09-02-2011 - Eglin Dispatch

Friday, September 2, 2011
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 Iraqi aircraft
maintainers learn English.
See story Page 3
F-35 gets red carpet treatment
Page 2
 Camp Rudder Rangers
to train with python that
killed toddler.
See story Page 4
 Soldier writes book
focusing on life of
wounded Ranger.
See story Page 5
 Heritage Cycle hosts
fundraiser for wounded
warriors.
See story Page6
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Year No. 5 Edition No. 35
F-35 gets red carpet treatment
By DUSTY RICKETTS
Florida Freedom Newspapers
After years of delays and controversy, a large crowd finally got
an up-close look at the newly arrived F-35 Lightning II fighter jet
Friday Aug. 26.
With one of the two F-35s at
Eglin Air Force Base in the background, more than 600 people
attended the rollout ceremony in
one of the new hangars for the
33rd Fighter Wing.
“Eventually, 2,200 maintainers
and 100 pilots per year will pass
through these doors,” said Col.
Andrew Toth, commander of the
33rd. “For the immediate future,
starting in 2012 we anticipate a
couple hundred pilots and maintainers going through the training center. In 2014, the program
should be mature enough to have
the Air Force send students fresh
from basic training.
“What this aircraft behind me
stands for is a visual representation of our exciting future,” Toth
added. “The 33rd Pursuit Group
of the past is nothing like the 33rd
Fighter Wing of today, except
in the long-standing spirit of air
power. With the F-35 program,
we foresee air dominance for
our services and partner nations
for the next 30 to 50 years. The
Nomads stand ready to provide
fire from the clouds anytime,
anywhere.”
It could be awhile before local
residents see the F-35s in the sky.
“We’re following an event-driven timeline, so it’s still probably
going to be a few months before
we actually start flying them,”
Gen. Edward Rice, commander
of the Air Education and Training
Command at Randolph Air Force
Base in Texas, said later. “We’re
using the aircraft now for maintenance tech training and pilots are
going through the checklists and
testing. I can’t give you an exact
date, but we are all anxious for
that as well.”
Eglin is scheduled to receive
59 F-35s. Larry Lawson, executive vice president and general
manager of Lockheed Martin’s F35 program, said Eglin’s next four
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Visitors were able to get an up-close look at the F-35 on Aug. 26, after a ceremony at Eglin Air Force Base.
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Gen. Edward A. Rice Jr., commander of the Air Education and Training
Command at Randolph Air Force Base, Texas, addresses visitors Aug.
26, during the rollout ceremony for the F-35 at Eglin Air Force Base.
Joint Strike Fighters should be
delivered within the next month.
Lockheed Martin has 54 other
F-35s in various stages of production at its plant in Fort Worth,
Texas.
Lawson said Lockheed Martin
now is finishing about two F-35s a
month. That output is expected to
increase to about three a month
for the next couple of years before production ramps up even
more
“I think this is an important
milestone for the F-35 program,
and more importantly it’s the
beginning of a new era in training for the U.S. Air Force, Army
and Marine forces,” Lawson said.
“Never in our nation’s history
have we had the opportunity to
recapitalize all of our air forces
and work at this level of cooperation to not only provide an incredible capability, but to figure out
how to do it in the most cooperative way.”
Following the ceremony,
Medal of Honor recipient and
retired Air Force Col. Bud Day
and his wife Doris were given an
up-close look at the jet. Bud Day
said the F-35 was much more
complex than the ones he flew in
Vietnam, but added that it is very
functional.
“This is going to be a real efficient airplane when you get it
out and get it on the line,” Day
said. “There’s a ton of work you
can do out in the combat theater
with this airplane quick. It’s got
a lot of internal defense built into
it because of its great offensive
capability.”
Friday, September 2, 2011 | THE EGLIN DISPATCH | Page Iraqi aircraft maintainers learn English
By Senior Airman
Chuck Broadway
9 Air and Space
Expeditionary Task Force-Iraq
/ Air Component Coordination
Element-Iraq
KIRKUK, AIR BASE,
IRAQ — For Iraqi aircraft
maintainers at Kirkuk
Regional Air Base, comprehension of the English
language is a problem
they face every day. All of
their technical manuals
are written in English, the
internationally recognized
language of aviation.
To combat this issue, Maj. Mark Gray, the
321st Air Expeditionary
Advisory Group director
of maintenance, along
with several air advisors,
teach Iraqi maintainers
the basics of the English
language in an interactive,
open forum.
In June 2011, while
touring an area of Kirkuk
occupied by the Iraqi Air
Force, Major Gray, along
with an Iraqi general,
came upon an abandoned
building. When they entered the room the major
was floored by what he
saw.
The building, once
operated by the Defense
Language Institute, was
previously used to teach
English to the Iraqis. Filling shelves, top-to-bottom,
were educational materials. Resembling a rainbow of hope were books,
pictures and videos, many
of which were still in the
original wrappers.
The two officers came
to an epiphany and asked
each other, “Why don’t
we teach the English language here?”
The major quickly
staked claim to the building and the program came
to life.
Classes began in July
Major Gray, a Wheatland,
Calif. native deployed
from Eglin Air Force
Base, teaching the alphabet, basic greetings, math
problems and other vocabulary. Quickly though,
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helps teach the basics of the English language two hours a day, four days a week to the
Iraqi maintainers at Kirkuk Air Base, Iraq. Iraqi maintenance professionals have to learn
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he realized the Iraqis
were further along than
expected.
The classroom atmosphere is very laid back.
There is a light-hearted
mood between instructors
and students which Major
Gray said was his intent
from the beginning.
“The classes we loved
the most growing up are
the ones that had the fun
teacher,” he said. “That’s
what I was hoping to show
them. The students are
not just learning the English language we’re teaching them, but the way we
interact with each other
as well.”
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Camp Rudder to train with python that killed toddler
By ANGEL McCURDY
Florida Freedom Newspapers
A python that killed a
2-year-old Florida girl in
2009 will now be used in
training at Eglin Air Force
Base.
The 8-foot, 6-inch python, named Gypsy, has
lived at the Camp Rudder
snake house since shortly
after the incident.
The albino Burmese python now will be used in
swamp training at ranger
camp, said Elsie Jackson,
public affairs with Fort
Benning.
“The rangers who work
in the snake house are licensed to handle venomous snakes and all of the
snakes are being well cared
for,” Jackson said. “Up until now, the snake has been
in holding because of the
(criminal court) case. Now
we are going to be able to
use it with the training.”
Jackson said the snake
is among many reptiles
used during the swamp
training. Rangers must
recognize venomous
snakes versus harmless
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The toddler, Shaianna Rosa Hare, died July
1, 2009, after the python
slid into her crib and constricted her. Her mother,
Jaren Hare, and her live-in
boyfriend Charles “Jason”
Darnell each were sentenced Wednesday to 12
years in prison.
Hare and Darnell faced
a maximum of 45 years in
prison after being convicted of manslaughter and
child neglect.
According to news reports, the couple kept the
python in a glass tank and
used a quilt as the lid in
their mobile home in Oxford, located about 60 miles
northwest of Orlando.
At the time, the snake
weighed less than 14
pounds — the typical
weight of a snake that size
is 150 pounds.
A medical examiner testified during the couple’s
trial that the snake was attempting to eat the child.
“Originally, the state
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Oxford.
attorney did not want the and Wildlife Conservation
snake destroyed because it Commission coordinator
was evidence in the case,” for the northeast region.
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no reason to destroy the
snake, which was acting
on instinct, but the state
did not want the snake in
the public.
“We didn’t want to put
it someplace where someone could capitalize on its
infamy,” Hill said. “There
isn’t any reason to destroy
it just because the case is
over, so we worked with
Eglin, and they are using it
for training purposes.”
Friday, September 2, 2011 | THE EGLIN DISPATCH | Page Soldier writes book focusing
on life of wounded Ranger
By TRACY CONNER
“Daddy Keeps Us Free”
Contributing Writer
A special forces soldier
whose buddy came back
from a deployment paralyzed from the neck down
is writing a children’s book
about the challenges facing wounded warriors and
their families.
The book, focusing
on the life story of Chief
Warrant Officer Romulo
Camargo, an Army Ranger
who was shot in an ambush near Kandahar, will
be the second in a series
by Army Lt. Col. Scott
Mann.
Mann, who is stationed
at U.S. Special Operations Command in Tampa,
was recently TDY to the
7th Special Forces Group
Compound at Eglin Air
Force Base and will be
returning to the base in
September.
“Daddy Keeps Us Free,” illustrated by Nick Punnell, is available
on Amazon.com or Mann’s own website, PatriotFamilies.com,
for about $20. Proceeds benefit a nonprofit corporation called
Patriot Families that serves military personnel.
In the military, his job is
village stability – teaching
rural Afghanis to stand up
for themselves against insurgents. As an author, he
focuses on home life of a
different sort, helping military children understand
what their parents do for a
living, and why.
“My first kids’ book,
‘Daddy Keeps Us Free,’
was based on what my
wife calls our shared sense
of mission, that this is a
family mission we are on,”
Mann explains. “She took
a really neat approach to
this with our own three
sons, and it really seemed
to help them cope.”
“Daddy Keeps Us
Free,” illustrated by Nick
Punnell, is available on
Amazon.com or Mann’s
own website, PatriotFamilies.com, for about $20.
Proceeds benefit a nonprofit corporation called
Patriot Families that
serves military personnel.
“Military deployments
are often filled with anxiety, long separation and
fear of the unknown,”
Mann says in a blog on his
website. “‘Daddy Keeps
Us Free’ was written to
help families cope with the
challenges of deployment
separation.”
After the publication of
Courtesy photo
LTC Scott Mann (left), holds the $2,000 check donated by CW2 Romulo “Romy” Camargo (center) and his wife Gaby (right) in Tampa. Romy and his wife Gaby, auctioned
off his first Harley Davidson and donated a portion of the proceeds, to Patriot Families, a
non-profit corporation started by Mann to support military families and wounded veterans through children’s books and advocacy.
“Daddy Keeps Us Free,”
Mann gave a copy to Camargo, who is married and
has a 4-year-old son and a
teen-age daughter.
“Romy was pretty
emotional about it,” Mann
says. “He was touched by
it. He held a fundraiser
for us, raffled off a Harley
Davidson, and … donated
$2,000 to us.” He also
agreed to be a character in
Mann’s next book, which
will focus on helping military kids with wounded
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Heritage Cycles hosts a fundraiser for Wounded Warriors
By LAUREN SAGE REINLIE
Florida Freedom Newspapers
FORT WALTON BEACH
— Bob Borden’s voice
boomed across the parking
lot of Heritage Cycles on
Saturday afternoon Aug. 27.
“Come on! Are you
scared? You probably throw
like a girly girl!” he goaded
at passers-by before someone hit the button and the
platform he sat on slipped
out from under him and he
splashed into the dunk tank
below.
Borden, a 65-year-old
member of the Blue Knights
law enforcement motorcycle group, was volunteer-
ing for Heritage Cycles’
event to raise money for the
Wounded Warrior Project.
The event’s organizers
asked for donations for
throws at the dunk tank, hot
dogs or entry into a 50/50
raffle game.
“Our military is very important,” said Diane Biancanello, who owns Heritage
Cycles with her husband,
Tony. “They help us stay
free and they’re not coming
back in very good shape.”
The Wounded Warrior
Project helps severely
injured service members after they return from service
and transition to civilian life.
The Biancanellos have
been raising money for mili-
tary causes since shortly
after Sept. 11, 2001.
Niceville resident and
volunteer Andy Cole started
grilling hot dogs at 11 a.m.
He said he served 29 years
in the military before retiring after suffering a stroke.
“I’m blessed I didn’t
come back wounded,” he
said.
Cole said he volunteers
to help out the Biancanellos
any time they have a charity
event.
The sentiment was
echoed by Destin bassist
Ron Stanley, whose rock
cover band Crash Xourse
has committed to playing at
all Heritage Cycles events
for free.
“I believe in Karma,” he
said. “It seems every good
deed we do, we get two of
them back, you know?”
His son just returned
home safely from Afghanistan, he said.
John Melville from Essex, England, stopped at
the motorcycle shop to pick
up a patch, a souvenir he
tries to collect from all the
places he visits. He took a
few shots at the dunk tank,
but missed.
“It’s my cricket arm,” he
said.
Melville said he owns a
Harley-Davidson and belongs to a motorcycle club
in his hometown, which also
puts on charitable events.
“It’s funny. No one likes
bikers, but you listen to bikers and everything they do
is for charity,” he said.
He and his wife were
just passing through, but he
suddenly had a notion.
“Are my trunks in the
car?” he asked. “Does anyone have a towel?”
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Kyra Schkolenko falls into the water in a dunking booth
Aug. 27, during a fundraiser for the Wounded Warrior
Project at Heritage Cycles in Fort Walton Beach. The
event also welcomed members of the Army 7th Special
Forces Group (Airborne) with free hotdogs.
Friday, September 2, 2011 | THE EGLIN DISPATCH | Page english From page 3
averages 35 students per
session. Originally, sessions were two hours a
day, four days a week.
Now, due to growing attendance and popularity,
night classes have added.
“It’s really all about
seizing the moment,”
Major Gray said. “The
combination of timing and
motivation seems to be a
formula for success.”
Master Sgt. Steven
Kral, a 521st Air Expeditionary Advisory Squadron
maintenance air advisor
and one of the instructors,
said he uses a method of
constant repetition to engrain the knowledge in the
students’ minds.
An Iraqi student reads
a single sentence. The
instructor repeats that
sentence and is joined by
the rest of the class.
book
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parents. There could not
be a better subject, says
Mann, who calls Camargo
“just a profile in courage.”
“I’m not wanting to
make any money off the
books,” Mann says. “We’re
just trying to pay it forward, using our nonprofit
to do good works, helping local wounded guys,
providing advocacy and
support, and getting as
many copies as possible
into the hands of deployed
families.”
“Daddy Keeps Us Free”
is geared to children from
ages about 4 to 8 and is
meant to be read aloud and
shared.
“The response we’ve
gotten from other military
members has been really
favorable,” Mann says.
“I’ve had grown men get
emotional. So many people
can relate to it. We’ve all
been deployed so many
times. We’ve seen what
our wives and our kids go
through. It just strikes a
cord.”
He compared his
teaching method to any
American learning a new
language.
“The more we say
and repeat something
the more we remember
it,” said Sergeant Kral
a Ventura, Calif. native
also deployed from Eglin.
“Eventually we’re going
to have the students write
things down too. When
you write something down
you tend to remember it
even better.”
According to Major
Gray, the instructors encourage every student to
participate equally and
facilitate group learning
to cultivate an open and
comfortable environment
for the Iraqis.
“The instructors explain everything to us,”
said one Iraqi captain.
“It’s a very good way to
learn and we can now gain
the skills we need and get
a higher level of English.
Everyone will eventually
be able to read and write
in English and when we
get better, the Iraqi Air
Force gets better.”
The Iraqis advanced
quicker than any of the
instructors expected.
Though they still use a
translator at times, English is now the primary
language spoken during
class.
Major Gray hopes the
Iraqi officers who are fluent in English will take
over the program and
teach their fellow Iraqis.
“My hope is that the
senior Iraqi leadership
approves a formal English
course at each location,”
he said. “This way each
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Air National Guard heads home after Irene
Above, an
F-16 Fighting
Falcon pilot
and maintainer, with
the District
of Columbia
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Guard, prepare the aircraft to return
home to Washington, Aug. 29 from Eglin Air Force Base. The F-16s arrived here Aug. 26
as an evacuation measure from the impending Hurricane Irene. At right, an F-16 Fighting Falcon, from the District of Columbia Air National Guard, takes off from the runway
at Eglin Air Force Base
‘Cookie Monsters’ stock Freedom Lounge with goodies
The “Cookie Monsters” as they are known at Bob Hope Village have been making weekly contributions of baked goods for
the troops who pass through
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Friday, September 2, 2011 | THE EGLIN DISPATCH | Page Volunteers needed to give a voice to abused, neglected children
By SHARON DOOLEY
Contributing Writer
There never seems to
be a shortage of children
who have been abused or
neglected, and yet there is
a shortage of volunteers to
protect them.
Beginning in September,
the Florida Guardian ad Litem program launches a new
approach for its volunteer
base of case workers as the
program actively recruits
and accepts volunteers who
wish to work as partners.
“Sometimes we have volunteers a little uncomfortable to go into a home by
themselves, and if they go
into a home with someone,
they feel more comfortable,”
said Gerry Bagley, Guardian
ad Litem case coordinator
II. Bagley serves the south
end of Okaloosa County as
part of the 1st Judicial Circuit. The 1st Judicial Circuit
covers Escambia, Santa
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counties.
The concept of putting
two volunteers on a case
isn’t completely new in the
1st Judicial Circuit Guardian
ad Litem, which has already
seen spouses work together.
Because of the success
of this, the Guardian ad Litem program will now be
able to pair other working
partners, such as the soccer
moms who found that they
get along well, scout parents
who work together, church
members, friends and family
members.
Carita Smith, volunteer
recruiter for the north section of Okaloosa County, said
she sees a benefit to having
two people work one case.
“Two sets of eyes are always good on any situation,”
she said. “Where one may
miss one thing that’s happening, the other might see
it.”
Smith has been involved
with the Guardian ad Litem
program only a short time,
but already she not only
works to recruit volunteers,
but she volunteers herself.
The extra time she puts
into the program is because
of the lack of volunteers. The
north end of Okaloosa County needs 75 volunteers, but it
has only 13.
“We have 200 kids who
need a voice who don’t have
a volunteer to speak for
them,” she said.
The Guardian ad Litem
program grew out of the
need for finding stable adult
voices to be given to children who have been abused,
abandoned or neglected.
In Santa Rosa, Okaloosa
and Walton counties right
now, more than 1,371 children are listed in the court
system as needing a Guardian ad Litem, but only 765
have an actual volunteer to
take the case.
As with any volunteer program, training is required,
which is about 30 hours total,
spread over a period of time.
Training includes two daylong training sessions, about
13 hours of online training
and two hours of courtroom
observation.
The local offices also pair
new volunteers with experienced volunteers through a
mentoring program.
Once training is complete,
Smith said that the actual
time put into a case might
come to about six hours a
month.
“You are only required to
visit your child that you’re
Guardian ad Litem for once
a month,” she also said. “You
can visit more, but the required visit is only once a
month.”
Volunteers must also be
at least 21 years old, pass
a background check and be
free of felonies.
Smith said that potential
volunteers are “anyone who
has the compassion and the
time, and who’s willing to
give that time.”
Bagley said that the opportunities for volunteers
in the Guardian ad Litem
program aren’t limited to
case management. The program needs pro bono attorneys, especially for youths
who will be aging out of the
foster care program. Volunteers are also needed as
office workers or for occasional event planning and
promotions.
The Guardian ad Litem
program also has in the
early stages of planning its
nonprofit support group, the
Northwest Florida Guardian
ad Litem Foundation. Members are needed to help this
organization support the
local program of this state
agency.
Across the state, there
are 21 Guardian ad Litem
programs that provide a
network of professional staff
and community activists and
volunteers in lending a voice
for children.
“Our judges here, they
have a lot of respect for our
program,” Bagley said. “We
are the eyes and ears for the
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judges, and often the judge
will send us out to speak to
the child and see what (the
child’s) wishes are before
he’ll make a ruling on a
case.”
Smith, however, sums it
up more simply: “I usually
say the Guardian ad Litem
is the guardian angel for the
children who can’t speak for
themselves.”
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the Florida Guardian ad Litem program, visit www.gal.
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Okaloosa office, call 609-5466
or email Gerry Bagley at
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contact the north Okaloosa
office, call 689-5060.
Swamp
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Walk
P i c t u r e s b y N i c k To m e c e k
F l o r i d a Fr e e d o m N e w s p a p e r s
The Army’s 6th Ranger Training Battalion’s Wives’ Swamp Walk
at Camp James E. Rudder was held on Aug. 27. The swamp walk gives
wives and family members a chance to experience a day-in-the-life
of an Army Ranger. Family members enjoyed a reptile show, weapon
firing, crossing a rope bridge, paddling a Zodiac inflatable boat and
walking through the swamp.
A helicopter rescue team demonstrates lifting a Ranger
from a wooded area.
Pam Woodall crosses a rope bridge Saturday Aug. 27, during the Army’s annual 6th Ranger Training Battalion’s Wives’ Swamp Walk at Camp James E. Rudder.
Desiree
Moro, left,
sprays
bug spray
on Katrina
Turner
before
heading
into the
woods for
the Wives’
Swamp
Walk.
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Staff Sgt. Nicholas Posatiere, left, photographs his wife Andrea Posatiere fire an M249
machine gun Saturday during the Army’s annual 6th Ranger Training Battalion’s Wives’
Swamp Walk at Camp James E. Rudder.
Rangers hold
an Eastern
Diamondback snake
for Ranger
family members during
the Army’s
annual 6th
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Wives’
Swamp Walk
at Camp
James E.
Rudder.
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Rising to shield commissaries from the budget knife
Jerry Ensminger, a retired Marine Corps master
sergeant who has fought
for years to win government-funded health care
for families exposed to
contaminated water at
Camp Lejeune, doesn’t
want the measure passed
if, Congress would gut the
military’s prized commissary benefit to pay for it.
Critics contend that’s
what the Caring for Camp
Lejeune Veterans Act (S.
277) would do: funding
health care for those
families by ending annual
appropriations for commissaries and merging these
base grocery store operations with exchanges, the
name for base department
stores.
“Do I agree with this
proposal to punish veterans and their families and
active duty people who
depend on, and worked for,
the right to use the commissary? Hell no. We have
lost too many of our benefits over the years to have
this taken from us,” Ens-
minger said
in a phone
interview.
But
Ensminger,
who lost his
9-year-old
daughter,
Janey, to
acute lymphoblastic
leukemia
in 1985, and blames her
death and many others on
poisons found in Lejeune
drinking water, had only
praise for Sen. Richard
Burr, R-N.C., lead architect
of S. 277. In June, when
forced to find cuts in defense spending to pay for
Lejeune vets’ health care,
Burr proposed streamlining military store operations. The full committee
agreed.
Just by getting S. 277
through the veterans affairs committee this summer, Burr brought ailing
Lejeune veterans and families closer to the medical
help they need, Ensminger
suggested. That alone is a
Tom
Philpott
victory.
“I applaud Sen. Burr for
recognizing this problem
and raising it to the level it
deserves. It is horrific that
this happened” to families
over three decades, ending
in 1985. “So please focus
on the fact that there’s no
question the population
at Camp Lejeune was poisoned,” Ensminger said.
“Now, does the bill
need to be amended
and tweaked? Yes, by all
means,” he said. “Does
there need to be another
way of paying for it? Yes,
and there are other savings
that can be found within
the Department of Defense
budget. But, that burden
should not be placed on
Sen. Burr or Sen. (Patty)
Murray or the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee.
It should be placed on the
perpetrators who did this.”
That would be the
Department of Defense
and, more specifically, the
Navy Department and the
Marine Corps, Ensminger
said.
Burr’s decision to
fund S. 277 by putting
commissaries at risk has
been roundly criticized
by military associations,
commissary patrons and
the American Logistics
Association (ALA), which
represents suppliers doing business with base
stores. ALA projects that,
if passed as written, S. 277
would raise grocery prices
an average of $4,000 a year
for military families and kill
50,000 store jobs for family
members.
Commissary advocates
on Capitol Hill suggest the
store system had a target on its back for deficit
hawks already. The target
only got bigger when the
Senate Veterans Affairs
Committee signaled that
ending taxpayer subsidies
and lowering patron savings were reasonable efficiency moves.
Burr’s staff merely had
found and embraced a costsavings proposal floated by
the Congressional Budget
Office for the last several
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years. The bipartisan National Commission on
Fiscal Responsibility and
Reform, created by President Barack Obama, used
that same suggestion on
store consolidation to illustrate ways defense spending might be cut. It said
combining store systems
into one network over a
five-year period would save
$1.7 billion annually, assuming prices were raised
an average of 5 percent.
The same commission
said some savings could
be returned to families in
the form of a grocery allowance to offset the price increase. S. 277 proposes no
such allowance. The CBO
said arguing against this
is the fact that a combined
store network still could offer patrons “below-market
prices.”
The offset to pay for
S. 277, said David Ward,
Burr’s spokesman, “is
just one option for providing care for the veterans
and their family members
who suffer as a result of
exposure to toxic water
at Camp Lejeune.” Burr
remains “open to working
with DOD to find other
means to pay for this important legislation.” See knife page 15
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Sessions are on Tuesdays,
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a.m. -12:30 p.m. at the West
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Youth of the Chapel will be at 882-2111.
hosting a Back to School
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youth ages 5-18 year olds at
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parents must sign permis- will host a Kick-off breaksion slips. For information fast from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m.
and to sign up, contact Wey- Sept. 10 at the Eglin Bayview
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[email protected].
and welcome ladies from
the U.S. Army 7th Special
Forces Group who recently
relocated to the Eglin Community. Guest speaker will
be Chaplain Eusebia Rios.
The Eglin Chapel offers a RSVP by Sept. 5 to Alice
faith-based environment for Belton-Terrell at 543-4151 or
healing wounds for Warrior [email protected].
recovery for combat-related
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. This initial outreach
program is for Active Duty,
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Lt. Col. Brian D. Silkey will
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Armament Museum. Silkey
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Elmendorf-Richardson, AK.
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of the 917 FG, Barksdale AFB,
LA. For information, contact
SMSgt McDowell at 882-1793
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begin its AWANA program
which starts on Sept. 7 and
will be held every Wednesdays at 6 p.m. for 3-yearolds through 6th grade
at the Chapel Community
Center, building 605. Volunteers are needed. Contact
Dan Sullivan at 830-3251 or
[email protected].
Teen Ministry
begins Sept. 18
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Chapel Teens for Christ
Ministry will start the Fall
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Meetings are held every
1st and 3rd Sunday’s of the
month at the Eglin Base
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a great 20 minutes leadership lesson and end with it
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knife From page 13
Burr might have done
all he can at this point. If
he were to request and get
floor time in the Senate
to debate and try to pass
S. 277, the Senate Armed
Services Committee stands
ready to seek unanimous
consent of colleagues to
send the bill to its committee, which claims oversight
of defense budgets and
policies including base
stores.
A Senate source acknowledged referral likely
would kill the bill. The
armed services panel
won’t support deep cuts
to the commissary benefit
and isn’t keen to propose
another way to pay for S.
277, given the tight defense
budgets already looming.
The department must find
$350 billion in cuts over 10
years, and perhaps a lot
more. A special 12-member
“super committee” could
propose deeper defense
cuts. And if it can’t agree
to a plan to lower deficit
spending by another $1.5
trillion over 10 years, automatic budget cuts of $1.2
trillion will be triggered
with half taken from de-
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fense spending.
Alarmed by the funding provision in S. 277,
and by the number of debt
reduction initiatives that
threaten military shopping
discounts, Reps. Joe Wilson, R-S.C., and Susan A.
Davis, D-Calif., chairman
and ranking member of the
House military personnel
subcommittee, sent a letter last month to Defense
Secretary Leon Panetta
signed by more than 60
colleagues.
It acknowledges the
budget challenges Panetta
faces. But it urges him to
ignore “cavalier rhetoric by
budget-minded advocates”
that denigrates the need
for the military to operate
grocery and department
stores. Yes, military pay
has improved. But a “compelling need” remains, it
says, “to provide young
families and elderly retirees access to discounted
goods.”
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Doors open at noon. Lunch
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on and off base resources,
and networking. The conference will take place from
8:30 a.m. – 1 p.m. Sept. 29 at
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Eglin
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Enjoy a spectacular
bird’s-eye view of the beautiful Emerald Coast with an
Eglin Aero Club orientation
flight. For Labor Day, the
Aero Club is offering specially priced flights from 9
a.m. to 4 p.m. Sept. 5 for only
$20 per person. Free hamburgers and hot dogs will be
available through 2 p.m., and
a bouncy house will be open
for children. Bring along
your family, your friends,
and your PLAYpass card
to save even more. Flights
depart from the Eglin Aero forcesupport.com/fcc.
Club (Bldg. 898 on the flightline) and last approximately
20 minutes. 882-5148
Family Child Care
classes
Need a second household income? Become a licensed Family Child Care
provider and possibly earn
up to $4,500 a month. The
next scheduled class starts
the week of Sept. 12, and every other month thereafter.
Persons interested in providing care for children in
their homes for more than
10 hours a week on a regular
basis must be licensed. Providers are needed to provide
care for hourly, part/full time,
volunteer, PCS, extended
duty, evenings, weekends,
special needs and overnight
care. Call the Family Child
Care office at 882-2994 for
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Fitness &
recreation
Military Bowls free
During September, get a
group together of your fellow military personnel, put
in a call to the Eglin Bowling
Center, then roll on in and
bowl for free any MondayFriday from 10-11 a.m. or 2-3
p.m. This includes a full hour
of free play for a minimum of
12 people (all Armed Forces
personnel welcome), plus
shoe rental! Remember,
advance reservations are
required to take advantage
of this great deal, so call
the Eglin Bowling Center
today and set yourself free!
882-3352
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7th Special Forces
Bowling Club
annual dues payer at Eglin
Golf Course, is stationed at
Eglin AFB or works on Eglin. Format is an individual
stroke play event. The event
is flighted for Men’s Championship, Men’s Handicapped, Sr. Championship,
Sr. Handicapped, Super Sr.
Championship, and Ladies
Championship. Cost is
$50 per player, not including green fees or cart fees.
Registration ends Wednesday, Sept. 7. 882-2949
The Eglin Bowling Center welcomes the 7th Special
Forces (Airborne) to our Eglin Community with an announcement that Wednesday
is Army Night at the Bowling
Center! For league competition, a 7th Special Forces
Bowling Club is now forming with play scheduled for
Wednesdays at 6 p.m. beginning Sept. 7. Play is open to
4-person mixed teams, men
and/or women. Cost is $10
per week, with a pizza and
awards party scheduled at
During the month of Authe end of 12 weeks. Sign up
now at the Eglin Bowling gust, stop by Eglin’s OutCenter, or call for more de- door Recreation Center at
Post’l Point and grab a map,
tails. 882-3352
which will lead adventures
to five outdoor destinations
on Eglin. Get your map
stamped at each of these
stops and pick up a bit of
Two-round in-house golf “treasure” along the way.
event scheduled for Sept. Then return the completed
10-11 with 7 a.m. tee times map to Outdoor Rec for a
on the Falcon Course the chance to collect some refirst round, and the Eagle ally fine loot — like a GPS
Course for the second unit and $500 cash! Prizes
round. The tournament is will be awarded on Sept.
open to anyone who is an 9 by random drawing. All
Take a Trek thru
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Eglin Club
Championship
ages are invited to join in Eglin AFB. 850-882-6223
the fun. 882-5058
Intramural Cross
Country
Link Up To Golf
Clinic
This class, slated for
Sept. 20-22, is open to anyone interested in learning
the game and is designed for
those who have never played
or have limited knowledge in
the game of golf. The class
is a total of 6-hours of instruction; two hours per day
beginning at 4 p.m. Cost is
$69 per person. Registration
begins Sept. 6. 882-2949
Intramural Flag
Football
Contact your unit’s sports
rep or the Eglin Fitness
Center’s Sports Director to
ask about Eglin’s Intramural
Flag Football season, opening Sept. 13. All active duty,
Guard, Reserve, DoD civilians, contractors and dependants over the age of 18 are
welcome to participate in intramural sport seasons. Participants must be assigned
to or affiliated with units on
Contact your unit’s
sports rep or the Eglin Fitness Center’s Sports Director to ask about Eglin’s
Intramural Cross Country
season, opening Sept. 8. All
active duty, Guard, Reserve,
DoD civilians, contractors
and dependants over the
age of 18 are welcome to
participate in intramural
sport seasons. Participants
must be assigned to or affiliated with units on Eglin
AFB. 850-882-6223
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shows, and electrifying
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Education
Adopt-A-School
Initiative
The Eglin School Liaison
Officer’s Adopt-A-School
Program is a positive partnership between the Okaloosa County School District
and Eglin AFB. The purpose
of the program is to utilize
the human resources and
talents of Eglin personnel to
strengthen, enhance and enrich the quality of education
and needed services in Okaloosa County public schools.
Adopters are the foundation of the Adopt-A-School
Program, committing time,
energy and expertise to an
individual school. Interested
squadrons and/or flights will
work with a specific school
to help sustain and enhance
the education opportunities for the students in that
school. A commitment from
all partners at the highest
level is essential. If interested, or to learn more, contact Jodie Parker, Eglin’s
School Liaison Officer at
850-882-7237.
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that enjoy fishing for the
big one; hitting an archery
or gun target; and sitting
around the campfire with
all of their friends. Boys
in first through fifth grade
are eligible to join the Cub
Scout program. Cub Scouts
is one of many ways to teach
your son lessons and values
that he will be able to use
through his life.
See briefs page 17
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sports Briefs
From staff reports
WAKA Adult Coed
Kickball
Sign up for WAKA Adult
Coed Kickball as an individual or with a group of
friends or co-workers. The
seven game season begins
Sept. 15 ending with a tournament. Games are played
Thursday nights at Chester
Pruitt Field in Fort Walton
Beach. Players must be over
21 to join. Register at www.
kickball.com/FLEMERALDCOAST or contact James
Bray at 850-259-8687.
Florida Trail group
activities
The group has several
activities planned for August
and September.
Sept. 2: 6 p.m. an easy
hike in Pensacola with
dinner following. Details:
850-484-0528.
Sept. 4: 7 a.m. a wake up
hike in Milton followed by
breakfast. Details: 850-7765147 or 850-434-8861.
Sept. 4: 8:30 a.m. volunteers needed for trail
maintenance on Eglin
near Navarre. Eglin permit required. Details:
850-736-7534.
Sept. 10: 8 a.m. volunteers
needed for trail maintenance on Eglin near Crestview. Eglin permit required.
Details: 850-492-8258.
Sept. 11: 8:30 a.m. a hike in
Blackwater River State Forest. Details: 850-484-0528.
Sept. 17: 9:30 a.m. bring
your canoe or kayak for a
paddle down upper Yellow
River near Florala, Al. Details: 850-682-6098.
Sept. 18: 7 a.m. a wake up
hike in Milton followed by
breakfast. Details: 850-7765147 or 850-434-8861.
Sept. 18: 8:30 a.m. volunteers needed for trail main-
tenance near Gulf Breeze.
Details: 850-736-7534.
Sept. 24: 8 a.m. volunteers needed for trail maintenance near Harold, Fl.
Details: 850-474-5359.
Sept. 24: 8:30 a.m. a
seven mile hike on the Juniper Creek Trail in Santa
Rosa County.
Details:
850-723-5112.
Sept. 25: 7 a.m. a wake up
hike in Pensacola followed
by breakfast. Details: 850776-5147 or 850-434-8861.
Sept. 25: 8:30 a.m. bring
your canoe or kayak for a
paddle down Coldwater
Creek near Milton. Rentals are available. Details:
850-484-9111.
Sept. 27: 6 p.m. monthly
meeting at Ed’s Hometown
Seafood & Steaks in Niceville. Visitors welcome. Details: 850-654-1172.
Submit news items or story
ideas to [email protected] or fax to 8637834, Attention Eglin Dispatch. Deadline for Friday’s
Visit online http://choctaw. edition is noon Monday.
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Bringing Back Two Of
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briefs
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Each elementary school
will have a special night to
introduce Cub Scouts to interested boys and parents.
Unless noted, the school
nights all begin at 6:30 p.m.
at the school.
If you can’t make the
school night or have a
question about the place
and time of the meeting
please call to get your son
registered. Contact John
Weaver at (850)-683-0330
for information on packs or
troops in your area.
floridatrail.org.
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The Northwest Florida
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Sept. 15 at the Fairgrounds
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Lewis Turner Blvd). Admission is free to all military
and the general public,
offering opportunities to
meet representatives from
local and national companies seeking experienced
and educated people. For
information, call Ms. Silvia
at 850-882-4169.
To submit an item for the
briefs, e-mail us at news@
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2 dressers, antique
white,
contemporary
design with 9 drawers,
good cond., $99 each.
Nice
blue
sofa,
“L”-shaped with 2 recliners, $115 OBO.
864-3632
CLASSIFIEDS
It’s easy to place an in-column classified ad
in the Eglin Dispatch.
Call 850-864-0320
Bedroom
Complete
Maple Finish Set, New,
Unopened w/warranty.
Sacrifice $475. Can Deliver. 850-471-0330
OR
Place your ad online at
www.EglinDispatch.com
EGLIN DISPATCH
Classified Request Form
Kittens Wanted - Silver
Tabbies. 1 Male & 1
Female. TLC. Refences
850-651-2533
TextFl73970 to 56654
Nice 52” round oak
wood table with metal
base. Good condition,
$100. 850-502-9395
Queen Pillowtop Mattress Set – New with
Warranty! $180 Can
deliver. 850-255-0123
✁
OR
Bring this form in person to:
Northwest Florida Daily News
200 Racetrack Road NW
Ft. Walton Beach, FL
King Pillowtop Mattress Set New! 3pc,
packaged, has warranty. $255 Will deliver.
850-471-0330
Sofa & Love Stain Rest
Microfiber,
Factory
Wrap, Lifetime MFR
Warr! Must Sell $425.
Can Deliver 255-0123
DEADLINE TUESDAY AT NOON PRIOR TO PUBLICATION
Ad Category _________________
If no category is requested, it will appear
in the Miscellaneous category.
25 word limit • Please print clearly or type
Name
Home/Cell Phone ( )
Signature
NO FORMS ACCEPTED WITHOUT SIGNATURE
�Military �Dependent �Retiree
2 wood chairs w/fabric
cushions, $10. Small
boys bicycle, $8. Medical walker, $8. Beautiful
porcelain hand painted
doll in box, new, $7.
Ladies
new
Dexter
bowling shoes, size 9B,
$20. 862-7340
Bunch of tools, socket
set, wrenches, new soldering gun set plus
misc. tools, $35. Johnson Dread Naught guitar w/case, $50. Metal
dog cage w/tray, med.
862-5167
Classified Ad Copy:
WANTED
Quality Hi-Fi / Stereo
Equipment,
Guitars,
Amps, Vacuum Tubes
and Testers Old/New
850-314-0321/543-7025
text f72501 to 56654
Duty Phone
FREE CLASSIFIED AD RULES:
• Free classified ads are for the one time sale of personal property by
military members and immediate family, and military retirees.
• Non-military individuals and all businesses should contact the Eglin
Dispatch’s publisher, the Northwest Florida Daily News by calling
850-864-0320.
• Ads must not exceed 25 words and must list a home or cell phone
number.
• Duty telephones are used by the Dispatch staff for verification
purposes only. The Eglin Dispatch staff reserves the right to edit or
refuse classified ads due to inappropriate content, space
considerations or for other reasons.
• Only one ad may be submitted per week, unless PCSing.
A copy of PCS orders must be presented in person at:
Northwest Florida Daily News
200 Racetrack Road NW
Ft. Walton Beach, FL
20538611
The submission deadline for classified ads is
Tuesday at noon prior to publication.
Ernie’s Canvas & Upholstery On Okaloosa
Island. Over 30 Yrs Experience 850-585-2964
Text FL74254 to 56654
Hawaiian Massage
1 Hr $35 & 1½ Hr $50
Military Disc
MA# 23522 MM #7352
Cindy 376-0341
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Burial lot, Crestview,
Live Oak Memorial
Cemetery (Garden of
Honor) $895 678-2526
3br/3ba Avail Now!
2200 sq ft furn condo
w/Bay & Golf course
views in Sandestin.
New living room furn,
51” TV & stainless appliances.
$1,800/mo.
No pets. Call for info:
(850) 226-3515.
Text FL74799 to 56654
FWB: Lot for rent.
Water & garbage, furn.
$250/mo 850-420-9228
Text FL74697 to 56654
Honda CBR
600 RR, 2005
Individual wants to
buy house for investment 850-651-0987
Text FL73477 to 56654
Black, Exc Cond, New
Tires, Chain/Sprockets,
Battery, bike cover.
Yoshimura exhaust and
Fender eliminator kit,
13K
miles
$4900
850-830-9663
Text FL74279 to 56654
Crestview 3 br, 2½ ba,
2 car garg, Valley Rd
$875 mo + dp pets ok
Call 850-598-0711
Set of 5 Boat Trailer
Wheel Rims 14\” Aluminum 5 Bolt, $100,
897-2883
FREE 1
Month Rent
Niceville
Bldg/Construction
Project
Manager/
Estimator
PM with heavy UPB
estimating skills and
federal/municipal experience capable of
managing
multiple
jobs.
Email
[email protected]
or fax 850-244-4924.
Web ID 34174636
Text FL74636 to 56654
Office/Storage/G
arage for
Rent
Niceville BWB area
Office/Storage/Garage for
Rent.
Office,
AC storage, three
car garage, alarm
system,
surround
sound stereo, great
for small business.
$800 mo. BWB area.
Call
Donna
850-582-1415.
Text FL70517 to 56654
Bldg/Construction
Superintendent
Superintendent with
federal/municipal experience capable of
managing
multiple
jobs.
Email
[email protected]
or fax 850-244-4924.
Climate Controlled
Storage. Best Rates
In FWB. Mill. Disc.&
Move-In Specials
(850) 863-7964
Customer Service
Needed for beautyshop
on Eglin AFB. Call
(571) 354-3608 or email
[email protected]
Web ID 34175356
Text FL75356 to 56654
FWB: 2 br, 1.5 bath TH
$775 mo. W/D hkups,
pool, storage. Sm. pets
welcome.
Parkview
Estates. (850)862-4831
Okaloosa Island- 2br
1ba. Across Street fr
Beach. 900 sqft. Fully
Furnished,
Stainless
appliances, granite and
tile thru-out. $1,350/mo
incl util. Includes summertime. 770-993-6449
RIC KEY
Mini Storage
Web ID 34174636
Text FL74636 to 56654
Hairstylist
2 br, 1.5 bath, near
base, shopping and
schools $725 Month.
850-585-1255
Shalimar-1, 2, 3 & 4 Br
Apts. $599-$850 Water
Incl. Pool and Laundry,
Central Air, Low Dep!
Mon-Sat (850)651-8267
Text FL64548 to 56654
FWB Share 3 bdrm, 2½
bath, end unit TH. You
would have the whole
upstairs to yourself including private furnished bedroom, full
bath, den/office with
small fridge. Plus use
of the rest of the TH,
washer/dryer, kitchen,
large fenced yard, etc.
Convenient both bases.
$600/mo. includes all.
Military welcome! Call
850-830-2155.
Labor Day Holiday
(Monday, September 5)
Classified Line Ad
D e a d l i n e s
for
Eglin Dispatch and Hurlburt Warrior
To Run:
Friday, September 9
Friday, September 9
Due By:
Tuesday, September 6 @ Noon.
Tuesday, September 6 @ Noon
The classified department and the business offices
of Eglin Dispatch and Hurlburt Warrior
will be closed Monday, September 5
We will reopen Tuesday, September 6, at 8:00 a.m..
3 br, 2 bath- Navarre.
Tile, carpet, & laminate
wood flooring. Ceiling
fans. Master has a Coffered ceiling. Robledal
Estates.; MLS #548934
$139,900 Phil Price, Bill
Pullum Realty. Under
Contract 850-496-3873
3/2 Home in Crestview.
Like New! Recent carpet, tile, paint, & stove.
Vaulted ceiling. Walk In
Closet, A/C. Fncd. Gar.
Owner. 850-689-2958
Crestview Renovated 3
br, 2 ba, 1375 Sf, ½
acre security, appliances, lawn equipment, screened porch,
Gazebo
Hot Tub
Ready,
work
shop
$145,900 850-729-0418
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