Marine Crew Rescues Downed Pilot
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HAWAIIpayment for delivery to MCAS housing /$1 per four week period Voluntary MAR VOL 9 NO 47 KANEOHE BAY, HAWAII, NOVEMBER 26, 1980 P4444:44 Re-AA:4o Exchange holiday It ours All Exchange activities are closed Thanksgiving day with the exception of the following: Activity - Open Close '7 Day Store 9 a.m. 6 p.m. TO THE RESCUE - Marines Bowling Center 10 a.m. 6 p.m. and sailors from MCAS Bowling Center Snack Bar 10 a.m. 6 p.m. Kaneohe Bay assist Robert Car Rental Facility 8 a.m. 6 p.m. Sanders, victim of a civilian Golf Pro Shop 7 a.m. 8 p.m. helicopter crash. Sanders was Golf Course Snack Bar 6 a.m. 6 p.m. lifted from high surf by a Mamma 7 Dew Store 9 a.m. 6 p.m. Marine search and rescue team The Exchanges resume normal hours Friday with the from Station Operations and exception of Camp Smith's which will close at 12:30 p.m. Maintenance Squadron, MCAS Kaneohe Bay. The accident occurrent one mile off the Personal Services Office Kaaawa shore Nov. 19. Photo by 051 Linda Germ The Personal Services Office at MCAS Kaneohe Bay, directed by LtCol Pete Pistelli in Building 215, has recently been 'tasked with combining, supervising and directing all station activities that provide services to Marines, sailors and their families assigned to the air station. Several functions on station presently administered by the Personal Services Office include Special Services, the Family Services Center and the Combined Club Systems. Offices to be added in the future are the Counseling and Assistance Center, which will join Dec. 1, and the Base Exchange System, which will be added after January . Educational opportunity Marines who want to enroll in the Basic Skille Education Program must ensure that it is directly related to military crew or skill training. downed remedial rescues such as Marine requirements pilot According to ALMAR 178/80, Marines who are reading, deficient in any of the basic skills of mathematics A Marine helicopter crew "Upon arriving at the scene," "NO SERIOUS injuries were THE SAR HELICOPTER or English may partiCipate in BSEP to meet Military plucked an injured civilian pilot stated Capt Bob Barry, SAR evident at the time," said Bubb, "80 returned to MCAS Kaneohe Bay Occupational Specialty requirements. from high surf after his helicopter helicopter pilot, "we saw another I started moving us toward the and the victim, identified as Robert If English is the Marine's second language, and English crashed off Kaaawa Beach Nov. civilian helicopter trying to pull a helicopter. The whole time I kept Sanders, was rushed to the Naval skills are required for his job, he may also take that. portion 19. survivor to shore with a line." assuring him that we were moving Regional Medical Clinic, Kaneohe of the BSEP. "We maneuvered into position," to a place the helicopter could pick Bay. He was later transferred to MEP cannot be undertaken to prepare an individual to THE HH-46A Search and continued Barry, "and then us up easier and that everything Castle Memorial Hospital. It was obtain a high school diploma, according to the ALMAR. Rescue helicopter belonged to lowered our SAR swimmer into the would be all right." later reported that he had Marines participating in the program should enroll in an of- Station Operations and Mainten- water to assist the victim. While we The SAR helicopter quickly sustained a broken shoulder blade duty high school completion program after taking BSEP ance Squedrim, MCAS Kaneohe were doing this the victim moved into position and hoisted and a fractured vertebrae. training. Bay. somehow lost his grip on the rope." the pair from the high surf. The second passenger has not Guidelines have been set. for screening eligible When the .SAR helicopter was Sgt Douglas Bubb, the SAR According to Barry the been found. Witnesses were HSEP participants. Requirements include motivation, level notified of the accident it aborted swimmer, soon discovered the exhausted victim told them about a reported as saying the helicopters of basic skill required for satisfactory performance in a current flight operations and raced victim couldn't swim and helped second person, possibly still inside had been flying low over thewav specific MOS and military classification test scores. to the location approximately one him stay afloat while physically the sunken wreckage. throughout the morning and th The program Is Marine Corns funded and no expense is mile offshore. examining him. "As soon as we learned that," appeared the tail of the one obarged Iles'bisfiltiethai Marine* Per more interrelation read said Capt Glenn Cox, co-pilot, "we struck a wove and crashed. ALMAR 17A/60. moved over and the swimmer 1 dropped down to search for the The actual cause of the accident other person." is under investigation by the New medical center Chaplains Bubb spotted the helicopter Federal Aviation Administration. wreckage approximately 35 feet The aircraft had been rented WASHINGTON D.C. - Dedication ceremonies for the Efforts to find from Paradise Helicopters Navy's newest hospital, below the surface. National Naval Medical Center, second passenger proved Universal Television Productions Bethesda, were held Nov. 21 in Bethesda, Md. Clergymen supply faith to Corps the for an fruitless and Bubb returned to the for use in filming scenes Participating in the ceremonies were the Secretary of the that while in upcoming program. Navy, the Honorable Edward Hidalgo; the Navy's surface. He indicated Surgeon he smelled what he The second civilian helicopter General ice Adm. J. William Coxx, Medical Corps, USN The U.S. Navy Not all earlier provide professional the water be jet fuel. was also being used in the filming. and the Commanding Officer oftit e Na tional Naval Medical Chaplain Corps was chaplains were or- guidance to the Depart- believed to Center, Rear Adm. J.T. Horgan, MC, USN. born Nov. 28, 1776, dained. Appointed by ment of the Navy and The newly constructed NNMC Bethesda is a "replacement when the Continental commanding officers, to promote the spiri- facility" for the present 600-bed hospital which was built in Congress adopted the they frequently served tual, religious, moral, February 1942. Construction of the new facility began in second article of Navy as secretaries or corporate and pe onal July 1976 and scheduled to open in December. Regulations: schoolmasters or well-being of mem Redevelopment and new construction of NNMC "The Commanders of performed other duties. of that establishment, Bethesda was required to update obsolete health care the ships of the thirteen The first academy for their dependents, and facilities which were inadequate to render high quality care United Colonies are to midshipmen was formed other authorized per- utilizing the latest in medical technology. take care that divine by Chaplain Robert sons by providing Bethesda's primary function is to provide the highest service be performed Thompeon.ln the mid ministries appropriate quality medical care possible to its beneficiaries and tottery." twice a day on board, 1880s, ordination was to their rights lied as a worldwide referral hospital, National Naval Medical and a sermon preached required of all chap- needs. Center Bethesda is also one of the Navy's four major on Sundays..." lains. Duties of the Chaplains have been teaching hospitals and is a major research facility affiliated The first chaplain chaplain were more effective in promoting with the Uniformed Services University of Health and known to have served carefully defined. not only religion but Sciences and several other medical educational institutions. in the Continental also human relations, Navy was the Rev. The Chaplain Corps morale, character, Ed ward Brooke, a reached maturity humanitarian causes, Travel damage claims Congregational minis- during World War I equal opportunity and ter. In the spring of with the establish- wholesome family WASHINGTON, MCNews - Reporting to a new duty 1777, Brooks reported ment of a Chaplain living. station on Permanent Change of Station orders can he aboard the "Hancock." Division and the office On its 206th Anni- exciting and adventurous. But, sometimes, household goods The ship was captured of the Chief of Chap versary the Navy show up damaged at the new duty station due to shipping. by the British and lains. Chaplain Corps is When this happens, the Traffic Management Office at taken to Halifax at The Chaplain Corps proud of its unique your new command can tell you how to file a claim for the which time Brooks was is comprised of repre- heritage and its damaged household goods. They will also help you put the exchanged for a British sentatives of religious affiliation with the claim together and submit it to Headquarters Marine Conte chaplain who had been bodies of the United United States Marine for final payment consideration. captured by colonists. States. Its purpose is to Corps. At TMO you will be told what documents are needed to tile a claim; how to get estimates of repairs; how to file a claim against the movers; and the effects private insurance has when filing a claim. When your claim arrives at Headquarters Marine Corps, Units deploy to Yuma it's first checked for completeness. Then a decision se to the amount to be paid will be made, and a check is mailed. According to personnel claims officials here, there'. not for air combat training only a right way and a wrong way to submit a claim, hat there are also severed things you can do to ensure a prompt payment of your claim, They are A massive trans- weeks of intense air combine to make Timely isehmieeiona -A claim min he submitted up to Pacific deployment operations at Nellie Air MCAS Yuma a superior two Year/tater the dented* occurs, but experience Indira tee took place Nov.