El Toro Jets to Arrive Here Monday Marine Facility Today Houses More Uled to Convene at Headquarters Than 8,000 Marines and Navy- Marine Corps Next Monday
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Property of MARINE f7c.)17PS 3-4 To Depart for Training Kaneohe Bay Airgat Observi A. battalion landing team consisting of the Third Battalion, Fourth Marines, and .certain augmenting units from the First Marine Brigade will depart Hawaii the end of the month for a routine training assignment with the Third Marine Divison. Anniversary ; First Decade of Service The BLT will travel in ships of PHIBRON-7 and will return to Hawaii during the latter part of April. LtCol. Paul F. Reese The first Marine Corps Air The Kaneohe Marine Corps in Hawaii with a "business-as- sill command the BLT. The BLT will train in the Phillipines Station to be activated following Air Station, commissioned Jan. usual" day. liter a brief stop-over on Okinawa enroute. World War H will mark its 10th 15, 1952, will observe a decade The Station, currently com- anniversary next Monday. as a major riiMary installation manded by Col. W. R. Campbell, is today home base of one of the most unique military units in the World, the First Marine Brigade. E-6 Selection Commanded by MajGen. It. G. Wcede, the Brigade is the only known composite air-ground team in existence. Board Begins Other "tenants" of the present- day Air Station include the Navy's VOL. I I No.2 MARINE CORPS AIR STATION, KANEOHE BAY, HAWAII January 12, 1962 Pacific Missile Range Facility, the only one of its kind in Hawaii, Work Monday and the Fleet Marine Force's 1st Colonel Robert M. Richards has Composite Radio Company. been named to head the Staff Ser- The multi-million dollar Hawaii geant (E-6) selection board sched- El Toro Jets to Arrive Here Monday Marine facility today houses more uled to convene at Headquarters than 8,000 Marines and Navy- Marine Corps next Monday. men. There are nearly 500 civilian The board, which will be in employees. Some 3,300 military on the Air session about 10 weeks, is ex- On First Leg of Trans-Pacific Flight dependents reside pected to select approximately Station. 3800 for promotion from an esti- Eighteen F8U "Crusader" jets of Marine aviation units normally ; Should the trans-Pacific flight mated 6500 eligible Marines. VMF (AW)-451 are scheduled to rotate between the two U.S. based prove successful, routine moves Other members of the board arrive at Kaneohe Bay next Mon- Marine Aircraft Wings and the one will be conducted by air, rather are: LtCols. Robert A. McCabe, day after completing the first leg in Japan every 13 months. !than surface transportation. News, Humor Augustine B. Reynolds, Jr., Wiley of a trans-Pacific flight. A. Green, John J. Rooney, Majs., This will be the first time in Thomas A. James, Cecil L. Marine aviation history that an Of Ten Years Champion. Jr., Bruce F. Cunliffe, entire jet fighter squadron will SgtMaj. W. McElliott Assumes Richard 0. Ely, Billy IL Snyder, and Valeria F. Hilgart. fly from California to Japan. :Compiled from the files of the Also, Capt. George E. Bartlett, Scheduled to leave the El Toro WINDWARD MARINE WO William F. Garvey, Jr., Sgt- MCAS Jan. 15, the squadron, com- First Brigade Billet Today By GySgt. Jack T. Paxton) Maj. Richard J. Bockelman and manded by LtCol. Charles E. MGySgt. Harry "B" Gamble. Crew, will relieve VMF-312 in Sergeant Major Warren Mc- During WWII, he saw action 1952 First Sergeant Michael A. Can- the Far East after completing their Elliott, a veteran of more than 19 throughout the South Pacific with ter recorder, and MSgt. Jack K. 7000-mile ocean flight. year's Marine Corps service, be- combat elements of the 4th Marine The establishment of a Marine Norris assistant recorder. The supersonic jets will drop came the brigade's top enlisted Division. Returning to the U.S. Corps Air Station on Mokapu to 20,000 feet six times during man this morning when he re- in November 1945, he was assigned Peninsula was not a "snap of the their 17 hours over the Pacific, lieved Sergeant Major A. S. Fay duty with the 12th Infantry Bat- fingers" decision. When the Kor- Japanese to refuel from giant GV-1 Her- talion, USMCR San Francisco. ean conflict flared in 1950, small Group is plus Fleet cules refuelers. After refueling At the outbreak of hostilities Pacific island garrisons, complete the jets will climb back in Korea, Sit. McElliot was Marine Force Pacific Headquarters To Tour Station to their planned 40,000 foot al- at Pearl Harbor, were the only serving as a recruiter in Oakland, main- titude. Calif. Marine units between the Brigade Saturday Fifteen of the aerial refuelers land and the Far East. A mid- will support the operation along In December 1952, he joined the Pacific-training site was needed Members of the Honolulu Jap- 1st Marine Division in Korea and with Navy "Flying Radar Sta- and Oahu's Mokapu Peninsula nese Junior Chamber of Com- was assigned as first sergeant of housing the defunct Naval Air nArce are scheduled to tour the tions" from Pacific airborne the 7th Marine Regiment's 4.2 Station fit the bill. Marine Corps Air Station tomor- early warning units. The radar- Mortar Company. While serving Marine Corps Air Station, Kan- row morning. equipped planes will guide the with the regiment, he was award- eohe became a reality. The group of young business- fighter pilots to the six aerial ed the Navy Commendation Rib- In August 1952 the Army of- men. expected to number about bon. ficially turned Mokapu Pen- 20, will get a firsthand look at refueling rendezvous points. Returning to the U.S. in 1954, insula over to the Navy, and Station facilities and combat ve- Two other stops are planned the Corps' building program hicles and equipment of for the transplacement squadron. he was assigned duties as sergeant the major of the 1st Marine Division's shifted into high gear. Fourth Marines. After departing Kaneohe Jan. 16 Marine Fighter Squadron 235 They will also visit the flight they will touch down at Wake 9th Motor Transportation Bn. and later served with the Inspector- and 451 of Marine Aircraft Group- line of Marine Air Group-13. Island, and then Guam. Main- 13 began to move into the newly To complete the morning, the tenance personnel of the squadron SGTMAJ. McELLIOTT Instructor Staff, 4th Supply Co., USMCR at Stockton, Calif. activated station early in 1952. group will have brunch in the will be pre-positioned at the stop- during change-of-command cere- They were accompanied by main- Station's mess hall #1. ping points to insure that the Prior to reporting to Kaneohe, squadrons monies on Platt Field. Sgt. McElliott was sergeant major tenance and support The tour was arranged at the fighters arc in top mechanical and a non-flying unit, Marine request of the JCC's. shape before each take-off. Marines of the 4th Marine Regi- of Camp Pendleton's Staging ment, Marine Aircraft Group-13, Battalion. (See HIGHLIGHTS. P-8) Service Battalion, 3rd Battalion, 12th Marines and Separate Com- panies comprised the marching units. The 1st Marine Brigade Band provided the music at the ceremony. SgtMaj. Fay, who departs for MAD, NATTC, In Memphis, Tenn., later this month, has been the Brigade Sergeant Major since August 1961 when he moved up to the top billet from Service Battalion. A native of San Francisco, Calif.. SgtMaj. McElliott enlisted in the Marine Corps in August 1942. ALOHA - Major R. W. Mullane, Squadron CO, prepares to take Credit Union Members off in one of the new A4D-2 "Skyhawks" received Wednesday by VMA-214. The Skyhawks are replacing the "Fury" jets used for the Hold Annual Meeting past three years by the MAG-I3 Attack Squadron. K-Bay's Federal Credit Union will hold its annual meeting and election of Board of Directors at VMA-214 Gets 1st A4D-2 Skhawki Jet; 2 p.m., Jan. 26, in Classroom #2 at Bldg. 267. Prescribed by law, the annual Flight Test Made by llacksheepi CO meeting is held for the purpose Pilots and crewmen of VMA- the demands of the Marine of acquainting military and ci- 214, received the first of 20 A4D- Corps. vilian personnel with the policies and of the Air Station's 2 Skyhawks Wednesday morning. The new planes will be oper- operation The rest are scheduled io arrive ated by pilots of Marine Attack FCU. sometime this month. Squadron-214, the "Rlacksheep" The operating budget, an- Major R. W. Mullane, CO, of Marine Air Group-13, air-arm nouncement of dividends and any VMA-214, lifted the Skyhawk of the Kaneohe-based first Ma- proposed methods of operatior off the runway at 7:30 a.m., for rine Brigade. will be discussed. its first flight test after being Eleven crew members of VMA- Any vacancies on the Board of received 214 were scheduled leave for Directors and Credit Committee by the squadron. to GUESS WHO MADE MAJOR? Major W. E. Hutchison, Opera- A Douglas speeds Ford Island this week to de- will also be filled. Voting for - aircraft, with Officer of 1/4, receives oversized oak leaves from LtCol. J. R. in acess of 600 m.p.h. it has been preserve the remaining aircraft board members will be made by tions and Maj. A. I. Thomas, executive identified mod- and get reac13, secret ballot. Nominations may Stevens, (I.) battalion commander, as a newer, more them for flight to Friday. ern designed aircraft for meeting KMCAS. be made from the floor. officer. Major Hutchinson was promoted to his new rank last 41, January 12, 1962 2 Windward Merino I Chaplains I Corner COL.