The 2018 Foundation Douro river cruise will provide travelers the opportunity to experience the renowned wines of Portugal. This article highlights an example of the wines that you may be able to taste on the cruise.

Click here for cruise details and to sign up. Space is limited, so act quickly!

Over the coming weeks, we will be highlighting some of our scholarship recipients who submitted videos telling how the Foundation scholarships have and will con...tinue to impact their education. This week's scholar is Danyelle Allen. Danyelle's sponsor is her father CAPT Daniel L. Allen and her scholarship donor is Mr. Victor Trione. You can see Danyelle's video here.


If you would like to help future students achieve their academic goals, you can make a donation at https://usnscf.com/Foundation/Ships_Store/MakeDonation.

SUBJ/SECNAV MESSAGE TO THE NAVY AND MARINE CORPS//

RMKS/1.  Sailors, Marines, and Civilian Teammates, it is with great
excitement and humility that I take on the role as your 76th Secretary of
the Navy.  The excitement is born from the challenges and opportunities that
we face now and in the near future.  Due to your consistent ability to
successfully deliver on all demands put before you, there is a commensurate
level of expectation for more of the same going forward.  Therein lies the
challenge we face and prudency says we should expect that challenge to grow
as the threats around the world continue to increase.

2.  Within every challenge lies opportunity, and I urge everyone to adopt
that point of view.  Every member involved in the Navy and Marine Corps team
has the opportunity to make a contribution towards a more effective,
versatile, resilient, and lethal organization.  You, as a member of this
team, will have access to a wide range of resources.  Those resources must
be applied in the most impactful manner possible in order to enhance our
ability to deliver when called to fight.  I look to each of you to seize the
opportunity and contribute to enhancing the effort.

3.  I am humbled to be in the position to lead an enterprise that is manned
with such a stunning amount of proven talent.  Our Nations all volunteer
force, and supporting teammates, are second to none.  That is because of
you.  I believe that the most valuable asset within an organization is the
high performing human component.  We will work together to ensure we have
the best, sustainable environment in order to continue our history of
delivering when requested.  Make no mistake, we are facing a threat level
that has not been witnessed for quite some time and urgency is the manner in
which we must all act as the complexity of threats increase in size and
scope.  We must all be focused on the pointed end of the spear.

4.  I eagerly look forward to working with you as we step out to face the
challenges set before us and embrace the opportunities that lie within those
challenges.

5.  Released by the Honorable Richard V. Spencer, Secretary of the Navy.//
 

It’s here!   The July issue of The Oakleaf, the U.S. Navy Supply Corps Foundation’s newsletter, has been posted at www.usnscf.com. This issue includes the list of 2017-2018 scholarship winners, an article by Distinguished Alumnus Leonard Lauder on what his service meant to him, more Memories and Sea Stories from RADM (ret) Dan McKinnon, new Foundation staff member profiles, information from the Heritage committee on supply operations in Vietnam, and much more.

 

Cabins are still available (but filling up fast!) for the Foundation’s August 2018 Oakleaf river cruise on the Douro River in Portugal. More information is available at www.usnscf.com.  Reservations can be made by contacting Pat Loeser of Scenic Cruises at patloes@cox.net or (760) 743-2971.

 

Letters to the editor, story ideas and news items for The Oakleaf can be sent to TheOakleaf@usnscf.com The deadline for the November 2017 issue is September 15.

 

 

The U.S. Navy Supply Corps Foundation Leadership Award was presented to LTJG Chanel Henderson and ENS Jorge Mata at the BQC graduation on June 16, 2017. Congratulations to these outstanding officers.

   

Left to right CAPT Doug Noble, Jack Evans, LTJG Chanel Henderson, RDML Duke Heinz     Left to right CAPT Doug Noble, Jack Evans, ENS Jorge Mata, RDML Duke Heinz