THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Wednesday, January 31, 1996 TAG: 9601310541
SECTION: MILITARY NEWS PAGE: A6 EDITION: FINAL
LENGTH: Medium: 80 lines
WINGS OVER THE BAY: An account of the history of naval aviation and its origins in Hampton Roads will be presented by author and historian Amy Waters Yarsinske, based on her upcoming book ``Wings Over the Bay.'' The public lecture and luncheon is sponsored by the Hampton Roads Naval Museum and is open to the public. It will be held at noon Feb. 7 at the Breezy Point Officers Club at Norfolk Naval Air Station. For reservations call 627-9568.
NEW THUNDERBIRDS COMMANDER: Lt. Col. Ron Mumm, a former Langley Air Force Base member, has assumed command of the Air Force's Thunderbirds air demonstration squadron from Lt. Col. Steve Anderson at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada. Mumm, 39, becomes the 24th leader in the unit's 42-year history. A is a command pilot with more than 3,200 flight hours. He will take the Thunderbirds during the next two years on a 30-day deployment to Europe and also will fly over opening cermeonies of the 1996 Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta.
VETERANS AFFAIRS GETS NEW LOCATION: The Virginia Department of Veterans' Affairs offices once located in downtown Norfolk, Virginia Beach and Suffolk recently consolidated into one office at Koger Executive Center in Norfolk. Besides the new location, the office's new on-line computer system is linked directly to the regional Department of Veterans Affairs computer network in Roanoke. For more information, call 455-0814.
ROOSEVELT WINS GOLDEN ANCHOR AWARD: The carrier Theodore Roosevelt has earned the Atlantic Fleet Commander's Golden Anchor Award for the third consecutive year in the carrier category. The award annually recognizes units with the best retention and personnel-management programs during the previous year. The carrier George Washington was selected runner-up in the carrier category. In some categories, there were two winners and runners-up. Other category winners are listed first, with runners-up second. Deploying Afloat Major: Kearsarge, Kalamazoo; deploying Afloat Medium: Barry, Leyte Gulf; deploying Afloat Small: Samuel B. Roberts, Taylor; deployable Squadron: Fighter Squadron 41 and Helicopter Antisubmarine Squadron 11, Carrier Airborne Early Warning Squadron 126 and Patrol Squadron 11; Nuclear Ballistic Submarine: Tennessee, Nebraska; Nuclear Attack Submarine, Montpelier, Grayling; Seabee Battalion: Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 7, Naval Construction Battalion 133; Mine Countermeasures: MCM Rotational Crew Foxtrot, Pioneer; Shore Commands: Fleet Area Control and Surveillance Facility, Virginia Capes and Air Test and Evaluation Squadron 1, Patrol Squadron 30 and Naval Air Station, Cecil Field; Medical Commands: Branch Medical Clinic Norfolk, Naval Hospital, Charleston, S.C.; Special Category I, Inchon, Shenandoah; Special Category II, Fleet Composite Squadron 6, Assault Craft Unit 4.
COOKIES READY FOR BOSNIA: More than 5,000 homemade cookies will leave Norfolk today for U.S. personnel in Bosnia, courtesy of the families and crew of the aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt. The cookies were baked by the carrier's enlisted Support Group, the Officers' Wives Club and some crew members.
COMINGS AND GOINGS
DECOMMISSIONING:
The destroyer tender Yellowstone will be decommissioned in ceremonies at 10 a.m. today at Pier 12 of Norfolk Naval Station, ending more than 15 years of service that took it to seven overseas deployments. Used to repair and maintain surface force ships away from their base, the Yellowstone also worked with submarines. Its last commanding officer is Capt. Ronald C. Bogle. It has a crew of 42 officers and 1,350 enlisted. The Yellowstone will be placed on stand-by status.
CHANGE OF COMMAND:
Cmdr. James D. Miller relieves Cmdr. Duane M. Baker Jr., as commanding officer of the fast-attack submarine Tucson. Miller comes from the Pacific Fleet, where he served as executive assistant to the deputy commander in chief and chief of staff. Baker is being reassigned as commanding officer of the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Training Unit, Ballston Spa, N.Y.
Cmdr. Steven H. Ross relieves Cmdr. John T. Lewis III as commanding officer of the fast-attack submarine Boise. Ross comes to the command from Bahrain, where he served as Squadron Material Officer, Submarine Squadron Four and Submarine Operations Officer on the staff of the Commander U.S. Naval Forces Central Command. Lewis' next assignment will be as deputy commander, Submarine Squadron Eleven in San Diego. by CNB