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NAVY NEWS SERVICE - 15 MAR 95 - NAVNEWS 013/95
TABLE OF CONTENTS FOR NAVNEWS 013/95
Top News and Policy Stories
NNS182. President Accepts SECNAV Nomination for Commandant
NNS183. Russian Inspectors Arrive at Submarine Base Kings Bay
Personnel Notes
NNS184. Specialized Training Opportunities for Women Increased
NNS185. Detailers Working to Improve Access and Capabilities
Salute to Excellence
NNS186. Navy Officers Honored by the American Hospital Association
NNS187. Navy Journalist Selected Colonel Tom Lewis Award Winner
Around the Fleet
NNS188. Notable Quotable: VADM Skip Bowman
NNS189. Bunker Hill to Make First Ship Visit to China in Six Years
NNS190. Navy Civilian Employee Kills Himself, Shoots Two Others
NNS191. AIRLANT Announces Battle "E" Award Winners
NNS192. 1995 All-Navy Basketball Training Camp Tips Off
NNS193. Status of U.S. Navy on March 13, 1995
NNS194. This Week in the Navy: March 17, 1958
Short Splices
NNS195. MSC Ship Transports Humanitarian Aid to Haiti
NNS196. 1994 MWR Holiday Award Winners Announced
NNS197. Gray Eagle Designation Changes Hands
NNS198. Navy-Marine Corps News
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Top News and Policy Stories
NNS182. President Accepts SECNAV Nomination for Commandant
WASHINGTON (NNS) -- President Clinton has accepted Secretary
of the Navy John Dalton's nomination of LTGEN Charles C. Krulak to
become the 31st Commandant of the Marine Corps.
Following Senate confirmation later this spring, and the
subsequent retirement of GEN Carl E. Mundy Jr., on July 1, Krulak
will assume his position as the senior Marine and member of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff. Krulak is currently the Commander of Marine
Forces Pacific/Commanding General, First Marine Force Pacific,
headquartered at Camp Smith, Hawaii -- a position his father held
before retiring from the Marine Corps in 1968.
Krulak, a 1964 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, was
commissioned a second lieutenant, then attended and graduated from
the Basic School, Quantico, Va. Since then, Krulak has served two
tours in Vietnam and has held a variety of command and staff
positions.
During Operation Desert Storm, Krulak, as Commanding General
2nd Force Service Support, Camp Lejeune, N.C., commanded the
establishment of the largest Marine combat logistics base and the
Corps' largest ammunition supply point in the history of warfare.
(This story appeared on Navy Wire Service as NWSA374)
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NNS183. Russian Inspectors Arrive at Submarine Base Kings Bay
KINGS BAY, Ga. (NNS) -- Inspectors from the Russian
Federation, led by team chief General Major Nikolaiy Borisovich
Shabalin, arrived at Submarine Base Kings Bay, Ga., March 14 to
inspect facilities and weapon systems under the provisions of the
Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START).
Members of the On-Site Inspection Agency (OSIA) will escort
the inspectors during their stay in the United States. Naval
Submarine Base Kings Bay is the first inspection site by this
Russian inspection team.
The START treaty, which entered into force on Dec. 5, 1994,
establishes numerical limits on intercontinental ballistic missiles
(ICBMs), submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs) and heavy
bombers. During the 120-day baseline data inspection period,
inspections will be conducted in the United States, Belarus,
Kazakhstan, Russia and Ukraine to verify the accuracy and
completeness of data exchanged prior to the initiation of these
inspections. OSIA inspectors currently are conducting similar
inspections at locations in the former Soviet Union.
The two sites at Kings Bay which can be inspected under the
START treaty are the Strategic Weapons Facility Atlantic, which
provides strategic missiles and strategic weapon system support to
the fleet, and the Trident Training Facility, where Trident Sailors
learn the skills necessary for the safe and reliable operation of
the Trident submarines.
by JOC Stacey Byington, Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay, Ga.
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Personnel Notes
NNS184. Specialized Training Opportunities for Women Increased
WASHINGTON (NNS) -- Women who want to join the Navy will
now find even greater opportunities for specialized job training.
Ever since the congressional ban on women serving aboard combatant
vessels was rescinded, the Navy has been working to increase the
number of new female recruits who receive formal skills training at
Navy "A" schools following boot camp.
This year, nearly 900 additional "A" school seats will be made
available for new female recruits. This action will also help ease
a potential backlog created by the fact that more women are signing
up as GENDETs ("General Detail" accessions who will learn their
skills "on the job") than fleet units can currently accept.
"Opening more opportunities for women to get specialized
training helps us recruit the highly qualified women we'd like to
see in the Navy, especially in non-traditional, high-tech Navy
jobs," said VADM Skip Bowman, chief of naval personnel.
More openings for women at formal training schools will also
mean greater representation for female sailors in non-traditional,
technical Navy career fields.
This year's requirement for female GENDETs has already been
met. Women who prefer this option can still join the Navy. They
can sign up now as part of the Navy's Delayed Entry Pool and begin
service in the next fiscal year which starts on Oct. 1, 1995.
Almost 10,000 of the 50,000 people the Navy recruits this year
will be women. That's almost 20 percent. Before the repeal of the
Combat Exclusion Law the percentage of women recruited each year
was "capped" at about 12 percent, reflecting the limited
availability of at-sea assignments.
(This story appeared on Navy Wire Service as NWSA375)
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NNS185. Detailers Working to Improve Access and Capabilities
WASHINGTON (NNS) -- Detailers at the Bureau of Naval Personnel
(BUPERS) are using the information highway to improve communication
with the fleet.
The first step begins late this summer when BUPERS switches to
a digital phone system. The technology will provide the foundation
for even more improvements in voice and video data information
systems.
One of these improvements will be Interactive Voice Response
(IVR) that will allow the fleet to gain BUPERS ACCESS-type data
without a computer. Officers and Sailors will be able to access
the system by using a standard phone to select voice responses on a
variety of detailing subjects, from selection board results to the
status of their orders. Another addition to the detailer's arsenal
will be voice mail. This will allow detailers to receive messages
when they are not available so callers are not required to remain
on hold or call back. No matter where personnel are stationed,
they can contact detailers at all hours and leave a message
directly.
BUPERS is also in the process of developing and testing
programs to help enlisted Sailors find their ideal job. One such
program will advertise potential jobs via computer bulletin board.
Another, called "batch detailing," will continue a group of jobs
and a group of individuals to optimize detailing possibilities. In
doing this, a detailer can look at all of the Sailors and jobs in a
projected rotation date (PRD) window, and match them with the best
orders for both the Sailor and the Navy.
by LT Dan Bates, BUPERS Public Affairs
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Salute to Excellence
NNS186. Navy Officers Honored by the American Hospital Association
CHICAGO (NNS) -- Two Navy officers were recognized recently by
the American Hospital Association as health care executives who
have made a tremendous and lasting impact on health care delivery.
CDR Daniel Snyder, head of strategic planning and programming, in
the office of the surgeon general, and Deputy Surgeon General of
the Navy RADM Harold M. Koenig, were selected from among federal
health care executives as this year's award recipients.
They were honored during an awards presentation at a luncheon
in Chicago on March 6.
Snyder received the Federal Health Care Executive Special
Achievement Award "in recognition of his leadership and analytical
qualities which were responsible for sustaining the Navy medical
department billet end-strength requirements and viability of its
wartime and operational mission," according to the citation. "Over
$235 million in cost avoidances in the FY96 budget can be traced to
his study and recommendations concerning reprogramming of limited
assets department wide."
Koenig was awarded the Federal Health Care Executive Award for
Excellence. The citation noted that Koenig's "enlightened
leadership helped define lead agent responsibilities, beneficiary
enrollment incentives, and criteria for specialty treatment
facilities."
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NNS187. Navy Journalist Selected Colonel Tom Lewis Award Winner
WASHINGTON (NNS) -- The Armed Forces Radio and Television
Service (AFRTS) has been notified by the National Association of
Broadcasters that Chief Journalist Jon J. Gagne has been selected
as the 1995 winner of the Colonel Tom Lewis Award. Gagne is
assigned as the officer-in-charge, Naval Media Center Broadcasting
Detachment, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
The Colonel Tom Lewis Award recognizes the most outstanding
individual contribution to AFRTS for the past year. The
presentation will be made April 5 at an awards dinner in Los
Angeles.
(This story appeared on Navy Wire Service as NWSA355)
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Around the Fleet
NNS188. Notable Quotable: "Our Sailors are absolutely the finest
young men and women in the nation. There is no sacrifice they
won't make, no burden they can't bear as they carry out their many
duties. It is up to us to ensure these Sailors have the right
training, the necessary tools, and sufficient resources to get the
job done right. It is also up to us to provide them a reasonable
quality of life at home between deployments." -- Chief of Naval
Personnel VADM Skip Bowman, speaking before the Personnel
Subcommittee of the House National Security Committee, March 14
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NNS189. Bunker Hill to Make First Ship Visit to China in Six Years
HONOLULU (NNS) -- USS Bunker Hill (CG 52) will visit Qingdao,
China, March 22-24.
The port call will be the first to China by a U.S. Navy ship
since 1989 and reflects a resumption of military contacts with
China in support of U.S. security interests in the Asian-Pacific
region.
USS Bunker Hill is a Ticonderoga-class cruiser forward
deployed to Yokosuka, Japan, with the Seventh Fleet.
(This story appeared on Navy Wire Service as NWSA375)
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NNS190. Navy Civilian Employee Kills Himself, Shoots Two Others
WASHINGTON (NNS) -- A Navy civilian employee killed himself on
the morning of March 10 after allegedly shooting two co-workers at
the Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) in Crystal City, Va.
Ernest J. Cooper Jr., 58, a logistics manager at NAVAIR,
allegedly wounded Nils F. Salvesen, a deputy project manager at
NAVAIR, and LCDR Harry F. Molineux, also a deputy project manager
at the command. Salvesen underwent a four-hour operation to remove
one of his kidneys and remains in fair condition at a Washington-
area hospital. Molineux received multiple wounds in his shoulder
and chest which required surgery, and now is out of the hospital
and in good condition.
Cooper had worked at NAVAIR since February 1986.
The shootings are being investigated by the Arlington County
Police and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
(This story appeared on Navy Wire Service as NWSA359)
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NNS191. AIRLANT Announces Battle "E" Award Winners
NORFOLK (NNS) -- Commander Naval Air Force, U.S. Atlantic
Fleet announced its 1994 Battle Efficiency Award winners March 10.
The Battle "E" is given each year to units considered the best in
overall battle readiness through evaluation during combat and
training operations.
The winners are:
Aircraft Carrier - USS George Washington (CVN 73)
Fighter Squadron - VF 142, Naval Air Station (NAS) Oceana, Va.
Fighter Attack Squadron - VFA 105, NAS Cecil Field, Fla.
Attack Squadron - VA 34, NAS Oceana
Helicopter Support Squadron/Helicopter Mine Countermeasure Squadron
- HC 8, NAS Norfolk, Va.
Patrol Squadron - VP 24, NAS Jacksonville, Fla.
Air Antisubmarine Warfare Squadron - VS 22, NAS Cecil Field
Carrier Airborne Early Warning Squadron - VAW 126, NAS Norfolk
Helicopter Antisubmarine Warfare Squadron - HS 7, NAS Jacksonville
Fleet Air Reconnaissance Squadron
- VC 6, NAS Norfolk
- VC 8, Naval Station Roosevelt Roads, Puerto Rico
- VQ 6, NAS Cecil Field
- VQ 2, Naval Station Rota, Spain
Helicopter Antisubmarine Squadron
- HSL 46, Naval Station Mayport, Fla.
Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron
- VAQ 140, NAS Whidbey Island, Wash.
(This story appeared on Navy Wire Service as NWSA367)
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NNS192. 1995 All-Navy Basketball Training Camp Tips Off
GREAT LAKES, Ill. (NNS) -- As 64 of the nation's top college
basketball teams begin preparing for the NCAA championship
tournament, the 1995 All-Navy basketball team has begun training
for a title of their own. The team is practicing at Naval Training
Center Great Lakes, Ill., for the 1995 Armed Forces Basketball
Tournament, to be held at Robins Air Force Base in Warner Robins,
Ga., March 28-31.
Coach Jim Portune has returned for his second year as head
coach of the All-Navy team. He believes that this is the most
talented group of basketball players brought to training camp to
date. "From the day that last year's camp ended, I have been on
the telephone talking to base athletic directors, and varsity and
command basketball coaches identifying the top players," said
Portune.
Twenty players were brought to the 1995 camp, including three
returning from the 1994 team. The players competed in a three-on-
three tournament the night they arrived at training camp, then
practiced three times a day for the first three days. Following
the first cuts, routine for the camp settled into morning and
afternoon practices.
Players who feel they have the ability to try out for next
year's team should contact Coach Portune at (360) 697-3689 after
May 1995. Applications for the 1996 All-Navy basketball team can
be obtained from base athletic directors, and should be mailed to
the All-Navy sports office to arrive no later than Jan. 1, 1996.
by Mark Butcher, All-Navy Basketball Team representative
(This story appeared on Navy Wire Service as NWSA356)
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NNS193. Status of U.S. Navy on March 13, 1995
WASHINGTON (NNS) -- The status of the U.S. Navy on March 13
Personnel: approximately 456,400 active duty
approximately 100,700 selected reserves
Ships: 378
Aircraft: approximately 5,400
Underway: 154 ships (41%)
Deployed: 83 ships (22%)
Exercises: 12
Port Visits: 17
Carriers/Air Wings Deployed:
USS Dwight D. Eisenhower/CVW 3 - Exercise Juniper Stallion 95,
Eastern Mediterranean
USS Constellation/CVW 2 - Operation Southern Watch, Persian Gulf
Carriers/Air Wings Underway:
USS Nimitz - local operations, Eastern Pacific
LHAs/LHDs/LPHs Underway:
USS Boxer - en route San Diego
USS Wasp - en route Belgium port visit
USS Nassau - port visit Haifa, Israel
USS Belleau Wood - en route Phuket, Thailand
USS Essex - en route Perth, Australia
(This story appeared on Navy Wire Service as NWSA380)
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NNS194. This Week in the Navy: March 17, 1958 -- The Navy's
"Vanguard 1" satellite was placed in orbit, where it should remain
for 2,000 years. It is the oldest man-made object in orbit today.
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Short Splices
NNS195. MSC Ship Transports Humanitarian Aid to Haiti
WASHINGTON (NNS) -- The Department of Defense and Bridges
America Foundation have joined forces to transport about $1 million
of humanitarian aid to Haiti. The Houston-based Bridges America
Foundation is one of the nation's largest non-profit non-commercial
consolidators of humanitarian goods.
Leaving from the Port of Beaumont, Texas on March 11, the
Military Sealift Command's "American Condor" transported about
300,000 pounds of food, medical supplies and other relief items to
Haiti. Once in Haiti, the supplies will be distributed to medical
clinics, orphanages and numerous cooperatives.
(This story appeared on Navy Wire Service as NWSA371)
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NNS196. 1994 MWR Holiday Award Winners Announced
WASHINGTON (NNS) -- The Morale, Welfare and Recreation (MWR)
Holiday Awards Program winners were announced by Chief of Naval
Personnel VADM Skip Bowman, March 9. Sixty-two commands
participated in the competition, which recognizes shore commands
with outstanding MWR holiday programs.
First place winners receive $1,500 each and second place
winners receive $1,000. All other participants receive long
distance gift certificates provided by the corporate sponsor, AT&T.
Commands are categorized by the number of patrons they serve.
First place winners are:
Small (under 1,000) - Naval Support Activity Souda Bay, Crete
Medium (1,000-5,000) - Naval Air Station Sigonella, Italy
Large (5,000-10,000) - Naval Station Rota, Spain
Extra Large (more than 10,000) - Naval Air Station Alameda, Calif.
(This story appeared on Navy Wire Service as NWSA353)
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NNS197. Gray Eagle Designation Changes Hands
NORFOLK, Va. (NNS) -- The transition ceremony of naval
aviation's "Gray Eagle" between ADM Stan Arthur, Vice Chief of
Naval Operations, and RADM Dave Morris, Deputy Commander in Chief,
U.S. Naval Forces Europe, will take place aboard USS America (CV
66) at Pier 11, Naval Station Norfolk, March 21, at 1 p.m.
The title "Gray Eagle" identifies the officer on active duty
with the earliest date of designation as a naval aviator.
(This story appeared on Navy Wire Service as NWSA368)
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NNS198. Navy-Marine Corps News
The March 17 edition of Navy-Marine Corps News -- a videotaped
newscast generated for broadcast to Navy-Marine Corps fleet and
shore units -- includes the following stories:
-- SECNAV nominates new Commandant of the Marine Corps
-- TRICARE, DOD's new health care initiative, goes into effect
-- Sea services' top leadership testifies before Senate
-- Sailors, Marines deploy, train together during FLEETEX
-- Women's memorial needs artifacts from Sailors and Marines
-- Marines honor Battle of Iwo Jima with reenlistment ceremony
-- Sailors predict the hot teams in NCAA basketball's March Madness
-- Navy Lodges offer high quality lodging at bases worldwide
-- Two Sailors serve on Stars and Stripes during America's Cup
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