Chief of Naval Personnel Vice Adm. Richard Cheeseman Jr. and Personnel, Manpower, and Coaching Fleet Grasp Chief Delbert Terrell Jr. offered the Capt. Pleasure Vivid Hancock and Grasp Chief Anna Der-Vartanian Management Awards to 5 Sailors on the 2023 Joint Ladies’s Management Symposium in San Diego.
The 2-and-a-half-day symposium, hosted by the Sea Providers Management Affiliation, introduced collectively service members from the armed forces to give attention to mentorship, management, and provoking ladies within the navy.
Captain Pleasure Vivid Hancock Management Award Winners
Senior Officer: Cmdr. Cheryl A. Griswold, Naval Survival Coaching Heart Miramar
Junior Officer: Lt. Andrea R. Howard, PCU New Jersey (SSN 796)
LDO/CWO: CWO3 Lureatha Harvey, U.S. Fleet Cyber Command/U.S. tenth Fleet
Grasp Chief Anna Der-Vartanian Management Award Winners
Senior Enlisted: HMCM(SS/SW/EXW/AW) Amanda L. McDevitt, Commander, Submarine Drive Atlantic
Junior Enlisted: HM1 Katy Jones(FMF/SW/AW), Navy Drugs Readiness and Coaching Command Beaufort
Inspiring Right this moment’s Fleet
Established in 1987 and open to each women and men, these annual management awards honor the visionary management of Sailors whose beliefs and dedication foster an inclusive tradition whereas furthering the combination of girls in at this time’s Navy.
This 12 months’s group of recipients showcased the numerous developments the Navy has made towards larger inclusion on the operational entrance — particularly within the aviation, submarine, cyber, and medical communities.
As a frontrunner within the submariner neighborhood, Lt. Andrea Howard mentioned she couldn’t think about a larger honor than receiving the Captain Pleasure Vivid Hancock Management Award.
“Amid the 12 months’s largest gathering of uniformed ladies, the vitality at JWLS felt tangible and electrical,” Howard mentioned. “The panels and invaluable facet conversations proved that superior ladies have already achieved the distinctive careers of service we hope to emulate with the Ladies in Submarines [Task Force].”
Candidates have been nominated by their commanding officers and officers-in-charge with endorsements from their quick superior in command. Boards, composed of senior leaders from the Workplace of the Chief of Naval Operations graded nominees on inspirational and revolutionary management, skilled accomplishments, character, command local weather, and neighborhood involvement.
The winners have been chosen out of 104 nomination packages for going above and past in each class, exhibiting extraordinary service like that of the awards’ namesakes.
Cmdr. Cheryl Griswold, the winner of the Senior Officer class, mentioned it was an honor and privilege to fulfill the opposite winners and the Chief of Naval Personnel management throughout the occasion. She additionally mirrored on the legacy of the awards.
“Capt. Pleasure Vivid Hancock is an inspiration for her dedication to the promotion of girls within the service at a time when many weren’t as accepting. Her groundbreaking work set the stage for our accomplishments at this time,” Griswold mentioned.
Griswold obtained the Senior Officer Capt. Pleasure Vivid Hancock Award for her management because the Director of the Naval Survival Coaching Heart Miramar. Since 2015, Griswold has spearheaded a number of initiatives which have enhanced ladies’s inclusion inside the naval aviation neighborhood.
Griswold’s quotation famous:
“Between 2015 and 2018, because the aeromedical security officer for Commander, Digital Assault Wing, U.S. Pacific Fleet (CVWP), she grew to become a liaison between CVWP and the feminine aviators of the Wing’s 15 subordinate squadrons and Weapons Faculty. As a workers corps officer supporting the all-male management of the Wing, the Weapons Faculty, and 15 subordinate squadrons, she initiated a program to lift consciousness of gender particular aviation points impacting inclusion, security, and morale of feminine aviators. She leveraged the work of CAPT (ret) David Smith’s “Athena Rising: How and Why Males Ought to Mentor Ladies,” to foster mentorship by male leaders to feminine subordinates. Her efforts at CVWP set the usual in proactive inclusion for the Navy, bringing in profitable senior ladies as visitor mentors for CVWP’s feminine officers, together with Vice Admiral Sara Joyner, and NASA Astronauts CAPT (ret) Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper, and CAPT (ret) Wendy Lawrence. She fostered a candid discussion board for ladies to talk and be heard by way of quarterly conferences with the commodore and deputy commodore, making a direct optimistic influence on total job satisfaction and sense of worth/inclusion inside the Wing.
Throughout her tour with CVWP, CDR Griswold famous the shortcomings within the availability, security, and effectiveness of lactation areas on the flight line. She developed a program and codified it by writing an instruction signed by the CVWP commodore to align with Navy steering and necessities for the provision of lactation areas. Her efforts decreased misplaced working hours related to driving to the well being clinic lactation rooms, pumping breast milk in autos or in rest room areas, thereby saving time and bettering the lives for ladies on the flight line. In 2019, whereas serving as a Army Fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Know-how Lincoln Laboratory (MITLL), she grew to become an lively member of the MITLL Ladies’s Community, a subset of the Variety & Inclusion Workplace, to study the methods utilized by business leaders to advertise recruitment, retention, and promotion alternatives for various expertise.”
Lt. Andrea R. Howard obtained the Junior Officer Capt. Pleasure Vivid Hancock Management Award for her influence because the Navigator and Operations Officer aboard the Virginia-class fast-attack submarine Pre-commissioning Unit New Jersey (SSN 796), the place she has actively led the cost on integrating ladies aboard submarines. Of the six submarines built-in with each officers and enlisted ladies, Howard is the primary officer within the historical past of the U.S. Navy to supervise the combination of junior enlisted ladies aboard two submarines, particularly USS Ohio (SSGN 726) and New Jersey, the latter being the one absolutely built-in fast-attack submarine.
Howard’s quotation included:
“Via her choice by the Submarine Expertise Administration Board for back-to-back sea obligation, she volunteered to guide as the primary feminine Division Head and try to combine Submarine Squadron Eight with enlisted ladies. Throughout each excursions, Andrea has supervised over 30 feminine Sailors, comprising of roughly ten p.c of all lively obligation feminine submariners and helped to attain a 75 p.c development score for that group.
Throughout 2021, she rallied collectively eight future feminine Division Heads to kind the Submarine Officers’ Ladies Community (SOWN). Attracting over 270 members, SOWN is the most important conglomeration of feminine submariners and workouts a singular mission inside the neighborhood: connecting current, previous, and future feminine submariners and recruiting a extra various, inclusive power. Via the group, Andrea has developed 19 long-term, mentorship relationships and dedicates not less than 100 hours yearly in direction of conversations on management kinds, office relationships, and submarine-specific skilled milestones.”
Chief Warrant Officer Lureatha Harvey obtained the Restricted Obligation Officer/Chief Warrant Officer Capt. Pleasure Vivid Hancock Award for her inspirational management spanning her profession and whereas serving as System and Integration Technical Director of U.S. Fleet Cyber Command Cyber Mission Drive Pacific. Harvey is the one African American feminine Cyber Chief Warrant Officer within the U.S. Navy. Utilizing her experiences from serving in a neighborhood with few minorities or ladies, Harvey has impressed different Sailors to proceed making significant contributions to the service.
Harvey’s quotation included:
“She has fostered an inclusive tradition that tackles underrepresentation of girls and minorities by addressing the boundaries stopping them from enlisting within the Navy, from pursuing a profession inside the science and know-how disciplines of the Navy, and from turning into senior Navy officers or Navy civilians. She educated and helped severely ailing and injured Sailors’ transition to civilian life by way of the Wounded Warrior program. As well as, she has devoted quite a few off-duty hours to serving to candidates with their purposes for commissioning below numerous officer applications. Her dedication resulted within the collection of over 13 Sailors for LDO/CWO, OCS, Naval Academy, and MSC-IPP, immediately bettering expertise retention within the U.S. Navy.”
Grasp Chief Hospital Corpsman Amanda L. McDevitt obtained the Senior Enlisted Grasp Chief Anna Der-Vartanian Management Award recipient for her management and protracted advocacy for range, fairness and inclusion of girls within the Navy all through the breadth of her profession.
Blazing the way in which for ladies aboard submarines, McDevitt was the primary enlisted feminine chosen to report back to a submarine when the U.S. Navy started integrating ladies aboard the platform.
McDevitt’s award quotation famous:
“In September 2012 whereas deployed as an Particular person Augmentee in Manda Bay, Kenya, she led a group of non-medical personnel within the profitable rescue of a passenger of a downed Kenyan Air Drive aircraft. With out regard to her personal security, she navigated the Kenyan jungle at night time to get better the survivor from the burning aircraft wreckage and return him to the Camp for stabilization previous to Medical Evacuation. She was chosen as the primary enlisted feminine to report onboard a submarine. As one among two senior enlisted ladies onboard she took it upon herself to mentor junior enlisted ladies and supplied sage counsel to the chain of command concerning the integration of girls aboard USS Michigan (SSGN 727) guaranteeing a clean transition for all submarine crews to return. She is routinely sought out throughout all sides of the Navy to talk with Sailors with reference to inclusion of girls inside the submarine power. In her off-duty time she continues to often volunteer time to talk with ladies by way of a number of platforms. She administers a number of social media mentorship pages and continues to offer mentorship and discusses her experiences on what life is like onboard a submarine.”
Hospital Corpsman 1st Class Katy Jones obtained the Junior Enlisted Grasp Chief Anna Der-Vartanian Management Award for her influence and initiative at Navy Drugs Readiness and Coaching Command Beaufort and former instructions.
Jones’ quotation additionally included:
“At Naval Hospital Guam, she labored in Obstetrics and Gynecology and assisted in over 1,300 procedures used to determine cervical dysplasia and beginning malformations. She recertified as an EMT and assigned to the affected person transport and MEDEVAC watch group. When sufferers required transport to the next echelon of care, she coordinated medical transport to Guam Memorial Hospital or the Anderson Air Drive Base flightline. She devoted over 65 off-duty hours throughout multicultural shows and coordinating the Hospital Corpsman Ball and volunteered 38 hours with Guam Animals in Want. Aboard USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74), she labored in feminine wellness, coordinating greater than 450 exams and procedures for 468 feminine Sailors. She certified in a number of sections within the medical division whereas working because the Flight Deck Corpsman. Deployed in assist of Operation Enduring Freedom, she responded throughout a flight deck mishap, offering medical therapy and transport for 10 casualties to Naval Medical Heart San Diego. She volunteered 225 hours of neighborhood service in assist of the Little one Abuse Prevention Affiliation, to make sure shelter was obtainable for abused kids and accomplished three ranges of signal language coaching.”
The Trailblazers
These Sailors and all of the nominees reside proof of the legacies of Hancock and Der-Vartanian.
These Sailors and all of the nominees reside proof of the legacies of Hancock and Der-Vartanian.
Der-Vartanian made historical past as the primary lady within the U.S. Armed Forces promoted to E-9. Hancock guided the Ladies Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES) by way of tough years within the late Forties and early Fifties, a interval that noticed the Navy’s ladies obtain standing as a part of the common Navy.
These iconic Sailors spent most of their lives performing as stewards for the combination of girls within the Navy, blazing the path for the 2023 award recipients.
The Navy’s Tradition and Drive Resilience Workplace continues its mission towards constructing the folks, leaders, and groups that allow the Navy to combat and win.
For extra details about these awards, go to:
NAVADMIN 145/23 and https://www.mynavyhr.navy.mil/Help-Providers/Tradition-Resilience/Womens-Coverage/Hancock-DerVartanian-Awards/
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