Necessary trouble Fr. Steve Kelly released from jail (Image by beyondnuclearinternational)
Released from jail, Fr. Steve Kelly insists no one is truly free under the threat of nuclear omnicide
By Leonard Eiger
When Father Steve Kelly, a nuclear resister and Jesuit priest, walked out of a Tacoma, Washington courthouse on April 13, 2021, he was still wearing his prison khakis. When he was taken from jail in Georgia in mid-December to be transported to Tacoma, he had left in chains.
Now Kelly was a free man. But for how long? In Tacoma, Magistrate Judge David Cristel sentenced Kelly to time served, and released him without conditions. Kelly had effectively served the maximum six-month prison sentence for violating conditions of his supervised release for a 2017 trespass conviction at the Trident nuclear submarine base in Silverdale, Washington during a Pacific Life Community nonviolent direct a
Newly deployed sailors are now getting counseling assistance aboard ship 2 hours ago The cruiser Vella Gulf and the destroyer Laboon, right, come alongside the fleet-replenishment oiler USNS Kanawha in the Atlantic Ocean Jan. 15. Crew members of both ships have benefited from a new Navy program to provide emotional support to deploying sailors. (MC2 Dean Cates/Navy) The Navy has started providing sailors mental health support in the early stages of deployments so they are better equipped to manage common stressors they may encounter while getting underway. Under the Navy’s new Departure & Separation Program, sailors on six surface ships were provided access to licensed counselors and specially trained educators during their first two to six weeks of deployment.
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Unscripted candid comments – testimonials – were requested and Navy Medicine Readiness Training Unit (NMRTU) Everett Sailors replied.
As did other Sailors from across the Pacific Northwest recently for a Puget Sound Military Health System (PSMHS) video project.
The project was a combined effort from Madigan Army Medical Center, Naval Health Clinic Oak Harbor and Navy Medicine Readiness Training Command Bremerton. The premise focused on why service members chose to voluntarily get the COVID-19 vaccine.
The filming is part of Defense Health Agency outreach communication efforts to promote efficacy, effectiveness and education of the COVID-19 vaccine, and allow service members to hear from their peers why they chose to be administered the available vaccine.
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6 The day after Navy Medicine Readiness Training Command (NMRTC) Bremerton received an initial shipment of Moderna COVID vaccine, Dec. 22, 2020, doses were being administered to anxious staff members.
Perhaps no others were more relieved, encouraged, and appreciative than the command public health emergency officers present for the occasion.
Using a football analogy, Dr. Dan Frederick, NMRTC Bremerton public health emergency officer (PHEO) remarked, “for ten month we’ve been playing defense against this virus. Now it feels like we’re finally on the offense.”
Leveling the playing field in an advantageous position was what Frederick and other public health experts do.