HAWAII MARINE Voluntary Payment for Delivery to MCAS Housing/$1 Per Four Week Period VOL
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HAWAII MARINE Voluntary payment for delivery to MCAS housing/$1 per four week period VOL. 10 NO. 30 KANEOHE BAY, HAWAII, J1 TY 29, 1981 ' EIGHTEEN PAGES Deplo)t4:0411[4rines return PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii - Compost,* Marine Am - volunteered their services to help "We even got a chance to help Returning leathernecks from bious Urn Support up- renovate the Colombo General the people of Sri Lanka, by fixing Marine Amphibious Unit-37 were 37, Batter it. attaljefi, 12th Hospital. up their hospital. My only regret greeted with squeals of joy and Marines in d d/P I a to o n , was that this float was so short." tears of love as they streamed Company A, 3d Rjeonnaissance The deployment also witnessed "This was my first deploy- down the gangplanks to meet Battalion, left here in February for two major and two minor ment," noted LCpI Anthony their wives, children and their annual six-month deploy. amphibious exercises. Brown, Btry. C, 1/12, "and I sweethearts. ment. The last stop for the deployed definitely want to do it one more devildogs before their return home time. I really liked all the liberty THE TRAVEL-WEARY, but THE KANEOHE-BASED was Subic Bay, Republic of the ports we stopped at, especially the grinning, Marines debarked from Marines spent liberty time in ports Phi I i pp i n e s . The Marines Philippines." the decks of the USS Belleau Wood, of call such as Perth, Western departed there two weeks ago on the USS Tuscaloosa and the USS Australia; Pattaye Beach, their final trek back to Oahu. The incoming deployment was Thomaston at Pearl Harbor Thailand; Singapore; Subic Bay, replaced in the Western Pacific by Saturday morning, ending their Republic of the Philippines; and CPL BRET M1LLER,Btry. C, 2d Battalion, 3d Marines, Marine deployment to the Western Pacific Colombo, Sri Lanka. 1/12 said, "This was my second Medium Helicopter Squadron and Indian Ocean. deployment and I think it was composite-262, and Marine The leathernecks, members of During their visit to Sri Lanka, much better than the first. This Amphibious Unit Service Support 3d Battalion, 3d Marines, Marine Marines from the USS Belleau time we stopped at more ports and Group-31, which left Pearl Harbor Medium Helicopter Squadron Wood and USS Thomaston met more people. earlier this month. st tralt=r g Photo by Gytigt Theresa Gallagher UNFAMILIAR ARMS - LCpI Ruben Labrador, Headquarters and Service Company, 3/3, cradles his one-month-old daughter, Joyce Lynn, for the first time as her mother, Winifred, beams at the sight. LCpI Labrador arrived at Pearl Harbor Saturday aboard the USS Belleau Wood, one of three ships returning from a six-month deployment to the Western Pacific and the Indian Ocean. Strike to by (,ySgt Theresa Gallagher ANTICIPATION - Marines and sailors of Battalion Landing leathernecks of Marine Amphibious Unit-37 to Pearl Harbor Paper shortage hits Hawaii Marine Team 3/3 patiently await debarkation from the USS Belleau Saturday morning following a six-month deployment to the Wood and reunions with their families and friends. The USS 'Western Pacific and the Indian Ocean. Belleau Weod. 1)88 Thomaston and US$. TuscalOcia.gaturaed. , A strike, which has shut down The width of "' f#fclflawaii the newsprint manufacturing Marine has been reduced by industry in Western Canada, has three-quarters of an inch, forced the publishing Company of permitting the publisher to reduce Marines must maintain .initiali issuei the Ibterati Mario, W conserve the amount of tonnage needed to its limited isupply*Of twitiPtint. print the paper and various WASHING'I'ON, D.C. - It points out that individuals Persons must check in with all the completing their initial six-year supplements to it. Officals at Headquarters Marine who return to active duty within uniform items they were required obligation possess all the required Consequently, the Editorial/ Corps report that large numbers of three months of separation must to have at the time of release from uniform items. All the items must Opinion page, Street Scoop, We ask our contributing readers former active duty Marines are bring with them all uniform active duty. That is why minimum be serviceable at the time of Localmotion, Cinema and In This to ensure their submissions for the reporting to duty with Marine clothing items thati they had when clothing requirements must be separation. Issue have been omitted from this Hawaii Marine are delivered to Corps Reserveunite with less than they got out. Only clothing that retained by persons still under ALMAR 103/81 reminds issue of the Hawaii Marine. the Joint Public Affairs Office by the required uniform items. was either recovered by the service obligation as part of the commanders at all levels to make These regular features will appear noon Thursday. This will ensure Marine Corps Order P10120. Marine Corps or not issued during inactive reserve. If called back to sure their personnel are aware of on a space-permitting basis in the that the submissions will run in a 28D, paragraph 01040, requires the previous enlistment may be active duty or the reserves, the the contents of clothing retention upcoming issues. timely manner. that personnel leaving active duty issued to the Marine at no clothing items must be on hand. portions of the order. Persons with In addition, the classified prior to completion of a six-year expense. The order directs commanding questions concerning what items advertisements are running at a We ask our readers to bear with obligation, must retain their Reporting to duty with a reserve officers to ensure that Marines must be kept and by whom, should reduced type size. Us. initial issue of uniform items. unit has similar requirements. leaving active duty before see MCO P10120.28D. -Raise reimburses service members Travel allowances and rates increase WASHINGTON, D.C. - temporary duty en route, and reporting date. Leave, proceed and and three and one half cents per Congress has approved an seven days travel time from there temporary duty en route serve to mile for dependents ages 2 Increase in the Monetary to his new station. He was delay the reporting date and through 11, is believed will help Allowance in Lieu of Transporta- required to report to the new therefore the effective date of defer most on-the-road expenses tion and Per Diem rates for permanent station July 21. The orders. incurred during PCS travel. military members with per- effective date of his orders would The approved increase in rates Additional PCS travel reim- manent change of station orders. be July 15, thus authorizing is a significant step toward bursement initiatives are under The change was announced in payment of the higher rates. This adequate reimbursement for PCS active consideration by Congress NAVOP 093/81 of July 2. The is because the effective date is moves. These increases, along and, if enacted, will further raise is from seven to 13 cents per determined by subtracting only with rates of seven cents per mile reimburse service members for mile for MALT and from $35 to $50 travel time from the actual for dependents 12 years or older costs associated with PCS orders. for per diem. ACCORDING TO the mew. sage, the rates are in effect for all Official delegates awarding authority personnel whose PCS orders have an effective date of July 1 or later. It also says that persons to 13 Marine commanding generals transferring PCS are entitled to both the MALT and per diem allowances and that receipts are WASHINGTON, D.C., The "A most effective means of the completion of an assigned not required to substantiate the Secretary of the Navy has granted enhancing morale is prompt and duty. $50 per diem rate. approval for the Commandant of appropriate recognition of However, he added, "In no Because the new rates are hosed the Marine Corps to sub-delegate exceptional performance," stated instance is it to be considered on the effective date of orders, authority for awarding the Navy a personnel services official here. routine to recognize Marines at many people who detached from Achievement Medal to 13 the end of a tour." their old commands before July 1 additional Marine Corps / "It is also essential to preserve may still be authorized the higher commanding generals, the character and meaning of all Recommendations for the Navy ratan. The effective date of orders awards; therefore, recommen- Achievement Medal are to he is defined as the date a member is According to ALMAR 114/81, dations must he carefully and prepared on the current award required to commence travel from the move came about "to provide thoroughly prepared and recommendation form and the old permanent or last more timely recognition to junior documented." forwarded to the commanding temporary. duty station, which- officers and enlisted Marines." general who has jurisdiction over ever is applicable in order to arrive The 13 commands receiving Awards recognizing specific the individual being recommend. Photo y one h es at the new duty station by the date awarding authority for the medal accomplishments or nets should ed. Award recommendations for TWO-STAR VISIT - Sgt Bob Goble, Noncommissioned - indicated by using the mode of are MCRDs, Parris Island and he made as soon as possible after members of personal staffs are to Officer-In- Charge of the Components Shop, Power Plants travel authorized. San Diego; MCD 9, Camp LeJeune the event °wars. A maximum of 30 he forwarded to CMC for Division, Headquarters and Maintenance Squadron-24 and Camp Pendleton; MCI,Be, days from submission should be the appropriate action. explains the workings of his shop to MajGen Calhoun J.