THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1994, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Wednesday, December 14, 1994 TAG: 9412140526
SECTION: MILITARY NEWS PAGE: A10 EDITION: FINAL
LENGTH: Medium: 60 lines
NO SUB LINK IN SINKING: The tugboat Thomas Hebert was probably dragged under and sunk by the coal barge it was towing, not by a Navy submarine, according to a Coast Guard report. But the report says the cause of the accident may never be known. The tug went down in March 1993 off New Jersey as it was towing coal from Newport News to Maine. Five of the seven men aboard died. Relatives of some of the victims suspect that a submarine caught the cable.
GUARD TO THE RESCUE: Young people finishing National Guard training as part of a program to help school dropouts were honored during a program this week in Virginia Beach. The training, authorized by Congress, is helping 64 youths in Virginia this year. The program helps students with their high-school equivalency exams and provides them $2,200 toward further education or employment. The program Sunday included a drill demonstration by the students.
ROTC COMMISSIONS: Twenty seven cadets will receive commissions in the Reserve Officer Training Corps during ceremonies this week in the Scott-Dozier Dining Hall at Norfolk State University. Five Army cadets from the NSU Spartan Battalion will be commissioned as second lieutenants in ceremonies at noon Friday. Lt. Col. Glenn M. Melton of the Armed Forces Staff College is the commissioning officer. The Hampton Roads Naval ROTC will commmission 22 ensigns in ceremonies at 10 a.m. Saturday. Vice Adm. Douglas J. Katz, commander of Atlantic Fleet surface forces, is the speaker.
- Staff and wire report
COMINGS & GOINGS
DECOMMISSIONINGS:
The tank-landing ship Spartanburg County will be decommissioned in ceremonies Friday at Little Creek Naval Amphibious Base. In its 23 years of service, the ship served in the Persian Gulf War, Operation Restore Hope in Somalia and Operation Restore Democracy in Haiti.
The attack submarine Cincinnati was deactivated Thursday at Norfolk Naval Station after 16 years of service. The Los Angeles class submarine made 10 deployments and traveled 60,000 miles underwater.
CHANGE OF COMMAND:
Cmdr. Jeffrey L. Fowler relieves Cmdr. Michael J. Mathews as commanding officer of the attack submarine Charlotte. Fowler reports from Washington, where he served with the office of the chief of naval operations and with the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Mathews' next assignment is with the Bureau of Naval Personnel in Washington.
BY THE NUMBERS Graphic John Corbitt/Staff A SHARED HISTORY The history of the military in Hampton Roads predates even the signing of the Declaration of Independence. [For complete graphic, please see microfilm] by CNB