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CSADD FIT
encouraging a healthy lifestyle AND boosting morale
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August 4, 2015
Sailors pose for a group photo after finishing a Coalition of Sailors Against Destructive Decisions (CSADD) sponsored workout in the hangar bay aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71). CSADD hosted it’s first weekly program, which is aimed to teach Sailors proper form for their workouts. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Anna Van Nuys
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embers of the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt’s (CVN 71) Coalition of Sailors Against Destructive Decisions (CSADD) kicked off the first of their weekly fitness classes in the ship’s hangar bay Aug. 2nd. The class, CSADD Fit, provides an alternative fitness regimen tailored to junior Sailors to boost morale and encourage a healthier lifestyle. “This is meant to be at a beginner’s level,” said Electrician’s Mate 3rd Class Abriel Hernandez, president of CSADD and one of the creators of the program. “We want to teach people correct form and simple exercises. It’s a judgment-free zone for everyone to feel comfortable. It’s not a challenge; no one is competing with one another. We’re helping and motivating one another to become better at lifting and working out in general.” Hernandez was excited about the amount of Sailors who showed up and proud of those who came out. “I think the turnout was great,” said Hernandez. “We had a really good amount of participation. I think this will really get better as it goes along. This program is going to constantly innovate itself and be able to grow.” Each week, the program will feature various stations alternating in focus from cardio to strength conditioning, or a combination of both. CSADD members facilitated exercises at every station, eager to help anyone who came their way. One CSADD member, Master-at-Arms 2nd Class Jose Cruz, said he didn’t quite realize how important fitness was until he was around the Navy’s culture of fitness. He showed his support by training and showing Sailors proper techniques at one of the stations. “I really think everyone did well,” said Cruz. “We had a mixed group of people. We had people come out who work out all the time, people who are just getting started and people who really didn’t know what they were doing.” One Sailor who participated, Personnel Specialist Seaman Kayla Conklin, enjoyed her time and said she’s excited for the upcoming weeks.
“I came out to support my shipmates,” said Conklin. “I thought the workouts were great. They weren’t too challenging, but just right. [Plus], there was a really good selection of workouts for us to do. My favorite part was the kickboxing station because they had you pair up with a partner so you can motivate one another to keep going.” Hernandez and Culinary Specialist 1st Class Frederic Gilmore developed the idea for CSADD Fit when they noticed familiar faces disappearing from the gym. “I had difficulty being disciplined and being consistent with the gym,” said Hernandez. “Ever since I met CS1 Gilmore, I became more consistent with weight lifting. It implemented a more positive lifestyle for myself and was something I wanted to share with everyone else.” While at the gym, Gilmore said Sailors would come up and ask how they should work out and would sometimes join him in the gym. Gilmore told Hernandez that he wanted to start a movement, and both of them decided they wanted show chief petty officers and leadership around the ship that junior Sailors are looking out for one another. “We became familiar with the fact that we’re in the middle of deployment and there are a lot of shipmates who are going through stress and missing their family back home and who aren’t really within fitness standards,” said Hernandez. “That or they’re not in the dream body or healthy lifestyle they want to have. So this is a way we can jump start that and achieve where they all want to be.” Before joining the Navy, Gilmore said he was 317 pounds by the time he was 17-years-old. Gilmore said he understood how uncomfortable it felt to be in a gym with people who were not only in better shape than he was, but doing more than he could and were more motivated than he was. “Once I got to a comfortable weight for myself, I learned that my opinion is the only thing that matters,” Gilmore said. “I’m really out here for people who are uncomfortable. I’ve been there and I can talk to them. I grew up, I should say, not the average person, and it
hurt. So it took a lot out of me. I put a lot of effort into where I’m at now in life, and I just want to show other people that it is possible; they can do it.” Not only do Sailors aboard TR need to train for the upcoming physical fitness assessment (PFA) and physical readiness test (PRT), but also prepare for upcoming changes to the PFA and PRT as a whole. In an address to midshipmen at the United States Naval Academy in May, Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus said that separating 1,500 Sailors a year for failing the PFA wastes time and resources. He promised a revamp of the current system. “In our new culture of fitness, we’ll change the way we measure body fat, supplement PFA cycles with physical readiness spot-checks and document performance on fitness reports and evals.” In addition, Mabus said that physical training is only part of the equation. SEALs at Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek-Fort Story launched a program, “Fuel to Fight,” which increases the availability of lean proteins, vegetables and complex carbohydrates available in base galleys. Mabus said the concept will be developed at one sea-based and one shore-based unit through 2016. “I think Sailors will accept the challenge [to improve themselves],” said Hernandez. “This program will help with that, but is also a challenge where everyone can feel triumphant. These ideas, and this program, are
not things people should be scared of. Everyone can reach their fitness goals, no matter how skinny, fat, or how old they are. A healthy lifestyle will help you feel confident about overcoming any obstacle.” Both Hernandez and Gilmore credit Senior Chief Mass Communication Specialist Herbert Banks and Chief Yeoman Keundra Miller for helping them implement their idea. They were also thankful to the entire CSADD board for helping, as well as Air department, for coordinating the movement of jets to make room in the hangar bay, and all the interior communications electricians who helped set up the sound system. Hernandez said it was truly an all-hands effort to make the program successful. “The biggest purpose behind all this is to inspire our peers and shipmates to reach their potential and meet their fitness goals,” said Hernandez. CSADD Fit is offered Sundays in the hangar bay from 3-4:30 p.m. The program will re-start and begin at the basics of cardio after the third week. “We want people to know that change is not overnight,” said Gilmore. “People have to strive for it and make it a lifestyle. We have so many bad habits, and we want to focus on enhancing the good ones we do have. We can work all day long and be tired, but when it comes to being weighed in, the Navy doesn’t want to hear the excuses. We have to take care of ourselves.”
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I’m leading the class in hopes to improve ways to show more love to the families. The benefits [you] get out of this are creating better marriages and relationships, and in turn, making better Sailors. LCDR AARON MILLER
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Robin Finke July 30
I love you much Andy Venegas !!!! So proud of you!
I came to this class to work on my relationship. It never hurts to learn new ways to express love. I certainly enjoyed it. A good benefit is learning how to tell others’ love languages and being able to speak them. [While] I wish my other half was here with me, I would recommend this to anyone who wants to make their relationship stronger. YN2 FELICIA SWANER
Kristina Venegas August 2
So proud of all of you! Thank you for protecting us!
Debra Waters August 2
My granddaughter is on this ship and I am very proud of her.
Harley Wagner August 1 Happy Birthday Kyle! Hope you enjoyed your dinner. Miss you & Love you Joanne Foster July 29
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I loved learning that even though [my girlfriend and I] sincerely love each other, we may not be correctly communicating it. I learned a lot even though I’m not married, but I will be [after deployment]. It helps to be made aware of how love is communicated so that we can learn to show the love that most significantly speaks to our partner. I loved the first seminar, it caused me to stop and think what my girlfriend’s love language really is. EM3 JAMES OLSON
MARRIAGE I want to get new ideas on how to communicate with my husband and how to make our relationship stronger. This will help me make my husband feel loved. I’m not sure it can be [improved]. It’s great so far. I would recommend it to everyone who’s married or has kids. I’m coming again for sure! MM1 CRYSTAL MCTIGHE
I came to learn more ways to connect with my husband and help to grow our marriage even though we’re so far away. I enjoyed this class very much, and would come out again. My favorite things would be, one, being able to take a night out of your week to dedicate to learning more about your spouse and marriage and also discovering ways to imporve your marriage and better connect with your spouse.
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I came to better my relationship through the “little things.” I, of course, enjoyed it, I always enjoy learning. I would definitely come out again and have already recommended it. Knowledge is power and the key to success. QM3 TYLER VANDAGRIFFT
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On Probation, Lives Can Run Off Track PUERTO RICANS BRACE FOR CRISIS IN HEALTH CARE
BALTIMORE — On Christmas Day in 2013, Donyelle Hall and her husband, Roland Jr., gave a party for friends and family at their apartment. Donyelle Hall, a nurse’s aide for the severely disabled, had recently taken a college course in medical terminology to improve her earning potential. Roland Hall worked as a kitchen manager. The two had married the year before. Donyelle Hall had gifts ready for each guest — pajamas for her mother, new boots for her two grown sons. Well before midnight, the party wound down, and Donyelle Hall, who had been drinking wine, got in the car with her husband to drive two guests home. She was 40 at the time, had zero points for bad driving on her license, and had never been in trouble with the law. That was about to change. She was stopped for speeding, failed a breathalyzer test, and was charged with drunken driving. She pleaded guilty in exchange for entering a probation program under which, provided
she followed the rules, she would avoid a conviction. But over the next 18 months, Hall would find herself in trouble again and again, though she committed no new crimes. She spent countless hours attending court and lost thousands of dollars in fees, legal costs and wages, as well as two jobs. The judge handling her case imposed conditions far harsher than the norm, then repeatedly called Hall into court for violations like failing to ask permission before moving to a different unit in her apartment complex. Ultimately Hall spent more than a month in jail because she could not afford another $2,500 to bail herself out. Hall’s misdemeanor, one of more than a million drunken-driving arrests each year, is not one that would normally attract attention. No one was injured and no property was damaged, and most courts do not come down hard on first-time offenders in drunken-driving cases. Yet as more states turn to probation and parole as a means
of reducing incarceration, her story shows how even a supposedly light punishment like probation can severely disrupt a working-class life and weigh heavily on its prospects. While Hall’s case is extreme, she is far from alone in struggling under the burden of an unusually strict or inappropriate probation, experts say. “There are a number of people around the country being put on probation that don’t really need to be on probation,” said Carl Wicklund, the executive director of the American Parole and Probation Association, a professional group. “It’s a bad use of resources, and it’s bad for the individual.” At its worst, the criminal justice system can backfire on a stable, nonviolent defendant like Hall, said Edward Latessa, director of the School of Criminal Justice at the University of Cincinnati. It was, Hall now says, a learning experience. When pressed about what, exactly, she had learned, she replied: “I’ve learned that the system is no good.” SHAILA DEWAN
Bush Camp Sees an Upside to Trump’s Surge WASHINGTON — It may be the Summer of Trump, but the publicity-hungry real estate magnate is not the only Republican presidential candidate relishing all his attention. Donald J. Trump’s surge in the polls has been met with barely concealed delight by Jeb Bush and his supporters. Trump’s bombastic ways have simultaneously made it all but impossible for those vying to be the alternative to Bush to emerge, and easier for the former Florida governor to position himself as the serious and thoughtful alternative. With little indication that his support is slipping and the promise of the center stage at Thursday’s debate, Trump has essentially frozen the rest of the field. “The longer it goes, the greater the panic is going to build,” said Alex Castellanos, a longtime Republican strategist. “And that means you may not have the
luxury to flirt with an undeveloped, budding candidate. Trump has set the Republican Party on fire, and if you’re going to put that fire out you don’t have time to waste. You’re going to have to grab the biggest blanket you got and throw it, and right now that’s Jeb.” Many Republican officials, while acknowledging that Trump has tapped into the current of anti-establishment anger, believe he has little chance to ultimately win the nomination. But for the moment he is depriving many of the other 16 Republican candidates of the political oxygen they need to win attention from grass-roots supporters in early nominating states and commitments from fence-riding donors. That mainly helps Bush, who can quietly continue to build his daunting advantages in money and organization while his would-
be challengers struggle to break through. The frustration among those other aspirants is beginning to spill into public. “I think this is a temporary loss of sanity,” Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky said on CNN Thursday of Trump’s support, adding: “If you would give some other candidates time from 8 in the morning to 8 at night all day long for three weeks, I’m guessing some other candidates might rise as well.” If there is good news about Trump’s rise for those looking for a shot at Bush, it is that the first votes will not be cast for six months. “If you’re another candidate, the good thing is that it’s early,” said Robert Gleason, chairman of the Pennsylvania Republican Party, adding of Trump: “He’s put the block on everything, just stopped everything dead.” JONATHAN MARTIN
MAYAGÜEZ, P.R. — The first visible sign that the health care system in Puerto Rico was seriously ailing was when a steady stream of doctors — more than 3,000 in five years — began to leave the island for more lucrative jobs on the mainland. Now, as Puerto Rico faces another hefty cut to a popular Medicare program and grapples with an alarming shortage of Medicaid funds, its health care system is headed for an all-out crisis. On an island where more than 60 percent of residents receive Medicare or Medicaid — an indicator of Puerto Rico’s poverty and rapidly aging population — the dwindling funds have set off outpourings of concern among patients and doctors, protest rallies and intense lobbying in Washington. And while the crisis is playing out most vividly today, its cause dates back decades and stems, in large part, from a vast disparity in federal funding for health care on the island compared with the 50 states. This disparity is partly responsible for $25 billion of Puerto Rico’s $73 billion debt, as its government was forced to borrow over time to keep the Medicaid program afloat, according to economists. In January, the federal government is supposed to cut payments to Medicare Advantage plans in Puerto Rico by 11 percent. “These are a cascade of cuts that will have disastrous, gigantic implications,” said Dennis Rivera, the chairman of the Puerto Rico Healthcare Crisis Coalition, a group of doctors, hospitals, health care advocates, unions and insurance companies lobbying the administration and Congress. “Health care in Puerto Rico is headed for a collapse.” Dr. Johnny Rullán, a health care expert who was once head of the island’s Health Department, said Puerto Rico was not asking for more. It is asking for equity. “We just need equal funding,” he said. “That will take care of the problem.” LIZETTE ALVAREZ and ABBY GOODNOUGH
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INTERNATIONAL
In Brief Prime Minister Calls Elections in Canada Prime Minister Stephen Harper of Canada called federal elections on Sunday, hoping to extend his Conservative Party’s decade-long hold on power despite questions about its ethics and a struggling economy. By law, Harper had to hold a vote in October. But he broke with Canadian political tradition by opening the campaign during what is a holiday weekend in most of the country. The move appeared designed to give the Conservative Party an edge in campaign spending. The campaign period before the vote on Oct. 19 will be the longest since Canadians all began voting on a single day in 1874. (NYT)
Kurdish Militias Attack Turkish Police Kurdish militias carried out a suicide attack on a Turkish military police station in eastern Turkey on Sunday, killing two soldiers and wounding 31 others, the local authorities said. In an overnight assault, members of the separatist Kurdistan Worker’s Party, or P.K.K., rammed a tractor loaded with two tons of explosives into the station the Dogubeyazit district of Agri province, close to Turkey’s border with Iran, the local governor’s office said. The attack comes at a time of heightened tensions between the armed group and the Turkish state, following the collapse of a two-year cease-fire. (NYT)
Nations Seek Help On Migrant Crisis In a letter published on Sunday, the interior ministers of Britain and France called on other European Union countries to help solve the underlying causes of the migrant crisis at the port of Calais, where thousands of people have been trying to force their way onto trucks and trains bound for Britain through the tunnel linking the two countries. “What we are currently facing is a global migration crisis,” the French interior minister, Bernard Cazeneuve, and his British counterpart, Home Secretary Theresa May, said in a joint letter published in The Sunday Telegraph. (NYT)
Becoming Brides to Escape Violence and Poverty GELUGOR, Malaysia — The young woman had been penned in a camp in the sweltering jungle of southern Thailand for two months when she was offered a deal. She fled Myanmar early this year hoping to reach safety in Malaysia, after anti-Muslim rioters burned her home village. But her family could not afford the $1,260 the smugglers demanded to complete the journey. A stranger was willing to pay for her freedom, the smugglers said, if she agreed to marry him. “I was allowed to call my parents and they said that if I was willing, it would be better for all the family,” said the woman, Shahidah Yunus, 22. “I understood what I must do.” She joined the hundreds of young Rohingya women from Myanmar sold into marriage as the price of escaping violence and poverty in their homeland. While some Rohingya women agree to such marriages to escape imprisonment or worse at the hands of smugglers, others are tricked or coerced. Some are only teenagers. Their numbers are difficult to gauge, but officials and activists estimate that in recent years hundreds of Rohingya women every year have been married off this way, and that their numbers have been increasing. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees reported that a surge of maritime migrants
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from Bangladesh and Myanmar this year brought an increase in “abductions and marriages arranged without the consent of women whose passage was ultimately paid for by prospective husbands.” “Hundreds, if not thousands, of women and girls have been forced, sold, or arranged for marriage via these trafficking corridors since 2012,” said Matthew Smith, the executive director of Fortify Rights, an advocacy group in Bangkok that monitors Rohingya refugees. “For some families, it’s viewed as an imperative, as a survival mechanism.” “The trafficking gangs are treating this as a rather lucrative business,” he said, adding that for the women and girls, “being sold or forced into marriage is the least-worst outcome, and that’s a problem.” For now, the smuggling has been paused by a regional crack-
Ambiya Khatu, center, with her niece and mother, married a man in Malaysia who paid $1,050 for her release from smugglers.
down and the rough weather of monsoon season. But some Rohingya women are waiting for the trade to resume so they too can flee, even if the price of a ticket is marriage. Tahera Begum, 18, a Rohingya woman who had fled Myanmar a few months earlier, was staying with her sister-in-law in a makeshift camp in Kutupalong, Bangladesh, waiting to continue her journey to marry a man in Malaysia who had been chosen by her brother, also in Malaysia. She had not seen a picture of the man. “When I talked to him, he said he had a job, so he had an income,” she said. “I would have been happier if I could stay here, but my brother wanted me to get married in Malaysia. “If I get the signal from my brother or husband-to-be,” she said, “I will try again.” CHRIS BUCKLEY and ELLEN BARRY
Kerry Warns Egypt Rights Abuses Can Harm Terror Fight CAIRO — Secretary of State John Kerry told Egyptian officials on Sunday that they would not be able to defeat terrorism at home unless they showed greater respect for human rights. “The success of our fight against terrorism depends on building trust between the authorities and the public,” Kerry said at a news conference with his Egyptian counterpart, Sameh Shoukry. “If that possibility does not exist, then, regrettably, more misguided people will be driven to violence and there will be more attacks.” But with the United States worried about militants in Sinai and Libya who have pledged allegiance to the Islamic State, American officials also signaled that they would not let their concerns with human rights stand in the
way of increased security cooperation with Egypt. Kerry said the United States was moving toward resuming “Bright Star,” the joint military exercise President Obama suspended in August 2013 after Egypt’s generals cracked down on supporters of Mohamed Morsi, the president they ousted from power. He said the two sides also discussed other ways that the United States could step up its cooperation with Egypt’s military, including expanding training efforts and helping the Egyptians better police their border with Libya. In his appearance with Kerry, Shoukry, the foreign minister, suggested that the Egyptian authorities were trying to strike a better balance between maintaining security and protecting
human rights. Kerry arrived at a time of growing concern about advances by units of the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL, both in Sinai, in Egypt, and in Libya. Asked about the government’s decision to outlaw the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party, Kerry hinted that he had expressed a view on that to the Egyptians. “Do I think there are things they could do further? Yes,” he said without mentioning the Muslim Brotherhood. “But we need to do so while simultaneously fighting a pernicious entity called Daesh,” Kerry said, using the Arabic acronym for the Islamic State. MICHAEL R. GORDON and DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK
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Firing Exposes Racial Rift in Maryland Town POCOMOKE CITY, Md. — Kelvin Sewell figured he had landed his dream job in 2010, when he retired as a Baltimore police officer to help run the tiny 16-member force in this little riverfront city, which calls itself “the friendliest town on the Eastern Shore.” A year later he became its first African-American police chief. Blacks and whites have coexisted, sometimes uneasily, in Pocomoke for centuries, but Sewell, a 53-year-old with an easygoing manner, quickly fit in. Crime, everyone agrees, went down on his watch. But the chief’s abrupt dismissal in June, without explanation, by a white mayor and majority white City Council that voted along racial lines, has torn Pocomoke asunder, wrecking old friendships and exposing a deep racial rift in this community of roughly 4,100 people. The drama in Pocomoke is a tiny slice of America’s searing national conversation about race.
What makes Pocomoke unusual is the way that conversation is tearing apart a small town. “There is so much history here, with everybody being raised here — except the chief,” said Monna VanEss, 53, the former city finance director, who is white. “A lot of these people on both sides went to school together and have known each other all their lives. We’ve never been this divided.” The former chief says his firing was “racially motivated” punishment for standing up for two black officers who experienced harassment. Black residents, led by two prominent African-American ministers, have demanded the chief’s reinstatement — they say they have more than 500 signatures on a petition — and the resignation of Mayor Bruce Morrison. The situation is so tense that the Justice Department recently sent mediators to hear black residents’ concerns. “This is political and racial,”
said the Rev. James Jones of the New Macedonia Baptist Church, the mayor’s former classmate. He says African-Americans were so furious about the chief’s firing he feared Pocomoke would break out into a riot. Not so, insists Morrison, who said the chief’s dismissal is a personnel matter, which he cannot discuss. The firing has stirred a new spirit of African-American activism. Black residents — many wearing T-shirts bearing Sewell’s likeness — jammed the City Council chambers during a tense meeting after his dismissal. Whites, too, are organizing at the Salem United Methodist Church, a white congregation. On Thursday, nearly 150 people signed a letter backing the mayor. Some wonder if Pocomoke will ever heal. Morrison insists everything will be fine: “It’s still the friendliest town on the Eastern Shore,” he said, “and I’ll stick by that.” SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
Obama Policy Could Force Robust Climate Debate WASHINGTON — The issue of climate change played almost no role in the 2012 presidential campaign. President Obama barely mentioned the topic, nor did the Republican nominee, Mitt Romney. It was not raised in a single presidential debate. But as Obama prepares to leave office, his own aggressive actions on climate change have thrust the issue into the 2016 campaign. Strategists now say that this battle for the White House could feature more substantive debate over global warming policy than any previous presidential race. On Monday, Obama is expected to unveil his signature climate
change policy, a set of Environmental Protection Agency regulations designed to sharply reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the nation’s power plants. If the plan survives legal challenges, it could lead to the closing of hundreds of polluting coal-fired power plants, freeze future construction of such plants and lead to an explosion in production of wind and solar energy. Most of those changes, however, would unfold under the next president: States would not submit final plans detailing how they would comply with the rules until 2018. And the plan would not be fully implemented until 2022.
That means that the 2016 field faces a much more specific question on climate change policy than any of their predecessors have: What would they do to Obama’s climate change legacy? “There’s no question that the decision of a sitting president on something like this insinuates these issues into the middle of a campaign,” said David Axelrod, the political strategist who advised Obama’s presidential campaigns. “The president is taking a significant step, and now it’s a natural question to ask candidates: Would they embrace those steps and carry them forward, or would they not?” CORAL DAVENPORT
Memphis Police Name Suspect in Death of Police Officer Authorities have identified a suspect in the murder of a Memphis police officer who was shot and killed after he interrupted a drug deal on Saturday night, the police said. Memphis police issued a warrant for the arrest of Tremaine Wilbourn, 29, on charges of first-degree murder. Toney Armstrong, the police director, told reporters on Sunday night that Officer Sean Bolton was
shot after he spotted an illegally parked 2002 Mercedes-Benz and approached the vehicle. There was “a brief struggle” between Bolton and Wilbourn that ended when Wilbourn “shot the officer multiple times,” Armstrong said. The driver of the car, who has not been named, and Wilbourn fled the scene after the shooting, but hours later the driver turned himself in to police and surrendered his vehicle.
The U.S. Marshal Service has offered a $10,000 reward for information leading to his capture, and Armstrong said Wilbourn “is considered armed and dangerous.” Speaking at a news conference on Sunday, Mayor A C Wharton Jr. of Memphis said that the City Council would approve its own $10,000 reward. “This is a city in prayer,” he said. LIAM STACK and ASHLEY SOUTHALL
In Brief 2 Explosions Shake New Mexico Churches Two small explosions just 20 minutes and a few miles apart shocked congregants Sunday at two churches in southern New Mexico. There were no injuries from the blasts outside Calvary Baptist Church and Holy Cross Roman Catholic Church in Las Cruces, a police spokesman, Danny Trujillo, said. Each building had minor damage. The authorities were trying to determine who planted the explosives, what materials were used and whether the blasts were related. “It doesn’t appear to be coincidental because of the timing, but you never know,” Trujillo said. (AP)
Zimbabwe Alleges Doctor Killed Lion Now there are two: Zimbabwe accused a Pennsylvania doctor on Sunday of illegally killing a lion in April, adding to the outcry over a Minnesota dentist who the African government wants to extradite for killing a well-known lion named Cecil in early July. Zimbabwe’s National Parks and Wildlife Management Authority accused Jan Casimir Seski of Murrysville, Pa., of shooting the lion with a bow and arrow in April near Hwange National Park, without approval, on land where it was not allowed. The landowner, Headman Sibanda, was arrested and is assisting police, the authority said. Seski is a gynecological oncologist who directs the Center for Bloodless Medicine and Surgery at Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh. (AP)
Fires Threaten Homes Wildfires blazing in several Western states Sunday chewed up forests and threatened homes, but they were most numerous in Northern California where dozens are raging. Wildfires are also burning in Washington and Oregon. The largest California wildfire — raging in the Lower Lake area north of San Francisco — spread overnight to cover even more drought-stricken ground, expanding more than 30 square miles in four or five hours, said California’s Forestry and Fire Protection Director Ken Pimlott. The blaze had charred 71 square miles by Sunday. (AP)
BUSINESS
MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 2015
Doubts as Health Insurers Move to Merge Deals among the nation’s largest health insurers in recent weeks have been almost head-spinning. But whatever the details, if the combinations are finalized, the result will be an industry dominated by three colossal insurers. Consumer advocates, policy experts and former regulators say that what may be good for the insurers may not be good for consumers, especially in the wake of a similar frenzy of deal-making among hospitals and doctors’ groups. “The consolidation in both of these industries has been shown to have an adverse impact on consumers,” said Leemore S. Dafny, a former official at the Federal Trade Commission who is now a professor at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.
Anthem, which operates for-profit Blue Cross plans in 14 states, merging with Cigna, another large for-profit carrier, along with the planned deal for Aetna to join Humana, a smaller rival known for its private Medicare plans, would create two behemoths. Along with the already enormous UnitedHealth Group, these companies would control nearly half of the American commercial health insurance market, according to Decision Resources Group. “I don’t think there’s a guarantee that bigger is better for the consumer,” said Sarah Lueck, a senior policy analyst at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities who is also a consumer representative for the National Association of Insurance Commissioners. The insurers insist that combining companies will lead to lower
prices and better care for their customers. They point to billions of dollars in efficiencies. The companies also say the savings generated by these deals will ultimately benefit buyers. “The cost improvements go back to the employer, the governmental entity and/or the individual,” David Cordani, the chief executive of Cigna, told CNBC last Thursday. Still, businesses and brokers question the necessity of these mergers. “Are these companies not big enough that they needed to be bigger?” asked Don Mucci, a broker at Garrett-Stotz Company in Louisville, Ky., who helps small businesses find coverage. “They’re all huge.” When area hospitals merged, they also promised greater efficiencies, he noted, but “I don’t see medical costs going down.” REED ABELSON
Cool Influencers With Big Followings Get Pickier Ricky Dillon, 23, who is known for creating quirky online videos, has millions of followers on Instagram and Twitter. His YouTube channel has more than 2.5 million subscribers. When he posted a picture on Instagram of two Coca-Cola cans — one with the name Ricky on it, the other with Dillon — many of his followers were ecstatic. But a handful were less enthusiastic. “Was this a paid sponsor?” asked a user going by the name MikeVlogsYT. “Haha.” Indeed, it was: Dillon had promoted Coke as part of an ad campaign for MTV’s Fandom Awards.
As advertisers struggle to connect with young audiences, many have turned to so-called influencers like Dillon: video and social media stars whose value lies in the large numbers of their followers. Such influencers offer brands the ability to amplify their messages at a relatively low cost. But the strategy is becoming a bit of a gamble. The more brands that use influencers for marketing campaigns on social platforms like YouTube, Twitter and Instagram, the less effect each influencer has. Advertisers say they work with influencers to build brand credibility on social media and to
turn promotions into more of a person-to-person conversation. And with consumers increasingly viewing — and sharing — content online, the tactic has only become more popular. Advertisers overall say engagement — generally measured in likes, comments and shares — is higher for content that comes from influencers. “Social isn’t just an add-on anymore,” said John Osborn, the president and chief executive of BBDO New York. “Social is really core to all ideas, and the way to build credibility through social is through authenticity and through influence.” SYDNEY EMBER
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In Brief Verizon Workers Stay On Job Without Pact Verizon and unions representing workers in nine states said employees will work without a contract as more negotiations are scheduled. Verizon and leaders of the Communications Workers of America and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers announced the decision early Sunday after a contract covering 39,000 workers expired. (AP)
Investors to Revamp Tiger Beat Magazine Tiger Beat, the magazine whose flattering photographs of young pop stars and actors made it a favorite of teenage girls, has found its Prince Charming. A few of them, actually. A group of 17 investors recently raised $2 million to buy and revamp the magazine, giving new life to a publication that had lost much of its sheen. The goal: turn the glossy magazine into a media empire. (NYT)
Toy Gun Sellers Reach Settlement With N.Y. Walmart, Sears and Amazon are among a handful of retailers that have agreed to keep realistic-looking toy guns off their shelves as part of settlements with the New York attorney general’s office, which found that more than 6,400 toy guns violating New York laws were sold from 2012 to 2014. The settlements, which the office plans to announce on Monday, carry collective civil penalties of more than $300,000. (NYT)
Need a Reason to Celebrate? Social Media Fills Up the Calendar PALO ALTO, Calif. — Leila Khan, a 13-year-old from Palo Alto, Calif., makes elaborate preparations for her Instagram posts, and one of her main criteria is finding the right occasion. She finally found a reason to post a photo of her eating a slice of watermelon: National Watermelon Day, on Monday. “I’m gonna be like ‘P.S.: It’s National Watermelon Day,’ ” Khan said to some friends during a recent trip to the mall. Assuming that National Watermelon Day goes like the many novel national holidays that have
grown in step with social media, Khan will not be alone. Strange holidays are a decades-old tradition that gives trade groups something to promote and newscasters a way to fill airtime. What social media has done, however, is create the need for billions of people to have something to say. The result is a string of new holidays like Tweed Day and Uncommon Instrument Awareness Day that seem to exist only on the Internet. “Everyone is trying to find something to talk about when there is nothing to talk about,”
said John-Bryan Hopkins, a social media consultant who runs Foodimentary, a website dedicated to food holidays. On Instagram and Twitter, every day is a national occasion to post a picture of one’s friends, pets, dinner or haircut. Whether any of these count as holidays is something of a philosophical question. Take Throwback Thursday — #TBT on social media — a weekly occasion on which millions of people share childhood pictures, outfits with nonironic leg warmers and other bygone moments.
“A lot of these things lead into things that become more mainstream,” said Blake Barnes, a product manager at Instagram. Cecilia Salas, a 19-year-old college student and prolific user of social media, said she averaged about one “national day” photo a week. Some recent ones included National Ice Cream Day, National Mac and Cheese Day, and National Hug Your Cat Day. “Usually I’ll just look at whatever is trending on Twitter, and if I like it, I’ll participate, and if not, I’ll look at the pictures,” she said. CONOR DOUGHERTY
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Chinese Mills Bring Jobs Back to the South INDIAN LAND, S.C. — Twenty-five years ago, Ni Meijuan earned $19 a month working the spinning machines at a vast textile factory in the Chinese city of Hangzhou. Now at the Keer Group’s cotton mill in South Carolina, which opened in April, Ni is training American workers to do the job she used to do. “They’re quick learners,” Ni said after showing two fresh recruits how to tease errant wisps of cotton from the machines’ grinding gears. “But they have to learn to be quicker.” Once the epitome of cheap mass manufacturing, textile producers from formerly low-cost nations are starting to set up shop in America. It is part of a blurring of once clear-cut boundaries between high- and low-cost manufacturing nations that few would have predicted a decade ago. Textile production in China is becoming unprofitable after years of rising wages, higher energy bills and mounting logistical costs, as well as new government quotas on cotton imports. At the same time, manufacturing costs in the United States are becoming more competitive. In Lancaster County, where Indian Land is located, Keer has found
in China, importing the raw cotton from America, that is slowly changing. “The reasons for Keer coming here? Incentives, land, the environment, the workers,” Zhu Shanqing, Keer’s chairman, said on a recent trip to the United States. Since Beijing and Washington resumed trade relations in TRAVIS DOVE FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES the 1970s, the United States has mostly run Enabel Perez, right, training for a new job at the Keer Group’s cotton-spinning a huge trade deficit, as Americans consumed plant in Indian Land, S.C. billions of dollars in cheap electronics and residents desperate for work, other goods made in China. But surging labor and energy even at depressed wages, as well as access to cheap and abundant costs in China are eroding its comland and energy and heavily sub- petitiveness. According to the Boston Consulting Group, manusidized cotton. The prospect of a sweeping Pa- facturing wages adjusted for procific trade agreement that is led by ductivity have almost tripled in the United States, and excludes China over the last decade, to an China, is also driving Chinese estimated $12.47 an hour last year yarn companies to gain a foothold from $4.35 an hour in 2004. “I never thought the Chinese here, lest they be shut out of the would be the ones bringing texlucrative American market. Keer’s $218 million mill spins tile jobs back,” said Keith Tunnell, yarn from raw cotton to sell to president of the Lancaster County textile makers across Asia. While Economic Development CorporaHIROKO TABUCHI Keer still spins much of its yarn tion.
One-Time Allies on Wall Street, Now in Prison In their heyday, Raj Rajaratnam and Rajat K. Gupta were business partners who lent each other a helping hand. Rajaratnam was a high-rolling hedge fund manager who loved to take risks, while Gupta was a consultant educated at Harvard Business School who worked all his life at one firm, McKinsey & Company. Years after their closely watched insider trading trials, the men find themselves under the same roof: In a new development, both are now at the main prison at the Federal Medical Center Devens in Ayer, Mass., northwest of Boston, with 1,000 other inmates. Friends, a former inmate and those who have interacted extensively with the two men describe what has become an awkward relationship. The two lead parallel lives that sometimes intersect. They occasionally run into each other in the common areas at Devens and exchange pleasantries.
Although both men are in prison for the same crime, their friendship is irrevocably broken. It is a long way from the chummy relationship Rajaratnam worked to cultivate over the years with Gupta and a web of others in corporate America as, prosecutors say, he worked to obtain illegal insider tips for his now-defunct hedge fund the Galleon Group. Gupta played a pivotal part, providing an important tip about Goldman Sachs’s financial health during the depths of the 2008 financial crisis. That affinity, however, quickly frayed as both men stood trial. Rajaratnam was sentenced to 11 years in federal prison in 2011 after his conviction on 14 counts of conspiracy and securities fraud. Gupta was convicted in 2012 on one count of conspiracy and three counts of securities fraud. David E. Morgan, a former inmate who served about a year and half on charges related to in-
surance fraud, met both men at Devens. Initially, Gupta was rumored to be a snitch, Morgan said. But Gupta quickly won over inmates. “People would ask him about trading stocks,” Morgan said, and Gupta would reply: “I don’t know anything about stocks.” When Morgan arrived at the compound in October 2013, Rajaratnam, a longtime diabetic who needs dialysis, was housed in the prison’s hospital in a comfortable electrically operated bed. After a stint in the minimum security section, when Morgan returned to the main prison compound late last year, he noticed that Rajaratnam “was in the same unit as I was” — a unit made up of two-man cells with a toilet, a sink, one desk and narrow bunk beds. Morgan said Rajaratnam asked about Gupta, saying: “I consider him my friend.” Morgan responded: “He doesn’t consider you his friend.” ANITA RAGHAVAN
With AT&T Plan, Users Can Watch TV on Any Device Walk out the door and watch TV anywhere. That’s the pitch AT&T is making for its new nationwide offering, the first of its kind, that combines television and wireless phone service for $200 a month. The announcement of this package, available to customers starting Aug. 10, came a little more than a week after AT&T closed its $48.5 billion takeover of satellite company DirecTV, forming the country’s largest television distributor, with about 26 million subscribers. Executives promoted the merger — which combines one of the country’s largest telephone and Internet providers with the country’s largest satellite provider — as the creation of a next-generation entertainment provider that would serve customers who increasingly demand on-the-go entertainment. Creating new bundles of television, wireless and broadband services was one of the merger’s highlights that executives underscored. “Today is the first of many planned moves to enable our customers to enjoy a premium entertainment experience anywhere,” Brad Bentley, executive vice president and chief marketing officer of AT&T’s entertainment and Internet services, said in a statement. “We’re going to deliver more TV and entertainment choices to more screens — when and where our customers want it.” AT&T is doubling down on the television business at a time when it is facing significant disruption. A wave of so-called cord cutters are abandoning their traditional cable and satellite service in favor of often cheaper streaming alternatives. At the same time, a number of television groups like HBO, Showtime and CBS are introducing new stand-alone streaming offerings. The number of American households that pay for broadband service but not television increased 16 percent, to 10.7 million in 2014, according to the research firm SNL Kagan. The test for AT&T will be whether it will be able to persuade new customers to connect with its new offering or lure customers from its competitors. EMILY STEEL
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The Art World Meets the Tech World SEATTLE — Paul Allen came ready to shop. Allen, a billionaire co-founder of Microsoft and one of this city’s major cultural patrons, strolled the aisles of the inaugural Seattle Art Fair on Thursday, looking to add to his formidable art collection. “Just walking around, I’ve probably seen a half-dozen paintings that I would consider,” he said, taking a break early in the V.I.P. preview. Allen had a leg up on other buyers: He founded the fair. A regular visitor to the Venice Biennale, he was inspired to start an art showcase in his hometown that would import a sophisticated, international art scene. After two years of planning, it opened here last week to ardent curiosity. With the backing of Vulcan, Allen’s investment company, the Seattle Art Fair was a well-funded if experimental initiative to bridge geographic and social divides. Organizers hoped it would entice people to travel to Seattle, in the midst of a significant economic and development boom. Seattleites wanted a light shone on their homegrown work. Dealers wanted to harness the newfound wealth of the tech class, and curators hoped to highlight a connection between Pacific Northwest and Pacific Rim culture and artists. “I saw that there were some New York dealers participating, I
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thought it would be interesting to see and support the city,” said the New York collector Beth Rudin DeWoody, who came on a whim and wound up buying a half-dozen works from dealers from New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boston and Seattle. There were also some big ticket sales, including “Revolution #2,” by the Chilean artist Iván Navarro, that went for over $100,000 at the Paul Kasmin Gallery. Pieces by Oscar Murillo and Christopher Williams also fetched five and six figures. To cement the idea that this was “a major league show,” said Max Fishko, the managing partner of Art Market Productions, the Brooklyn company that produced the fair, “we needed those sales.” Catharine Clark, a dealer from San Francisco, had her eye on infiltrating the Seattle market. “Like many people, we were hoping to educate the growing num-
The gallery owner Catharine Clark with Chester Arnold’s painting “Sic Transit Gloria Mundi.”
ber of people involved in art and technology on the West Coast,” she said. “Everybody’s curious about this money.” With an economy shaped by Microsoft and Amazon, the rich in Seattle are growing richer faster than in any other city, including New York and San Jose, Calif., according to a recent study by the Brookings Institution. The downtown area is seeing more real estate development than it has in more than 10 years. But this growth does not necessarily add up to support for the arts. Andy Cunningham, the founder of Zero1, a San Jose nonprofit that focuses on the intersection of art and technology, explained, “You have to sort of show the tech world what to appreciate about art.” Fishko, the fair’s director, said the chances of another installment were 100 percent. “People like it,” he said. “It will be back.” MELENA RYZIK
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Comedies Rated ‘R’ Lag in Sales At Box Office LOS ANGELES — Raunchy comedy is having a rough run at the box office. Moviegoers turned out in strong numbers over the weekend for the well-reviewed fifth chapter in Paramount’s “Mission: Impossible” series, which sold about $56 million in tickets. But it was an unexpected misfire that caught Hollywood’s attention: “Vacation” (Warner Bros.) became the fourth R-rated comedy of the summer to receive the cold shoulder from a wide audience. “Vacation” took in $14.9 million, for a total of $21.2 million since arriving on Wednesday, or about 35 percent less than most box-office analysts had expected. “It’s lighter than what we had thought, no question about it, but younger audiences are responding,” said Jeff Goldstein, executive vice president of domestic distribution at Warner Bros. He noted that ticket sales increased from Thursday to Friday and again from Friday to Saturday. “That means word of mouth is great,” he said. The underwhelming results for “Vacation,” written and directed by Jonathan M. Goldstein and John Francis Daley, follow poor turnout for R-rated summer comedies like “Entourage,” “Magic Mike XXL” and “Ted 2.” Released in March, the R-rated “Get Hard” only did modest business, especially for a Will Ferrell vehicle. “Hot Tub Time Machine 2,” which also carried an R rating, bombed in February. Some theater owners pointed to a glut of R-rated comedies. Exhibitors in recent years have all but begged studios to make more PG13 comedies, which they believe have a better shot at attracting a wide audience. But studios remain focused on young ticket buyers, and that leads to raunchy comedies, especially at a time when the limits of tastefulness continue to be tested culturewide. “R-rated comedies go through ups and downs just like any other subgenre,” said Phil Contrino, chief analyst at BoxOffice.com. “Does this recent string of disappointment mean they are not viable anymore? Of course not.” BROOKS BARNES
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Intrigue of Malaysia’s Vanished Flight Washes Up on Tiny Island was from a “domestic ladder” and not from a plane. “It is madness, really insane,” said Florent Spiesser, 32, who moved to Réunion from mainland France a decade ago after taking a vacation here and falling in love with the place. “No one has ever heard of this place, and now the whole world knows Réunion.” Roughly 4,000 miles from Europe and lying off the southeastern coast of Africa, Réunion is an overseas department of France. On the island’s west coast, soft white-sand beaches offer a playground for tourists, most of them European. The east coast, where the airplane wing was found Wednesday, is littered with stones and pebbles, trapping trash that has
ST.-DENIS, Réunion — Ever since Johnny Begue and his friend stumbled on a barnacle-encrusted airplane wing flap last week — one that appears to be from the same kind of plane as Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which disappeared without a trace more than a year ago —just about every piece of flotsam kicked up along the shores of this island in the Indian Ocean has attracted scrutiny. On Sunday, metallic debris was found on the shore near the capital, St.-Denis, and was taken by the Réunion air transport police, according to law enforcement officials. The Associated Press later quoted Azharuddin Abdul Rahman, Malaysia’s director general of civil aviation, as saying that the fragment
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washed ashore over the years. “If anyone had heard of Réunion before, perhaps they heard about shark attacks or people falling down mountains or the vicious mosquitoes that came to the island in 2006,” said Spiesser, who works for the island’s tourism department. “But now, the world can see what an amazing place this is,” he said. “It really is Jurassic Park.” While the island is a botanist’s dream, with a stunning variety of plant life, there are curiously few animals. “There are no snakes, no scorpions, no monkeys, no spiders,” Spiesser said. But there is one of the most active volcanoes in the world: Piton de la Fournaise, on the island’s south side. Just as scores of reporters descended on the island, the volcano was putting on a show, kicking up earth and lava and adding to the otherworldly landscape on the southern end of the island. The eruption posed no danger to the island’s 850,000 residents and did not interfere with the plane investigation, but officials here were quick to capitalize on the global attention and arranged helicopter rides over the volcano and along the coast. Begue, who found the wing flap and has been overwhelmed by the media interest, told reporters that he was on the beach looking for a stone to grind chilies when he saw the debris and called a local radio station to report his discovery. “I did not know what it was at first,” he said. But the discovery’s significance soon became clear, making Begue an overnight celebrity. He said that his sympathies were with the passengers’ families and that he would be happy if his discovery helped them in their grief. “I am proud that this big event happened on Réunion and of any role I could play in solving this mystery,” Begue said. MARC SANTORA
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“On a Mission to Defend Freedom” - USS John Warner is Commissioned By Kevin Copeland, Commander, Submarine Force Atlantic Public Affairs
NORFOLK, Va. (NNS) -- The Virginia-class attack submarine USS John Warner (SSN 785) was commissioned during a ceremony attended by more than 2,500 in its future homeport of Naval Station Norfolk, Aug. 1, 2015. Proudly displaying its motto “On a Mission to Defend Freedom,” the ship is the 12th Virginia-class attack submarine to join the Navy’s operating fleet. The ship’s namesake is John Warner, a five-term U.S. Senator from Virginia who also served as 61st Secretary of the Navy from 1972 to 1974. His wife Jeanne is the ship’s sponsor. Warner is also the only Secretary of the Navy who served as both an enlisted man and an officer, in both the Navy and the Marine Corps. As a Sailor during World War II he served as an electronics technician third-class petty officer, and in the Korean War he was a captain with the Marine Corps 1st Marine Air Wing serving as a Ground Communications Officer.
“Let them know of your presence and your determination to defend freedom,” said Warner, as he addressed the audience and the ship’s crew. “Defend the sea lanes of the world which are the very arteries of international commerce. Manned by our submarines, our surface ships, and naval aircraft, we are carefully
working to keep those sea lanes open - not just for us but for all.” The keynote speaker for the commissioning ceremony was Adm. Jonathan Greenert, Chief of Naval Operations. “This boat is the latest incarnation of American sea power, and is a strategic asset for this country,” said Greenert.
“This affords us what we refer to as global access, and it is fundamental to any mission that you ask your military to do. Frankly, we are challenged in space, we are challenged in cyber, we are challenged in the air and we are challenged on the surface. We are not currently challenged in the undersea. We own the undersea domain. We must keep that situation as we go into the future.” John Warner is the second of eight Block III Virginia-class submarines to be built. The Block III submarines are built with new Virginia Payload Tubes designed to lower costs and increase missile-firing payload possibilities. The first 10 Block I and Block II Virginia-class submarines have 12 individual 21-inch diameter vertical launch tubes able to fire Tomahawk Land Attack Missiles (TLAMS). The Block III submarines are built with two-larger 87-inch diameter tubes able to house six TLAMS each.
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FARGO, N.D. (July 26, 2015) The U.S. Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron, the Blue Angels, diamond pilots prepare to perform the Low Break Cross maneuver at the Fargo Airshow. The Blue Angels are scheduled to perform 68 demonstrations at 35 locations across the U.S. in 2015. (U.S. Navy photos by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Andrea Perez/Released)
SEATTLE, Wash. (July 30, 2015) Lt. j.g. Richard McClain, assigned to the guided-missile destroyer USS Dewey (DDG 105), talks about the destroyer’s anchor chains to Denise Whitaker, a KOMO 4 News reporter, during a morning live broadcast on the ship’s forecastle for Seafair Fleet Week. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Cory Asato/ Released)
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HOMETOWN: Wayne, Michigan WHY HE CHOSE NAVY: My father was a Seabee in the Navy. HIS FAVORITE PART OF THE JOB: I have been able to see so many amazing places, all while providing a good life for my family.
PROUDEST NAVY MOMENT: When I return from my first deployment. SHOUT OUT: To my Dad, who has been a great inspiration in my life.
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HOMETOWN: San Diego, California WHY HE CHOSE NAVY:
To provide for my wife and newborn son.
HIS FAVORITE PART OF THE JOB: Being part of the air wing, especially joining VAW-125.
PROUDEST NAVY MOMENT: Earning my commission on USS Midway in December 2012.
SHOUT OUT: Shout out to Tigertail Jopa!
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