{"id":178004,"date":"2014-09-02T04:00:51","date_gmt":"2014-09-01T18:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=178004"},"modified":"2014-09-02T04:00:51","modified_gmt":"2014-09-01T18:00:51","slug":"chief-selects-help-asan-residents-prevent-flooding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/chief-selects-help-asan-residents-prevent-flooding\/","title":{"rendered":"Chief selects help Asan residents prevent flooding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ASAN, Guam\u2014Navy Guam chief selects partnered with a village mayor to clear land that will be used as a community garden and improve the living conditions of surrounding residents in Asan on Aug. 29.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe chief selectees from Big Navy, thanks to them they are helping me with this place, which is always flooded during the rainy season and it overflows to the residents because of the poor drainage, and also we are going to use it as a community garden,\u201d said Mayor of Asan-Maina Joanna Margaret Blas. \u201cI am so grateful, and thank you is not enough.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-178004 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/chief-selects-help-asan-residents-prevent-flooding\/chief-selects-081\/'>Chief-selects-081<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-178007'>\n\t\t\t\tChief selects cut down a tree during a community relations event. Chief selects partnered with the Asan-Maina Mayor\u2019s Office to clear land that is causing flooding for surrounding residents in the village. (LEAH ECLAVEA) \n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/chief-selects-help-asan-residents-prevent-flooding\/chief-selects-090\/'>Chief-selects-090<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-178006'>\n\t\t\t\tChief (select) Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technician Theodore Baranek, Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit 5 Detachment Marianas, uses a machete to cut up a tree during a community relations event. (LEAH ECLAVEA )\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\nOne of the residents, Elizabeth Untalan, was watching the chief selects clear the land beside her mother\u2019s home. Untalan was happy knowing that her mother doesn\u2019t have to worry about flooding in the future.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis morning my mother was crying with happiness,\u201d said Untalan.<\/p>\n<p>The chief selects spent the day cutting down large trees and removing debris from the area.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s important to give back because the people of Guam have taken us in,\u201d said Chief (select) Logistics Specialist Kenneth Hughes, Military Sealift Command Ship Support Unit Guam. \u201cThey welcomed us and this is just a way to return the favor and say \u2018thank you.\u2019\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The process to becoming a chief in the Navy is a long and challenging road. Enlisted sailors go through the ranks from E-1 to E-5. Their years of service and leadership potential are carefully evaluated by the Navy Chief Selection Board.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you step into the ranks of the chief petty officer, your job is to take care of your sailors, develop your sailors, train your sailors to make sure that we have a strong fleet,\u201d said Hughes. \u201cThe chiefs mess is basically where all knowledge, all the traditions and heritage of the Navy is kept and we are the keepers of tradition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hughes believes in helping out in the community and demonstrating strong leadership by being an example of service. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we come out here and represent the Navy and we work in the community, it is showing our junior sailors it is okay to come out and do things that help the people around you, even though they are not in the military,\u201d said Hughes. \u201cThis is just us giving back and saying, \u2018hey we can do it.\u2019 As the chief selects out here this is us saying we are not above anything, just because we\u2019re chiefs doesn\u2019t mean you can\u2019t get down and can\u2019t get dirty.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ASAN, Guam\u2014Navy Guam chief selects partnered with a village mayor to clear land that will&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":178006,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[51,200,67],"class_list":["post-178004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-guam","tag-military","tag-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}