{"id":169956,"date":"2024-05-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=169956"},"modified":"2024-05-07T06:53:18","modified_gmt":"2024-05-07T06:53:18","slug":"usag-okinawa-ensures-marine-safety-comes-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=169956","title":{"rendered":"USAG Okinawa ensures marine safety comes first"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n U.S. Army Garrison Okinawa’s command safety program administrator, Akiko Fukai, right, and Christine McNeace, left, Army school liaison office, educate Amelia Earhart Intermediate School students on marine safety during a Career Day at Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, Japan, May 2, 2024.
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\n U.S. Army Garrison Okinawa’s command safety program administrator, Akiko Fukai, displays a preserved snake to students during a marine safety presentation at an Amelia Earhart Intermediate School Career Day at Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, Japan, May 2, 2024.
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TORII STATION, Okinawa \u2013 U.S. Army Garrison Okinawa\u2019s command safety program and Army school liaison office participated in a Career Day on Thursday at the nearby Amelia Earhart Intermediate School.<\/p>\n

Career Day is a counseling standard in the Department of Defense Education Activity that promotes student learning by developing competencies in three interrelated areas:\u00a0academic development, career development, and personal social development.<\/p>\n

Akiko Fukai, USAG Okinawa command safety program administrator, and Christine McNeace, Army school liaison office, took this opportunity to educate students at the Kadena Air Base school on marine safety, just one important aspect of the safety program.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is very important to represent the safety office at events like Career Day,\u201d Fukai said. \u201cIt allows us to encourage more participation and basic curiosity from the young, while getting the safety message out there so service members can safely enjoy their time on island, especially during the upcoming summer months.\u201d<\/p>\n

The presentation gave students and staff a closer look at the unique and often dangerous marine and land creatures that live on Okinawa including the Habu snake, sea snake and stonefish. Fukai and McNeace also taught the students what to do if they encounter or are harmed by these creatures and provided information resources\u00a0on how to safely enjoy Okinawa.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese events provide the safety program office access to more military personnel and their families in a fun atmosphere,\u201d Fukai said. \u201cDoing this in a relaxed setting allows for more interaction between those we support and our office.\u201d<\/p>\n

Volunteers from numerous careers, such as Fukai and McNeace, were recruited from the community months in advance by the AEIS Career Day team.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt takes many people working together to make something this big happen,\u201d said Karen Griffis, AEIS and Ralph Stearley Primary School counselor. \u201cSuccess is apparent in the wonderful, willing presenters, who take time off work to share their careers with the students.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1 \/ 3 Show Caption + Hide Caption \u2013 Amelia Earhart Intermediate School students look at a preserved snake during a Career Day presentation by U.S. Army Garrison Okinawa\u2019s command safety program and Army school liaison office at Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, Japan, May 2, 2024. (Photo Credit: Natalie Stanley, U.S. Army Garrison Okinawa Public […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169958,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=169956"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":169962,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169956\/revisions\/169962"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/169958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=169956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=169956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=169956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}