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NAVY NEWS SERVICE - 01 003 95 - NAVNEWS 009/95
TABLE OF CONTENTS FOR NAVNEWS 011/95
Top News and Policy Stories
NNS148. Navy/Marine Corps Team Helps Forces Evacuate Somalia
Personnel Notes
NNS149. Master and Senior Chief Advancement Opportunity Up
NNS150. Stateside Locales Added for Medical/Dental Screening
NNS151. Nurse Anesthetists Eligible for Bonus
NNS152. BUPERS Lists Important Dates for Navy Personnel
Salute to Excellence
NNS153. SECDEF Names Model Communities Incentive Award Winners
NNS154. USNH Gitmo Provides CPR Training Support to Cubans
Around the Fleet
NNS155. Notable Quotable: Secretary of the Navy John H. Dalton
NNS156. Discovery Channel to Air a Look at Life on a Carrier
NNS157. Cruiser-Destroyer Group Two Relocates to Norfolk
NNS158. SECNAV Names New Roll On/Roll Off Ships
NNS159. USS Inchon Converts to Mine Countermeasure Support Ship
NNS160. Status of U.S. Navy on Feb. 27, 1995
NNS161. This Week in the Navy: March 3-4, 1776
Short Splices
NNS162. President Calls Ike Sailor to Deliver Red Cross Message
NNS163. Military Women will be Honored in Washington
NNS164. Navy-Marine Corps News
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Top News and Policy Stories
NNS148. Navy/Marine Corps Team Helps Forces Evacuate Somalia
ABOARD THE USS BELLEAU WOOD -- U.S. Marines and naval forces
began conducting amphibious landings in Mogadishu just after
midnight on Feb. 28. Almost 2,000 Marines and Sailors came forward
from U.S. warships at sea to establish a rear guard security
perimeter in support of a safe and orderly withdrawal of United
Nations Mission in Somalia (UNOSOM) II forces.
The Marine Corps and Navy units now in Mogadishu are part of
the Combined Task Force assembled for Operation United Shield under
U.S. leadership at the request of the United Nations. The Task
Force is comprised of units from the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force and
Marine Corps, and from Great Britain, Pakistan, Italy, France,
Bangladesh and Malaysia. In all, 23 warships and over 14,000
personnel are involved in the operation. The United States and
Italy are providing the largest contingent of forces.
The 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit - Special Operations
Capable initiated operations from the flooded well-decks of the USS
Essex (LHD 2) Amphibious Ready Group (ARG). The ARG also includes
USS Fort Fisher (LSD 40) and USS Ogden (LPD 5). Marines from
Special Purpose Marine Air Ground Task Force (SPMAGTF) from
Okinawa, Japan, launched a simultaneous amphibious maneuver from
USS Belleau Wood (LHA 3).
The coordinated landings were aimed at seizing the Somali New
Port and Green Beach near the airport, and to relieve the
Bangladeshi and Pakistani forces encamped there. These forces have
been withdrawing for several weeks and are the final elements of
the UNOSOM II forces in Somalia. Throughout the night, U.S. and
Italian Marines from the San Marcos Battalion moved through
Bangladeshi and Pakistani forces to take over the positions these
forces have guarded for months.
by 1stLt G.A. Canedo, CTF United Shield Combined Information Bureau
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Personnel Notes
NNS149. Master and Senior Chief Advancement Opportunity Up
WASHINGTON (NNS) -- Opportunities for advancement to master
chief and senior chief petty officer will rise for the third
straight year.
The FY96 E8/E9 selection board convened Feb. 27 at the Bureau
of Naval Personnel. It will select up to 2,483 E9s and E8s. The
board can select 552 master chiefs, up from 450 advancements in
FY95. The board can select 1,931 senior chief petty officers, an
increase of 229 over last year.
Advancement opportunity for master chiefs is expected to rise
almost 3 percent, to 11.3 percent, up from 8.5 percent in FY95.
Advancement opportunity for senior chiefs is expected to be 9.6
percent, up from 7.9 percent in FY95. Results of the E8/E9
selection board are expected to be released in April.
In addition to the E8/E9 advancement opportunities rising,
opportunities for E4-E6 are also expected to rise during the March
examination cycle.
by LT Dan Bates, BUPERS Public Affairs
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NNS150. Stateside Locales Added for Medical/Dental Screening
WASHINGTON (NNS) -- The Bureau of Naval Personnel (BUPERS) and
the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (BUMED) recently reviewed a
number of locations considered to be remote from medical or dental
support. This review will establish overseas screening
requirements for those locations.
The following locations in the United States are considered
remote: Adak, Juneau and Kodiak, Alaska; Bridgeport, San Clemente
Island and San Nicolas Island, Calif.; Key West, Fla.; Barking
Sands, Hawaii; Cutler and Winter Harbor, Maine; Fallon, Nev.; and
Sugar Grove, W.Va. Members and their families ordered to these
locations must complete the overseas screening process before
detaching from their current duty station.
Remote locations are determined by the nonavailability of the
most frequently required medical/dental specialties, from any
source, within reasonable travel time of the naval activity.
Reasonable travel time is considered two hours of surface travel,
one way, under most conditions.
For additional information, call BUPERS (Pers 662D) at DSN
227-6621, or (703) 697-6621; or BUMED (MED-345) at DSN 294-0460 or
(202) 653-0460. Commands desiring inclusion on the remote list may
submit a request with justification to BUPERS (Pers-6) via BUMED
(MED-03).
(This story appeared on Navy Wire Service as NWSA316)
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NNS151. Nurse Anesthetists Eligible for Bonus
WASHINGTON (NNS) -- Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists
(CRNA) are eligible for a bonus of up to $15,000 a year bonus if
they are qualified.
Nurse anesthetists with no active duty obligation for CRNA
training are eligible to receive the full $15,000 bonus. Those who
have a training obligation must complete their obligation before
being eligible to receive the full bonus.
Officers must agree to serve on active duty for one year and
submit a written request to BUMED (MED-525). More information is
available from BUMED at DSN 294-1365 or (202) 653-1365, or NAVADMIN
041/95.
by LT Dan Bates, BUPERS Public Affairs
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NNS152. BUPERS Lists Important Dates for Navy Personnel
WASHINGTON (NNS) -- The Bureau of Naval Personnel (BUPERS) is
reminding Navy people of upcoming selection boards, application
deadlines and other dates that are important for Navy men and
women.
March 1 Ph.D. board convenes
March 7 Active O-5 Line board convenes
Morning (6:00-8:00 a.m.) and night detailing until
10:00 p.m. EST
E-4 advancement exam
March 9 E-5 advancement exam
March 13 JAG Targeted Augmentation Program (TAP) board convenes
March 14 E-6 advancement exam
March 15 Technical Nurse Warrant Officer (TNWO) Full Time Out Of
Service Training (FTOST) board convenes
March 20 Aviation Major Command board convenes
March 27 Astronaut Candidate board convenes
Medical Service Corps board convenes
Reserve E-8/E-9 board convenes
Law Education Program board convenes
March 28 Morning (6:00-8:00 a.m.) and night detailing until
10:00 p.m. EST
March 31 CWO4, CWO3, and CWO2 fitness reports due
E-5 evaluations due
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Salute to Excellence
NNS153. SECDEF Names Model Communities Incentive Award Winners
WASHINGTON (NNS) -- Secretary of Defense William Perry
announced the winners of the DOD Model Community Incentive Awards
program Feb. 23. The program, designed to recognize proposals
which work to strengthen military families, will provide $6.4
million to 20 installations during the next three years.
At a Pentagon ceremony, Assistant Secretary of Defense for
Force Management Policy Fred Pang recognized the winners for
innovative installation programs "designed to strengthen families
with children -- especially adolescents."
The projects will begin receiving funds in April. Navy and
Marine Corps installations with winning proposals are Naval Air
Station (NAS) Lemoore, Calif. ($443,000); NAS Whidbey Island, Wash.
($597,000); Naval Security Group Activity Winter Harbor, Maine
($335,000); NAS Sigonella, Italy ($215,000); and Marine Corps Air
Station Tustin, Calif. ($175,000).
(This story appeared on the Navy Wire Service as NWSA307)
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NNS154. USNH Gitmo Provides CPR Training Support to Cubans
GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba (NNS) -- Sailors assigned to U.S. Naval
Hospital (USNH) Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, are currently involved in a
joint task force initiative to establish a group of CPR-trained
medical professionals among the Cuban migrant community.
More than 40 migrant doctors and nurses have been certified
within the last month to perform basic life support (BLS) CPR, the
standard level of CPR for health care providers. Additionally, six
of these professionals have been certified as CPR instructors under
American Heart Association standards.
"These skills were not normally taught in Cuba," said Dr.
Ediberto Nodal. "Only a few specialists know how to perform CPR.
We have a great chance to improve our knowledge and save lives,"
said the surgeon.
The USNH Staff Education and Training Department has provided
equipment, classrooms and clerical support for the effort. Navy
Nurse LT Carlos Ayala, from Naval Medical Clinic Long Beach,
Calif., and Hospitalman Apprentice Nathan Madrid, from Naval
Hospital Patuxent River, Md., were among the BLS instructors and
helped with Spanish translations of the lessons. The instructors
will travel to the migrant camps and provide BLS instruction to
other medical professionals to further their medical skills and to
develop a base of first responders among the more than 20,000
occupants.
by LT Pat Paul, USNH Guantanamo Bay, Cuba
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Around the Fleet
NNS155. Notable Quotable: "The point I would stress is that the
real winner in all of this is the American taxpayer." -- Secretary
of the Navy John H. Dalton, following the release of DOD's list of
recommendations to the 1995 Base Realignment and Closure
Commission, Feb. 28
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NNS156. Discovery Channel to Air a Look at Life on a Carrier
WASHINGTON (NNS) -- The Discovery Channel will air a
behind-the-scenes look at the life of the crew on an aircraft
carrier.
"Carrier: Fortress at Sea," narrated by actor Martin Sheen,
debuts Sunday, March 5, from 9 to 11 p.m. EST/PST and midnight to 2
a.m. EST/PST. Special encores will air March 11, from 1 to 3 p.m.
EST/PST; March 18, from 8 to 10 p.m. and 11 p.m. to 1 a.m. EST/PST;
and March 19, from noon to 2 p.m. EST/PST.
The program uses on-board interviews and exclusive footage
from the flight deck and bridge of USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) and
from the wings and cockpits of Navy fighter jets to profile the
day-to-day activities of the crew.
(This story appeared on Navy Wire Service as NWSA297)
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NNS157. Cruiser-Destroyer Group Two Relocates to Norfolk
NORFOLK (NNS) -- Cruiser-Destroyer Group Two (CCDG 2),
commanded by RADM Alexander J. Krekich, changed home port from
Charleston, S.C., to Norfolk, Va., Feb. 24.
Krekich also serves as commander of USS George Washington's
(CVN 73) battle group, which includes 11 surface combatants, nine
aviation squadrons and two attack submarines.
While stationed in Charleston, CCDG 2 was responsible for the
training, readiness and material condition of several guided
missile cruisers, 24 destroyers and frigates, one destroyer tender,
two ammunition ships and four minesweepers. The group was also
responsible for Naval Surface Force Atlantic Readiness Support
Group, Shore Intermediate Maintenance Activity, Charleston; and
Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit 6.
(This story appeared on Navy Wire Service as NWSA317)
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NNS158. SECNAV Names New Roll On/Roll Off Ships
WASHINGTON (NNS) -- Secretary of the Navy John H. Dalton
announced Feb. 23 his decision to name five strategic sealift ships
after Army soldiers awarded the Medal of Honor.
These large medium-speed roll on/roll off (LMSR) ships will be
operated by the U.S. Navy's Military Sealift Command to move Army
equipment to the battlefield.
The names Secretary Dalton has assigned are:
-- Shughart (T-AKR 295) honors Sergeant First Class Randall D.
Shughart of Newville, Pa., posthumous recipient of the Medal of
Honor for actions in Somalia in October 1993.
-- Gordon (T-AKR 296) honors Master Sergeant Gary I. Gordon of
Lincoln, Maine, Medal of Honor recipient for actions in Somalia in
October 1993.
-- Yano (T-AKR 297) honors Sergeant First Class Rodney J.T.
Yano of Kailua Kona, Hawaii, posthumous recipient of the Medal of
Honor for actions in Vietnam in 1969.
-- Gilliland (T-AKR 298) honors Corporal Charles L. Gilliland
of Yellville, Ark., posthumous recipient of the Medal of Honor for
actions in the Korean War.
-- Soderman (T-AKR 299) honors Private First Class William A.
Soderman of West Haven, Conn., Medal of Honor recipient for actions
during World War II.
"I am pleased to be able to honor these Army heroes by naming
these ships," said Secretary Dalton. "Cooperation between the Navy
and the Army has never been closer. The Navy's Military Sealift
Command provides essential support in helping the Army get its
equipment to the battlefield. The utility of roll on/roll off
ships was demonstrated during Desert Shield/Desert Storm, in
Somalia, Haiti, and the recent activity in the Persian Gulf."
(This story appeared on Navy Wire Service as NWSA308)
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NNS159. USS Inchon Converts to Mine Countermeasure Support Ship
NORFOLK (NNS) -- USS Inchon (LPH 12) is scheduled for a
13-month overhaul period at Pascagoula, Miss., for conversion to a
mine countermeasure support ship.
The first ship of its kind, Inchon was designated MCS 12 on
March 1. Currently configured to carry Marine Corps air and ground
forces for amphibious assault operations, the ship will be refitted
to become the flagship and central command platform for mine
countermeasure ships and aircraft. The mission will also involve
the repair and replenishing of food, fuel and supplies for mine
countermeasure ships (MCMs), coastal mine hunters (MHCs) and HM-53E
helicopters. USS Inchon recently completed a year operating off
the coasts of Somalia, Bosnia and Haiti.
Among the crew of approximately 800 Sailors will be 138 women.
(This story appeared on Navy Wire Service as NWSA295)
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NNS160. Status of U.S. Navy on Feb. 27, 1995
WASHINGTON (NNS) -- The status of the U.S. Navy on Feb. 27
Personnel: approximately 454,100 active duty
approximately 494,900 reserves
Ships: 378
Aircraft: approximately 5,400
Underway: 173 ships (46%)
Deployed: 80 ships (21%)
Exercises: 10
Port Visits: 13
Carriers/Air Wings Deployed:
USS Dwight D. Eisenhower/CVW 3 - Adriatic ops
USS Constellation/CVW 2 - Operation Southern Watch
Carriers Underway:
USS America - local operations, Western Atlantic
LHAs/LHDs/LPHs Underway:
USS Essex - Operation United Shield
USS Belleau Wood - Operation United Shield
USS Nassau - en route Adriatic operations
USS Boxer - en route San Diego
USS Tarawa - local operations, Eastern Pacific
USS Wasp - Exercise Strong Resolve, Eastern Atlantic
USS Inchon - port visit, New Orleans
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NNS161. This Week in the Navy: March 3-4, 1776 -- A Continental
squadron under the command of Commodore Esek Hopkins, composed of
the Alfred (24 guns), Columbus (20), Andrea Doria (14), Cabot (14),
Providence (12), Hornet (10), Wasp (8) and Fly (8), successfully
attacked the British at Nassau in the Bahamas. Captured were 71
cannons and 15 mortars. This was also the first amphibious assault
by American Marines under the command of Captain Samuel Nicholas.
DD 311, DD 449 and FFG 47 were named for him.
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Short Splices
NNS162. President Calls Ike Sailor to Deliver Red Cross Message
WASHINGTON (NNS) -- President Bill Clinton delivered an
American Red Cross message Feb. 27 to a USS Eisenhower (CVN 69)
Sailor, telling him his wife, Kerri, gave birth to a baby girl.
Seaman Ryan Crawford received the news while aboard the
Eisenhower, which is currently operating in the Adriatic Sea. The
president called Crawford as part of the 1995 American Red Cross
Community Campaign to demonstrate their emergency communications
service to members of the military and their families.
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NNS163. Military Women will be Honored in Washington
SAN DIEGO (NNS) -- U.S. military women are urged to
participate in the creation of a $15 million national memorial
honoring them. More than 1.8 million U.S. military women will have
their service careers displayed through the Women In Military
Service for America (WIMSA) Memorial to be built at Arlington
National Cemetery.
Ground breaking for the memorial is scheduled for June. An
estimated $2 million is needed to finish the project, scheduled for
completion next spring. The memorial will include a computerized
data base of names and histories of past and present women who have
served in the U.S. military. During the day, sunlight passing
through a glass arc will cast a shadow of inscriptions onto the
walls of the gallery. The shadow of quotes will change every hour.
Videos will also be shown. For more information, call (703) 533-
1155, or 1-800-222-2294.
by Andrea Siedsma, The Compass
(This story appeared on Navy Wire Service as NWSA223)
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NNS164. Navy-Marine Corps News
The March 3 edition of Navy-Marine Corps News -- a videotaped
newscast generated for broadcast to Navy-Marine Corps fleet and
shore units -- includes the following stories:
-- Marines and Sailors evacuate U.N. forces from Somalia
-- SECDEF announces 1995 base closures and realignments
-- CNO ADM Mike Boorda debates Navy budget on Capitol Hill
-- New evaluation and fitness report system soon to hit the fleet
-- Investigators cite engine failure in LT Hultgreen's F-14 crash
-- Supply Corps celebrates 200th birthday at N.Y. Stock Exchange
-- More military members can now use the Earned Income Tax Credit
-- KGMB-TV reports on the Navy's efforts to restore Midway Island
-- New technology enables USS Eisenhower Sailors to "phone home"
-- San Diego Sailor sails the seas even when he's not deployed
-- Carl Vinson Sailors enjoy limelight in Discovery Channel special
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