Navy Environmental Award Winners Named

Secretary of the Navy Environmental Award Winners Named

Seventeen winners have been selected in the 2004 Secretary of the Navy (SECNAV) Environmental Awards competition, sponsored by the assistant secretary of the Navy (installations & environment).

The annual SECNAV Environmental Awards program recognizes Navy and Marine Corps individuals, teams, ships and installations for their exceptional environmental stewardship. Competition categories include natural resources conservation, cultural resources management, environmental quality, pollution prevention, and environmental restoration.

Awards will be presented May 3, 2005, in Washington, D.C., at the U.S. Navy Memorial & Naval Heritage Center.

The 2004 Navy and Marine Corps winners are:

Natural Resources Conservation Large Installation Award: Naval Base Coronado, Calif., Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, N.C.

Cultural Resources Management Installation Award:, Naval Base Kitsap at Bremerton, Wash., Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, S.C.

Cultural Resources Management Individual or Team Award:, James V. Sartain, Naval Support Activity, Panama City, Fla., Bryan P. Howard, Marine Corps Recruit Depot, Parris Island, S.C.

Environmental Quality Industrial Installation Award:, Naval Air Depot Cherry Point, N.C., Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, N.C.,

Environmental Quality Overseas Installation Award:, U.S. Naval Air Facility Atsugi, Japan, Marine Corps Base Camp Butler, Okinawa, Japan

Environmental Quality Small Ship Award:, USS McClusky, San Diego, Calif.

Pollution Prevention Non-industrial Installation Award:, Commander Navy Region Mid-Atlantic, Norfolk, Va., Marine Corps Base Hawaii

Pollution Prevention Individual or Team Award:, Navy Region Northwest Spill Prevention and Response Team, Wash., Kathleen Stiles, Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, S.C.

Environmental Restoration, Installation Award:, Naval Facilities Engineering Command Pacific, Hawaii, Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, N.C.

U.S. Department of Defense Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Public Affairs) News Release On the Web: defenselink.mil/releases/2005/ Media contact: +1 (703) 697-5131 Public contact: dod.mil/faq/comment or +1 (703) 428-0711 No. 230-05 IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 4, 2005

Freedom Calendar 03/05/05 - 03/12/05

March 5, 1875, Blanche Bruce (R-MS) becomes first African-American to serve full term in U.S. Senate; in 1879 he was first African-American to preside over Senate.

March 6, 1857, Republican Supreme Court Justice John McLean issues strenuous dissent from decision by 7 Democrats in infamous Dred Scott case that African-Americans had no rights “which any white man was bound to respect”.

March 7, 1965, Police under the command of Democrat Governor George Wallace attack African-Americans demonstrating for voting rights in Selma, AL.

March 8, 1990, Republican Evan J. Kemp appointed by President George H. W. Bush
as Chairman of U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission; first person with a disability to serve on the Commission.

March 9, 1926, Republican Bertha K. Landes elected Mayor of Seattle; first woman to be mayor of a U.S. city.

March 10, 1975, President Gerald Ford appoints Republican Carla Hills as first woman to be U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; later first woman to be U.S. Trade Representative, appointed by President George H. W. Bush.

March 11, 1874, Death of Republican U.S. Senator Charles Sumner (R-MA), author of bill that would become Civil Rights Act of 1875; on his deathbed, said “You must take care of the civil rights bill, my bill. Don’t let it fail”.

March 12, 1956, Ninety-seven Democrats in Congress condemn Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education, and pledge to continue segregation.

“The Republican Party is the ship, all else is the sea.”

Frederick Douglass, Republican Civil Rights Activist

SOURCE: 2005 Republican Freedom Calendar