THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Wednesday, October 25, 1995 TAG: 9510250515
SECTION: MILITARY NEWS PAGE: A12 EDITION: FINAL
LENGTH: Medium: 68 lines
RESCUED PILOT REUNITED: Air Force Capt. Brian Udell, injured in the night-ejection of his F-15 Eagle fighter jet April 18 when it crashed in the Atlantic Ocean 50 miles southeast of Wilmington, N.C., will be reunited today with his rescuer, Coast Guard Petty Officer 3rd Class Jim Peterson. The event will take place during ceremonies for the 1995 Seymour Johnson Air Force Base Community Appreciation Day. Peterson, based at Elizabeth City, is a rescue swimmer whose helicopter crew found Udell, then spent 30 minutes cutting him from his entangled parachute before Udell could be hoisted to safety. The story of the crash and rescue will be shown on ``Coast Guard: The Series,'' to be aired on WTKR-TV during the Thanksgiving weekend.
MARINERS' MUSEUM EXHIBIT: The Mariners' Museum will present ``Carriers, Codes and Silent Ships: World War II and the New Navy,'' an exhibition on display Nov. 11 through April 14 at the Newport News facility. It traces how the Allies solved enemy codes, using recently declassified radio documents, and also explores a secret program between the Japanese and Germans to share technology.
NAVY LOG ENROLLMENT: The Navy Memorial Foundation is bearing down in a nationwide search for naval service veterans from any era to enroll in the Navy Log in Washington. The video register contains names and service information of 225,000 present and former Navy, Coast Guard, Marine, Merchant Marine and reservist veterans. To enroll, send name, date and place of birth, dates of naval service, highest rate or rank, service branch and $25 to Navy Log-Dept. V, P.O. Box 96570, Washington, D.C. 20077-7685. A head-and-shoulders photo may be added for an additional $25. Sponsored enrollments are welcome from relatives of deceased veterans.
NO HARM DONE: A $190,000 HARM missile fell off a wing mount on a Marine Corps F/A-18C Hornet landing aboard the Norfolk-based carrier America in the Adriatic Sea Oct. 7, sliding across the steel deck and falling overboard. The High-speed Anti-Radiation Missile, weighing about 800 pounds, is nearly 14 feet long and carries a 145-pound, high-explosive warhead. It is used against surface targets and primarily has been used in the Adriatic against ground-based radar sites in Bosnia. No damage to the aircraft, or injuries to any personnel occurred. An investigation is under way to determine the cause of the accident, the Navy said.
INFORMATION WARFARE CENTER: Atlantic Fleet Commander Adm. William J. Flanagan formally opened Tuesday the Fleet Information Warfare Center, designed to deal with the growing theater of information warfare. The 400-member center, operating out of the Little Creek Naval Amphibious Base, is a merger of the present Command and Control Warfare Groups Atlantic and Pacific and the Electronic Warfare Operational Reprogramming Facility. Commanded by Capt. Gary A. Barrett, the center will provide naval units information that will counter the ability of an enemy to confuse, disable or neutralize this new theater of electronic warfare.
NORFOLK RESERVE UNIT HONORED: The secretary of the Navy recently presented the Navy Meritorious Unit Commendation Medal to the Naval Reserve, commander in chief of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet, Detachment 106, in Norfolk. The unit, often referred to as the fleet's ``Crisis Action Team,'' earned the award for performance from December 1989 through December 1993.
COMINGS AND GOINGS
CHANGE OF COMMAND:
Army Lt. Gen. Kenneth R. Wykle, former Fort Eustis commander, retired Monday in ceremonies at Fort Eustis, where he was awarded the Defense Distinguished Service Award. Wykle, who served as the Army Transportation Center's commander at Fort Eustis and as deputy commander and chief of staff of the U.S. Transportation Command, served for more than 30 years.
- Staff report by CNB