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June 11, 2015

The WaterlineThe WaterlineVol. XXXII No. 23

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By Patrick GordonNSAW Public Affairs

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, or drone, incidents have beengrabbing headlines in the National Capital Region lately. Asmall drone crashed on the White House lawn Jan. 26; DougHughes, a 61-year-old mailman, landed his gyrocopter onCapitol Lawn April 15; a man was arrested after trying tolaunch a drone outside the White House fence May 14; anda drone was reported flying near the Washington Navy YardMay 22.

The incidents wouldn’t be noticeable were it not illegalto fly such craft within the National Capital Region. Andwith tourist season coming, Naval Support Activity Wash-ington wants everyone to know the rules about drone flying,and what you should do if you see it in the NCR.

Rules enacted after 9/11 created a restricted airspacearound the region and limit aircraft operations to thosewith an FAA and Transportation Security Administrationauthorization.

“There are no drone flights allowed to take place in theNCR within the 30-mile no-fly radius of Reagan National Air-port, which includes all of NSAW’s fence lines. This includesmodel airplanes, gyrocopters, anything of that nature,” saidJustin Petrick, NSAW installation emergency manager.

Also enacted after 9/11 was the “See Something, SaySomething” initiative, which encourages citizens to reportpotentially dangerous or criminal behavior should they seeit. Petrick explained that personnel need to be aware of therules surrounding drone flights in the NCR because they areoften in the best position to report the activity.

“Drone flying has always been a part of ‘See Something,Say Something,’ but now it has become more of an issuebecause there have been more drone incidents in the pastfew months,” said Petrick. “It’s like any other ‘See Some-thing, Say Something’ issue; anything suspicious or out ofthe ordinary should be reported.”

Petrick said that personnel who see a drone flying or aperson operating such a craft should report it immediatelyto the installation dispatch center at (202) 433-3333 if theyare on a NSAW installation or 911 if they are out in town.Those making the report should include as much informa-tion as possible about the craft, the location, and the personflying the UAV if possible.

Petrick said that there are two very good reasons for per-sonnel to be aware of the policies surrounding drone flightsin the NCR.

“First, to help safeguard the places we work and live, andsecond, I’m sure we have drone and/or model aircraft en-thusiasts in our own ranks and they should be aware thatthey cannot fly those craft here,” said Petrick. “They can’tdo it at the Navy Yard, they can’t do it in the NCR, and youneed to go far outside of the area to fly these things.”

The concern over safety is a legitimate one. When con-

sidering the sensitivity of some commands and agencieswithin the NCR, drone flights in the area become a very se-rious matter.

“From a security and antiterrorism standpoint, we doknow that UAVs can be used to video record, take pictures,or otherwise monitor activities around it, “ said Phil Smith,assistant antiterrorism officer for NSAW. “The big fear forus is that people could be monitoring what we’re doingon a daily basis and checking things out that we normallywouldn’t want out in the open.”

Should personnel see anything suspicious, including aUAV, they are reminded to report it through the dispatchcenter on base at 202-433-3333 or 911 out in town. The aver-age citizen is the first line of defense in community safety,so if you see something, say something.

No drone zone: What personnel should knowabout UAV’s in the National Capital Region

Photo courtesy of Justin Petrick

The no-fly zone around Reagan National Airport encompasses all of the NCR. Drone flying within thisarea is strictly prohibited by law, and violators can face stiff penalties and criminal charges.

Photo courtesy of Justin Petrick

Small drones can be fitted with cameras and oth-er monitoring equipment, creating a security is-sue for highly sensitive and classified commandswithin the NCR.

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ByMass Communication Specialist1st Class Pedro A. RodriguezNaval District WashingtonPublic Affairs

Sailors, Marines, Coast Guardsmen andWorldWar II veteransgatheredat theU.S.NavyMemorial in Washington, D.C. to commemo-rate the 73rd anniversary of the Battle of Mid-way during awreath laying ceremony, June 4.

Chief of Naval Operations Adm. JonathanGreenert issued a Navywide proclamationdeclaring June 4 Battle of Midway Com-memoration Day, and invited commandsaround the world to take part in celebra-tions honoring the event and the veteranswho served.

The battle marked what is considered theturning point in the Pacific theater of WorldWar II, when only seven months after PearlHarbor, the outnumbered and outgunnedAmerican fleet halted the Japanese advance-ment across the Pacific Ocean.

“On June 4th, 1942, brave ancestors of oursea services fought in a battle which turnedthe tide in the Pacific theater of World War II,“ said Vice Chief of Naval Operations Adm.Michelle Howard during her speech. “TheBattle of Midway was defined by the courageof each and every individual Sailor.”

Following the American victory at theBattle of the Coral Sea, the Japanese target-edMidway and sought to destroy the Ameri-can fleet there. Naval intelligence broke theJapanese code and then sent out the mes-sage, “Many planes, heading Midway” asU.S. forces prepared for the coming attack,which took place June 4-7, 1942.

“Yet the survival of the flame was not cer-tain on this day, 73 years ago. Victory was notassured,” said Howard. “In the wake of PearlHarbor, the weight of full-scale war had yetto produce convicing wins in the Pacific.”

On the morning of June 4, Japanese air-craft attacked the island, and U.S. MarineCorps fighter pilots, combined with anti-aircraft fire, mitigated damage but tookheavy losses to aircraft and crews. Torpedoand bomber aircraft attacked the now-dis-covered U.S. carriers, inflicting heavy dam-

age against the USS Yorktown, which stub-bornly refused to sink. Air groups from theYorktown and USS Enterprise bombed theJapanese carriers, destroying three of thefour carriers within minutes.

Torpedo planes from the remaining car-rier found the Yorktown once again, andinflicted heavier damage as the crew aban-doned ship. The ship still stayed afloat untilJune 7 when a Japanese submarine finallydestroyed it. Meanwhile, American air crews

located and destroyed the fourth Japanesecarrier, as well as a heavy cruiser.

The attack effectively halted the seeming-ly unstoppable Japanese advance across thePacific, and changed the course of the war.

“At Midway the flame was lit through theconcerted efforts of three groups of war-riors: civilian workers, active duty servicemember and reservists,” said Howard.

Howard joined leaders from the U.S. Ma-rine Corps and U.S. Coast Guard in laying a

wreath at the Navy Memorial and honoringfour veterans in attendance 73 years afterthe battle of Midway.

“Midway is our heritage,” said Howard.Midway defined Naval courage. Let us neverforget the hollowed actions that forged oursea services.”

For more news and photos from the cere-mony, visit www.facebook.com/NavDistWash.

Formore news fromNaval District Wash-ington, visit www.navy.mil/local/ndw/.

Naval District Washington honors Battleof Midway anniversary

U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Eric Lockwood

A sea of white uniforms greets visitors to the Navy Memorial in Washington, D.C., as Sailors pause to celebrate the73rd anniversary of the Battle of Midway. The celebration held host to Marines, Navy, and Coast Guard service mem-bers, Midway veterans and a crowd of onlookers. The Battle of Midway is considered by many to be the turning pointof World War II in the Pacific theater and one of the most well-known and revered victories in U.S. naval history.

Greetings Team 88,Today, hundreds of Sailors, Marines, and

Coast Guardsmen from across the nationalcapital region, together with tourists fromaround the world, gathered at the U.S. NavyMemorial in honor of the 73rd anniversaryof the battle of midway.

Since former Chief of Naval OperationsAdm. Jay Johnson’s declaration that theJune 4 anniversary of the battle of midwaybe celebrated as one of the two most sig-nificant dates in naval history, Naval Dis-trict Washington has been marking thismomentous victory with a ceremony in thenation’s capital as Sailors around the globealso pay tribute.

Each year we gather to pay tribute to theservice and sacrifice of those who served,those who fought, and those who made theultimate sacrifice for our country.

We honor today those heroes who wereinstrumental in the battle that marked theturning point in the pacific theater of WorldWar II. Only seven months after the PearlHarbor attack, the outnumbered and out-

gunned American fleet halted the Japaneseadvancement across the Pacific Ocean. TheUS Navy is what it is today in large part be-cause of the selfless deeds in 1942 when somuch hung in the balance.

Although the numbers of local midwayveterans in attendance dwindle each year,their legacy continues to live on. One of thelocal Midway veterans that joined us in thepast was retired Marine Corps Major AlbertGrasselli, who passed away in January. Gras-selli took part in the Battle of Midway as anaerial navigator who flew ammo from PearlHarbor to Midway and was able to navigate24 planes safely to his base, Ewa Marine AirStation. He was a regular honorary of theceremony and will be truly missed.

Among the other local Midway veteranswe honored in the past are retired CaptainJohnW. Crawford and retired Chief Gunner’sMate Chief Hank Kudzik. Crawford, whowasa cryptologist, served on the USS Yorktown(CV-5). He received the deciphered messagethat revealed the bearings and location of theJapanese Fleet. Because of those efforts, the

US Navy was able to prevent Japan’s plan tocapture Midway and lure our carriers intobattle and destroy them.

Kudzik, who was 17 years old then,served aboard one of the fleet’s largestboats, the USS Nautilus. USS Nautilus wasthe submarine that played a pivotal role inthe Battle of Midway.

During the ceremony, I was joined bythe Vice Chief of Naval Operations AdmiralMichelle Howard, leaders from the U.S. Ma-rine Corps, and U.S. Coast Guard in honor-ing our living history for their extraordinaryservice, 73 years ago.

I cannot tell you how important it is toremember and learn from our past. As welook toward the future, we need to under-stand the significance of this conflict to ourlegacy and why we have to make sure thatit’s celebrated every year. We will continueto commit our time and honor our obliga-tion to preserve our inheritance of a richnaval history.

Commandant’s Corner: Remembering Midway


By Megan EcksteinU.S. Naval Institute News

The Navy’s Reducing Administrative Dis-tractions (RAD) effort is rolling into the newHatch innovation crowdsourcing website, af-ter two previous RAD rounds have generatedhundreds of ideas for Navy consideration.

Rear Adm. Linda Wackerman, who over-sees the RAD effort, told USNI News onThursday that more than 2,000 ideas - about1,400 in the first round and about 800 fromthe second round - tend to fall into just a cou-ple of topic areas, showing that certain issuesare at the forefront of sailors’ and civilians’minds across the Department of the Navy.

Chief among those topics is the issue ofmobility. Sailors - who may possess severalphones, tablets and laptops between theirpersonal and work equipment - are stillsometimes forced to log into a desktop thatis physically wired into an Internet connec-tion to get their work done.

Wackerman, the reserve deputy directorof the assessment division (OPNAV N81),said the Navy assembled a Mobility Inte-grated Product Team (IPT) to look into pro-viding greater connectivity for sailors, whomay rely on an internet connection for Na-vy-related training, for online classes duringdeployments and other important work.

“Ships only have so many seats whereyou can sit at a computer and get workdone,” she said.

The IPT already conducted a test lastyear on the USS Laboon (DDG-58) in which10 points on the ship were set up with Wi-Fi access for laptops. Wackerman said thegroup is looking for another ship to serve asa test bed for even greater Wi-Fi and otherconnectivity opportunities for the sailorsand their many devices.

TheNavy Reserve is leading theway in ad-dressing the mobility issue, she said, notingthat reservists are able to get certificates ontheir personal phones and tablets throughthe Defense Information Systems Agency sothey can access Navy webpages that are nor-mally unavailable on mobile devices.

“We really need to get into this age wheretechnology is working for us, and optimized,working for us effectively and efficiently,”Wackerman said, adding that mobility wasone of the primary topics of the sailors’ RADsuggestions.

General military training was another hottopic in the first two RAD rounds. Wacker-man said her team looked at the trainingactually being imposed on the sailors, andit exceeds what is actually required by theNavy secretary.

“Some of it you get a lot out of and it’svery worthwhile, but you know, we have to

step back as leaders and say, do we keepgetting the same information put to us ev-ery single year that we already know? Maybeupdate us when something changes,” shesaid. “And understanding that there’s newpeople always coming in the door, you’vealways got to get them up to speed. So com-mon-sensing the whole process, and thenfiguring out what is really important to gettrained to people, and when.”

Process improvement, particularly relat-ed to inspections, was another area of inter-est, she said.

“There can be redundancies - you can beasked to do different parts of an inspectionthat fall under different stakeholders, so try-ing to get that all together so you only do itonce as opposed to different times” is some-thing the group has been looking into.

Going forward, the RAD effort will tight-en its relationship with the new Naval In-novation effort, Wackerman said. Ratherthan having a third RAD round with its for-mer IdeaScale website, RAD will live on as acampaign on Hatch, called New Issues 2015.Other campaigns include the Open Idea Fo-rum; Innovation Recognition Challenge,which looks at how to best incentivize inno-vation and reward good ideas; the Naval In-novation Network; and Navy Reserve PolicyIssues Challenge, which looks at policiesand procedures unique to reservists.

Navy seeks increased connectivity, streamlinedtraining, inspections in RAD effort

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A screenshot of the Hatch homep-age. The Navy’s Reducing Adminis-trative Distractions (RAD) effort isrolling into the new Hatch innova-tion crowdsourcing website, aftertwo previous RAD rounds have gen-erated hundreds of ideas for Navyconsideration.

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NSAW News BriefsYards Park Friday Night Concert Series and CanalPark Outdoor Film Series

Let the excitement begin! Lineups have been finalizedfor the Yards Park Friday Night Concert Series and CanalPark Outdoor Film Series this summer in the Capitol Riv-erfront.

The Friday Night Concert Series kicked off May 15 onthe boardwalk and terrace steps of Yards Park. A total of 18concerts will be held from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. and will featurea wide range of live musical performances from bands se-lected by top entertainment source OnTap Magazine.

June 12 - C Jazz Fest at The Yards, Soul Rebels & SharónClark (Jazz) June 19 - Texas Chainsaw Horns (Horn DrivenRock) June 26 - Jah Works (Reggae)

July 3 - Almost Journey (Journey Tribute) July 10 - HandPainted Swinger (Pop Hits) July 17 - Wesley Spangler(Crossover Country) July 24 - Justin Trawick (Indie FolkRock) July 31 - White Ford Bronco (90’s Covers)

Aug. 7 - Morrison Brothers (Alt Country) Aug. 14 - JeffFrom Accounting (Pop Hits) Aug. 21 - Lloyd Dobler Effect(Party Covers) Aug. 28 - Special Guest TBA in August!

Sept. 4 - Crowded Streets (DaveMatthews Tribute) Sept.11 - Sara Gray (Modern Country)

The “People’s Choice” themed Outdoor Film Series willbegin Thursday, June 4, in the northern block of Canal Parkat sundown around 8:45 p.m. Bring your blanket and yourpicnic and enjoy your favorite stars underneath our stars inCanal Park:

June 18 - The Princess BrideJune 25 - Rush HourJuly 2 - Independence DayJuly 9 - Bring It OnJuly 16 - LEGOMovie

July 23 -WillyWonka& the Chocolate FactoryJuly 30 - Big Hero 6 Aug. 6- Pitch Perfect Aug. 13 - TheGoonies Aug. 20 - Guardians ofthe Galaxy Aug. 27 - To Kill A Mockingbird Sept. 3 - TheSound of Music

Everyday Fitness in The FrontThe Capitol Riverfront BID and partners VIDA Fitness

and DC BFIT will host a series of summer workouts andexercise classes in Yards Park and Canal Park from May19 through Sept. 12.

The fitness classes are free and open to the public andwill be offered Monday through Saturday, with a specialfamily fitness class one Sunday per month. The followingclasses can be enjoyed throughout the summer:

Monday: 6:30 p.m.High Energy class in Canal Park from DC BFITTuesday: 7 p.m.Vinyasa Yoga in Yards Park from VIDA FitnessWednesday: 6:30 a.m.Yoga class in Canal Park; 6:30 p.m. High Energy class

in Yards Park from DC BFITThursday: 7 p.m.Zumba in Yards Park from VIDA FitnessFriday: 6:30 a.m.High Energy class in Yards Park from DC BFITSaturday: 8:30 a.m.Boot Camp in Yards Park fromDC BFIT Third Sunday

of each month: 1:30 p.m. Family Fitness in Canal Parkfrom DC BFIT

By Patrick GordonNSAW Public Affairs

Do you know what the Fleet and Family Support Centercan do for you?

The wide array of services it offers to personnel promotesthe self-reliance and resiliency of sailors and their families.To better service a wider population of service members, theFFSC is expanding its services on theWashington Navy Yard.

“FFSC is a program that exists in the Fleet and FamilyReadiness organization,” said Raymundo Villarreal, direc-tor of Fleet and Family Support Center at NSAW on theWashington Navy Yard. “So the entire program is designedto provide resources and support programs for active dutymilitary assigned to Navy installations. There are severalbusiness lines that provide support, and they’re far rang-ing. Right now on the Navy Yard we are enjoying growth asan organization and as a collection of support programs.”

Villarreal explained that the Navy Yard FFSC currentlyonly offers programs such as the Family Advocacy Program,clinical counseling, sexual assault prevention and response,Exceptional Family Member Program, and ombudsman co-ordinator support. Future programs include the TransitionAssistance Program for retiring or separating personnel,personal financial management, and deployment reloca-tion support.

“It’s an exciting time for FFSC, especially on the NavyYard,” said Villarreal. “We’re expanding, and the Washing-ton Navy Yard is a busy place.”

The FFSC at the Navy Yard is currently located in Building36, and houses its family advocacy, clinical counseling, andsexual assault prevention programs. Villarreal said that Build-ing 36 will be renovated soon to provide new office spacesfor personnel and an expansion of services. The expansion ofFFSC services at the Navy Yard will also be beneficial to those

using the Transition Assistance Program, said Villarreal.“Additionally we’re looking to expand our footprint into

Building 101 on the Washington Navy Yard which will allowus to add the transition assistance programs, known specifi-cally as Transition GPS, which would allow us to do prettyimportant transition programs like the two week TAP courseand executive TAP course currently being offered at JBAB.Wewould like to do those here because we have a fairly seniorworkforce at the Washington Navy Yard, and a lot of seniorenlisted and officers do transition when they come into theNational Capital Region. So we’re looking to facilitate thosepersonnel at the Navy Yard and make it easier for them.”

More than anything, added Villarreal, is that personnelneed to know that FFSC is on the Navy Yard. The Center isa fairly new on the installation, and as a result, many do notknow what it has to offer.

“The fact of the matter is, while FFSCs are already well-established on other installations, this is a program that isless than one year old on the Washington Navy Yard,” saidVillarreal. “The closest one outside of here is at JBAB. Thebiggest thing we can get from the Washington Navy Yard isto be aware of our presence, to know that we’re growing,and specifically oriented to increase our ability to providegreater services to military personnel on the Navy Yard andin the National Capital Region.”

For more information about the Washington Navy Yard’sFFSC and its programs, please call 202-685-0229 or go onlineat www.navymwrwashington.com under Support Services.

Fleet and Family Support Center expandspresence on Washington Navy Yard

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The wide array of services the Fleet and FamilySupport Center offers to personnel promotes theself-reliance and resiliency of Sailors and theirfamilies. To better service a wider population ofservice members, the FFSC is expanding its ser-vices on the Washington Navy Yard.

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From the Department of Defense

The U.S. Office of Personnel Manage-ment recently became aware of a cyber-security incident affecting its systems anddata that may have exposed the personalinformation of current and former Federalemployees. DoD has been informed by OPMthat some employee data has potentiallybeen compromised in this incident and thisnote provides you with more information.

Since the incident was identified, OPMhas partnered with the Department ofHomeland Security’s U.S. Computer Emer-gency Readiness Team and the FederalBureau of Investigation to determine theimpact to Federal personnel. As a result ofthis investigation, OPM is notifying approxi-mately 4 million individuals whose Person-ally Identifiable Information may have beencompromised. The notifications will be sentbeginning June 8 and continuing throughJune 19 by email and U.S. mail.

In order to mitigate the risk of fraud andidentity theft, OPM will offer affected indi-viduals credit monitoring services and iden-tity theft insurance through CSID, a compa-ny that specializes in identity theft protec-tion and fraud resolution. This comprehen-sive, 18-month membership includes creditreport access, credit monitoring, identitytheft insurance and recovery services and isavailable immediately at no cost to affectedindividuals identified by OPM. Employeeswhose information was affected will receivea notification directly fromCSID. If you have

any questions about the impact of this inci-dent to your data or if you receive a noticeand have questions about the services beingoffered, contact CSID directly beginning at8 a.m. CST on June 8, 2015. The company’swebsite is www.csid.com/opm, More infor-mation on how to contact the company willbe provided by separate correspondence.

Following this incident, OPM took im-mediate action to implement additionalsecurity measures in order to protect thesensitive personnel data it manages.

Steps for Monitoring Your Identity andFinancial Information

. Monitor financial account statementsand immediately report any suspicious orunusual activity to financial institutions.

. Request a free credit report at www.An-nualCreditReport.com or by calling 1-877-322-8228. Consumers are entitled by law toone free credit report per year from each ofthe three major credit bureaus - EquifaxR,ExperianR, and TransUnionR - for a total ofthree reports every year. Contact informa-tion for the credit bureaus can be foundon the Federal Trade Commission website,www.ftc.gov.

- Review resources provided on the FTCidentity theft website, www.Identitytheft.gov. The FTC maintains a variety of con-sumer publications providing comprehen-sive information on computer intrusionsand identity theft.

- You may place a fraud alert on yourcredit file to let creditors know to contactyou before opening a new account in yourname. Simply call TransUnionR at 1-800-

680-7289 toplace this alert. TransUnionRwill then notify the other two credit bureauson your behalf.

Precautions to Help You Avoid Becom-ing a Victim

- Be suspicious of unsolicited phone calls,visits, or email messages from individualsasking about you, your employees, your col-leagues or any other internal information. Ifan unknown individual claims to be from alegitimate organization, try to verify his orher identity directly with the company.

- Do not provide personal informationor information about your organization, in-cluding its structure or networks, unless youare certain of a person’s authority to havethe information.

- Do not reveal personal or financial in-formation in email, and do not respond toemail solicitations for this information. Thisincludes following links sent in email.

- Do not send sensitive information overthe Internet before checking a website’s se-curity (for more information, see ProtectingYour Privacy, http://www.uscert.gov/ncas/tips/ST04-013).

- Pay attention to the URL of a website.Malicious websites may look identical toa legitimate site, but the URL may use avariation in spelling or a different domain(e.g.,.com vs. .net).

- If you are unsure whether an email re-quest is legitimate, try to verify it by con-tacting the company directly. Do not usecontact information provided on a websiteconnected to the request; instead, checkprevious statements for contact informa-tion. Information about known phishingattacks is also available online from groupssuch as the Anti- Phishing Working Group(http://www.antiphishing.org).

- Install and maintain anti-virus soft-ware, firewalls, and email filters to reducesome of this traffic (for more information,see Understanding Firewalls, http://www.uscert.gov/ncas/tips/ST04-004; Under-standing Anti-Virus Software, http://www.uscert.gov/ncas/tips/ST04-005; and Reduc-ing Spam, http://www.uscert.gov/ncas/tips/ST04-007).

- Take advantage of any anti-phishingfeatures offered by your email client andweb browser.

- Employees should take steps to moni-tor their personally identifiable informationand report any suspected instances of iden-tity theft to the FBI’s Internet Crime Com-plaint Center at www.ic3.gov.

- Additional information about preven-tative steps by consulting the Federal TradeCommission’s website, www.consumer.gov/idtheft. The FTC also encourages those whodiscover that their information has beenmis-used to file a complaint with the commissionusing the contact information below.

Identity Theft ClearinghouseFederal Trade Commission600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NWWashington, DC 20580www.consumer.gov/idtheft1-877-IDTHEFT (438-4338)TDD: 1-202-326-2502

Office of Personnel Management cybersecurity incident information

U.S. Navy photo illustration by MC1 R. Jason Brunson

The U.S. Office of Personnel Man-agement recently became aware ofa cybersecurity incident affectingits systems and data that may haveexposed the personal information ofcurrent and former Federal employ-ees. In order to mitigate the risk offraud and identity theft, OPM will of-fer affected individuals credit moni-toring services and identity theftinsurance through CSID, a companythat specializes in identity theft pro-tection and fraud resolution.

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