June 30, 2015 Rough Rider by USS Theodore Roosevelt

ROUGH RIDER USS THEODORE ROOSEVELT (CVN 71)

TUESDAY EDITION

June 30, 2015

CPO 365 OLYMPICS

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TR WELCOMES USNA MIDSHIPMEN

Midshipmen GET THEIR SEA LEGS DURING SUMMER TRAINING

YOUR THOUGHTS ON ...

ROUGH RIDER RADIO

CPO 365 OLYMPICS Story by MC3 Jennifer Case

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ailors aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) participated in the inaugural command-wide Chief Petty Officers (CPO) 365 Olympics in the hangar bay, June 28. The event included such contests as ‘Rough Rider Relay,’ a foot race between departments, ‘Blue Jacket Buckets,’ a basketball shoot out, and ‘Ships of War’ a tug of war competition with Aviation Intermediate Maintenance Department (AIMD) reigning victorious. The event aimed to bring each department’s CPO 365 participants together to build on the leadership traits outlined in phase one, the preliminary stage of the chief selection process. “I thought it would be a great way to start building camaraderie by showing how chiefs network and how we want the first class mess to come together to try to emulate the Chiefs

Mess,” said Senior Chief Operations Specialist Donald Williams. “What better way to do so than to have first class participation in events like this alongside their chiefs, to build on that relationship and that part of their leadership triad.” Building camaraderie underway can be challenging due to the long hours that Sailors work every day in their specialized fields. “The occasion broke up the routine of underway; this was the first since I have been onboard we have had an event like that,” said Surface Sonar Technician 1st Class Ryan Hoover. “Plus you actually get to meet people and it’s a good way to network. There are people I haven’t seen in a while, like people from AIMD or Engineering.” The fun-packed competitive melee incorporated naval history and heritage to encourage well-rounded leadership development. “A big thing that we put in the [schedule] was

to try to to get all the departments to incorporate a little bit of chief petty officer history into each event to make it a learning experience as well as team building experience,” said Williams. TR’s crew seperated into teams by department. Marine Corps staff sergeants participated in the event as well. “It brings us together as a command and allows us to communicate not just about work but still be in a work environment and be able to have fun at the same time,” said Staff Sgt. Dennis Dowdy, from Marine Strike Fighter Squadron (VMFA) 251. “It builds camaraderie and esprit-de-corps.” Sailors and Marines had the opportunity to socialize and bridge the gap between departments aboard. “I saw the sign for chief petty officer, nothing that really said if Marines could also participate, so I sent out an email to ask if I could, they said ‘yes, you are E-6, you are one of us,’ so I really like just being able to participate,” said Dowdy. “We always want to be part of the ship

whenever we do training with Operations Department,” said Chief Fire Controlman Jacob Becker, of Carrier Strike Group 12. “We are constantly trying to make sure that we aren’t separate units.” The event promoted cooperation between departments and commands. “My favorite part was finding out that we won,” said Dowdy. “We won first place, I was glad that I was able to be a part of it.” Chief Petty Officer (CPO) 365 is a platform that sets the standard for the mentorship relationship between chiefs and first class petty officers 365 days a year. “CPO 365 is the name put on a program by Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy to standardize what we have always done,” said Williams. “We mentor, guide and groom first classes to be chief petty officers, to be our replacements.” CPO 365 is a platform that brings first class petty officers together with their chiefs to develop leadership and networking skills.

TR WELCOMES USNA MIDSHIPMEN ABOARD Story by MC2 DANICA M. SIRMANS

he aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) welcomed 22 United States Naval Academy (USNA) midshipmen for three weeks of hands-on training and experience, June 26. Lt. Jennifer Yedoni, TR’s assistant strike operations officer, serves as the team lead for the visit. Yedoni, an Academy graduate, takes a special interest in the mentorship opportunity. “It does sort of help to have the Academy background,” said Yedoni. “It helps to coordinate the programming since I know the purpose of this training and its endgame.” Yedoni assigned each midshipman third class to an second class petty officer running mate to escort and train the upcoming sophomores. The purpose is to orient each midshipman with enlisted life to help them better lead their Sailors in the future. “My chief really helped put things in perspective for me,” said Boatswain’s Mate 2nd Class Brian Anderson. “These midshipmen have the potential

to be my divisional officer, departmental officer and even my commanding officer one day. It’s important that I give them the best insight into enlisted life, not just for me, but for my other shipmates out there. These are our future leaders of the Navy.” Midshipman 3rd Class Casey Kramer checked in with Anderson and hit the ground running. Kramer is interested in the aviation and surface warfare communities so he was grateful for Anderson’s willingness to share an authentic enlisted experience. “I was really afraid that I was going to be in the way at first but BM2 has been super helpful and makes me feel like I have a purpose on this ship,” said Kramer. “I was able to drive the ship at the helm, sit in at the [combat direction center], talk to the [tactical action officer] and get a better understanding of ship operations.” Kramer said that he’s looking forward to graduating with a Bachelor’s of Science in Applied Mathematics but doesn’t want to forget the training he’s received

aboard TR. “I’ve heard stories of bad officers that don’t empathize with their enlisted,” said Kramer. “I really just want to walk away with a better understanding of their experience so that one day I’ll be able to lead with empathy and effectiveness.” Midshipmen participate in summer training sessions every year for three years. The first year gives them an enlisted surface warfare experience to better acquaint them with sea and enlisted life. The second year gives the midshipman a four-week synopsis of the Marine Corps, surface, submariner and aviation communities. The final year takes place between the junior and senior year. The midshipman is granted more autonomy and is able to choose their aspiring community designation for more training to help make for a more informed decision before graduation. TR recently wrapped up another summer midshipmen cruise, June 16, when she invited six midshipmen 1st classes aboard for their final summer training session. The group embedded with The Checkmates of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 211, The Red Rippers of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 11 and The Rooks of Electronic Squadron (VAQ) 137, the midshipmen were given the opportunity to fly in F/A-18F Super Hornets and EA-18G Growlers.

“We had them aboard for three weeks,” said Lt. Kyle Jones, visit coordinator. “It’s not certain that they’ll be aviators yet but this training is designed to help them get a better idea of what the life of an aviator is like.” “It was a once in a lifetime experience, in my opinion,” said Midshipman 1st Class Matthew Flores. “I don’t think anybody in college would think that they’d have an opportunity to sail in the middle of the [Arabian] Gulf like we did. Also, being able to fly and see missions were some of the things you don’t think you’ll ever be able to see. I learned a lot and it was a good time.” The upcoming senior midshipmen returned to the Academy to finish off their summer training. The memories they’ve made will aid in their decisions for their service assignments. Midshipmen list their top six choices and selections are based on student preference and class standing. While their time at the Academy is coming to an end, the sophomore class is still getting their footing. “This experience is one that I’ll take with me for my time at the Academy and beyond,” said Kramer. “I fully plan to stay in touch with my mentors aboard, and I look forward to seeing them out in the fleet.”

YOUR THOUGHTS ON

“ ROUGH RIDER I was watching flight ops one day and listening to the music when I heard it come on. This is different. I’ve been on two other ships and the [ILARTS] channel was completely silent. It could be improved by having a better variety of song choice. Good job though! ABH3 TYKIA NICOLE SMITH

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I heard about it for the first time just watching ILARTS. It had some good music but I wish it was more up to date. Good information really is put out. I love it!

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I’m not sure where I heard about it, but I think it was the 1MC. I really think the music needs to be updated. LS1 DANTE DAVIS

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I like the music, but more advertisements and better topics could improve it. Don’t stop, music is food for the soul. -ABE1 HARRISON MOORER

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I heard about it when watching ILARTS. I like it because you regularly hear the news and get updates on what’s going on. I’m excited for next week’s show! YN3 BREEANN JOHNSON

I heard about it when the CO said it over the 1MC. They played some good music the first time I turned in, but could be improved by adding some variety to the music. I like that [Rough Rider Radio] gives Sailors a chance to speak. ABH3 TIFFANY PARKER

I like the variety of music, but would like if the good music was on during cleaning stations! This is good because it boosts morale. I actually heard about it when the CO announced it during his Rough Rider of the Week presentation. ABH1 TORRI DAVIS

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MONDAY, JUNE 29, 2015

5 Days That Left Rebel Battle Flag Likely to Wane Inside the State House in South Carolina, one day after the massacre in a Charleston church, an African-American receptionist politely gave everyone who called to complain about the Confederate battle flag the same response: “Sorry, there’s nothing to be done.” But Karen Hunter, one of those callers, would not let it go. “If we all had that attitude,” Hunter told her, “we’d still be slaves.” Hunter drafted an online petition that demanded the flag’s removal from the State House grounds. It would be signed by more than 566,000 people. At the nearby Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, Lewis F. Gossett Jr., the president of a powerful South Carolina business group, emailed his executive committee: It was time to lead a charge to take down the Confederate flag. Fifty miles east, in his district of rolling farms, state Rep. Grady A. Brown, a Democrat and the great-grandson of a Confederate soldier, sorted through 1,000 messages. The vast majority asked him to remove the flag. So, he concluded, that is what he would do. The quick collapse of support for the flag has been told largely through the public pronouncements of one governor, Nikki R. Haley of South Carolina, who persuaded the legislature to reconsider the flag’s perch at the capitol. But behind the scenes, powerful forces, capitalism, Christianity, social media, college sports and a Republican Party eager to extricate itself from the past, were converging. Within five days, decades of resistance in South Carolina, a state that had held fiercely to its Confederate identity, fell away. The consensus among the state’s establishment to remove the flag came about, many civic leaders said, also because of what did not happen: There was no violent reaction. Instead, the small state and the small city of Charleston seemed proud of their comportment, and eager to atone for the hurt. MICHAEL BARBARO and JONATHAN MARTIN

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Greece to Shut Banks as Crisis Mounts ATHENS — Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras announced Sunday night that Greece’s banks would be closed as of Monday, as the fallout from ruptured debt negotiations with the nation’s creditors began inflicting pain on ordinary people while raising alarm in Washington, Brussels and Berlin. The emergency measures escalated the confused and unpredictable state of a crisis that some analysts say could ripple through global financial markets and undercut European unity. Most Asian markets opened lower on Monday. With so much at stake, leaders in other capitals encouraged a continued search for a way to prevent Greece from being forced out of Europe’s currency union. Greece owes a large debt payment by the end of the day Tuesday, and has scheduled a referendum for next Sunday on whether to accept the terms of an offer from its creditors to release bailout aid it needs to meet its financial obligations. Tsipras announced the emergency banking shutdown and

imposed capital controls several hours after the European Central Bank said it would not expand an emergency loan program that had been propping up Greek banks for weeks. The banking system had neared insolvency after panicked account holders withdrew billions of euros, a pattern that continued over the weekend. “It is clearer than ever that this decision has no other goal than blackmailing the Greek people and obstructing the smooth democratic procedure of the referendum,” Tsipras said. Tsipras attributed the action to the unwillingness of the country’s creditors to extend the bailout program, set to end Tuesday, until next Sunday, so that Greece could hold its national referendum. The referendum was announced early Saturday. Tsipras declared that voters should decide whether to accept the terms of the creditors’ latest aid proposal — terms he considers onerous. Greece’s creditors — the other 18 eurozone countries, the European Central Bank and the Inter-

national Monetary Fund — in effect cut off talks with Tsipras after he called for the vote, raising concerns that Greece would default on its debt and potentially seek to abandon the euro. But on Sunday, international leaders appeared to be seeking to calm the situation and explore the potential for common ground with the Greek government. President Obama and Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany spoke by phone on Sunday and “agreed that it was critically important to make every effort to return to a path that will allow Greece to resume reforms and growth within the eurozone,” the White House said. Merkel is expected to make a public statement on Monday in Berlin. Norbert Röttgen, a senior member of Merkel’s party, stressed the wider geopolitical implications of what he called a “vagabond Greek government,” which could say no to the next round of European sanctions against Russia. He warned that after five years of bailouts, “it cannot just collapse over a week.” JIM YARDLEY

In Puerto Rico, Debt Is Called ‘Not Payable” Puerto Rico’s governor, saying he needs to pull the island out of a “death spiral,” has concluded that the commonwealth cannot pay its roughly $72 billion in debts, an admission that will probably have wide-reaching repercussions. The governor, Alejandro García Padilla, and senior members of his staff said in an interview last week that they would probably seek significant concessions from as many as all of the island’s creditors, which could include deferring some debt payments for as long as five years or extending the timetable for repayment. “The debt is not payable,” García Padilla said. “There is no other option. I would love to have an easier option. This is not politics, this is math.” It is a startling admission from the governor of an island of 3.6 million people, which has piled on more municipal bond debt per capita than any American state.

A restructuring by Puerto Rico sets the stage for an unprecedented test of the United States municipal bond market, which cities and states rely on to pay for their most basic needs, like road construction and public hospitals. That market has already been shaken by municipal bankruptcies in Detroit; Stockton, Calif.; and elsewhere, which undercut assumptions that local governments in the United States would always pay back their debt. Puerto Rico’s call for debt relief on such a vast scale could raise borrowing costs for other local governments as investors become more wary of lending. Much of Puerto Rico’s debt is widely held by individual investors on the United States mainland, in mutual funds or other investment accounts, and they may not be aware of it. Puerto Rico, as a commonwealth, does not have the option of bankruptcy. A default on

its debts would most likely leave the island, its creditors and its residents in a legal and financial limbo that, like the debt crisis in Greece, could take years to sort out. García Padilla said his government could not continue to borrow money to address budget deficits while asking its residents, already struggling with high rates of poverty and crime, to shoulder the burden through tax increases and pension cuts. He said creditors must “share the sacrifices” he has imposed on the island’s residents. “If they don’t come to the table, it will be bad for them,” said García Padilla, who plans to speak about the fiscal crisis in a televised address to Puerto Rico residents on Monday evening. “What will happen is that our economy will get into a worse situation and we’ll have less money to pay them. They will be shooting themselves in the foot.” MICHAEL CORKERY and MARY WILLIAMS WALSH

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INTERNATIONAL

Sticking Points As Nuclear Talks Near Deadline VIENNA — Iran’s top nuclear negotiator was heading back to Tehran on Sunday to consult with his nation’s leadership, as negotiators remained divided over how to limit and monitor Tehran’s nuclear program and even on how to interpret the preliminary agreement they reached two months ago. With all sides acknowledging that the talks would need to continue beyond Tuesday, once considered the absolute deadline for a final deal, officials from several nations said some of the difficult questions — from inspections to how fast Iran could expand its nuclear infrastructure in the waning years of an accord — are just as vexing as they were when the 18-month negotiation odyssey began. For Secretary of State John Kerry, for whom an Iran deal would be the crowning achievement of his time in office, how the talks proceed will determine whether he can make a convincing argument to skeptics in Congress that he has negotiated an airtight freeze on the program for at least a decade while hobbling Iran’s ability to race for a bomb for years thereafter. For Kerry’s counterpart, Mohammad Javad Zarif, Iran’s foreign minister, the obstacles to achieving his No. 1 goal — getting the crippling sanctions on Iran lifted — are a tricky mix of both substance and perception. His sudden flight back to Iran — Kerry was informed about the trip on Saturday — may reflect his own delicate balancing act: He cannot appear to contradict the latest “red lines” laid out by Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. And he must emerge from the talks able to make a case that his concessions do not add up to what the ayatollah recently described as a “totalitarian agreement” sought by the Americans. “There are red lines which we cannot cross and some very difficult decisions,” said Philip Hammond, the British foreign secretary, who joined the talks here on Sunday. “There are a number of different areas where we still have major differences of interpretation in detailing what was agreed at Lausanne,” he added, referring to the Swiss location of the last talks in April. DAVID E. SANGER and MICHAEL R. GORDON

Tunisia Gunman Showed Signs of Radicalization GAAFOUR, Tunisia — The Tunisian student who shot 39 tourists at a seaside hotel on Friday was a silent loner who showed signs of radicalism in the past year but hid his real intentions, according to relatives, neighbors and the student’s Facebook page. The student, Seifeddine Rezgui, was 24, his family said, correcting earlier reports that he was younger. Relatives said he had appeared to be completely normal when he came home Thursday night to his father’s house in Gaafour, a small farming town. And when he left on Friday morning, he said he was going to pray at the mosque. “We don’t know how this happened,” said his grandfather, Mohammad Ben Sghaier, 86, at the house Sunday, greeting mourners. Rezgui’s father, Hakim Rezgui, arrived home at that moment. A laborer, he stumbled in distress as a neighbor embraced him. Rezgui, his wife and teenage daughter had just gone through 48 hours of questioning by the police. “My son lost his life, his studies and his future, and made us lose ours as well,” the father said. “I wish he had not done this to us.” He said he had no idea what had led his son to attack the Imperial Marhaba Hotel, on the seacoast.

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“I have no idea who his friends are,” he said. “We don’t know who put this into his head. They noticed he was one of the best students and they dragged him into this. I have no idea who. “Everyone knows him, he always kept away from trouble.” Yet Rezgui’s Facebook page revealed extremist leanings. His profile photos included the logo of his favorite soccer team, Club Africain, but also the black banner of the Islamic State, which he made his cover photo in June 2014. Conor McCormick-Cavanagh, coordinator of the American Corner cultural center in Tunis, who viewed the page before it was taken down on Saturday, said it was surprising that Rezgui had posted

Tourists mourn on Sunday at the site of a deadly attack at a seaside resort in Tunisia. A student, Seifeddine Rezgui, shot 39 vacationers.

openly and publicly about his support for the Islamic State and that it had gone unnoticed. Neighbors and friends said that Rezgui was changed by his time at college in Kairouan, or by people he met there. The town is crowded with religious shrines and mosques, and became the center of an extreme Salafist movement, Ansar al Sharia, after the Arab Spring revolution of 2011. Ansar al Sharia has since been outlawed, but the Tunisian authorities continue to uncover networks of radical Islamists. “I think if he had stayed here, he would have been O.K.,” said Kamel Jebali, 39, a neighbor in Gaafour. CARLOTTA GALL and FARAH SAMTI

In Brief ‘Fragile’ Situation for a Governor President Ashraf Ghani of Afghanistan appointed a second woman as a provincial governor on Sunday, something that was welcomed by reform-minded activists even though his first appointee has been unable to take office because of fierce opposition and protests. Already, there are signs that the second female governor, Seema Joyenda, who is to serve in Ghor Province, will face many of the same challenges. Joyenda, 43, a former member of Parliament, said she was well positioned to lead the province. “As their former representative, I traveled the province, I know my people’s pain.” Yet residents and elders in Ghor, a tribal society with Taliban influences as well as hundreds of militias loyal to local strongmen, expressed misgivings. (NYT)

Marchers Back Pope on Climate When Pope Francis appeared on the balcony of the Apostolic Palace in Vatican City, he was met by the usual cheers and by an unusual forest of bright green oversized paper leaves. Had he been able to read what was written on the leaves — which he could not because he was too far away — the pope would have found quotes from “Praise Be to You,” his encyclical on the environment published this month. The leaves were among the colorful props

carried by a hodgepodge of organizations that marched to the Vatican on Sunday to thank the pope for his forceful message on climate change, and to demand that world leaders heed his call for environmental justice and climate action. (NYT)

Kuwait Identifies Mosque Bomber Kuwait has identified the man who carried out a deadly suicide attack in a Shiite mosque as a citizen of Saudi Arabia who arrived in the Persian Gulf nation just hours before the bombing, the Kuwaiti Interior Ministry said on Sunday. Kuwaiti authorities also arrested a local man who had driven the car that dropped the bomber off and the Kuwaiti owner of the house where the driver was hiding, the Interior Ministry said, adding that the house’s owner followed a “deviant ideology.” The bombing killed 27 people and wounded more than 200 others. (NYT)

CORRECTION Because of an editing error, a caption on Page One on Sunday with an article about Iran’s nuclear strategy misidentified the man pictured. It was Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, not Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khameini.

MONDAY, JUNE 29, 2015 3

NATIONAL

Evangelical Churches Address a New Reality WEST CHICAGO, Ill. — The tone of the worship service was set at the start. An opening prayer declared it “a dark day. ” The sermon focused on a Psalm of lament. In between, a pastor read a statement proclaiming the church’s elders and staff “deeply saddened.” In downtown Chicago, as in other cities around the country, Sunday was marked by jubilation, the annual gay pride festivities made more celebratory by Friday’s Supreme Court decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide. But here at Wheaton Bible Church, a suburban evangelical congregation that draws about 2,600 people to its five weekend worship services, it was a day of sorrow. “I came in with a great sense of lament, because of what happened on Friday,” the church’s teaching pastor, Lon Allison, told worshipers before reading a statement declaring, “We cannot accept or adhere to any legal, political, or cultural redefinition of biblical marriage, nor will we conduct or

endorse same-sex ceremonies.” The shift in public opinion, and now in the nation’s laws, has left evangelical Protestants, who make up about a quarter of the American population, in an uncomfortable position. Many are feeling under siege as they try to live out their understanding of biblical teachings, and worry that a changing legal landscape on gay rights will inevitably lead to constraints on religious freedom. But the challenges are not only external. Many evangelical churches are also grappling with internal questions. Especially in and around large urban areas, pastors increasingly report that some openly gay and lesbian Christians are opting to worship in evangelical congregations and that heterosexual worshipers are struggling over the church’s posture because friends or family are gay. “There is a growing desire on the part of some, even within the church, to combine their Christian

faith with the acceptance of homosexual practice,” the Wheaton Bible statement acknowledged. The result has been a shift in tone and emphasis — but not teaching or policy. Almost all evangelical churches oppose same-sex marriage, and many do not allow gays and lesbians to serve in leadership positions unless they are celibate, but some pastors now either minimize their preaching on the subject, or speak of homosexuality in carefully contextualized sermons emphasizing that Christians should love and welcome all. “Evangelicals are coming to the realization that they hold a minority view in the culture, and that on this issue, they have lost the home-field advantage,” said Ed Stetzer, the executive director of LifeWay Research, which surveys evangelicals. “They are learning to speak with winsomeness and graciousness, which, when their view was the majority, evangelicals tended not to do.” MICHAEL PAULSON

Parades Celebrate Court Ruling With Exuberance The revelers glimmered beneath sprinkling skies, carrying handmade signs and rainbow flags, screeching noisemakers and fussy children. A familiar chant — at least before the coda — wafted over 41st Street in Midtown Manhattan. “What do we want?” “Marriage equality!” “When did we get it?” “Friday!” Two days after the United States Supreme Court affirmed same-sex marriage as a right, pride parades on Sunday in the country’s twin hubs of gay activism, New York City and San Francisco, promised a sort of social ca-

tharsis — a bicoastal toast to the nation’s rapid shift on gay rights and an extended curtain call for the movement that drove it. “All 50 states!” the New York crowd roared at one point. It was no longer a plea, but a celebration. Sunday’s proceedings quickly assumed the feel of a wide-scale wedding reception, uniting graying activists, fledgling families and simple party-seekers in a historical moment. “Doesn’t matter race, religion, gender,” said Dean Barnes, 49, a minister from Southington, Conn. “When people find love with each other, they should be equally treated.” Watching the floats on San Fran-

cisco’s Market Street, Michael and Tom Crawford, both 52, recalled their marriage in 2004, after Gavin Newsom, then the mayor, had authorized same-sex weddings in the city. Soon after, the state’s Supreme Court invalidated the union. The pair moved to Massachusetts and married there before returning to California in time to see voters pass a proposition banning same-sex marriage in 2008. “I feel like a full citizen for the first time in my life,” Michael Crawford said. “And I feel that people that still hate no longer have the government backing them up.” MATT FLEGENHEIMER and VIVIAN YEE

Second New York Prison Escapee Is Shot and Captured MALONE, N.Y. — David Sweat, the remaining prison escapee on the run in northern New York for three weeks, was shot by a state trooper on Sunday and taken into custody on Sunday after a 23-day manhunt that began with an improbable escape from two maximum-security cells and ended in the rain-drenched woods just south of the Canadian border. Sweat, 35, a murderer who had been serving a sentence of life

without parole, was in critical condition at Albany Medical Center late Sunday night, according to Dennis McKenna, the hospital’s medical director. The shooting occurred about 3:20 p.m. after a State Police sergeant spotted a man jogging down a road, stopped to question him and recognized him as Sweat, said Superintendent Joseph A. D’Amico of the New York State Police. He told Sweat to come over to

him, but instead Sweat turned and fled across a field toward the tree line, D’Amico said. Sgt. Jay Cook, a firearms instructor who was patrolling by himself, gave chase and finally opened fire, striking Sweat twice in the torso, because he realized the fugitive was going to make it to the woods and possibly disappear, D’Amico said. “The nightmare is finally over,” Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said. (NYT)

In Brief SpaceX Rocket Falls Apart After Takeoff An unmanned cargo ship destined for the International Space Station disintegrated minutes after launch from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on Sunday, NASA said, raising questions about how the agency and its partners will continue keeping the station supplied. It was the third loss of a cargo ship headed to the space station in the past eight months. The countdown had proceeded without a hitch or worries about weather, and the 208-foot-tall Falcon 9 rocket, built by Space Exploration Technologies, better known as SpaceX, lifted off at 10:21 a.m. But 2 minutes, 19 seconds later, a white cloud emerged from the rocket’s midsection. Moments later, a rain of debris started falling toward the Atlantic Ocean more than 20 miles below. (NYT)

Maine Governor Is Now Party of One When Paul R. LePage, Maine’s combative governor, was seeking re-election last year, he told voters that his days of intemperate remarks were over. But in the last few weeks, LePage’s pugnaciousness has surprised even his critics, and prompted some to raise the specter of impeachment. In a standoff that began with differences over tax policy, LePage has alienated just about the entire Legislature. He has called legislators names and gone on a veto spree, canceling a record number of bills in a flurry that would rival any Maine blizzard; in turn, the Legislature has responded with an override spree, reviving many bills unanimously. (NYT)

Lightning Kills Hiker The authorities in Flagstaff, Ariz., said Sunday that a lightning strike killed a woman and injured several others who were taking shelter under a tree in the Mogollon Rim in northern Arizona. The Coconino County Sheriff’s Office said that 24-yearold Christine Garcia, of Orlando, Fla., was found unresponsive Saturday afternoon. A sheriff’s spokesman, Gerry Blair, said crews received a call around 4:20 p.m. reporting a female hiker who was not breathing. (AP)

MONDAY, JUNE 29, 2015 4

BUSINESS

Panic Sets in Among Hedge Fund Investors ATHENS — For investors around the world looking at Greece, there was but one question Sunday: What is going to happen when the markets open? On Sunday night, the prime minister, Alexis Tsipras, said in a televised address that the banks and the stock market would be closed on Monday, as Athens tries to avert a financial collapse. But the question of what happens when the markets do open is particularly acute for the hedge fund investors — including luminaries like David Einhorn and John Paulson — who have collectively poured more than 10 billion euros into Greek government bonds, bank stocks and a slew of other investments. Through the weekend, Nicholas L. Papapolitis, a corporate lawyer here, was working around the clock comforting and cajoling his frantic hedge fund clients.

“People are freaking out,” said Papapolitis, 32, his eyes red and his voice hoarse. “They have made some really big bets on Greece. But, without a deal with its European creditors, the country will default and Greek stocks and bonds will tank when the markets open. The surprise decision of Tsipras to hold a referendum prompted a rush on the banks. Panicky depositors spent the weekend pulling an estimated one billion euros from the banking system, stashing the cash in their houses or exchanging them for bulging bags of gold coins. The yields on Greek government bonds, now around 12 percent, are expected to soar as investors rush to unload their positions in a market that of late has become extremely hard to trade. Bank stocks, when the market opens, will also be hit with a selling wave, as they cannot survive if the

European Central Bank withdraws its emergency lending program. Most of the hedge fund money in Greece is invested in about 30 billion euros of freshly minted government debt securities that emerged from the 2012 restructuring of private sector bonds. As it was becoming clear that the Syriza government was not going to accept the latest proposal from its creditors, stress and anxiety, in some cases, turned to anger. “I just can’t believe these guys are willing to torch their own country,” one investor with a large holding of Greek bonds lamented in an email. “They thought this was a game. Now, when the supermarkets run out of food, gas stations run out of gas, hospitals have no medicine, tourists flee, salaries don’t get paid because banks shut — what are they going to do?” LANDON THOMAS Jr.

Fate of Domestic Partner Benefits Now in Question Sandra Haggard, a 71-year-old professor, has been in a relationship with her partner, Lynne Lamstein, for more than two decades. They never had plans to marry — nor do they now — even though same-sex marriage has been declared a constitutional right. But since same-sex marriage became legalized two years ago in Maine, where the couple live part of the year, Haggard said she has worried that her employer, the University of Maine, might eliminate domestic partner health coverage for Lamstein, 66, a freelance writer. Lamstein uses Haggard’s plan because Medicare does not cover a medication she needs.

“We don’t want marriage for us, though this has been a wonderful and historic day for equality,” said Haggard, who teaches online from her home in Lake Worth, Fla. “I have been concerned that we and other people, heterosexual couples included, might be at risk of losing their benefits. I don’t believe economic benefits should go exclusively to married people.” Her concern is not unfounded, as a national right to marry calls into question the fate of domestic partner benefits. Some companies are likely to deliver what feels like an ultimatum: Marry within a certain time frame, or lose your partner’s health care coverage.

Some large employers — including Verizon, Delta Air Lines, IBM and Corning — already have. The administrative duties for domestic partners for same-sex and opposite-sex couples are complex. Workers may be taxed on the value of those benefits, something employers need to compute and withhold from paychecks. “With no legal barriers to samesex marriage, it is likely some employers will eliminate their benefits for unmarried same-sex partners,” said Todd Solomon, a partner at McDermott Will & Emery who has written a book on domestic partner benefits. TARA SIEGEL BERNARD

In Brief S.U.V. Owners Warned Not to Drive Vehicles Fiat Chrysler is telling the owners of about five dozen Jeep Grand Cherokee and Dodge Durango sport utility vehicles to immediately stop driving them. The vehicles, from the 2015 model year, have a suspension component that could fail, causing rear-end instability and possibly reduced braking power, the automaker said on Sunday in a news release. The action comes as the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is preparing to hold a hearing on Thursday into whether Fiat Chrysler failed to promptly fix safety defects in 20 separate recalls covering at least 10 million vehicles. The automaker has defended its performance in the recalls. (NYT)

‘Jurassic World’ Still Eating Up Competition A foul-mouthed Teddy bear is no match for a pack of dinosaurs. Seth MacFarlane’s “Ted 2” opened far under expectations with $32.9 million, according to Rentrak estimates Sunday, ceding the top two spots to holdovers “Jurassic World” and “Inside Out.” While $32.9 million is a solid opening for an R-rated comedy, bigger things were expected from “Ted 2,” which cost a reported $68 million to produce. The Universal Pictures sequel was expected to earn somewhere in the $50 million range going into its debut weekend, thanks to the record-setting precedent of the first film, which earned $54.4 million in 2012. (AP)

Agency Taps Google Maps Technology in Bid to Curb Rail Crossing Crashes After a sharp increase in the number of rail crossing accidents last year, the Federal Railroad Administration plans to announce a new partnership with Google on Monday to provide the locations of all grade crossings in the company’s popular map application. Google has agreed to include information from the United States Department of Transportation’s vast database to pinpoint every rail crossing in the country in Google Maps. Google will also add audio and visual alerts to the app for when drivers use the turn-by-turn navigation feature.

The partnership with Google is likely to precede other announcements. The agency said it had also reached out to four other map makers — Apple, MapQuest, TomTom and Garmin — to include similar features on their apps or mapping devices. There are about 130,000 public and 85,000 private grade crossings across the country. The number of accidents at crossings had declined more than 80 percent, to about 2,000 a year in recent years from about 12,000 a year in the 1970s. But last year, the number rose by 9 percent.

This upswing has prompted the railroad agency to seek new ways to stem this hazard through technology. Last year, 270 people died in highway-rail collisions, up from 232 the previous year, and 843 people were injured, according to federal safety statistics. Grade-crossing accidents are the second-highest cause of rail fatalities after trespassing accidents, which killed 533 people last year. Grade-crossing accidents are generally caused by driver inattention and error, according to the rail regulator. In many instances, there are no gates or blinking lights

to warn drivers of an oncoming train, just a crossing sign or a crossbuck (a white “X’’ marked with the words “railroad crossing”). “The vast majority of these accidents and deaths are preventable,” said Sarah Feinberg, the Federal Railroad Administration’s acting administrator. “In some cases, maybe a driver intends to beat the train, thinks they are familiar with the route or still have time to cross. But there are many cases where drivers lack situational awareness, because it may be dark or the route is unfamiliar.” JAD MOUAWAD

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Fears of Greece Leaving Euro Are Fears of Unknown Greece could soon find itself in the middle of a daunting economic experiment. Since Greece became part of the euro over a decade ago, the common European currency has been entrenched in the lives and activities of the country’s 11 million people. But as Greece’s debt crisis escalates, the chances increase that the euro may be replaced by a new, national currency. Precedents may not exist. Economists say they cannot think of a time when a developed country with an open economy dropped out of a shared currency and set up its own new money. “There is no modern parallel,” said Michael P. Dooley, professor of economics at the University of California, Santa Cruz. “That’s one of the reasons why there is so much hesitation to do it; no one really knows what will happen.” Much has to happen before Greece reaches the point of an exit from the euro, or “Grexit.” And there is no provision in European treaties for a nation to leave the monetary union. Still, the probability that Greece will depart from the euro soared over the weekend, after the Greek government announced that it planned to hold a national referendum on the terms that Europe is offering in exchange for new aid. Greece’s announcement came just days before the European part of Greece’s current bailout program expires on Tuesday. Europe’s leaders have refused Greece’s request that talks be extended beyond Tuesday so that the country could hold the referendum on July 5. Complicating matters further, Greece on Tuesday faces a debt repayment of 1.6 billion euros, or $1.8 billion, to the International Monetary Fund, money the Greek government does not have. Polls show that the Greek people favor staying in the euro, but if a deal does not happen soon, a series of events could significantly increase the likelihood of Greece tumbling out of the euro. “If this is divorce, and not a separation, then Greece must have a new currency,” said Arturo C. Porzecanski, a professor of international economics at American University. PETER EAVIS

When a Company Is Sold, So Is Private Data The privacy policy for Hulu, a video-streaming service with about nine million subscribers, opens with a declaration that the company “respects your privacy.” That respect could lapse, however, if the company is ever sold or goes bankrupt. At that point, according to a clause several screens deep in the policy, the host of details that Hulu can gather about subscribers — names, birth dates, email addresses, videos watched, device locations and more — could be transferred to “one or more third parties as part of the transaction.” The policy does not promise to contact users if their data changes hands. Provisions like that act as a sort of data fire sale clause. They are becoming standard among the most popular sites, according to a recent analysis by The New York Times of the top 100 websites in the United States as ranked by Alexa, an Internet analytics firm. Of the 99 sites with English-language terms of service or privacy policies, 85 said they might transfer users’ information if a merger, acquisition, bankruptcy, asset sale or other transaction occurred, The Times’s analysis found. The sites with these provisions include prominent consumer technology companies like Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google

cial status, addictions, medical “It’s ‘we are never going to conditions, fitness, polsell your data, itics or reliexcept if we gion in ways need to or sell they may the company,’ ” not want or Hal F. Morris, like. W h e n the assistant sites and attorney apps get acgeneral of quired or go Texas, said bankrupt, about industry the consumer data practices. SANDY CARSON FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES they have and LinkedIn, in addition to Hulu. amassed may be among the com“It’s ‘we are never going to sell panies’ most valuable assets. And your data, except if we need to or that has created an incentive for sell the company,’ ” Hal F. Morris, some online services to collect the assistant attorney general of vast databases on people without Texas, said about industry prac- giving them the power to decide tices. which companies, or industries, Hulu declined to comment. may end up with their informaSites, apps, data brokers and tion. marketing analytics firms are “In effect, there’s a race to the gathering more and more details bottom as companies make repabout people’s personal lives — resentations that are weak and from their social connections and provide little actual privacy prohealth concerns to the ways they tection to consumers,” said Marc toggle between their devices. Rotenberg, the executive director The intelligence is often used to of the Electronic Privacy Informahelp tailor online experiences or tion Center, a nonprofit research marketing pitches. Such data can center in Washington. also potentially be used to make NATASHA SINGER inferences about people’s finanand JEREMY B. MERRILL

Comic-Con, Defending Culture and, Now, Itself SAN DIEGO — From the superheroic Avengers to the steampunk League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, the comics world is full of murky alliances. But few operate more quietly than a group that protects comics culture and calls itself the San Diego Comic Convention. It occupies the 18th floor of a glass tower here, allowing staff members to peer at the fan-demonium their nonprofit organization spawns every July in the streets below. The group’s public face is Comic-Con International, a convention that annually draws 130,000 fans of the genres — graphic novels, superhero movies, video games, animation — that comprise fantasy culture. The sold-out 45th installment begins next week, when movie studios, TV networks, publishers and toy companies will clamor for attention from outrageously attired attendees. Up on the 18th floor, however,

about three dozen paid Comic Convention employees and the organization’s board will continue to grapple with some of the biggest challenges in their four-decade history: Will Comic-Con be able to stay in San Diego, the only location it has ever occupied? Are competing conventions misappropriating the Comic-Con brand? As Comic-Con seeks new business opportunities — like a yearround subscription video-on-demand service in partnership with Lionsgate — will it be able to protect its fans-first image and nonprofit status? Will anything be done with the group’s nest egg which included net assets of about $16.4 million in mid-2013, according to the last publicly available report, and has been growing at perhaps $3 million a year since? How the organization solves these puzzles could affect Hollywood, which has come to rely on Comic-Con as a marketing plat-

form, and San Diego, which counts on the event to draw other conventions and keep downtown revitalization moving forward. The nonprofit that puts on Comic-Con has had a reluctance to discuss its affairs, but David Glanzer, the director for marketing and public relations, agreed to an interview in mid-June. He said film and television studios pay nothing for access to the 6,500-seat Hall H, in which they showcase movies like “Avatar” and series like “Game of Thrones.” And only in 2007 did the nonprofit trademark the Comic-Con name, which it has used since 1970. As for its nest egg, Glanzer said it is viewed primarily as insurance. “If some catastrophe happened, and we couldn’t hold our convention,” said Glanzer, “we should be able to pay our staff, and meet our commitments, and seed the return of the show.” MICHAEL CIEPLY and BROOKS BARNES

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Art of Prison: A Mental Escape for Inmates The news that Richard W. Matt, the convicted murderer who was killed by the police on Friday after a weekslong manhunt, spent most of his time behind bars painting technically skilled portraits of Julia Roberts, President Obama and fellow inmates’ relatives, and bartering them for preferential treatment, has come as a surprise to many. But such a trade is a deeply ingrained ritual of incarcerated life. It is practiced informally or as part of established programs by prisoners, many of them, like Matt, with profoundly violent pasts and little art experience. Those who knew Matt at the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, N.Y., say he painted to keep himself occupied and to obtain favors from guards and fellow prisoners. Such favors were “a pat on the back for doing portraits of loved ones of inmates,” said John Mulligan, who served two and a half years in the Clinton prison with Matt. After his release, he had Matt send him paintings and drawings. Mulligan added that painting “was a way for him not to be preoccupied with his thoughts all the time — it was an escape.” Matt’s paintings tended toward what experts on prison art described as a popular genre that gets scant attention outside cellblock walls: photo-based portraits of celebrities, political figures and fellow inmates’ loved ones.

convicts — Charles Manson, John Wayne Gacy — has always found an avid, sometimes macabre, collector base. The market for inmate art typically ranges from small galleries and exhibitions to eBay and other collectibles websites, including murderauction.com and murderabilia.net. And the range of HEATHER AINSWORTH FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES art materials allowed in prisons is narrow. John Mulligan, who served time with Rachel Marie-Crane Richard W. Matt, the escapee killed on Williams, an associFriday, with works by Matt. ate professor at the University of Iowa His work appealed to at least who has taught art in prisons, said one guard at the Clinton prison, some inmates soaked M&M canin upstate New York, from which dies in water to use the coating for Matt escaped with another in- coloring. “Prison toilet paper is wonderful for sculpture,” she said. mate, David Sweat, in early June. Gene Palmer, who has worked “It holds together.” Andrew Edlin, whose company at the prison since 1987, told investigators that he smuggled in owns and runs the Outsider Art a screwdriver and pliers and did Fair, said he had no real basis to other favors for Matt in exchange determine whether Matt’s work for a dozen paintings and other would be more valuable because works by him, according to court of his notoriety or death. If it hapdocuments and a person with pened, he said, it would have little to do with collectors admiring the knowledge of the situation. Palmer also told investigators quality of the art, which is not parthat he helped Matt mail one of the ticularly distinguished. “Their reasons would be purely paintings, of the television character Tony Soprano, to a woman mercenary,” Edlin said. “I think, in Florida, who sold it on eBay for to me, this is sort of a pop-oddity culture story rather than an art $2,000. (NYT) Art by particularly notorious world story.”

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Comedian Is a Success. We Good? On Friday night, the comedian Marc Maron walked onstage at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s opera house, groused about the imposing size of the theater (he said he expected On COmedy to “disappoint the structure”) and Jason Zinoman then leveled with his audience. “It’s going to be hard to present myself as unhappy,” he confessed. Never has anyone looked more miserable to be in a good mood. It had been a week since President Obama visited Maron’s garage in Los Angeles to appear on his podcast (which has already broken records for downloads) and the comedian still seemed overwhelmed, though not so much that he couldn’t joke that after the interview he sternly ordered the president to do something about health care and gay marriage. But when self-loathing and anger are the twin engines of your comedy, as could be argued for Maron, success can be a challenge. The president seemed to understand this when he needled Maron in the interview. “You’re a big cheese now,” he said to Maron, a neurotic comic. “You can’t pretend you’re some little guy.” Maron, 51, may have taken this to heart because he delivered a commanding two hours of invigorating comedy, a far more theatrical, physical and energetic set than I had ever seen him do before. Maron has been doing comedy for decades, and yet because he became famous for his podcast, “WTF With Marc Maron,” he is perhaps better known for talking about jokes than telling them. His new material includes a regular analysis of his act by a snarky blogger character with a deep, almost Texan twang. But this conceit complements a meaty, galloping set about religion, the prospect of dying alone and most of all, a cleareyed portrait of where he is now. (Maron’s favorite phrase — “We good?” — is arguably the subtext of his entire show.) And while he hasn’t given up his gripes and anxieties, Maron sized himself up pretty well on Friday night in the middle of a joke about Jesus. “I think I have the charisma to be a cult leader,” he said, “but not the vision.”

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Slipping Across the Color Line Through the Ages and spent weeks away from home. His earnings allowed the family to move from a cramped, predominantly African-American section of Vinegar Hill in Brooklyn to a more residential street Clarence King in Bedford-Stuyvesant, to a spacious 11-room house in Flushing, Queens. It was only when he was dying in 1901 that Todd finally began to piece together the truth: Her husband was not from Baltimore. He was not a Pullman porter. And he was not a black man. His real name was Clarence King. He was

The railroad carried him to the hot springs of Arkansas, the copper mines of Montana and the gold fields of the Pacific Northwest. Weary, lonesome and ailing, he sent letters of love and longing to his wife in New York City. “I can see your dear face The WOrking every night when I lay my Life head on the pillow,” he wrote. “I think of you and dream Rachel L. of you, and my first waking Swarns thought is of your dear face and your loving heart.” Ada Todd saved those letters, symbols of devotion from her husband, James Todd, a fair-skinned black man from Baltimore who worked as a Pullman porter in the late 1800s,

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a white man, a nationally renowned explorer and surveyor who dined at the White House and hobnobbed with the elite at the finest clubs in Manhattan. More than a century before Rachel Dolezal burst into our national consciousness, King was slipping back and forth across the color line, using his work as a traveling geologist to sustain his secret life. Dolezal, the white N.A.A.C.P. official who claimed to be African-American, made headlines in part because of her story’s seeming singularity. Countless African-Americans have passed to escape racial discrimination. But a white person passing for black? Yet 19th-century history is dotted with such cases. “We’ll never know how many people did it,” said Martha A. Sandweiss, a historian at Princeton University who documented King’s double life for the first time in her book, “Passing Strange,” which was published in 2009. “If they did it well,” she said, “they’re invisible.” Clarence King did it well. In Manhattan, he lived the life of a prominent, Yale-educated scientist, sharing conversations and confidences with the luminaries of the day. (One of his best friends was John Hay, who served as the nation’s secretary of state.) In Brooklyn and Queens, he passed as an African-American porter and steelworker and lived with his beloved wife, who had been born into slavery, and their five children. On his deathbed, when King told his wife his real name, he also revealed he had created a trust fund for her and their children, Sandweiss said. But that dream failed — King’s efforts to secure the fund were unsuccessful — as did his hopes for a future in which there would be, as he put it, “no more Irish or Germans, Negroes and English, but only Americans, belonging to one defined American race.” His friends dismissed his racial notions as outlandish and “whimsical.” They had no way of knowing how he longed for a new kind of country where he would no longer have to hide.

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Team Navy Gets Gold at the DoD Warrior Games

From Robin Hillyer-Miles, Fleet and Family Readiness Public Affairs, and Shannon Leonard, Navy Wounded Warrior -- Safe Harbor Public Affairs

QUANTICO, Va. (NNS) -- Team Navy claimed its first gold medals at the DoD Warrior Games during track and field competitions June 23 at Marine Corps Base Quantico in Virginia. Additionally, for the first time since the inception of the games in 2010, Navy’s wheelchair basketball team advanced to the finals, ultimately taking home a silver medal. “I’ve had the pleasure of watching this [wheelchair basketball] team play together many times, and they make us proud,” said Vice Adm. Dixon R. Smith, commander, Navy Installations Command (CNIC). Navy Wounded Warrior - Safe Harbor, which sponsors Team Navy, is a CNIC program. On the field, the wounded warrior athletes contended with blistering heat while competing in seated and standing shot put, and seated and standing discus. Team

Navy’s retired Naval Air Crewman Brett Parks, who is friends with wounded warrior athletes on all of the teams, raised his arms in exclamation and waved to everyone when his name was called and he entered the shooting circle. “I beat my personal best with an 8.95 score,” Parks said excitedly after his shot put throw. “I’m throwing further than I did last year by two meters, but everybody else improved, too!”

Wife of Team Navy member Senior Chief Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technician Ryan “Austin” Reese, and their daughters, Aspen, age 13-weeks, and Nadia, age 4 years old, cheered all of the athletes on the field. “The games are inspirational! This is a fantastic opportunity for us to meet people in similar situations and gain a support network,” said Charity Reese. After a morning of tough competition on the field,

track events were interrupted by a severe thunderstorm. Retired Navy Aviation Boatswain’s Mate 3rd Class Donald Jackson won a gold medal in a sprint event before wet conditions postponed the competition. The remaining track events have been rescheduled for Sunday, June 28, before the closing ceremony. At the wheelchair basketball game in Barber Gym, enthusiastic spectators filled the stands and gave both teams a standing ovation at halftime. Team Navy ultimately fell to the Marines 57 to 24 after a grueling match during which they fought for every point. Thirty-nine seriously wounded, ill and injured Sailors are competing on behalf of Team Navy this year. The Warrior Games are being held June 1928. Approximately 250 wounded warrior athletes are participating in the competition.

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U.S. 5th FLEET AREA OF OPERATIONS (June 17, 2015)- Boatswain’s Mate 2nd Class John Talley, from Eastaboga, Alabama, navigates a rigid hull inflatable boat (RIB) with Visit, Board, Search and Seizure (VBSS) team members alongside the guided-missile destroyer USS Forrest Sherman (DDG 98). (U.S. Navy photo by Lt. j.g. Kimberly Mahoney/Released

ARABIAN GULF (June 23, 2015) - Guided-missile destroyer USS Farragut (DDG 99) conducts an underway replenishment with the Military Sealift Command fast combat support ship USNS Arctic (T-AOE 8). (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Jackie Hart/Released)

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