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Dover High School NNDCC Completes Maine Maritime Academy Leadership Challenge
From Dover High School Navy National Defense Cadet Corps Public Aff airs
CASTINE, Maine (NNS) -- Naval Junior Reserve Offi cer Training Corps (NJROTC) cadets from three “Area 4” high schools completed a three-day Leadership Chal- lenge Weekend at the Maine Maritime Academy, March 31-April 2. More than 140 cadets from the Dover
(New Hampshire) High School Navy Na- tional Defense Cadet Corps, Manchester West (New Hampshire) NJROTC, and Mas- sibessic NJROTC from Waterboro (Maine) High Schools learned, sweated and compet- ed with each other with the help of over 40 NROTC midshipman instructors from the Maine Maritime Academy and University of Maine.
Activities included ocean survival
conducted in a pool, a state of the art ship bridge simulator, time aboard a small train- ing vessel the Clark, academic and drill competition, a tour of the Training Ship State of Maine and basic defensive skills. Retired Navy Cmdr. Tom Gamble, se- nior naval science instructor at Dover High School, was impressed with the itinerary the maritime academy had prepared for the weekend. “I can’t thank Capt. (Tim) Cooper
(commanding offi cer MMA NROTC unit) and his staff enough for the outstanding
dedication and support they provided these young men and women during the Leader- ship Challenge Weekend,” Gamble said. “From the time we arrived and when
the cadets were introduced to Marine Corps Gunnery Sgt. Dean Begaye all of us were engaged and locked on for the upcoming events.” The Dover unit earned fi rst place in the close-order drill competition and Ca- det Rebecca Hughes was awarded the Unit Leader Award. Hughes, the company cadet command-
ing offi cer and a senior at Dover, said she was able to get a small taste of what life will be like when she heads to Marine Corps boot camp July 10. “This was a tremendous opportunity
for me and my fellow cadets to learn what a person can accomplish when we work as a team,” Hughes said. “This was one of the best experiences I’ve had during my four years of NJROTC. This weekend allowed me to put into action all the various leader- ship tools I have learned over the years and meeting Gunnery Sargent Begaye was my personal highlight.” Cadet Seaman Apprentice Lily Santos,
a freshman at Dover High School and new to NJROTC said she never experienced anything like this in her life. “This was just an awesome experience.
I was expecting a college tour and some lead- ership lectures, but I’m very proud of myself for making it through a tough weekend and I know I’m a better person for completing all the events.” Capt. Cooper, professor of Naval
Science with MMA NROTC unit, said his unit revamped the Leadership Challenge Weekend to include his midshipman to be leaders and mentors to the cadets and ex- pose prospective new students to the career possibilities of Maine Maritime Academy. Cooper said every participating midshipman was graded on his or her performance and how they handled leading high school stu- dents through a rigorous weekend of events. He added plans are even bigger for the future by developing a set of four distinct weekend itineraries so that returning cadets will have new and exciting experiences each returning year.
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fense Cadet Corps (NNDCC) is a citizenship program of nearly 84,000 NJROTC cadets representing 633 schools in 45 states and territories and overseas locations includ- ing Japan and Guam. It was established in 1964 to instill service to the United States, personal responsibility and a sense of accomplishment in students at secondary educational institutions. The NJROTC and NNDCC programs strive to build a strong foundation of citizenship within America’s future leaders. In addition to regular classroom in-
struction, NJROTC and NNDCC cadets participate in a number of extra-curricular activities throughout the school year and during the summer months that are de- signed to stimulate learning by hands-on experiences and to reinforce the program’s curriculum. Cadet extra-curricular activ- ities include community service projects, drill competitions, academic competitions, visits to naval installations, and Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) training.
NROTC was established to develop
midshipmen mentally, morally and phys- ically and to imbue them with the highest ideals of duty, loyalty and Navy core values in order to commission college graduates as naval offi cers who possess a basic pro- fessional background, are motivated toward careers in the naval service and have a potential for future development in mind and character so as to assume the highest responsibilities of command, citizenship and government. Rear Adm. Stephen C. Evans, com- mander, Naval Service Training Command
(NSTC) and his staff oversee 98 percent of initial offi cer and enlisted accessions train- ing for the Navy. This includes NROTC units at more than 160 colleges and univer- sities, Offi cer Training Command Newport (OTCN) on Naval Station Newport, Rhode Island, Recruit Training Command (RTC), the Navy’s only boot camp, at Great Lakes, Illinois, as well as NJROTC/NNDCC.
Future USS Gerald R. Ford completes successful builder’s sea trials, begins preparations for acceptance trials From Naval Sea Systems Command Pub- lic Aff airs
WASHINGTON (NNS) -- The future USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) returned from Builder’s Sea Trials to Naval Station Nor- folk, Virginia on April 14 after seven days at sea.
During this initial at-sea period, Ford’s
crew, representatives from Huntington In- galls Industries-Newport News Shipbuild- ing, the Navy’s CVN 78 Program Offi ce, the Navy’s Supervisor of Shipbuilding, Conversion and Repair and various tech- nical subject matter experts demonstrated many of the ship’s capabilities including tracking aircraft using the Dual Band Ra- dar, conducting “no load” cycles using the new electromagnetic aircraft launch system (EMALS) and small boat operations. As is typical with sea trials, the Navy
and shipbuilder learned a great deal about the ship’s performance during the extensive testing. Analysis continues, and any identi- fi ed corrective actions will be addressed. CVN 78 remains on track to conduct acceptance trials and delivery to the Navy
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strong breeze sprang up from the east, with a heavy groundswell from the southeast, with indications of a heavy gale. So we began preparing for it by stowing away and battening down tarpaulins on hatches. At noon it had increased to a gale with a heavy cross sea. At 2 o’clock PM our schooner broke adrift, so we hove up the anchor, put her under a double reef foresail – a “fi sher- men’s harbor.” At four o’clock PM a heavy squall ripped our foresail from the bolt-rope and blew it away. We then cast our fi shing anchor, rigged a drag of fenders, tied it to the hawser 30 fathoms from the anchor and paid out 100 fathoms of hawser, and set our riding sail to keep her bow up to the sea which was running high at the time, but she climbed them like a gull. It was a rough night. The gale had in-
creased to hurricane force and the sea and clouds seemed to meet. Big combers were sweeping our decks from stem to stern. It was not safe to be on deck unless lashed, the ocean being whipped into combing bil- lows 25 feet high, while our little schooner struggled to climb them, one after the other in quick succession. Everything being se- cured, all the crew went into the after cabin, occasionally looking out on deck to see if she
was all right. At about 10 o’clock the writer looked out. Everything was intact. The gale was at its height. It was a sight I shall never forget. The clouds were nearly down to our mastheads, the whole ocean was a combing breaker, the rain was falling in torrents and the wind and sea were roaring like thunder. I was telling the crew if everything held I thought she would weather the gale, when all at once she was caught by what old sail- ors term “an unlucky sea,” which threw her on her beam-ends, mastheads in the water, submerging her and sweeping everything from the decks, taking the riding sail from the ropes. The hawser that was on deck was carried over the spring stay and the chain on deck was washed over the lee rail overboard. Everything in the hold above the ballast fl oor was shifted into the lee bilge. Fish, bait, ice, wood, provisions, salt and all were wedged to the deck. Dampers from the stove were in the top berth. We were all thrown to the top of the cabin. Water was pouring in on us and we thought our time had come and she was going to the bottom. But to our happy surprise she righted to the angle of about 45 degrees. Captain James F. Beal and myself rushed to the deck, keeping the crew below. We cut the rigging and let spars and all go by the board, which saved the vessel and her crew. One more big sea would have settled it with us. We were later picked up by the schooner
JOSIE MAY and towed to port with all on board. The schooner MARY O. ANDREWS never return. She, with others, went to the bottom that night with all on board. In the next issue will be the conclusion of stories told by Willis Beal.
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