Enterprise Sailors Focus on Safety
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Sailors aboard aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CVN 65) continue to focus on achieving high standards of safety as the crew participates in a Composite Training Unit Exercise (COMPTUEX) while underway January 13. Awareness is an important factor in personal safety. It is critical for Sailors to maintain a sense of alertness when working around dangerous aircraft and equipment. “Sailors should know that whether in the hangar bay, on the flight deck, in the gyms, on the ladderwells or in the catwalks, most locations of the ship can be dangerous,” said Logistics Specialist 2nd Class James Keto, respiratory protective program manager. Another key component in staying safe is operational risk management (ORM), a method of decision-making geared toward helping Sailors resolve conflicts and plan for situations with the most beneficial outcome. This applies to both shipboard and personal life, ranging from remembering to use a float coat to something as simple as making the decision not to drink and drive. To emphasize the importance of safety for the crew, Aviation Ordnanceman 1st Class James Owen recounts a personal experience about working on the flight deck. “On the flight deck during December’s CQs, a new Sailor from Air Department was By Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Scott Pittman The Shuttle Newsletter Edition Saturday Jan. 14, 2012 Issue USS Enterprise (CVN 65) “We are Legend” Enterprise Sailors Focus on Safety Photos by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Scott Pittman without his mentor nearby and nearly walked into the propeller blades of an E-2C Hawkeye,” said Owen. “When his mentor and I saw what was happening, we stopped him and corrected the issue on the spot. That situation was resolved, but the same could happen to anyone not paying attention.” Safety also encompasses how a Sailor takes care of him or herself. Being properly hydrated and well rested are important, as is maintaining a proper diet. “Enterprise needs her Sailors and we all need to be able to perform our duties,” said Owen. “If someone gets hurt, their shipmates have to pick up the slack, and the added stress can increase their chances of getting hurt as well.”
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Sailors aboard aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CVN 65) continue to focus on achieving high standards of safety as the crew participates in a Composite Training Unit Exercise (COMPTUEX) while underway January 13.
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Sailors aboard aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CVN 65) continue to focus on achieving high standards of safety as the crew participates in a Composite Training Unit Exercise (COMPTUEX) while underway January 13.
Awareness is an important factor in personal safety. It is critical for Sailors to maintain a sense of alertness when working around dangerous aircraft and equipment.
“Sailors should know that whether in the hangar bay, on the flight deck, in the gyms, on the ladderwells or in the catwalks, most locations of the ship can be dangerous,” said Logistics Specialist 2nd Class James Keto, respiratory protective program manager.
Another key component in staying
safe is operational risk management (ORM), a method of decision-making geared toward helping Sailors
resolve conflicts and plan for situations with the most beneficial outcome. This applies to both shipboard and personal life, ranging from remembering to use a float coat to something as simple as making the decision not to drink and drive.
To e m p h a s i z e t h e importance of safety for the crew, Aviation Ordnanceman 1st Class James Owen recounts a personal experience about working on the flight deck.
“On the flight deck during December’s CQs, a new Sailor from Air Department was
By Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Scott Pittman
The Shuttle Newsletter Edition Saturday Jan. 14, 2012 Issue
USS Enterprise (CVN 65)
“We are Legend”
Enterprise Sailors Focus on Safety
Photos by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Scott Pittman
without his mentor nearby and nearly walked into the propeller blades of an E-2C Hawkeye,” said Owen. “When his mentor and I saw what was happening, we stopped him and corrected the issue on the spot. That situation was resolved, but the same could happen to anyone not paying attention.”
Safety also encompasses how a Sailor takes care of him or herself. Being properly hydrated and well rested are important, as is maintaining a proper diet.
“Enterprise needs her Sailors and we all need to be able to perform our duties,” said Owen. “If someone gets hurt, their shipmates have to pick up the slack, and the added stress can increase their chances of getting hurt as well.”
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Around the NavyAdmiral Predicts Greater Naval Role In Future By Eric Beidel, NATIONAL DEFENSE
ARLINGTON, Va. - The recent eight-month conflict in Libya may foreshadow future engagements, the president’s choice to be the next leader of U.S. Pacific Command said during an industry conference this week.
The small joint operation provides “a sense of what the future of tactical operations might imply for us as a Navy,” Adm. Samuel J. Locklear, who commanded the U.S.-led Odyssey Dawn in Libya, said Jan. 11 at the Surface Navy Association’s annual symposium.
The opening salvos of the conflict consisted of 112 Tomahawk missiles fired from surface and subsurface assets, including the USS Florida, a cruise missile submarine. By the end of the conflict, naval platforms had fired more than 230 cruise missiles, which will continue to be a relevant weapon of war, Locklear said.
Fifty ships from 12 nations patrolled 1,100 nautical miles of Libyan coastline. The coalition held more than 3,000 ships, conducted more than 300 boardings and denied 11 ships suspected of carrying embargoed cargo to the regime of Muammar Gaddafi. They also conducted mine clearing operations.
More than 200 aircraft flew 27,000 sorties. Most were offensive or defense counter-air sorties. About 3,100 were to provide reconnaissance. More than 500 involved unmanned aerial vehicles. Others consisted of maritime patrol and refueling efforts. Interestingly, more than 180 of these sorties were psychological during which 8.5 million leaflets were dropped to the ground in 15 different locations.
On the kinetic side of the operation, the United States and its partners struck more than 6,000 targets, including bunkers, individual pieces of artillery and pickup trucks. In the middle to later stages of the conflict, French and U.K. ships got in close enough to provide some naval gunfire support.
“We were there to protect a civilian population from its own government, which is a unique undertaking in its own right and one that was intentionally scrutinized by the international community,” Locklear said.
The scrutiny will be a part of all future conflicts, he said.
Civilian casualties, or simply the suggestion of them, could have been detrimental to the operation. This influenced the tactics used by the United
States and its allies.“In the end, every weapon we
delivered was a precision weapon,” Locklear said.
Future conflicts will require an increased use of short- and medium-range UAVs that can perform intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance functions as well as carry small weapons, he said. These assets will allow individual units to disperse and cover a vast area as well as come back together quickly when needed, Locklear said.
The United States certainly will see more small, dispersed joint operations fought from the air and sea in the future, he said.
“As we draw down land forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Navy will remain, as it always has, on the front line of U.S. foreign policy,” he said.
The president’s new defense strategy puts a focus on air, sea and the Pacific. And though he would not address questions about his nomination to be the commander of PACOM, Locklear’s Libya experience may prove to be a perfect prelude to that position if he were to be confirmed.
Navy To Seek Multi-year Contract For DDG-51 RestartThe Navy will seek congressional approval for a multi-
year contract to get nine Arleigh Burke -class (DDG-51) destroyers under construction during the next five fiscal years, the Naval Sea Systems Command’s (NAVSEA) manager for he restart program said yesterday.
The multi-year deal would run from fiscal 2013-2017, Capt. Mark Vandroff said at the Surface Navy Association conference in Arlington, Va.
The Navy decided in 2008 to restart the DDG-51 program, while scaling back the DDG-1000 Zumwalt -class destroyer program to three ships. The Navy awarded the construction contract for the first ship under the restart program, the DDG-113, to Huntington Ingalls Industries.
By Mike McCarthy, DEFENSE DAILY
The DDG-113’s keel is expected to be laid next year and delivery of the destroyer is scheduled for 2016, Vandroff said. He said he is adapting some technologies developed under the DDG-1000 to the DDG-51 restart program, such as using the Common Display System in the ship’s command and control center.
The multi-year deal could be the last for the Flight IIA versions of the ship with the Navy heading into transitioning to the Flight III model.
A key difference between the two flights will be replacing the AN/SPY 1 radar with the more powerful Air and Missile Defense Radar (AMDR), Vandroff said. The Navy is expected to initiate the AMDR competition later this year.
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