THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Wednesday, August 28, 1996 TAG: 9608280488
SECTION: MILITARY NEWS PAGE: A8 EDITION: FINAL
SOURCE: - Staff reports
LENGTH: 79 lines
The salvage and rescue ship Grasp arrives at 10 a.m. today at Little Creek Naval Amphibious Base. The Grasp served 38 days working at the TWA Flight 800 recovery site off the coast of Long Island, N.Y.
The ship, commanded by Lt. Cmdr. William Orr, departed Little Creek for New York on July 21, three days after completing a five-month deployment in the Mediterranean. The Grasp has a crew of 90.
NAVY VOLUNTEERS AT GOODWILL: Volunteers from the Naval Meterology and Oceanography Detachment at Oceana Naval Air Station will spend the day painting the Goodwill Industries administrative offices at 900 Tidewater Drive, Norfolk, on Sept. 5.
The volunteer day is part of the 5th annual Day of Caring and United Way Kick Off.
TRAFFIC DELAYS AT FORT EUSTIS: Major construction repairs on the post railroad upgrade project will cause traffic delays at Fort Eustis Aug.30 until Sept. 2. The Warwick Boulevard entrance on to the post will be closed; traffic will be diverted to Dozier Road. All incoming traffic on Fort Eustis Boulevard will be narrowed to one lane. Washington Boulevard (outbound) will become a two-way road.
COMMISSARY AWARDS: Winners of the best commissary operations awards in the Defense Commissary Agency's Central Region have been selected and sent to the worldwide competition.
Local winners in the small commissary category were Norfolk Naval Shipyard in Portsmouth, best grocery department and best customer service; and Fort Monroe Army Post in Hampton, best meat department.
Area commissaries that won in the large store category included: Langley Air Force Base in Hampton, best grocery department; Oceana Naval Air Station best produce department; and Fort Eustis Army Post in Newport News, best management support center and best customer service.
The Oceana commissary also won the director's award for significant achievement, for management involvement and employee cooperation in maintaining full shelves and attractive massive displays throughout each sales day in fiscal year 1996.
EARLY NAVY MEDICINE: Dr. Harold Langley, curator of naval history, Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, and author of ``Medicine in the Early U.S. Navy,'' will discuss the perils and health hazards of shipboard life at a presentation at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 4.
The program, which focuses on the years 1790-1842, is presented by the Hampton Roads Naval Museum. It will be held in the Galley at Nauticus. For additional information, call 444-8971.
COAST GUARD MEDAL: Walter Duprey, a deputy sheriff in Dare County, N.C., has been awarded the Silver Lifesaving Medal by Coast Guard Vice Admiral Kent Williams. The award was given to Duprey for his heroic rescue of a swimmer on Aug. 30, 1995, in the Atlantic Ocean off Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge in the Outer Banks.
COMINGS AND GOINGS
DEPARTING:
About 100 people from Langley Air Force Base's 74th Air Control Squadron (1st Fighter Wing) deployed Monday to Kuwait in support of Operation Southern Watch.
The deployment is scheduled to last 90 days. The unit will be operating a ground theater air control system, a ground-based early warning command and control system which can detect and monitor hostile air movements and direct allied aircraft responses to those movements.
CHANGE OF COMMAND
Cmdr. Mark Danley relieves Cmdr. Douglas McDonald as commanding officer of the guided missile destroyer Laboon at 9 a.m. Saturday. The ceremony will take place on Laboon's flight deck while the ship is pierside at Manama, Bahrain. The Laboon is on its maiden deployment in the Arabian Gulf.
Danley's last assignment was as staff officer for force planning with the North Atlantic Treat Organization in Norfolk. McDonald, who was recently selected for promotion to the rank of captain, will report to the Pentagon as deputy of the Navy's ballistic missile defense program. by CNB