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The Puget Sound Veterans’ Monthly | July 2016
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Midway is an atoll of two
islands in the Pacific Ocean barely big enough to hold an airport.
Yet this was the site of the most decisive single naval bat-tle in U.S. history, a fight that determined the outcome of the War in the Pacific.
Naval Air Station Whidbey Island and the PBY Memorial Foundation hosted a Battle of Midway remembrance cer-emony June 3. The ceremony took place under the sturdy
wing of the PBY Catalina aircraft “Gigi” on display off Pioneer Way in downtown Oak Harbor.
On hand were U.S. Rep.
Rick Larsen, Oak Harbor Mayor Bob Severns, veter-ans, active-duty personnel and other supporters. Special
Battle of Midway ceremony held in shadow of ‘Gigi’
Capt. Geoff Moore and Air Traffic Controller 3rd Class Junie Whitson lay a wreath during a Battle of Midway memorial a the Patrol Boat Consolidated Museum June 3.
SEE MIDWAY, PAGE 3
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We Support the Troops!U.S. Rep. Rick Larsen speaks at a Battle of Midway memo-rial. NAS Whidbey and the Washington Navy League hosted the ceremony to honor service members who served and died during the battle.
guest Harvey Lasell watched the ceremony from a special seat up front. During the battle he was a 27-year-old fire control division officer aboard the USS Yorktown. He fought the Japanese aerial attack from the flight deck. A month earlier he survived the Battle of Coral Sea.
Also honored with an empty chair was the late Harry Ferrier who died in April. At the Battle of Midway, 17-year-old Ferrier was a radioman and gunner who flew into battle in a Grumman TBF-1 Avenger. He and his crew kept the Japanese Carrier Striking Force busy, carrying out five attack waves without cover. Out of the six Avengers that launched that day, his was the only one that returned.
Under the wing of a PBY was an espe-cially appropriate place to remember, given the importance of patrol and reconnaissance aircraft in the battle, said NAS Whidbey Commander Capt. Geoff Moore, who deliv-ered the keynote address.
“They were the vital eyes and ears that gave us the advantage of first strike,” Moore said. “Crews flying the PBY-5A ‘Catalina’ patrol bomber similar to the one behind me made first contact on the morning of 3 June, with pilot Ensign James Lyle sighting a pair of Japanese minesweepers.”
Moore recounted the highlights of the bat-
tle, which occurred six months after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Thanks in major advances in code breaking, the U.S. was able to put a stop to Japan’s planned ambush of our country’s remaining aircraft carriers. American scouts found the Japanese early the morning of June 4. Then American carrier-based planes turned the tide. Japanese carriers were caught while refueling and rearming their planes.
In all, the Japanese lost four fleet carriers and a heavy cruiser, 322 aircraft and more than 3,500 sailors. The U.S. lost the Yorktown and 307 lives.
“As important as the loss of the carriers themselves, the loss of over 100 aviators and 700 maintenance workers would have an equally damaging effect on their ability to carry out effective aviation operations,” said Moore. “Showing the world that a squadron’s capability is more than just those in the air. It requires the skills of every person assigned.”
Moore said the loss of Japanese maintenance expertise symbolizes the incredible value of U.S. aviation maintainers.
MIDWAYCONTINUED FROM PAGE 2
“They were the vital eyes and ears that gave us the advantage of first strike.”
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She could enter a clinic “pod” staffed by a technician and visit face-to-face virtually with a doctor at a hospital elsewhere.
We’re not there yet, but health care is moving in that direction, said McDonald, commander of Naval Hospital Oak Harbor. The base hospital already is tak-ing advantage of advances in telemedicine that make health care more accessible to patients and save money.
Not long after McDonald took command in 2014, the base started offering virtual behav-ioral health services. Patients talk to a provider remotely via video conferencing technology. A technician is onsite with the patient if they need assistance.
This option isn’t right for everyone or every situation, but it’s helped solved a problem for the hospital, which struggled to attract a mental health provider willing to take a modest sal-ary and live in a rural location. There’s a high demand for men-tal health services statewide and
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Naval Hospital Oak Harbor is averaging around 10 tele-medicine behavioral health vis-its a month with fluctuations based patient needs, psychiatry manning and deployments, said Cdr. Andrew Mortimer, a staff psychiatrist. Telemedicine is available to active duty person-nel and dependents.
“It’s an additional tool to help with access to care but has limi-tations based upon patient pref-erence and acuity,” he said.
Telemedicine in its more rudimentary forms is nothing new, especially in the military when sailors and soldiers can be far removed from hospitals and
specialists. Many times when McDonald was deployed at sea, he called specialists for a consultation.
“The military has been a lead on this because of the way we work and where we work,” he said. “We’ve been doing things like this a long time because we needed to.”
What’s changing is how tech-nology allows for face-to-face contact with a specialist any-where in the world.
That’s particularly important at Naval Hospital Oak Harbor, which is a long drive from the specialists at Naval Hospital Bremerton or Madigan Army Medical Center in Tacoma. These facilities may seem close as the crow flies, but patients can be traveling for up to four hours to see a specialist.
The foray into telemedicine is working so well, the base hos-pital is expanding the option for other specialties. Right now they also offer some dermatology services. Diagnosis works best face-to-face, McDonald said, but for chronic conditions when patients just need to check-in, a tele-appointment is faster and easier than waiting a month for an appointment in Bremerton.
The hospital is looking to expand telemedicine offerings to rheumatology, pulmonology and endocrinology.
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A Search and Rescue team of five from Naval Air Station Whidbey Island conducted a rescue mission on Mount Hood, Ore., on Sunday, June 12.
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“This rescue today just vali-dated the amount of training we do day in and day out,” said Naval Aircrewman 2nd Class Justin Colon. “The crew worked together flawlessly and we got the job done.”
Two days later a SAR team also conducted a Medical Evacuation on Tuesday, June 14 from Naval Hospital Oak Harbor, on NAS Whidbey Island.
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The base currently publishes a weekly schedule of Growler field carrier landing practices at OLF Coupeville, which Larsen helped initiate. Larsen listened to community members’ suggestion that the base also publish a schedule for similar flight training at Ault Field to try to give people impacted by jet noise from Ault Field the same notice.
Cmdr. Chad J. Livingston relieved Cmdr. Matthew T. Frauenzimmer as command-ing officer of Patrol Squadron (VP) 46 during a ceremony at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island June 10.
“Very few times in my life have I got my number one choice,” said Frauenzimmer. “Coming to 46 was one of those times.”
Frauenzimmer, a native of San Clemente, Calif., is a 1997 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy. In May 2014, he reported to VP-46 as the
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With the change of com-mand right after deployment, it leaves plenty of room for opportunity.
“You guys are in great hands,” said Frauenzimmer. “Cmdr. Livingston brings perspective having just seen a deployment with 46, so he knows what the squadron needs done during homecycle.”
This is Livingston’s third time on Whidbey Island. After com-pletion of Fleet Replacement training, he reported to VP-1 in March 2001. Later, he reported to VP-40 in June 2009 where he completed his department head tour. Now, he is back on the island completing his XO/CO tour.
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Capt. Edward A. Drum, MD, USNR-ret, has never been one for idle pastimes, nor has he ever been one to shirk the call of duty.
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His recently published novel, “Quarantine Access: A Novel of Faction,” serves as testament.
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It was she who found the copy of Drum’s manuscript underneath a stairwell and encouraged him to edit and publish the novel he had writ-ten several years prior.
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Drum began his post-col-legiate career working ship-board as a ship’s physician, ful-filling a duty required at the time under the Ensign 1914 program during the Vietnam War.
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He said he initially took on the project because the epi-demic had just begun as he started working in the private practice.
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Drum contends that much of the onus was placed on medical professionals. He recalled that he and others received instructions from government agencies on how to handle AIDS patients, but he believes little if anything was being done to curb the spread of the disease or dis-cover its root cause.
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The medical community was in a state of terror, inter-acting with infected patients and coming into contact with infected or potentially infect-ed blood on a regular basis.
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Symmetrical All-Wheel DriveGRD, Package 21
MSRP .................. $26,569Dewey Discount .....-$1,570 $24,999
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160758VIN postedat dealership
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2.5i
2016 SUBARUFORESTER
2.5i LIMITEDSymmetrical All-Wheel Drive
GFI, Package 21
MSRP .................. $30,859Dewey Discount .....-$2,260 $28,599
160755 postedat dealership
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Symmetrical All-Wheel Drive
GUN, Package 01
MSRP .................. $28,633Dewey Discount .....-$1,734 $26,899
160638VIN Posted at dealership
2016 SUBARUIMPREZA
2.0i PREMIUMSymmetrical All-Wheel Drive
GLF, Package 11
MSRP .................. $23,123Dewey Discount .....-$1,324 $21,799
160619VIN Posted at dealership
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