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Guantanamo Bay Gazette : Sunrise: Tomorrow, 6:24 A.M AMC Flight Advisory Editor's Choice Conservation Energy Tuesday's Flight 727 Arrive Depart Mike" "Captain's Usage: 270,000 KWH NAS Norfolk, Va. ----------- 8:00 a m. Wed., May 19, 8 p.m., FM 103.1 Cost: $33,750 Cost in Norfolk: $20,250 Guantanamo Bay 11:00 a.m. noon Topic: Operatio Brightside Kingston, Jamaica 12:45 p.m. 1:30 p.m. Water Guantanamo Bay 2:15 p.m. 3:45 p.m. Guest speaker: Production: 1.5 MIL I NAS Norfolk, Va. 6:45 p.m. ----------- UTCS Stephen Sherman Consumption: 1.6 MIL Guantanamo Bay Gazette : Sunrise: Tomorrow, 6:24 a.m. Sunset: Today, 7:31 p.m. Vol. 49 -- No. 57 U.S. Naval Base, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba Monday, May 17, 1993 Tuition Assistance waivers Affected college students can bypass policies GGuantanamo Bay - Navy The latest change received the individual service member Cam pus recently received im- from the Bureau of Naval Per- via his/her commanding offi- portant information regarding sonnel (BUPERS), indicated cer. No additional vias are nec- Tuition Assistance waivers to that waivers may be requested essary. help students get around the by individuals adversely af- --Letters should contain as World News limit ted courses or credits each fected by the new policies. much information and justifi- USA News Bosnia-Herzegovina - There's year . Waiver requests should be for- cation for waiver as possible so Washington -Two major newspa- still no independent confirma- LLast October, the informa- warded to BUPERS at the fol- that further investigation by pers say the Pentagon is consider- tion, but Bosnia's president says ing ways to modify President tion contained in NAVADM lowing address: PERS-6 is not necessary. Bosnian Serbs have mounted Clinton's plan to lift the ban on whathe calls a massive offensive 1661/92 outlined three major --Waiver letters should gays in the military. "The New on Muslim-led troops defending chaniges to the Navy Tuition Bureau of Naval Personnel outline the individual's past York Times" and the "Washington a key northeastern city. It would Assi stance Policy. The changes Personal Readiness and Tuition Assistance history and Post"both saythe Pentagon is pon- mark the first violation of major impoosed limits on the number Community Support should indicate the location of dering two options. One would Serb-Muslim fighting since the of courses or credits funded per PERS-6 the Navy Campus serving the adopt Senator Sam Nunn's plan, two factions signed a cease-fire a known as "Don't ask, don't tell." week ago. Word of the renewed fiscal l year, capped Tuition As- 20370-5000 individual. The idea is that the military fighting comes as no surprise to sistance for vocational/techni- For further information wouldn't ask about a person's ori- U.N. peace negotiator Lord calccourses, and prohibited Guidance for requesting about the waiver process, con- entation, but would continue to ban Owen. He says cease fire viola- fund ing additional degrees at waivers is as follows: tact Navy Campus at 4769. those who openly declare homo- tions are a fact of life in the war the s ame level. --Letters should be from sexuality. The other reported op- in the former Yugoslavia. Alsoat tion would allow declared homo- the United Nations, Bosnia's sexuals to serve, but would ban ambassador says the renewed New housing project ribbon cutting Thu, May 20 homosexual conduct. Pentagon fighting isjustanother in a series year ago and has made aston- inspection of all the housing spokesman Vernon Guidry denies of Serbian pushes to completely By ENSIGN ERIC ishing progress. They are three units. The government and the that the options under review have conquer his nation. DOBYNE months ahead of schedule. contractor have worked very been narrowed down to those two. well together. He says the options are not con- Spain - The war in Bosnia has The ROICC office has su- As a result, the firmed. , aimed a Spanish soldier. An On Thu, May 20 at 8 a.m., pervised and inspected the con- quality construction demon- Army lieutenant died in Madrid there will be a ribbon cutting struction of the project and will strated in this project should be Washington - President Clinton of shrapnel wounds received ceremony for the New Family turnover the first 41 units to a model for all government says he's once again considering while delivering blood and Housing project. The ceremony PWD Housing Division this housing. unilateral air strikes in Bosnia or medicine for the International The new houses have many sending American troops to join Red Cross in Mostar. will be held at Site 2 (Caribbean week. The 41 units consist of21 international troops there. An in- Circle), near the golf course. two-bedroom units, 10 three- featured that are rare in govern- terview with Clinton appeared in South Africa - At least 25 South The ceremony is the culmina- bedroom units, and 10 four- ment housing. Some of these Friday's "Washington Post." He African coal winners have been tion of months of effort by the bedroom units. The remainder features include ice makers in says he has deep reservations killed in a methane gas explo- contractor and the government. of the units will be turned over every unit, digital thermostats, about the use ofAmerican troops to sion. Four were injured and 28 protect civilian enclaves, but he are missing. The blast ripped The project consists of 254 monthly until the project is ceiling fans, enormous closet feels something must be done to through two of the mines' 10 units, 124 units at Site 2 and complete. space, dishwashers, and stop Serb moves against the Mus- production centers and started a 130 units at Site 1 (Windward Chief Leon South, ROICC French doors. lims. He says he wants to find a fire. The mine is 75 miles from Loop), near the elementary construction representative, The project is currently consensus with the allies, but Eu- Johannesburg. The disaster is school. Hunt Building Corpo- and Chris Dorman, Hunt Qual- ahead of schedule and the ropean opposition to air strikes has South Africa's worst coal mining ration of El Paso, Texas, began ity Control Representative, ROICC office expects also made him re-open the ques- accident in recent years. all units tion of the United States going in construction approximately a have been responsible for the to be complete this October. alone. Clinton says Republican lawmakers have given him terrific Navy News: Navy expands assignments for women; combat aviation advice on foreign policy, and he'd Wash. Carrier Air Wing Eleven on schedules and yard periods lend like to forge the same kind of rela- By NAVY NEWS SVC. "We expect VAQ-130 to USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN themselves to transition," said tionship on domestic affairs. welcome the nation's first fe- 72), will be the first to receive Zlatoper. Washington - Defense Secretary The Navy is moving male warriors in July, including women. In the P-3 community, the Les Aspin has disbanded the $29 promptly following the ap- a pilot and two naval flight of- A total of 264 Navy women Navy will begin training en- billion search for defenses against proval of the Secretary of De- ficers," said Zlatoper. "The currently serve as pilots (184) listed women to become avia- intercontinental ballistic missiles fense to open assignments to Navy plans to have 20-25 and NFOs (80). There are ap- tion anti-submarine warfare begun by former President Reagan. Aspin says Star War's fate women, especially in combat women pilots and NFOs in tac- proximately 150 women now in operators (AW rating) and was, in hiswords, ". sealed by the aviation. tical squadrons by April 1994. various stages ofaviation train- aircrew members in the tactical collapse of the Soviet Union." According to Navy Person- "The Navy's first woman ing, ranging from primary aircraft (P-3). nel officials, 10-12 female completed training in air com- flight training to fleet replace- According to BUPERS of- aviators already training in bat systems and tactics more ment squadrons (16 in FRS). ficials, the AW rating is one of fleet replacement squadrons than a year ago," said Zlatoper. If the combat exclusion is six new ratings that are now are expected to continue the full Based on women who are repealed by Congress, officials open to women. The other rat- months; that includes AOEs, syllabus leading to assignment already qualified or in various expect USS Dwight D. ings include EW, FC, GS, GSE ADRs, LCCs and AGFs," said in tactical (combat) squadrons stages of flight training now, Eisenhower and USS Abraham and GSM. More details about Zlatoper. In addition, he said as early as this summer (July 40-50 women will be in combat Lincoln to receive about 500 the openings will be announced "women will be assigned to 1993). squadrons by 1995. "These pi- enlisted, chief petty officer and soon. numbered fleet staffs afloat, Speaking to more than lots will deploy with their officer women, divided be- The Navy will begin recruit- with the first reporting to the 1,000 active duty, reserve and squadrons in aircraft carriers, tween ship's company and air ing aviation officers on a gen- seventh fleet in July." veteran naval aviators at the destroyers and frigates," said wing personnel. The John C. der-neutral, best-qualified ba- The new classes of ships 1993 Naval Aviation Sympo- Zlatoper, "Even under current Stennis will receive women as sis effective immediately said total 18 additional ships and sium in Pensacola, Fla., Vice law, aviation officers are per- part of the ship's Zlatoper.
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