Penetrate Enemy Space

Oldest Barber Beirut Revisited Crew Chief Air station's Infantry commander Leatherneck undergoes oldest butcher . er, barber observes progress extensive training tells it like it was in war-torn Lebanon for adventurous job See Page A-4 See Page A-6 See Page A-9 HAWAII MARINE Voluntary payment for deliver. to MCAS hoto.itig/S 1 per four-N. eel, period. V(11.. 12 NO. 39 K AN E011 BAY. HAWAII. SEPT. 28. 1983 TWENTY-FOUR PAGES Commandant Navy birthday message As we commemorate the 208th Anniversary of the founding of the United States Navy, I am reminded once again of the unique bond that has joined Sailors and Marines for over 200 years in the finest fighting organization in the world - the Navy and Marine Corps Team. Together, we are unbeatable! Throughout my years as a Marine it has been my privilege to have served aboard a submarine, an aircraft carrier, a heavy cruiser, and numberous amphibious ships. This close and personal contact at sea with the Officers and Sailors of our Navy has resulted in boundless admiration of your professionalism, dedication, and spirit. Today, our navy and Marine Corps team is truly the guardian of peaCe in every "clime and place." On this, your special day of recognition, your Marine comrades salute you. Happy Birthday and BRAVO ZULU! P.X. Kelley General, U.S. Marine Corps Marines honor comrades The Marine Corps will be the first to honor the Navy's 208th birthday when it presents a ceremonial Sunset Parade. Oct. 7 at the Marine Barracks, Pearl Harbor parade grounds. Admiral Sylvester R. Foley, Commanderin-Chief, Pacific Fleet, DoD consolidates Oahu family housing will be the reviewing officer. The parade will launch a week of activities commemorating the Story and photo Temporary Living Allowance and BAQ are off- soldiers replace Marines at the housing office Navy's birthday on Oct. 13. One hundred and fifty Marines from by Sgt Greg Berry setting. here. The change is expected to take about six Hawaii guard companies throughout Oahu will be featured in a Another change is that residents contracting months. colorful display of military tradition. The Army is taking charge of family housing through an approved cleaning service won't be Civilians have already been guargnteed their Traditional highlights will include drawing of the sword to here Oct. 1, but don't call them if something required to attend the final inspection. Bittl jobs, though. The workers will keep their jobs "Sound Attention," the Marine Barracks color guard "Marching to goes wrong with the hot water heater. warned that the cleaning service must be on the with no loss of pay for one year. Then the the Colors," and the Camp H.M. Smith saluting battery's booming "It's really not that big of a change," said approved list at the housing office. The Navy structure of the new OCFHO will be screened to 17-gun salute to Admiral Foley. Army Colonel Frederick Bittl, director of the Exchange contract system is also available to determine job requirements. Two buglers will end the parade with a stirring rendition of "Echo newly formed Oahu Consolidated Family all housing residents, regardless of branch of An airport reception office is in the discussion Taps" in tribute to fallen Navy and Marine Corps comrades of all Housing Office. The initial changes will he service. phase, as is the installation of washers and wars. managerial, not operational, he said. Members may elect to clean their own dryers in family housing here. Funding for the The Fleet Marine Force, Pacific Band will entertain guests with a The Family Housing Office here won't move, quarters. Bittl added. The choice is up to the laundry equipment has been requested, but so pre-parade concert as well as provide the marching arrangement and residents with maintenance problems individual. far hasn't been funded, Bittl said. for the ceremony. should still call the Facilities Trouble Desk at The idea of consolidating housing units isn't FblIoNVItirthe ceremony will be a reception for in eited gueSts 257-2308. Good news to junior noncommissioned new, but the 18,843 units on Oahu make the hosted by Rear Admiral C.J. Rorie, Commander, Naval Base Pearl There are a few changes that will affect officers came in the form of eligibility for OCFHO the largest of its kind. Harbor. residents, though. Basic Allowance for station housing. Effective Oct. 1, al] corporals All active military, reserve, retired, civilian government Quarters will be reinstated on the vacating day, and above will be eligible for housing. Current Bittl explained that automation is the key to employees and Navy League members and their dependents are instead of the day of the final inspection, Bittl Marine Corps directives require corporals to saving the government money, but the invited to attend the parade. said. He went on to explain that this doesn't have two years time in service for eligibility. OCFHO's is to provide better service to military mean more money for Marines, because the Future changes will have more impact, as members and their families stationed on Oahu. Submarine intruders penetrate enemy space conducted. In addition to Marine operations available to recon Story and photo reconnaissance units and Marines. by SSgt Ken Strausbaugh underwater demolition teams, "'Using submarines for The wii.d howled mercilessly on SubOps are conducted by Navy operations has many benefits," the beach as a lone enemy soldier sea-air-land teams, Army special said Harris. "They allow us to walked his post by the waters forces units, and personnel from enter an area undetected, and edge. other civilian or military agencies. provide a means of extraction All through the cold. moonless But no matter which unit is once we've completed the night, the soldier maintained his conducted SuhOps, they all mission." vigil, his ears alert for the hum of a consist of high ly7trained Once the mission is completed, boat's engine or the drone of an individuals capable of leaving the the rendezvous and "lock-in" with incoming enemy aircraft. submarine from depths approach. the submarine are as complex and With the morning sun came the ing 60 feet, conduct their assigned dangerous as "locking-out." changing of the guard. The young mission, and return to the When the swimmers return to soldier reported to the sentry submarine. the sea, the submarine locates relieving him. "Nothing new or Exiting from a submarine is no them by using either the periscope unusual to report," said the weary easy task. It is the end result of or sonar. soldier. "It was a quiet evening." extensive training and displayed Harris explained the combat swimmers have a unique method Or was it? Although alert, his proficiency. The exit, or "lock- out," is conducted from a diving of hooking-up with the submarine. eyes and ears had missed the "If the Marines are in rubber shadowy figures glided across the trunk. The diving trunk is definitely boats, they stretch a 120-foot rope sand, their silent forms emerging between the boats. But if they are from the ocean and disappearing not for claustrophobics. During SubOps, a four-man recon team, swimming, they divide into two into the night. groups and stretch the rope Hours later, the almost invisible their scub gear, weapons, rubber boat, plus the trunk operator are between the two groups," said figures made their way across the Harris. "The submarine then beach, hack to the safety of the squeezed into a space the size of a broom closet. maneuvers between the boats or ocean. the groups of swimmers and snags But who were those silent Once the personnel and their gear are in the trunk, the trunk the rope on the salvage buoy or the shadows and how did they reach periscope." the guarded coastline undetected? operator floods the spherical chamber and pressurizes it to Harris continued, "After the Their vehicle, a submarine; their swimmers hook-up, they pull mission, reconnaissance; their equal the pressure outside the submarine. themselves to the salvage buoy titl,, Marine. attached to the front of the The potential for using On command from the trunk supervisor, who monitors submarine. One at a time, they submarines to insert combat swim along the buoy rope down to swimmers into coastal areas for activities from a compartment below the dive trunk, the combat the submarine. From here, it's a covert operations was realized matter of entering the dive trunk during World War II. swimmers leave the trunk one at a time. through a hatch on top of the submarine. Initially, the concept of The swimmers make their way Submarine Combat Swimmer "The trunk operator waiting to the surface along a rope inside the trunk, depressurizesthe Operations, or SuhOps, was used attached from the submarine to a to allow underwater demolition diving trunk so the swimmers can salvage buoy. From here, the enter the submarine." teams to approach a beach area swimmers proceed with their undetected. Once they reached the mission. But being back in the dive trunk shoreline, they located According to doesn't mean the swimmers are and Staff Sergeant home safe. PREPARE TO LOCK-OUT - (left) Sergeant themselves in the dive trunk during Submarine destroyed underwater obstacles Mark Harris, Company A, 3d Wray Graham, Corporal Greg Jones and Staff Combat prior to amphibious assaults. Reconnaissance Sergeant Wray Graham, a Swimmer Operations recently held at Battalion, veteran of numerous Sergeant Mark Harris, all of Company A, 3d Pearl Harbor Submarine Base. Today, SubOps are as varied as SubOps is one of the best insertion SubOps, Reconnaissance Battalion, prepare to seal the oceans in which they are technioues for clandestine Con't.

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