Vol. 24, No. 20 Serving Marine Forces Pacific, MCB Hawaii, III Marine Expeditionary Forces, Hawaii and 1st Radio Battalion May 23, 1996 q Scoop!, Kids training to take over the country. See B-1. Crash simulation The Base Safety Center will be demonstrating a two-car crash simulation involving Marines and civilians Friday at 9 a.m. Military personnel and the public is invit- ed to witness this event, which will also involve members of the Federal Fire Department, Crash, Fire and Rescue, Branch Medical and other military personnel. Spectators are encouraged to be in the seating area, located in the field between the Base Safety Center and the Base Post Office by 8:30 a.m. The event could be for an eye-opening experience Christopher Hes everyone. For more information call SSgt. E.F. Agans at 257-2096. At the ready Three leathernecks from 1st Battalion, 7th Marines pause while conducting a patrol during joint training with the Royal Thai Marines. The Marines were partic- ipating in Exercise Cobra Gold '96, the 15th running of the joint Thai-U.S. series of exercises. TRICARE booth .- There will be a TRICARE booth at the Marine Corps Exchange May 24 and 25 and at the commis- 11th MEU faces TRUE 1 test sary on May 30 and June between the hours of 10 a.m. and CPAO Phoenix. All of the training has deployment. During these deploy- Mount Pinatubo eruption in the 3. p.m: There will be a TRICARE been coordinated with federal, state ments, the MEUs act as America's Philippines, the devastating representative available to answer and local law enforcement agencies. quick reaction force to protect typhoons in Bangladesh and the CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. -- questions and will be able to enroll The exercise which comprise America's interests overseas. famine in Somalia. Most recently, Marines and Sailors from southern you on the spot. A nurse or senior TRUE help prepare Marines for a In the past, MEUs have conducted the 22nd MEU participated in the California will be training at vari- corpsman will also be handing out number of maritime and civic- a wide variety of TRUE-type mis- April evacuation of noncombatants ous locations on Oahu beginning free healthwise handbooks and a action missions they may be called sions. West Coast MEUs provided from the American Embassy in May 24, to take advantage of urban self care medical hook to those upon to perform during their humanitarian assistance after the training not available at their home see TRUE, page A-9 who enroll in TRICARE Prithe. base. For more information contact The Marines and Sailors, part of LCdr. Dorn at 257-5650. ... : _. .. the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit, are undergoing routine train- Sea services lose leader Corporal's Course ing at several privately owned sites (Editor's note: The following message from the Graduation and military installations, to Commandant of the Marine Corps regarding the death of include Marine Corps Base Hawaii, Admiral Jeremy Mike Boorda, Chief of Naval Operations, The Corporal's Course 5-96 will Kaneohe Bay, Naval Air Station was authorized by the Secretary of the Navy.) be holding their graduation cere- Barber's Point, Ford Island, Pearl mony at the Base Theater Friday Harbor's Middleloch and the AT&T May 16, the United States Navy lost a superb Sailor and at 3 p.m. Everyone is invited to ship docked across from Aloha brilliant leader. The United States Marine Corps lost a dear Tower, their six- attend. Military personnel should in preparation for friend. wear the uniform of the day and month deployment to the western Admiral Mike Boorda was a dedicated patriot and a trusted civilians are encouraged to wear Pacific. colleague. He did not pay lip service to the idea of the Navy- aloha attire. As part of the training, Marine Marine Corps Team, but lived his commitment every day in helicopter pilots will practice day word and deed. With his tragic death, the Marine Corps has and night urban flying and naviga- Drill Instructor lost a true comrade-in-arms. As we mourn his passing, let us tion techniques using routes and Reunion honor his memory and his selfless service to the nation and altitudes approved by the Federal the Navy he loved. Let us also rededicate ourselves to the Aviation Administration. Oahu res- Tickets are still available for a same professionalism, excellence, and care for shipmates that idents, in particular Kaneohe Bay, Drill Instructor Reunion, sched- marked his entire career. should be aware of increased noise uled for June 1 at the MCB Every Marine in the Navy-Marine Corps Team is better for levels throughout this time due to Hawaii Officers' Club. Tickets are having known him and served his side and on his watch. this training. at $22. For more information, call The thoughts and prayers of Marines around the world are The training, called Training in an SgtMaj. Dawson at 257-4320. with Bettie Boorda and her family in their loss and grief. Environment has been con- Urban Semper Fidelis. ducted in various cities since 1985. On the west coast, the cities have Gen. Charles C. Krulak Domestic violence - included San Diego, Los Angeles, Adm. Jeremy "Mike" Boorda i.' 31st Commandant of the Marine Corps 1938-1996 help num . Oxnard, San Francisco and , .. '-f Military shelter 533-7125 MPD 257-7114 IIMM-165 makes final lift off from K-Bay Crisis Hotline 521-4555 In 1992 there were four CH-46 Sea HMM-165's departure marked history for a Sea Stallion CPAO Knight squadrons and only one CH- the end of an era for the CH-46's squadron to join the Marines of Child Protective Serv. 832-5282 53D Sea Stallion squadron. Before the and opened a new chapter in Hawaii. Marine Medium Helicopter end of 1996 there will be four CH-53D Squadron 165 loaded its last pieces of squadrons and one helicopter training gear Saturday and departed for their squadron supporting the combat and Inside new home at Marine Corps Air aviation elements in Hawaii. Station, El Ibro, Calif. The transition of these squadrons Every clime and place A-2 HMM -165 is the last of four CH-46 should not impact the number of per- Movies 11-5 Sea Knight squadrons to leave sonnel stationed here as the Marine MWR Offerings 8-5 Kaneohe Bay as part of a structural Corps is consolidating the assets to Religion B-3 realignment of aviation assets in the meet the missions of the region. Sports briefs 8-4 Marine Corps. Kaneohe Bay will be the home of all Tickets 8-4 The Marines received help in their the CH-53D's in the Marine Corps once You can ask the move from 337th Airlift Squadron the last squadron arrives here. Commanding General ques- based out of Westover Air Force Base With the departure of HMM-165, a tions via: E-mail or internet. in Massachusetts. The squadron's part of Marine Corps history is moving E-Mail: eight helos were loaded into C-5A on. These squadrons participated in BICE@CG@MCBH KBAY Galaxy transport planes and shipped the Vietnam War, Operation Desert to its new home, according to GySgt. Storm and many other missions and Internet: lbdd A. Carnaghi, maintenance con training evolutions during the almost Steven Williams HMM-165 personnel load their birds onto the biggest bird of all the C-5 Galaxy [email protected] trol chief for HMM-165. 30 years of making Hawaii home. - their transport plane. A-2 May 23, 1996 Hawaii Marine .-- Every Clime and Place Flounder of 'vertical envelopment' dies HEADQUARTERS, U.S. MARINE nal target, had the Japanese been able and Replacement Command, comman- general was as commandant, Marine himself after 170 years of service he CORPS, Washington D.C. -The to mount air assaults. Because of his der of Fleet Marine Force Troops and Corps Schools. He was advanced to the must go. But I think you will agree with father of "vertical envelopment," observations, Guadalcanal became the commanding general of 3d MarDiv. In rank of general upon retirement on me he has. earned the right to depart retired Marine Corps General Merrill Marines' new target. March 1952, he rejoined 1st MarDiv as Oct. 31, 1959, by reason of having been with dignity and honor ..." B. Twining, died May 11 at a Fallbrook, As the division's assistant operations its assistant commander, this time in specially commended in combat. Tvvining's words make a fitting epitaph Calif., hospital. He was 93. officer and assistant chief of staff, G-3, Korea. He left Korea in May that year, In a statement authored by Twining for a Marine Corps hero who left his Born Nov. 28, 1902, in Monroe, 'Ms., Twining helped develop plans that but returned to command the division and given before the 1946 Congress, mark upon the Marines of yesterday, Twining is credited with forging into were instrumental in capturing the from January 1955 until August 1956. Vandegrift said, "...If the Marine as a and the tactics and doctrine of Marines law what would become the Marine Pacific island, earning him his first His final assignment as a lieutenant fighting man has not made a case for of today. (Sgt. David Ferrier, HQMC) Corps' trademark, amphibious war- Legion of Merit. fare. He also led the group that envi- It was during Guadalcanal that sioned the use of helicopters to conduct Twining came up with the idea of a Corps amphibious assaults - before the shoulder patch for the Marines of 1st creates 'network manager' Corps owned a single helicopter.