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The Navy announced the rollout plan for its new, Expanded Operational Stress Control Program, in NAVADMIN 332/20, released on Dec. 21. The message marks the implementation of a new and more comprehensive approach to operational stress control across the fleet and includes implementation and training requirements for commands in the coming year.  The program, known by the abbreviation E-OSC, is no longer just a pre-deployment training check. Instead, the Navy has shifted to an around the clock,...

NMP Director Joel Maglungsod during NMPs Year-End Conference. PHOTO COURTESY OF NMP NMP is the sole government maritime training and research center in the country. Its 2020 Year-End Performance Assessment revealed that NMP trained a total of 5,405 maritime professionals composed of aspiring and active seafarers, maritime educators, assessors, supervisors, and other allied personnel in the maritime industry. The said number represents a 13.55 percent increase from its reformulated annual target...

Prairie Lives Last week we met Ivanhoe’s Norma Jean (Pederson) Johnson, who graduated from Ivanhoe High School in 1940; continued her education at the St. Barnabus School of Nursing in Minneapolis; and graduated as an RN in 1944. Like many of her fellow nursing graduates, she volunteered for military service, in her case with the Army Nurse Corps. Norma Jean completed her Basic Training at Camp Carson, Colorado before deploying to Manila, the capital of the Philippines, with the newly-forme...

We’re about two decades into an era that history will remember as That Time Humans Demanded At Least Four Comic Book Movies A Year. (I’m guessing this era will be remembered for other things, too, but I’m trying to stay positive for once.) My colleagues and I talk about comics characters pretty much every day, and those conversations lead me to mull a specific type of comic book movie: the Superhero Origin Story. Before I even knew what was happening, I found myself drawn, inexorably, as ...

Prairie Lives This year the world commemorates the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II. We are remembering contributions of persons from our region, most of whom are no longer with us. During WWII the women serving in the Navy WAVES, the Coast Guard SPARS, the Marine Corps Women Reserves, and the women WASP pilots were all restricted from overseas service. But the 59,000 WWII-era Army nurses had no such restrictions and 32,500 served overseas. Let’s meet an Army nurse who served ove...

Wray tells employees the FBI has zero tolerance for sexual misconduct after media investigation Print this article FBI Director Christopher Wray sent an email to employees last week saying the bureau has “zero tolerance for any form of sexual harassment or sexual misconduct” following a media investigation detailing allegations involving top officials. The Associated Pressreported last week that Justice Department watchdog reports, federal lawsuits, and witness interviews had “identifi...

Monday December 14th, 2020 8:00am (Submitted Photos/Design by Matt Cain) Mike Daum was sitting on the side of a mountain in Northern Afghanistan when he shared a dream that seemed a world and a lifetime away. “You know what’d be really cool right now? I’m pretty sure it’s Memorial Day Weekend rolling around,” Daum recalls. “How cool would it be to strap it up for a national championship? Those guys are living life.” Daum is now 25 and a proud veteran of the U.S. Armys 82nd Airborn...

Monte Gould, 59, is the oldest person to ever graduate from this version of the Army’s basic combat training. When Gould decided to reenlist in the armed forces he was shocked to learn that he had to once again complete boot camp and decided he was up for the challenge. Fifty-nine-year-old Marine and Army Reserves veteran, Staff Sgt. Monte Gould graduated from Basic Combat Training with the 1st Battalion 34th Infantry Regiment Aug. 27, making him the oldest individual to complete this versio...

Reunited! Hazel Green Elementary School teacher gets big surprise from soldier son They had not seen each other in about nine months. Posted: Dec 10, 2020 1:12 PM Posted By: Josh Rayburn 2 Images A Hazel Green Elementary School kindergarten teacher got a huge surprise Thursday morning any mom would love. About 7:30 a.m., Peyton Cox stopped by the classroom to surprise his mom, Monica Thrower. Peyton Cox and his mother, Monica Thrower (Photo courtesy of Madison County Schools) They haven’t ...

Who many were just barely out of basic training, showed when they were coming in ashore on these landing craft really staring death in the face, in terms of the hail of gun fire and artillery that was raining down on the beaches. listen here. >> the first wave came in and 92% of the people on the first wave were killed. then the second wave came in and it was 80% were killed. and then third wave and fourth wave. i guess they said the sixth wave they broke through like a dam. they broke through. ...