- - - ----- 7.. .*.k t r.; BAWAII MARINE Voluntary payment for delivery to MCAS housing/$1 per four week period VOL. 9 NO. 27 KANEOHE BAY, HAWAII, JULY 9, 1980 TWENTY PAGES pli44 :04 RttbZ44/ Warrant officers selected WASHINGTON, MCNewe - There will soon be more FORWARD, MARCH warrant officers in the Selected Marine Corps Reserve - Cub Scouts from MCAS Kaneohe Bay's (SMCR). - Although the results of the FY-81 SMCR Warrant Officer Pack 225 step off Selection Board have yet to be formally ammunced by a during Fourth of Marine Corps bulletin, 75 of the 272 applicants will be July parade activi- appointed to Warrant Officer (WO-1). ties in Kellum Al- Among those selected, 14 were gunnery sergeants, 41 stuff most 10(1 marching sergeants and 20 were sergeants. Of 11 women who applied, units, brands, clowns five were selected. and floats paraded A list of the selectees will be published in a forthcoming down Kainalu Drive Marine Corps Bulletin. accompanied by the cheers and laughter of thousands of spectators. Gunnery Sergeant allocations PI1010 by Sgt Ulna Taylor Calendar Year 1980 allocations for gunnery sergeant promotions, by occupational field, are as follows: Occupational field 01,105; 02-23; 03-107; 04-47; 08-28; 11-15; 13.43; 14-5; 15-3; 18-12; 21-44; 23-7; 25-57; 26-15; 28.32; 30-103; 31-6; 33-98; 34.5; 35-65; 90-5; 91-5; 43-2; 44 -6; 46-8; 55.6; 57-17; 58-15; 59-9; 60-35; 61-10; 66-5; 66-62; 68.2; 70-5; 72-5. Occupational field 73 has four alloCations. Minimum time in grade for selection is three years. Sergeant promotions restricted There will be no regular promotions authorized to the 3d Marines change hands rank of sergeant during the July 1980 period, according to a message from theCommandant of the Marine Corps. This restriction does not affect meritorious promotions or reenlistment incentive promotions. According to CMC New commander takes charge message Almar 107/80 concerning July 1980 sergeant promotions, the number of regular sergeant promotions CAMP H.M. SMITH, HI.,-Col Italy to serve as the chief, Plans Hawaii he served as an infantry Amphibious Officer; Force Combat effected during each quarter during fiscal year 1980 have Louie Buehl III will assume duties and Operations Branch of the company commander, battalion Support Officer; Operations' exceeded the number authorized. As a result, sergeant as commanding officer of the 3d Logistics Division. operations officer, logistics officer Officer; Force Operations Officer; strength is now exceeding the level permitted by the FY80 Marine Regiment, 1st Marine and the battalion executive officer. and Assistant Chief of Buehl, born Sept. 18, 1932, in Staff for budget. Brigade July 19. 'The change of Operations (N-3) NAVFORV. Excess promotions have resulted from Marines command ceremony will take place Pittsburgh, graduated with a HIS NEXT ASSIGNMENT At the bachelor's degree in business was again the completion of this tour promoted without having composite scores submitted in at 3 p.m. on Platt Field, Marine in the Far East with Buehl was transferred to their behalf. A high number of remedial requests ha vebeen Corps Air Station, Kaneohe Bay. administration from Miami 1st Marine Aircraft Wing in Japan Washington, D.C. to Headquar- submitted due to erroneously computed composite scores. University, Oxford, Ohio in 1954. where he served as the Wing staff relies on Buehl, currently chief of staff, ters, U.S. Marine Corps where he Headquarters Marine Corps, Washington, D.C. Force, Pacific, will He was commissioned a second secretary. In February 1965 the composite to determine the number of Fleet Marine served as the Head of the General score submissions succeed Col Robert Lathe, who has lieutenant in June of the same year colonel became staff secretory of Officer and Marines authorized for promotion and the cutting scores through the Naval Reserve Officer the 9th Marine Expeditionary Colonel Assignment needed for promotion to the grades of corporal and commanded the 3d Marines since Administration Section, Personnel June of last year. Training Corps and assigned to Brigade, and subsequently staff sergeant. Submission of erroneously computed Marines the 1st Infantry Battalion, Marine Marine Department, until May 1974. secretary for III He was' then who do not have composite scores submitted causes LOEHE WILL REPORT to the Corps Test Unit 81, Camp Amphibious Force in the Republic appointed the noncommissioned officer grades to exceed the budget level Pendleton, Calif., where he served of Vietnam. Commanding Officer, 2d reduces promotion Commander in Chief, Armed Battalion, 18th and equity.' Mr a platoon commander and later Upon return to the United States Marines, This /Comm qffi nsut efficereletclilisrge are directed Forces Southern Europe in Naples, battalion constituted 0 staff officer. Buehl was ordered to the ' the nucleus hSr the A ' Marine:reetie Ciled.r143U.58C and of Battalion Landing Warn 2/8 paragraph' of Marine Corps Order P1400.29/3. University of Michigan as Marine They are The colonel's first overseas officer instructor in the which was deployed to the further instructed to submit composite scores for quarterly assignment came in February 1957 Mediterranean with the NCO promotion periods as announced by the Marine Department of Naval Science until Sixth Corps when he was transferred to Camp Fleet in August 1974. Bulletin 1430 series, Commanding officers and officers-in- Butler, Okinawa. There his August 1968. While at the charge should also review unit procedures for obtaining principal duties involved the university he earned a master's HE RELINQUISH57.1) com- needed data and methods used in computing composite of for use degree in Asian studies. mand of in 1975 scores. acquisition land as the battalion July training areas and permanent Ileuhl then reported for duty to attend the Air War College, Headquarters Marine Corps will be conducting a study under instruction in the Command Maxwell Air on the NC() promotion system to determine whether an camp sites for the 3d Marine Force Base, Ala. Division. and Staff School at the Naval War Upon completion of this top level alternative method which requires less administrative 'College, Newport, R.I. He also work can he developed. school, Buehl returned to the Far RETURNING FROM overseas attended Brown University, East for duty with Headquarters, in September 1959, he reported for Providence R.I. for post graduate U.S. Forces, Japan, where he was duty at Marine Corps Recruit studies in Chinese affairs and deputy chief of staff and secretary, Depot, San Diego where he served politics. Upon completion of the Joint Staff. Prepositioning ship loaded as a series commander and legal school, he was assigned to the 5th Returning to Hawaii in July officer in the 2d Recruit Training Marine Expeditionary Brigade. He 1979, he assumed duties as chief of Secretary of the Navy, Edward Hidalgo and Battalion. served as assistant G-3 (training) staff, Fleet Marine Force, Pacific. Commandant of the Marine Corps, Gen Robert H. Barrow Later,'he served as aide-de-camp until May 1970. His personal decorations include witnessed a portion of the loading of USNS Jupiter T- to MajGen V.H. Krulak, RETURNING TO Southeast the Defense Superior Service AKR-11 at Wilmington, NC., June 17. commanding general of the recruit Asia, he was assigned duty with Medal, the Legion of Merit with The Jupiter is one of three roll-on/roll-off ships that are depot, until July 1961 when he was the staff of the Commander, Naval Combat "V", the Bronze Star part of the Department of Defense's near-term transferred to Hawaii for duty with Forces Vietnam where he served in Medal with Combkt "V" and the propositioning ship force slated for assignment to the the 3d Battalion, 4th Marines, 1st Vietnam and Cambodia in Navy Conimendation Medal with Indian Ocean in July. The maritime force also includes two Col Louis Buehl III Marine Brigade. During his tour in numerous billets, including: Force Combat "V" ' break-bulk ships and two tankers. Jupiter arrived June 16 to join the INNS Meteor '11- -- AKR-9 another Ro-Ro ship already in port. Hidalgo called the propositioning force, Commanding Officer "Incredible...becaume of the speed with which equipment and manpower could be united in the event they are needed. Headquarters and Headquarters Squadron receives new lender "This is a step forward in the traditional doctrine of the Marine Corps of immediate response," the secretary said. Maj Lance Goodrum, current South Vietnam. He served Forty-three months after their two children Darcy 10 and "You could see a very strong force indeed, in a very short executive officer of Headquarter with HMM-164 as a pilot and arriving in Washington, Goodrum Jake 7. time," he concluded. and Headquarters Squadron, squadron personnel officer. was transferred to Marine MCAS Kaneohe Bay will assume Goodrum returned stateside in Helicopter Training Squadron 204 AT PRESENT no one has been command of thatunit Friday when Decemeber 1968 and again found MCAS New River. After a two- chosen to succeed Goodrum as he relieves outgoing squadron himself ordered to MCAS New month stint with HMT-204 he executive officer of IS, Liberty Bus schedule commander, LtCol James Griffin. River, this time with 11MM-269 as returned to HMM-162 for the The change of command ceremony administrative officer. second time. He was assigned is scheduled April duties as logistics officer The Liberty Bus runs every day between K.11ay. Kailua for 1p.m. at Dewey In 1970, he was reassigned and and Waikiki. Square. Griffin is retiring to to Marine Training Squadron 203, administrative officer. He The Liberty Bus will stop at any point along the route if Tuscaloosa, Ala.