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Vol. 6, No. 19 May 15, 2015

U.S. NAVY PHOTO BY MICHAEL CLAY

2 Friday, May 15, 2015 Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling Joint Base Journal

This Week at JBAB

U.S. NAVY PHOTO BY MICHELLE L. GORDON

U.S. NAVY PHOTO BY LARRY FREEMAN


Two U.S. Air Forceofficers join thecrowd of specta-tors along theshoreline at JointBase Anacostia-Bolling May 8 towatch “Arsenalof Democracy,” aflyover programconsisting of WorldWar II-era aircraftcommemoratingthe 70th anniver-sary of VE Day (Vic-tory in Europe).

PHOTO COURTESY OF JBAB WARRIOR & FAMILY READINESS

PHOTO COURTESY OF JBAB WARFIGHTER & FAMILY READINESS

Volunteers from the JBAB Military and Family Support Centerpresented John Robinette, the director of Warfighter & FamilyReadiness, with a symbolic check in the amount of $74,630 atthe annual Volunteer Appreciation ceremony held April 30. Thevalue of each volunteer hour in Washington D.C. is calculated at$38.69. The check represents the amount of government fundssaved because volunteers donated their time, energy and tal-ents to make a difference in their community.

The Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling Sports Day took place May 8 at Giesboro Park.Personnel from JBAB and its mission partners across the base competed againstone another for the title of 2015 Sports Day Champion. This year’s winner was theteam representing White House Communications Agency.

Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling heldits first Burst of Color 5k Run, or-ganized by Warrior & Family Readi-ness, May 9. Approximately 500runners participated in the event,which took place at 10 a.m.

PHOTOS COURTESY OF MICHAEL CLAY


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BY CAPT. JOSEPH HAN-SEN AND CHIEF MASTERSGT. JENN PAGNARDU.S. AIR FORCE BAND

The United States AirForce Band will perform twoconcerts featuring a compo-sition by Pulitzer Prize-win-ning composer, John LutherAdams, May 15 and 16 inWashington D.C.

The musical piece, “Sila:the Breath of the World,”is inspired by an Inuit con-cept which translates to“the spirit that animates theworld.”

Instead of a traditionalpiece with melodies andharmony, the composercreates a setting where per-formers play single notesat a time, mimicking theacoustics of nature and cre-ating a unique sonic experi-ence for audience members.

“John Luther Adams’Sila is highly-innovative inits musical concept and theexperience it creates for lis-teners,” said Air Force Col.Larry H. Lang, commanderand conductor of the band.“It relies on audience in-

volvement, asking them toliterally walk amongst ourAir Force musicians as wecreate a soundscape thatwill envelop them. Thisunique experience allows usto connect with and inspireour audiences in a new andexciting way.”

The performance will bethe piece’s premiere in thenational capital region, andan important stepping stoneof the band’s continuingpartnershipwithWashingtonPerforming Arts, the event’shosting organization.

“Personally, I have beeninspired for years by JohnLuther Adams’ works, hisenvironmental commit-ment, and his ability toseamlessly connect art andplace,” said Jenny Bilfield,Washington PerformingArts’ president and CEO.

“‘Sila,’ which we wereproud to co-commissionwith Lincoln Center, rep-resents the kind of innova-tive programming we con-stantly strive to offer D.C.audiences. Coming off itsspectacular New York pre-

miere, we cannot wait tosee this remarkable pieceset against the majesty ofthe Jefferson Memorial.”

Adams was recentlynamed 2015 composer ofthe year by Musical Americamagazine. This comes lessthan six months after be-ing named the recipient ofthe 2014 Pulitzer Prize forMusic for his work “BecomeOcean.”

The U.S. Air Force Bandwill perform “Sila” at Con-stitution Gardens May 15 at6 p.m. This performance will

feature woodwind, stringand vocal performancesonly. The full Air Force Bandensemble will perform thepieceMay 16 at 3 p.m., at theJefferson Memorial.

In the case of inclementweather, the May 15 perfor-mance will be cancelled andtheMay 16 performance willmove to the National Muse-um of American History.

For more information,call 202-767-5658 or visit theband’s Facebook page, Twit-ter feed or website, www.us-afband.af.mil.

USAF Band premieres John Luther Adams’ “Sila”

BY JEREMY K. JOHNSON

JOINT BASE ANACOSTIA-

BOLLING PUBLIC AFFAIRS

Tech. Sgt. Nalani Quin-tello is a talented singer whobegan performing at the ageof 12. She attended DouglasAnderson School of the Artsin Jacksonville, Fla. for twoyears and graduated fromOrange Park High School.

The 20-year-old attend-ed college for a year andhalf afterward, and intendsto eventually get a degree inmusic business.

Today, however, she’schosen to expand her musicexperience through serviceto her country as a memberof the U.S. Air Force Band’srock group, Max Impact.

“I started performingand putting on volunteerperformances at nursinghomes when I was about14-years-old,” she recalled.“That’s when I realized thatI wanted to sing - because ofhow rewarding and thera-peutic music really is. Someof those residents at thenursing home don’t havefamilies who come see themand they’re just stuck thereall alone.”

She continued, “One ofthe compliments that I gotfrom a nurse really openedmy eyes. She said that therewas a resident who only left

her bed when I would cometo one of the shows. That’sthe only time she’s ever re-ally awake and listening,and aware of her surround-ings. Those kind of com-ments really made me wantto pursue music and helppeople.”

“That’s basically why Ichose the Air Force,” sheadded. “So I can pursue mu-

sic and help people.”Quintello comes from

a military background, soher decision to join was in-formed by the experience ofgrowing up as a dependent.

“My father was in theArmy and my sister is cur-rently serving in the AirForce as well,” she said.

Her desire to serve iswhat put her educational

goals on a temporary hold,she explained.

“What stopped me fromgoing to school was joiningthe Air Force. That’s the onlyreason. I was in college anddoing gigs,” she said, “andthat was getting me through.I was performing at nursinghomes, restaurants and festi-vals - you name it, I was theentertainment there.”

She didn’t realize the AirForce had career musiciansuntil her father mentionedit to her.

“He mentioned that themilitary had bands. I hadno idea,” Quintello said. “Ithought it was just the cer-emonial band. I didn’t knowthey had vocalist positionsas well. When I looked intoit further, I discovered theAir Force had a rock band,and I’m thinking, ‘Well,that’s crazy.’ I had no ideathat the Air Force wouldeven have such a thing.”

A couple of months later,she said, a vacancy openedfor a female rock vocalist.

“That’s when I submittedmy material - my resumeand a couple of singingsamples. They asked me tocome for a live audition, so Idid and I ended up ‘winningthe job.’”

Though she’s only beenan Airman for about fourmonths, Quintello, like oth-er Airmen musicians, beganas a technical sergeant.

“Because we have toaudition for the job, we allcome in as ‘7-level’ quali-fied,” she explained, “sothat’s how we begin our ca-reer as technical sergeants.”

Quintello’s talent wasn’tjust recognized by the AirForce. She passed up an op-portunity to appear on one

of the most widely-recog-nized music competitionsin America.

“I auditioned for Ameri-can Idol Season 14,” shesaid. “I was a contestantand I was doing really wellon the show, but I decidedthat the Air Force would bea better option for me.”

Quintello said she has noregrets about choosing theAir Force and noted that sheidentifies with the service’score values of “IntegrityFirst, Excellence in All WeDo and Service Before Self.”

“‘Service Before Self’ isone of my favorites becauseoutside of the military, it’snot practiced as much. Itbrings ‘Max Impact’ closertogether because we’re ba-sically willing to do any-thing for each other; that’swhy we click so well,” shesaid. “Not only do we hangout at work and play musictogether, but we also hangout outside of work - andthat’s what really buildsthat bond. It’s why we’reable to produce what we doon stage.”

For a list of events whereyou can see Tech. Sgt. Quin-tello and Max Impact per-form, visit http://usafband.af.mil. You can see Max Im-pact perform tonight at 7p.m. at National Harbor.

Successful young vocalist chooses uniformed service in pursuit of music career

U.S. NAVY PHOTO BY JEREMY K. JOHNSON

Tech. Sgt. Nalani Quintello (right) practices with members of U.S. Air Force Band’s rock bandMax Impact during a vocal rehearsal May 7.


BY LT. CMDR.JIM REMINGTON

JOINT BASE ANACOSTIA-BOLLING

PUBLIC AFFAIRS

Editor’s note: This is the first ina two-part article on the AEGD pro-gram at JBAB.

The 579th Dental Squadronat Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling(JBAB) serves the larger Air Forceas one of 11 training and mentor-ing grounds for the future of AirForce dentistry.

In a seasoned program thatbegan in 1994, new Air Force den-tists learn and grow both clinicallyand as officers during a one-yeardental residency known as theAdvanced Education in GeneralDentistry (AEGD) program, whilealso providing a meaningful ben-efit to military retirees and eligibledependents who have treatmentneeds matching the training andexperience needs of individualresidents.

Annually in June each year, theclinic advertises through a retireenewsletter that the dental clinic isoffering examinations to as manyas 96 patients, 48 each at JBAB andJoint Base Andrews (JBA).

Air Force Col. Jeffrey Denton,director of residency training, orig-inally from Centerville, Tennes-see, said results of the exams arereviewed by the dental staff, andthose with conditions determinedto meet the educational needs of

residents will be considered forappointments, usually beginningin October each year and runningthrough the following summer.

Military retirees and eligible de-pendents in the National CapitalArea are invited to participate inthe dental screening program that

could lead to potential treatmentfor selected members. Personsinterested in this year’s programshould call the Bolling Retiree Ac-

tivities Office (RAO) at 202-767-5244, starting at 9 a.m., June 5.Calls at any other time to the RAOor base dental clinics will not behonored. Dental technicians willreview the caller’s dental history,looking for conditions that meetthe needs for resident training. Se-lected retirees and dependents willbe scheduled for examinations onJune 12 for the clinic at JBAB and,and on June 24 at JBA.

“We will use three telephonelines,” Denton said, “but youcan expect some busy signals.If your call is picked up by a re-corder, simply leave your numberand the call will be returned. Thetechnicians will remain until allappointments have been sched-uled,” he added.

That annual effort, though itprovides a large number of casesfor resident training, has not pro-vided sufficient caseload for the579th’s five residents.

“We have five residents whichis typical each year,” said Den-ton. “That’s a struggle sometimesbecause it can be difficult to findenough patients for five residents.It might be easier if we had fourresidents, but we have the spaceto train five, so we try to providethe maximum training that wecan for them.”

Air Force Maj. Amy Schultz,support flight commander and

Dental Squadron seeks patients for residency program

See DENTISTRY, Page 5

U.S. NAVY PHOTO BY LT. CMDR. JIM REMINGTON

Doctor of Dental Medicine (D.D.M) Air Force Capt. Rachael Voigt, a dental resident at 579th Dental Squadron atJoint Base Anacostia-Bolling, tends to patient Regina Williams while dental technician Senior Airman JoaniquaRutherford assists. Voigt, who hails from Niceville, Florida, a community nestled between Eglin Air Force andHulbert Field Air Force Base, decided early that she wanted to work in the medical field, but it was the AirForce families in her community, specifically a few Air Force dentists among them, that led her to service in theAir Force Dental Corps.

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chief of periodontics for the 579th, origi-nally from Plains, Pennsylvania, reportedto the clinic in August 2014. August is alsothe same month that AEGD residents re-port each year. Schultz noted after someobservation that even with the annual callfor patients in June and the regular activeduty caseload, the clinic was lacking bothin the number of cases and the variabil-ity of the cases necessary to meet residenttraining needs.

“When the new residents come, I wouldlike to give them charts of 10 periodonticspatients that they’ll do perio surgeries onand from which they will get experience.And I just didn’t have them. I had maybefive. They also got patients from other dis-ciplines, but it still wasn’t enough. It wouldbe nice to start them off with a better loadto get them through the year, and havethat year run smoother. That’s one of thebiggest things,” said Schultz. “They comehere to get the experience, for us to men-tor them, to help them through cases andthink through treatment plans, and gettheir minds firing, so when they’re on theirown next year things will go more easily.”

Denton said the 579th’s mission has al-ways been focused first and foremost ontreating and maintaining readiness of theactive duty population, “But as a trainingplatform, we often also have to reach outto our non-active duty population for dif-ferent types of procedures, different kindsof experiences that we’d like to have theresidents involved in while they’re here.And so for that benefit, retirees, or activeduty dependents can be seen if they havethe types of dental needs, particular treat-ments to which we would like to exposeour residents.”

Schultz noted that the military popula-tion being younger and in generally betterhealth, and therefore having fewer dentalneeds, was not offering in combinationwith the annual retiree call, all of the train-ing opportunities necessary. Recognizingthe shortfall, she came up with an idea.

“I went to Col. Denton and asked, ‘Doyou mind if we put up signs all around baseand if we put a message on the electronic

board downstairs?’ And I spoke with JohnRobinette, JBAB’s director, Warfighter andFamily Readiness to ask if it would be al-right to put up signs around the base. Theyboth said ‘yes.’ So we put up signs at Bol-ling Club, Potomac Lanes, the Class Six,Bolling Commissary. We also put them oncars.”

That effort resulted in fifty new patientsfor the program, and she is still seekingeven more cases for the residents. She andothers will be visiting Bingo on Tuesdays tohand out flyers.

“Not everyone will get selected, but atleast we will have a good pool of who isavailable and who is out there,” Schultzsaid. “And it seems most patients will begrateful for whatever treatment we can givethem.”

Retired Air Force Senior Master Sgt.James Fillmore, who worked in Air Forcepublic affairs and Navy public affairs as anenlisted Sailor for nine years before that, isone of those patients that Schultz reachedthrough her efforts.

“I retired right here on the base, fromthe command services unit, which was anelement of the secretary of the Air Force,office of public affairs in October 1, 1977.So I come here often,” said Fillmore.“[Schultz] came to the bowling lanes aboutthree weeks ago on Thursday morningwhen I and several retirees have what wecall a ‘fun league.’ We were bowling thatmorning and she came over as we were get-ting ready to start actually, and asked us ifwe would be interested. I said ‘Hey, I’ll lookinto it.’”

He added that he has always receivedvery good care from military doctors andthat he feels more comfortable workingwith the military, “So if there’s something Ican be involved with in the military, then Ijust assume do that.”

Fillmore and his wife typically go to adentist in La Plata, Maryland. He learnedthere that he needs to have a tooth extrac-tion done fairly soon so he said that mightmake him a good candidate for this pro-gram.

“The selections will be made based onwhat my needs are and what they need forthe class,” he said. “And they will let meknow if I’m selected. It sounds like I mightbe a good candidate, but I don’t know thatfor sure.”

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Warfighter & Family Readiness Programs& Events View all event information at www.MyWFR.comorwww.Facebook.com/MyWFR

Special Events

Movie Under the StarsMay 22 | 8:45 p.m. | Marina Parking LotEnjoy a FREE, family-friendly movie out-

doors! Vote for your movie choice on ourFacebook page, Facebook.com/MyWFR.

Asian Pacific Heritage Month LuauMay 15 | 6:30-8:30 p.m. | Slip InnEnjoy two Polynesian greets, hula lesson,

hula dancers and a fire dancer!

Bolling ClubTheisen St., Bldg. 50 | 202-767-6794

Play Bingo Three times a week!Sundays at 12:30 p.m. | Tuesdays at Noon

| Thursdays at 5:30 p.m. | Win cash prizes!

Third FridayMay 15 | 6-11 p.m. | Bolling Club, Wings

Bar and GrillFeaturing the live music by Thunder Em-

pire as well as music by DJ Chris!

Champagne Sunday BrunchMay 17 | 10:30 a.m.-2 p.m. | Bolling Club,

Washington Dining RoomEnjoy the BEST Champagne Brunch in

the Capital Region! Club Members: $17.95;Non-Members: $22.95

Outdoor RecreationGiovannoli Way, Bldg. 928 | 202-767-9136

Super Yard SaleMay 23 | 9 a.m.-3p.m. | Old Resale lot next

to Marina parking lotTime for spring cleaning! Create space in

your garage, attic and sheds. Space Price: $20(includes 1 table and 2 chairs). Call or visitOutdoor Recreation for table reservations.

Slip InnArnold Ave., Bldg. 2482 | 202-767-5840

Acoustic NightMay 22 | 4:30 p.m. | Slip InnFeaturing Mike Leverone

Potomac Lanes Bowling Center/SpinzMcChord St., Bldg. 1310 | 202-563-

1701/1702Greek Turkey Burger - $7.95Limited time offer - May 2015

Play Bingo at Potomac LanesWin up to $8,000 per game and daily

prizes! Sign up for you VIP Bingo Payer’sCard today at Potomac Lanes!

Arts & Crafts CenterArnold Ave., Bldg. 4472 | 202-767-

6997/8560

Magdalene’s Custom Framing ClassesMay 16 | 9:30 a.m. | Arts & Crafts Center

Youwill learn to turn glass,mats andmould-ing into a beautiful frame that keeps memoriesfor a lifetime.Cost is $50, plus supplies.

Wood ShopThe Wood Shop is open to all DOD ID

Card Holders. Membership is not required.Cost is $5 per hour.

Hours of Operation: Tuesday & Thurs-day: 2-8 p.m. and Saturday: 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

Information, Tickets & Travel (ITT)Office

4570 Chappie James Blvd. (Located in-side the Commissary) | 202-404-6576

Great Wolf Lodge SpecialsJune 26-28: $412Splash the day away in over 79,000

square feet of water-packed excitement, in-cluding jaw-dropping slides for thrill seek-ers or zero-depth entry areas for little ones.Outside the water park, the fun continues.Book today at the ITT Office!

Liberty CenterEnterprise Hall, Bldg. 72 | 202-685-1802Eligibility: E1-E6 single, unaccompanied

active duty military

Bowling Party/TournamentMay 16 | 5 p.m. | Potomac Lanes Bowling

CenterBowl for the highest score at the single

elimination tournament, bowl for fun orbowl for a prize! Come out and enjoy somegood food and fun with Liberty. Let thestrikes roll!

Child and Youth ProgramsYouth Center | Langley Way, Bldg. 4485 |

202-767-4003

America’s Kids RunMay 16 | 9-11 a.m. | JBAB TrackThis FREE program is designed to intro-

duce running as a fun and healthy activity forchildren! Youth ages 5-6 will run a half mile,youth ages 7-8 will run one mile and youthages 9-13 will run 2 miles. Register online byMay 15 at www.americaskidsrun.org/

LibraryTinker St, Bldg. 4439 | 202-767-5578

Summer Reading RegistrationRegister May 1–June 19 | Library, Bldg.

4439Excitement and fun await those who

journey to JBAB Library and participate inthe Summer Reading Program, Read to theRhythm! The program runs from June 27-Aug. 7! Visit MyWFR.com for full details!

Box Tops 4 EducationNow-Aug. 31 | JBAB LibraryDrop off box tops to the JBAB Library to

enter for a chance to win a weekly Prize Packfilled with MWR goodies!

How Box Tops 4 Education works:1. Find box tops on hundreds of prod-

ucts. A full list is available at the Library oronline at MyWFR.com 2. Clip box tops fromeach package.

3. Bring in or send your box tops to theJBAB Library, Bldg. 4439, Tinker St.

Each box top is worth 10 cents and will bedonated to our community partner, LeckieElementary School.

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