ROUGH RIDER USS THEODORE ROOSEVELT (CVN 71)
TUESDAY EDITION
September 8, 2015
chief of naval personnel initiatives policy changes that affect you
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YOUR THOUGHTS ON ... women’s equality day
Chief of Naval Personnel Initiatives “Career Intermission Program (CIP) and Career Flexibility” Today’s career path is often defined by the “golden career path” because it’s pretty rigid without opportunities to try something different: 1. CIP is for service members to pursue personal or professional obligations outside the Navy, while providing a means for their seamless return to active duty. The long-term intent of this program is to retain valuable experience and training of service members, which might otherwise be lost due to permanent separation. Examples of participants include, but are not limited to: a. Service members desiring to start a family. b. Service members with critical elder care obligations c. Service members volunteering for international aid work 2. Chief of Naval Personnel (CNP) is making CIP into an advanced sabbatical program for officer and enlisted regardless of service obligation or bonus commitments with tailorable benefits and obligations. 3. CNP is working to find more than one path to milestone achievement and success for our talented people and provide off ramps for those who want to come back and serve.
“Maternity Leave” Secretary of the Navy is the only service secretary to authorize expanded maternity leave up to this point – 18 weeks for new mothers. CNP is also looking at expanding paternity leave. The policy will also apply retroactively to any woman who has been authorized convalescent leave following the birth of a child since Jan. 1, 2015. Under the new policy, commanding officers are required to grant to a woman up to 18 weeks of leave, using a combination of maternity leave and convalescent leave beyond 30 days. A mother does not need to take all of her leave at once; however, she is only entitled to use this type of leave within one year of her child’s birth.
“PFA Program” CNP announced a change in August to the PFA program that sets in motion a culture of better health and better fitness. Past PFAs haven’t measured health or encouraged better health, it was simply a test. 1. Partnering with Bureau of Medicine and Surgery to determine what defines better health and to ensure more Sailors take the PRT. 2. The goal of these changes is to achieve a healthier, more fit force with more Sailors taking the PRT resulting in fewer failures and better mission readiness. 3. Increased focus on mission readiness and year-round health and fitness to include nutrition and diet counseling for those on the fringe. 4. Updated BCA standards that account for today’s body types, graduated by age, allowing more Sailors to take the PRT and decreasing BCA separations.
“Meritorious Advancement Program” (MAP) At the foundation of this change is the idea that no one knows their Sailors better than our commanding officers (CO), command master chiefs and the chief’s mess. MAP gives them the tools to recognize their best Sailors, advancing them when they are ready for the next level of responsibility. MAP provides COs flexibility and allows commands to petition for additional meritorious advancements. Further expansion of MAP for next year is under review by CNP and Fleet leadership. Additional guidance will be published early in fiscal year 2016 outlining future changes.
“GMT” CNP is ending GMT as we know it to give COs the leeway to determine when they think their crew, their squadron or their unit needs training and what kind of training it should be. Still mandatory training, but now 40% less “big Navy” required training.
“Education” CNP is expanding education opportunities at civilian institutions for officers. Next fall, the plan is to send 30 officers to school between their division officer and department head tours.
“Child Development Centers” CNP is looking at expanding child development center hours across all bases around the fleet. Pilot programs are in place.
“Gyms” CNP is looking at expanding fitness center hours across all our bases around the fleet.
“Increased Female Accessions” The Navy and Marine Corps should reflect the nation they serve. As American industry teaches us, greater integration produces vast improvements in innovation, adaptability, and resilience – all powerful forces for an even stronger Navy. The Department of the Navy will continue to place emphasis on attracting, recruiting and retaining women to work in ratings in which women are under-represented.
“Tailored Compensation” The Navy must strike the right balance between adequate pay and compensation (what we refer to as quality of life) and providing adequate funding for tools, parts, training and equipment (quality of work) in order to maintain a high quality of service for our Sailors.
“Promotion Board Changes” CNP is looking at blurring promotion zone lines, and will propose legislation to eliminate officer management by year group to ensure performance determines the timeline and eligibility for promotion and leadership assignments. This allows those who are not ready for promotion to continue to serve in the same pay grade longer, or for those ready, to advance through the system faster.
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ercules used an ancient form of mixed martial arts (MMA) to subdue the Nemean Lion, and Theseus used it to overpower the minotaur in the labyrinth. These two heroes of Greek mythology inspired modern MMA by combining the ancient discipline Pankration with traditional combat sports, boxing and wrestling. Greek Olympic Games introduced Pankration in 648 BC. There were no time limits, no weight classes and the only rules were no biting and eye gouging. Herculean Sailors aboard USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) began a structured system in order to develop and learn evolved Pankration, using the open mat in the hangar bay for MMA-style combat sports. “We do wrestling and jiu jitsu, with a little bit of striking every now and then, every night, except Fridays, during open mat, 7:30-9:30 p.m,” said Chief Cryptological Technician (collection) Stephen Zakarauskas. A full-contact sport, MMA combines various disciplines of martial arts, wrestling and other combat sports that permit striking and grappling while standing or on the ground. “We try to match people up that are either of equal ability or [match] beginners with someone that has experience so they can train with someone that knows how far to go and how hard to push,” said Zakarauskas. This method fosters a learning environment to ensure safety comes first. Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays are educational sessions, geared toward teaching new moves and new people. “I have never wrestled before the Navy. I have only been going to open mat like a month and half,” said Seaman Ariana Mclain. “My favorite part is when I am stronger than the guys, when I win against them.” The informal group dominating the open mat is not an official team but they provide interested crew members an opportunity to work together to develop their skills. “I grew up wrestling. I got into Brazilian jiu jitsu probably about eight or nine years ago, from there I did a little bit of Muay Thai and just basic MMA,” said Zakarauskas. Zakarauskas has years of experience in combat sports. He wrestled throughout high school and later practiced more intricate techniques that fuel his lessons.
“For us in MMA and jiu jitsu there is no better cardio,” said Zakarauskas. “It is full-body endurance, employing flexibility and strength. You push your body harder and much further past your own abilities every time you step up.” The goal in combat sports is to subdue and overpower your opponent, not to hurt them. “I have actually been more hurt playing Nerf basketball than I ever have in MMA,” said Zakarauskas. “I broke my ankle playing Nerf basketball. In MMA its bumps and bruises, cuts and scrapes - that’s the worst of it. Especially on the ship, we are really careful. We look out for each other to make sure we don’t go off the mat and we tap to submissions very early. We have also outlawed all leg locks. Leg locks are especially dangerous because you don’t know it’s too late until something already pops. So we are very safe onboard.” Partners are not always matched by size or experience so active communication is necessary to create an environment of mutual development. “Onboard the ship, it is challenging to find people your size to work with,” said Zakarauskas. “And then the heat. The heat is by far the most challenging. You are soaked with sweat and completely zapped 10 minutes into it. It makes everything more difficult to do, as opposed to being on shore in a gym.” The environment of competition and collaboration make the time spent sparring beneficial. Mclain said everything becomes very simple during a sparring match. Focusing on the fight blocks all typical distracters, such as the fact that you are a girl, 40 pounds lighter, or inexperienced. “We have a ton of ship’s company, people from the air wing, some Marines and a couple guys that come down three or four times a week,” said Zakarauskas. “It’s the people that stick with it. You see them get so much better throughout deployment. Like, the girl from Deck who started choking out guys within three weeks. That’s kind of cool.” The Pankration tradition of full body combat continues with a new generation of warriors. Look for your shipmates in San Diego tournaments upon our return home.
YOUR THOUGHTS ON
“ WOMEN’S EQUALI For both female and male Sailors, many of you are firsts; firsts in your families, your neighborhoods and your friends to do what you are doing in your life. The military makes up only one percent of the population, but we always seem to be on that cutting edge of those movements for equality. Among your friends back home, you may be one of the first, as male or female, to work side by side both male and female in a traditionally thought of male job, and as such, you are also experiencing the challenges and the victories that go along with being a part of this generation. We’ve come a long way, with gratitude, with grace, with guts and gritty determination, but we still have a ways to go. CDR KIM DONAHUE: BIG CHAPS
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I like the fact that we’re all supporting equal rights and nobody’s giving the males the upper hand just because of their gender. Events like these bring up morale, especially for the females, and show them basically not to slack off just because they can do the same thing males can do, and this whole thing has been empowering. OS2 MIRANDA CIULA
I came out because one, I’m a woman, and what else would I be doing other than supporting my gender? Events like these show that we can come together, not just as women, but as men and women to show how far we’ve come in such a short period of time. AO1 TONIA DEVINE
I was interested in knowing what we’ve been through and I feel that it’s really important to recognize what women have been through and see where we are now. This gives everyone the opportunity to learn about the history of women’s equality.
I recently heard about the two women that just made it through Ranger school so now is really a great time to celebrate that and honor women too. The Navy is becoming a more diverse place, so it’s time to respect those with different backgrounds and different personalities and we don’t know where everyone comes from but we all come together for one purpose; to serve in the Navy.
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I really wanted to get the inside story from some of our female leadership. It’s kind of inspiring to know Big Chaps has been through so much and she has paved the way for some of us. I know I probably won’t be a first, but it’s kind of cool to think I may be one of the firsts of something. These kinds of events keep you informed on deployment. Sometimes you can forget where you’ve come from or where you’re going, and so this is kind of like a pause and reflect moment. YN2 FELICIA SWANER
I enjoyed learning about women’s history in the military and throughout the U.S. and how we are making such strong improvements throughout history. I’m the first of my family to join the military. So I’m doing a lot to make my parents and my family proud. I’m very glad that I joined and I’m learning more, and I think this event was very successful.
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Women can do just as much as men can do. MR3 BRANDI GARNETT
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HOME What your family is saying.
Way to go ladies Go NAVY
Maria Guadalupe Picazo Lopez August 27
Have you ever noticed how grit has no color or gender?
MM3 LARISSA PRUITT Michael Madel August 31
All the best guys & gals. Keep safe. Best wishes from Pompey ( Portsmouth, UK ) Other than being invited I really wanted to see the kind of program that would be put on and see how far women have come and see the recognition of [that]. I’ve been in for 15 years and honestly this was the first time I’ve seen a women’s equality program at any command, so it was a first experience for me. This also brings awareness for people who just don’t know. Especially for the generation that’s just now coming in, I think it’s important to know where they came from and to know where the opportunities they now have came from.
Andrew Suffield August 31
Thanks Nik Miketinas and the rest of the crew for what you do. Stay safe and see you all when your tour is done. Victoria M. Goins September 1
Look at these brave ladies!
NC1 SANTRESIA HARRISON Lauren Kidd Secero August 29
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A Weekend of Relief for Weary Migrants U.S. TO REVAMP A REBEL FORCE COMBATING ISIS
HEGYESHALOM, Hungary — Throughout the day on Sunday, train after packed train arrived at this border town from Budapest. The passengers smoothly shifted to a gleaming Austrian train on the opposite side of the platform and were whisked on to Vienna and beyond — 13,000 in the first 36 hours after Hungary allowed throngs of refugees and migrants to travel toward Germany. Thousands of refugees continue to flow through the Balkans toward Hungary every day, government officials said. Two Greek ferries carrying more than 4,000 refugees were scheduled to land Sunday in Athens, a first stop on the through the Balkans. Despite cheers of welcome in Germany, and tears of relief from weary refugees, it remained unclear how Europe would deal with successive waves of migrants, which humanitarian groups have assured are on the way, perhaps for months or even years, until the wars, poverty and other underlying causes of the dislocations have been resolved. On Sunday, Pope Francis called
day with Marine Le Pen of France, the National Front leader, complaining that a widely dispersed photograph of a drowned Syrian child that had shocked the world was being used to make Europeans “feel guilty.” Germany, which has admitted the largest number of migrants — it expects to accept 800,000 this year MARKO DJURICA/REUTERS — has called upon other nations to accept more, but A migrant family from Syria crossed into Hungary from Serbia found much resistance, especially in Eastern Europe. near the village of Roszke. “We have been facing this challenge for several upon Catholic parishes and reli- months, and we continue to take gious communities to take in the in refugees,” said Peter Altmaier, refugees. Meanwhile, Germany chief of staff to the German chanhas called for a quota system to cellor, Angela Merkel. “But we distribute the refugee population need a readiness in other European countries to join in.” evenly throughout Europe. Human rights groups say that But the European Union remains divided over what should for the foreseeable future, there is be done, a debate that has every reason to expect refugees strained relations and threatened from Syria and other countries in crisis to descend on Europe in ever the bloc’s open borders. Far-right politicians, mostly qui- greater numbers. RICK LYMAN and ALISON SMALE et so far, found their voice on Sun-
Ousted as Gay, Aging Veterans Battling Again COLUMBUS, Ohio — When the Army discharged Pvt. Donald Hallman in 1955 for being what it called a “Class II homosexual,” the 21-year-old was so scared of being an outcast that he burned all his military records, save for a single dog tag he hid away. Hallman, a coal miner’s son who sang in a church choir in rural Alabama, says he never mentioned his military service again. He married a woman he had met at work, had children and wore a suit and tie to work each day. “I hid it because it would have ruined my life,” Hallman said at his home here. But this summer, Hallman, now 82, retrieved the dog tag from a keepsake box and began working through an application to the Department of Defense, asking that his discharge be upgraded from “undesirable” to “honorable.” “I’ve gotten to a point in my life where no one can hurt me now,”
he said. “I don’t care who knows, and I want to show I was an honorable person.” By some estimates, as many as 100,000 service members were discharged for being gay between World War II and the 2011 repeal of the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy. Many were given less-than-honorable discharges that became official scarlet letters — barring them from veterans’ benefits, costing them government jobs and other employment, and leaving many grappling with shame for decades. Now, emboldened by the gay soldiers serving openly in the military and the same-sex couples finding broad acceptance in civilian life, they are increasingly seeking amends. Records from the Department of Defense show 80 percent of the nearly 500 requests submitted since 2011 received an upgrade to honorable. But for many it is far from
an easy fix. Tracking down decades-old records and getting an upgrade can take years. A bill in Congress, known as the Restore Honor to Service Members Act, would grant blanket upgrades to nearly all veteran discharged for being gay, but it has been stalled in Congress since 2013. Backers say it has little chance of advancing this year. In the 1970s and 1980s, upgrading service records was the battleground of gay activists. Today the requests are coming from everyday citizens. “These stories are buried deep. It can be traumatic to dredge it up again,” said Lori Gum, an organizer at Stonewall Columbus, a gay community center in Ohio. Gum has helped six veterans start the upgrade process in the past year, including Hallman, but said three were too troubled by the past to finish the application. DAVE PHILIPPS
WASHINGTON — In an acknowledgment of severe shortcomings in its effort to create a force of moderate rebels to battle the Islamic State in Syria, the Pentagon is drawing up plans to revamp the program by dropping larger numbers of fighters into safer zones as well as providing better intelligence and improving their combat skills. The proposed changes come after a Syrian affiliate of Al Qaeda attacked, in late July, many of the first 54 Syrian graduates of the military’s training program. A day before the attack, two leaders of the American-backed group and several of its fighters were captured. The encounter revealed several glaring deficiencies, according to classified assessments: The rebels were ill-prepared for an enemy attack and were sent back into Syria in too small numbers. They had no local support from the population and had poor intelligence about their foes. They returned to Syria during the Eid holiday, and many were allowed to go on leave to visit relatives, some in refugee camps in Turkey — and these movements likely tipped off adversaries to their mission. The classified options include enlarging the size of the groups of rebels, shifting the location of the deployments to ensure local support and improving intelligence provided to the fighters, according to four senior Defense Department and Obama administration officials. With the White House ruling out sending American advisers into Syria with the trainees, the biggest challenge may be deciding where and how to send the rebels back in. “We don’t have direct command and control with those forces once we do finish training and equipping them when we put them back into the fight,” said Brig. Gen. Kevin J. Killea, chief of staff for the American-led military operation fighting the Islamic State. “If I had to point to a place where we could explore better lessons learned, that would be it.” ERIC SCHMITT and BEN HUBBARD
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Draft Constitution Vetoed, and Junta Extends Its Rule BANGKOK — Thailand’s military junta on Sunday extended its rule by at least seven months when its handpicked reform council rejected a constitution written by its own drafting committee. The vote was described by some commentators as political theater and contributed to what appears to be growing cynicism in Thailand toward the military’s reign. The vote in the National Reform Council was 135 against the constitution and 105 in favor. The junta will now appoint another body to write a new constitution, a process that keeps the military in power well into 2016. Thitinan Pongsudhirak, one of the country’s most prominent commentators, described the rejection of the constitution as “a sideshow in the junta’s prolonged and indefinite rule.” Thailand’s military, which seized power from a democratically elected government in May 2014, has given vague promises about a return to democracy. But it seems to be in no hurry to do it. Sangsit Phiriyarangsan, a member of the National Reform Council who voted to pass the constitution, said he believed it was voted down because of a desire to postpone elections. “They are afraid that if an election takes place, it may lead to indefinite chaos,” he said on Thai television. “They are in agreement that we should extend the junta’s rule to govern the country.” THOMAS FULLER
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Account of How Students Vanished Is Rejected MEXICO CITY — An international committee of experts reviewing the case of 43 missing college students whose disappearance last fall traumatized Mexico said Sunday that there was no evidence to support the government’s conclusion that the students were executed by a drug gang that then burned the bodies to ashes in a garbage dump. Not only did physical evidence contradict the government’s version of what happened to the students, but the review showed that federal police and soldiers knew that the students were being attacked by the municipal police and failed to intervene. The report’s conclusions were a sharp rebuke to the government of President Enrique Peña Nieto, which had sought to put the case to rest. Its release could rekindle the widespread anger and incredulity that flared after the students vanished from Iguala in the southern state of Guerrero last Sept. 26. That episode helped shatter the image that the president had worked hard to establish: as a modern reformer poised to boost Mexico’s economy, and it thrust the nation’s chronic afflictions of organized crime and corruption back into the public consciousness. “We ask the Mexican authorities to clarify the disappearance of the students and to make a general reassessment of the entire investigation,” said Carlos Beristain, one of the five members of the panel appointed by the Inter-American Commission for Human Rights, part of the Organization of American States. “The brutal actions shows the
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extent of impunity in which the state security forces acted along with organized crime” added Beristain, a Spaniard who has worked on many human rights investigations in Latin America that involved disappearances. After the report’s release, Peña Nieto said on Twitter that he had ordered investigators to take into account the recommendations. Mexico’s attorney general, Arely Gómez González called the committee’s work “crucial” and added that prosecutors would carefully analyze the findings and ponder whether to incorporate them into the inquiry. She said that the report’s recommendation for a second forensic investigation at the dump site would be carried out with a new team of “high quality and prestigious experts.” According to the government’s account, about 100 students who attended a teachers college in the town of Ayotzinapa went to Iguala to steal buses for transportation to a demonstration. The authorities say that Iguala’s mayor, José Luis Abarca, ordered his police force to subdue the students.
Relatives and friends of the missing college students waited Sunday in Mexico City for an international committee to present its investigation’s findings.
Three students were killed by the police. Forty-three others were taken off the buses and turned over to a drug gang, Guerreros Unidos, that was allied with the mayor, according to the account. The police also fired at another bus carrying members of a local soccer team, killing three more people. Six weeks after the disappearance, the Mexican authorities said that the students had been taken to a garbage dump in the neighboring town of Cocula, killed and cremated in a giant pyre of wood and tires doused with gasoline. Yet the clearest sign that the government’s version was not true came from the dump itself, according to the report. “The students simply were not burned in that place”, said Francisco Cox, a Chilean lawyer and another member of the panel. The intense heat needed to burn 43 bodies would have blackened the surrounding vegetation, and José Torero, a leading fire expert engaged by the panel, agreed that there was no evidence to support the government’s scenario. PAULINA VILLEGAS
In Brief Taliban Factions Skirmish In one of the first tests of his leadership, the head of Afghanistan’s Taliban militants is moving aggressively against a breakaway faction in the south of the country, according to Afghan and Taliban officials. Mullah Akhtar Muhammad Mansour, who assumed leadership of the Taliban this summer, has sent hundreds of fighters on motorcycles in the past two weeks to Zabul Province to battle forces loyal to Mullah Mansour Dadullah, who has publicly refused to pledge allegiance to the new leader, the officials said. The two factions have since been fighting with no clear conclusion in sight. The latest skirmish on Saturday, which involved heavy weapons, left at least five people dead on each side, Ghulam
Jilani Farahi, the province’s security chief, said on Sunday. Ten of Mullah Mansour’s men were detained by Mullah Dadullah’s forces, a member of the Taliban in Zabul said on condition of anonymity, fearing reprisals. (NYT)
Kurdish Rebels Attack Turks Kurdish rebels attacked two military vehicles in southeast Turkey, the president said Sunday, suggesting that several Turkish soldiers were killed in the assault. The prime minister returned to the capital to lead an emergency security meeting. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in a television interview that two armored military vehicles were targeted by the Kurdistan Workers’ Party near the village of Daglica, in Hakkari
Province, bordering Iraq and Iran.
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Rebel Camp Is Destroyed Airstrikes from a Saudi-led coalition destroyed a key rebel encampment Sunday in Yemen’s capital, while also hitting a school, restaurants and embassies, witnesses and officials from both sides of the conflict said. The airstrikes wounded 17 people, including schoolchildren taking final exams, medical officials said in Sana. The Saudi and Emirati embassies were damaged, witnesses and security officials said. Yemen is torn by fighting between Shiite Houthi rebels allied with forces loyal to former President Ali Abdullah Saleh against President Abdu Rabbu Mansour Hadi’s coalition-backed forces. (AP)
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Flicker of Hope for a Rare Childhood Disease LEESBURG, Ala. — Once a year, Crystal and Jonathan Bedford drive 1,000 miles from their home in Texas to rural Alabama, their three children in tow. Beside a wooded lake, they huddle with other families whose children have the same extremely rare genetic disorder that their 5-yearold daughter, Marley, has. The disease, rhizomelic chondrodysplasia punctata, is a painful form of dwarfism, usually accompanied by severe intellectual disability and respiratory problems. There is no cure, and children with RCDP, as it is known, rarely survive into adolescence. The families come for advice on how to care for their children, and for any information about promising research. Most years, they leave with little more than warm support. This year was different. A biotech executive from Canada had come to discuss a potential treatment being developed by his company and the possibility that the children could be part of a clin-
ical trial next year. “You don’t want to get your hopes up because — what if ? What if it doesn’t happen? What if it doesn’t work out?” said Hannah Peters, whose 16-month-old son, Jude, has the disease. “But it was the only bit of hope that we had received since Jude was born.” While the pharmaceutical industry has become far more interested than it used to be in identifying and testing potential treatments for minute patient populations, many of the children with rare diseases remain neglected. RCDP is among the rarest of rare diseases; experts guess there are perhaps 100 cases worldwide. But for this support group, there had been a fortunate confluence of circumstances. A dedicated scientist in Montreal, Dr. Nancy Braverman, who had spent decades studying the disorder, had persuaded the Canadian biotech company’s president to take an interest in RCDP, and to meet the families in Alabama.
The company, Phenomenome Discoveries, had developed a set of compounds that might restore a crucial missing ingredient in the bodies of children with RCDP: plasmalogens, a type of fatty acid found in cell membranes. The company had become interested in plasmalogen levels because some evidence suggested they were also low in people with Alzheimer’s disease. No one was depicting the compounds developed by Phenomenome Discoveries, synthetic plasmalogen precursors, as a cure for RCDP. But if they could raise plasmalogen levels in the blood and lungs of children with the disorder, as they had in laboratory mice, Braverman believed they might at least improve the children’s respiratory function, possibly extending their lives. “For us, getting another month with your child or another year or another five years — that’s kind of everything,” Crystal Bedford said. ABBY GOODNOUGH
Florida Museum Scheme Exploited Ties to Bushes HOLLYWOOD, Fla. — When Jeb Bush set out to build a political base of his own in South Florida three decades ago, he did not lack for new friends. He was a magnet for Republicans eager to be associated with him and his powerful family, including a Cuban immigrant and former corrections officer named Tony Campos. For years, Campos cultivated a friendship with the family, especially its matriarch, Dorothy Walker Bush, who spent winters in Florida. Ultimately, Campos would entangle Jeb Bush, by then the governor of Florida, in a case of misplaced trust and the theft of public funds. Bush was never
connected to any wrongdoing, though his involvement is a cautionary tale about the downside of the vast network of supporters that has been a part of the family’s decades of political success. Campos’s scheme began several years after Dorothy Walker Bush died in 1992, when he told the Bushes that he had come up with a novel way of honoring her — with a small museum, in her name, within the train station here. For funding, he turned to the new Republican administration, headed by Jeb Bush, Bush’s grandson. Over seven years, the State of Florida awarded about $1.2 million in a series of grants to support
putting together the museum. But the museum was never built, and about the time Bush left office in 2007, law enforcement agencies began a criminal investigation. Campos was charged with multiple felonies and accused of misusing hundreds of thousands of dollars in state funds. In 2013, he pleaded guilty to grand theft. Campos could not be reached for comment. Kristy Campbell, a spokeswoman for Bush, said in a statement that he “had only a limited acquaintance with Campos and had no involvement with Campos’s applying for or receiving any state or federal historic preservation grant.” STEVE EDER
Police Cars’ ‘In God We Trust’ Decals Draw Complaints DALLAS — A police department in a Texas Bible Belt community has placed large “In God We Trust” decals on its patrol vehicles in response to recent violence against law enforcement officers, drawing criticism from a watchdog group that says the decals amount to an illegal government endorsement of religion. The decision by police this month to unveil the phrase in Childress, a community at the south-
ern edge of the Texas Panhandle, follows a similar move by dozens of other police agencies. Police Chief Adrian Garcia said he decided to add the decals in response to recent attacks on law enforcement personnel that have received broad attention, including the Aug. 28 killing of a sheriff’s deputy who was shot 15 times at a Houston-area gas station. “I think with all the assaults happening on officers across the
country ... it’s time we get back to where we once were,” Garcia told the Red River Sun newspaper. The Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund notes that eight officers have been shot and killed in the United States in the last month — and four died in the span of 10 days — but shooting deaths of officers from January through September of this year were actually down 13 percent compared with the same period last year. (AP)
In Brief D.N.C. Chairwoman Backs Deal on Iran Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, announced on Sunday that she will support the nuclear agreement with Iran that has roiled many in her Florida district. “I’ll be casting my vote to support the deal and if necessary sustain the president’s veto,” she told Jake Tapper on “State of the Union” on CNN. Former Vice President Dick Cheney, blasted the deal on Sunday as a “major, major defeat” for American interests in the Middle East. “The only winner are the Iranians — they got everything they asked for,” Cheney said on “Fox News Sunday.” (NYT)
Kentucky Clerk Will Appeal Judge’s Ruling The Kentucky county clerk who was jailed for defying a federal court order to issue marriage licenses to gay couples has begun the process of appealing the judge’s ruling that landed her there, her lawyers said on Sunday. Kim Davis, the Rowan County Clerk who said her Christian faith prohibited her from authorizing same-sex marriages, was jailed for contempt of court. On Sunday, her lawyers filed a notice of appeal in the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in Cincinnati, on the grounds that her right to due process had been violated, they said. (NYT)
Zoo to Investigate Escape of Cheetah Indianapolis Zoo officials are investigating how a cheetah managed to escape from its enclosure, spurring an hourlong lockdown of zoo guests while staff found and tranquilized the animal. Visitors to the zoo just west of downtown Indianapolis were told to seek shelter about 9:30 a.m. Sunday after the cheetah escaped. A zoo spokeswoman, Judy Palermo, said that staffers found the cheetah named Pounce lying in a landscaped area outside its exhibit but still behind a barrier that kept it out of the public space. Zoo staffers used a tranquilizer dart to subdue the cheetah, which then ran back to its exhibit. The zoo reopened about 10:30 a.m. (AP)
BUSINESS
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Organized, but Not Unionized, to Get Protection SANTA FE, N.M. — Jorge Porras used to report to his carwash job here at 8:15 a.m., but he said that his boss often did not let him clock in until 11, when customers frequently began streaming in. Many days, he was paid for just six hours, he said, although he worked nine and a half hours. One day, when the heavy chain that pulled cars forward got stuck, Porras tried to fix it, but it lurched forward and cut off the top of his right ring finger. The injury caused him to miss work for the next two weeks, he said, but he received no pay or workers’ compensation for the forced time off. Luis Muñoz, a co-worker at the business, Squeaky Clean Car Wash, said their boss frequently humiliated workers, shouting, “You’re good for nothing.” Porras, Muñoz and eight co-workers became so fed up that
they formed a workers committee (not a union) and sent a certified letter to the owner of the carwash. They complained about being “insulted and humiliated” in “front of our co-workers and customers” and protested being required to work off the clock and not being given goggles or gloves although they worked with toxic chemicals. “We knew we’d have little protection if we acted alone,” said Porras, an immigrant from Guatemala. “But we knew that if we formed a committee, we’d be protected.” An advocacy group for immigrant workers, Somos Un Pueblo Unido, advised Squeaky Clean’s workers to set up such a committee because the National Labor Relations Act prohibits employers from retaliating against workers for engaging in “concerted” activity to improve their wages and conditions, even when they are
not trying to unionize. In an era when the traditional labor unions have weakened steadily, many advocates now see work site committees as an alternative way to strengthen workers’ clout and protections. Simon Brackley, president of the Santa Fe Chamber of Commerce, said Somos had exaggerated the wage violations and had been too quick to pounce on employers. But Somos’s work site committee idea has been adopted at 35 restaurants, hotels and other companies in Santa Fe. “A lot of workers don’t know about labor unions, and a lot are scared of retaliation if they try to form one,” said Marcela Diaz, the executive director of Somos Un Pueblo Unido (We are a United People). “So we have to find ways to protect workers when there isn’t a union.”STEVEN GREENHOUSE
Reporter’s Shaming Signals China’s Tightening Grip HONG KONG — When the Chinese Ministry of Public Security arrested nearly 200 people at the end of August for “spreading rumors,” one of the most prominent targets was Wang Xiaolu, a reporter for the respected business magazine Caijing. Wang was compelled to confess on television before going to trial. He told viewers of China Central Television, the main state network, that the article in question was a “sensational” and “irresponsible” report on the stock market. That the state would take aim at Caijing came as a surprise to many. The magazine has a strong reputation for hard-hitting investigations
and pushing the boundaries of what the government might deem permissible. Yet it has steered clear of prohibited topics like the Falun Gong movement. “I know how to measure the boundary lines,” Caijing’s founder, Hu Shuli, told The New York Times in 2005. “We go up to the line — and we might even push it. But we never cross it.” So the public shaming of one of its journalists has raised fears about journalistic freedom within China, and the direction of Caijing itself. The publication was set up in 1998 by Hu, a former propaganda writer for the Communist Party publication Workers’ Daily. Ex-
posés by Caijing, which means finance and economics in Chinese, have covered such topics as illegal securities trading, stock price manipulation and falsified profits. Orville Schell, the director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at the Asia Society, said punishment of a Caijing journalist was a sign of tightening government control. “This is a time-honored Mao tactic of the ’30s and ’40s,” he said. “To see China returning to this strategy, for someone who has been watching China slowly open, become more relaxed with certain parts of its social structure like the media and society, this is quite a startling reverse.” AMIE TSANG
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In Brief U.S. Hiring Is Solid, But Pay Is Still Tepid On Labor Day weekend 2015, the U.S. job market has found an old sweet spot: 5.1 percent unemployment — many miles from the 10 percent joblessness America endured back in 2009. It is the lowest rate in more than seven years, suggestive of healthy hiring levels that have fostered rising incomes, consumer spending and economic growth. In August, unemployment fell as the economy added 173,000 jobs.Yet since 2012, average hourly earnings have largely risen between 1.8 percent and 2.2 percent in the monthly reports — not nearly enough for many Americans to feel that their living standards have improved. (AP)
Apple Quietly Builds Campus in Texas Apple Inc. is quietly building a home away from home in Austin, Tex. The tech giant is transforming a 38-acre wooded lot into its largest global operation outside of Silicon Valley, the Austin American-Statesman reported. In line to receive $35 million in tax incentives from the city, county and state for its Austin expansion, Apple has pledged to create 3,600 new jobs while retaining at least 3,100 existing jobs. If Apple reaches those hiring figures, it would make it the second-largest technology employer in Central Texas behind Dell Inc., which has about 14,000 local workers. The company also agreed to spend $282 million on new buildings and equipment in Austin (AP)
The Increasing Crowding-Out Effect of Gigantic Summer Blockbusters Hollywood had one of its best summers ever at the domestic box office, but it was a sharply lopsided victory. Studios either thrived or witheried, an outcome that reflects the winner-take-all nature of the mass-appeal movie business. Ticket sales at North American cinemas rose an estimated 10.4 percent, to $4.48 billion, for the period between the first weekend in May and Labor Day, from the same period a year earlier, the analytics firm Rentrak said on Sunday. Hollywood’s summer has historically accounted for up to 40 percent of annual domestic
ticket sales. But the strong season was overwhelmingly owing to movies supplied by just two of Hollywood’s six major studios. Twelve movies took in more than $100 million in the United States and Canada, and eight of them were supplied from Universal Pictures, a division of Comcast’s NBCUniversal, and Walt Disney Studios. Together, Universal and Disney controlled 60 percent of the market, Rentrak said. Universal’s “Jurassic World” was the No. 1 draw, taking in nearly $647 million, for a global total of $1.65 billion. “The Avengers: Age of
Ultron,” from Disney’s Marvel division, was second, selling $457.8 million ($1.4 billion worldwide). Third place went to one of the few original movies to hit it big: “Inside Out,” from Disney’s Pixar unit, took in $348.2 million ($706 million). But almost every other film studio struggled. The once rocksolid Warner Bros. found hits in “San Andreas” and “Mad Max: Fury Road” but mostly suffered dud after dud, including “Magic Mike XXL” and “The Man From U.N.C.L.E.” After a stellar summer last year, 20th Century Fox had a major flop this time around
with “Fantastic Four.” Sony Pictures was barely in the game at all. For years, Hollywood has pursued event-style movies intended to play to everyone, but some of these offerings have grown so colossal that other movies, even very expensive and heavily marketed ones with decent reviews, are having a hard time getting noticed. “We’re not seeing as many doubles and triples, and those movies are the ones that really keep the box office healthy,” said Paul Dergarabedian, a senior analyst at Rentrak. “It was an extremely top heavy summer.” BROOKS BARNES
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Apple TV Is Aiming to Make Itself at Home SAN FRANCISCO — Apple is finally getting serious about pushing into our living rooms. That ambition will be underlined at an Apple event in San Francisco on Wednesday, when the company plans to unveil an upgraded Apple TV, a device similar to a set-top box that brings video and music from the Internet to a television, according to people briefed on the product. The upgrade will expand Apple TV’s uses in gaming, including a remote control with a touch pad that can double as a game controller, said the people, who spoke on condition of anonymity. The new device will include support for apps and games made by independent software developers. The revamped device will share the event spotlight with Apple’s biggest moneymaker, the iPhone. The company once called Apple TV a “hobby,” as it accounts for less than 5 percent of sales, so the prominent billing this time highlights the aim of transforming the device into a multipurpose entertainment product for homes. The move will thrust Apple deeper into a competitive market where few, including Apple, have made headway. While the living room has been something of a holy grail for many tech com-
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panies, with Sony rolling out its PlayStation game console, Microsoft its Xbox console and Amazon its home devices like the Amazon Echo, few can claim to have become the go-to for online services in residences. The company unveiled Apple TV in 2007, but its offerings were not as thorough as what people could get with cable subscriptions. A recent Forrester Research survey found that only 19 percent of online adults in the United States were interested in or already used an Apple TV. Apple declined to comment on the new Apple TV or other details of the coming event. Building up more of a presence in the home is important for Apple as it seeks growth from new
Timothy D. Cook, Apple’s chief executive, in March. A revamped Apple TV will figure prominently in a coming product event.
avenues. The company relies on the iPhone for the majority of its revenue and profit, and Timothy D. Cook, Apple’s chief executive, has broadened product lines into wearables with the Apple Watch and new services such as Apple Pay and Apple Music. More diversification gives Apple a large number of ways to hook customers. “The most important thing about the Apple TV announcement is it becomes a broader utility box,” said Peter Csathy, the chief executive of the media consulting firm Manatt Digital Media. “Then it can ultimately become the Trojan horse for all kinds of services in the home that, in turn, let Apple sell more hardware.” KATIE BENNER and BRIAN X. CHEN
New Focus on Games as Apple Takes On Consoles Apple stumbled into the games business not long after it released the iPhone in 2007, igniting a new multibillion-dollar mobile games industry in the process. Could a new Apple device — one linked to the television — shake up the market for game consoles? The idea no longer seems ridiculous to many people in the games business. Now, Apple is expected to make games a primary selling point of its new Apple TV product, which is scheduled to be announced on Wednesday in San Francisco, according to people briefed on Apple’s plans. This is a big change from Apple’s previous versions of Apple TV, a device shaped like a hockey puck that for the first eight years of its existence has mainly been used to stream videos and music. Many of the components necessary for a satisfying experience will come with Apple TV, the people say, including more power for better graphics, a remote that could dou-
ble as a controller and an app store to buy and download games. “I think Apple’s going to create a big new category in gaming, one that others have tried and failed to create before,” said Jan Dawson, chief analyst at the technology research firm Jackdaw Research. “What the Apple TV has the potential to do is to bring casual gaming to the living room and make it a much more social activity.” Most game executives and analysts see little chance that Apple will be able to woo hard-core fans of the high-end game consoles, the Xbox One from Microsoft and the PlayStation 4 from Sony, both of which will most likely still have better graphics than the Apple TV. Gamers who fancy big-budget games like Call of Duty and Destiny will probably not be easily persuaded to switch systems. But that still leaves a large market of casual gamers whom Apple could target with the new Apple TV: people who find traditional game con-
trollers complicated and who enjoy lighter, less epic forms of content. The new product is expected to have a starting price around $150, significantly less than the latest traditional game consoles, which range from $300 to $500. Apple takes nearly a third of the revenue from sales of any games and other software purchased in its app stores. Total revenue from console games is expected to be over $27 billion this year, which is more than a third of the $75 billion global games business, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers. Trip Hawkins, the founder of Electronic Arts and 3DO, said the living room remained a confusing battleground. “No company has done more for the digital man-machine interface than Apple,” he said. “They’ve warmed up to games and are a worthy candidate to win the family room in the next decade, though the competition and inertia are epic.” NICK WINGFIELD
Graphic Novels Have Their Roots In Comic Strips After detours through the worlds of reality television, comic books and animation, Judd Winick has returned to his roots as a cartoonist with “Hilo,” an all-ages graphic novel. The title hero is an enigmatic boy who crashes to Earth and befriends two children, D. J. and Gina. The book, which came out last week, is the first installment of what is planned to be a six-book series. “Hilo” is being marketed as a graphic novel for chilJudd Winick dren, but Winick likens it to a Pixar film, a story that can be enjoyed by the entire family. One early review described it as “whimsical and serious.” The book balances slapstick (bodily noises) and pathos (the ups and downs of childhood friendships). It also has a multiethnic cast: D. J. is the only one of five Asian-American siblings who is not “awesome at something,” and his best friend, Gina, who is black, has two aggressively positive sisters who are cheerleaders. Giving “Hilo” a multigenerational appeal was a tribute to what drew Winick to newspaper comic strips. “They were mainstream, all-ages cartoons,” he said. “As a kid, you had a daily dose of comic strips. We read them all. We even read the ones we didn’t like.” Winick, 45, is best known as a cast member on the third season of “The Real World” on MTV in 1994. He appeared on the show just as his development deal with United Press Syndicate, a distributor of newspaper strips, was canceled. Winick also worked on many comics: his creator-owned “The Adventures of Barry Ween, Boy Genius,” in 1999, about a potty-mouthed 10-year-old; “Green Lantern,” for DC Comics in 2000, in which he introduced a gay supporting character; and Marvel’s “Exiles,” in 2001. The experience of “Hilo,” however, has helped Winick come to a discovery: “I’m an artist in the sense that I don’t do this because I can, but because I have to.” GEORGE GENE GUSTINES
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Assembling a Spectacle, One Feather at a Time When Misfortune Reisha Maynard-Holder meticulously cut patterns for a collar out of foam rubber as a fan whirred in the sweltering heat. Next, she turned her attention to feathers, attaching them to the collars one at a time with a glue gun. It was another grueling evening in a monthslong effort to create some of the most elaborate and spectacular costumes seen on the streets of New York. “These are our summers,” said Maynard-Holder, one of hundreds of people who prepare the costumes for the West Indian American Day Parade, set for Monday. More than 5,000 people were expected to take part in the parade, a tradition known as “playing mas.” And, over a million people are expected to gather on Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn for the event, which celebrates Caribbean culture with food and music. The real stars of the parade, however, are the bright array of costumes, visually stunning concoctions of feathers and beads, with headdresses often rising several feet in the air. “The costumes are a symbol of the flair and vibrancy of the culture and demonstrate the pride of the Caribbean,” said Jamell Henderson, spokesman for Karma Carnival NYC Band. “They are the centerpiece and main attraction.” Making the costumes often begins a year in advance, shortly after the parade ends, with the bands — as the groups that par-
outfits, the production is both a well-oiled machine yet a sprint to the finish, with costumes available for pickup sometimes just one week before the parade. The band Ramajay Mas, (ramajay, a Trinidadian folk word, loosely translates as “to show off”) worked with four designers on nine costumes for MICHELLE V. AGINS/THE NEW YORK TIMES their theme “NirvaKaren Maynard putting the finishing na: Freedom of Self.” The time it takes for touches on a pink feathered headdress costumes to come tofor Monday’s parade. gether can vary. The lavish headdresses ticipate are called — selecting take an average of three hours. Reishelle Maynard-Richards, themes in the fall and fabric samples in the spring. Fashion shows the band leader of Ramajay Mas displaying prototypes are held in and Reisha Maynard-Holder’s sisearly summer, followed by pro- ter, grew up watching and helping their father in the summer, when duction until Labor Day. Bands can range from a few he would close his auto body shop dozen members, called masquer- to focus on making costumes. Maynard-Richards, who comes aders, to hundreds. As a result some bands outsource the cloth- to New York from Trinidad each ing portion of the costumes to summer to lend a hand in preparing Ramajay Mas for the parade, large manufacturers. To ensure quality control, many said regardless of the results, the bands insist on constructing the goal was larger than a trophy. “We may be competing against feather headdresses and other feather pieces by hand in their each other for a few hours on the mas camps — showrooms where parkway,” said Maynard-Richcostumes are kept on display with ards, “but other than that it’s love for the culture, and we’re just hapworkrooms often at the rear. Because of the detailed manual py that more and more people can labor involved in making so many experience it.” TAMARA BEST
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TELLURIDE, Colo. — There is something spooky about “Sherpa” and timing. Jennifer Peedom was on Mount Everest in April 2014, making a film about the lives of Nepalese climbers, when an avalanche killed 16 of them. She was in the wrong place at the right time. Over the weekend, her “Sherpa” landed at the Telluride Film Festival here with a boom, partly because it was shown on opening night — at the last second — in place of another documentary, “Amazing Grace.” Aretha Franklin had won a court order stopping the screening of “Grace,” which shows the recording of her album of the same name 40 years ago. They say timing is everything in show business, but it is particularly important in documentary filmmaking, as underscored by new films like “Sherpa,” “Amazing Grace” and “Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom,” which is also showing here. Together, they shed light on the sometimes maddening accidents that can delay, shape or elevate a cinematic form that puts perhaps the most difficult of demands on a filmmaker: actually being there. Peedom was to have followed a Nepalese guide, Phurba Tashi, as he pursued what would have been a record 22nd climb to the top. It would mark the Sherpas’ dominance on a mountain first scaled by a countryman, Tenzing Norgay, with Edmund Hillary in 1953. When shooting resumed, it instead caused bitter debates among tour operators, government officials and Sherpas who found their risks too high. Her film captured what she had not foreseen: conciliation with Everest, not its conquest. Documentaries like “Sherpa” are revealing the inherent power in what has been called cinéma vérité, or“direct cinema,” movies that peer straight into life. “As Hollywood films deepen their dependence on the unreality of CGI effects, the authenticity of documentaries stands out even more,” said Thom Powers, the documentary programmer at the Toronto International Film Festival, where “Sherpa” and “Winter on Fire” will screen this week. BROOKS BARNES and MICHAEL CIEPLY
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Threat to Horses in a Forest Provokes a Struggle in the West Some 200 volunteers organized on July 31, the same day the notice of the capture appeared in a local newspaper, offering to stand between the horses and whoever tried to catch them. Dozens more gathered for a rally at a recreation area by the Salt River, holding signs and chanting, “Wild and free, let them be.” Since then, Arizona officials have joined the protests, outlining the boundaries of a dispute that encompasses an old political battle between state and federal governments over the stewardship of public lands in the West. The fight over the horses is also about who and what can use these lands — and who should have the right to make such decisions. Arizona’s lawmakers asked the federal gov-
PHOENIX — Soon after federal officials announced the imminent capture of 100 or so horses in a national forest near here — to be sold at auction, “condemned and destroyed, or otherwise disposed of” — a cadre of self-appointed guardians issued a desperate call for action. “Salt River Wild Horses To Be Eliminated,” they wrote on a Facebook page created for the horses, which has more than 200 pictures and 220,000 likes. “EVERYONE AROUND THE WORLD — PLEASE HELP.” The response was broad and fast, stunning the guardians, as well as officials at the Tonto National Forest, to whom the horses are a nuisance and pose a risk of collision for visitors on the busy, narrow roads leading to the river.
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ernment to find another resolution or else stay out of their equine affairs. “C’mon, Feds, hold your horses,” Sen. Jeff Flake, a Republican, said on Twitter. With pressure mounting, the Forest Service hit pause. Last month, Neil Bosworth, the Tonto National Forest supervisor, suspended any planned roundups for four months. It is still not clear what that means for the herd. In 1971, Congress passed the Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act, which set aside 200 areas within public lands in the western United States where certain horses and burros could live without being harmed, harassed or removed by anyone other than the agency in charge of them, the Bureau of Land Management. But, in a memo from Jan. 15, 1974, a range and wildlife officer at the Tonto National Forest wrote that the horses bore brands identical to those on horses owned by residents of the adjacent Indian reservations, effectively excluding them from federal designation and protections. “If they live without human intervention and if they have not been domesticated, then they could be considered wild horses,” said Lori Eggert, an associate professor at the University of Missouri and part of a National Academy of Sciences panel that reviewed the federal wild horse program. If the horses’ supporters have their way, the horses might end up in sanctuaries — or stay right where they are. Recently, Simone Netherlands, president of the Salt River Wild Horse Management Group, and three others snapped photographs of horses as they dipped their heads in water. Ahead, Anne Dougherty, 60, knelt in the east bank of the river, submerged up to her waist as she admired a mare and her foal resting under the shade of a willow tree. “This is their land,” said Dougherty, who lives in Apache Junction, on the southern edge of the Tonto National Forest. “Why don’t we leave them alone?” FERNANDA SANTOS
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MANAMA, Bahrain (NNS) -- Commander, U.S. Naval Forces Central Command (NAVCENT)/U.S. 5th Fleet (C5F)/Combined Maritime Forces (CMF) held a change-ofcommand ceremony aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71), in port here Sept. 3. Vice Adm. Kevin M. Donegan relieved Vice Adm. John W. Miller as commander of naval forces in the central command area of responsibility. Gen. Lloyd J. Austin III, commander of U.S. Central Command, said in his remarks that during Miller’s tenure, the region has seen tremendous change and new challenges, including the start of combat operations against the
Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). “Over the past several years, we’ve thrown a significant number of challenges his way, and he took each challenge in stride and he made sure that the right things were done to manage the various crises and to help
move this strategically important region into the direction of increased stability and security,” said Austin. Turning to Miller, he said, “You have done an absolutely amazing job.” Miller assumed command in May 2012. On any given day, he
led more than 15,000 U.S. and coalition Sailors, Marines, Coast Guardsmen and civilians ensuring maritime security and stability throughout 2.5 million square miles of area including the Arabian Gulf, Gulf of Oman, Gulf of Aden, Arabian Sea, the Red Sea, parts of the Indian Ocean, and in 20 countries. “The contributions made by the U.S. and our coalition partners have been vital to security and stability in this region and the world,” said Miller. “Our presence here as we operate forward keeping the sea lanes open and safe is essential not only for the global economy, but also for the goods and services vital to our regional partners here in the Middle East.”
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SAN DIEGO (Sept. 2, 2015 ) The amphibious assault ship USS Boxer (LHD 4) participates in a simulated strait transit. Boxer is underway off the coast of Southern California participating in Dawn Blitz 2015 (DB-15). DB-15 is a multinational training exercise being conducted by Expeditionary Strike Group 3 (ESG-3) and 1st MEB to build U.S., Japan, Mexico and New Zealand’s amphibious, and command and control capabilities through live, simulated, and constructive military training activities. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Veronica Mammina (Released)
SAN DIEGO (Sept. 2, 2015) The Combat Systems Department aboard the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Bulkeley (DDG 84) fires the ship’s 5-inch gun. Bulkeley is underway for Composite Training Unit Exercise (COMPTUEX), a series of training scenarios designed to certify the Harry S. Truman Strike Group as a deployment-ready fighting force capable of completing operations in overseas theaters. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Michael J. Lieberknecht (Released)
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Soap helps detach the germs, to be rinsed away with
water
Antibacterial soap actually kills the germs How long you wash matters 20-30 seconds recommended
How vigorously you wash matters Between fingers and thumbs are frequently missed
Washing your hands hinders the spread of germs