THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Wednesday, August 2, 1995 TAG: 9508020523
SECTION: MILITARY NEWS PAGE: A10 EDITION: FINAL
SOURCE: From Staff Reports
LENGTH: Medium: 83 lines
THREE CHIEFS SAVE CHILD: Three Norfolk-based chief petty officers from the guided-missile frigate Clark have been credited with saving the life of a 3-year-old girl in Portsmouth, England, July 21 when she began choking on a piece of onion in a restaurant. Timothy Carpenter, John Girard and Jose Pangan saw a mother shaking the child as a restaurant employee tried to clear the food. While Pagan calmed the mother, Girard and Carpenter placed the girl, who was blue and limp, on her side. Girard, a native of Virginia Beach, performed the Infant Heimlick Maneuver. She began breathing on her own and was taken to a hospital.
USACOM, NATO HOST 17 NATIONS: Soldiers from three NATO and 14 other European countries will participate in exercise Golden Nugget '95 at Fort Polk, La. Aug. 8-26, the first exercise of its kind on U.S. soil. Sponsored by NATO's Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic and the U.S. Atlantic Command, both headquartered in Norfolk, this is the sixth military exercise conducted as part of NATO's Partnership for Peace Program. Participating nations include: Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States (NATO members) and Albania, Bulgaria, The Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Kyrghyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, The Ukraine and Uzbekistan.
FIRST DOUBLE-HULLED OILER: The Military Sealift Command ship Patuxent, the Navy's first double-hulled oiler, arrived at its new home in Norfolk Friday after entering service June 21. The Navy voluntarily complied with the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 requiring merchant tankers to have double hulls by 2015. Cargo and fuel tanks are located in holds separated from the outer hull by another shell of steel. The 677-foot Patuxent has a crew of 82 civil service mariners and 21 Navy communications personnel. Its master is Capt. Richard Gray of Virginia Beach.
EOD GETS NEW DIGS: Explosive Ordnance Disposal Training and Evaluation Unit Two has moved into its new $5.6 million facility at Fort Story in Virginia Beach. The 42,100-square-foot facility took two years to build and includes a 65-foot rappel and parachute tower, a weapons armory, drive-through boat bay, seven classrooms and a large conference room. Established in 1980, the unit provides the Atlantic Fleet with personnel trained in diving, demolition, helicopter insertion and extraction and parachuting.
COMINGS & GOINGS
COMMISSIONING:
The fast-attack submarine Tucson will be commissioned Aug. 18 at Norfolk Naval Station, where it will be based. It is the 51st nuclear-powered submarine built by Newport News Shipbuilding. Commanded by Cmdr. Duane Baker Jr., the Tucson has a crew of 14 officers and 126 enlisted. It is 360 feet long, 33 feet in diameter and can fire torpedoes, Harpoon and Tomahawk cruise missiles, plus submarine-launched mobile mines.
DECOMMISSIONING:
The attack submarine Bergall will be decommissioned in ceremonies Friday at Norfolk Naval Station. Brought into service June 13, 1969, the nuclear-powered ship is completing its 26th year of service. Its last commanding officer is Cmdr. George E. Manaskie.
Cmdr. Martin E. Church relieves Cmdr. Martin P. Bricker as commanding officer of Carrier Airborne Early Warning Squadron 126, An E-2C Hawkeye radar plane squadron. Bricker will report to Yokosuka, Japan, to serve with Carrier Group Five. Church has been the squadron executive officer since April 1994.
Capt. James E. Booth relieves Capt. Michael P. Finn as commanding officer of the Naval Computer and Telecommunications Area Master Station at Norfolk Naval Station. Finn's next assignment will be commander of Naval Computer and Telecommunications Command in Washington. Booth commanded a similar facility in Jacksonville, Fla.
Rear Adm. Michael W. Shelton relieves Rear Adm. Thomas A. Dames as commander of Atlantic Division, Naval Facilities Engineering Command, in ceremonies scheduled for Aug. 18. Dames will become commander of the Pacific Division, Naval Facilities Engineering Command and the 3rd Naval Construction Brigade in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Shelton most recently was commanding officer of the 22nd Naval Construction Regiment and deputy commander of 2nd Naval Construction Brigade at Little Creek Naval Amphibious Base.
Capt. Bruce R. Bennett relieves Capt. James E. Jaudon as vice commander of the Navy Exchange Service Command. Jaudon is to retire Aug. 31 after 28 years of service. Bennett previously served as commanding officer of the Navy Exchange Service Center Europe, based in Naples, Italy. by CNB