www.flagshipnews.com | The Flagship | Section 1 | Thursday, July 4, 2024
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Morale, Welfare & Recreation Department to hold Navy Civilian Hiring Event on July 20
This event is open to the public and does not require base access. Available positions include recreation assistants, food service workers, fitness specialists, custodial workers, and sales assistants. PAGE A8 VOL. 32, NO. 25, Norfolk, Va. | flagshipnews.com
July 4-July 10, 2024
Rear Adm. Carl A. Lahti. (COURTESY PHOTO)
Rear Adm. Wesley“Wes”McCall. (COURTESY PHOTO)
Navy Region Mid-Atlantic changes command
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NORFOLK, Va. — Rear Adm. Wesley “Wes” McCall was relieved by Rear Adm. Carl A. Lahti as commander of Navy Region Mid-Atlantic (CNRMA) July 3 during a ceremony at the Pennsylvania House aboard Naval Station Norfolk. Commander, Navy Installations Command, Vice Adm. Scott Gray was the presiding officer for the event.
McCall assumed command of the Mid-Atlantic region in May of 2023. During his tour, he provided a full spectrum of shore installation management, services to operating forces and Navy families within Navy Region Mid-Atlantic’s area of responsibility. He fostered a workforce that energetically resolved the Navy’s most complex challenges to sustain the Fleet, enable the Fighter, and support the Family. Lahti, a native of Buffalo, N.Y., previously
served as the 50th commanding officer of Naval Submarine Base New London; chief of staff at Navy Installations Command; director, Energy and Environmental Readiness Division, N45 OPNAV; the 91st commandant of Naval District Washington; and is reporting from position as commander, U.S. Naval Forces Japan/Navy Region Japan. CNRMA is the regional coordinator for all shore-based naval personnel and
shore activities in the Mid-Atlantic region, which encompasses 20 states, 13 installations, and numerous Navy Reserve Centers from Maine to Virginia and as far west as Illinois. To read more, please check us out on DVIDS at https://www.dvidshub.net/ unit/NRMA, or follow us on Facebook and Instagram.
Naval Station Norfolk Morale Welfare and Recreation hosts Summer Reading Book Fair By Boatswain’s Mate 3rd Class Jessica Nunes
NORFOLK, Va. — Naval Station (NAVSTA) Norfolk Morale, Welfare and Recreation (MWR) Community Recreation team hosted their annual Summer Reading Book Fair at Bellissimo’s Espresso Café on NAVSTA Norfolk, June 25, 2024. To prepare for the event, the MWR Community Recreation team collected hundreds of book donations from the Norfolk Public Library and Deployed Forces Support organizations. In addition, the MWR team worked closely with the Norfolk Book Exchange, to collect and trade-in used books for more age appropriate, youth reading level books. With the stockpile of books now in their possession the MWR team was ready to put on the event. “We want to encourage people to read with their kids,” said Aaliyah Daniels, a MWR Community Recreation team member. “This event gets Sailor parents to come out with their kids and get involved in their education.” The Summer Reading Book Fair opened at 4:00 p.m. allowing Sailors and their children to browse the large selection of free literature. Guests were also provided complementary Girl Scout cookies. Furthermore, the MWR team invited two local children’s authors, Leslie Eva Tayloe
and Kim Norman, to the event for an in-person reading. The authors also provided copies of their own works for purchase at the event. “I’ve been an author for five years and today I brought my books “I’m Fishing with Pop-Pop Today” and “Save the Trees,” said Tayloe. “I like reading to the children and seeing their faces light up when they find something they enjoy.” The event concluded at 6:00 p.m. with every family being able to take home as many books as they desired. After families departed, the MWR staff collected the remaining books for use in next year’s Summer Reading Book Fair. For more information of upcoming MWR events at NAVSTA Norfolk or the surrounding installations event, please visit https:// www.navylifema.com/events
ABOVE: NORFOLK, Virginia (June 26, 2024) Leslie Eva Tayloe, a local children’s book author, reads to a group of military children at the Morale, Welfare and Recreation (MWR) Summer Reading Book Fair at Bellissimo’s Espresso Café on Naval Station Norfolk, June 26, 2024. The Summer Reading Book Fair gives children of Sailors the opportunity to receive free books and encourages children to read during the summer time. LEFT: Tayloe interacts with two military children at the Morale, Welfare and Recreation Summer Reading Book Fair. (U.S. NAVY PHOTO BY BOATSWAIN’S MATE 3RD CLASS JESSICA NUNES)
Naval Station Norfolk hosts Sea Cadets Naval Special Warfare Orientation Course Sea Cadets from the United States Naval Sea Cadet Corps and their instructors took part in the annual Naval Special Warfare Orientation Courses program on Naval Station Norfolk and Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek- Fort Story, June 15 to June 30, 2024. PAGE A4
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