To Be All-Service in a Move to Cut Costs of Cloth- Uniforms Will Be of a Common Ing for the Armed Forces, the Cotton Kahki Design
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ropertsr of MARINE DEC 1.2 1961 CORPS HISTORICAL LISP lease Return to Room 0=4-4. \;011110 at'/Nor 4I Ve17'. VOL 10 No. 46 Marine Corps Air Station, Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii December 8, 1961 Six Clothing Items To be All-Service In a move to cut costs of cloth- uniforms will be of a common ing for the Armed Forces, the cotton kahki design. Belt buckles Department of Defense has an- and clips will be standardized for nounced that six items of dress all services. The brass buckle will be standarized. presently used by the Army and The standardization is expected Air Force will be the item used by to produce an annual saving of all services. more than $400,000. The utility uniform will be A major part of the military based on the fatigue clothing pres- saving will come from reduction ently worn by the Army and Air in inventory, procurement and Force, without modification. distribution. The decision to standardize the The inspector's and meat cut- six items resulted from studies ters frocks will be the white cot- made by the Military Clothing and ton drill frock presently worn by Textile Supply Agency, under the medical personnel. direction of the Secretary of De- However, existing stocks of non- fense. standard items will be issued until Changes affecting male Ma- exhausted. No further procure- rine dress are: Summer semi-dress ment of such items will be made. Despite the Rain First 'All Enlisted' Parade Conducted by 1st Battalion Despite a steady drizzle of Officer parade Tuesday afternoon. rain, approximately 1000 Ma- The parade was conducted by rines of 1st Batalion, 4th Marine battalion Staff Noncommissioned Regiment, passed in review Officers as part of the battalion during a Staff Noncommissioned training program and to give them experience in parade leadership. HAPPIEST 'CHOPPER IN 161 - Gaily grinning as her crew is congratulated by Lt Col. E. F. Price, Reviewing the parade were HMR(L)-161 CO, is Number 15, squadron "aircraft of the month." Elected because of her flight time MajGen. R. G. Weede, Command- and maximum ability, Trees Are Here! "Tiger" (as she is known to her friends) is maintained by (I to r), Cpl. Thomas ing General of the 1st Marine Dingman, Sgt. Francisco Basque, and SSgt. Floyd Watson. (Photo by Pfc. E. J. Bagnell) Brigade, and LtCol, J. R. Stevens, On Sale Today battalion commander. Sergeant Major K. E. McPhail 'Ready to Go' Captain Norman R. Stack- was commander of the combat- 'Optimistic' house, Marine Exchange Officer, clad troops, assisted by GySgt. G. View announces that the Christmas 0. Tetreault, Parade Adjutant Trees are in!! They will go on sale The parade, held at Platt Field, Marine Astronaut, Col. Glenn, About 'Q' Hike at 8 a.m. today, Friday, at the was the first Staff NCO parade tennis courts adjacent to the held aboard the Station. Hot on the heels of last week's station's bank. quarters hike announcement, is Named for First Earth (kV: a Defense spokesman's "very op- timistic" remark to a Navy Times The only Marine member of chosen to ride this country's first staffer. Exchange, Toyland America's select group of astro- manned flight into orbit. Meanwhile, the two gaps in the nauts was named by the National The 40-year-old veteran Ma- proposed table of quarters al- Aeronautics and Space Adminis- rine aviator, lowances, (which appeared in last Announce Schedule tration (NASA) as the astronaut Lt. CoL John H. Glenn, Jr., vowed he was "ready week's WM), have been filled. to go now" when he learned of These, according to Navy Times, Of Holiday Hours are the allowances his selection. for 0-2s and W-2s, and 0-3s and W-3 proposed K-Bay personnel, their depend- NASA officials stated he would by the housing panel: ents and other authorized patrons have to wait however, until scien- One or two dependents: 0-2s of MCAS Marine Exchange fa- tists solve the troubles that caused and W-2s from $94.20 to $115.20 cilities are advised that during the premature end of an attempt or an increase of $21. 0-3s and the month of December the main to hurl a chimpanzee three times W-3s from $102.60 to $125.10, a Exchange Store and Toyland will around earth. The chimp trav- $22.50 raise. be open during the following elled over 56,00G miles in three Three or more dependents: hours: hours and twenty-one minutes. 0-2s and W-2s from $94.20 to Mondays through Thursdays, Top speed during the flight was $125.10, a $30.90 raise. 0-3s anti 8:30 a.m. to 4:37. p.m. given as 17,500 miles per hour. W-3s from $102.60 to $135, a Fridays, 8:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. Astronaut Glenn is one of $32.40 raise. Saturdays, 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. seven original Project Mercury SANTA'S HELPERS - Pvt's R. astronauts, all volunteers, who P. Brown on truck, and R. E. L were selected in early 1959 from More Comrats Pay Due in Pocket Scott, begin unloading one of the a group of 110 leading military truckloads of toys collected Mon- test pilots. He has beeu under- day from K_Bay residents. going intense orbital flight Now hear this! All married Ma- The present allowance is $1.10 training since reporting for duty rines, and any Marine going on a day. This is paid to enlisted men normally eat in gov- with the space project. leave, ace due for a who do not raise in their ernment messes and inclodes most . An Editorial Navy Commander M. Scott Car- co' muted ration allowance. married men and all men when penter has been named as the In a Navy Station Special Services reports Times story this they're on leave. a fine back-up astronaut for LtCol. week, the Defense Department response to last Monday's Glenn's flight. This same ration allowance Toys For Tots collection from indicated it was considering was cut from $1.15 last year. .. dumping Station quarters. Calls are still LtCol. Glenn is a veteran of four cents a day more Should the allowance be in- coming in for pickups. aerial combat in both World War into the pay pockets of person- creased by four cents, it would nel This indicates two things: (1) II and the Korean conflict. H- on Comrats. work out to a total of $14.60 You, our readers, backed the has a total of 149 combat flying One spokesman said the increase a year. paper's call for help; and (2) missions to his credit, 27 of which was to be four cents. The exact Defense says the planned in- You turned to in support of a were flown as an exchange pilot amount is expected to be an- crease would be more in line with most worthwhile effort. LtCol. Glenn with the Fifth Air Force in Korea, nounced next week, the current cost of living, Thanks for both. 2 Windward Marin December 8, 1961 Enlisted Benefit Association Pays COL. W. R. CAMPBELL ..Commanding Officer Annual Dividend LT. COL. A. L. CLARK .. Executive Officer Members of the Armed Forces CAPT. R. B. MORRISEY .. Informational Services Officer Enlisted Personnel Benefit Asso- SSGT. AL W. STEELE Editor ciation will receive their fourth 011SEIRVATIO SGT. JIM DiBERNARDO Assistant Editor consecutive annual Christmas SGT, WILLIAM IL STUCKEY Sports Editor dividend. This is the association's How to bleak up a staff conference Navy Capt. R. C. Millard. The - WINDWARD MARINE is published every Friday by and fourth year of operation. It's the Station'.] Senior Dental Officer. once and forever established ror the personnel of the U.S. Marine Corps Air Station, Navy primary benefit is a group life himself as a proficient punster during last Friday morning's . CO No. 990, c/o FPO, San Francisco, Calif, Printed at the Royal insurance plan. Enlisted person- staff meeting. Said the doctor in his opening remark; "I realise my Printers and Publishers, Inc., Kailua, Hawaii, the WIND- nel on active duty in the Armed WARD MARINE is published with appropriated funds in con- Forces are eligible to join the business is generally boring, but . ." formity with paragraph 1720.1 MarCorMan 1961 and MCC) non-profit organization. 5727.3. The WINDWARD MARINE is a member of and receives Amounting to $3.75 per month the services of the Armed Forces Press Service rAFPS). per member, the $45 dividend was Further "Dental" Dope - That smiling chopper on Page one was the same as declared last year. the brainchild of ISO reporter LCpl. J. S. Schwaninger when he No paid advertising may be accepted. The information Sec- This is being made in addi- was sent to cover the HMR-1131 "Aircraft of the Month" story, Even tion and the WINDWARD MARINE are in Bldg. 220. Tele- tion to a substantial increase in a should know that 32 teeth is a mouthful. His animated phones: WINDWARD MARINE 72-104; ISO 72-535-72-120. the insurance coverage, up from reporter $10,000 to $17,000. smile however, gave the chopper 46 "choppers." Subscription Rate $2.58 per year Circulation-5,000 With the dividend, the basic net cost of the insurance comes to only $5.25 per month. (AFPS) Young Thespians - Scores of "actors" will appear at K-Bay's --- Mokapu Elementary School Cafetorium next Wednesday evening Civil Service Briefs when the grammer graders present their annual Christmas program. I Chaplains Curtain time for the youngsters' program is 7:30 p.m.