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The Naval Media Center’s radio program, “Talk
of the Town” airs Mondays at 2 p.m. on K104FM,
Thunder 1530, and Roller Channel 9. Monday,
October 18 Lt. Jennifer Nussbaum from the Fleet
and Family Support Center was the guest. Here are
some of the community issues they discussed:
Navy uniform changes: There are 4 variations
of uniforms for enlisted and officers that are being
tested in the fleet. Pictures of the concept uniforms
are available online www.news.navy.mil. The uni-
forms are designed to replace utilities, wash khaki,
coveralls, woodland green, aviation green, winter
working blue and tropical working uniforms.
Navy officials say the plan is that in the initial
stages that feedback will play a vital role in what
they will look like.
Classes at Fleet and Family Support Center:
Classes are ongoing, people can pick up calendars at
the FFSC to see what classes are avialable and when
they are scheduled for.
Domestic Violence Awareness Month: [Lt.
Nussbaum] Oct. is Domestic Violence Awareness
Month. It is a nation-wide situation. We want to
get the word out to make people more aware that
domestic violence does happen and that we want to
be able to stop it.
On a base of this size there isn't much that goes on
that people don't know about. What I've found in a
little less than a year that I've been here, that often
when a case came in the neighbors knew about it.
People suspect, they know about it, but they just
didn't turn it in.
To promote awareness about the subject we put
an article in the White Falcon and we are putting
together informational bits to put in the plan of
the week and on the NASKEF intranet, so people
should be checking for that. Information that if you
knew someone who might be in that type of situa-
tion, what you could do. What you could do to help
instead of standing by and doing nothing. Potentially
you are saving someone's life if you step in and help.
The reality is that with domestic violence it starts
out, sometimes, at a low level, but if you don't stop
it and intervene that it gets worse and worse each
time and somebody could die. Sometimes it hap-
pens early on that someone dies because it got out
of hand, beyond what the expection was. So it's very
important to catch it early. We also have the greatest
success rate of being able to stop it and ending up
having a healthy marriage if you can catch it early
and stop the pattern.
People can make anonymous calls, so that they
need to know to that when if you call to report it,
when I do follow up with the individuals to see
what is going on, that I'm not going to say well your
neighbor so and so called to say that she's been hear-
ing a lot of fighting going on. Your identity will be
• protected.
Call the Fleet and Family Support Center Family
Advocacy Representative at 4401 to report domestic
violence.
We are also setting up briefings with some of the
spouse support groups so that they are' receiving
the same training as the troops so that they can be
educated and know what domestic violence is. What
does fall under those paramaters. A lot of times
people who are in those types of situations think,
well this isn't a whole lot of fun but I don't know if it
is domestic violence or not, or that he didn't mean to
push me or that it was an accident that I got hurt.
Changes in classes at FFSC and U.S. Naval
Hospital Keflavik, Iceland: The hospital has taken
over for the FFSC in administering the stress and
anger management classes. So from this point on,
people who want to participate in these classes
should call the mental health clinic at the hospital to
sign up for these classes.
Women's Health Symposium: U.S. Naval
Hospital Keflavik, Iceland is hosting a Women's
Health Symposium Oct. 28 at noon at the Three
Flags Club. The symposium will highlight bone,
heart, breast, reproductive, colo-rectal and skin
health as well as provide information about diabe-
tes. contact Health Promotions at 3230 for more
information.
Race for the Cure 5K walk/run: Will Oct. 30
at 10 a.m. Register by the Oct. 25. Call Health
Promotions at 3230 for more information. Prizes
will be awarded.
Basewide Trick or Treat hours: Sat. Oct. 30 from
4-7 p.m. Please ensure you are wearing your reflec-
tive gear. Mother Nature and winter are well on their
way and with that darkness. So please ensure you
wear your reflective gear so you can be seen.
Look in next week’s edition for the results of the
next “Talk of the Town.” E-mail your questions to
nmcfeedback@naskef.navy.mil or call the Naval
Media Center during the broadcast at 4615.
White Falcon relocating
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of services. We apologize in advance for any
inconveniences this relocation may cause. Our
new offices will open Nov. 1 in Bldg. 128.
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October 20, 2004