Navy

Ira Moser has a sense of humor and it shows in his wood carvings. A nurse who is pigeon-toed and knock-kneed carries an oversized needle. A bird of deception looks like a hummingbird from one side, but reveal the other side, and it's a donkey. An arrow with a heart around the shaft looks like a tricky one to make, except Moser has his clever tricks. He teases a niece who is a nurse that he made the carving for her. "I told her, 'After 30 years, this is what you're going to look like.

Seaman Matthew E. Hume, son of Rellie F. and Roger C. Hume of Lancaster, recently completed U.S. Navy basic training at Recruit Training Command, Great Lakes, Ill. During the eight-week program, Hume completed a variety of training which included classroom study and practical instruction on naval customs, first aid, firefighting, water safety and survival, and shipboard and aircraft safety. An emphasis was also placed on physical fitness. The capstone event of boot camp is “Battle Stations.” The exercise gives recruits the skills and confidence they need to succeed in the fleet.

Navy Midshipman Bryant A. Renfroe, son of Deborah L. C. and Philip R. Renfroe of Wilmore, and more than 900 other freshmen recently completed Plebe Summer while attending the United States Naval Academy. Plebe summer is the summer training program required of all incoming freshmen to the U.S. Naval Academy. The six-week training developed Renfroe morally, mentally and physically. He was also instilled with the highest ideals of duty, honor and loyalty. Renfroe will go on to complete the academic year as a midshipmen.

Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class Marco Budny of Nicholasville recently completed Naval Nuclear Power Training Pipeline. During the course with Nuclear Power Training Unit, Ballston Spa, N.Y., Budny received instruction about nuclear theory, chemistry, physics, reactor operations, safety and security. Upon completion of the course, Budny qualified as a Naval nuclear operator. Budny is a 2004 graduate of Lexington Catholic High School. He joined the Navy in December 2008.

Navy Seaman Apprentice Micah S. Moore, a 2007 graduate of East Jessamine High School, Nicholasville, recently completed U.S. Navy basic training at Recruit Training Command, Great Lakes, Ill. During the eight-week program, Moore completed a variety of training which included classroom study and practical instruction on naval customs, first aid, firefighting, water safety and survival, and shipboard and aircraft safety. An emphasis was also placed on physical fitness. The capstone event of boot camp is "Battle Stations".

Navy Seaman Recruit Brannon L. Jackson, son of Rashel L. Coatney of Nicholasville. and John C. Jackson of Vernon, Fla., recently completed U.S. Navy basic training at Recruit Training Command, Great Lakes, Ill. During the eight-week program, Jackson completed a variety of training which included classroom study and practical instruction on naval customs, first aid, firefighting, water safety and survival, and shipboard and aircraft safety....

Dear Editor, What are the Saudis thinking? They indicated they will increase production of oil 300,000 barrels a day - an amount that may curb the rise in price of fuel. Surely one knows they are not increasing production to sympathize with Americans or anyone else in the world. They import most food and commodities while pumping oil from the bowels of the earth. They are fabulously rich from this, and they are used to it. They realize the oil at present price will cause an international economic recession that would be bad for their business.

Navy

As the UK Hoops team crowded around the flat-screen television in Coach Matthew Mitchell's basement, they were all handed blank printable brackets so they could fill in the names of their mystery opponents. A hush fell over everyone as the ESPN Selection Show started, with analysts unveiling the first bracket. It was when the second bracket was revealed that guard Jennifer O'Neill stopped filling hers out. The Bronx, N.Y. native saw the “Queens” location pop up, and then the name of her team, the second-seeded Wildcats.

Brandewie completes Navy training Navy Seaman Apprentice Ian M. Brandewie, son of Jennifer Holland of Wilmore and Tim Brandewie of Lexington, recently completed U.S. Navy basic training at Recruit Training Command, Great Lakes, Ill. During the eight-week program, Brandewie completed a variety of training which included classroom study and practical instruction on naval customs, first aid, firefighting, water safety and survival, and shipboard...

Navy Deandre Routt of Lexington, formerly of Danville, graduated Sept. 28 from Great Lakes Naval Base's recruit training command in North Chicago, Ill. He entered the Navy on Aug. 1. He currently is in training at the Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Fla. He is the son of John and Latausha Routt of Lexington and great-grandson of Albert and Loretta Taylor of Danville.

Andrew M. Forbes gradauted U.S. Navy basic training earlier this month. A West Jessamine High School and BCTC graduate, Forbes completed his training at Great Lakes, Ill. During his eight weeks of training, Forbes learned seamanship, water survival, extensive shipboard damage control, firefighting and anti-terrorism. His company made it into the hall of fame due to team excellence in all areas of training. Forbes graduated as an “honor grad” with the rank of E-3. He is now attending cryptology intelligence school in Pensacola, Fla. His sister, Brittany, a senior at the University of Kentucky; and his parents, Andrew and June Forbes, attended his graduation.

Chaplain Kevin L. Dean enlisted in the Navy Reserve in 1989. He served for 14 years as a Religious Program Specialist (E-6) assigned to various Marine Corps units and was mobilized to the 2d Marine Aircraft Wing in support of Operation Desert Storm. In 2003, Dean was commissioned into the US Navy Chaplain Corps and was promoted to lieutenant, junior grade (O-2). In 2005, he accompanied Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 24 (Seabees) to Iraq during Operation Iraqi Freedom. Dean was mobilized for 14 months in 2009 as the rear echelon chaplain for the II Marine Expeditionary Force Headquarters Group in Camp Lejeune, N.C., where he served 6,000 marines and sailors, and their families.

Clinton Roberts, grandson of Clint and Margaret Fisher of Danville, joined the U.S. Navy as a Seabee right after graduating high school in Frankfort in 2010. Since then, he's been to Chicago, Afghanistan and Spain. But it was in Southern California where Roberts and his team provided a miraculous saving hand for a woman and her two daughters. In January, a semi-truck traveling down a California road and loaded with gravel hit a BMW from the rear before plowing through a bridge railing, falling 100 feet and bursting into flames.

Zach Hester can finally relax. The long, stressful task of getting his appointment to the United States Naval Academy is complete. The Boyle County senior accepted his appointment to Navy on Wednesday, ending months of interviews, medical tests and having to essentially divulge his whole life for the honor of going to college at one of the best schools in the world and getting to play football for the Midshipmen. “It's definitely a relief. I can kind of exhale and smile because at the Academy, it is a lot to do with the application,” Hester said during a ceremony at Boyle.

A Winchester sailor died during a training exercise Thursday with the Navy off the coast of North Carolina. Petty Officer Second Class Taylor Gallant, 22, was assigned to the Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit 12 on board the Canadian navy ship HMCS Summerside, according to a news release from the Navy Expeditionary Combat Command public affairs office. He was transported to Naval Hospital Camp Lejeune and was pronounced dead on arrival. John Gay, public affairs officer for NECC, said Gallant's death is under investigation, as the NECC and the Naval Safety Center determine exactly what went wrong.