From my archive of press clippings:
Stars and Stripes
Task force seizes pirate ‘mother ship’
By Sandra Jontz, Stars and Stripes
Mideast edition, Friday, May 15, 2009
Photo by Eric L. Beauregard/ Courtesy U.S. Navy
Members of a USS Gettysburg visit, board, search and seizure (VBSS) team, along with U.S. Coast Guard Law Enforcement Detachment 409, approach a suspected pirate mothership after responding to a merchant vessel's distress signal in the Gulf of Aden.
Read the whole article here.
Snippet(s):
"A January agreement between the U.S. State Department and the Kenyan government lets U.S. military and coalition nations capture suspected pirates and turn them over to Kenya for prosecution.
The Somali pirates’ use of mother ships, usually loaded with ammunition, fuel and food, let pirates operate further out to sea to attack ships transiting the heavily used shipping routes."
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Thursday, May 21, 2009
S&S - Navy ship evades pirate attack
Stars and Stripes
Navy ship evades pirate attack
By Sandra Jontz, Stars and Stripes
Mideast edition, Friday, May 8, 2009
Katrina Parker/Courtesy of U.S. Navy
An SA-330 Puma helicopter picks up pallets from the Military Sealift Command dry cargo/ammunition ship USNS Lewis and Clark in January during a vertical replenishment with the amphibious dock landing ship USS Carter Hall.
Read the whole article here.
Snippet(s):
"A U.S. Navy ship that once was used as a temporarily jail for suspected Somali pirates successfully evaded a pirate attack Wednesday off the Somali coast, a U.S. Navy official said Thursday.
The USNS Lewis and Clark, a Military Sealift Command ship normally used to transport cargo and ammunition, used to be configured to hold about a dozen pirates — and at one point held as many as 16 suspects.
On Wednesday, the ship "performed evasive maneuvers" and avoided being boarded by pirates on two skiffs that had pursued the ship for more than an hour, said Lt. Nathan Christensen, a spokesman with U.S. Naval Forces Central Command/5th Fleet."
Navy ship evades pirate attack
By Sandra Jontz, Stars and Stripes
Mideast edition, Friday, May 8, 2009
Katrina Parker/Courtesy of U.S. Navy
An SA-330 Puma helicopter picks up pallets from the Military Sealift Command dry cargo/ammunition ship USNS Lewis and Clark in January during a vertical replenishment with the amphibious dock landing ship USS Carter Hall.
Read the whole article here.
Snippet(s):
"A U.S. Navy ship that once was used as a temporarily jail for suspected Somali pirates successfully evaded a pirate attack Wednesday off the Somali coast, a U.S. Navy official said Thursday.
The USNS Lewis and Clark, a Military Sealift Command ship normally used to transport cargo and ammunition, used to be configured to hold about a dozen pirates — and at one point held as many as 16 suspects.
On Wednesday, the ship "performed evasive maneuvers" and avoided being boarded by pirates on two skiffs that had pursued the ship for more than an hour, said Lt. Nathan Christensen, a spokesman with U.S. Naval Forces Central Command/5th Fleet."
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
S&S - AFN radio may go silent in Naples
Stars and Stripes
AFN radio may go silent in Naples
By Kent Harris and Sandra Jontz, Stars and Stripes
European edition, Sunday, April 26, 2009
Courtesy photo
A view of numerous broadcast towers on Mt. Camaldoli in Naples, Italy.
The military network’s radio service will go off the air in Naples beginning Monday unless there’s a "miracle" this weekend, the senior commander of American Forces Network operations in Italy said.
Read the whole article here.
Snippet(s):
"Radio broadcasts heard on 106.0 and 107.0 FM frequencies in Naples will stop unless Italian environmental officials provide written permission for use of a new transmitter site to replace the current one, which must be dismantled, Maj. Tom Bryant said Friday in an interview in his Vicenza office."
AFN has negotiated a deal with RAI, the Italian state-run broadcasting system, to use one of its existing towers — also on the mountain but outside the monastery — but needs to receive a series of approvals before it starts to broadcast."
AFN radio may go silent in Naples
By Kent Harris and Sandra Jontz, Stars and Stripes
European edition, Sunday, April 26, 2009
Courtesy photo
A view of numerous broadcast towers on Mt. Camaldoli in Naples, Italy.
The military network’s radio service will go off the air in Naples beginning Monday unless there’s a "miracle" this weekend, the senior commander of American Forces Network operations in Italy said.
Read the whole article here.
Snippet(s):
"Radio broadcasts heard on 106.0 and 107.0 FM frequencies in Naples will stop unless Italian environmental officials provide written permission for use of a new transmitter site to replace the current one, which must be dismantled, Maj. Tom Bryant said Friday in an interview in his Vicenza office."
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"Bryant said the lease on a transmitter that AFN has been using for decades expired last year. Military broadcasters were allowed to continue to use the transmitter — located inside the walls of a monastery atop Mount Camaldoli — for an additional nine months. That deal ends Thursday, and the transmitter needs to be disassembled and taken away by then, a process that will take a couple of days.AFN has negotiated a deal with RAI, the Italian state-run broadcasting system, to use one of its existing towers — also on the mountain but outside the monastery — but needs to receive a series of approvals before it starts to broadcast."
Thursday, March 12, 2009
S&S - Italy: Officials, activists rescue dogs from shelter. Raid saves 51 animals from substandard living conditions
From my archive of press clippings:
Stars and Stripes
Italy: Officials, activists rescue dogs from shelter
Raid saves 51 animals from substandard living conditions
By Sandra Jontz, Stars and Stripes
European edition, Saturday, February 14, 2009
Sandra Jontz / S&S
Animal activists team with and Italian health officials to load some of 51 shelter dogs seized Friday into a truck, which would take them to other Naples-area shelters. The shelter was shut down Friday after a court injunction on charges of cruelty to animals.
Sandra Jontz / S&S
This damaged and unsafe pen is but one example of the poor conditions dogs at a Castelvultorno animal shelter lived in. The shelter was shut down Friday, and the 51 dogs taken to other Naples-area shelters.
Sandra Jontz / S&S
Salvatore De Micco, an official with Naples' health department, scans a shelter dog to read its microchip. Animal Activists, some of whom are spouses of military members stationed at NATO’s Allied Joint Force Command or the U.S. Navy base, have worked to make sure all the dogs at the shelter were neutered and micro chipped so they could be taken to other area shelters.
CASTELVOLTURNO, Italy — Italian health officials, flanked by animal activists, raided and shut down an animal shelter Friday that officials said was being run in a substandard manner.
Read the whole article here.
Stars and Stripes
Italy: Officials, activists rescue dogs from shelter
Raid saves 51 animals from substandard living conditions
By Sandra Jontz, Stars and Stripes
European edition, Saturday, February 14, 2009
Sandra Jontz / S&S
Animal activists team with and Italian health officials to load some of 51 shelter dogs seized Friday into a truck, which would take them to other Naples-area shelters. The shelter was shut down Friday after a court injunction on charges of cruelty to animals.
Sandra Jontz / S&S
This damaged and unsafe pen is but one example of the poor conditions dogs at a Castelvultorno animal shelter lived in. The shelter was shut down Friday, and the 51 dogs taken to other Naples-area shelters.
Sandra Jontz / S&S
Salvatore De Micco, an official with Naples' health department, scans a shelter dog to read its microchip. Animal Activists, some of whom are spouses of military members stationed at NATO’s Allied Joint Force Command or the U.S. Navy base, have worked to make sure all the dogs at the shelter were neutered and micro chipped so they could be taken to other area shelters.
CASTELVOLTURNO, Italy — Italian health officials, flanked by animal activists, raided and shut down an animal shelter Friday that officials said was being run in a substandard manner.
Read the whole article here.
Monday, March 9, 2009
S&S - Army tests new deployment plan. ‘Reset’ calls for 15 months of dwell time between tours.
From my archive of press clippings:
Stars and Stripes
Army tests new deployment plan
‘Reset’ calls for 15 months of dwell time between tours
By Sandra Jontz, Stars and Stripes
Mideast edition, Sunday, June 22, 2008
VICENZA, Italy — Predictability in times of war is nearly impossible. But a new plan being tested by the Army might change that.
Read the whole article here.
Snippet(s):
"The "reset" plan, as it’s being called, would not only give troops more time between deployments, but also give them more time in their own beds.
Army leaders have tapped 13 units — eight active duty and five from the reserve component — to test the plan.
If successful it will be implemented throughout the Army in about five years, when the last of the units completes the trial period."
"As the plan currently is written, planning for troops’ return home will begin 180 days before the unit leaves the combat zone, and continue until the unit sets out again — ideally after 15 months of dwell time at home.
In the next few years, planners hope to stretch the dwell time to 24 months before a unit has to again set out for a combat zone"
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"While "resetting" the Army’s deployment cycle still is years out, units have introduced tangible programs and changes to ease them into back to home life that the soldiers see today.
Army units have many programs to take the soldiers out of the pressure cooker of a war zone.
Returning soldiers, for example, must report to work for the first week they return, but only report for half a day."
Stars and Stripes
Army tests new deployment plan
‘Reset’ calls for 15 months of dwell time between tours
By Sandra Jontz, Stars and Stripes
Mideast edition, Sunday, June 22, 2008
VICENZA, Italy — Predictability in times of war is nearly impossible. But a new plan being tested by the Army might change that.
Read the whole article here.
Snippet(s):
"The "reset" plan, as it’s being called, would not only give troops more time between deployments, but also give them more time in their own beds.
Army leaders have tapped 13 units — eight active duty and five from the reserve component — to test the plan.
If successful it will be implemented throughout the Army in about five years, when the last of the units completes the trial period."
"As the plan currently is written, planning for troops’ return home will begin 180 days before the unit leaves the combat zone, and continue until the unit sets out again — ideally after 15 months of dwell time at home.
In the next few years, planners hope to stretch the dwell time to 24 months before a unit has to again set out for a combat zone"
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"While "resetting" the Army’s deployment cycle still is years out, units have introduced tangible programs and changes to ease them into back to home life that the soldiers see today.
Army units have many programs to take the soldiers out of the pressure cooker of a war zone.
Returning soldiers, for example, must report to work for the first week they return, but only report for half a day."
Monday, February 23, 2009
S&S - Stray animals remain a problem in Naples
Stars and Stripes
Stray animals remain a problem in Naples
By Sandra Jontz, Stars and Stripes
European edition, Sunday, February 8, 2009
Sandra Jontz / S&S
A group of stray or abandoned dogs available for adoption gather at a gate of the Lega Pro Animale veterinary clinic and shelter in Mondragone, Italy.
Sandra Jontz / S&S
One of the stray or abandoned dogs available for adoption from the Lega Pro Animale veterinary clinic and shelter in Mondragone is this German Shepherd mix, which was microchipped and registered to a U.S. Navy servicemember who had been stationed in Naples, Italy. The dog likely was abandoned after the member left, said Dr. Dorothea Friz, adding the Navy said it was unable to locate the individual.
Sandra Jontz / S&S
Petty Officer 2nd Class Steve Dockendorff plays with Russell, one of several dogs the Naples, Italy-based sailor has fostered. Over the years and between duty stations in Italy and Bahrain, Dockendorff has adopted or fostered roughly 17 stray dogs.
NAPLES, Italy — Marcella Falco loves her job. But each morning, she dreads going to work.
Will this be another morning when she finds a dog chained to the gates of the animal shelter?
"It just breaks my heart. Every week, we find one dog, two dogs, just left outside the shelter," Falco said. "Sometimes they are just running around outside the gate. Sometimes they are chained. What choice do we have? We give them a home."
Read the whole article here.
Snippet(s):
"In Italy, animal shelters too often become the final home for thousands of abandoned or stray dogs, including the 550 dogs and puppies that reside at the privately run Rifugio San Francesco in Ischitella, a suburb of Naples. "
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"Some are abandoned by U.S. servicemembers when they leave their duty stations, although the number of pets left behind by the military is not available. Most, however, are from the country’s rampant stray population.
Italy has nearly 150,000 stray dogs and nearly 2.6 million stray cats, according to Ministry of Health data."
Stray animals remain a problem in Naples
By Sandra Jontz, Stars and Stripes
European edition, Sunday, February 8, 2009
Sandra Jontz / S&S
A group of stray or abandoned dogs available for adoption gather at a gate of the Lega Pro Animale veterinary clinic and shelter in Mondragone, Italy.
Sandra Jontz / S&S
One of the stray or abandoned dogs available for adoption from the Lega Pro Animale veterinary clinic and shelter in Mondragone is this German Shepherd mix, which was microchipped and registered to a U.S. Navy servicemember who had been stationed in Naples, Italy. The dog likely was abandoned after the member left, said Dr. Dorothea Friz, adding the Navy said it was unable to locate the individual.
Sandra Jontz / S&S
Petty Officer 2nd Class Steve Dockendorff plays with Russell, one of several dogs the Naples, Italy-based sailor has fostered. Over the years and between duty stations in Italy and Bahrain, Dockendorff has adopted or fostered roughly 17 stray dogs.
NAPLES, Italy — Marcella Falco loves her job. But each morning, she dreads going to work.
Will this be another morning when she finds a dog chained to the gates of the animal shelter?
"It just breaks my heart. Every week, we find one dog, two dogs, just left outside the shelter," Falco said. "Sometimes they are just running around outside the gate. Sometimes they are chained. What choice do we have? We give them a home."
Read the whole article here.
Snippet(s):
"In Italy, animal shelters too often become the final home for thousands of abandoned or stray dogs, including the 550 dogs and puppies that reside at the privately run Rifugio San Francesco in Ischitella, a suburb of Naples. "
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"Some are abandoned by U.S. servicemembers when they leave their duty stations, although the number of pets left behind by the military is not available. Most, however, are from the country’s rampant stray population.
Italy has nearly 150,000 stray dogs and nearly 2.6 million stray cats, according to Ministry of Health data."
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