www.flagshipnews.com | The Flagship | Section 1 | Thursday, July 18, 2024
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FFSC’s Deployment Support Program aims to reduce deployment and reintegration stress for sailors and families FFSC plays a crucial role in reducing deployment-related stress through its programs, addressing the various challenges faced by sailors and military families. Page A2 VOL. 32, NO. 27, Norfolk, Va. | flagshipnews.com
July 18-July 24, 2024
NORFOLK, Virginia (July 12, 2024) Sailors and civilians take off from the starting line while Morale, Welfare and Recreation (MWR) staff spray color chalk at the MWR’s Annual “Run for a Cause Color Run” 5K on Naval Station Norfolk July 12, 2024. The MWR Annual Color Run is a 5K dedicated for any cause of choice. (U.S. NAVY PHOTOS BY MASS COMMUNICATION SPECIALIST 2ND CLASS JOSEPH T. MILLER.)
Sailors get colorful during annual 5K By Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Joseph T. Miller NORFOLK, Va. — Naval Station (NAVSTA) Norfolk’s Norfolk Morale, Welfare and Recreation (MWR) fitness team hosted its annual “Run for a Cause Color Run” 5K at McClure Field on Naval Station Norfolk, July 12, 2024. Anthony Benning, the NAVSTA Norfolk MWR fitness director, and his team, started the “Run for a Cause Color Run” 5K series in 2017 as a way for participants to choose their specific cause. The participants, including Sailors, their families, civilians and children from the childcare centers on NAVSTA Norfolk, were invited to wear shirts representing their cause of choice. Causes chosen ranged from sexual assault prevention to mental health awareness. This year’s event was coordinated by Jeff Lowe, the fitness facility coordinator for MWR Fitness Sports. Lowe and 55 MWR staff and volunteers
began the set up for the event at 7:00 a.m., preparing refreshment tables, an inflatable finish line, colorful powder containers and sprayers for the run. Soon after, 5K participants began arriving to check in and get warmed up for the run. The race kicked off officially at 9:30 a.m. As runners left the starting line, MWR staff sprayed them with a rainbow of vibrant powders, coating them in an entire spectrum of colors as they took off down Moffett Avenue, which runs parallel to McClure Field toward Dillingham Boulevard. The run path would lead participants down through NAVSTA Norfolk’s Admirals Row, down toward the piers and loop back around the coast of Willoughby Bay, passing Vista point along their route. They would eventually finish back at McClure Field within the stadium. Once they cross the finish line, MWR staff blasted runners with a second wave of colored Turn to Color Run, Page 5
Unprecedented: Dwight D. Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group returns from combat deployment Courtesy Story
Carrier Strike Group Two
NORFOLK, Va. — The Dwight D. Eisenhower (IKE) Carrier Strike Group (CSG) returned to Norfolk, after a historic ninemonth combat deployment to U.S. 5th Fleet, July 14, 2024. The strike group — comprised of the nine squadrons of Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 3, Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Philippine Sea (CG 58), and Arleigh Burkeclass guided-missile destroyers USS Gravely (DDG 107) and USS Mason (DDG 87) of Destroyer Squadron (DESRON) 22 — engaged in combat operations in the Middle East region from Nov. 2023 to June 2024. “We provide options to our nation’s decision makers. Our job is to preserve the peace, respond in crisis, and if necessary, fight and win decisively, and you delivered on all of those objectives,” Turn to Eisenhower Returns, Page 3
NORFOLK, Va (July 14, 2024) The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) returns to Naval Station Norfolk, July 14, 2024, concluding a ninemonth deployment to the Atlantic. Eisenhower, the flagship of the Ike Carrier Strike Group, departed Norfolk October 14, 2023 to conduct a scheduled deployment to U.S. 5th and 6th Fleet area of operations in support of maritime security operations, theater security cooperation efforts, and enhanced vigilance activities operations with NATO Allies and Partners. (U.S. NAVY PHOTO BY MASS COMMUNICATION SPECIALIST 2ND CLASS HUNTER DAY)
Commander, Navy Installations Command Implements Relaxed Clothing Policy at All of the Navy’s Shore Galleys Page A2
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