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By JUSTIN BURNETTStaff reporterOf all the base command-

ers who have shepherded over Whidbey Island Naval Air Station, few have had a first month on the job like Capt. Mike Nortier.

Since taking the helm this past February, Nortier has been confronted with both the largest military funding cut in years and the deaths of three aviators who were killed in a training accident in Eastern Washington.

Nortier confirmed in a

recent telephone interview with the Whidbey Crosswind that this wasn’t exactly how he envisioned starting off his first base command. Losing three young lives was par-ticularly unexpected and the tragedy has struck the base community hard.

There really is no silver lining to something like this, said Nortier, but he did note that the public has made the loss a little easier to bear, from the impromptu candle-light held at the marina to a general outpouring of community

support.“It’s been truly inspiring to

be a part of that,” he said.Nortier takes over for Capt.

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Johnston went on to serve as Operations Director at Naval Installations Command head-quarters in Washington D.C.

Nortier is a longtime heli-copter pilot who got his wings

in 1991. Over the course of his career he’s wracked up over 4,300 hours of naval flight time, saw service in Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Tomodachi – the U.S.’s relief effort to the tsu-nami that devastated Japan in 2011 – and been the recipient of numerous personal military honors and awards.

He’s held a range of posi-tions, from Chief of the Joint Readiness Reporting branch at Strategic Command J-3 Current Operations director-ate in Omaha, Neb., to his most recent post in Iraq as director of the Senior Advisors Group for Operations Directorate of Pacific Fleet as an individual augmentee to the Office of Security Cooperation.

Nortier returned from Iraq in December.

During the change of com-mand ceremony, Nortier acknowledged that had he had big shoes to fill. He said at the time that was “excited” and

“humbled” to be taking over for Johnston but recognized then that there would chal-lenges ahead, such as seques-tration, which in February was uncertain.

While the military cuts are now a reality, many of their impacts remain unknown, even for the base commander.

“Much like (the public), we’re waiting on decisions from higher up,” said Nortier, in the phone interview.

“Frankly, I don’t have any answers yet,” he said.

Not counting sequestration and all the possible ramifi-cations, Nortier can count on a busy three years ahead. He will oversee the ongoing transition from the EA-6B Prowler to the newer EA-18G Growler and begin the transi-tion from the P-3 Orion to the jet-powered P-8A Poseidon.

Nortier said he isn’t expect-ing any big changes pertain-ing to veterans over the next few years, though the base and

the A-3 Skywarrior Whidbey Memorial Foundation are engaged in a project to build a memorial at the corner Ault Field Road and Langley Boulevard.

Nortier said it was “a work in progress” as a buried fuel tank has delayed construc-tion but project leaders with the foundation remain hope-ful that the memorial will be done in time for the group’s planned reunion in Oak Harbor this August.

It’s been a challenging first month on the job but Nortier said it’s been eyeopening as well. The public support fol-lowing the training accident and the welcome extended to himself has made clear the community strong support for its Navy partner, he said.

“It’s been heartwarming and we look forward to work-ing with the community,” Nortier said.

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Cecil Calavan is quick to share his smile and witty

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He knows he is part of an exclusive group that has faded in numbers. Yet at almost 89, he is the youngest among the survivors of the USS Utah, and he jokes that his small group is the envy of other Pearl Harbor veterans when it comes to holding a reunion.

“They say, ‘You have too damned much fun,’” Calavan said. “’We’re going to have to go down there and ruin it for you.’”

Calavan, a longtime Anacortes resident, is one of only seven known survivors of the USS Utah, the first ship that was hit and sunk at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.

He is president of the USS Utah Survivors Association and for the second year in a row is leading a fundraising effort to reduce costs for the group’s annual reunion in Las Vegas.

Five Utah survivors, including Calavan, are plan-ning to attend the event, which takes place the second week of May. At least four survivors from other ships damaged or sunk at Pearl Harbor also are planning to come.

“When we started in Salt Lake City, we had over 300 (Utah survivors in atten-dance),” Calavan said. “We’ll be lucky if we can get five now to the reunion.”

Only seven are known to be still alive, he said.

“There might be some others in homes who’ve out-

lived their families,” he said. “There’s no way for us to find out if they’re still alive. But we look hard.”

Calavan said that last year’s reunion was a “marvelous success,” with five Utah survi-vors and two from other ships in attendance. He said the

Navy sent officers to speak at the banquet, which was attended by about 50 people.

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He said about $2,500 was raised from people in Island and Skagit coun-ties.

Pearl Harbor survivors who come to the reunion don’t have to pay. The money raised helps reduce costs for survivors’ families, caregivers, guests and other veterans. He said donations helped slice the cost of the banquet in half last year.

“The idea is for everybody to have a good time or the old guys will be there by themselves,” Calavan said. “There will be no reunion if nobody else comes.”

Calavan was 17 the morning the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, strik-ing the ship he was aboard and causing it to sink in less than 15 minutes.

The memories are still clear 72 years later. He watched a torpedo drop from an aircraft that struck the Utah, the explosion knocking him off his feet.

“I can still see that airplane,” he said.

“If it had had a number on it, I’d prob-ably remember that.”

Before he jumped off the ship and swam for shore, Calavan remembers seeing a body laying in the water at the stern of the ship.

Calavan only recently learned that the body belonged to Melvyn Gandre. He learned that after meeting Gandre’s son at a USS Utah reunion.

“For years, I didn’t know who he was,” Calavan said. “It turns out that his son was our quartermaster putting

up the flag.”Calavan said that Gandre was man-

ning a machine gun and died while protecting others.

“He was killed while helping get people off the ship,” Calavan said. “I met his son at our reunion. Just think about that.”

If you’d like to make a dona-tion toward the USS Utah reunion, donations may be sent to: USS Utah Association Treasurer, 388 Blair Mine Road, Angels Camp, Calif., 95222.

Ron Newberry photoCecil Calavan, one of seven known survivors from the USS Utah, rode in the St. Patrick’s Day parade in Oak Harbor. Calavan lives in Anacortes.

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recognizable figure around Oak Harbor. Even from the sky.

Kepner owns a motorcross track he and friends built on his North Whidbey property 20 years ago and shares his passion with riders from all over Puget Sound.

Among his track’s most fer-vent admirers are active and retired sailors from Naval Air Station Whidbey Island.

Most riders around the base are aware of Kepner’s “Oak Harbor Motocross” track, according to Dave Veeser, a longtime friend and retired builder chief in the Navy.

“Anybody who rides a motocross bike from here to Seattle and north to the bor-der pretty much knows about the track,” said Veeser. “He’s popular with anyone who rides.”

Kepner’s track was built on the back portion of his five-

acre property he purchased in 1990 while stationed at the Whidbey Island base.

Shortly after moving in, he and friends began cutting down alder trees and push-ing around dirt to carve out a motocross track.

He eventually opened the track to the public, allowing those who sign a waiver to ride to their heart’s content.

The track is located at 4434 Kinzie Road, which can be accessed from Troxel Road, and is less than a 10-mile drive from the naval air station.

The close proximity to the air field is apparent by the low-flying aircraft that fly regu-larly over his property on their approach to the base.

Gene Cardella, a chief war-rant officer at NAS Whidbey and close friend of Kepner’s, said aviators have told him they often see Kepner groom-ing the track on his orange tractor from the sky.

“They’re only about 700 feet over our house,” said Kepner, a retired Naval aviation struc-tural mechanic. “You get used to the noise. I’ve never had any issues with it.”

Engine noise is nothing

new to Kepner.On a recent sunny Sunday

afternoon, more than a dozen riders tested out the course he freshly groomed.

Kepner rode his tractor around, pushing dirt to keep the track in shape.

He set up the track as non-profit with riders’ donations helping cover track improve-ments and upkeep.

“You don’t do it for the money,” Kepner said. “You do it because you love it and you want to give back to the com-munity.”

Kepner, 52, began riding motocross bikes when he was 7 but didn’t get interested in racing until after he retired from the Navy in 2000.

Kepner said that a large number of riders at his track are retired or Navy veterans. And many who come are still active.

He said he would guess that the number of riders at his track with some Navy affilia-tion is “in the hundreds.”

“There are a lot of retired Navy riders, you’d be sur-prised,” Kepner said. “There’s probably 30 of us over 40 who ride here. There’s probably a dozen of us over 50.

“I like it when the old guys come up because we all go out and ride and have a really good time.”

Although the track is open to the public, Kepner asks as a courtesy that newcomers inquire by calling him first. He prefers a phone call to an impersonal email. He likes to talk to people. He can be reached at 360-610-3434.

Kepner competed in what he calls an “old-timers’ series,” and won the 2004 Pacific Northwest Challenge in the 40-and-older division. The series consisted of five races.

Kepner doesn’t like to sit still. He owns a construc-tion company and builds and remodels houses. When he’s home, he’s often pushing dirt around the track or taking one of his bikes out for a ride. He speaks glowingly of his family’s understanding for his passion, including his wife of 23 years, Belinda.

He is grateful that he can share his passion by providing other motocross enthusiasts a place to ride and train.

“I grew up on bikes,” said Kepner, who’s from Los

Ron Newberry photoA rider kicks up the dirt recently on the track at Oak Harbor Motocross. The track features 21 jumps and stretches more than a mile. For more information on track, owner Ross Kepner may be reached at 360-610-3434.

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Angeles. “We rode our whole lives. I didn’t get serious about bikes again until I got up here.”

Kepner said he gets riders of all ages, gender and different skill levels on his track. He’s watched riders from age 4 to 71 turn up the dirt.

Kepner knows full well the inherent risks of the sport and offers his wisdom at every chance.

His garage is full of extra helmets and chest protectors that he loans out. He says he won’t let anyone ride across his parking lot without a helmet.

Safety is paramount on his mind yet he real-izes accidents and injuries are part of riding motocross. There are 21 jumps on his mile-long course.

“In 20 years, I’ve never had anybody sue me,” Kepner said. “We’ve had more broken bones around here than I care to admit. That’s the hazard when you put your leg over these things.”

Kepner said he still isn’t fully recovered from his own accident on his course nearly two years ago that broke his back and put him in a body brace for three months.

He said he was only going a little over 10 mph when he turned sharply to try to avoid another rider, came to an abrupt stop and tumbled over his handle bars into a large puddle of water. When he landed, his chest struck a chunk of wood that was submerged and undetectable. Even with a chest protector, the impact frac-tured two vertebrae in his back.

The body brace kept Kepner “on the couch” for three months and he thought about giving up riding once he recovered.

“That lasted about five minutes,” he said with a laugh.

Kepner isn’t ready to give up riding just yet. And he likes talking to other motocross enthu-siasts and giving them a place to ride.

Oak Harbor Motocross is the only public motocross track in Island County.

“If you want a cheap way to ride owning a track is not it,” Cardella said. “He’s put a lot of blood sweat and tears into it. It’s a passion of his.”

Kepner said he’s had a lot of help from the fraternity of riders who show up regularly to groom the track. And a lot of understanding from his wife from the day the property was purchased.

“She asked me, ‘Why do you want 5 acres?’” Kepner said. “I told her I wanted to build a motocross track. And I did. Here it is 20 years later.”

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Ron Newberry photoRoss Kepner, a retired Naval aviation structural mechanic, allows the public to ride on a motocross track he and friends built on his North Whidbey property 20 years ago. Oak Harbor Motocross is the only public motocross track in Island County.

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When Chuck Manley visits the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Olympia, he sees much more than most.

Not only is he a Vietnam Veteran, but he is someone who has been been with the project from the very begin-ning. And today, he is chair-man of the Washington State Vietnam Veterans Memorial Committee.

Construction of the memo-rial began in 1986 and it was dedicated on Memorial Day, May 25, 1987.

It was designed by Kris Snider, architect with EDAW, Inc., a firm in Seattle. It is a semi-circular wall that stretch-es partially around a 45-foot base on a rolling course, seven feet tall from the apex, one foot at its lowest point.

According to the state of

Washington, the top of the wall represents the highs and lows of the life of the nation until it is interrupted by a jagged line in the outline of Vietnam, symbolizing the break in the circle of life cause by the war.

Sixteen green granite slabs make up the wall and are posi-tioned so that they are acces-sible to all who come to reflect and remember.

The wall is engraved with the names of 1,051 men and women from Washington state who never returned home.

The names are listed in chronological order from 1963 to 1975, the order in which those veterans gave their lives. A small cross has been engraved next to the names of those who remain missing in action.

Manley knows the wall well.

“There was previously another memorial,” he said. “It was encased in glass and had the names of those killed in action inside it. But many Vietnam Veterans felt that having those names sealed in stone was like burying them again.

“So we started a campaign to create a memorial where the names could be more prominently displayed.”

The original memorial was dedicated in 1982. The vet-erans group raised more than $178,000 — the cost to build the new memorial — through private and corporate dona-tions.

The new memorial was built on a brassy knoll east of the State Insurance Building on the Capitol Campus, near the Winged Victory Monument. It took the group more then 18 months to raise the money, Manley said.

Once the memorial was

built, the group, Vietnam Veterans of America Post #130, disbanded, having done what they formed to do.

But Manley and some oth-ers decided a committee had to remain to make certain that the memorial continued to be cared for and watched over.

“We are the watchdogs,” he said. “It’s our duty to make sure that the memorial doesn’t fall into disrepair.”

If they see something wrong, they go to the Washington State Department of Veterans Affairs and ask that it be repaired.

There have been few inci-dents of vandalism to the memorial, he said. But about a year ago, the committee had to weigh in on a request that a memorial to the Republic of South Vietnam be built near the Vietnam Veterans memo-rial.

“It was decided that that wasn’t something we wanted to have happen,” he said.

A compromise was made, and they place a plaque on flag poles that were to be placed near the memorial.

Eventually the flag poles were placed and the American Flag, the Washington State flag and the POW/ MIA flag are prominently posted near the memorial.

“It became quite a battle to stop the placement of a 12-foot long engraving by the group that wanted to memorialize the Republic,” he said. “But we really didn’t think that was something that was right and represented the Vietnam Veterans very well.”

Manley calls the committee a “silent committee” unless an issue comes up.

He said many demonstra-tions have taken place near the memorial, but in order

to do that, a permit has to be issued by the State Visitor’s Center.

Manley, who grew up in Kansas, volunteered for ser-vice in Vietnam. As a high school dropout, he enlisted in the Army.

“I didn’t have to go because I was the only surviving male in the family and at the time, that meant I was exempt from service. But I felt I needed to go.”

He was in Vietnam 13 months and three days and was wounded three times.

As the memorial was built, he was there taking photo-graphs almost every day.

“For me it was a way to ‘face the dragon,’ as they say,” Manley said. “As hard as it may be, you have to.

There’ll always be good memories and bad memories for those of us who were over there.”

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It will be held at the Fleet Reserve Association Branch 97 (the big red barn) 311 S.E. Eigth Ave. in Oak Harbor.

Children 12 and under are invited to par-ticipate.

There will be age groups and refreshments will be served for all participants. It is open to the public. Call 360-675-3414 for more information.

The VFW Post 7392 and Ladies Auxiliary also invite the community to their annual Easter Egg Hunt. Hunting begins 1 p.m. at the Whitehead-Muzzall Post, 3037 N. Goldie Road.

Kids ages 11 and under are welcome to come and hunt for eggs and enjoy the event.

For more information, contact 360-675-4048 or at vfwpost7392.org

Free golf offered to active duty

Useless Bay Golf & Country Club is offering one free round of golf and a free lunch and din-ner to all service personnel May 11-23.

The offer is for active duty only and the course is not available Sunday, May 19.

For information and tee times, call 360-321-5958.

Meeting set to discuss OLF plan

OLF community meeting, put on by Penn Cove Grange, 7 p.m., April 11, Wind and Tide Bookstore, downtown Oak Harbor.

Island County Commissioner Jill Johnson is scheduled to attend. First in a series of com-munity meetings.

Discussion will be held on what can or can’t be done with fly zone at Outlying Field in Coupeville. 360-969-1104.

The Buzz

CORRECTION

In last month’s story “Saying farewell,” Capt. Jay Johnston’s tenure at NAS Whidbey Island was stated incorrectly. He served as base commander for two and half years.