THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Wednesday, May 31, 1995 TAG: 9505310543
SECTION: MILITARY NEWS PAGE: A8 EDITION: FINAL
LENGTH: Medium: 60 lines
OCEANA ADDS FURY: A 10th airplane has joined the public display at Oceana Naval Air Station with the arrival of the Korean War-era Fury, a snub-nosed jet flown by the Navy and Marines. The model at Oceana's Aviation Historical Park, an FJ-3M Fury, is on loan from the National Museum of Naval Aviation in Pensacola, Fla. The Navy received 538 of the aircraft from 1954-1956, and 21 squadrons eventually flew them. The park is at the main entrance to Oceana, off Oceana Boulevard. Admission is free.
PILOT/AUTHOR SPEAKS: Test pilot Jeffrey Ethell will speak about World War II aviation and his new book, ``Wings of War,'' in an appearance June 14. He'll speak at 7 p.m. at the Hampton Roads Naval Museum at Nauticus in downtown Norfolk. Ethell has flown every military aircraft from World War II to the present, except the space shuttle. He wrote ``Smithsonian Frontiers of Flight'' for a Discovery Channel series and was an on-air aviation expert for NBC during the Persian Gulf War. Admission to his talk is free.
- Staff and wire report
COMINGS & GOINGS
COMMISSIONING
The logistics support vessel Spc. James A. Loux will be commissioned into service in ceremonies at 9:30 a.m. Monday at Fort Eustis in Newport News. Army Secretary Togo D. West Jr. will be the keynote speaker. Known as LSV-6, the 272-foot ship carries a crew of 29 and is designed to carry cargo to a beach or port. The ship is named for a Vietnam War hero.
CHANGE OF COMMAND
Capt. David R. Shaw relieves Capt. Phillip M. Balisle as commanding officer of the Norfolk-based guided-missile cruiser Anzio. Shaw was serving in Naples, Italy, with the Allied Forces Southern Europe. Balisle has been assigned to the office of the chief of naval operations at the Pentagon.
Cmdr. Christopher P. Sullivan relieves Cmdr. Arthur T. Beck Jr. as commanding officer of Fleet Aviation Specialized Operational Training Group, Atlantic Fleet, at Norfolk Naval Air Station. Sullivan comes from Agana Naval Air Station in Guam, where he was executive officer. Beck is retiring with more than 26 years of service.
Cmdr. Craig O. McDonald relieves Cmdr. James R. Anderson as commanding officer of Carrier Airborne Early Warning Squadron 78 at Norfolk Naval Air Station. Anderson is retiring after more than 20 years in service. McDonald was the executive officer of the E-2C Hawkeye squadron.
BY THE NUMBERS Graphic JOHN CORBITT/Staff MARRIED TO THE MILITARY As of June 1994, there were 100,233 marriages where each spouse worked in a different branch of the military. Enlisted people have the lion's share of these marriages. [For complete graphic, please see microfilm] by CNB