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Celebrating 20 years of serving the Hampton Roads Navy family
Vol. 21, No. 46 Norfolk, VA | flagshipnews.com | 11.21-11.27.13
Justin Thompson, left, and 2-year-old Harmony Thompson, wait on the pier for Electrician’s Mate 2nd Class Vatriesa Chillous, as the guided-missile destroyer USS Gravely pulls into port following a deployment, Nov. 18. Gravely was deployed for nine months, travelling more than 45,000 nautical miles, conducting exercises with U.S. Special Operations Forces and naval forces from Israel, Greece, France, Great Britain and Egypt. For more photos from Pilot photographer Rich-Joesph Facun, visit http:// goo.gl/UnUwBj.
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Lt. Cmdr. David Clark, the goalkeeper for the Ike Warriors soccer team, dives to save a strike during a soccer match between teams from USS Dwight D. Eisenhower and the Norfolk Police Department at Capt. Slade Cutter Park in Norfolk.
Wounded Warriors focus on recovery through Safe Harbor By MC1(SW/AW) Molly A. Burgess The Flagship military editor
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Ike soccer team plays Norfolk police By MCSN Sarah Horne USS Dwight D. Eisenhower Public Affairs
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A team of Sailors assigned to USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) played a friendly soccer match against Norfolk Police Department United Soccer Club at Capt. Slade Cutter Park in Norfolk, Nov. 15.
Although the “Ike Warriors” lost to the Norfolk P.D. team 5-0, Aviation Boatswain’s Mate (Handling) 3rd Class Oliver Freeman, the “Ike Warriors” assistant coach, said that the final score wasn’t all that important. “The aim was to go out there, make friends and have a good time,” Freeman said. “That’s what this game was all about.”
Norfolk Police Department team member Mikhail Angstrom, who, along with Freeman, organized the event, said they intend to make the match the first of many between the Eisenhower soccer team and the police. “We would love for this to be the beginning of something,” Angstrom said. “I think it’ll show the community that we care about the military and the people who live and work in the city.”
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THIRD ANNUAL DIABETES BOOT CAMP IMPROVES PATIENT CARE By MC1(SW/AW) Steven J. Web Naval Medical Center Portsmouth Public Affairs
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Naval Medical Center Portsmouth’s third annual Diabetes Boot Camp on Nov. 7, drew the most registered patients so far, with 155 people registered for the event and even more walking in. The boot camp gives “one-stop
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shopping” for diabetic patients who need to get all their annual diabetic tests done at one time or need more information about managing their diabetes. In all, staff performed 99 foot and 44 diabetes retinal exams and diabetes educators counseled 102 patients. “It is difficult, as a working person, to take the time off for the multiple appointments,”
said Carmina Bautista, a diabetes nurse in the Endocrinology Clinic and co-organizer of the boot camp. “I have regular patients who come to the boot camp, because they can get their eye exam, immunizations and annual tests done instead of having them done in different visits.”
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THE DOCTOR IS IN THE HOUSE ONBOARD THE TR A slip and fall down a ladderwell is one thing, but a full-scale mass casualty is quite a different story. Either way, Medical department aboard USSTheodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) remains prepared to respond quickly.
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Navy Wounded Warrior – Safe Harbor is the Navy’s organization for coordinating the non-medical care of seriously wounded, ill and injured Sailors and Coast Guardsmen, and providing resources and support to their families. With individually tailored assistance, the program is designed to optimize the success of the Wounded Warriors’ recovery, rehabilitation and reintegration and allow the service member and their families to focus on recovery without distractions. According to Lt. Justin Short, Mid-Atlantic, N95 regional director for Navy Wounded Warrior – Safe Harbor, you do not have to be wounded during combat to qualify for enrollment in the program. “About 50 percent of our patients are cancer patients, but it’s not a guaranteed enrollment, it’s always on a case-by-case basis,” said Short. “PTSD, on the other hand, is a guaranteed enrollment.” According to the Navy Wounded Warrior website, any Wounded Warrior is eligible. The Navy defines a “Wounded Warrior” as a Sailor or Coast Guardsman that has a serious illness or injury requiring long-term care that may result in a Medical Evaluation Board/Physical Evaluation Board (MEB/PEB) to determine fitness for duty. Support is not limited to combat injuries; Navy Wounded Warriors also assists those battling serious illnesses or who are
Courtesy photo In Fiscal Year 2013, Navy Wounded Warrior – Safe Harbor offered employment and education assistance to 321 enrollees and their caregivers.
injured in accidents. Navy Wounded Warrior – Safe Harbor enrollment consideration is given to individuals suffering from casualties from Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF)/Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF)/Operation New Dawn (OND) casualties (with the exception of those wounded in combat operations prior to 2001), shipboard and training accidents, liberty accidents and serious illnesses. Short said that in the Hampton Roads, there are a total of 88 personnel currently enrolled in the program and once enrolled, it is for long-term. In addition, Navy Wounded Warrior – Safe Harbor provides transition support; enrollment does not conclude when a service member is discharged from a medical treatment facility, nor when they are medically retired.
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FIREARMS AWARENESS As an active duty service member, owning a registered firearm is not an illegal act, but what you do with that firearm can change that completely.
HOLIDAY HAPPENINGS The Grand Illumination Parade is scheduled for Nov. 23 in Norfolk, and the Holiday Lights along the Virginia Beach boardwalk will run from Nov. 22 through Jan. 1.
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