volume 15, issue 24
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Volume 15, Issue 24 February 7, 2010
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Commanding Officer Capt. Joseph KuzmickExecutive Officer Capt. Mike WettlauferPublic Affairs Officer Lt. Cmdr. Cindy FieldsMedia Dept. LCPO MCC Mikel BookwalterMedia Dept. LPO MC1 Steve OwsleyEditor MC2 Dmitry Chepusov
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Photo by MC3 Kenneth Abbate
An F/A-18 engine operates at full power using AIMD’s jet engine test cell on the fantail.
Presiding Officer Lt. Rich Paquette renders a salute during a burial-at-sea ceremony.
Photo by MC2 Patrick Dille
Mason Crosby from the Green Bay Packers autographs footballs for Sailors in arresting gear room three.
Photo by MC2 Josue Escobosa
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Sailors stand in formation during a burial-at-sea ceremony.
AOAN Alexis Johnson, left, and GM3 William Walton man a .50 caliber machine-gun on the flight deck.
Photo by MC3 Kenneth Abbate
Photo by MC2 Josue Escobosa
A C-2A Greyhound from the “Providers” of VRC-30 lands on the flight deck.Photo by MC2 Josue Escobosa
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Photo by MC3 Kenneth Abbate
A T-45C Goshawk from Training Wing ONE launches off the flight deck.
ABHAN Terrence Wever directs a T-45C Goshawk from Training Wing TWO onto a catapult before it launches off the flight deck.
Photo by MC2 Kyle Steckler
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AD3 Michael Stemick uses a flashlight to inspect for leaks on an F/A-18 jet engine during a test cell run on the fantail.
Photo by MC3 Kenneth Abbate
Sailors listen to a stand-up comedy routine performed by comedian Steve Simeone in hangar bay two.
Photo by MC2 Kyle Steckler
ABEAN Tamara Wilson bleeds air from the number two arresting gear engine during flight operations.
Photo by MC3 Frankie Colbry BM3 Andrew Spears, left, and BMSN Paul Coombs test the hand crank and break assembly on a sliding pad eye in hangar bay three.
Photo by MC3 Kenneth Abbate
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Stennis Commanding Officer Capt. Joseph Kuzmick sits in the back seat of a T-45C Goshawk from Training Wing ONE as Lt. Dave Pickle explains the instruments and safety features of the plane.
Photo by MC2 Josue Escobosa
Sailors assembled in hangar bay two enjoy themselves during a performance by Comics On Duty yesterday. Comedians from Comics on Duty tour around the world stopping at military commands to entertain service members and highten military morale.
Stand-up comedian Steve Simeone entertains Stennis Sailors as part of a Comics On Duty tour.
Photo by MC2 Kyle Steckler
Photo by MC2 Dmitry Chepusov
A T-45C Goshawk from Training Wing ONE is directed into position onto a catapult on the flight deck .
DCFN Austin Sexton cleans a self-contained breathing apparatus in hangar bay two.
Photo by MC3 Frankie Colbry
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Photo by MC2 Josue Escobosa
Photo by MC3 Kenneth Abbate
Stennis Commanding Officer Capt. Joseph Kuzmick launches off the flight deck in a T-45C Goshawk from Training Wing ONE.
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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2010
ACROSS1 Savage
6 Present
11 Alpine feature
12 Get in the can early
16 Tasty torus
17 Heavily corroded
18 “Not bad at all!”
20 Cavaliers’ home, for short
21 “Cheers” alternative
22 Calculating bunch, briefly
23 Relief pitcher Craig
24 Day-care charges
25 Like some wrongs
27 “Blue II” and “Harlequin’s Carnival”
28 Run on
29 ___ Mae
30 Less approachable
31 Magic acts?
32 Safety org.
33 King’s middle name
34 Poison
35 Observance made official by President Wilson in 1914
39 N.F.L. passing stat.
40 Prominently featured
41 “The lady in red” betrayed him
43 Pulitzer-winning poet Mark Van ___
44 Samaritans’ doings
45 Have no life
46 ___ año (in the course of the year: Sp.)
47 Socialite who inspired “Call Me Madam”
DOWN 1 Career diplomat
Philip
2 Mild-flavored seaweed in Japanese cuisine
3 Denver university
4 Slow an increase
5 Heading for classified information?
6 Grant consideration
7 Goose, in Spain or Italy
8 Lacking sufficient desire
9 Levee breaches
10 “Hairspray” mom and others
12 Iron-handed one?
13 Hasty
14 Ruhr Museum locale
15 Lines: Abbr.
19 A dead one looks like something else
22 Place to get milk
24 Whit
25 Opposite of sluggishness
26 Something to build on
27 Lothario
29 Confession receivers
31 Stopped being a 38-Down, with “out”
33 What opens easily?
34 Scout’s honor
35 Mysterious word repeated in Daniel 5:25
36 Isn’t too yellow
37 Chemical ___
38 Blabbermouth
40 Killer ending?
42 C.E.O., e.g.: Abbr.
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