Vinson Voice 8 Mar 11

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March 8, 2011

a chance reunion NCPACE Reunites Student & Teacher

Story by MC3 Jessica Tounzen USS Carl Vinson Writer

U.S. Navy photos by MC3 cHRISTOPHER k. hWANG

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The Carl Vinson Voice is an internal document produced by and for the crew of the USS Carl Vinson and their families. Its contents do not necessarily reflect the official views of the U.S. Government or the Departments of Defense or the Navy and do not imply any endorsement thereby.

t’s been almost nine years since Logistics Specialist 1st Class (SW/AW) Marcos Maldonado took his first college class under the Navy College Program for Afloat College Education (NCPACE) program. It was back in 2002, during his first deployment with USS John F. Kennedy (CV 67). Maldonado had only been in the Navy for about a year. He decided since a college education was the main reason he’d signed his enlistment papers, it was time to get the ball rolling. “Everyone around me was taking classes, even my Leading Petty Officer (LPO),” he said. “When he asked me if I was going to take classes, I said I just wanted to relax and enjoy my time. Eventually he convinced me. Then I started convincing others. It was almost like peer pressure in a positive way, a healthy competition.” And so it was that Maldonado landed in his first college-level math class, Intermediate Algebra I, led by instructor Robert Mazur. Maldonado said his first interaction with the NCPACE program was a positive one. “Mr. Mazur was really great…he would always sit down with the students and go over the exercises and explain more in depth if we didn’t understand something,” said Maldonado. Mazur, a self-proclaimed math geek, See ‘NCPACE’ Page 2


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