Identical sergeants to become officers Cobra games Page A-3 72 tee-up for SNCO Golf Tourney Prtge li I Vol. 19, No. 22 Published at MCAS Kaneohe Bay. Also serving tat MEd, Camp H.M. Smith and Marine Barracks, Hawaii. June 7, 1990 Air Station looks toward the future Commissary Air Station's may be built Project 2000 before 1993 N *1:11:13 steams ahead By Mork Doyle By 9g1 Bred telltrellelt Sun Press A bigger and better com- Several innovative changes missary for the Air Station are planned at Marine Corps may be completed by the end Air Station Kaneohe Bay in of fiscal year 1992 - up to the next few years, including seven years earlier than pre- projects that will directly af- viously expected. fect Windward Oahu's rental housing market and business 'rhe development community, said Col. R.R. woo made Critser, Station commanding possible by aggressive cam- paigning by Air Station officer. officials, the goodwill of the Critser said the next few Air Force Commissary Serv- J years will present a unique ice, and a plan announced opportunity - a chance to April 13 by Defense Secre- plan and make changes that tary Dick Cheney to even-up /- will better prepare the base commissary funds and and its personnel for the streamline operations service- ie future, rather than to merely wide. react to political and eco- nomic changes that affect the As an indirect result of nation's defense budget. Dare plan, which calls for the consolidation of all four .-` ..,- 7 "We sat down and Haiti, of the services' commissary -14 17 'What do we want the Air systems into one agency, the Station to look like in the Air Force offered lent week to year 20007- Critser ex- fund, design and build a new Sq: plained. "The year 2000 is commissary on the Air Sta- e millennium; it's not just n tion, Heron' ing to LtCol. turn of the century. We woof John D Wintersteen, direc- it tip be 'different, and that's why we came up with Project tor of Installations and 2000." Logistics for the Air Station. The proposed layout of the Station Community Support Center Col. R.R. Cdtser, Station commander, describes plans for future shows Its location near the automotive service station. Critser said Project 2000, An engineer from the Air developments on Station to Defense Secretary Dick Cheney. which he started developing Service, Force Commissary shortly eller he took com- has been known to which were eery stores to consolidation. future Army and Air Force mand last July, is designed have commissaries con- ties Services Branch at Head- a House subcommittee quarters Marine Corps, told busy poring over ways to re- During hearings between commissary projects not to affect the entire commu- structed in less than 18 the subcommittee and mili- currently underway spe- nity rather than just the Air months, will sues, the Wintersteen during a phone organize the four services' - conversation Friday morning. commissaries, which have tary officials during March, cifically, those planned in Station. proposed site here later this it was determined that com- Europe. "We're looking at how we Air Force lately been under the shadow month. Final The action is the culmina- axe. The missary systems with healthy can improve our quality of approval may come this fall. of the budget The Marine Corps, which tion of a year of negotiations subcommittee considered finances would not build any is only able to build one com- life, at how we can make life "The persistence on every- between the Marine Corps possible solutions ranging more commissaries until all missary about every five better for our Marines and one's part for a Kaneohe com- and the Air Force. During from the outright abolish services' needs were first ana- years, already has a commis- our civilian employees," he missary has really paid off," the negotiations, Defense De- ment of the commissaries to lyzed. AR a result, a mora- emphasized. "We're not dif- See COMMISSARY/A-8 Joe Jeu, head of the Facili- partment representatives and contracting of civilian gro- torium was placed on all See 2000/A-5 Windward Family Festival slated here are PAO are to be associated in this are free. Advance tickets The Family Festive' opens Marines standing by festival and with an organi- good toward ride coupons and July 27 at 6 p.m. with "Party The largest island-wide zation that represents qual- food during the festival and Night." Entertainment for event ever held on Windward ity and care to Windward include a free admission the evening includes a per- off Liberian coast Oahu will be held here July Oahu residents." ticket. Advance tickets can formance by the globe-trot- 2729 when the Air Station The three-day event will be purchased at all Sears ling FMFPac Band, just back ATLANTIC OCEAN - The 2,300 members of the and Castle Medical Center feature The Mamas and The ticket outlets; Marine Corps from a tour of Australia, and As rebel forces approached Mediterranean Amphibious sponsor the 1990 Windward Papas, plus a variety of Exchange activities; and the local performers Roadhouse the Liberian capital of Ready Group (MARC,) will Family Festival. Honolulu entertainment. Air Station's Information, and Portrat. There will also Monrovia, President Hush be called upon should the Recently, the two sponsors Water shows, regattas and Tour and Travel Office and be a boxing smoker. Carni- ordered an amphibious task five-month rebellion against met when representatives local rides, Marine Corps Temporary Lodging Facility. val activities will continue force to stand off the President Samuel Doe close from Castle Medical Center exhibits and demonstrations, Advance tickets are also until 11:30 p.m., and plenty Liberian emelt May 31 as normal exit routes. presented a check for $20,000 plus the E.K. Fernandez available to Civilian Em- of Marine Corps equipment a precautionary measure to in support of the event to Carnival, will round out the ployee Association members. will he on display. aid in the evacuation of The State Department ad. Station Commander Col. R.R. weekend. Companies, community Gates will he open for Sat- American citizens. vised U.S. citizens to leave Critser Admission to the base and groups and organizations are urday'it "Family Day" from the West African country couldn't have chosen parking for the event is free. welcome to participate in ad- 11 a.m. to 11:30 p.m. Marines of the 22d due to the unstable condi- cosponsor more appropriate Admission to the Festival will vance ticket sales by calling Clowns, a magic show and Marine Expeditionary Unit, tions and threat to the than Castle Medical Center," be $1 for teens and adults, Bob Porter at 264.2716 or even an appearance by Camp Lejeune, N.C., are safety of Americans thank' said Critser. "It's n real elem. while children 12 and under 264.2806 See FESTIVAL/A-4 staged aboard the amphibi- A Doi) spokesman added' ous assault ship IISS that the MANG will play' Saipan (111A 21 and sup- no role in the Liberia porting seek force ships conflict and is strictly a USA Ponce iI,PD lb), 1)88 contingency to ensure the Sumpter (I.ST 11811 and sate enit of Americans. answer alle1-11, 1111 received at the Educational 'feeling USS Peterson 969) in Weapons Co., 1/3 to march in Service no later than the end of July. During the no- MD scoring period, system changes will be made to accommo- international water* near Rebel troops were reported!! to the quick parade date the 199091 forms. Accordingly, the SAT review class Liberia allow within 2(1 miles of Mont°. deployment the Marines scheduled for June 30-July 28 with testing on July 30 has of via May 31, and BC The 74th Annual King Katnehameha Celebration floral they are needed to aid in been rescheduled to begin June 73-July 21 with testing if attack on a United Nation. Parade will he held Saturday starting at 91k) a.m.. from the evacuation of about the intereeetion of King and Richard Streets in downtown on July 23. The August 13 test date has been cancelled. office by masked gunmen 1,100 Americana in Liberin the day before killed one Honolulu. A platoon of Marines fnim W0111,011P CO., 1st For more information, call the Joint Education Center at I9n., 3d Marines, will be representing M('AS Kaneohe Bay. 264.1703/2901. U.N. guctrd More than 1,000 Liberians have report- edly been killed during the A reported 71 Americans, SAT cancelled rebellion. savings bonds including 33 U.S. Embassy No SAT answer sheets will be scored between July 31 $50, $75 series officials and their families, and Sept 19 Anyone needing an SAT score report before were flown out of the coun- Liberia, roughly Nov. I should take the SAT by July and make sure that to be cancelled try yesterday, according to of Tennessee, has Effective I I, t I, k(1) and $75 Series E E savings bonds a 11.S. State Department meted population will no longer be issued to participants in payroll savings official. Approximately 70 million. It was formed plans, according to the U.S Treasury Department. For U.S. official. and 1,200 a republic in 1847 by f Doll civilian employees, all $50 and $75 bonds will he private Americans citizens American block slaves cancelled as of the pay period ending Sept. 22. Partici are reported still in the migrated to the West pants currently enrolled for $60 and $711 bonds are en- country.