Prime Navy leaders introduced the Capt. Pleasure Vibrant Hancock and Grasp Chief Anna Der-Vartanian Management Awards to 5 Sailors on the 2023 Joint Girls’s Management Symposium in San Diego, June 29, 2023.
Chief of Naval Personnel Vice Adm. Richard Cheeseman Jr. and Personnel, Manpower, and Coaching Fleet Grasp Chief Delbert Terrell Jr. acknowledged the accomplishments of every recipient in the course of the symposium’s “Navy Day” occasions.
The 2-and-a-half-day symposium, hosted by the Sea Providers Management Affiliation, introduced collectively service members from all branches of the armed forces to give attention to mentorship, management and galvanizing girls within the navy.
On June 27, the Navy introduced the award recipients in NAVADMIN 145/23.
Captain Pleasure Vibrant Hancock Management Award Winners
Senior Officer: Cmdr. Cheryl A. Griswold, Naval Survival Coaching Middle 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 Power Atlantic
Junior Enlisted: HM1 Katy Jones(FMF/SW/AW), Navy Drugs Readiness and Coaching Command Beaufort
Inspiring As we speak’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 mixing of ladies in in the present day’s Navy.
Candidates had been nominated by their commanding officers and officers-in-charge with endorsements from their speedy superior in command. Convening boards, composed of senior leaders from the Workplace of the Chief of Naval Operations, then graded nominees on the standards of inspirational and progressive management, skilled accomplishments, character, command local weather, and neighborhood involvement.
After thorough assessment of 104 nomination packages, the winners had been chosen for going above and past in each class, exhibiting extraordinary service like that of the awards’ namesakes.
Cmdr. Cheryl Griswold acquired the Senior Officer Capt. Pleasure Vibrant Hancock Award for her management because the Director of the Naval Survival Coaching Middle Miramar. Since 2015, Griswold has spearheaded a number of initiatives which have enhanced girls’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 turned a liaison between CVWP and the feminine aviators of the Wing’s 15 subordinate squadrons and Weapons College. As a workers corps officer supporting the all-male management of the Wing, the Weapons College, and 15 subordinate squadrons, she initiated a program to boost 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 Girls,” 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 girls 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 girls to talk and be heard by quarterly conferences with the commodore and deputy commodore, making a direct constructive influence on general 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 supply of lactation areas. Her efforts lowered misplaced working hours related to driving to the well being clinic lactation rooms, pumping breast milk in automobiles or in bathroom areas, thereby saving time and enhancing the lives for girls on the flight line. In 2019, whereas serving as a Navy Fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Know-how Lincoln Laboratory (MITLL), she turned an energetic member of the MITLL Girls’s Community, a subset of the Range & Inclusion Workplace, to be taught the methods utilized by trade leaders to advertise recruitment, retention, and promotion alternatives for various expertise.”
Lt. Andrea R. Howard acquired the Junior Officer Capt. Pleasure Vibrant 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 girls aboard submarines. Of the six submarines built-in with each officers and enlisted girls, Howard is the primary officer within the historical past of the U.S. Navy to supervise the mixing of junior enlisted girls aboard two submarines, particularly USS Ohio (SSGN 726) and New Jersey, the latter being the one totally built-in fast-attack submarine.
Howard’s quotation included:
“By way of her choice by the Submarine Expertise Administration Board for back-to-back sea obligation, she volunteered to steer as the primary feminine Division Head and try to combine Submarine Squadron Eight with enlisted girls. Throughout each excursions, Andrea has supervised over 30 feminine Sailors, comprising of roughly ten p.c of all energetic obligation feminine submariners and helped to attain a 75 p.c development ranking for that group.
Throughout 2021, she rallied collectively eight future feminine Division Heads to type the Submarine Officers’ Girls Community (SOWN). Attracting over 270 members, SOWN is the biggest 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 drive. By way of the group, Andrea has developed 19 long-term, mentorship relationships and dedicates a minimum of 100 hours yearly in direction of conversations on management types, office relationships, and submarine-specific skilled milestones.”
Chief Warrant Officer Lureatha Harvey acquired the Restricted Responsibility Officer/Chief Warrant Officer Capt. Pleasure Vibrant 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 Power 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 girls, 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 ladies and minorities by addressing the obstacles stopping them from enlisting within the Navy, from pursuing a profession inside the science and expertise disciplines of the Navy, and from changing into senior Navy officers or Navy civilians. She educated and helped severely ailing and injured Sailors’ transition to civilian life by the Wounded Warrior program. As well as, she has devoted quite a few off-duty hours to serving to candidates with their functions for commissioning beneath varied officer applications. Her dedication resulted within the collection of over 13 Sailors for LDO/CWO, OCS, Naval Academy, and MSC-IPP, instantly enhancing expertise retention within the U.S. Navy.”
Grasp Chief Hospital Corpsman Amanda L. McDevitt acquired the Senior Enlisted Grasp Chief Anna Der-Vartanian Management Award recipient for her management and protracted advocacy for range, fairness and inclusion of ladies within the Navy all through the breadth of her profession.
Blazing the way in which for girls aboard submarines, McDevitt was the primary enlisted feminine chosen to report back to a submarine when the U.S. Navy started integrating girls 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 workforce of non-medical personnel within the profitable rescue of a passenger of a downed Kenyan Air Power aircraft. With out regard to her personal security, she navigated the Kenyan jungle at evening to recuperate 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 girls onboard she took it upon herself to mentor junior enlisted girls and offered sage counsel to the chain of command in regards to the integration of ladies aboard USS Michigan (SSGN 727) making certain 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 regard to inclusion of ladies inside the submarine drive. In her off-duty time she continues to repeatedly volunteer time to talk with girls through 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 acquired 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 start malformations. She recertified as an EMT and assigned to the affected person transport and MEDEVAC watch workforce. When sufferers required transport to the next echelon of care, she coordinated medical transport to Guam Memorial Hospital or the Anderson Air Power 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 help of Operation Enduring Freedom, she responded throughout a flight deck mishap, offering medical therapy and transport for 10 casualties to Naval Medical Middle San Diego. She volunteered 225 hours of neighborhood service in help of the Little one Abuse Prevention Affiliation, to make sure shelter was accessible for abused kids and accomplished three ranges of signal language coaching.”
The Trailblazers
These Sailors and all those that had been nominated live proof of the legacies of Hancock and Der-Vartanian.
Der-Vartanian made historical past as the primary lady within the U.S. Armed Forces to be promoted to the rank of E-9. Hancock guided the Girls Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES) by troublesome years within the late Forties and early Fifties, a interval that noticed the Navy’s girls obtain standing as a part of the common Navy.
Each of those iconic Sailors spent the vast majority of their lives performing as stewards for the mixing of ladies within the Navy, blazing the path for the 2023 award recipients.
The Navy’s Tradition and Power Resilience Workplace continues the mission towards constructing the individuals, leaders and groups that allow the Navy to struggle and win.
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