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HAWAII MARINE Volittlittr, Payment for Delivery to MEV.; I KKKKK Sing/S I Per Folic %Seek Period HAWAII MARINE Volittlittr, payment for delivery to MEV.; I KKKKK sing/S I per folic %seek period. VOL. 1 1 NO..19 KANEOHE 111A1', IlAW,A11. DEE. 8, 1982 TWENTY PAGES A day that lives in infamy , KKKKK NG SAY 7 by Sgt Greg Berry Forty-one years ago President Franklin D. Roosevelt said Dec. 7 was a day that would "live in infamy." The years have proven him correct. It was a quiet Sunday morning when the first wave of Japanese aircraft came in low, cleared Kansas Tower, and attacked the Two weeks ago, Hurricane IWA rushed towards us packing destructive sleeping air station. The attack on winds and rain. This awesome and threatening power of nature served as Oahu began at 7:45 a.m. a catalyst which inspired everyone working and living aboard the Bay to conduct yourselves in the Marine Corps Air Station, Kaneohe The final tally for the Kaneohe most commendable manner. Air was: 17 men IWA was met by the Naval Station The ferocity of Hurricane and matched spirit and and 33 of 36 and were dead; 67 wounded; tenacity of each individual unit as storm preparations PBYs either destroyed or severely completed and emergency services and repairs began. Marines, sailors, damaged. and civilians from the 1st Marine Brigade, MCAS Kaneohe Bay, let Radio Battalion, and Naval Ocean Systems Center not only performed first place but your Kaneohe was the your necessary duties to ensure continuity of operations, attacked on that fateful morning, professional attitudes made it possible to do more with less. and Navy Chief Ordnanceman Putting your own privations aside, you and family members banded John Finn became the first together to speed the neighborhood cleanups and to share what you had serviceman to earn the Medal of with others. Civilian employees and military service-oriented Honor in World War II. organizations, too numerous to mention, strove selflessly to maintain and demonstrate community concern. Finn was at home when the first If every individual, unit and group were identified, a seemingly endless wave of Zeros attacked, and he list would be created which repeatedly cites examples and virtues of self- immediately headed for his sacrifice. Although mere words are never enough to express the gratitude hangar. When the only available of all who benefited from your tireless efforts, I machine want to collectively thank gun, which had been Sailors stand ready at their 50 cal. machine Naval Air Station Kaneohe. (USMC photo) everyone for the exemplary manner in which you conducted yourselves. originally set up for instructional gun emplacement during the bombing of Well-done! purposes, became jammed, Finn machine gun. time since 1946. He was in Hawaii took the position over, fixed the But during the second wave, a bullets from Finn's Japanese Zero, piloted by Iida crashed near Kansas Tower, for the 12th Biennial Congression- C.D. ROBINSON .50-caliber weapon, and returned al Medal of Honor Society Colonel, U.S. Marine Corps fire. Lieutenant Fusata Iida, received a across from the Child Care Center, disabling hit. where a memorial now marks the Convention and spent a moment Commanding Officer of silence at the memorial. MCAS Kaneohe Bay Despite being exposed to enemy spot. fire, having the gun's platform Iida knew his crippled Zero wouldn't make it back to his Iida was the highest ranking Since the first bomb blast on literally shot out from under him, that fateful day, controversies of and being sprayed with shrapnel, carrier. True to his Samurai Japanese officer to die in the tradition, he returned to crash his attack on Hawaii. Pearl Harbor have raged with Finn kept firing at the enemy books, films, and documentaries aircraft. aircraft where it would do the most damage. Iida probably aimed his Last year marked the 40th explor'ng every angle. The one of the attack, and thing they all agree with, though, were no confirmed kills Zero at one of the hangars, but lost anniversary There Finn returned here for the first is that Dec. 7 will "live in infamy." during the first wave of the attack. control after receiving a hail of SGLI: don't get caught uncovered Ever wonder about the type of according to thr federal law in the least 20 years of service. injury or disability, which causes coverage provided by Service- following order of precedence: Part-time coverage is provided uninsurability at standard men's Group Life Insurance and surviving widow or widower; for members of the reserve who do premium rates. how to convert it to Veterans' surviving children and the not quality for full-time coverage. Policies of active duty Group Life Insurance? descendents of deceased children Premiums are deducted from servicemen can be converted to According to the Government of the Marine; surviving parents member's pay or in the case of the veteran's policy by submitting Life Insurance Manual, Marine of the Marine in equal shares; a retired reserve, premiums are a premium before 120 days after Corps Order T1741.8, uniformed duly appointed executor or submitted directly to the SGLI the date of leaving the service. personnel in all branches of the administrator of the Marine's Office. Insurance is effective on the 12st service, including cadets and estate; and other suriving next of day. midshipment of the four service kin in accordance with the laws of Members of the reserve who Totally disabled veterans must academies, are insured under the state of the Marine's home of qualify for full-time coverage.and submit proof of their disability for assignment to SGLI unless requested to be record at the date of death. are eligible with an application, evidence of insured for a lesser amount or elect If payment is made to the retired reserve may continue good health, a copy of DD Form tour is to be uninsured. parents in equal shares, and the coverage after their 214 or other evidence of Most Marines currently pay an address of one parent is unknown, completed, providing the initial separation, and premium before is submitted to SOLI average of $63 annually for the parent whose address is premium the the 1 2 Oth day following $35,000 of insurance coverage known will receive 50 percent of Office. separation. Anyone covered under under the SGLI program, the insurance, while the the veteran's policy is automati- according to Personnel Services remaining payment is held SGLI can be converted to a five- cally insured under the Officials at Headquarters Marine pending location of the other year nonrenewable coverage servicemen's policy. Corps. parent. called Veterans' Group Life A veteran's policy is not eligible Payments are made to the The Government Life InsuranCe Insurance. The policy is available to retired reserve or ready reserve. Sailors pay respect to those who lost their lives during the beneficiary or beneficiaries by Manual also states that full-time to personnel released from active For more information on SGLI, Japanese attack of Naval Air Station Kaenohe. (USMC photo) name, or "By Law." Those who coverage is provided for ready duty after Aug. 1, 1974 and contact the nearest Veterans' or designate "By Law" should be reserve and retired reserve reservists while on active Administration, SGLI Office, or aware that payment will be made personnel who have completed at inactive duty status who suffer an unit administrative office. Rifles replace howitzers for canoncockers mullimir rutin Ira' Story and Photos by SSgt Stan Pederson "We don't normally fill have a post u p on the road with the sandbags," Doran explained, Lebanese," said Mayer. "They indicating his Beirut, Lebanon (Delayed) - howitzers normally come up and try to talk to us, but It's like a man without a country, don't stay in one place long them enough to need them. For others, it's hard to understand bread without butter, or a Marine because they do not speak very in Beirut without a John Wayne C- similarities in duties outweigh differences. good English. Most of the ration can opener. A Marine is by hand signals artillery battery without "The only differences out here is communication you don't see the tubes or any other means possible." howitzers seems useless. But don't For express that opinion around Golf (howitzers)," said Gunnery First Sergeant Albert Battery, 3rd Battalion, Tenth Sergeant Rudolph Shannon, the Wilson, going to the field without Marines currently defending the Battery Gunnery Sergeant. the howitzers brought back northwest corner of the Marine Shannon claims the battery familiar memories. "I'm an 03 perimeter around the Beirut Marines are as good as any infantryman by trade," he said. "I International Airport. infantry company he's seen. thought I would give artillery a try Golf Battery Marines get all the when I got selected for first The unit is being used as a rifle tactical training a rifle company sergeant. I came down to Camp company with five officers and 95 does. "They even know all the enlisted Marines serving as Lejeune and asked the Division hand and arm signals," said Sergeant Major to give me a shot infantrymen despite their Shannon. "These guys right artillery skills. The commander of at it. That was two-and-a-half here," he said as he looked around years ago." the American contingent of the at a group of Monies multi -notional force in this war. filling "I do miss the old howitzers," sandbags with red, Lebanese soil, said Lance Corporal Donald torn city decided his peace- "I keeping mission did not could put them up against any Kraus, "You know, firing it and require line company and artillery but would be enhanced by they could hold all.
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