DATE: Thursday, September 11, 1997          TAG: 9709100713

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TYPE: MILITARY

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WEEKLY BRIEFING

IN GENERAL

MULTICULTURAL WEEK: The Navy Public Works Center in Norfolk will hold its first Multicultural Week starting Monday at Norfolk Naval Station. Workshops, entertainment, food samplings, demonstrations and more will be held from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. each week day. The week ends with a food fest next Friday, which costs $3.75 a person.

PHONE CHANGE: McDonald Army Community Hospital at Fort Eustis will change its phone prefix from 878 to 314 on Oct. 1. Mach Prime 1 enrollees will continue to dial 677-6000 to make appointments. Tricare Prime third-floor clinic enrollees will continue to call 1-800-434-8997 for appointments.

TRAFFIC ALERT: The Sandman Triathlon on Sunday will change traffic patterns at Fort Story. All vehicles must enter through the West Gate on Shore Drive and exit at the East Gate on 89th Street. Atlantic Avenue will be one-way from 7:30 to 10:30 a.m. Recreational cyclists are prohibited until the race is over.

RUNWAY RUN: The Norfolk Naval Air Station's 5K run on Oct. 10 will go down the length of the runway and back. Start time is 9 a.m. Registration forms are available at base gyms, Tidewater Striders or the public affairs office. For more information, call 444-2685, ext. 257 or 258.

SHIP VISITS: Three ships will be open Saturday and Sunday. The guided missile cruiser Monterey will be at Norfolk Naval Station. Visitors should enter through Gate 2. The dock landing ship Portland will be at Little Creek Naval Amphibious Base. Visitors should enter through Gate 1. Both are open from 1 to 4:30 p.m. The guided missile cruiser Vella Gulf will be open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Nauticus.

WWII SPEAKERS: Dr. Wolf Prow, a World War II veteran of the German pocket battleship Deutschland and U-boats, will speak at 8:30 p.m. Tuesday at Old Dominion University as part of a modern history class. Seating is limited. Call 683-3108 or 683-3159 for reservations. Speakers are scheduled each Tuesday evening through Nov. 11.

HISPANIC MONTH: Dr. Enrique Zapatero, associate professor of information systems at Norfolk State University, will be guest speaker at 10 a.m. Wednesday at Fort Monroe's theater for the opening of Hispanic Heritage Month.

COMINGS AND GOINGS

Capt. Thomas L. Hagen will relieve Capt. Matthew G. Moffit as commander of Carrier Air Wing 3 on Sept. 18 at Oceana Naval Air Station. Moffit will become current operations division chief with the commander in chief at U.S. Atlantic Command.

The 329th Support Group was inactivated on Sept. 7 after 34 years with the Virginia Army National Guard. The 54th Field Artillery Brigade will move into Sands Armory in Virginia Beach on Oct. 1, 1998.

The Military Sealift Command ships Saturn and Patuxent return this week from six-month deployments in the Mediterranean. Saturn returns Friday and Patuxent on Monday. This was the first time Saturn used civilian helicopters in a mission. Patuxent provided logistic support to the Navy during evacuations of Albania, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Sierra Leone.

Cmdr. Mark L. Bathrick will relieve Cmdr. Kenneth E. Floyd as commanding officer of Fighter Squadron 32 at 2 p.m. Friday. Bathrick has been executive officer of the squadron. Floyd reports to the U.S. Military Delegation in Brussels, Belgium.

Two Portsmouth-area Coast Guard captains have been selected for promotion to rear admiral lower half. James S. Carmichael, chief of staff, Coast Guard Atlantic area, and Erroll M. Brown, commanding officer of Integrated Support Command Portsmouth, were among five active-duty captains approved for promotion by Secretary of Transportation Rodney E. Slater.

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