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T H E R E D 7 . n et Friday, January 16, 2015 Special Forces Soldier dies on holiday leave Page 3 Women in service review rollout due January 2016 Page 2 INSIDE Briefs................5 Philpott............6 7th Group trains Ranger students “Don’t Be A Victim Twice!” TM 2111901 Free Consultation | 800-438-3606 | ForTheVictims.com MICHLES BOOTH Accident & Injury Lawyers Pensacola | Fort Walton Beach | Crestview |4 Marcus J. Michles II Cpt. U.S. Army - 82nd Airborne Div 3rd Special Forces Group (Airborne) 1st Special Operations Command (Airborne) FL Bar Board Certified Civil Trial Specialist 28 Years Trial Experience The uniform changes... The commitment stays the same. Friday, January 16, 2015 | THE RED 7 | Page Page | THE RED 7 | Friday, January 16, 2015 ContactUs Tracey Steele Women in service review rollout due January 2016 Editor 315-4472 [email protected] By Amaani Lyle DoD News Deliberate, measured approach Susan Fabozzi WASHINGTON — Following the 2013 repeal of the Direct Ground Combat Definition and Assignment Rule, the secretary of defense is scheduled to announce final decisions to integrate remaining closed occupations and any approved exceptions to policy on or about Jan. 1, 2016. Juliet Beyler, the Defense Department’s director of Officer and Enlisted Personnel Management, reported “good progress” in the Women in Service Review, which validates all occupational standards to ensure they are operational, relevant and gender-neutral by September 2015. “Throughout the course of the review of the regulations governing women in the military, we determined that the time had come to do away with the direct ground combat rule and open all positions to women instead,” Beyler said. The goal, she explained, is to expand opportunities to ensure that all service members are eligible to serve in any capacity based on their abilities and qualifications, and to “remove those old gender-based barriers to service that no longer made sense.” When Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin E. Dempsey and former Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta removed the direct combat ground rule in 2013, they realized the need for a deliberate and measured approach to ensure the smoothest transition, Beyler said. The services, she said, have been conducting various studies in order to review, validate and complete their occupational standards by the fall of 2015. “We’re on track and moving toward that goal,” Beyler said. Since rescission of the definition and rule, Beyler said, the DoD has notified Congress of the integration of about 71,000 positions previously closed to women. This development, she said, can positively affect the force by allowing people to serve based on their ability. “Expanding opportunities to women, to include the 71,000 we’ve already opened since 2013,” Beyler said, “[gives] a wider pool of qualified people so that commanders have greater flexibility … and it’ll strengthen the all-volunteer force.” More than 280,000 women have been deployed to Iraq and Afghani- News Assistant 315-4450 [email protected] News (850) 315-4450 Fax: (850) 863-7834 E-mail: [email protected] Advertising 863-1111 Ext. 1341 Mail 2 Eglin Parkway NE, Fort Walton Beach, FL 32548 The Red 7 is published by the Northwest Florida Daily News, a private firm in no way connected with the 7th Special Forces Group (Airborne) or the U.S. Army. This publication’s content is not necessarily the official view of, or endorsed by, the U.S. government, the Department of Defense, the Department of the Army or 7th Special Forces Group (Airborne). The official news source for 7th Special Forces Group (Airborne) is http://www.soc.mil/. The appearance of advertising in this publication does not constitute endorsement by the U.S. government, the Department of Defense, the Department of the Army, 7th Special Forces Group (Airborne) or the Northwest Florida Daily News for products or services advertised. Everything advertised in this publication shall be made available for purchase, use or patronage without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, physical handicap, political affiliation or any other nonmerit factor of the purchaser, user or patron. Editorial content is edited, prepared and provided by the Northwest Florida Daily News. Year No. 5 Edition No. 3 stan, including Beyler, who’s a twotime combat veteran. “I like to say that women have been serving in combat since the Revolutionary War, but the 280,000 that we’ve recently seen deployed have contributed in immeasurable ways,” Beyler said. She said there were various ways in which women were restricted from occupations under the direct ground combat rule, primarily preclusion from assignments to combat units below the brigade level. “But there were other restrictions, such as for physical requirements or positions associated with special operations or long-range reconnaissance,” she added. “We are reviewing all of the occupational standards.” The services, she said, “are expending a good amount of their time on those 100-percent closed occupations.” U.S. Special Operations Command includes a provision in which a military department secretary or service chief can request an exception to policy to keep a position closed, Beyler said. “But any exception is going to have to be rigorously justified and will have to be based on the knowledge, skills and abilities required to perform the duties of the position,” she said. Tailoring training, accession needs Regarding assignments, training, and accessions, Beyler said those elements have been and will continue to be service responsibilities. As defense secretary, Panetta directed each of the services and SOCOM to develop individual implementation plans tailored to their unique requirements, she said. “As we have with the positions we’ve already opened and the ones Exception to policy that we’ll continue to open throughHistorically, the department had out the next year and beyond,” Beyopened positions by exception, but ler said, “each service will use the it now has acknowledged it would regular accession and training asmake more sense to “flip the pre- signment pipelines and timelines sumption,” Beyler said, so that all that they’ve always used.” positions will be open to women The process of opening more unless there’s a reason that they military occupations to women is should be closed. about maintaining the all-volunteer Guidance to the services and to force and readiness, Beyler said. Special Forces Soldier dies on holiday leave Our battalion mourns the unexpected loss of Master Sgt. Sean McClure. He was an absolute professional, leader and warrior who provided tremendous service to our nation.” Special to the Daily News EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE – A Soldier assigned to the 7th Special Forces Group (Airborne) died Jan. 5 of medical complications. Master Sergeant Sean McClure was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 7th SFG (A) when he died while on holiday leave. “Our battalion mourns the unexpected loss of Master Sgt. Sean McClure. He was an absolute professional, leader and warrior who provided tremendous service to our nation,” said Lt. Col. Ronald Fitch, commander of the 2nd Battalion. “He was well loved and respected by all who knew him. Our thoughts and prayers remain with his family during this trying time.” McClure, a resident of Niceville, Florida and a native of Baltimore, Maryland, joined the Army in 1991 as a Military Policeman. He would go on to serve in various MP leadership positions. - Lt. Col. Ronald Fitch Master Sergeant Sean McClure He is survived by his sons, Dylan and Sean and two stepdaughters, Haley and Emma. He volunteered for Special Forces in 1999, eventually graduating as a Special Forces Communications Sergeant and earning his Green Beret. He was assigned to the 2nd Battalion of the 7th SFG (A) in September of 2001 and later to the group’s 3rd Battalion in June 2004. During that time, McClure deployed once to Afghanistan, twice to Iraq and to various countries in South America. He returned to the 7th SFG (A)’s 2nd Battalion in January of 2014 and served as an Operations Sergeant. McClure’s numerous awards and decorations include the Bronze Star Medal, the Joint Service Commendation Medal and the Meritorious Service Medal, as well as many others. A Patriot is never forgotten For he whispers in the wind, He shouts in storm, he Reminds in the cold, And smiles in the sun Rest in peace O Patriot! Rest in peace SGM Randy E. Tyson - M. A. Baker Open House New NWF State College Science Seminar Series launches next week! Tuesday, January 20, 2015 Guest speaker: Ben Corbin, Niceville native, 2004 graduate from NWF State College Collegiate High School, and current Ph.D. Candidate, Aeronautics and Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology CACI International, 4901 Grande Dr. Suite B, Pensacola, FL 32504 Refreshments Provided Topic: Constellations, Hobos, and Penetrators: Using the Emergent Capabilities of Distributed Satellite Systems to Achieve Advanced Planetary Science Goals n 3 – 8 p.m. www.caci.com Come by and meet with CACI! We are seeking talented network and systems/ application/service delivery professionals for future opportunities in support of our Pensacola, Florida, and South East Region growth strategy. All positions require an active DoD security clearance and may require 8570 certifications. When: Friday, January 23, 11:00 a.m. - Noon Where: Student Services Center Bldg., Niceville Campus, Rm. 133 Leaders from the 7th Special Forces Group (Airborne) recently hosted administrators from Crestview High School on the group’s compound. The leaders from both organizations met to discuss how better to serve children of the unit at local schools. A Patriot is never forgotten For his service, sacrifice, example Live on in those with whom He served – and their influence Lives on and on and on CACI Careers This is Rocket Science 7th Group hosts Crestview High School leaders Patriot “ By CAPT. THOMAS CIESLAK Opportunities include: n n FREE n n Open to the public For more information please contact Dr. Jon Bryan, (850) 729-5246. n n Background Investigator - Biloxi, MS Help Desk Coordinator - Hurlburt Field, FL Technical Writer - MacDill AFB, FL Background Investigator - Tampa, FL Procurement Functional Manager Stennis Space Center, MS Senior Program Manager - Pensacola, FL n n n n n n Database Administrator - Pensacola, FL Programmer Analyst - Pensacola, FL Systems Administrator - Pensacola, FL Lead Systems Engineer - Pensacola, FL Systems Technician - Pensacola, FL Web Developer - Pensacola, FL To view these and all CACI employment opportunities, please visit http://careers.caci.com/. We hope to see you there! U.S. Army Northwest Florida State College 2118402 EA/EO INFORMATION DEPLOYED. SOLUTIONS ADVANCED. CACI is an Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/D/V. MISSIONS ACCOMPLISHED. 2111955 Friday, January 16, 2015 | THE RED 7 | Page Page | THE RED 7 | Friday, January 16, 2015 Resolution Run set for Jan. 16 Family Day Jan. 24 Youth Baseball Registration S TA N D A R D F E AT U R E S I N C L U D E C L O S I N G C O S T S PA I D * Quality Construction, All Brick, Garden Tub, Finished Garage/Garage Door Opener, 1 year Builder Warranty, 10 Year Structural Warranty, Moen Faucets and 50 Gallon Water Heater Milton/Pace homes starting in the $130’s Crestview homes starting in the $160’s Model Homes Open Daily until 6:00 pm * $1 VA Move In Pace/Milton Whiting Field 87 Wil la rd 9 7 Berryhill Rd. 8 Spencer Field 2 No rris 3 1 Hamilto n Brid ge Rd. Rd . 6 4 d. tR ula 7. Whisper Creek (850) 623-3966 2. Tiburon East (850) 995-7795 8. Twelve Oaks Plantation (850) 995-7038 3. Berry Place (850) 995-4111 10 4. Ventura Estates (850) 983-3867 5. Ashley Place (850) 994-2314 10 6. North Hills (850) 623-0907 5 Crestview el th Old Be 4 1. Alicia Place (850) 682-5132 85 . Rd Airport Rd. 188 3 Skyline Dr. 9. Autumn Pines (850) 995-7155 90 90 2 4 10 85 Redstone Ave. John King Rd. 1 10 2. Old Bethel Estates (850) 626-1961 3. Silver Creek (850) 423-0600 4. Nanterre (850) 423-0600 Adams Homes Main Office P.J. Adams 85 of Northwest Florida 6520949 Singles are invited to join Outdoor Recreation on a trip to Crystal River in central Florida Jan. 191 87 M Crestview 1. Thousand Oaks (850) 994-3571 89 90 *SEE SITE AGENT FOR DETAILS Villacrest Pace/Milton 5 Singles swim with the manatees Brad Paisley concert Jan. 23 Building Homes and Relationships for 20 Years! y. Registration for youth baseball is open through from 1-6 p.m. Feb. 27 Monday-Friday at the Eglin Youth Center. Cost is $50 per youth or $100 per family. Players must be age 5 prior to March 10, and under age 13 prior to May 30. Volunteer coaches and officials are needed. For information or to volunteer, contact Terry Evans at 882-5074. Singles Krewe Mardi Gras Tour Attention all singles! Eglin ITT invites you to spend Valentine’s Day (Feb. 14) catching beads along Bourbon Street in New Orleans, making new friends and creating lasting memories in the Big Easy! This day trip will take you to the heart of the city to enjoy exciting parades and sites. Cost is $55 per perBrad Paisley Country son and includes transportaNation 2014-15 World Tour tion. Sign up at ITT or call comes to the Pensacola Bay 882-5930 for more info. Rd. Bundles for Babies set for Jan. 20 A professional instructor will teach basic techniques of fishing at 10 a.m. Jan. 24, to include baiting, casting, reeling, and fish identification. Cost is $25 for ages 10 and up, which includes all equipment, bait, and a shoreline fishing license. To reserve a date, call Outdoor Recreation, 882-5058. Fishing Clinic set for Jan. 24 tioch The President of the United States has stated that the US military will shift itself to support a greater emphasis in the Pacific. Do you know why this shift is happening? Do you know what national security interests are in the Pacific? What is China’s goal in the world? How much longer can North Korea continue with its current course of action? What caused the current insurgency in the Philippines? Why are there so many terrorist groups operating in the Pacific? If you want to know the answers to these questions or hear the specialists with unique insight of these issues discuss their perspectives, sign up for the USAFSOS PACOM Theater Course. The current and relevant regional education course runs from Feb. 2-6 and will cover issues ranging from terrorism, Special Operations theater Expectant parents from plans, current hot spots in the Pacific Command and all branches are invited to how AFSOC is poised to this informative and fun- Troops to Teachers Center Jan. 23 with guest appearances by Parmalee and The Swon Brothers. When purchasing tickets, reference the code BDAY30 to receive $10 off. For concert details, go to pensacolabaycenter.com or ticketmaster. com, or visit bradpaisley. com. N. An The Eglin Chapel will host this free marriage seminar from 11:15 a.m. -12:30 p.m. on Jan. 22, 29 and Feb. 5, 12 at the Chapel Center. A free lunch will be provided but please bring a bag lunch if you have special dietary needs. All couples, singles, AD, civilians and contractors are welcome! “Laugh Your Way To A Better Marriage” is a hilarious, practical and no-holds barred marriage training that’s changing the dynamics of marriages all over the world. Topics during this training include: The Tale of Two Brains - how men and women are wired differently and why; Why Does He/She Do That?- learn a new way to discover what makes your spouse tick; How to Stay Married and Not Kill Your Spouse - learn about “The Reset Button” and the power of forgiveness. Training is sponsored by the Eglin IDS helping agencies. To sign up, contact the Chapel at 882-2111 and ask for a chaplain assistant. awarded prizes. Wear appropriate gear for cool weather. Participation is free for all personnel, no registration required. Hw PACOM Course Advertisement Laughing and loving over lunch 24-25 for the memorable experience of snorkeling with these giant sea cows. Trip will depart ODR at 5 a.m. on Saturday and returns at 10 a.m. on Sunday. Cost is $50 per person and includes transportation, the swim, wetsuits, and double occupancy hotel stay. Trip is open first to singles of all branches Florida Department of of service. To sign up, call Education assists eligible ODR, 882-5058. members of the armed forces to understand the certification process to become an educator. If interested in teaching, you won’t want The Eglin Fitness Cento miss this briefing from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Jan. 29. To ter invites everyone to celregister, call the A&FRC at ebrate the New Year and hit the ground running with 882-9060. Eglin’s annual Resolution 3Mile Run/Walk at 1:30 p.m. Jan. 16. Starting line is at Hangar 3 will host “Fam- the CE pavilion on Cypress ily Day” Jan. 24. Games and Road. Top three male and crafts start at 12:30 p.m. and female finishers will be the movie “Maleficent” will start at 1 p.m. Free admission, popcorn, bingo and prizes. A parent or guardian of children ages 16 and under must remain in the facility during the event. For information, call Hangar 3 882-9308. Mun son The next Dynamics of International Terrorism (DIT) course will be Jan. 26-30 at the USAF Special Operations School, 357 Tully St., Bldg 90503, Hurlburt Field. DIT is a basic course designed to provide students with an awareness and appreciation of the organization, motivation, operational capabilities, and threat posed by terrorists on an international, national, and regional basis. Seating is limited so sign-up now through your unit training manager. For information, visit the DIT website http://www.afsoc. af.mil/Units/AirForceSpecialOperationsAirWarfareCenter/USAFSOS/DIT.aspx. filled workshop from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Jan. 20 at the A&FRC that focuses on budgeting for the baby(s) and identifies programs available to all families. Those attending also receive a bundle of baby essentials. To register, call A&FRC at 882-9060. Northrop Special Forces Soldiers of the 7th Special Forces Group (Airborne) recently partnered with Ranger instructors from the 6th Ranger Training Battalion to train Ranger students at Team Eglin. Terrorism Awareness Course counter those threats. The course is provided free of charge by the USAF Special Operations School and is open to all DoD personnel. To sign up, contact your unit training manager. For information about the PACOM Theater (PTSOF) Course, visit the website at www.afsoc.af.mil/Units/ AirForceSpecialOperationsAirWarfareCenter/USAFSOS/PTSOF.aspx If you have questions about the course, contact Capt Dave Braithwaite at [email protected] Avalon Blvd. Photos by Staff Sgt. Mark Shrewsbury From staff reports Woodbine Road Special Forces Soldiers train Ranger students RED 7 Briefs 6 1 4 8 O L D B A G D A D H I G H W AY, M I LT O N , F L O R I D A • ( 8 5 0 ) 6 2 6 - 1 9 6 1 BL#CBC043518 Friday, January 16, 2015 | THE RED 7 | Page Page | THE RED 7 | Friday, January 16, 2015 reinforcements from other parts of the hospital when you have five or six patients at a time. That wasn’t the case at Al Asad,” Heck said. And yet it was “a blended purple force able to take care of anybody who came through the door.” Now a third-term Republican congressman from Nevada, Heck vows to take the same “practical, non-parochial” approach in tackling two far different yet still critical priorities for the military while serving as the new chairman of the House armed services’ person- Tom Philpott nel subcommittee. One will be to review, perhaps reshape, and then shepherd into law long-awaited recommendations of the Military Compensation and Retirement Reform Commission, which is to deliver its report by Feb. 1. Heck is hopeful reforms can be enacted this year, though most will be aimed at “the 100-meter target” of “the next generation” military. “I don’t think there’s going to be any quick 25-meter fixes to try to address current budgetary constraints,” Heck cautioned. Commission proposals on modernizing retirement, for example, will be for future service members although likely to have an “opt-in” period for those now serving if they at Hurlburt Field YOUR CAREER MATTERS. YOUR DEGREE SHOULD TOO. are drawn to new features such as, perhaps, early vesting in an old age pension after five or 10 years of service. Heck can’t be sure he will support replacing the rigid 20-year retirement system for the future force until he sees details and projected impacts on retention. But after 13 years of warfare and seeing the toll multiple combat tours have had on individuals, he sees merit in awarding some retirement benefits sooner than warriors can earn them now. “The fact is we’re breaking these folks a lot faster than we used to,” Heck said. “We can’t think somebody is going to be able to stay in for 20 years now. To me, it’s almost unimaginable because of the op tempo, the stresses we have put them under. So the idea that somebody who serves five or 10 or 15 years is able to get a pension, I think, is critically important.” The report can’t come soon enough for Heck because of his second priority as chairman to protect current forces and retirees from more “nickel and diming” of pay and benefits caused by the 2011 Budget Control Act and its sequestration ax. The law’s automatic spending cuts of $50 billion a year across Department of Defense accounts are to resume in full again Oct. 1. Without relief from the law, warns Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, force readiness will drop lower than he has seen at any point in his 40-year career. So Dempsey and service chiefs have been urging Congress at least to slow compensation growth so more of those dollars can be shifted toward training and other readiness accounts. But Heck, who was Magnolia Grill magnoliagrillfwb.com The University of Oklahoma offers a continuing education program geared for military personnel: • No GRE • No Thesis • 7-day onsite classes Now Enrolling for Spring Classes Massage Therapy, Skin Care, and Nail Specialist Accepting Post 911, Montgomery GI Bill & MyCAA Tom & Peggy Rice • Proprietors 2113375 The University of Oklahoma is an equal opportunity institution. promoted to brigadier general in the Army Reserve in 2013, said despite tighter budgets “it is unconscionable to, after the fact, say ‘I’m sorry but we need to balance the budget on your back. So we’re not going to meet the promise we made to you for the sacrifices you and your family have made over your term of service’.” Heck sees other ways to make the Department of Defense more efficient, including merging Army, Navy and Air Force medical commands into one, and doing likewise with the three military exchange services that separately run their own chains of on-base department stores. Heck wants to see these kinds of tough actions taken before considering more proposals to cap annual pay raises, dampen housing allowances or boost patient out-of-pocket costs under TRICARE, the health insurance program for military families and retirees. “I’m not one for asking somebody to make a co-pay when we’re still pissing away money in a health care system that is not finely tuned,” Heck said. Individual services and commands will fight See triage page 7 Apply today at GoOU.ou.edu Phone: 850.581.3000 [email protected] 2110562 As an Army Reserve physician triaging the care of arriving wounded at the combat support hospital on Al Asad Airbase, Iraq, for half of 2008, Joe Heck said he saw “exactly how well joint operations can work.” Where the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Force was based, Heck ran the hospital’s emergency support section with two other fulltime Army doctors, as Air Force and Navy physicians rotated in for shorter stints. Nurses and medics took on responsibilities, Heck said, that wouldn’t have been allowed in a civilian setting but were so necessary in war. Back home “in any intercity level-one trauma center, it’s very easy to pick up the phone, call for 850-302-0266 Soothing Arts Healing Therapies School of Massage, Skincare & Nails Steaks - Seafood - Italian Visit SoothingArts.com for more information. 3036834 157 Brooks St. SE, Fort Walton Beach, FL “to protect their turfs” in managing base stores or overseeing health care, Heck said. But if the alternative is breaking faith on compensation, then the tough choices must be made, and he will try to lead colleagues to make them. Also broken and wasting billions of dollars, he said, is the defense procurement system, which can’t seem to buy weapons without hefty cost overruns and long delays. The armed services committees especially, he said, must move past the “parochial, with everybody concerned about the base or the depot or the unit in their district” and “think more strategically” to what the nation needs. As budgets tighten, Heck draws a distinction between “direct” compensation – pay, allowances, retirement and health care — and “indirect” benefits to include shopping discounts. Last year, during a hearing on administration plans to cut commissary funding by two thirds over three years, Heck didn’t reject more modest cost-saving ideas to include a doubling of the five percent surcharge customers pay at checkout. Asked about that, Heck said grocery savings are a quality of life issue. “But if push comes to shove and you’ve got to make a decision somewhere — as much as I would not want to — that’s the place where we’re going to need to look. The indirect benefits, not direct pay and benefits.” Better still would be to end sequestration. Heck doesn’t sound confident it will happen but it should, he said. “Any budgetary cut mechanism that takes 50 percent of cuts away from DoD, which is only about 25 percent of the [entire federal] budget, is fraught with problems,” Heck said. And more of them are his problems now. Tom Philpott is a syndicated columnist. You may write to him at Military Update, P.O. Box 231111, Centreville, VA 20120-1111; or at milupdate@ aol.com. Car, Truck & SUV Accessories Hard & Soft Bed Covers Bed Liners & Mats Toolboxes-Hitches Toppers & Lids Since 1988 Window Visors Step Bars-Running Boards-Seat Covers www.AccentTops.com Accent Tops & Trailers 657 BEAL PARKWAY 850-862-2400 2110863 2096211 Doctor lawmaker ready to triage compensation reforms triage From page 6 2110262 2104965 Page | THE RED 7 | Friday, January 16, 2015
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