Congress Funds 300 '93 Defense Unexpected Units Here Bill Includes the Army Here Also Received Funding for More Benefits by Sgt

HAWAII Vol. 21, No. 40 MarineSenAng /ACAS Kaneohe Bay, 1s1MEB, Camp N.M. Smith and Marine Barracks. October 15, 1992 Congress funds 300 '93 defense unexpected units here bill includes The Army here also received funding for more benefits By Sgt. Jason Erickson 200 units,but this was part of the original gat Witbr Pentagon request. Pentagon left with authority to use, 'The air station alone Cloyd said indications suggest that Air station Marines and their families Hawaii will continue to receive something neglect measures based on need will be among more than 1,000 service is 1,800 housing units close to an additional $200 million a year families at nine installations nationwide until the problem is resolved. This is upgrade in supporters on Capitol Hill living overseas, partial benefits to benefit from an unexpected short of demand. largely due to Joint Public Affairs Office eligibility for abused military the 1993 military construction bill. Seven- Col. Walter L. Cloyd, III who have become acutely aware of not of these additional housing shortages here, but spouses and improvements in hundred and fifty-eight only military dental care for dependents. units will be built here and at five local in fact, a severe state-wide problem. With The fiscal year 1993 defense Navy sites. to begin until 1995. 58,000 active duty military personnel and authorization bill, which allocates According to the Navy Times, Although not requested by the Pentagon, In addition to fighting the bureaucratic 68,000 family members, Oahu would greatly $247.3 billion dollars for military the transition benefits in the the housing was added to the construction requirements for construction, the housing benefit by decreasing military demand for funding, includes several changes authorization bill were not made bill by Congress during compromise project here is also up against an even offbase housing. which will impact Marines and mandatory in a compromise with negotiations with the Bush administration, more serious barrier - lack of land. The air station alone is 1,800 housing their families. the administration. according to the Navy Times. Cloyd explained that the Navy, which units short of the demand, Eloyd explained. As described in the Oct. 12 Kaneohe Bay received $34 million, which actually received the congressional funding, While the 300 units won't end that deficit, issue of Navy Times, the changes The leave of absence program is intended to fund 300 units. Two-hundred wants the K-Bay units to be of a he described the project as "chipping away include: is aimed at active-duty personnel and twenty of these are to be built near townhouse-type construction. However, at the problem.' with military skills that do not the existing housing below the rifle range. unless a mid-rise style is used, there will idea to build A 3.7 percent military pay easily translate into civilian jobs, The long-pondered such as combat arms, said Sen. The remaining 80 will go on the other side not be enough land available to build all additional military housing at Bellows Air increase effective Jan. 1, 1993; of Ulu'pau Crater near Pond Road, 300 units. Extension of the authority to Sam Nunn, D-Ga., the chairra4n Force Station remains a strong possibility, Services explained Col. Walter L. Cloyd III, On the flip side of the issue is the fact Cloyd added. However, he said it is no pay enljstment and reenlistment of the Senate Armed commander, Oahu Consolidated Family that mid-rises cost more money, and in of bonuses; Committee. These people could further than the "idea" stage in terms leave Housing (OCFO). fact, the $34 million allocated for the air becoming a reality. Provision of $1.5 billion in get up to a year of paid conversion assistance for to learn a skill that could help However, because funding for these station would only cover construction of Meanwhile, from a military-wide units came as a surprise to OCFO, Cloyd about 150 units, Cloyd estimated. individuals, communities and them get a job in public or perspective, the Navy Times reported that defense contractors affected by community service. said they will not be prepared to begin "If we plan to build the 150 townhouses, Congress made "some major concessions construction as soon as the money becomes though, we can try for more money to the drawdown; to President (George) Bush" in the to implement a But the Bush administration available. This, he said, is a complete cover the rest of the intended homes and bill. Authority from process. construction range of new benefits and maintains the concept is only a switch the usual there will still be room," Cloyd explained, of money could "Ordinarily, we go through the two-to- will have "The $8.3 billion military construction incentives for service members waste that hurt adding that all involved parties altered military readiness, since people four year process of seeking bids, doing to make further assessments of the appropriations bill was significantly leaving the active-duty ranks, and other necessary steps by Congress during last-minute including a 15-year retirement still on the military payroll who site surveys situation. are attending job training would before funding ever becomes available," he There will also have to be environmental negotiations with the White House," the plan, a jobs-training program, and explained. "Then, when and if money is assessments of the areas in question, the article states. a plan for providing up to a not be available to their units. set aside for a project, we're ready to use findings of which have in the past ended However, while increasing the total year's paid leave of absence to Defense personnel officials said it soon after." projects all together. number of housing units to be constructed, go to school prior to going off they have no plans to offer the In this case, on the other hand, the The extra $200 million for Oahu housing, Congress cut the overall amount of money active duty. education leave. preparing for all of which will go toward Marines and available for family housing by reducing lengthy process of The bill also contains some new Another program seen as construction has only now begun and Cloyd sailors, came as a result of the severe money for buying furniture and on unnecessary would provide job is not likely deficit being experienced in Hawaii. maintenance and upkeep of existing units. personnel benefits, covering such estimated that "moving dirt" housing issues as foster care for families See Bill, A-12 New Navy/Marine Corps Sea Strategy outlined 1:1 Document marks change in response to the challenges of expeditionary forces shaped for operating forward from the sea and provide the initial capability today, shifts the focus on regional joint operations and operating that are shaped for joint for joint operations in conflict. thinking, details new philosophy challenges and opportunities and forward from the sea," according operations and tailored for "Never has the term 'Navy/ concentrates on warfare near land to Adm. Frank B. Kelso II, Chief national needs. Marine Corps team' had more "This document marks a and maneuver from the sea. of Naval Operations. The new strategy is a relevance. Our new strategic Marine Corps News Service change in naval strategic ' '...from the sea' defines a The principal elements of the fundamental shift from open- direction will result in naval thinking. It details a new naval combined vision for the Navy new direction of the naval service ocean warfighting on the sea forces better tailored to respond The Secretary of the Navy,Chief philosophy for today's world," said and Marine Corps and outlines are strategic deterrence and toward joint operations from the to the types of crises that we of Naval Operations and acting Secretary of the Navy the new direction of the Navy defense; forward presence; crisis sea. Changing the naval forces anticipate facing in the 21st Commandant of the Marine Corps Sean O'Keefe. and Marine Corps team, both response and reconstitution. This to an enabling force, the strategy Century," said Gen. Carl E. signed a new Navy/Marine Corps The strategy, entitled "...From active and reserve, in providing new course will provide the nation will allow the Navy and Marine Mundy Jr., Commandant of the strategy Sept. 28. the Sea," and developed in the nation with naval with naval expeditionary forces Corps to respond to global crises See Sea A-12 Marines continue to help Hurricane Iniki victims the adopt-a-school program. Their that I at least made a little be completely demolished. had a school to attend." HMH-463 has been part of the By Cpl. Lou Ramirez adopted school, St. Anthony's, said squadron adopt contribution," The 114 children enrolled in When the school opens next a school program for more Stoll Wale, collected school supplies and administration clerk, LCpl. Scott than a year. In that time they canned goods, to aid in the Kowaleski eagerly the school were left without school week there will be books and Kowaleski. supplies or a place to hold classes. supplies for the children, have helped St. Anthony's in a recovery of their sister school, St. volunteered to help. be variety of ways. Even though the Marines have Theresa's, on Kauai. According to Guerreiro it will transported by HMH-463. The Marines were greeted at take approximately two years to According to lstLt. Clark, HMH officially pulled out of Kauai, Range Facility "The Marines have been a 463 Marines from Marine Heavy Marines from HMH-463 flew the Pacific Missle rebuild. adopt-a-school-program supplies to Kauai Thursday.

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