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GROTON, Conn. - The world celebrates Earth Day, April 22, and once again, Naval Submarine Base New London (SUBASE) challenges local commands and activities to make a difference by thinking globally and acting locally through the seventh annual Earth Day challenge. Last year, a score of commands and activities,
and nearly 240 sailors and civilians, participated in an array of environmentally focused community outreach events in honor of Earth Day. In all, more than 1,400
hours of volunteer time were contributed to the projects. This year, SUBASE will again be partnering with regional state parks, towns and local land conservancies to undertake environmental stewardship projects. Your help is needed to participate in work crews assisting our local land managers to clean-up trails and
shorelines, pick up debris and remove invasive plant species. Projects are available to all levels of physical ability and you will be helping the environment and
supporting your local communities at the same time. During the week of April 21 through 25, SUBASE hopes to put at least 10 work crews out in the local area.
Projects, dates, and hours are flexible to accommodate your schedules. As Earth Day 2014 approaches, join us in thinking globally and acting locally to protect
our environment and improve our planet. Consider taking part in a good cause; participate in the sixth annual SUBASE NLON Earth Day challenge! Dont be the
last command on your block to sign up. For more information about projects you can get involved in or to sign up, contact the SUBASE Public Affairs Office at
(860) 694-5980.
INSIDE
GROTON, Conn.
Naval Submarine Base
New London (SUBASE)
leadership joined Child
Development
Center
(CDC) staff and children
in celebrating the start
of Month of the Military
Child and signing a
proclamation promoting
youth programs, April
1, at the center.
SUBASEs Commanding officer, Capt. Carl
Lahti, signed the proclamation and spoke to
the youngsters regarding
the importance of youth
programs and supporting
military children.
The CDC, with assistance from the Fleet and
Family Support Center
(FFSC), created the proclamation to honor the 60
percent of military families with children who
make sacrifices everyday due to separation,
deployments and re-locations.
This
proclamation
is for all of you, said
Lahti. The Month of
Military Child is our way
to give thanks to each
one of you for all you go
SUBASE Sailors
get the word
out about
SAAM
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GROTON, Conn. - Captain Carl Lahti, Commanding Officer for Naval Submarine Base New London (SUBASE), celebrates with military
children the signing of this years proclamation honoring the Month of the Military Child, April 1.
through.
In 1986, Secretary
of Defense Caspar W.
Weinberger, designated each April as The
Month of the Military
their children.
Cathy Terrall, CDC
director, highlighted the
breadth of SUBASE celebrations.
Continued on page 3
WASHINGTON - The
Navy has opened a voluntary online survey to
all female enlisted Sailors
to understand the level of
interest among women to
serve aboard submarines.
A Navy task force was
formed last summer to
develop options for integrating enlisted women
into the submarine force.
The survey results will be
used to help guide ongoing planning efforts.
We seek input from pro-
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Now,
therefore,
I,
Barack Obama, President
of the United States of
America, by virtue of the
authority vested in me by
the Constitution and the
laws of the United States,
do hereby proclaim April
2014 as National Sexual
Assault Awareness and
Prevention Month. I urge
all Americans to support
survivors of sexual assault
and work together to prevent these crimes in their
communities.
Barack Obama
MILLINGTON, Tenn.
- The Navy launched a
survey April 1 asking
participants their attitude and perceptions
of alcohol abuse in the
Navy.
The survey is available
at https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/KWYE,
and should take participants less than five minutes to complete.
Since the Keep What
Youve Earned campaigns inception a year
ago, weve involved
Sailors in the development of Keep What
Youve Earned to better
understand their drinking habits and how alcohol use is perceived in the
Navy as a whole, said
Dorice Favorite, director of Navy Alcohol and
Drug Abuse Prevention
(NADAP). This survey
gives us a pulse check on
how those attitudes and
behaviors have changed
in the past year, and
how we can continue
to develop an innovative strategy to promote
responsible drinking.
The anonymous survey asks Sailors about
their personal use of
alcohol, any changes
they have noticed in use
of alcohol among their
peers and shipmates,
and their awareness of
alcohol abuse prevention efforts like the Keep
What Youve Earned
campaign.
The survey will help
us determine how effective the Keep What
Youve Earned campaign
has been in encouraging responsible drinking
habits among Sailors,
and what recommendations they have for
future campaign activities, said Favorite. We
look forward to hearing
new, creative ideas from
the Fleet on this important readiness issue.
Favorite said NADAP
is particularly interested in the opinions of
young, enlisted Sailors,
but all are welcome to
participate, including
Navy leadership, alcohol
abuse prevention personnel, and Navy family
members.
According to NADAP,
Proclamation ...
Continued from page 1
Recreation Department
(MWR) will be hosting
multiple events this month
celebrating the Month of
the Military Child both
on and off-base, Apr. 12
will be a very special day
as the Run Bunny Run
event and the Steve Elci
and Friends concert at
the Dealey Center, take
place.
Everyone in the community is welcome to
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By Katherine ORourke
NHCNE Customer Service
Coordinator
GROTON, Conn. - The Interactive
Customer Evaluation (ICE) kiosks
are now available at the front
entrances of Naval Branch Health
Clinic (NBHC) Grotons medical
and dental clinics. The new
survey system allows patients
to provide customer feedback
about care received at NBHC and
empower beneficiaries to make
a difference by sharing their
healthcare experience. The easy
touch screen system also allows
users to make suggestions or
compliment departments and
individuals who go above and
beyond the scope of their job.
Customer service is a top priority of NBHC where the Mission
and Vision is patient centered
healthcare, providing the best
value, preserving health, and
maintaining readiness to those
entrusted to NBHCs care. Ice is
also available on Naval Health
Clinic New Englands (NHCNE)
Web site at www.med.navy.
mil/sites/nhcne/NHCNE/.../npri.
htm. For more information, contact Katherine ORourke, NHCNE
Customer Service Coordinator at
(401) 841-3878.
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Navy Team New London kicked off SAAM observations with events ranging from tying teal ribbons
throughout the base to a dramatic interpretation by
Naval Submarine School (SUBSCOL) Sailors.
A large number of SUBSCOL Sailors participated
in forming a Human Ribbon on the athletic field,
said Drucker. They represented their command in a
purposeful and meaningful way; acknowledging to the
SUBASE community that they represented something
greater than themselves. The feedback I received was
that there was a great sense of pride that they were part
of this event.
Additional SAAM events include SAAM outreach
tables and designing t-shirts to raise awareness.
Its always interesting to see Sailors designing tshirts, said Chris Boling, Professional Victim Advocate.
Each Sailors individuality comes out when theyre
designing their Sexual Assault Prevention message.
Everyone has a different approach to it and each shirt
will affect everyone differently because variety is what
draws people in.
Across the Navy, SAAM engages Sailors and civilians
up and down the deck-plates to keep the focus on preventing sexual assault and supporting those impacted.
Since the Navys inception of the Sexual Assault
Victim Intervention (SAVI) program in 1994, the Navy
GROTON, Conn. - Left, Yeoman Seaman Ciara Neal, assigned to Naval Submarine Base New London
(SUBASE) Administration, ties teal ribbons around trees in the Dealey Plaza to help raise sexual assault
awareness during Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM), April 2. Below, a SUBASE Sailor ties a teal
ribbon around a tree in the Dealey Plaza in honor of Sexual Assault Awareness Month, April 2.
GROTON, Conn. - Information Systems Technician 3rd Class Arthur Perez, assigned to Base
Consolidated Telecommunications (BCT) on Naval Submarine Base New London (SUBASE) ties teal
ribbons around trees in the Dealey Plaza to help raise sexual assault awareness during Sexual Assault
Awareness Month (SAAM), April 2.
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Stewart and Information
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3rd
Class
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Perez, both assigned
to Base Consolidated
Telecommunications (BCT)
on Naval Submarine Base
New London (SUBASE) tie
teal ribbons around trees
in the Dealey Plaza to
help raise sexual assault
awareness during Sexual
Assault Awareness Month
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GROTON, Conn. - Above, Yeoman Seaman Ciara Neal, assigned to Naval Submarine Base New London
(SUBASE) Administration, ties teal bows outside of the SUBASE Navy College Office (NCO) to help raise
sexual assault awareness during Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM), April 2. Above right, Sailors
assigned to Naval Submarine Base New London (SUBASE) tie teal bows around trees in the Dealey Plaza
to help raise sexual assault awareness during Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM), April 2.
GROTON, Conn. - Top left, Electronics Technician Seaman Manuel Alvarez, assigned to Naval Submarine
School (SUBSCOL) on Naval Submarine Base New London (SUBASE), designs a T-shirt to raise sexual
assault awareness for Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM), at the Fleet and Family Support
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Sailors, family members,
civilians, and veterans,
who sought to improve
their health and lifestyle
through the Morale,
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Departments (MWR)
Biggest Loser competition, celebrated their
success during a finale
ceremony at Body Works
Fitness Center, April 3.
This year more than 90
participants participated
in the 10-week healthy
lifestyle challenge, during which 48 of those
members completed the
program.
MWRs Biggest Loser
competition
allowed
civilians and military
members to kick-start
their New Years resolution, said Becky
Brewer, MWR fitness
director. The 10-week
weight management and
healthy lifestyle program offered nutritional
classes, fitness classes,
and weekly guidance
from registered dieticians.
Cary Maikranz, a
pipeline manager at
Naval Submarine School
(SUBSCOL), was this
years biggest loser
- losing a total of 37
pounds.
Besides eating healthier, drinking more water
and working out, the
weight I lost was not
only from the choices
I made by myself, but
GROTON, Conn. - Captain Carl Lahti (right), Commanding Officer, Naval Submarine Base New London (SUBASE), awards the finalist of the Biggest Loser Competition at
SUBASEs Body Works Center, April 3. The winner of the challenge was Cary Maikranz, Pipeline Manager at SUBSCOL (center). Jordan Brewer of the Child Development
Center was the runner up (center).
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WASHINGTON - Army
Spc. Natasha Schuette wants
victims of sexual abuse in
the military to know they
are not alone and that help
is available.
She speaks from personal experience, sharing the
ordeal she went through
after being sexually assaulted by her drill sergeant at
Fort Jackson, S.C., in 2012.
I just want to ... continue
to encourage victims to come
forward to change this culture that we have, she said.
I know I am one of the very
few who has an actual conviction on their perpetrator.
The Defense Department
honored Schuette with
a Lifetime Achievement
Women of Character,
Courage and Commitment
award and a Womens History
Month certificate of appreciation during a March 31 ceremony at the Pentagon.
The Army is combating the
culture of tolerance of sexual
abuse, but it is a slow process, she said. Its important
for victims to know there are
avenues for them, she said,
whether they want to pursue
a conviction or not.
You need to come forward or at least talk to somebody. That way you can have
it off of your chest, because
[otherwise] its going to eat
you alive, Schuette said in
an interview.
Her chain of command
didnt believe her when she
reported the crime, Schuette
said. Other drill sergeants
retaliated against her, and she
faced a discharge for having a
lack of integrity, she said.
In talking with others in
her company, she learned
that other female trainees had
been assaulted by the same
male drill sergeant. Those
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The Naval Submarine
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London
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April
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Community
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