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An external evaluation of suicide in the U.S. military has produced a report calling for greater gun control restrictions for troops. The Suicide Prevention and Response Independent Review Committee (SPRIRC) was formed by the Department of Defense in March 2020 to help combat the rising rate of suicides among servicemembers.

When Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy James Honea took office last September, he promised to focus on the needs of sailors and their families. Sailors immediately voiced skepticism online.

WASHINGTON — Today, the Department of Veterans Affairs announced the availability of nearly $16 million in grants to qualifying organizations to help more than 13,000 Veterans and service members with disabilities participate in adaptive sports. This funding will help these organizations plan, develop, manage, and implement a variety of sports and equine therapy activities, including life-improving programs for Veterans and training for providers. More information about these grants can be found in the two Notices of Funding Availability. Adaptive sports are competitive or recreational sports and activities customized to fit the needs of persons with disabilities, including paralympic sports, archery, cycling, skiing, hunting, rock climbing, and sky diving. These activities allow Veterans to rehabilitate through recreation and encourage an active and fit lifestyle.

CLASSIFICATION: UNCLASSIFIED// ROUTINE R 241503Z FEB 23 MID600052811750U FM CNO WASHINGTON DC TO NAVADMIN BT UNCLAS NAVADMIN 054/23 MSGID/NAVADMIN/CNO WASHINGTON DC/N95/FEB// SUBJ/2022 EXPEDITIONARY WARFARE EXCELLENCE AWARDS (EWEA) SOLICITATION// REF/A/MSGID: DOC/DECISION PAPER/YMD: 20200610// AMPN/REF A IS THE DECISION PAPER FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE EWEA// POC 1/T.A. LAIR/LCDR/OPNAV N95/ COM (703) 697 9801/TRAVIS.A.LAIR.MIL @US.NAVY.MIL// POC 2/J.E. MORRIS/LT/OPNAV N95/ COM (703) 614-0391/JACOB.E.MORRIS.MIL @US.NAVY.MIL// GENTEXT/REMARKS/1. Purpose. The Deputy Commandant for Combat Development and Integration (DC, CD&I), and the Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Warfighting Requirements and Capabilities (DCNO, N9) are pleased to solicit nominations for the annual Expeditionary Warfare Excellence Awards (EWEA). The EWEA recognizes those Marines and Sailors who have distinguished themselves through exceptional performance while serving in an expeditionary warfare assignment and have significantly influenced the future of naval expeditionary warfare and amphibious capabilities, doctrine and training through innovative concepts, leadership, and teamwork. The EWEA ceremony will take place at the 2023 Marine Corps Association Combat Development Dinner on or around 24 August 2023. 1.a. Inclusive dates for the awards are 1 January 2022 to 31 December 2022. 1.b. The EWEA features four awards: Marine Corps Expeditionary Warfare Officer of the Year (CWO3 - CWO4, O3-O4), Marine Corps Expeditionary Warfare Staff Non-Commissioned Officer of the Year (E6-E7), Navy Expeditionary Warfare Officer of the Year (CWO3-CWO4, O3-O4), and Navy Expeditionary Warfare Enlisted Sailor of the Year (E6-E7). This awards program is applicable to the Active and Reserve components of the United States Marine Corps and the United States Navy. 1.c. An awards board convened by CD&I and OPNAV N9 will recommend eminently qualified packages for DC, CD&I approval. The award winners will be announced via MARADMIN and NAVADMIN. 2. Action 2.a. Commands with personnel meeting the criteria are highly encouraged to submit nominations via the first O-6 in the chain of command to the POCs listed in this message. 2.b. Nomination packages must be received no later than 31 March 2023. 2.c. Nomination packages shall be sent electronically via email and will include one file in Microsoft Word format and one file in Portable Document Format (PDF) per nominee. The subject line should read: "Calendar Year 2022 EWEA ICO Rank/Name." Nomination packages will include the following: 2.c.1. A nomination letter from the first O-6, or senior, in the chain of command. 2.c.2. Unit point of contact to include phone number and email address. 2.c.3. Phone number and email address for each nominee. 2.c.4. A summary of performance that provides a concise resume of qualifications, including the billet description and significant contributions, not to exceed two pages using 12-pitch courier new font. 2.c.5. A biography of the nominee. 2.c.6. A proposed citation not to exceed 20 typewritten lines using 12-pitch courier new font. 3. CD&I will fund travel for the individual awardee while the Marine Corps Association will fund travel for one guest per award winner to attend the Combat Development Dinner for the presentation of the award. Every effort shall be made by local commanders to ensure the presence of the awardee at the ceremony. Individuals other than the awardee and their guest who desire to attend must do so at their own expense. 4. Ensure widest dissemination of the contents of this message. 5. Release authorized by Brigadier General Marcus Annibale, Director, Expeditionary Warfare, OPNAV N95.// BT #0001 NNNN CLASSIFICATION: UNCLASSIFIED//

CLASSIFICATION: UNCLASSIFIED// ROUTINE R 241342Z FEB 23 MID600052811455U FM CNO WASHINGTON DC TO NAVADMIN INFO CNO WASHINGTON DC BT UNCLAS NAVADMIN 053/23 PASS TO OFFICE CODES: FM CNO WASHINGTON DC/N2N6// INFO CNO WASHINGTON DC//N2N6// MSGID/NAVADMIN/CNO WASHINGTON DC/N2N6/FEB// SUBJ/2022 U.S. NAVY COUNTERINTELLIGENCE AND HUMAN INTELLIGENCE SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS SOLICITATION// RMKS/1. Purpose. Solicit nominations for the first annual U.S. Navy Counterintelligence (CI) and Human Intelligence (HUMINT) Superior Achievement Awards. The CI and HUMINT Superior Achievement Awards consist of six separate awards: HUMINT Collector Award, Foreign Military Intelligence Collection Activities (FORMICA) Collector Award, CI Agent Award, HUMINT Team Award, CI Team Award, and CI/HUMINT Management and Oversight Team Award. 2. Eligibility. The eligibility period for all awards is 1 January 2022 to 31 December 2022. These awards recognize U.S. Navy civilian employees, active duty personnel, and reservists in an active duty status, who performed CI or HUMINT activities and distinguished themselves during calendar year 2022. Activities performed by U.S. Navy Sailors and civilians while assigned or under the operational control outside of the U.S. Navy are also eligible. U.S. Navy contractors may not be submitted for awards. Nominations for team awards can include no more than twenty-five personnel. 3. Nomination Package Criteria. Nomination packages will be assessed according to significance/impact, relative difficulty and operational complexity, level of innovation, and resourcefulness. Individual and team awards may capture sustained performance throughout the calendar year or focus on individual operations, deployments, support activities, or other shorter-term actions that occurred during the calendar year. The target population for the FORMICA Collector Award are those Sailors and civilians who are graduates of the Navy's FORMICA Course and have no other HUMINT or CI training. The target population for the CI/HUMINT Management and Oversight Team Award are the Fleet N2X staffs, or similar oversight management staffs at Navy commands with organic CI/HUMINT personnel. 4. Submission Instructions. Nomination packages can be classified no higher than Top Secret//SCI. Packages must be submitted electronically via NIPRNET, SIPRNET, or JWICS depending on classification level. Commands should avoid including unnecessary personal identifiable information in nomination packages. Recent fitness reports, evaluations, or awards are not required in nomination packages and should not be included in submissions. a. Nominations should not exceed two pages. Use Times New Roman 12 point font and mark the document with the appropriate classification markings, per Controlled Access Program Coordination Office guidelines. List in order the award category, nominee/team name, job series, and rank/grade, nominee organization, location and point of contact, summary of achievements, and impact of achievements in the context of the criteria in paragraph 3. For all award nominations, submit an endorsement letter from the leadership chain of command for the individual or team being nominated for an award. b. The current command of the nominee(s) must forward all nomination packages to Mr. Stephen Carr at stephen.j.carr.civ(at)us.navy.mil. For classified package submissions, email Mr. Carr on SIPRNET at stephen.j.carr1(at)navy.smil.mil or JWICS at carrste(at)nmic.ic.gov. Nomination packages must be submitted no later than 30 days after release of this NAVADMIN. Award recipients will be notified by 30 June 2023. Awards will be forwarded to respective commands by 31 July 2023. 5. Released by VADM Jeffrey E. Trussler, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Information Warfare, OPNAV N2N6.// BT #0001 NNNN CLASSIFICATION: UNCLASSIFIED//

Ya' know... I'm only enlisted but I could have told the upper chain about that before they went on a rampage. ("Let's build something and install future technology that doesn't exist yet.") BATH, Maine (AP) — The U.S. Navy appears to have learned from its costly lessons after cramming too much new technology onto warships and speeding them into production as it embarks on building new destroyers, which are the backbone of the fleet. Military officials say they’re slowing down the design and purchase of its next-generation destroyers to ensure new technology like powerful lasers and hypersonic missiles are mature before pressing ahead on construction.

Kadena Air Base, Japan — The US Navy reconnaissance jet flies at 21,500 feet over the South China Sea, 30 miles from the contested Paracel Islands, a group of about 130 small atolls, the biggest of which are home to Chinese military bases. A voice, saying it’s coming from a People’s Liberation Army (PLA) airport, crackles over the radio of the US Navy P-8 Poseidon as a CNN crew, given rare access aboard the US flight, listens in. “American aircraft. Chinese airspace is 12 nautical miles. Not approaching any more or you bear all responsibility,” it says.

Every global U.S. military mission, both successful and unsuccessful, has resulted in unintended—or perhaps unavoidable—consequences both for U.S. service members and local populations and communities. The U.S. military’s next greatest weapon may not be a new weapon system, or a new class of submarine, but instead be more culturally aware, intelligent, and cross-discipline service members willing to accept nuance and complicating factors into their understanding of the world.

WASHINGTON —Boeing will end the F/A-18E-F Super Hornet production line in 2025 and will not accept any more U.S. orders beyond the eight aircraft Congress added to the fiscal 2023 budget. The company, describing the move as a “pivot,” will refocus its people and facilities on other projects and look ahead at future work, it said in a Feb. 23 statement.

YOKOSUKA NAVAL BASE, Japan — Three sailors aboard the USS Ronald Reagan attempted suicide over a three-month period last year, according to a Navy spokesman.

WASHINGTON — Veterans can now access their disability benefit claim decision notice letters electronically on VA.gov, empowering them to quickly and easily see their disability decisions. Before this option was available, Veterans had to wait for a paper copy of their decision notice to be mailed to them. While previous iterations of VA.gov allowed Veterans to access benefits summary letters, they could not access the full copy of these decision notification letters from their electronic claims folders. This service became available to Veterans on VA.gov on Jan. 17. Since launching, nearly 280,000 decision notice letters have been downloaded.

CLASSIFICATION: UNCLASSIFIED// ROUTINE R 222033Z FEB 23 MID600052801495U FM CNO WASHINGTON DC TO NAVADMIN INFO CNO WASHINGTON DC BT UNCLAS NAVADMIN 052/23 MSGID/NAVADMIN/CNO WASHINGTON DC/N2N6/FEB// SUBJ/2023 ASSOCIATION OF OLD CROWS OUTSTANDING NAVY UNIT AWARD NOMINATIONS// POC/NORTHROP/CTTCM/OPNAV N2N6WT/TEL: (571) 256-8542/ EMAIL: JAMES.E.NORTHROP.MIL(AT)US.NAVY.MIL// REF/A/LTR/AOC/17JAN23// AMPN/REF A IS THE ASSOCIATION OF OLD CROWS LETTER TO CNO FOR ANNUAL AWARD NOMINATIONS.// RMKS/1. This NAVADMIN solicits for the annual Association of Old Crows (AOC) Outstanding Navy Unit Award nominations. Per reference (a), the AOC awards one Navy unit from each of three categories (air/sea/shore) that have shown significant contributions in Electromagnetic Warfare (EW) and Information Warfare/Cyber Warfare. 2. Nominations should outline specific contributions made by each unit. All nominations must be submitted using the AOC Community Awards submission form located online at either the AOC Awards page (https://www.crows.org/page/awards) or the EW/ELINT Community INTELINK documents page (https://intelshare.intelink.gov/sites/ctt/SitePages/Home.aspx). Contact the point of contact (POC) via email for question or if unable to access either website. Endorsement letters will be accepted as attachments. Classified supplements may also be submitted via GENSER email. 3. Email nominations, via echelon 2 command to Office of the Chief of Naval Operations (OPNAV) POC no later than close of business Friday, 14 July 2023. echelon 2 commands submit a total of three nominations, no more than one per award category. Immediate Superiors in Command should make every effort to submit at least one unit to their Type Commander taking into account EW readiness. 4. Released by VADM Jeffrey E. Trussler, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Information Warfare, OPNAV N2N6.// BT #0001 NNNN CLASSIFICATION: UNCLASSIFIED//

CLASSIFICATION: UNCLASSIFIED// ROUTINE R 222101Z FEB 23 MID200080752928U FM SECNAV WASHINGTON DC TO ALNAV INFO SECNAV WASHINGTON DC CNO WASHINGTON DC CMC WASHINGTON DC BT UNCLAS ALNAV 015/23 MSGID/GENADMIN/SECNAV WASHINGTON DC/-/FEB// SUBJ/INDIVIDUAL MEDICAL READINESS ELEMENTS, GOALS, AND METRICS POLICY UPDATE// REF/A/DOC/DOD/13JUL22// REF/B/DOC/DOD/MAY17// REF/C/DOC/BUMED/16JUL12// NARR/REF A IS DODI 6025.19, INDIVIDUAL MEDICAL READINESS PROGRAM. REF B IS DODI 6490.03, DEPLOYMENT HEALTH. REF C IS BUMEDINST 6110.14, DOCUMENTING AND REPORTING INDIVIDUAL MEDICAL READINESS DATA. RMKS/1. Individual Medical Readiness (IMR) is an ongoing assessment of a Sailor's or Marine's health and fitness level. This is an essential component of force health protection, which represents an individual's medical readiness for rapid deployment and unit support. IMR is a military service, command, and individual Service Member responsibility. Service Members in the Active Component (AC) and Reserve Component (RC), as a condition of continued participation in military service, have a responsibility to maintain their health and fitness, meet IMR requirements, and report medical issues (including physical, dental, and mental/behavioral health) that may affect their readiness to deploy, ability to perform their assigned mission, or fitness for retention in military service to their chain of command. IMR requirements are directed by reference (a). The 2019 Coronavirus disease pandemic hindered the ability to assess IMR across the Department of the Navy (DON). This message sets new DON goals and metrics to return IMR to pre-pandemic levels. The new DON goals are targets for unit commanders to work towards as they continually assess their unit's medical readiness for deployability. 2. The Health Assessments element of IMR is inclusive of the annual Periodic Health Assessment (PHA), and any Deployment-Related Health Assessments (DRHA) when required for a qualifying deployment. The PHA is DD Form 3024. To support force distribution and tracking guidelines, DON Service Members will complete their PHA during their birth month, unless operational requirements preclude its completion. The PHA is due 365 days from the prior year's record date in the Medical Readiness Reporting System (MRRS), and overdue if not completed within 90 days of the due date. DRHA completion and timelines are directed in reference (b). DRHAs include the Pre-Deployment Health Assessment (Pre-DHA) DD Form 2795, the Post Deployment Health Assessment (PDHA) DD Form 2796, the Post-Deployment Health Re-Assessment (PDHRA) DD Form 2900, and Deployment Mental Health Assessment DD Form 2978. Only overdue PHAs and PDHRAs will impact IMR calculations. Pre-DHAs cannot become overdue because the Service Member has already deployed. PDHAs cannot become overdue because the PDHRA takes precedence. 3. Dental Readiness IMR element includes the annual assessment of dental health. A type II dental examination is due 365 days from the prior year's record date in MRRS, and overdue if not completed within 90 days of the due date. 4. The DON has new IMR goals for commanders to strive toward in the following areas: Total Force Medically Ready (TFMR), Partially Medically Ready (PMR), Health Assessments IMR element, and Dental Readiness IMR element. TFMR is defined by reference (a). The TFMR goal is greater than or equal to 90 percent of the command's or unit's total force. PMR is defined by reference (a). The AC PMR goal is less than or equal to 15 percent of the command's or unit's total force. The RC PMR goal is less than or equal to 25 percent of the command's or unit's total force. The Health Assessment IMR element goal is less than or equal to five percent of the command's or unit's total force, including only overdue PHAs and overdue PDHRAs. The Dental Readiness IMR element goal is to maintain a sum of Dental Readiness Classification 3 and 4 at a rate of less than or equal to 5 percent of the command's or unit's total force. 5. Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (BUMED) will publish, at least annually, the Surgeon General's Medical Readiness Report. Commanders can pull command deficiency reports at the individual level from MRRS. Additionally, BUMED has created an IMR dashboard for command tracking at the unit level. The IMR dashboard is available via a CAC-enabled website: https://carepoint.health.mil/sites/BUMEDANLYT/SitePages/IMR.aspx. The IMR dashboard can only be accessed via Google Chrome with a CAC-enabled device. 6. BUMED is required to provide clarifying medical department guidance to support the implementation of these requirements and incorporate these changes into reference (c). This ALNAV serves as interim guidance until updates are published for reference (c). 7. The Chief of Naval Operations and Commandant of the Marine Corps are required to implement the above requirements with Service-specific guidance and incorporate procedures aligning with the BUMED updates to reference (c) once published. 8. All entities are required to implement these updates within 6 months of the release of this message. 9. BUMED representatives for Medical Readiness can be reached at usn.ncr.bumedfchva.list.m34@health.mil. 10. This ALNAV remains in effect until replaced or cancelled. 11. Released by the Honorable Carlos Del Toro, Secretary of the Navy.// BT #0001 NNNN CLASSIFICATION: UNCLASSIFIED//

CLASSIFICATION: UNCLASSIFIED// ROUTINE R 222140Z FEB 23 MID200080752987U FM SECNAV WASHINGTON DC TO ALNAV INFO SECNAV WASHINGTON DC CNO WASHINGTON DC CMC WASHINGTON DC BT UNCLAS ALNAV 016/23 MSGID/GENADMIN/SECNAV WASHINGTON DC/-/FEB// SUBJ/CONSOLIDATION OF ELECTRONIC PERIODIC HEALTH ASSESSMENT AND DEPLOYMENT HEALTH ASSESSMENT WEBSITES// REF/A/DOC/DOD/13JUL22// REF/B/DOC/DOD/19JUN19// REF/C/DOC/DOD/05FEB10// REF/D/DOC/DHA/17DEC19// REF/E/DOC/BUMED/28MAR12// REF/F/DOC/OPNAV/10NOV14// NARR/REF A IS DODI 6025.19, INDIVIDUAL MEDICAL READINESS. REF B IS DODI 6490.03 DEPLOYMENT HEALTH. REF C IS DODI 6490.07, DEPLOYMENT-LIMITING MEDICAL CONDITIONS FOR SERVICE MEMBERS AND DOD CIVILIANS. REF D IS DHA-PI 6490.03 DEPLOYMENT HEALTH PROCEDURES. REF E IS BUMEDINST 6110.14A, DOCUMENTING AND REPORTING INDIVIDUAL MEDICAL READINESS DATA. REF F IS OPNAVINST 6100.3A DEPLOYMENT HEALTH ASSESSMENT PROCESS.// RMKS/1. Per references (a) through (f) each Service Member is required to maintain their medical readiness requirements, including the completion of the Periodic Health Assessment (PHA), Pre-Deployment Health Assessment, Post -Deployment Health Assessment, Post-Deployment Health Re-Assessment, and Mental Health Assessment. 2. The electronic Periodic Health Assessment (ePHA) and electronic Deployment Health Assessment (eDHA) websites have been consolidated into a single Common Access Card (CAC)-enabled website called the electronic Health Assessment (eHA) site, located at https://eha.health.mil/eha. The eHA website was established in August 2021. On 1 October 2022 the legacy ePHA and eDHA websites were taken offline and are no longer accessible. Consolidation to a single CAC-enabled platform improves Service Member access and completion of medical readiness requirements and enables Navy Medicine to implement electronic versions of other, currently paper-based medical readiness assessments. 3. Medical readiness assessment questions are defined by Department of Defense (DoD) requirements and cannot be changed without DoD approval. Both Part I and Part II of the medical readiness assessment must be complete so that Service Member's eHA can be certified. a. Part I: In order to complete this part of any eHA assessment, Sailors must log in to the new eHA website using their Common Access Card. Service Members enter their information by selecting Start New Assessment for the assessment(s) for which they are due or overdue. PHAs are listed under the ePHA portal, and the deployment-related health assessments are under the eDHA portal. b. Part II: Upon completion of the Service Member's portion of an assessment on the eHA website, Service Members must contact their medical department or identified point of contact to schedule the record review and Provider portion of the assessment. 4. User feedback/user experience about eHA website functionality can be submitted to usn.hampton-roads.navmcpubhlthcenpors.list.nmcphc-pha1 @health.mil. User recommendations for U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery eHA website development can be submitted to usn.ncr.bumedfchva.list.m34 @health.mil. 5. This ALNAV remains in effect until superseded or cancelled, whichever comes first. 6. Released by the Honorable Carlos Del Toro, Secretary of the Navy.// BT #0001 NNNN CLASSIFICATION: UNCLASSIFIED//

FALLS CHURCH, Va. – You’ve likely heard the term “referral” in connection with health care. But what exactly is a referral—and how do you know if you need one? A referral is when your primary care manager (PCM) or primary care provider sends you to another provider or specialist for care. “When you receive a referral for care, your provider has determined the care will benefit your health,” said Tonya Utterback, referral and authorization expert with the TRICARE Health Plan at the Defense Health Agency. “Once your referral is approved, it’s important to use it in a timely manner. For example, if you’re referred to a cardiologist to evaluate a heart problem, diagnosing and treating the problem as soon as possible may result in a better health outcome.” Read on to learn when you need a referral and helpful tips for using them.

Parachuting Accident Claims Life of Navy SEAL (Updated info)

COMPLETE UIC LIST/MAP QUOTAS Season One of CY23 as of 18 Feb, 23

The Navy is offering more than $100,000 in surface warfare bonuses as the service contemplates new ways to boost retention within the community. Active duty officers could earn as much as $105,000 to become SWO department heads, while active duty lieutenant commander SWOs may earn up to $46,000 after signing on for another three years — the same amounts offered to officers last year, according to Navy data.

TUCSON, Ariz. (13 News) - The Navy confirms the death of a sailor in Marana. A Naval Special Warfare Command spokesperson says Chief Special Warfare Operator Michael T. Ernst died in a military training free fall accident Sunday. He was assigned to a Naval Special Warfare East Coast-based unit. The Navy is investigating the cause of the accident.

DJIBOUTI 02.16.2023 Story by Petty Officer 1st Class Maria Olvera Tristan Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti Subscribe18 CAMP LEMONNIER, Djibouti (Feb. 16, 2023) Forward-deployed enlisted Sailors from the ranks of E-4 to E-5 took the Navy-wide advancement exam for cycle 112 at Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti, Feb. 16. The advancement exam is a test that allows Sailors to demonstrate their rate-specific knowledge and qualify them for promotion. “This is important for a Sailor’s career progression,” said Chief Damir Cerkez, CLDJ Educational Services Officer and Career Counselor. “(Sailors) will be able to take the advancement test, show their knowledge on their specific rate, (and) for that pay grade.” The exam provides an unbiased factor for the final multiple score or FMS algorithm that helps rank order qualified candidates for advancement consideration. All Sailors who take the exam have met necessary eligibility requirements, like knowledge and time in rate, for advancement and have been recommended by their Commanding Officer/Officer in Charge. While, CLDJ is an operational installation that enables security operations in Europe, Africa, and Southwest Asia, these advancement exams and professional opportunities ensure Sailors are best prepared to successfully complete their mission. “We administer exams each Navy advancement cycle, spring or fall,” said Cerkez. “SELRES is administered in February and August, active duty in March and September.” Active duty, full-time support, and recruiters take the active duty enlisted Navy-wide advancement examination. Navy Reserve personnel, including all candidates serving on voluntary recall or mobilization, take the SELRES enlisted Navy-wide advancement examination. The biggest change in 2023, according to NAVADMIN 274/22, is that the Navy has officially cancelled E-4 advancement exams for active component and TAR Sailors. Instead, all qualified E-3s will be selected for advancement using the alternate rank order to determine who advances without the exam score. “The difference between exams is that we do not administer E-4 exams anymore, this is Navy-wide,” said Cerkez, “Sailors are still required to complete the enlisted advancement worksheet in NSIPS.” Exams for E-7 and LDO purposes are not administrated in combat designated zones, such as Camp Lemonnier. The Education Service Officer provides a transmittal letter to Naval Education and Training Professional Development Center to make those Sailors’ selection board eligible. The opportunity to take an advancement exam or have dedicated Navy career counselor in a combat zone, like at CLDJ, is unique and often isn’t the case in other forward deployed assignments or billets. Further, the ability to take advancement exams doesn’t detract from mission, but it enhances a Sailors abilities and knowledge. “Bottom line is that ensuring our Sailors who are qualified, ready, and already working at the next level are recognized and promoted - even in a combat zone,” said Cerkez. “At CLDJ, we care about giving our Sailors the opportunity to advance.”

Rather than consider the U.S. Pacific fleet’s agglomeration of older aircraft carriers and attack submarines an embarrassing sign of American weakness, the old nuclear combatants of the of Indo-Pacific Fleet deserve recognition for being as dangerous as they have ever been. With little to lose and nothing to prove, the relative combat value of nuclear-powered platforms increases as they age.

Uniform Newsgram Winter 2023

WASHINGTON – Back away from the baked goods, Doughboy. That's the warning from the Pentagon to its 1.3 million active-duty soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines amid fresh concerns that tainted poppy seeds could prompt troops to pop hot on drug tests for codeine after eating bagels or muffins. "Recent data suggests certain poppy seeds varieties may have higher codeine contamination than previously reported," said the warning from Gilbert Cisneros, the Pentagon's top official for personnel.

The U.S. Department of Defense secured an exposed server on Monday that was spilling internal U.S. military emails to the open internet for the past two weeks. The exposed server was hosted on Microsoft’s Azure government cloud for Department of Defense customers, which uses servers that are physically separated from other commercial customers and as such can be used to share sensitive but unclassified government data. The exposed server was part of an internal mailbox system storing about three terabytes of internal military emails, many pertaining to U.S. Special Operations Command, or USSOCOM, the U.S. military unit tasked with conducting special military operations.

CLASSIFICATION: UNCLASSIFIED// ROUTINE R 211556Z FEB 23 MID600052794260U FM CNO WASHINGTON DC TO NAVADMIN INFO CNO WASHINGTON DC BT UNCLAS NAVADMIN 048/23 PASS TO OFFICE CODES: FM CNO WASHINGTON DC//N1// INFO CNO WASHINGTON DC//N1// MSGID/GENADMIN/CNO WASHINGTON DC/N1/FEB// SUBJ/FY-24 COMMAND MASTER CHIEF SCREEN BOARD RESULTS// REF/A/DOC/CNO/16JUL21// AMPN/REF A IS OPNAVINST 1306.2K, COMMAND SENIOR ENLISTED LEADER PROGRAM.// RMKS/1. Congratulations to the following Active Component (AC) members who have been selected for assignment as a Command Master Chief from the Command Master Chief Screen Board, which convened 2 February 2023: NAME (LAST FIRST MI) RATE PARENT COMMAND ABEYTA JAMES AHMCM EXPEDITIONARY MEDICAL FACILITY KILO ADAMS BRETT MLSSCSM COMSUBFOR ALONSO JOSEPH L HMCM BUREAU OF MEDICINE AND SURGERY ALVARADO RICHARD A LSCM CVN 68 NIMITZ ASHLEY EARL J FCACM SURFCOMSYSTRNGCMD HAMPTON RD BAUMHER TIMOTHY A EODCM UIC TITLE NOT AVAILABLE BAYLESS ROBERT M EODCM EODMU 11 BLANKENSHIP RAMSEY K EODCM EODMU 3 BRIGGS PAUL T AVCM FLTREADCEN MID ATLANTIC DET NORFOLK BRUNER DUSTIN J ITSCM COMSUBLANT TRAINING AND EVALUATION CREOLLO LUIS F ICCM NAVCONBRIG MIRAMAR DET PEARL HARBOR CZECHOWSKI JOSEPH L ITCM CVN 68 NIMITZ DUPONT MATTHEW S MACM NAVBASE SAN DIEGO SECURITY DET FALOON MARK J EODCM NSWC IHEODTD EXPED EXPLOIT FROISLAND BRIAN S SBCM UIC TITLE NOT AVAILABLE GALLEGOS MARKUS A LSCM CVN 76 RONALD REAGAN GAMBLE LERONE F CTRCM COMMAND PACIFIC FLEET MOC GORDON KASSIDY E ITCM COMDESRON 31 GREEN PAUL A DCCM CVN 76 RONALD REAGAN HARTWELL CHRISTIAN A SOCM NAVSPECWARCOM BASIC TRAINING COMMAND HATCHER TAYLOR B EODCM EOD TRAINING/EVAL UNIT 1 SAN DIEGO HENSLEY JUSTIN L MMNCM CVN 76 RONALD REAGAN HINGLE SEAN G FTCM SUBMARINE READINESS SQUADRN 33 HOCKENBERRY RAINA M PSCM NLEC DET SAN DIEGO HORGAN CHARLES L HTCM LPD 17 SAN ANTONIO HUNLEY GEOFFREY F HMCM NAVMEDREADTRACMD GUANTANAMO CU HUNT CARL A LSCM COMNAVSURFLANT JERRY DUANE O CBCM NMCB 1 JONES ALEXANDER D ETVCM SSN 777 NORTH CAROLINA KERR CHRISTOPHER D SOCM NSWG2 LOGSUPPU LAABS SHELBY Y RSCM CVN 71 THEODORE ROOSEVELT LAFATE TARVARES J CSCM NAS WHIDBEY ISLAND MANDILE JAMES V ITSCM SSN 781 CALIFORNIA MARNICK JONAS E SBCM NAVSCIATTS MITCHELL JEREMY C MACM CVN 73 GEORGE WASHINGTON MOSES ROBERT J EODCM EODMU 11 MYERS CHARLES S OSCM OMSURFACEDIVISION TWO ONE OLAYO DAVID CBCM NMCB 3 PAGCALIWAGAN ROBERT HMCM NAVMEDREADTRACMD NAPLES IT PARSONS BUDDY A CBCM NAVPERSCOM REICKS JONATHAN E CSSCM SSBN 731 ALABAMA BLUE RICHARDS LUNYE' N ITCM NIWC PACIFIC DET SAN DIEGO RIGMAIDEN TANGELA L LSCM CVN 71 THEODORE ROOSEVELT RIVERS STEVEN M EODCM EOD GRU 2 RODRIGUEZ MICHAEL J HMCM SSN 766 CHARLOTTE SANDERS VIRGINIA Y CTRCM COMSIXTHFLT SIMMONS SHAWN R EODCM EODMU 2 STEVENSON JOSHUA E EODCM EODMU 6 STOCKER WILLIAM L EODCM EOD TRAINING/EVAL UNIT 2 FORT STORY TAPLEY CASEY R ITSCM SSBN 733 NEVADA BLUE TAVERNER JOSEPH E SOCM SPECIAL RECONNAISSANCE TEAM 1 VILLASANA JAVIER MMCM COMLCSRON 1 WALTON KENNETH II C ETVCM SSBN 742 WYOMING GOLD WEISENBURG TIMOTHY S CBCM NAVY EXP CMBT FORCES EUR/AF WHITAKER TIMOTHY L HMCM NMRTC CAMP LEJEUNE NC WISSINGER BRADLEY L MMACM SSN 769 TOLEDO WITTIG KARIN R MMNCM MTS 626 CHARLESTON SC WOODS PHILLIP L HMCM NAVMEDREADTRNUNIT POINT LOMA CA ZWAN MATTHEW P YNSCM SSN 754 TOPEKA 2. Congratulations to the following Training and Administration of the Reserve (TAR)/Selected Reserve (SELRES) members who have been selected for assignment as a Command Master Chief: NAME (LAST FIRST MI) RATE PARENT COMMAND BRANCATELLI MATTHEW J CBCM NR SR ENL ACAD BRILLHART JAMES R AFCM VP 69 PATRON RES COFFELT CHRISTOPHER M AVCM NAVY MANPOWER ANALYSIS CENTER HAZELL NATHAN J PSCM COMNAVRESFOR NORFOLK HERNANDEZ PAUL J YNCM NAVRESFORINTACT WASH DC MARINO JASON Z CBCM SEVENTH NCR GULFPORT MS MATHIS MICHAEL O HMCM DDG 104 STERETT WANG JOSEPH D YNCM COMNAVRESFORCOM NORFOLK WILLIS JAMES M AVCM COMNAVAIRFORES NORVA 3. AC POC is CMDCM William P. Houlihan, COMNAVPERSCOM (PERS-40FF) at (901) 874-4560, DSN 882-4560, email: william.p.houlihan@us.navy.mil. TAR/SELRES POC is CMDCM Darryl E. Williams, COMNAVPERSCOM (PERS-4012C) at (901) 874-3257, DSN 882-3257, email: darryl.e.williams7.mil@us.navy.mil. 4. Selectees should contact their respective POC soonest to discuss detailing opportunities. 5. Released by Vice Admiral Richard J. Cheeseman, Jr., N1.// BT #0001 NNNN CLASSIFICATION: UNCLASSIFIED//