BATTLE OF FRC DEPARTMENTS IN CAPTAIN’S CUP PAGE 13 VOLUME 52 NO. 9
MARCH 7, 2013
SERVING NAVAL AIR STATION OCEANA
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Oceana Sailors help community by volunteering at foodbank
STORY BY CATHY HEIMER | Jet Observer PHOTO BY MC2 ANTONIO P. TURRETTO RAMOS NAS Oceana Public Affairs
CHANGE OF COMMAND AT VFA-143
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PIECES OF HISTORY: APOLLO SOUCEK
PAGE 8 Spring ahead Sunday, March 10 with the beginning of Daylight Savings Time at 2 a.m. While setting your clocks ahead, don’t forget to also change the batteries in your smoke and carbon monoxide detectors.
During a community relations event at the Foodbank of Southeastern Virginia and the Eastern Shore, Feb. 28, MM2(SW) Jessi Monzingo opens a package of cheese crackers to be used for the agency’s BackPack Program, which provides a backpack of food to children from low-income families for weekends and school holidays. Also preparing to fill the backpacks are (l-r) STG1(SW/IUSS) Ralphkeith Tone, ABE3 Sabine Mathieu, OS2(SW) Cherise Dotson, AO2(AW/SW) Tashante McPherson and AZ1(SW/AW) Tanisesha Curry. Thirteen Sailors from various departments at NAS Oceana volunteered at the foodbank, filling bags for the mobile pantry and the BackPack Program.
Navy announces response to sequestration
WASHINGTON (NNS) — Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus announced March 2 that the Navy will go ahead with reductions in spending in order to meet the fiscal constraints imposed by sequestration. In ALNAV 014/13, Mabus outlined a variety of reductions in operations, training and maintenance. In addition to the ALNAV, there is also a list from Live Navy Blog of the five things Sailors, Navy civilians and Navy families need to know about sequestration
Department of the Navy response to sequestration From Defense Media Activity - Navy
Because no budget deal had been reached, the budget control act required setting in motion the
Sailors from NAS Oceana took a break from their regular military duties on Feb. 28 to help make sure others in the community have enough to eat by spending the morning volunteering for a community relations (COMREL) event at the Foodbank of Southeastern Virginia and the Eastern Shore. Working in an assembly-line style,in just two and one-half hours, 13 Oceana Sailors packed 1,080 meals for 239 families that will be distributed by the foodbank’s mobile pantry, as well as 120 backpacks of food used to feed children from low-income families during weekends and school holidays. The foodbank, located in Norfolk, depends on about 5,000 volunteers each year to carry out its mission, according to Angel Carabello, the facility’s quality assurance supervisor. “The Navy is one of our biggest supporters in helping us accomplish our goals. The military volunteers are traditionally larger groups,” and they help us keep our programs running, he said. Carabello estimates they would have to hire 20 - 22 fulltime staff to do the work that volunteers help with each year,“and being nonprofit, that money could be better utilized to serve — See Volunteers Page 9
automatic, government-wide cuts known as sequestration. Given that reality and the associated impact of budgetary uncertainty imposed by an indefinite continuing resolution, the Department of the Navy intends to commence some reductions immediately.
The Navy plans to: Shut down Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 2 in April.This will initiate the preparations to gradually stand-down flying in at least three additional air wings, with two more air wings being reduced to minimum safe flying levels by the end of the year; — See Sequestration Page 4