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Family member employment program available By Lilly Garland, Human Resources Director
Family members (spouse, or unmarried dependent children, including stepchildren, adopted children and foster children not more than 23 years of age) residing with a member of the U.S. armed forces or a U.S. citizen civilian employee of a U.S. government agency, including non-appropriated fund activities whose duty station is Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, may
Worship Services Catholic Mass (Main Chapel) Tuesday-Friday, noon Daily Mass (Cobre Chapel) Confession, Saturday, 4 p.m. Vigil Mass, 5 p.m. Sunday Mass, 9 a.m. (Cobre Chapel) Eucharistic Adoration, daily 24 hrs. Protestant Services Sunday Sunday School, 9:30 a.m. Services at Main Chapel, 11 a.m. Children’s Sunday School, 11:30 a.m. Gospel Worship Service, 1 p.m. Monday Prayer Group, 6 p.m. (Fellowship Hall) Wednesday Men’s Fellowship, 6:30 p.m. (Fellowship Hall) Gospel Bible Study, 7:30 p.m. (Sanctuary A) Thursday PWOC - 6:30 p.m. (Fellowship Hall) Sunday, Protestant Liturgical Service, 10 a.m. (Sanctuary B) Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Sanctuary A) Sunday Sacrament, 9 a.m. Monday, Family Home Evening, 7 p.m. Filipino Christian Fellowship (Sanctuary A) Sunday Worship, 7 p.m. Iglesia Ni Cristo (Sanctuary B) Sunday Worship, 8 p.m. Pentecostal Gospel Temple (Sanctuary D) Sunday Worship, 8 a.m. & 5 p.m. Seventh Day Adventist Sabbath School Saturday - 9:30 a.m. (Sanctuary B) Saturday Divine Service, 11 a.m. Islamic Service (Sanctuary C) Friday Worship, 12:30 p.m. United Jamaican Fellowship (Bldg. 1036, next to Phoenix Cable) Sunday Service, 11 a.m. & 6:30 p.m. Shabbat Service Second Friday of the month, Rm. 11, 7:30p.m.
apply for employment under the Family Member Employment Program. Family members shall be given preference when filling positions competitively at the GS-1 through GS-15 (or equivalent) designated for U.S. Citizen occupancy. This preference shall only apply to initial appointments into a continuing position, including temporary positions of one year or more. Family member preference shall not be given when U.S. citizen veterans are entitled to preference in employment, nor shall family members be given employment preference on the basis of their sponsor’s rank. Additionally, preference shall apply in foreign national positions to family members
who are not U.S. Citizens. However, such family members shall be employed under employment terms and conditions as prescribed in local agreements or instructions. Qualified family members may file applications for employment with the overseas Human Resources Office (HRO) 30 days before their anticipated arrival within the command. However, family members may not receive preference until actually arriving at the overseas location. How does this affect the family member upon return to the United States? Normally, family members are placed on leave-withoutpay status for 90 days when they leave the overseas area. This allows the family mem-
Farewell for the Jeffries Be a part of a GTMO videotape send-off for the Jeffries. Roger and Rebecca Jeffries left GTMO in July 2005 because of a serious medical emergency. Last month, “Jeff” made the decision to retire from the GTMO Fire Department after a 31-year career in the fire service. Jeff and Rebecca won’t be returning to GTMO, but friends and co-workers want to celebrate Jeff’s career with a send-off at ferry landing on Thursday, March 2. There will be a video camera rolling to capture the sights and sounds of a Fire Department send-off, GTMO-style. Please stop by between 8-8:25 a.m., if you’d like to offer your best wishes to Jeff and Rebecca on camera. It is hoped that this will be a tape the Jeffries will always treasure, so please be a part of it. For more information, contact Ben or Tracye Miller at 5696.
ber to continue in the Federal service for a period of time to arrive at the new duty station and attempt to secure a new position. The family member is eligible to be noncompetitively appointed to a competitive service position so long as the family member has at least 52 weeks of creditable overseas service and have received a satisfactory (or equivalent) or better performance rating. The family member remains eligible for this type of appointment for a period of three years following the date of return from the overseas area to the United States to resume residence. For additional information contact the Human Resources Office at extension 4441.
Housing update The Family Housing Office is preparing a list of repair projects for potential end-ofyear FY-06 funds. Suggestions/ recommendations for repair projects are being solicited. Please e-mail the Family Housing Facilities Manager at n171@usnbgtmo.navy.mil by close of business March 20. The Housing Office is trying to incorporate as many recommendations as possible. They have no indication of funding levels, if any. The following projects are currently underway: — Granadillo Point and Granadillo Circle: installing reflective house numbers, vinyl fencing and replacing roofs; — Deer Point, Caravella Point, West Bargo, Iguana Terrace, Mobile Point, Evans Point: installing central air conditioning — Caravella Point and West Bargo: adding second bathroom (only block units)
