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VALPARAISO — As the 32-year-old stepped out of the airport terminal and into the sunshine, he started his beach vacation like so many other travelers to Northwest Florida.

But, for this man, the sidewalks were lined with men holding American flags and standing at attention.

“That was pretty emotional,” said retired Army Specialist Mi-chael Stephens of the greeting he received at Northwest Florida Regional Airport on Tuesday after-noon, April 22.

Stephens and his wife Da’Linda, 39, flew in from Houston on their way to Panama City for the War-rior Beach Retreat, a getaway for wounded service members and their spouses.

Da’Linda said the welcome brought tears to her eyes.

The couple has been looking forward to the retreat as a chance to spend some quality time with each other and for Michael to get to talk with other wounded war-riors who understand what he is going through.

“He feels more comfortable around them,” Da’Linda said. “He doesn’t really talk to other veterans at home. He’ll feel safer here, like nobody is judging him. That’s a huge thing.”

Michael served in the Army from 2007 until 2011.

In 2010, while working as a route clearer in Afghanistan, his convoy ran over a 250-pound im-provised bomb and it exploded.

The blast tore through his knee. He has 47 scars along his leg from the shrapnel that embedded there. He also suffered a traumatic injury to his brain and post-traumatic stress disorder, both of which he continues to wrestle with today.

“I have a lot of anxiety,” Michael said. “You know, the normal stuff.”

For Michael, and so many other service members who suf-fered similar injuries in Iraq and Afghanistan, that “normal” means difficulty remembering facts and

high levels of anxiety, especially in crowds or around loud noises.

Fluorescent lights are also a trigger — the couple drives over 20 miles to a Wal-Mart with skylights

so he can get out and enjoy some shopping.

The medicine helps, but his condition is still a challenge, Da’Linda said.

This week, though, is a chance to ease that, to get away from all the pressures of home life and bond with some other families who can relate, she said.

With Eglin Air Force Base and Hurlburt Field nearby, military homecomings are a regular sight at Northwest Florida Regional Airport.

But, Tuesday’s arrival was a special one.

Airport Police Chief Andrew Johnson came out with the rest of his force to greet Michael.

“We support our military like most Americans,” Johnson said. “We wanted to do everything we could to show our appreciation for what he’s done for us.”

Wounded warrior flies into VPS, gets hero’s welcome

DEVON.RAVINE.| Daily News

Michael Stephens and wife, Da’Linda walk past a row of Patriot Guard Riders bearing flags Tuesday, April 22, as the couple arrive for Warrior Beach Retreat, a getaway for wounded service members and their spouses.

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Patriot Guard Riders escort Michael Stephens and wife, Da’Linda from Northwest Florida Regional Airport April 22.

By.AUDRA.CALLOwAy

Picatinny Public Affairs

PICATINNy. ARSENAL,.N.J. — In Afghanistan, sum-mer temperatures soar to 120 degrees and winter tem-peratures dip into the teens.

Mix in some blinding sandstorms and one can appreciate the importance of adequate military shelter not only for Soldiers, but also for military working dogs.

To keep the working dogs healthier and more comfort-able during deployments, Armament Research, De-velopment and Engineer-ing Center engineers from Picatinny and Rock Island are developing kennels for environments with tempera-ture extremes, said Project Officer Frank Altamura, who is with the Program Execu-tive Office for Ammunition.

The duties of military working dogs include patrol-ling and searching for explo-sives and narcotics.

“Military working dogs have been used for different missions within the Army since Vietnam, and they are probably the most reliable source of explosive detec-tion that the Army has,” Al-tamura said.

The new, portable ken-nels will have a forced-air system that provides fresh air circulation inside the shelter in the absence of nat-ural breezes, heated air dur-ing extreme cold and cooled air during extreme heat.

The operating tempera-tures inside the kennel are a minimum of 45 degrees when the temperature out-side the kennel is 5 degrees. When the temperature is 120 degrees outside, the inside temperature cannot exceed 85 degrees.

The temperature require-ments were approved by the Army Veterinary Corps headquartered at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas. Be-cause the current portable

kennels, called Vari Kennels, are open-air, they must be kept in the barracks with troops so that the tempera-ture is controlled.

“The new kennel gives the dog his own place, while not being cramped in the Vari Kennel in the troop’s quarters,” Altamura said.

In addition, the new ken-nel includes a shelter and along with a “run” or exer-cise area that allows dogs to stretch their legs. The dogs will access the run area through a doggie door that lets them enter and exit the shelter as they please.

MISSION.LENGTH..DICTATES.SHELTER

The length of a mission determines what type of kennel is used, explained Deputy Project Officer Tom Case. On missions that last up to 30 days, the dogs stay in Vari Kennels. The new de-ployable kennel will house the dogs when they are on missions that last from 30 to 180 days.

Beyond 180 days, the dogs are housed in brick and mortar structures. The kennel can be used indepen-dent of the “run” area and is designed to be transported on quick notice on the back of a truck. If a Soldier needs to take the dog to a forward operating base, he can re-move the run and only take the kennel if the mission will be under 30 days.

The kennels are modu-lar and can be assembled by two people in less than

15 minutes with relatively few tools. The kennels are 48 inches long, by 24 inches wide, by 40 inches high and the attachable run is 6 feet long, by 4 feet wide, by 4 feet high.

The new kennels have passed numerous environ-mental tests at Aberdeen Test Center in Aberdeen, Md. In addition, testing with dogs has contributed to changes in kennel design.

“The doggie door at one time was aluminum skinned, like the walls, with insulation inside to keep the heat and cold in,” Altamura

said.” But we discovered that the door was too heavy and it kept hitting the dog. After a few times going in and out, the dogs refused to go through it. So that was a major change we had to make.”

The program is preparing to seek bids for production. The kennels are scheduled for deployment abroad and to training facilities in De-cember 2014 with fielding and logistics support from the TACOM Life Cycle Man-agement Command.

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7th Group Green Berets provide pistol training

Spc. Steven Young | U.S. Army

A Green Beret from 7th Group demonstrates the proper shooting technique of an M9 pistol to service members from the Honduran Air Force April 11.

Green Berets from the 7th Special Forces Group (Airborne) and military police from the

Joint Security Forces of Soto Cano Air Base trained service members

of the Honduran military in basic and intermediate M9 pistol techniques.

Spc. Steven Young | U.S. Army

Honduran Air Force service members conduct a group prayer before con-ducting an M9 pistol training.

Spc. Steven Young | U.S. Army

A Honduran Air Force service member gives instructions to his subordinates before the M9 pistol training.

Spc. Steven Young | U.S. Army

A Green Beret from 7th Group observes a service member from the Honduran Air Force engage a target during an M9 pistol range training.

Spc. Steven Young | U.S. Army

A Green Beret from 7th Group and a military police officer from the Joint Security Forces from Soto Cano Airbase explain the way to properly hold a M9 pistol to a service member from the Honduran Air Force.

A Green Beret from 7th Group gives a demonstra-tion on the proper tech-nique to holding a M9 to service members from the Honduran Air Force during the training.

Spc. Steven Young | U.S. Army

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Sen. Carl Levin, chair-man of the Senate Armed Services Committee, is giving the Joint Chiefs of Staff an unusual and potentially powerful oppor-tunity to persuade sena-tors they risk a readiness crisis if they don’t take significant steps this year to slow growth in military compensation.

All seven of the nation’s top four-star officers are to testify May 6, a rare event. They are expected side by side to urge support for pay and benefit curbs. The scene will be in sharp contrast to pleadings for higher pay by service chiefs during earlier times of crisis for the all-volun-teer military.

The Joint Chiefs hope to make clear the dilemma Congress has created by

trying to shield com-pensation from the ef-fects of the 2011 Bud-get Control Act of 2011, with its deep cuts to overall

defense spending and its automatic enforcement tool of sequestration.

The chiefs have said their budgets for 2015 and beyond offer a balanced approach to absorbing those cuts because they include $2.1 billion in com-pensation curbs next year and $30 billion in pay and benefit savings over five years. If Congress won’t back those, or offer alter-native offsets, then the arbitrary across-the-board

defense cuts of sequestra-tion kick in.

The 28-star panel is ex-pected to present fresh de-tails on the consequences of that, for force structure, unit training, equipment and facility maintenance, worldwide operations and overall readiness.

Levin also has invited a second panel, of military association presidents, to testify. At least some of them will oppose any rise in troop or retiree out-of-pocket costs. To date, the most influential lawmakers on personnel matters are embracing that message, and shrugging off the warnings of defense civil-ian and military leaders.

Chairmen and ranking members of the military personnel subcommittees — Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand

(D-N.Y.) and Lindsey Gra-ham (R-S.C.), Reps. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) and Susan Davis (D-Calif.) – have suggested in recent hear-ings they will oppose any curbs on compensation.

The Pentagon proposals they bristle at would:

— Cap military pay raises for several more years, starting with a one percent raise cap in Janu-ary 2015 to match the 2014 increase.

— Dampen increases in basic allowances for hous-ing until BAH recipients, on average, pay five per-cent of rental costs out of pocket.

— Consolidate TRI-CARE health insurance options into a preferred provider network that would have new fees and also higher fees.

— Make a phased cut in taxpayer support of com-missaries so that average savings on groceries drop from 30 percent down to 10.

The Military Coalition, an umbrella group of 33 associations and veteran groups, has urged lawmak-ers to reject this “piece-meal” approach to curbing compensation and await the recommendations of the Military Compensation and Retirement Modern-ization Commission due next February.

Retired Air Force Col. Mike Hayden, testifying on behalf of The Military Coalition before the House military personnel sub-committee, lauded the commission’s “holistic” ap-proach to pay reform, and dinged Pentagon initiatives

as just transferring more costs onto “the backs of the beneficiaries [to] free up additional funding for other priorities within the department.”

Davis asked Hayden whether it “makes a differ-ence” if it’s the Pentagon this year recommend-ing changes that impact quality of life for military families or if it’s an inde-pendent commission doing so next year.

“The difference is their charter. They are not look-ing at a budget cutting drill, which this definitely is,” Hayden said, pointing to DoD’s budget.

Also, commission members have given as-surances their priority is not to cut pay and benefits

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but to make military com-pensation more efficient and possibly provide better benefits, Hayden said. That “could end up improving retention and recruiting, which is the overall driver for strong readiness.”

The Pentagon proposal drawing the harshest criti-cism from lawmakers and family advocates would lower the commissary appropriation from $1.4 billion down to $400 million over three years. Wilson praised current shopper savings and also the jobs that commissaries provide for family members.

“It’s unique and simply can’t be recreated,” Wilson said.

Even military exchange executives reacted with alarm to a first draft of the legislative proposal to im-plement commissary cuts, warning the entire military resale system could be at risk. That proposal is be-ing modified. By mid-April, lawmakers still didn’t have bill language to consider.

In a March 26 memo, acting Deputy Secretary of

Defense Christine Fox de-scribed the department’s scramble to shape a leg-islative proposal “that stands the greatest chance of enactment on a complex topic with the potential to impact not only our service members, their families and retirees, but also the exchange system and MWR [morale, welfare and recreation] funds” which are exchange profits used for on-base, quality-of-life programs.

Fox said the revised proposal would make two “significant changes to current statute” govern-ing commissaries: lift one restriction that goods must be sold at cost, and anoth-er that commissaries can sell only brand names.

“These two changes will provide…enough price and product flexibility,” Fox wrote, for commissaries to save $200 million in fiscal 2015.

Otherwise, current store operations should be sustained, she said, while the department reviews “what additional

changes to statute may be required” to make the De-fense Commissary Agency self-sustaining even with its annual appropriation cut by $1 billion.

“This review should consider…having commis-saries adopt an Exchange-like business model and

other options for consoli-dation of commissary and Exchange functions,” Fox wrote.

Hayden warned that if shopper savings fall to 10 percent, the announced target, patrons will go elsewhere and stores will close. Defense officials

have said that’s not the in-tent but they don’t dispute the possibility.

That angers family ad-vocates. Kathleen Moakler with the National Military Family Association told the Senate subcommittee that for every dollar spent to run commissaries last

year, “military families realized two dollars in sav-ings. Why are we messing with a successful system?”

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Youth Fishing rodeo this weekend

A Youth Fishing Rodeo will be held this weekend, April 26 and 27, at Ander-son Pond. The event is lim-ited to children 15 years old or younger. There will be various time slots available throughout the two days, specifically 7-10 a.m., noon-3 p.m. and 4:30-7:30 p.m.

The public is welcome to sign up for the fishing rodeo by calling the Jackson Guard at (850) 882-4165. Anderson Pond is located three miles north of Niceville on the east side of Highway 85.

Fathering in Boots, Fathering the New

generation An interactive presenta-

tion on Generative Fathering is scheduled from 2 – 4 p.m. April 29 at Eglin Air Force Base, Heritage Hall. Presen-tation is by Capt. Gerald No-vack, PhD. Open to all with DoD Access.

Parking Lot Sale May 10

Everyone with base ac-cess is invited to shop or sell at Eglin’s basewide Parking Lot Sale at 8:30 a.m. open-ing May 10, on Georgia Av-enue. Look for the event flags and signage at the two large parking lots across the street from the Eglin Con-ference Center and BX Mini Mall. Sellers may park in any available space in either lot, then use the adjacent space to display their wares. Shop-pers are welcome to park in any of the parking lots off Van Matre Avenue, sur-rounding the event area. Space for sellers is free. Ad-vance reservations are not required.

For more information,

call 850-882-1482.

Home-based job program May 6Join the Eglin Airman &

Family Readiness Center for a Home-Based Career & Telework Job Develop-ment Program on Tuesday, May 6 from 8 a.m.-2:30 p.m. at the Bayview Club. This Spouse Employment Train-ing sponsored by the Air Force Aid Society will pro-vide resources and strate-gies for job seekers to find legitimate home-based jobs and freelance projects on the internet. Please call to register.

For more information, contact Eglin’s Airman & Family Readiness Center at 850-882-9060 or 850-882-9061.

Family Beach campout NightEglin Outdoor Recre-

ation invites all families out for a Family Beach Cam-pout & Movie Night un-der the stars, every fourth Saturday of each month through September. Camp-ing begins at 5 p.m. on Post’l Point Beach. Outdoor Rec will provide each family’s overnight camping package, which includes one tent, up to 3 sleeping bags, a cooler and lantern. A family movie will be shown on the big out-door screen after sundown. Cost is $50 per family, or $10 for families supplying their own camping equipment. A community grill is available until sundown for campers who bring food or snacks to prepare for the evening. (Food is not provided by Outdoor Rec.) Pre-registra-tion is required prior to the event date. Campout dates for the 2014 season are April 26, May 24, June 28, July 26, Aug. 23 and Sep. 27.

For more information, contact Eglin Outdoor Rec-reation at 850-882-5058.

Wounded Warriors golf charity classic

Emerald Coast Wounded Warriors Golf Charity Clas-sic is set for May 10 at Eglin AFB Golf Course. Registra-tion is at 8 a.m. with tee time at 9 a.m.

Hole sponsorships are: Corporate Sponsor $300 (four players and hole sign), Individual Player - $50, Hole Sponsor - $110 (sign only), Mulligan package - $20 (2 mulligans, 1 door prize tick-et, 1 red tee buster). Price includes: green fee and cart, goody bag, hole-in-one prize, longest drive prize and clos-est to pin prize. Awards cer-emony and silent auction will follow.

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Heroes’ nominations sought by May 29

The Red, White & Blue Hero Celebration is held weekly at HarborWalk Vil-lage starting Thursday, May 29 through Labor Day weekend. HarborWalk Vil-lage is seeking nominations of individuals who have gone above and beyond and dem-onstrate heroism within their community. Nomina-tions can come from fam-ily, personal or professional contacts by simply filling out a nomination at www.Har-borwalkDestin.com.

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