 Naval Station rotas MWR and Fleet and Family Support Center partnered to host a duathlon in honor of Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Yes, sir! Go! It's great to be able to get the word out to make people aware that if they are involved in domestic violence, if there's things going on in their family that are causing them concern, that are problematic, that they can come to the FFSC, let's get it early, let's nip it in the bud, get prevention rather than the reaction of when people get out of control or they got base security coming to their argument and base housing or whatever, let's get the horse in front of the cart and get people there in time. Along with supporting domestic violence awareness, some participants had personal goals they wanted to accomplish. It's actually my friend's birthday so she said for her birthday she wanted to do the duathlon and I saw it as a good personal challenge. It was available right here on base. I just said why not? Just go for it. At the end of the race, Ibanez was happy to finish and spread awareness about domestic violence. I think most people know someone who's been in a difficult situation like that and I think that there's a lot of misconceptions about what domestic violence actually is because there's a lot of things that can contribute to domestic violence. It doesn't have to be just punching and kicking kind of stuff. It can really be the emotional abuse and all the different kinds of things that can go on. It's so important because there's so much of a tight-lipped silence thing surrounding it. With events that bring domestic violence into view, MWR and the Fleet and Family Support Center are working together to make sure silence will no longer hide violence. Seaman Makayla Garrison wrote a spain.