Merry cAlMall 3NIIIVIN HAWAII MARINE Voluntary payment for delivery to MCAS housing / I per four week period. VOL. 11 NO. 51 KANEOHE BAY, HAWAII. DEC. 22, 1982 SIXTEEN PAGES Delinquent student loans Servicemembers could lose up to 25% of pay ;by Cpl Charlie Marshall problem, the government agencies. Loans, Guaranteed Student repossessed care of defaulters Education Terrel H. Direct and The Department of Education Secretary of Loans, National until they had made arrange- Bell, said in the same conference, Defense Student Loans as well as has announced another system ments to pay back their worth almost Student Loans for collecting delinquent student that 14,549 loans Health Profession outstanding debts. Now, Uncle $19 million are held by active duty and Nursing Student Loans. loans. Sam has chosen a more direct account and DoD Their target is the 46,860 federal military, 12,645 reservists Qualified military route in recovering his money, million and 4,690 people can defer the repayment of including 30,000 for $17.3 employees the deducting it straight from debtors responsible but only up to the first military members who have military. retirees are these loans pay checks. for $5.1 million in student loans. three years of service. People in defaulted on some 50,393 Sen. Charles H. Percy (It-I11.) can arrange to outstanding debts. An education official said that financial trouble 3rd Marines announced in a Dec. 6 press almost all of the defaulters have pay off their loans at reduced According to the Navy Times, conference that all outstanding and refuse to pay. rates. servicemen could have 15 percent been contacted bad debts owed to the government three out of their pay deducted, or with a His agency will give them Warning letters were sent total $40 billion. Percy's Debt can voluntarily get 7 8 court order, 25 percent of their options: they Dec. 6, and miffing defaulters Collection Act of 1982 gives the lose 15 making celebrate wages could be collected to pay into a payment status; that they must start government the power to dock percent (of their take-home pay), payments within 60 days of the back the $42 million they owe in employee's pay, to use computers still student loans. or go to court with the possibility date of the letter. If a debtor and Internal Revenue Service of losing 25 percent of their pay. refuses to pay, the monies could be 66th Earlier this year, to demon- records to find "deadbeats", and Bell said the loans are in the taken from paychecks as early as birthday bad debts to collection strate the seriousness of the to send form of Federally Insured Student April. It was 66 years ago Dec. 20 that Medals of Honor including Marine detachments from U.S. Private First Class James ships belonging to the Atlantic Anderson, in whose honor the 3d Fleet formed the original 3d Marines' dining facility is named. Marines. The ships were at anchor Following Vietnam the Corps challenges drunken driving in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The regiment was attached to the 5th year was 1916 and World War I Marine Amphibious Brigade at was in full swing. Camp Pendleton, Calif. In early by Sgt Pepper Davis only during the holidays, but as e. Until 1922 the regiment served 1971, it was transferred to the 1st Drink and drive? matter of regularity. in Mexico and the Dominican Marine Division. But the stay was The Marine Corps has won a lot Republic. Following the war, the for only two months. In June the of campaigns but it's now engaged "Casual warnings on F'riday 3d Marines was redesignated as a regiment moved to Marine Corps in a most treacherous battle: the afternoons to 'drive safely during reserve unit and stationed in San Air Station Kaneohe Bay to campaign against drunk and the weekend' will not suffice. Francisco. The regiment disband- become the ground element of the drugged driving, Marines quickly interpret such ed in December 1937. 1st Marine Brigade. "In the two-year period ending comments are being a 'cover your Due to the increased require- Today, the 3d Marines remain this holiday season, as many six measure.' Lip service does little ment for Marines during World unique in several ways. It is the Americans will have been killed or nothing because concern and War II, the Corps expanded its largest Marine Corps regiment. It as a result of drunk drivers and interest in the individual welfare numbers. As a part of this is the only regimental-sized unit in drivers who use illegal drugs, as of our Marines is not conveyed," expansion program the 3d the Corps to have artillery, were killed during the war in he said. Marines was reactivated on June reconnaissance and an amphibi- Vietnam," stated the Comman- 18, 1942 at New River, N. C. ous assault element as organic dant of the Marine Corps in a LtGen. Davis further comment- Throughout the war the parts of its organization. And, it is message to all Marines. ed that offenders of the drinking regiment fought on many Pacific the only Marine Corps combat and driving laws should be dealt islands and took part in unit to both live and continuously Addressing the problem of with accordingly, and not allowed memorable battles such as train with an air element. drunk and drugged driving to think their actions are Bougainville and Guam. In fact, it among leathernecks, the condoned. was during those two battles that The regiment's 66th year has Commandant called it, "a major a sergeant and two privates first had many highlights. Colonel H. initiative that will be the subject of "Marines who are cited for class were awarded Medals of J. M. Radcliffe took command in a more comprehensive policy in improperly operating their Honor. After the war the regiment August. Elements of the regiment directives to be issued in the near vehicles either on or off base must deployed to assist the Chinese took part in training exercises future." He said existing driving be singled out and counseled/ laws must be structly enforced Nationalist Forces against the Team Spirit-82, Kangaroo-IV, disciplines . the itent of our communists. RIMPAC-82, Bead Crystal, and and emphasized during the actions remains unchanged - to The American involvement in Kernel Usher. Additionally, the holidays, "and vigorously preserve our most precious the Korean Conflict resulted in the regiment maintained a combat pursued as a matter of course." commodity, our Marines." regiment training in Okinawa, ready battalion landing team in Japan and Hawaii. Elements of the Western Pacific and Indian Lieutenant General John K. Expanding the responsibility of the 3d Marines were used to fori,-, Ocean as a component of the 31st Davis, commanding general, safe driving the Commandant the 1st Provisional Marine Marine Amphibious Unit, knoWn Fleet Marine Force Pacific, is also said: "(Marines), their depen- Air/Ground Task Force, forerun- as the "cutting edge" of Marine adamant about driving under the dents and Marine Corps civilian ner of today'alst Marine Brigade. forces in the Pacific. influence of alcohol and drugs. He employees must be made aware of Elements of theregiment moved Always ready, constantly stressed that local Marine the waste of human life and to Vietnam in 1965 to provide willing and able, the 3d Marines commanders should put forth property caused by driving under security for the air base at stand prepared today even as their every effort to highlight the the influence of alcohol and illegal Danang. While in Vietnam, six predecessors did at Guantanamo importance of safe driving not drugs." members of the regiment received Bay 66 years ago. Sounds fine to me. Christmas comes early Reservists brighten children's lives with six or more children are eligible for a "We've lived half way around the world Story and photo bicycle. and all over the islands," said Mrs. by Sgt Inez J. Stoner For the third year, the children of Stevenson, "and we feel that this is truly The snow may have looked a lot like Mauna Loa were selected to participate in the moat humanitarian feat we've ever rain and Santa Claus may have arrived the Toys For Tots Program because of the seen undertaken." by helicopter, instead of the usual large number of orphaned and deserted Gunnery Sergeant David Kalama, reindeer-drawn sleigh, but it was children living there. Although the toys platoon sergeant for the Reconnaissance Christmas just the same, Dec. 17, for the were a little late arriving and the rain was Indoctrination Platoon, played a very children of Mauna Loa on the island of a little cold and miserable, the children important part in this year's program. Molokai. didn't seem to mind at all. Kalama donned a red suit and white Leathernecks of Marine Heavy "It was worth the wait," said Susan beard to impersonate Santa Claus and Helicopter Squadron-463 joined forces Miller, whose 3-year-old son, Aaron, hand out the toys. with the Marine Reservists from 4th received a drum. "The kids got so excited "I really feel good about this," said Force Reconnaissance Company in the when the helicopter finally landed. You Kalama. "I enjoyed it. This was my first final phase of the annual Marine Corps just can't go wrong with toys and kids." time as Santa. Just looking at the kids' Reserve Toys For Tots campaign. They The Molokai Toys For Tots Program faces . it's really nice." delivered the toys. was coordinated with the help of Mike Kalama, a resident of Kailua, has been Toys were delivered to nearly 200 Shelton, pastor of the Baptist Church in in the reserves just wish more people A HELO FOR A SLEIGH - Santa from Marine Heavy Helicopter underprivileged children Mauna Loa.