News October 2014

Navy Region Northwest Recognizes Disability Awareness

Navy Region Northwest Recognizes Disability Awareness

October 27th, 2014

Cmdr. Ed Westbrook participates in an National Disability Awareness Month exercise

SILVERDALE, Wash. (NNS) -- Navy Region Northwest Sailors and civilians participated in a National Disability Awareness Month exercise at Naval Base Kitsap, Bangor Oct. 7-9.

Navy Region Northwest along with Naval Facilities Engineering Command Northwest (NAVFAC) combined forces to develop unique, real-life disabilities for participants who were randomly given one of three selected disabilities including mobility, hearing and eyesight. …

A Career of Commitment

October 23rd, 2014

Paralegal Specialist Jeanne M. Kalinoski retires after 42 years of service

A dead cat – and tools to dissect it – lay in front of a dispirited Jeanne Kalinoski sometime in the early 1970s. For the previous two years, she had taken college courses in nursing and science, but it wasn’t working out.

“Staring at that lifeless cat, I knew I couldn’t do this any longer,” she said.

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