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DECA Says Goodbye to Commissary Director 

Bill Moore has announced he is stepping down from his role as commissary director and retiring on March 31. He has spent 40 years as a government employee and has been overseeing commissary operations for almost 3 years.

Before this he served as the Army assistant deputy chief of staff and was responsible for Army logistics plans, policy and programming.

“It’s been a true honor to finish my career leading DeCA in what this agency does every day to help military families better serve our nation,” Moore said in a statement.

“I was given a mandate by the Department oDefense to bring DeCA into the 21st Century,” Moore said in the statement. “The example the department used was online shopping.”

The agency he ran is in charge of 236 commissaries throughout the world. When he took over, only five of those were using the commissary’s fairly new click2go app, which connects consumers with the organization’s online pickup option.

All 236 commissaries now have this app and pickup perk under his leadership. This convenience has increased the commissary’s overall sales by 60 percent with an average of 134 dollars per order.

Moore hinted in his statement that they are now working towards delivery options. Customer satisfaction has also risen since Moore took over, increasing from 83 to 89 percent. 

Happy retirement, Mr. Moore! No one is more grateful than I, who wrote this in my commissary pickup stall, cozily out of the rain. 

Find out more at military times.com

Cruisin With The Navy Once Again

Tom Cruise is currently on the high seas with the Navy for the 8th installment of his mission impossible franchise titled “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part Two”

The details are still a bit hazy.

It is known that he’s in the Adriatic Sea on an aircraft carrier. It has not been confirmed which aircraft carrier it is but Antonio Parente, head of the Apulia Film Commission in Italy, told Variety magazine  that it is “probably the U.S.S. George H.W. Bush, and that it is most likely between Italy and Croatia, but we are not sure.”

This is not the first time Cruise has roughed it up with the Navy, the first time was in 1986 while filming the original Top Gun. This turned out to be a beneficial move for the navy as navy recruitment numbers skyrocketed after the release of the film.

New to the scene is Top Gun: Maverick, which was largely filmed in the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln. 

You’ll have to wait a bit to see this new navy/cruise collab on the big screen, however, as Dead Reckoning part one isn’t even out until July 14 of this year. Part 2 is slated to be released summer of 2024.

I hope the men and women of the carrier are on a mission quite possible to get some free tickets and swag from everyone’s favorite fake navy pilot!

Find out more at federaltimes.com

Naval Mystery on the Outerbanks

It might be nowhere near Halloween, but things are getting spooky on the outerbanks of North Carolina!

The same day a house out of Rodanthe, North Carolina, mysteriously floated out to sea, a navy vessel washed ashore.

The vessel was bright orange, 16 feet long, and had notes with a phone number attached to it.  This number belonged to the Norfolk Naval Air Station, approximately 100 miles north of where the vessel was found.

The discoverer of the vessel, Kyle Barniak, originally thought that it was a piece of the missing house, such as a bench or porch swing.

But then  “As I approached, it was clear it was a boat, completely intact and watertight,” he told the Charlotte observer. 

He called the number on the back and found out that it was military target belonging to the Norfolk Detachment of Atlantic Targets & Marine Operations, which supports training for “threat-representative scenarios.”

The vessel had been reported as sunk, which is why the navy was not searching for it. They told Kyle that they wanted to retrieve it.

But that’s when things took another odd turn.

“When I went back, it was no longer there,” Barniak said. “Being Rodanthe, it was probably pirated overnight. There was nothing technical on the boat, but you could sit in it and it will probably show up modified so someone can go duck hunting in it or something.”

Anyone who finds it is asked to call the Navy at 757-445-4825.

The house is also still missing.

Maybe they both just washed back out to sea, maybe the ship was stolen, but I enjoy my theory that Casper the friendly ghost just wanted a little beach home to call his own!

Find out more at Americanmilitarynews.com

This Day in History:

On March 27, 1964, the largest earthquake ever recorded in the United States shook the Prince William Sound region of Alaska.

Clocking in at a terrifying 9.2, it lasted just under five minutes and killed 131 people and inflicted 116 million dollars in damage.

But the majority of those souls and the infrastructure were not lost to the earthquake itself, but to the ensuing tsunami that ransacked the fishing village of Chenega, outside of Anchorage, shortly after. 

It is believed that the death toll would have been much higher but for the fact that most businesses were closed for good Friday. 

It could be felt in Canada, Oregon and California and Tsunamis also took place in Hawaii and Japan as a result. Even areas as far as Texas and Florida reported occurrences of motion directly related to the earthquake.

Never fear, temporarily stationed Alaskans!

They learned from this experience and rebuilt with much stronger, earthquake proof infrastructure.

That’s it for me! I’m Emma Tighe with news 6 where information empowers!