Quote Me, Capture This: 10/15/2008

[Navy for Moms Admin]

QUOTE OF THE WEEK:
"Patriotism belongs to the men and women who are conscience of a nation." – Guy D. Golf
PHOTOS OF THE WEEK


081013-N-5758H-051 NEW YORK (Oct. 13, 2008) Residents of New York watch members of the Navy Band Northeast march up New York City's 5th Avenue while playing a wide spectrum of music during the 64th annual Columbus Day Parade. The parade is sponsored by the Columbus Citizens Foundation every year as part of Columbus Day Celebration, with this year's festivities commemorating the Great White Fleet Voyage in 1907. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Kenneth R. Hendrix/Released)



081013-N-3483C-002 SIHANOUKVILLE, Kingdom of Cambodia (Oct. 13, 2008) Muscian 2nd Class Collin Reichow, from Herndon, Va., and a member of the U.S. 7th Fleet Band, talks about his instruments with children outside of Sa Kor Ou Chrao Pagoda during a Medical Civil Action Program (MEDCAP). Mustin and its crew are in Sihanoukville for a scheduled port visit that gives Sailors the opportunity to participate in friendship-building community relations events, engineering, medical and dental projects and professional exchanges. Mustin is one of seven Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyers assigned to Destroyer Squadron 15. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Robert S. Cole/Released)



081014-N-2013O-001 SIHANOUKVILLE, Kingdom of Cambodia (Oct. 14, 2008) Gunner's Mate 2nd Class Joshua Flamand, center, from San Diego, talks about the equipment used by search and rescue swimmers with sailors from the Royal Cambodian navy aboard the guided-missile destroyer USS Mustin (DDG 89). Cambodian sailors visited Mustin as a part of a subject matter expert exchange to learn techniques in visit, board, search and seizure, damage control, and search and rescue. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Charles Oki/Released)



081013-N-1038M-009 PACIFIC OCEAN (Oct. 13, 2008) Yeoman Seaman Fernando Ramirez reads a book to his brother and sister while participating in the United Through Reading Program in the museum aboard the aircraft carrier USS George Washington (CVN 73). United Through Reading is a program that unites Sailor's with their families on deployment by recording them reading children's book and shipping that recording home. The George Washington Carrier Strike Group is back at sea training in the Pacific Ocean after recently participating in the International Fleet Review in Busan, Republic of Korea. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Anthony R. Martinez/Released)



080926-N-9758L-125 PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii (Sept. 26, 2008) Seaman 1st Class George E. Laws, a survivor of the attack of the Portland-class cruiser USS Indianapolis (CA-35), speaks with Pearl Harbor survivors Sterling Cale, Alfred Rodrigues and Herb Weatherwax at the USS Arizona Memorial Visitor Center. Laws is one of only 317 survivors of the July 30, 1945 Japanese attack on Indianapolis. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Michael A. Lantron/Released)



081014-N-1062H-038 PACIFIC OCEAN (Oct. 14, 2008) The aircraft carrier USS George Washington (CVN 73) receives JP-5 from the Military Sealift Command fleet replenishment oiler USNS Rappahannock (T-AO 204) during a refueling at sea. The George Washington Carrier Strike Group is back at sea training in the Pacific Ocean after recently participating in the International Fleet Review in Busan, Republic of Korea. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Christopher S. Harte/Released)



081014-N-9985W-025 DAM NECK, Va. (Oct. 14, 2008) Rear Adm. Robert Wright, deputy commander, U.S. Second Fleet, starts the Fleet Week 5k race at Dam Neck Annex Oceana Naval Air Station. Second Fleet sponsored the race as one of many events scheduled to honor the long-standing relationship between the community and the military in the region which is held in Hampton Roads every October in conjunction with the celebration of the Navy's birthday. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Tyler Wilson/Released)



081012-N-3392P-131 KUWAIT NAVAL BASE, KUWAIT (Oct. 12, 2008) Boatswain's Mate 3rd Class Cody Horton directs a vehicle offload during amphibious operations with the amphibious dock landing ship USS Carter Hall (LSD 50). Carter Hall is deployed as part of the Iwo Jima Expeditionary Strike Group supporting maritime security operations in the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Katrina Parker /Released)



081013-N-9774H-056 SABANA GRANDE DE BOYA, Dominican Republic (Oct. 13, 2008) Hospital Corpsman 1st Class Sharon Vigue, a preventive medical technician embarked aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge (LHD 3), gives elementary school children de-worming medicine during a preventive medicine health initiative supporting Continuing Promise 2008. Kearsarge is the primary platform for the Caribbean phase of the Continuing Promise 2008 humanitarian assistance mission, an equal-partnership mission involving the United States, Canada, the Netherlands, Brazil, France, Nicaragua, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Emmitt J. Hawks/Released)



081007-M-8299S-144 ALBU HYATT, Iraq (Oct. 7, 2008) Hospital Corpsman 1st Class Jonathan D. Negron, 2nd Battalion, 25th Marines, Regimental Combat Team 5, inspects an infected toe of a child following the reopening of the Al Wardie Elementary School outside of Albu Hyatt, Iraq. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Staff Sgt. Chad L. Simon/Released)



081013-N-4005H-022 GULF OF OMAN (Oct. 13, 2008) Sailors recite the oath of enlistment during a mass reenlistment ceremony for 117 Sailors aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76). A total of $2.4 million in selective reenlistment bonuses is to be distributed among the Sailors. Ronald Reagan is deployed to the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Aaron Holt/Released)



081012-N-7981E-270 EVERETT, Wash. (Oct. 12, 2008) Friends and family greet Sailors aboard the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) as the ship arrives in its homeport of Everett Wash. Lincoln is returning from a seven-month deployment to the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class James R. Evans/Released)

[Mary, Proud Mom of Nick]

And the Navy band played???