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NATIONAL ANTHEM
The Star Spangled Banner will be performed this afternoon by Regina Russo . Regina is a native of Jacksonville , having resided in the south end of Mandarin for the majority of her life . At the age of eight she began her love of music , starting with the clarinet and going on to learn four other instruments , including piano , flute , voice , and guitar . She graduated from Douglas Anderson School of the Arts in 2012 with an Arts Seal in Vocal Performance and went on to earn a Bachelor ’ s Degree in Vocal Performance from Ave Maria University .
Regina now lives in Naples , FL teaching elementary school and private music lessons , working on songwriting , and performing whenever possible . She is currently recording her first album , which is set to release in April of 2017 and will be available on all major music media platforms including iTunes and Spotify . She is thrilled to return to her hometown to perform for this game .
off the Libyan or Syrian coasts . From tsunamis and earthquakes , we are always the first to assist with natural disasters in the most remote places . The training conducted at HSM-40 includes familiarization flights , search and rescue , confined area landings , anti-submarine and antisurface warfare tactics , vertical replenishments , shipboard landings using full-motion / full-visual operational flight simulators and 15 helicopters year round .
HSM-40 is led by Commander David Loo and made up of approximately 400 active duty personnel and contractors from every state to include 250 maintenance technicians , 38 aircrew instructors , 46 instructor pilots and over 80 students .
HSM-46 Grandmasters Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron 46 is based at Naval Station , Mayport . The mission of HSM-46 is to provide quality training to fleet replacement pilots and aircrew so they may “ fight and win at sea .” HSM-46 is one of only two SH-60B and MH-60R Fleet Readiness Squadrons ( FRS ) in the world and trains pilots and aircrew of the U . S . Atlantic Fleet , along with foreign students from around the globe .
On hand to interpret the national anthem for the hearing impaired is former ROAR cheerleader Jordan Price .
Today ’ s colors will be presented by the United States Coast Guard .
Providing today ’ s flyover will be : HSM-40 Airwolves The world-famous HSM-40 Airwolves have been training the fleet ’ s finest for the past 30 years . As part of the local community , they operate the Navy ’ s premiere helicopter , the MH-60R Seahawk from Naval Station Mayport . HSM-40 ’ s mission is training pilots and aircrewmen , along with foreign students to operate the Seahawk helicopter from ships around the globe . All instructors are experienced aviation experts who have flown missions in places such as the Arabian Gulf , the Horn of Africa , the South China Sea , and
All the pilots and aircrewmen performing the flyover have deployed multiple times around the world and flown ship- and shore-based missions conducting intelligence , surveillance and reconnaissance ; sea control , freedom of navigation and search and rescue in support of OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM , OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM , OPERATION TOMODACHI , OPERATION UNIFIED ASSISTANCE among other campaigns .
WE ARE JAGUARS !
We are expanding our newest game day tradition to every home game this season with the use of the “ WE ARE JAGUARS ” crowd banners in the