery. an easy job, but underneath the at the same time ship and pushes it is disgusting. into the ocean.” “COLLECTING TRASH IS THE MOST TEDIOUS itWhen you think Plastic goes through the teeth about cleaning TASK. PEOPLE DON’T WANT TO SEPARATE of the plastic out the CMU or THEIR TRASH LIKE THEY’RE SUPPOSED shredder. That the pulpers, you TO. THEY’LL HIDE THE TRASH THAT’S NOT grinds it up into realize all the fine pieces that stuff that gets SUPPOSED TO BE IN THE BAG AT THE are put into brown on your arms BOTTOM OF THE BAG , EXPECTING US NOT is paper bags. The solidified brown paper bags condiments and TO SEARCH THE WHOLE THING. get folded up and food. It’s MMFN RYAN DURNIL rotten placed into the nasty, but I don’t CMUs. even smell it “There’s daily maintenance, anymore.” “Compressed melting units are kind of like a piston on a car that’s and then there’s always, always The working life of Sailors maintenance,” said assigned to Waste Management air driven,” said Durnil. “It pushes corrective up and compresses everything, Durnil. “Daily maintenance for is too colorful and busy to be heats it up by about 350 degrees, the CMU involves hooking up a monochromatic. It’s a saturated and makes it into what we call hose to the front of the CMU and environment painted with the pucks. It’s like big hockey pucks the hose connection and running added colors of waste. With the that get placed into plastic sacks, hot water through it. What that help of the entire ship’s company sealed up, and banded up into does is spray on the inside of the sorting their trash properly, Waste tri-wall on the hangar bay. We’ll cylinder in the CMU to try and Management will be able to steer remove some of the junk in there.” away the trash and keep the ship’s offload it when we go into port.” Bottles with dip spit or lotions Sailors more comfortable in their The CMU is operated through a control box of colored buttons. inside can squeeze out into the home at sea.
By M C 2 J e n n i f e r O ’ Ro u r k e
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GWSAILORS HOSTF-35PEO
ailors aboard the aircraft carrier USS George Washington (CVN 73) hosted the Program Executive Officer for F-35 Lightning II Joint Program Office, Aug. 18-19. U.S. Air Force Lt Gen. Christopher Bogdan flew on board to observe the F-35C carrier variant in action and gather progress feedback from the crew during the project’s third and final development test phase (DT-III) at sea. “ I ’ m out here, to see our progress,” s a i d Bogdan. “ Q u i t e frankly, to hear from both the ship’s crew and our testers about what I can do to make the [aircraft] better, what I can to make the weapons s y s t e m b e t t e r , because it is not perfect. We are learning a lot of things. I want to make sure that when I go back to the office, I know the things we need to work on to make this [aircraft] better for the Navy,” said Bogdan. Bogdan has served as an officer in the U.S. Air Force since 1983. He has been an operational pilot, test
pilot, staff officer, executive officer, acquisition program manager, and program director. “[The project] is growing very rapidly right now,” said Bogdan. “It is accelerating and I would tell you it’s a better program than it was a couple years ago. We have overcome a lot of issues. We have overcome a lot of technical problems, in terms of how much the program cost, how much the
[aircraft] cost and how much it cost to sustain the [aircraft]… We are doing this third and final sea trial, so the [aircraft] and weapons systems are maturing and that’s a good thing — much, much better than it was a few years ago.” The concept for the F-35 began in 1997 when Lockheed Martin was
selected as a competitor to design the new Joint Strike Fighter. They won the bid in 2001. The first production aircraft — the F-35A used by the Air Force — rolled out in 2006 followed by its first flight. Since then, advancements have accelerated along with developmental testing and deliveries from 2012 to the final testing stages of 2016. “As we develop the Navy version of the [aircraft], the C model, we have done two other tests on other aircraft carriers,” s a i d Bogdan. “This is the final exam for the C model, so we are out here for the next few weeks opening up the envelope for the F-35C, so it can fly at all altitudes, airspeeds, gross winds and configurations safely, on and off the carrier.” The F-35 is an innovative stealth strike fighter aircraft built to meet the needs of three military branches as well as U.S. partner nations. To date, all three variants have logged more than 65,000 hours.
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