Navy leaders introduced the Capt. Pleasure Brilliant Hancock and Grasp Chief Anna Der-Vartanian Management Awards on the 2022 Joint Girls’s Management Symposium, hosted by the Sea Providers Management Affiliation, in Norfolk, Va., July 12, 2022.
Rear Adm. James P. Waters, director of Army Personnel Plans and Coverage, and Personnel, Manpower and Coaching Fleet Grasp Chief Delbert Terrell Jr. acknowledged 5 award winners and 5 honorable mentions as a part of the symposium’s Navy Day occasions.
The Navy introduced the award recipients in NAVADMIN 118/22:
Captain Pleasure Brilliant Hancock Management Award Winners
Senior Officer: Lt. Cmdr. Emily A. Curran, Pre-Commissioning Unit John F. Kennedy (CVN 79)
Junior Officer: Lt. Christina A. Danai, USS Manchester (LCS 14)
LDO/CWO: Lt. Natalia F. Luchetti, Particular Initiatives Patrol Squadron Two (VPU-2)
Grasp Chief Anna Der-Vartanian Management Award Winners
Senior Enlisted: Chief Grasp-at-Arms Markeeta Y. Hardin, USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70)
Junior Enlisted: Hospital Corpsman 1st Class Brittany M. Robinson, Fight Logistics Regiment 27, 2D Marine Logistics Group
Honorable Mentions
Senior Officer: Lt. Cmdr. Christine Cairoli, Naval Assist Exercise Panama Metropolis, and Lt. Cmdr. Ashley Farina, Strike Fighter Squadron Two (VFA-2)
Junior Officer: Lt. Kimberly Rios, Choose Advocate Basic’s Corps, Protection Service Workplace, Rota, Spain
Senior Enlisted: Senior Chief Musician Erin Horn, Navy Band Northeast
Junior Enlisted: Navy Counselor 1st Class Lauren Lemmel, Tactical Operations Management Squadron 10 (TOCRON-10)
Above and Past
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 girls within the Navy.
Candidates have been nominated by their commanding officers and officers-in-charge with endorsements from their rapid 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 modern management, skilled accomplishments, character, command local weather, and neighborhood involvement.
After thorough evaluation of 98 nomination packages, the winners have been chosen for going above and past in each class, exhibiting extraordinary service like that of the eponymous legacies of the awards.
“It’s an honor to serve alongside you as we write the following nice chapter in our Navy’s story,” Waters mentioned in the course of the awards presentation. “I’m excited to learn in regards to the future Capt. Hancock and Grasp Chief Der-Vartanian who’re on this crowd right this moment.”
Lt. Cmdr. Emily A. Curran acquired the Senior Officer Capt. Pleasure Brilliant Hancock Award for her management because the Nuclear Reactor Controls Assistant Officer aboard the plane service Pre-Commissioning Unit John F. Kennedy (CVN 79) and as “a superior chief whose vital contributions have achieved a optimistic command local weather.”
Whereas together with Curran’s command achievements, her quotation additionally famous:
“Her management demonstrates the worth ladies and moms convey to the group. She authored and championed Naval Sea Methods Command (NAVSEA) coverage and management coaching on being pregnant in industrial environments, leveraging her personal expertise with being pregnant on the waterfront to determine areas needing enchancment. Her tireless efforts elevated workforce administration points to encourage a extra inclusive being pregnant coverage relating to childcare and breastfeeding.”
Lt. Christina A. Danai acquired the Junior Officer Capt. Pleasure Brilliant Hancock Management Award for her management because the Chief Engineer aboard the Independence-variant littoral fight ship USS Manchester (LCS 14), the place she has set an instance of non-public {and professional} excellence. She additionally serves on the Naval Junior Officer Counsel’s Board of Representatives.
Danai’s quotation included:
“All through her profession she has been a staunch advocate for range and inclusion, from integrating feminine Sailors aboard USS Lake Erie (CG 70) to offering constructive management panels for junior officers. She continues this follow in having been appointed to the newly created Naval Junior Officer Council, a corporation established by the Chief of Naval Analysis and Chief of Naval Personnel to proceed fostering a wholesome, inclusive, team-oriented Navy.
Lt. Natalia F. Luchetti acquired the Restricted Responsibility Officer/Chief Warrant Officer Capt. Pleasure Brilliant Hancock Award for her management over the span of her profession and whereas serving because the Assistant Upkeep Officer of Particular Initiatives Patrol Squadron Two (VPU-2). Praised by her commanders as a real deckplate chief, from the mess decks to the wardroom, Luchetti was famous for her efforts in “selling equal alternative, skilled development and a optimistic command surroundings.”
Amongst her accomplishments, her quotation included:
“She was hand-picked to serve collaterally because the Command Advisor on Parenthood and Being pregnant (CAPP), advocating for folks serving within the army. An innovator and champion, she has performed dozens of mentorship periods, serving to younger Sailors notice their untapped potential as a way to retain Navy’s most various and invaluable expertise.”
Chief Grasp-at-Arms Markeeta Y. Hardin, though unable to attend the awards presentation, was acknowledged because 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.
Hardin based an active-duty feminine mentorship group for single moms of all paygrades, and volunteered as a mentor for pregnant teenagers at an area juvenile detention middle, in addition to tutored at a number of interior metropolis faculties. She was elected by her friends to be the president of the Chief Petty Officer Affiliation. She additionally earned the Girls’s Historical past Highlight Award and Excellence Retention Award.
Hardin’s award quotation famous:
“Constantly breaking boundaries and effecting change, her dedication to mentorship and girls within the service has been felt all through the Navy spanning from Fifth Fleet to Navy Area Mid-South and past.”
Hospital Corpsman 1st Class Brittany M. Robinson acquired the Junior Enlisted Grasp Chief Anna Der-Vartanian Management Award for her influence and initiative at Second Marine Logistics Group.
Hand-selected by her commanding officer to “course-correct” her regiment’s organizational tradition, Robinson developed and applied a number of applications to construct unit cohesion and morale. In her off-duty time, she volunteers in intensive care items and emergency rooms – accumulating over 600 hours of neighborhood service – all whereas balancing the calls for of motherhood and her pursuit of a faculty schooling in nursing.
The awardee’s quotation additionally included:
“A mom, scholar, and Sailor, Petty Officer Robinson personifies the combating spirit of awardee namesake Grasp Chief Anna Der-Vartanian. Persevering within the face of adversity, she reworked her personal private experiences into a possibility to guide, educate and higher her fellow Sailors.”
Noteworthy Runners-Up
An honorable point out within the Senior Officer class, Lt. Cmdr. Christine Cairoli, was acknowledged for her management as a human sources officer at Naval Assist Exercise Panama Metropolis. Cairoli has been a mentor to over 750 youth throughout six completely different responsibility stations by her neighborhood involvement as an envoy for the Navy.
Lt. Cmdr. Ashley Farina, additionally a Senior Officer honorable point out, is a naval flight officer who is understood for mentoring these she leads, each junior officers and enlisted. As one of many few ladies chosen for VFA division head, she leads inclusively and has an modern thoughts – from serving to her squadron procure important flight gear for feminine aviators to prioritizing significant squadron mentoring periods.
As a runner up within the Junior Officer class, Lt. Kimberly Rios was famous for her volunteer work with Operations Allies Refuge at Naval Station Rota, Spain, the place she positively impacted the lives of two,500 Afghan evacuees, primarily ladies and youngsters.
Senior Enlisted runner up Senior Chief Musician Erin Horn set herself aside as a frontrunner who champions the range of thought and folks, and advocates for her Sailors. She has labored extensively to determine obstacles for girls’s retention and promotions, and has taken motion to alleviate these hurdles for future Sailors.
Junior Enlisted honorable point out Navy Counselor 1st Class Lauren Lemmel was acknowledged for her work as a passionate profession counselor, taking the initiative in establishing the primary TOCRON-10 Command Advisor on Parenthood and Being pregnant Program.
The Trailblazers
These Sailors and the remainder 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 to be promoted to the rank of E-9. Hancock guided the Girls Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES) by tough years within the late Forties and early Nineteen Fifties, a interval that noticed the Navy’s ladies 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 girls within the Navy, blazing the path for this 12 months’s awards recipients.
This 12 months’s return of JWLS and the presentation of the Capt. Pleasure Brilliant Hancock and Grasp Chief Anna Der-Vartanian Management Awards marks every’s first in-person occasion since earlier than the COVID-19 pandemic.
Through the “Joint Day” occasions of the two-day symposium, the awards have been additionally introduced by Vice. Adm. Lisa Franchetti, the director of Coverage, Plans, and Technique of the Joint Workers, Rear Adm. Shoshana Chatfield, SSLA Chair of the Board and the president of Naval Warfare School, and Capt. Emily Bassett, SSLA president and the pressure nuclear propulsion officer of Commander, Naval Air Drive, Pacific.
For extra information from Chief of Naval Personnel – Navy Workplace of Range, Fairness and Inclusion go to:
https://www.mynavyhr.navy.mil/Assist-Providers/Twenty first-Century-Sailor/Range-Fairness-Inclusion/
