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. Sailors, Families Enjoy Magical Christmas, Pages 6-7 Vol. 51 • Issue 49 www.nsmayport.navy.mil www.mayportmirror.com THURSDAY, December 18, 2008 OFF THE DECK OFF THE DECK Holiday Hours For MWR Several MWR facilities will be closed during the holi- day standdown. The closing schedule is as follows: Dec. 24 Ocean Breeze Conference Center, Pool Dec. 25 Auto Skills Center, Beachside Community Center, Bingo/Castaways/Computer Cove/Pizza Hut, Business Office/Admin/Personnel, Child Development Centers, Child Development Home, Fast Lanes Bowling Center, Information Tickets and Travel (ITT), Ocean Breeze Conference Center, Pool, Outdoor Adventures/SEDA, Pelican Roost RV Park, Recycling/Vehicle Storage, Surfside Fitness, Vet, Youth Activities Center, Windy Harbor Golf & Bogey’s. Dec. 26 Auto Skills Center, Admin/ Business Office/Personnel, Child Development Centers, Child Development Home, Information Tickets and Travel (ITT), Ocean Breeze Conference Center/CPO Club, Pool, Recycling/Vehicle Storage, Surfside Fitness, Vet, Youth Activities Center Dec. 31 Ocean Breeze Conference Center, Pool Jan. 1 Auto Skills Center, Bogey’s, Business Office/Admin/ Personnel, Child Development Centers, Child Development Home, Fast Lane Bowling Center, Information Tickets and Travel (ITT), Ocean Breeze Conference Center, Outdoor Adventures/SEDA, Pelican Roost RV Park, Pool, Recycling/Vehicle Storage, Surfside Fitness, Vet, Youth Activities Center Jan. 2 Business Office/Admin/ Personnel, Child Development Home, Information Tickets and Travel (ITT), Ocean Breeze Conference Center, Pelican Roost RV Park, Pool, Recycling/Vehicle Storage, Surfside Fitness MWR facilities that will remain open through the holi- day include: Dec. 24 Auto Skills Center Beachside Community Center, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Bogey’s On-base Child Development Center, 6:30 a.m.-noon Off-base Child Development Center, 6 a.m.- noon Gymnasium, 5 a.m.-9 p.m. Fast Lanes Bowling Center, 10:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Information Tickets and Travel (ITT), 9 a.m.-noon Outdoor Adventures/ Southeast Dive Adventures closes at noon Pelican Roost RV Park, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Planet Mayport, 11 a.m.-11 CHINFO Award Winner Welcome 2009 At NS Mayport From MWR Rock n’ Bowl at Fast Lanes Bowling Center on Dec. 31 from 10 p.m. until 12:30 a.m. Cost is $10 for ages 9 and younger and $15 for ages 10 and older. Cost includes two and a half hours of bowling, shoes, snacks and soda plus party hats, noisemakers and a non-alcoholic toast at midnight. Reservations are required. Make your reservations by Dec. 26 and receive one free bowling game pass. For those ages 21 and older, alcohol will be available for purchase from Fast Lanes Grille. For Rock n’ Bowl information, call Fast Lanes at 270-5377. Castaway’s Lounge is ringing in the New Year with Jacksonville’s premier cover band, Neurotic Butterfly, from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. Dec. 31. There will also be free hors d’oeuvres and drink specials. Ages 18 and older are welcome; must be 21 and older to drink. Check out Neurotic Butterfly at www.myspace.com/neuroticbut- terflyrocks. Reservations are not required. For more information on activities at Castaway’s Lounge, call 270-7205. Single Sailors and Geographical Bachelors are invited to Planet Mayport on New Year’s Eve for holiday festivities all day includ- ing free popcorn, a movie marathon and a sparkling, non-alcoholic toast at midnight. Planet Mayport will extend its hours until 12:30 a.m. on New Year’s Eve. Planet Mayport is located in Bldg. 46 across from Bravo Pier. For more information on Single Sailor activities, call 270-7788. On Jan. 1, the Bingo Program will kick off 2009 with a Bingo Tastiest Ship In The Basin -Photo by CTR2 Jaymie Brown ���������������������������� ��Ships Light Up NS Mayport -Photo by MC1 Heather Ewton ��������������������See 2009, Page 8 West Assumes Duties As 12th MCPON By MCCS(SW/AW) Bill Houlihan Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy Public Affairs Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy (MCPON) (SS/SW) Rick D. West took the helm of the enlisted force as the Navy’s 12th MCPON, receiving the cer- emonial cutlass from MCPON (SW/FMF) Joe R. Campa, Jr., in a change-of-office ceremony at the Washington Navy Yard Dec. 12. The ceremony marked the end of a 29-year career for Campa, who had served as MCPON since July 10, 2006. During his time as MCPON, Campa emphasized a return to “deck- plate leadership” for the Navy’s chief petty officer community and stressed the importance of infusing the fleet with a sense of the Navy’s heritage, tradi- tions and rich history. “With a singular drive, he infused in our chief petty offi- cers’ mess a renewed spirit of heritage, service and high standards,” said Chief of Naval Operations, Adm. Gary Roughead, who served as the ceremony’s guest speaker. “He formed the MCPON’s Leadership Mess to coalesce fleetwide chiefs around those renewed standards and expecta- tions. He created and enforced The Chief Petty Officer Mission, Vision and Guiding Principles.” Campa wasted little time beginning a process he referred to as “re-setting the Navy’s Chief’s Mess.” He introduced the Chiefs’ Mission, Vision and Guiding Principles (MVGP) just two months after taking office then used that document as a foundation for a series of CPO Mess changes and recommen- dations to senior Navy leader- ship. During the 30-month period he was in office, Campa delib- erately introduced the MVGP to the Navy and inserted the lan- guage into Chief Petty Officer Selection Board precepts, as well as the recently developed new CPO evaluation. He was instrumental in the decision to rescind a policy requiring an associate degree for selection to senior chief and also successfully pushed for opening up advancement exams to Sailors serving in theaters such as Iraq, Afghanistan and the Horn of Africa. Campa discussed none of his personal accomplishments during his retirement remarks, though, instead focusing on the gratitude he felt at the oppor- tunities the Navy has provided him and the memories he’ll take with him of his years as a United States Sailor. “In the years to come I can guarantee you that the Sailor in me will never fade,” said Campa. “I’ll miss everything about our great Navy. I’ll miss the Sailors with their energy, their swagger and their courage to speak their minds. I’ll miss the culture and the attitude that is ours and ours alone, and I’ll miss the sea more than I care to admit.” West, joined the Navy in 1981 and most recently served as Fleet Master Chief for Fleet Forces Command in Norfolk. He had previously served as See Holiday Hours, Page 8 The Mirror newpaper will not publish the weeks of Dec. 25 and Jan. 1 due to the holidays. All submissions for the Jan. 8 edition should be received no later than Dec. 31. For more information, call PAO office at 270-5226 ext. 1011. The Mirror Holiday Hours -Photo by MC1 Jennifer A. Villalovos ������See West, Page 4

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Vol. 51 • Issue 49 www.nsmayport.navy.mil www.mayportmirror.com THURSDAY, December 18, 2008

OFF THEDECKOFF THE

DECK

Holiday Hours For MWR

Several MWR facilities will be closed during the holi-day standdown. The closing schedule is as follows:

Dec. 24Ocean Breeze Conference

Center, PoolDec. 25A u t o S k i l l s C e n t e r ,

Beachside Community Center, Bingo/Castaways/Computer Cove/Pizza Hut, Business Office/Admin/Personnel , Child Development Centers, Child Development Home, Fast Lanes Bowling Center, Information Tickets and Travel (ITT), Ocean Breeze Conference Center, Pool, Outdoor Adventures/SEDA, Pelican Roost RV Park, Recycling/Vehicle Storage, Surfside Fitness, Vet, Youth Activities Center, Windy Harbor Golf & Bogey’s.

Dec. 26Auto Skills Center, Admin/

Business Office/Personnel, Child Development Centers, Child Development Home, Information Tickets and Travel (ITT), Ocean Breeze Conference Center /CPO Club, Pool, Recycling/Vehicle Storage, Surfside Fitness, Vet, Youth Activities Center

Dec. 31Ocean Breeze Conference

Center, PoolJan. 1Auto Skills Center, Bogey’s,

Business Off ice/Admin/Personnel, Child Development Centers, Child Development Home, Fast Lane Bowling Center, Information Tickets and Travel (ITT), Ocean Breeze Conference Center, Outdoor Adventures/SEDA, Pelican Roost RV Park, Pool, Recycling/Vehicle Storage, Surfside Fitness, Vet, Youth Activities Center

Jan. 2Business Office/Admin/

Personnel, Child Development Home, Information Tickets and Travel (ITT), Ocean Breeze Conference Center, Pelican Roost RV Park, Pool, Recycling/Vehicle Storage, Surfside Fitness

MWR facilities that will remain open through the holi-day include:

Dec. 24Auto Skills CenterBeachside Community

Center, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.Bogey’sOn-base Child Development

Center, 6:30 a.m.-noonO f f - b a s e C h i l d

Development Center, 6 a.m.-noon

Gymnasium, 5 a.m.-9 p.m.Fast Lanes Bowling Center,

10:30 a.m.-1 p.m.Information Tickets and

Travel (ITT), 9 a.m.-noonO u t d o o r A d v e n t u r e s /

Southeast Dive Adventures closes at noon

Pelican Roost RV Park, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

Planet Mayport, 11 a.m.-11

CHINFO Award Winner

Welcome 2009 At NS MayportFrom MWR

Rock n’ Bowl at Fast Lanes Bowling Center on Dec. 31 from 10 p.m. until 12:30 a.m.

Cost is $10 for ages 9 and younger and $15 for ages 10 and older. Cost includes two and a half hours of bowling, shoes, snacks and soda plus party hats, noisemakers and a non-alcoholic toast at midnight.

Reservations are required. Make your reservations by Dec. 26 and receive one free bowling game pass. For those ages 21 and older, alcohol will be available for purchase from Fast Lanes Grille. For Rock n’ Bowl information, call Fast Lanes at 270-5377.

Castaway’s Lounge is ringing in the New Year with Jacksonville’s premier cover band, Neurotic Butterfly, from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. Dec. 31. There will also be free hors d’oeuvres and drink specials. Ages 18 and older are welcome; must be 21 and older to drink. Check out Neurotic Butterfly at www.myspace.com/neuroticbut-terflyrocks. Reservations are not required. For more information on activities at Castaway’s Lounge, call 270-7205.

Single Sailors and Geographical Bachelors are invited to Planet Mayport on New Year’s Eve for holiday festivities all day includ-ing free popcorn, a movie marathon and a sparkling, non-alcoholic toast at midnight. Planet Mayport will extend its hours until 12:30 a.m. on New Year’s Eve. Planet Mayport is located in Bldg. 46 across from Bravo Pier. For more information on Single Sailor activities, call 270-7788.

On Jan. 1, the Bingo Program will kick off 2009 with a Bingo

Tastiest Ship In The Basin

-Photo by CTR2 Jaymie Brown

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West Assumes Duties As 12th MCPONBy MCCS(SW/AW)

Bill HoulihanMaster Chief Petty Officer of the Navy Public Affairs

Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy (MCPON) (SS/SW) Rick D. West took the helm of the enlisted force as the Navy’s 12th MCPON, receiving the cer-emonial cutlass from MCPON (SW/FMF) Joe R. Campa, Jr., in a change-of-office ceremony at the Washington Navy Yard Dec. 12.

The ceremony marked the end of a 29-year career for Campa, who had served as MCPON since July 10, 2006. During his time as MCPON, Campa emphasized a return to “deck-plate leadership” for the Navy’s chief petty officer community and stressed the importance of infusing the fleet with a sense of the Navy’s heritage, tradi-tions and rich history.

“With a singular drive, he infused in our chief petty offi-cers’ mess a renewed spirit of heritage, service and high

standards,” said Chief of Naval Operations, Adm. Gary Roughead, who served as the ceremony’s guest speaker. “He formed the MCPON’s

Leadership Mess to coalesce fleetwide chiefs around those renewed standards and expecta-tions. He created and enforced The Chief Pe t ty Off icer

Mission, Vision and Guiding Principles.”

Campa wasted little time beginning a process he referred to as “re-setting the Navy’s Chief’s Mess.” He introduced the Chiefs’ Mission, Vision and Guiding Principles (MVGP) just two months after taking office then used that document as a foundation for a series of CPO Mess changes and recommen-dations to senior Navy leader-ship.

During the 30-month period he was in office, Campa delib-erately introduced the MVGP to the Navy and inserted the lan-guage into Chief Petty Officer Selection Board precepts, as well as the recently developed new CPO evaluation.

He was instrumental in the decision to rescind a policy requiring an associate degree for selection to senior chief and also successfully pushed for opening up advancement exams to Sailors serving in theaters

such as Iraq, Afghanistan and the Horn of Africa.

Campa discussed none of his personal accomplishments during his retirement remarks, though, instead focusing on the gratitude he felt at the oppor-tunities the Navy has provided him and the memories he’ll take with him of his years as a United States Sailor.

“In the years to come I can guarantee you that the Sailor in me will never fade,” said Campa. “I’ll miss everything about our great Navy. I’ll miss the Sailors with their energy, their swagger and their courage to speak their minds. I’ll miss the culture and the attitude that is ours and ours alone, and I’ll miss the sea more than I care to admit.”

West, joined the Navy in 1981 and most recently served as Fleet Master Chief for Fleet Forces Command in Norfolk. He had previously served as

See Holiday Hours, Page 8

The Mirror newpaper will not publish the weeks of Dec. 25 and Jan. 1 due to the holidays. All submissions for the Jan. 8 edition should be received no later than Dec. 31. For more information, call PAO office at 270-5226 ext. 1011.

The MirrorHoliday Hours

-Photo by MC1 Jennifer A. Villalovos

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