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    NSAB Celebrates Earth Week

    BETHESDA, MD, UNITED STATES

    04.28.2016

    Story by Andrew Damstedt 

    Naval Support Activity Bethesda

    Equipped with gloves and carrying white trash bags, a slew of volunteers picked up discarded bottles, gloves, cigarette butts and other litter around Naval Support Activity Bethesda (NSAB) April 20 as part of Earth Week.

    “It’s something that has to be done, this is our planet, this is our base, this is the place we work, it’s like our home,” said Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class Taylor Stamey, who was picking up trash with others outside Walter Reed National Military Medical Center’s emergency room. “We need to pick up after ourselves and it helps the environment. I think it’s a really great thing.”

    NSAB Commanding Officer Capt. Marvin L. Jones kicked off the trash pick-up by telling those assembled that it’s important to be good stewards not only of NSAB, but also of the Earth.

    “This is our environment and we should do everything we can to make it a healthy environment,” Jones said.

    Navy Lt. Neville Willoughby picked up trash near Building 27 with a few other Sailors.

    “It’s a great opportunity for us to come together to take care of our home,” Willoughby said.

    Hospital Corpsman 1st Class Elaine Walters came out with a group from the Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery office that collected trash from a wooded area behind Navy Gateway Inns and Suites.

    “It’s our way of giving back,” said Walters, who planned to fill up her trash bag.

    At last year’s annual cleanup she said she actually filled a bag with pieces of a car from an accident that hadn’t been cleared up all the way.

    Susan Paul, NSAB environmental program director, said there were about 40 volunteers who collected more than 100 pounds of trash.

    “Any trash we keep out of the bay is good for us,” Paul said.

    Other events during Earth Week included a forum of NASA and Navy scientists speaking on what effects humans have on the Earth, an educational fair on Main Street and a tree planting at the USO Warrior and Family Center at Bethesda.

    A flowering dogwood was planted April 21 with Jones and Cmdr. Jason Chung, NSAB public works officer, tossing the first shovelfuls of dirt.

    “My daughter was born on Earth Day, and she’s only six but she’ll tell you it’s not only my birthday but it’s Earth Day,” Chung said. “Every year it reminds me that yes, it’s her birthday but we also have to think as we get older and give off the baton to our children to lead, we want to make sure that we’re good stewards and leave this Earth in a good habitable fashion.”

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    Date Taken: 04.28.2016
    Date Posted: 04.29.2016 11:51
    Story ID: 196893
    Location: BETHESDA, MD, US

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