U.S. Sailors Plant Trees at Romanian School

Photo By Petty Officer 1st Class Jeremy Starr | 180524-N-BK435-0235 DEVESELU, Romania (May 24, 2018) Master-at-Arms 3rd Class Gregory Cutting, a Barbados native assigned to Naval Support Facility Deveselu, plays soccer with children from Deveselu School during a community relations project in Romania, May 24. NSF Deveselu and AAMDS Romania are co-located with the Romanian 99th Military Base and play a key role in ballistic missile defense in Eastern Europe. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Jeremy Starr/Released)  

DEVESELU, ROMANIA

05.24.2018

Story by Petty Officer 1st Class Jeremy Starr 

Navy Region Europe, Africa, Central

DEVESELU, Romania (NNS) -- Sailors from Naval Support Facility Deveselu and Romanian 99th Military Base held a tree planting community relations project for the School’s Friendship Day at Deveselu School, May 24.

The Sailors planted fifteen trees planted throughout the school grounds with school faculty and students.

"The event was a blast. We planted fifteen trees that were bought by both the Sailors and school faculty,” said Master-at-Arms 3rd Class Gregory Cutting, a native of Barbados and the community relations coordinator for NSF Deveselu. "Working with the school is so much fun. The children would help us dig holes and played soccer with us during the visit.”

Simona Nica, the English teacher for the school, said she was grateful for the Sailors coming out to the school again to help plant trees.

"We are thankful for the Sailors hard work in planting trees with the students here at the school," said Nica. “We named the trees after the Sailors who planted them. We wanted the children who come to the school later on to know we have a good relationship with the Sailors that live next to us.”

The U.S. Navy’s NSF Deveselu and Romanian 99th Military Base are putting on static displays and demonstrations for children during the local area Children’s Day, May 31, 2018.

NSF Deveselu is the first Aegis Ashore Missile Defense Facility placed into operation, providing support to NATO's overall ballistic missile defense (BMD) system. NSF Deveselu’s service members and DOD employees serve as the security and logistic supply line for its primary tenant command, the Aegis Ashore Missile Defense System. The Aegis command consists of a fire-control radar deckhouse and an associated Aegis command, control and communications suite, and housing launch modules that contain SM-3 defense missiles.

For more information and resources about NSF Deveselu, Romania please visit http://cnic.navy.mil/regions/cnreuafswa/installations/nsf_deveselu.html and http://www.facebook.com/NSFDeveselu/.

For more news from NSF Deveselu visit http://www.navy.mil/local/nsfdevesel/.

• Date Taken: 05.24.2018
• Date Posted: 05.29.2018 08:33
• Story ID: 278639
• Location: DEVESELU, RO