THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT  
              Copyright (c) 1994, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: Wednesday, September 28, 1994          TAG: 9409280512
SECTION: MILITARY NEWS            PAGE: A10  EDITION: FINAL  
SOURCE: Staff reports
                                             LENGTH: Medium:   75 lines

CORRECTION/CLARIFICATION: ***************************************************************** The arrival date of the George Washington battle group was incorrect in Wednesday's Military News hot line. The battle group is scheduled to return to Norfolk as originally planned in November. Correction published Thursday, September 29, 1994. ***************************************************************** WEEKLY BRIEFING

SENTARA CONTRACT EXTENDED: Sentara Health Care Systems will continue operating the NAVCARE clinic on Little Creek Road, and will begin operating a naval clinic in Jacksonville, Fla., under $51 million in contracts awarded this month by the Navy. \

RESERVE ASSOCIATION MEETS: The Naval Reserve Association's National Conference is today through Sunday at the Omni International Hotel in Norfolk. The topic: ``Restructuring Naval Forces, Challenges of the Future.''

COMMANDING OFFICERS' SPOUSES: An annual conference for the spouses of current and prospective commanding officers and executive officers of Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard members will be Oct. 18-19 at the Breezy Point Club at Norfolk Naval Air Station. Registration is $20 and must be made by Tuesday. Call 444-2102.

COMINGS & GOINGS

HOME FROM THE CARIBBEAN:

Several Hampton Roads ships have returned or are en route from duty off Haiti and Cuba. They include the Coast Guard cutter Aquidneck, and from the Navy, the carrier Eisenhower, nuclear powered guided-missile cruiser South Carolina, dock-landing ship Whidbey Island and the destroyers Caron and Arthur W. Radford.

LEAVING SERVICE:

The submarine rescue ship Kittiwake will be deactivated in ceremonies 10 a.m. Thursday at Norfolk Naval Station. The ship has been in service for 50 years.

The salvage ships Hoist and Recovery, along with Combat Support Squadron 8, will be deactivated Friday in ceremonies at Little Creek Naval Amphibious Base. The Hoist was commissioned in 1945, the Recovery in 1946.

Attack Squadron 85, the Black Falcons, was disestablished Thursday at Oceana Naval Air Station. Established in 1951, the squadron has flown A-6 Intruders since the 1960s.

Attack Squadron 42, the Thunderbolts, was disestablished Friday at Oceana Naval Air Station. The squadron was the East Coast training school for A-6 Intruder crews.

CHANGE OF COMMAND:

Capt. Francis D. DeMasi relieves Capt. Thomas R. Fedyszyn as commanding officer of the guided-missile cruiser Normandy. DeMasi's last assignment was special assistant to the commander-in-chief of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet. Fedyszyn's next assignment is as Naval attache to Russia. ILLUSTRATION: BY THE NUMBERS

GRAPHIC

K. NEWMAN/Staff

The lowdown on the drawdown

The thinning of the military continues, and though the most recent

cuts mays seem severe, they are actually part of a process started

in 1990.

SOURCE: Department of Defense

[For a copy of the graphic, see microfilm for this date.]

by CNB