July 24, 2013 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks E1129 Board of Directors; chair for the William E. Michelle Unger, all of Jackson, MS; ten un- and civilian personnel at Whiting Field and Doar, Jr. Public Charter School for the Per- cles, Rickey Minor, Clarksdale, MS; Dennis wishing them continued success in their mis- forming Arts in Washington, DC Board of (Jeanea) Butler, Houston, TX; Robert (Gail) sion to provide the best services and material Trustees; president for Pigtown Main Street, Wilkins, Atlanta, GA; Terry Taylor, Chicago, IL; support for training U.S. Navy, Marine Corps, Inc. in Baltimore, Board of Directors Ernest Taylor, Jr., Seoul, Korea; Donald Tay- Air Force, Coast Guard, and International stu- and was a member of the 100 Black Men of lor, LaPlace, LA; Ronald Taylor, Hattiesburg, dent aviators. Maryland, Inc., the Association of Fundraising MS; Michael Taylor, Atlanta, GA; James f Professionals and the Rotary Club of Wash- Unger, Clinton, MS; Charles Unger, Chicago, ington, DC. He was also a member of the Ex- IL; a special friend, Tinnia Holt, Jackson, MS; DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE ecutive Committee for the National Pan Hel- and a host of nieces, nephews, cousins, and APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2014 lenic Council; a member of the Eunice Ken- friends. SPEECH OF nedy Shiver National Institute of Child Health f & Human Development at NIH Community HON. LEE TERRY Ambassadors Council, and board member for CELEBRATING THE SEVENTIETH OF NEBRASKA the National Coalition on Black Civic Participa- ANNIVERSARY OF NAVAL AIR IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES STATION WHITING FIELD tion. Currently, Marco served as a member of Tuesday, July 23, 2013 the International Community Ambassadors Network (I! CAN). HON. JEFF MILLER The House in Committee of the Whole Marco was featured as one of 27 interesting House on the state of the Union had under OF consideration the bill (H.R. 2397) making ap- personalities in the Who’s Who in Black IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES propriations for the Department of Defense Washington, D.C. inaugural publication and Wednesday, July 24, 2013 for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2014, was the recipient of the 2009 Thurgood Mar- and for other purposes: shall Prestige Award presented by the Mr. MILLER of Florida. Mr. Speaker, I rise Mr. TERRY. Mr. Chair, I rise today tell my Thurgood Marshall College Fund. He has also today to recognize the 70th anniversary of colleagues this amendment is very simple. It been featured in the Who’s Who in Black Naval Air Station Whiting Field. prohibits the Department of Defense (DOD) Washington, D.C. second edition and Who’s Rich in its military history, Northwest Florida from spending any appropriated funds in fiscal Who in Black Baltimore inaugural publication. is home to several military installations that year 2014 to enforce section 526 of the En- The Governor of the Commonwealth of Ken- continue to play an essential role in contrib- ergy Independence and Security Act of 2007. tucky, The Honorable Steve Beshear, commis- uting to our Nation’s defense, including Naval Section 526 of the Energy Independence sioned Marco as a Kentucky Colonel; the Air Station Whiting Field located in Santa and Security Act of 2007 (Public Law 110– Mayor of Augusta, Georgia, The Honorable Rosa County. For seventy years, Whiting Field 140) states in its entirety: Deke Copenhaver, recognized him for his out- has provided support and training for some of No Federal agency shall enter into a con- standing service to the community; the Mayor our military’s best aviation warfighters, and tract for procurement of an alternative or of Meridian, Mississippi, The Honorable Cheri Northwest Florida is grateful and proud of its synthetic fuel, including a fuel produced Barry, declared September 26, 2010, as service to our community and our Nation. from nonconventional petroleum sources, for Marco McMillian Day and the Mayor of Hunts- In 1943, just months after the death of its any mobility-related use, other than for re- ville, Alabama, The Honorable Tommy Battle, namesake, Kenneth Whiting, Whiting search or testing, unless the contract speci- and City Council honored him for his contribu- Field was already turning into a key naval air fies that the lifecycle greenhouse gas emis- sions associated with the production and tions to the Tennessee Valley. Marco was also training facility. The need to quickly train elite aviators for missions led to Whiting Field be- combustion of the fuel supplied under the the recipient of President Barack Obama’s contract must, on an ongoing basis, be less Lifetime Volunteer Service Award. coming an efficient military flight school in a than or equal to such emissions from the Upon the former life member of Phi Beta matter of months. The commissioning cere- equivalent conventional fuel produced from Sigma Fraternity, Inc., Jackson State Univer- monies for NAS Whiting Field were held on conventional petroleum sources. sity National Alumni Association, Inc. and the July 16, 1943, only six days after the invasion This provision, which prevents the federal NAACP was bestowed the honor of being the of Sicily. Whiting Field then became a leading government from purchasing alternative and youngest member inducted into the Out- training facility for our Nation’s aviators that potentially cheaper fuels such as liquid coal, standing Sigmas of the Southern Region helped carry the United States to victory in could preclude the U.S. military from using Chapter, the highest honor granted to a mem- World War II. crude oil derived from Canadian oil sands. ber of the fraternity by his region. He was the Whiting Field’s storied history that includes This section doesn’t make sense when over youngest person featured in Phi Beta Sigma a pilot training grounds and prisoner-of-war 650,000 civilians are facing furloughs—includ- Fraternity’s 100+ Most Influential Members camp for German soldiers during World War ing the 4,400 employees, who serve Offutt Air publication, commemorating the organization’s II, a once home to the Blue Angels Flight Force Base, in just outside of my district. They centennial celebration. Marco had received Demonstration Team and the Navy’s first jet shouldn’t be used as political footballs when numerous other awards and accolades. training unit has today become the busiest we’re spending our limited resources on pro- Marco leaves to cherish fond memories: his Naval Aviation Station in the world where grams in Section 526. parents, Patricia (Amos) Unger and Airy more than twelve hundred service personnel Section 526 restricts fuel choices. It is McMillian, Jr., Clarksdale, MS; his brother, complete their essential flight training annually. vague, ambiguous, and doesn’t improve reli- Darius Jones, Atlanta, GA; his grandmother, It is situated on 12,000 acres, with 13 outlying ability of energy supplies, nor does it help our Louise Taylor, Clarksdale, MS; a surrogate fields and three separate and fully operational national security goals. Not to mention, expen- mother, Bertha (Samuel) Blackburn, Clarks- airfields. Whiting Field supports six Training sive. dale, MS; two godmothers, Daisy (John) Bur- Squadrons and two Instructor Squadrons, At a time when our nation is worried about nett, Clarksdale, MS and Bobby (Stanley) Mor- which comprises 141 T–6Bs and 124 TH–57s. its fiscal health, we should be advancing more ton, Lincoln, NE; godfather, Carter Womack, Eleven percent of all of U.S. Department of initiatives giving our military real flexibility in Columbus, OH; godson, Rustin Holt, Jackson, Defense’s flying hours are flown there, fuel choice, rather than having the Department MS; two godsisters, Ermalecia Johnson, Fort amounting to approximately 1.5 million annual of Defense to commit millions of taxpayers’ Worth, TX and Augusta Morton, Lincoln, NE; flight operations. In fact, the majority of naval dollars on more costly, less efficient options. stepsister, Pamela Unger, Clarksdale, MS; aviators can claim that they performed a sub- Section 526 goes against the intent of the stepbrother, Eligha (Celika) Keaton, New Orle- stantial portion of their initial flight training at Energy Policy Act of 2005, which declared that ans, LA; three godbrothers, Emanuel, Stanley, Whiting. Many helicopter students could say oil sands and other unconventional fuels are Jr. and Le Quan Morton, Lincoln, NE; thirteen the same, resulting in hundreds of flights oc- strategically important resources and directed aunts, Mary (Jessie) Tate and Annie (Elvin) curring each day. I am proud to have such a the Department of Defense (DOD) to develop Todd, Clarksdale, MS; Shirley (Leon) Pettis, wonderful facility in Northwest Florida that is a strategy to use these fuels to reduce the re- Oklahoma City, OK; Ouida Earl, Clarksdale, responsible for producing some of the best liance of oil from unstable regions of the MS; Vivian Whaley, Goose Creek, SC; Bea- aviators in the world. world. trice (Arthur) Sanders, Evans, GA; Diane On behalf of the , I The Department of Defense is the govern- Marie Brewer, Stone Mountain, GA; Gloria am pleased to recognize Whiting Field for ment’s largest consumer of fuel. Haynes, Chicago, IL; Bennie Thomas, Balti- reaching this important milestone. My wife If we do not limit the use of Section 526, it more, MD; Shirley, Yvonne, Angela, and Vicki joins me in congratulating the military could increase fuel costs for our military and

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