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Friday, january 9, 2015
Farrell
takes
command
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Air commandos
get sized up
at FAC
Vets see challenges
adhead as Afghan
conflict closes
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Vets see challenges ahead as Afghan conflict closes
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By KELLY HUMPHREY
Northwest Florida Daily News
During a brief ceremony
at the International Security Assistance Force
headquarters in Kabul on
Sunday, officials from the
United States and its coalition partners announced
the formal end to Operation
Enduring Freedom, the
combat mission that began
in response to the 9/11 terror attacks.
More than 2,000 Americans died in the war in Afghanistan, and thousands
more were injured. Two lo-
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Deslauriers pointed out
that as time went by, the
original purpose of the war
changed in the minds of
many who fought it.
“At the beginning, it was
to try to get revenge for
9/11 and to capture Osama
bin Laden,” he explained.
“That was what we were
fighting for. Later, we began
to lose focus. This was my
generation’s war, and for
me, the cause was more
about protecting the guys
I was fighting with — the
people on my left and my
right. That’s what made my
sacrifice worth it.”
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Senior Airman Anthony Novak, Fitness Assessment Cell augmentee, monitors the push-up portion of the fitness
assessment at the Aderholt Fitness Center on Hurlburt Field Dec. 31. Airmen have one minute to perform as many
correct push-ups as possible.
Air Commandos get sized up at FAC
Airman 1st Class Jeff Parkinson | USAF
Senior Airman Andrew Muhlhahn, Fitness Assessment Cell augmentee,
records runtimes during the cardio portion of the fitness assessment at
Senior Airman Andrew Muhlhahn, Fitness Assessment Cell augthe Aderholt Fitness Center on Hurlburt Field Dec. 31. FAC augmentees
mentee, records the height and weight of Staff Sgt. Taylor Smith, 19th
are charged to uphold the standards of the Air Force Fitness Assessment
Special Operations Squadron special mission’s aviator, at the Aderholt in accordance with Air Force Instruction 36-2905 Chapter 3.
Fitness Center on Hurlburt Field Dec. 31. The height and weight of
Airmen are recorded in the event the body mass index is required.
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By KELLY HUMPHREY
Northwest Florida Daily News
While combat operations in Afghanistan may
have officially ended on
Sunday, personnel from local military bases will continue to play a role in the
country.
According to a statement from the Air Force
Special Operations Command at Hurlburt Field,
“Air Commandos will
continue to support the
combatant commanders downrange wherever
needed… It is our responsibility to provide the best,
most highly-trained Air
Commandos to the fight.
On any given day, our Air
commandos are engaged
in operations around the
globe.”
While AFSOC doesn’t
release details regarding where its commandos
are serving, throughout
the Afghan War personnel
from Hurlburt’s 1st Special Operations Wing were
deployed more than any
other unit in the Air Force.
At Eglin Air Force Base,
troops from a wide array
of disciplines
will continue
to serve in
the country.
“Soldiers
from the 7th
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and airmen
from the 96th Test Wing
continue to deploy hundreds of personnel, making
up the majority of approximately 830 service members deployed from Eglin
right now,” said Brig. Gen.
David Harris, the commander of the base’s 96th
Test Wing.
Harris reports that
the 96th Mission Support
Group currently has 250
deployed airmen performing communications, logistics, personnel, services
and security missions.
Medical personnel, explosive ordnance disposal
and fire fighters are also
serving in the country. In
fact, Eglin has deployed
the most service members
in the entire Air Force Ma-
terial Command.
“We can anticipate the
trend to continue as our
nation shifts focus to other
operations,” Harris said.
“I’m confident our Team
Eglin members will excel
in service as they have in
the past.”
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cal residents who received
severe injuries while serving there have their own
thoughts about the “end” of
the Afghan War.
Judge T. Patterson
Maney, a retired brigadier
general in the Army Reserve, suffered a traumatic
ter Sgt. Joseph Deslauriers
lost both legs and part of
his arm to an explosion
while serving in Afghanistan in 2011. Like Maney, he
is not convinced that Sunday marked the true end to
hostilities in the region.
“This announcement
doesn’t really mean much
to me,” Deslauriers said.
“It may bring closure for
the public, but not for the
military. Whether it’s in
Afghanistan, East Africa or
Syria, these guys aren’t going to stop.
“It’s kind of silly to say
the war is over,” he added.
“It’s basically just a troop
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Like many observers,
Maney is “leery” about formally announcing an end
to combat operations while
the situation in Afghanistan
is so fluid.
“Anytime you give the
other side information
about deadlines and goals,
it can lead them to dig in
their heels rather than
cooperate,” he said. “That
being said, I know President Ghani personally, and
he is an exceptional leader.
He will give the country the
best possible chance that it
has at a peaceful and positive future.”
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in 2005 when the vehicle
he was riding in struck an
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He and his wife,
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have many friends in the
country.
“I think it’s premature
to break out the celebratory champagne,” he said.
“I’m hopeful that President
Ashraf Ghani will do everything in his power to lead
the country in the right
direction, but I’m not sure
that we are leaving enough
forces there to reinforce
the government.”
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By Lt. Gen. Brad
Heithold
Commander of Air Force
Special Operations Command
By KELLY HUMPHREY
Northwest Florida Daily News
After 18 months as the commander of the 1st Special
Operations Wing, Col. Bill West passed the ceremonial flag
on Jan. 6 to the wing’s incoming commander, Col. Sean
Farrell.
“You are truly coming to the best wing in the Air Force,”
West told his replacement.
Farrell’s arrival at Hurlburt is a homecoming of sorts.
Born at Eglin Air Force Base, he is a 1990 Florida State
University graduate.
Farrell was assigned to Hurlburt previously, starting in
March 1997 to December 2003.
Most recently, Farrell served as commander of the 27th
Special Operations Group at Cannon Air Force Base, N.M.
Lt. Gen. Bradley Heithold, commander of the Air Force
Special Operations Command, praised both West and Farrell at the ceremony.
“Westie, you’ve done an outstanding job of carrying out
the mission of the 1st SOW,” he said. He cited West’s many
accomplishments, including the wing’s 10,000 combat missions, and West’s response to the ice storm and subsequent
flooding.
West’s next assignment will be deputy commander of the
Combined Joint Task Force, Horn of Africa, in Djibouti.
Heithold said that he recognized Farrell’s leadership
ability early in his career.
“You have the right combination of commitment, focus
and compassion to be a commander in today’s Air Force,”
Heithold said.
For his part, Farrell was thankful to be back at the base
where he spent so many years early in his career.
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“Leadership is never constant in the military,” he said.
Lt. Gen. Bradley Heithold, Air Force Special Operations Command commander, passes the 1st Special Operations
“The faces at the top are always changing, but our mission
never changes. The 1st SOW will shoot more and fly more Wing guidon to Col. Sean Farrell, 1st SOW commander, during a change of command ceremony at the Freedom Hangar on Hurlburt Field, Jan. 6. Farrell (below left) assumed command of the 1st Special Operations Wing.
than anyone in the Air Force.”
Time and again, you
have truly proven yourselves as Quiet Professionals, working as a team and
dedicated to getting the
mission done regardless of
who receives credit. Your
actions have earned the
respect and admiration
of our joint and international partners and our
Air Force and USSOCOM
senior leaders are amazed
at your many incredible
accomplishments.
Looking ahead, the New
Year will undoubtedly bring
more than a few opportunities and challenges for
continued success. Though
we live in a world of fiscal
constraints and ever-changing security challenges, the
Chief and I know our units
are well-prepared to address those demands headon. We will stay focused on
our command priorities and
charge ahead to defend our
country and our freedoms
wherever and whenever we
are asked to do so.
First, we will provide
combat ready forces to
execute the mission taskings of USSOCOM and the
Geographic Combatant
Commanders. Our Nation
expects that we have the
people and capabilities to
quickly address the most
pressing problems and we
will not let the American
people down when freedom
and security is threatened
anywhere across the globe.
We will also create an
environment for Airmen
and our families to thrive.
This priority is crucial to the
success of the first priority
above. We simply cannot
do our mission without you,
our people. People are our
most valuable resource and
we must take care of you
and you must take care of
one another. To that end,
Chief Caruso will specifically be focusing on this priority. He will drive to help
our units realize and affect
a culture of pride, professionalism and performance
and together we will take
AFSOC to a new level of excellence and improvement.
In 2015, let’s start a neverbefore-seen pride epidemic
in our command. Let it start
with you. Additionally, in
2015 the Chief will be looking to our NCO corps to ensure we stop talking about
our issues and start getting
after them like only AF
NCO’s can. This initiative is
about NCO empowerment
and our effort to continue to
set and enforce standards,
hold each other accountable
and treat one another with
dignity and respect at all
times.
We will transform training to optimize human
performance to make sure
we remain the finest fighting force our Nation has
ever seen. We will develop
our Air Commandos by increasing effectiveness and
efficiency in our training.
Our training should be the
very best we can afford and
the most intense we can
provide. Our training should
be realistic and focused and
not simply just in time. We
must deliberately plan our
training and hold to that
plan even when situations
change. We have to be disciplined and rigorous with our
training plans. This applies
to all AFSC’s and activities
command-wide.
Lastly, we will continue
to modernize and sustain
the force to ensure you have
the tools you need to be successful. We will optimize our
force structure and identify
next-generation AFSOC
capabilities to keep us at the
tip of the spear.
We are well postured
to have another incredible
year as Air Commandos in
2015. I know each and every
one of you will continue to
push boundaries and find
new and incredible ways to
get the mission done. Remember to look out for each
other throughout the year
to keep our AFSOC family
safe, thriving and growing
personally and professionally. Know that the Chief
and I, as well as the entire
AFSOC leadership team are
here to support you.
Again, we are so grateful
for your dedicated service
this past year and are excited for the year to come. We
are America’s Air Commandos … Anytime, Anyplace!
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COLA-minus-1 fiasco, when
Congress rushed to cut the
value of military retirement
then quickly reversed itself,
Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.)
referred to news article.
Today’s highest-ranking officers, she said quoting from
the piece, could earn more
military compensation in retirement than that did while
on active duty.
Wasn’t that a negative incentive to continue to serve,
she asked.
The committee found no
proof that it was. However,
it didn’t seem right that
retired pay exceeded active duty compensation by
a wide margin. So senators
included language in the
2015 defense bill (HR 3979)
that restores the Executive
Level II cap on retired pay
calculations.
The change is designed
to land softly, however. It
applies only to years served
after 2014.
“That means if you’ve
earned above the cap up
until this point, you can
keep that but go no higher,”
explained one congressional aide. “And if you retired
before Dec. 31, 2014, this
doesn’t even apply.”
So finance centers will
conduct two computations
to determine retired pay of
senior officers serving today
and will use the one that
delivers higher annuities.
One calculation will be retired pay based on current
law and rank at retirement,
capped at Executive Level
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A second will determine
retired pay these officers
would have if they retired
on Dec. 31, 2014, at the
rank then held and years
then served. The second
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of retired pay at first, and
become less important over
time. An officer’s actual
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Congress included in the
fiscal 2015 Defense Authorization Act a provision that
phases out a “too generous” retired pay anomaly
gradually, fully protecting
the pay of senior officers
already retired and easing
the impact too on currently
serving officers who already
wear stars.
The universe of threeand four-star officers drawing more pay in retirement
than they did on active duty
is small, roughly 130. But
the pay disparity is large,
$70,000 or more for some
0-9s and 0-10s above what
they received in basic pay
while on active duty. To
understand why, we need to
look at all of the levers Congress pulled seven years
ago:
RETIRED PAY MUTIPLIER – Before 2007, service
members received no
retirement credit for years
served beyond 30. The multiplier for calculating retired
pay was still 2.5 percent of
basic pay per year served
but the years were capped
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$277,000,
according to
the Defense
Department
actuary.
The fact
is generals
and admirals recently
have been
enjoying a
kind of golden age of starrank compensation, shaped
in wartime and not likely to
be seen again, particularly
given a change in law that
takes effect Jan. 1.
Star-rank officers won’t
get a 2015 pay raise. More
significantly, any additional
years they serve won’t have
the hefty consequences on
retired pay seen since 2006.
Star-rank annuities jumped
so far and fast that recently
retired three-star and fourstar officers now make
considerably more in retired pay than did while on
active duty. That’s true even
counting housing allowance
of about $40,000 annually or,
more often, the comparable
value of residing in threestar and four-star base
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At the urging of thenDefense Secretary Donald
Rumsfeld, Congress in 2006
took aggressive steps to
raise pay and future retirement of currently serving
general and admirals,
particularly those serving
beyond 30 years.
Having been a wellcompensated industry
executive, Rumsfeld viewed
admirals and generals as
underpaid. Besides raising
star-rank pay, he wanted the
military basic pay table expanded to incentivize longer
service.
He got what he wanted,
and maybe more. In September 2006, a newly retired
member of the Joint Chiefs
of Staff who served 38 years
drew initial retired pay of
$114,000 a year. Today a
JCS member retiring after
38 years draws more than
double that amount, roughly
$241,000. If that four-star officer completes a 40-year career, his or her retired pay
today would be higher. Four
officers today receive more
than $256,000 in retired
pay and one get more than
From staff reports
2110862
2096211
Congress: We went too far on star-rank retirement
warrior Briefs
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Nominal Opening Bid:
$10,000
403 Tobago Ct,
Crestview, FL
4BR 2BA 2,375sf+/Bidding starts Jan 9th
and ends Jan 14th
Open to the Public:
1-4pm Sun Jan 4th
williamsauction.com
800.982.0425
Williams & Williams
FL Broker: Daniel S.
Nelson Re Lic
BK3223097;
Williams & Williams Re
Lic 1032049
Auctioneer: Williams
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AB2784. Buyer’s
Premium may apply for
this property.
Text FL10057 to 56654
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Š
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(ACLS), Pediatric Advanced Life Support
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All real estate advertising in this newspaper is
subject
to
the
Fair
Housing
Act
which
makes it illegal to advertise “any preference,
limitation or discrimination based on race,
color,
religion,
sex,
handicap, familial status
or national origin, or an
intention, to make any
such preference, limitation or discrimination”
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or
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people
securing
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18.
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knowingly accept any
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of the law. Our readers
are
hereby
informed
that all dwellings advertised in this newspaper
are available on a equal
opportunity
basis.
To
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1-800-669-9777.
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Web ID#:34309841
These tiny ads
sell, hire, rent
and inform for
thousands of
families each
week. Let a little
Classified ad do a
big job for you.
Navarre Bch 3 br, 2 ba
Condo, Gulf View! w/d,
basic cable incl.1yr lse.
$1100
mo.
Call
850-865-4034
after
12:30pm
Text FL08321 to 56654
4 br, 2 ba,
Destin, 2300 sq ft,
Gated Community &
poolhouse, $2,300mo
+ dep. 850-259-1032
Gulf Breeze
2984 Ranchette Sq
3br-2ba,
.48
Acres,
1467sq ft., $160,000.
Call 850-733-0397
Text FL09545 to 56654
3br/3ba
Townhouse,
approx. 1800sq, 2 CG,
2
decks,
completely
fenced, extra parking,
no
association
fee,
great
neighborhood,
conveniently
located,
near shopping malls,
schools, beaches, &
bases. Move in ready
with 1 yr home warranty.
Cash
Deal!
$156,900. Please Call
1-254-383-5597
Text FL09768 to 56654
1999
Chevy
Suburban, 5.7L, White, One
owner,
196k
miles,
non-smoking, no accidents,
exc
cond.,
$3895. Call 729-1662
2005 Acura TL, Fair
condition w/many new
parts, tinted windows,
12” woofer, looks &
runs great $7000 firm.
Call 850-619-9964
Text FL10365 to 56654
Jeep Grand Cherokee
‘93, 152k mi, excellent
mechanical
condition,
$2000. For more info
call 850-687-0604
Text FL09630 to 56654
Jeep Grand Cherokee
‘93, 152k mi, excellent
mechanical
condition,
$2000. For more info
call 850-687-0604
Text FL09630 to 56654