THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Wednesday, October 2, 1996 TAG: 9610010423
SECTION: MILITARY NEWS PAGE: A12 EDITION: FINAL
SOURCE: Staff report
LENGTH: 69 lines
PURPLE HEARTS AWARDED: Three members of the 1st Component Repair Squadron at Langley Air Force Base have received the prestigious Purple Heart decoration for wounds they received during the Dhahran bombing on June 25. Thirteen members of the 10th and 30th Intelligence squadrons received the award in a Sept.10 ceremony. Four other Langley airmen are scheduled to receive the decoration in the next several weeks.
RESERVE SEABEES RENOVATE: The interior renovation of the five-story, 240-room Williams Hall Bachelor Enlisted Quarters at Little Creek Naval Amphibious Base has been completed by reserve Seabees from as far away as Maine, Michigan and Alabama. Their work saved taxpayers an estimated $1 million in labor during the three-year project.
CENTER DEDICATES ROOMS: The Navy Environmental Health Center will dedicate the library, classroom and conference facilities in its Norfolk headquarters at a ceremony today. The rooms will be named in honor of five people who have distinguished themselves in occupational and preventive medicine. The library will be named in honor of the late Capt. Richard Hooper, an epidemiologist and preventive medicine officer; the commanding officer's conference room will be named for Dr. C. Everett Koop, former U.S. surgeon general; a classroom will be named in honor of the late Sheila Ann Berglund, a member of the naval inspector general's environmental inspection team; and other rooms will be named for retired Capt. Glenn Randall, past regional health care coordinator at the Portsmouth Naval Medical Center, and retired Capt. George Lawton, who played a pivotal role in establishing occupational medicine and industrial hygiene programs in the Navy.
COMMISSARIES OBSERVE ANNIVERSARIES: On Tuesday the Defense Commissary Agency (DeCA), the organization resulting from the consolidation of the military services' four separate commissary systems, celebrated its fifth anniversary. This year marks two other anniversaries for the grocery store system: the whole concept of at-cost food sales to members of the military began in 1826, making this form of shopping 170 years old; and the modern concept of commissaries is 130 years old. In 1866 Congress passed legislation allowing the Army's enlisted men and officers to purchase non-ration goods, at cost, from subsistence storehouses.
COMINGS AND GOINGS
DEPARTING: Military Sealift Command's fleet oiler Kanawha has deployed for six months in the Mediterranean. The vessel is commanded by Merchant Marine Capt. Gregory Horner. Lt. j.g. Clinton Eanes of Chesapeake is the officer in charge of the 22-man Navy department on board.
Approximately 115 members of the 1st Fighter Wing's 94th Squadron at Langley Air Force Base have deployed to Incirlik Air Base in Turkey in support of Operation Provide Comfort. For the past four years, Langley's 94th, 71st and 27th fighter squadrons have shared an annual six-month support commitment for Operation Southern Watch, patrolling the southern border of Iraq. This deployment marks the first time a 1st Fighter Wing F-15 squadron has been sent to support Operation Provide Comfort.
CHANGE OF COMMAND
Lt. Col. David Dunn relieves Col. J. W. Godwin Jr. as commanding officer of the 329th Support Group (Area) of the Virginia National Guard at a ceremony Saturday. Dunn was the former deputy commander. Godwin is being promoted to brigadier general, and he becomes the assistant adjutant general at the Virginia National Guard Headquarters in Richmond.
The Reserve Intelligence Area 15 will hold its annual combined change of command in a 3 p.m. ceremony Saturday in Hangar LP-33 at the Norfolk Naval Air Station. The following changes will be made: Atlantic Intelligence Command 1886 - Capt. Elizabeth Morgan relieving Capt. Bartlett Auer; Atlantic Intelligence Command 1986 - Cmdr. Jett McCann relieving Cmdr. Raymond Kallman; and Naval Air Force U.S. Atlantic Fleet, OPINTEL 0186 - Cmdr. Robert Tata relieving Cmdr. Thomas Swift. by CNB