This Friday, April 22, at 12:00
midnight, the governmentissued
Verizon cellular telephones
will no longer be operational as the
current telephone numbers will be
ported to the new Sprint cellular
telephones.
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1. “The official electronic newsgram of Norfolk Naval Shipyard” April 18, 2011
Naval Sea Systems Com- Verizon Cell Phones to be Shut Off
mand (NAVSEA) received the by David Heberlin, Supervisory Administrative Management Specialist
"Disability Matters" Workforce
Award for the organization's
Wounded Warrior program at the T his Friday, April 22, at 12:00
midnight, the government-
issued Verizon cellular telephones
2011 Disability Matters Confer-
ence in San Jose, Calif., April 7. will no longer be operational as the
Since the formation of NAV- current telephone numbers will be
SEA’s Wounded Warrior pro- ported to the new Sprint cellular
gram in 2009, the command has telephones.
pioneered Wounded Warrior Effective Saturday, April 23,
outreach programs in military the Sprint cellular telephone will
treatment facilities, and estab- be the device employees should
lished public/private partnerships use. Those running errands on the
to provide education, training weekend can visit any local Sprint
and job placement to injured retail store and they will be able
service members separated from to download contacts from the Verizon phone to the Sprint phone free of
service. charge.
For those who wish to wait, there will be a Sprint representative in the
shipyard Monday, April 25, through Friday, April 29, who will be able to
transfer contacts.
Emails will be sent over the next few weeks to provide additional
information. All users must return the Verizon equipment to Building
163, or the Communications Office located in Building 1500, 2nd floor.
Used equipment will be turned in and used to support government-
sponsored programs.
Celebrate Good Times!
N NSY’s CFC Coordinator,
Dorassa Fields, hosted an
Appreciation Celebration Luncheon
for all the 2010 chairpersons,
and volunteers. Guests included
Shipyard Commander, Rear
Adm. (Select) Gregory Thomas,
and John Catron, CFC Director,
Hampton Roads. Everyone enjoyed
a complimentary lunch at Lillian’s
Restaurant. “Just a small gesture
to show everyone how much they
mean to the campaign,” said Fields.
“Everyone works hard to meet our
2010 CFC chairpersons
goal.”
2. D oug W. Buntley was
presented with a plaque
for “Best of the Best Store
Director” for the Portsmouth
NNSY Commissary on April
8 at the Annual Jerry Jared
Gala hosted at the Chrysler
Museum.
Photo: From left to right:
Heather Snowa, President,
Hampton Roads American
Logistics Association (ALA); Ollie
Bates, ALA; Doug Buntley, NNSY
Commissary Store Director; Joe
Green, Zone Manager; and Rogers
Campbell, DeCA Eastern Director.
NNSY’s Disability Committee
NNSY is attempting to rees- be providing an overview of the
tablish/reorganize a Disability Disability Committee’s mission
Committee. If you are interested as well as answering questions
in assisting in the development about participation. You
and implementation of such a If you are interested, please
committee, you are invited to contact Gary Belcher at can!
meet with Gary Belcher and gary.belcher@navy.mil or Lydia
Lydia Simmons on May 25 from Simmons at
1:00 - 2:00 pm in the Com- lydia.simmons@navy.mil for
mand Brief Room. They will information.
Executing the Maritime Strategy
Status of the Navy (as of April 1, 2011)
Ships, Submarines & Aircraft Navy Personnel Sailors at Sea by AOR
Total deployable ships/subs: 287 Total Active Component: 328,431 NAVCENT/C5F: 13,185
Ships underway: 153 (53%) Total Reserve Component: 65,117 PACFLT: 29,667
Attack subs underway: 18 (33%) DoN Civilians: 203,403 NAVSO/C4F: 1540
Ships deployed: 126 (44%) Navy Forces on the Ground C2F: 16,114
Subs deployed: 17 (31%) in NAVCENT AOR: 13,063 NAVEUR/NAVAF/C6F: 2,893
Expeditionary forces on mission: For more information on the cur-
70 (39%) rent status of the navy go to: http://
Total operational aircraft: 3,700+ www.navy.mil/navydata/navy_legacy_
hr.asp?id=146