THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Wednesday, July 12, 1995 TAG: 9507120433
SECTION: MILITARY NEWS PAGE: A12 EDITION: FINAL
LENGTH: Medium: 81 lines
NORFOLK NAVY CHOW BEST: Five Norfolk-based ships and Norfolk Naval Shipyard won six of eight awards for the most outstanding food services among more than 440 general messes Navy-wide. Called the Capt. Edward F. Ney Memorial Awards, they were established in 1958 by the secretary of the Navy and the International Food Service Executives Association. Norfolk-based afloat winners are: fast-attack submarine Scranton, for submarines; salvage ship Edenton, for small mess; guided-missile destroyer Barry, for medium mess; amphibious assault ship Nassau, for large mess; carrier Dwight D. Eisenhower, for aircraft carrier division. The tender McKee, from San Diego won the tender and repair ship category. The Norfolk Naval Shipyard in Portsmouth won the ashore award in the small facility category, with the Naval Air Station at Whidbey Island, Wash. winning in the large facility category.
FLEET HOSPITAL HONORED: Fleet Hospital Five, a 250-member Navy field hospital unit that recently returned from a six-month deployment to Croatia, has been awarded the Navy Unit Commendation. The team of Navy doctors, nurses and corpsmen, many of them from Portsmouth Naval Medical Center, deployed in September to a United Nations compound located at an airfield outside Zagreb, Croatia. The medics lived and worked in tents, providing medical care for U.N. peacekeepers who were injured or got sick while patrolling the former Yugoslavia. They returned home in February, after being replaced by a similar team from the Air Force.
SEAFOOD FESTIVAL: Fort Monroe in Hampton, along with area restaurants, is hosting its first annual ``Seafood Fling'' between noon and 10 p.m. July 29 and noon and 4:30 p.m. July 30 at the Fort Monroe Club (previously Officers' Club) and Picnic area. Admission to the family-oriented festival is free and open to the public. Music, a classic car show, games and pony rides also will be available.
- Staff and wire report
COMINGS & GOINGS
ARRIVAL:
The guided-missile frigate Robert G. Bradley is scheduled to arrive at its new homeport at 2 p.m. Thursday, at Pier 25 of Norfolk Naval Station. Previously based in Charleston, S.C., it is relocating as a result of base-closing decisions made in 1993. It is commanded by Cmdr. Elliott Powell Jr. and has a crew of 17 officers and 201 enlisted, with an annual income of $7.5 million. About 150 families also will transfer to Hampton Roads. Bradley's stay in Norfolk will be relatively short. It is scheduled to transfer again in 1997 to Mayport, Fla. where it will become part of the newly created Western Hemisphere Group.
DECOMISSIONING:
The Norfolk-based fast-attack submarine Flying Fish was deactivated Monday following 25 years of service. The nuclear-powered Sturgeon-Class submarine was built by General Dynamics Corp. in Groton, Conn., and commissioned April 29, 1970. It was named for a group of fresh and saltwater fish that have the unique ability to leave the water and glide for long distances through the air. It served nine commanding officers.
CHANGE OF COMMAND:
Coast Guard Cmdr. David W. Ryan relieves Cmdr. Richard R. Kelly as commanding officer of the Portsmouth-based cutter Tampa. Kelly is being reassigned as assistant chief of the general law division at Coast Guard headquarters in Washington. Ryan comes from Washington, where he served as requirements branch chief in the Defense Operations Division.
Navy Cmdr. Larry D. Wilcher relieves Cmdr. Jo Anne L. Gilchrist as commanding officer of Naval Ocean Processing Facility, Dam Neck. Wilcher recently served as director of readiness and operations for the Commander, Undersea Surveillance at Dam Neck. Gilchrist's next assignment will be on the staff of the chief of Naval Education and Training, Pensacola, Fla.
Capt. Jack A. Lautenschlager relieves Capt. John U. Liles Jr. as commander Atlantic Intelligence Command, a joint service center assigned to the U.S. Atlantic Command in Norfolk. Lautenschlager's most recent assignment was Assistant Director for Intelligence on the Joint Staff in Washington. Liles is being reassigned as commanding officer, Navy and Marine Corps Intelligence Training Center, Dam Neck, Virginia Beach.
Coast Guard Capt. Ronald D. Reck relieves Capt. Frederick J. Schmitt as commanding officer of the Coast Guard's Finance Center in Chesapeake. Schmitt has headed the center since July 1991 and is retiring. Reck comes from Washington, D.C., where he served as chief of the Financial Systems Division. by CNB