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Issue 6 June 2013
Summer Fun, Not Summer Tragedies. By: Amanda Alley
Lord have mercy, summer is here already. Here come the hot days. I know when we all think summer, we are thinking of many different activities. There’s swimming, hiking, BBQs, parties and more. In all of this fun though, we need to also make sure that we take care of ourselves, and not turn our summer fun into a summer tragedy. Trust me you can have fun and be safe at the same time. First, make sure that you are well hydrated. Hotter temps and hard work mean the body dries out a lot faster. Keep water and/or sports drink handy. Second, do not drink and drive. There will be many parties and I am sure you can find someone to be your Designated Driver. Third, do not jump into a pool head first. We have enough soldiers who have become paralyzed because of this. Please use your brain to do your job not be your cushion. Fourth, please use sunscreen. I know tans are “suppose” to be sexy, but skin cancer isn’t. Protect your kids and yourself from the harmful effects of UVA and UVB rays. Ok. Now you have had my speech. Be safe and have fun, but be smart about it.
this issue
Featured Soldier P2 Company News, and Announcements P3
Congrats, Welcomes and Farewells P3 CJLOTS - 13 P4
Supporting the MIRT P5 88K40 Graduates P5
Mother’s Day and Father’s Day P6 Army Community Services P7
Community Events P9 Game Play P11
Contact list:
Company Commander
CPT Miles Miller
(931) 237-1944
Soldier FRG Rep
1LTJoshua Broughton
(571) 643-4845
FRG Leader
Cheryl Morales
(757) 509-1074
FRG Co-Leader
Jillian Miller
(603) 568-6884
FRG Treasurer
Alyssa Broughton
(571) 612-0235
Newsletter Editor
Amanda Alley
(757) 660-2072
Featured Soldier
CW3 Spicer
I am CW3 Tom Spicer. I have been in the army for 19 years. I spent 12 years enlisted before I went to WOCS.
I Have deployed in support of Operation Enduring Freedom and was extended into Operation Iraqi Freedom. I
have been in 97th for 1 year. 97th Heavy Boat is by far the best Unit I have been assigned to in my Career.
The Command Team is the picture of the ultimate Command Team. I am happy to say that My departure is
Bitter Sweet. I have been on Ft. Eustis for 17 Years. The professionalism and unquestionable character of the
Officers and Soldiers in 97th makes me sad to depart the Company. I am PCSing to Ft. Hood TX where I will
be assigned as the LNO to the 13th ESC. We are scheduled to deploy to Kuwait this time next year where
I will be actively engaging the Watercraft in the Area. I am very proud to tell people that I served in 97th. I wish
everyone "fair winds and following seas". Keep up the superior work. I may be 1500 miles away, but I'm just a
phone call away.
V/R
CW3 Tom Spicer
Company News Congratulations
PFC Lucas was promoted to SPC
SPC Don Thomas reenlisted.
PFC Lucas was promoted to SPC. Congratulations, and thank you for your service
Farewells
CW3 Spicer, CW3 Benroth, CW3 McNeil, CW2 Kreitemeyer, CW2 Morris, SFC Bonner, SSG Butler, SSG Hernandez, PFC
Hickman.
Welcomes
1LT Dixon, 2LT Lewis
Pictured is Amanda Alley and CPT Miller. Amanda received an award and coin for FRG volunteer service.
Thank you!!
97th Transportation FRG is looking for a volunteer to be our Treasurer. This position is responsible for the Company’s banking records (which is like a glorified checkbook). If you have 4 to 6 hours a month to spear and would like to volunteer your time, please contact Cheryl Morales at 757-509-1074.
CJLOTS-13 Here is a compilation of photos from the CJLOTS-13. The 97th Transportation Company sent two LCU 2000 crews to Yokohama, Japan to sign for and sail two LCUs to Korea to participate in the largest Combined Joint Logistics Over The Shore in history. The two LCUs sailed over 1250 nautical miles and moved a variety of military equipment along with personnel from ship to shore and from shore to ship. Along with the CJLOTS ’13, the LCU 2035 conducted a crucial mission for the USNS Pililaau, where we assisted the vessel in a CO2 discharge from our vessel to the USNS Pililaau during inclement weather and high seas. This selfless mission was extremely successful and much appreciated by the USNS Pililaau. The exercise culminated in a successful return voyage from South Korea to Yokohama, Japan with zero injuries and a successful handoff of LCUs back
to YND.
Featured is the LCU 2011 (USAV Chickahominy) providing watercraft transportation support to
the Hampton Roads Marine Incident Response Team (MIRT) during a simulated waterborne fire
fighting scenario on 17MAY2013.
On May 10 there was an 88K40 Graduation in which we had 3 Soldiers
graduate: SSG Christopher Baldwin (who made the Commandant's List),
SFC Demetrius Harrell and SFC Timothy Goff.
SFC Timothy Goff
SFC Demetrius Harrell
SSG Christopher Baldwin Commandant’s List
88K40 Graduates
Supporting the MIRT
Mother's Day: Inspiration for Father's Day The “Mother’s Day” we celebrate today has its origins in the peace-and-reconciliation campaigns of the post-Civil War era. During the 1860s, at the urging of activist Ann Reeves Jarvis, one divided West Virginia town celebrated “Mother’s Work Days” that brought together the mothers of Confederate and Union soldiers. In 1870, the activist Julia Ward Howe issued a “Mother’s Day Proclamation” calling on a “general congress of women” to “promote the alliance of the different nationalities, the amicable settlement of international questions, [and] the great and general interests of peace.” However, Mother’s Day did not become a commercial holiday until 1908, when--inspired by Jarvis’s daughter Anna, who wanted to honor her own mother by making Mother’s Day a national holiday--the John Wanamaker department store in Philadelphia sponsored a service dedicated to mothers in its auditorium. Thanks in large part to this association with retailers, who saw great potential for profit in the holiday, Mother’s Day caught on right away. In 1909, 45 states observed the day, and in 1914, President Woodrow Wilson approved a resolution that made the second Sunday in May a holiday in honor of “that tender, gentle army, the mothers of America.” Origins of Father's Day The campaign to celebrate the nation’s fathers did not meet with the same enthusiasm--perhaps because, as one florist explained, “fathers haven’t the same sentimental appeal that mothers have.” On July 5, 1908, a West Virginia church sponsored the nation’s first event explicitly in honor of fathers, a Sunday sermon in memory of the 362 men who had died in the previous December’s explosions at the Fairmont Coal Company mines in Monongah, but it was a one-time commemoration and not an annual holiday. The next year, a Spokane, Washington woman named Sonora Smart Dodd, one of six children raised by a widower, tried to establish an official equivalent to Mother’s Day for male parents. She went to local churches, the YMCA, shopkeepers and government officials to drum up support for her idea, and she was successful: Washington State celebrated the nation’s first statewide Father’s Day on July 19, 1910. Slowly, the holiday spread. In 1916, President Wilson honored the day by using telegraph signals to unfurl a flag in Spokane when he pressed a button in Washington, D.C. In 1924, President Calvin Coolidge urged state governments to observe Father’s Day. However, many men continued to disdain the day. As one historian writes, they “scoffed at the holiday’s sentimental attempts to domesticate manliness with flowers and gift-giving, or they derided the proliferation of such holidays as a commercial gimmick to sell more products--often paid for by the father himself.”
Father's Day: Controversy and Commercialism During the 1920s and 1930s, a movement arose to scrap Mother’s Day and Father’s Day altogether in favor of a single holiday, Parents’ Day. Every year on Mother’s Day, pro-Parents’ Day groups rallied in New York City’s Central Park--a public reminder, said Parents’ Day activist and radio performer Robert Spere, “that both parents should be loved and respected together.” Paradoxically, however, the Depression derailed this effort to combine and de-commercialize the holidays. Struggling retailers and advertisers redoubled their efforts to make Father’s Day a “second Christmas” for men, promoting goods such as neckties, hats, socks, pipes and tobacco, golf clubs and other sporting goods, and greeting cards. When World War II began, advertisers began to argue that celebrating Father’s Day was a way to honor American troops and support the war effort. By the end of the war, Father’s Day may not have been a federal holiday, but it was a national institution. In 1972, in the middle of a hard-fought presidential re-election campaign, Richard Nixon signed a proclamation making Father’s Day a federal holiday at last. Today, economists estimate that Americans spend more than $1 billion each year on Father’s Day gifts.
Mother’s Day and Father’s Day
I know that Mother’s Day has passed, but This article is interesting, and I think Moms and Dads will like it. I hope that all the moms had a great Mother’s Day and every dad has an awesome Father’s Day.
Article found at http://www.history.com/topics/fathers-day
Army Community Services (ACS)
FREE CONCERTS, WINE TASTINGS AND MORE!
*LIVE ON THE SQUARE AT PORT WARWICK FREE CONCERT SERIES: TUMBAO SALSERO Port Warwick June 5; 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. June 12; 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. June 19; 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. June 26; 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Enjoy the summer night air on Styron Square listening to the area’s best music every Wednesday night this summer! The concerts are free and all are welcome! Bring your own lawn chairs, blankets, food and drink. Jefferson Avenue at Loftis Boulevard, 757-223-0284, www.liveonthesquare.org.
THURSDAYS BY THE LAKE: THE DELOREANS The Mariners’ Museum June 6; 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. June 13; 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. June 20; 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. June 27; 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. The 2013 Thursdays by the Lake summer concert series is back and bigger than ever! Join us every Thursday night this summer for some high energy, good time dance music! Food and drink vendors will be available to offer a variety of festival food. 100 Museum Drive, 757-596-2222, www.marinersmuseum.org.
SUMMER CELEBRATION WINE FESTIVAL Lee Hall Mansion June 8; 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
The late spring splendor of Lee Hall Mansion's beautiful grounds, provide the setting for the Annual Summer
Celebration Wine Festival. The finest vintages from Virginia's best wineries combine with live music, exquisite food
and unique craft vendors to make this one of the Peninsula's most popular events. Participate in our raffle or silent
auction for a chance to win some great prizes. Tasting tickets $20 in advance and $25 at the gate. Non-tasting tickets
are $10. 163 Yorktown Road, 757-888-3371, www.leehall.org.
BRONZE DOOR SOCIETY’S WINE CLASSIC The Mariners’ Museum June 15; 5 pm to 8 pm Superior wines in a spectacular setting. This premier wine event will include wine tastings, live music and light hors d'oeuvres. The Wine Classic proceeds go to support the mission of The Bronze Door Society & The Mariners' Museum. 100 Museum Drive, 757-596-2222, www.marinersmuseum.org.
FOR MORE EVENT INFORMATION GO TO WWW.NEWPORT-NEWS.ORG
Community Events
Alpha-Cross 06 The first letter of each answer is written next to its clue in alphabetical order. One letter has already been entered. Can you find the words then fit them correctly into the grid?
Across 1. ___ speak louder than words (7) 5. Pieces of ___ (5) 8. Trade ___ (7) 9. The Holy ___ (5) 10. __ the lion (3) 12. Lead by ___ (7) 14. A little rough around the ___ (5) 15. Last but not ___ (5) 20. Time is of the ___ (7) 22. Tic-Tac- ___ (3) 23. A ___ playing field (5) 25. Sorely ___ (7) 27. __ your bets (5) 28. Many happy ___ (7)
Down 1. Question and ___ (6) 2. ___ pink (7) 3. The ___ and only (3) 4. You can't beat the ___ (6) 5. Chicken and ___ (3) 6. ___ the nettle (5) 7. Fortune ___ (6) 11. A drop in the ___ (5) 13. Secret ___ (5) 16. Helter ___ (7) 17. Health, ___ and happiness (6) 18. ___ late than never (6) 19. Jack of all ___ (6) 21. ___ by the bell (5) 24. Let sleeping dogs ___ (3) 26. ___ his match (3)
Catch-Words 01 puzzle answers found at
http://www.puzzlechoice.com/cw/Catch01solx.html
GAME PLAY
GAME PLAY FOR KIDS
ARCHITECT, ARTIST, ASTRONAUT,
AUTHOR, BAKER, BUILDER, BUTCHER,
CARPENTER, DENTIST, DOCTOR,
DRIVER, FARMER, FIREFIGHTER,
LAWYER, NURSE, PHOTOGRAPHER,
PILOT, PLUMBER, SAILOR, SCIENTIST,
SOLDIER, TAILOR, TEACHER.