Quote Me, Capture This! 9/4/2008

[Navy for Moms Admin]

QUOTE OF THE WEEK:
This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in. – Theodore Roosevelt

PHOTOS OF THE WEEK:


080902-N-5595G-001 PACIFIC OCEAN (Sept. 2, 2008) Sailors count fathoms for temporary lifelines before participating in an upcoming replenishment at sea aboard the aircraft carrier USS George Washington (CVN 73). George Washington is sailing off the coast of Southern California where the crew is conducting training evolutions with Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 5. George Washington departed San Diego Aug. 21, en route to Yokosuka, Japan, where the ship will replace USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63) as the U.S. Navy's only forward-deployed aircraft carrier. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Nathan L. Guimont/Released)



080901-N-7498L-440 CHUUK, Federated States of Micronesia, (Sept. 1, 2008) Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) 133 Detachment Officer-in-Charge Lt. Lars Herman dances with the locals during a ribbon cutting ceremony at the Messa Elementary School. Seabees assigned to Amphibious Construction Battalion (ACB) 1 and NMCB (NMCB) 133, volunteers from the Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19), Indian Army Engineers, Chuuk State Department of Education and Fefen community volunteers came together to renovate the Messa elementary school as part of Pacific Partnership 2008. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Mark Logico/Released)



080830-N-0641S-047 PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii (Aug. 30, 2008) Chief petty officer selects help clean the trash out of a drainage ditch near Chun's reef during a beach clean up. Navy Region Hawaii chief petty officers, new chief petty officer selects, students and tourist participated in the clean up on Oahu's north shore as part of the National Marine Debris Monitoring Program, a scientific survey of debris found on United States coastlines. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Jason Swink/Released)



080902-N-9123L-002 MELBOURNE, Australia (Sept. 2, 2008) Cryptologic Technician (Collections) 3rd Class Brittany Gonzales, from Corpus Christi, Texas, delivers a posy bunch to a Royal Melbourne Hospital patient during a community outreach project conducted by Sailors from the guided-missile destroyer USS John S. McCain (DDG 56). The ship's port visit to Melbourne is part of the Great White Fleet centennial anniversary celebration. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Byron C. Linder (Released)



080901-N-9740S-001 ATLANTIC OCEAN (Sept. 1, 2008) Aviation Support Equipment Technician 2nd Class Dustin Schlichting assists with loading stores in preparation for HURREX 08-002. HURREX is a Commander, U.S. Second Fleet directed exercise designed to to test the ship's ability to respond to humanitarian assistance and disaster relief needs during the 2008 hurricane season. (U.S. Navy photo by Chief Mass Communication Specialist Tony Sisti/Released)



080829-N-7540C-151 LOS ALPES, Colombia (Aug. 29, 2008) Seabees embarked aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge (LHD 3) carry a framed-out wall that will be installed in a classroom being built as part of the humanitarian mission Continuing Promise (CP) 2008. Kearsarge is supporting the Caribbean phase of CP 2008, an equal-partnership mission between the United States, Canada, the Netherlands, Brazil, Nicaragua, Panama, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class David G. Crawford/Released)



080826-N-9689V-001 CHUUK, Federated States of Micronesia, (Aug. 26, 2008) Children from Weno Island, in Chuuk Lagoon, wave at a passing MH-60S Sea Hawk helicotper from the Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) from atop the ruins of a historic Japanese lighthouse, destroyed during the U.S. air raid "Operation Hailstone" in 1944. Mercy will operate in the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) to perform humanitarian civic assistance missions in an effort to build the relationship between FSM and the United States. Pacific Partnership is a four-month humanitarian mission to Southeast Asia intended to build collaborative relationships by providing engineering, civic, medical and dental assistance to the region. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Joshua Valcarcel/Released)