lOam On Friday, July 12, the China Lake Astronomical Society will pre_ sent the fifth star party of the season at its site south of Ridgecrest. Bring a telescope or binoculars or share one of the club's. This month is a planet bonanza. The fun starts about 8:30 p.m. For directions or more information, call 37S-S68I or 37S-3697. ••••• Mervyn's and COmmunity Connection for Child Care will introduce Family 10 Famjly 10 the Indian WeUs Valley with a children's fashion show. Childrm who would like 10 participate in the Aug. 3 show must register by Jaly 12. Spaces are limited, so call 375-3234lOday! Family 10 Famjly is an employer supported child care grant from Mervyn's and implemented by Community Connection for Child Care in Kern County. This grant provides for the recruitment and IIlIining/accredilation of child care providers and seeks 10 educate par- ents about quality child care. ••••• Oil paintings and monoprints by artist Chris Kidd of Davis, Calif., will be displayed in the Sylvia Winslow Exhibition Gallery of the Maturango Museum beginning July 13. A preview reception for museum members will be held from 7 to 9 p.m. on July 12. Tbe exhibit ends Aug. 7. Admission 10 the museum is $1 for adults and 50 cenlS for children. Tbere is no fee to members. ••••• On July 13, the Maturango Museum will present a Saturday Adventure 81 2 p.m. Lorna Garrod, fonner teacher and a true story teller, will entertain children with some of her wonderful stories. I Lo~ Tall Tales is free with admission to the museum. ••••• Come help Jobs For Kids eat their way to improved schools! On SUDday, July 14, Santa Fe GriU will hold a Sunday Brunch from 10 am. 10 2 p.m. A regular menu will also be available. All proceeds will go 10 Jobs For Kids' school improvement project fund. For more infor- mation, call 446-6232. ••••• July 15th througb the 19tb, the Maturango Museum Summer Pr0- gram will be held at the museum, 100 E. Las Flores Street. Children going inoo fourth and fifth grades are invited to join the activities. This yeats emphasis is on how the local Native Americans live. Two field trips are planned, with one being an all-day trip. EvenlS will be held from 8:30 to 11:30 am., but times will vary on fJeld trip days. The fee is $20 for museum members and $30 for non- members. Registration is now being taken at the museum from Tues- days through Fridays from 10 a.m. 10 5 p.m. until the class is full at 25 SludenIS. For more information, call the museum at 375-6900. ••••• A workshop on Famjly Survival Training, ParI One, sponsored by the Kern Family Survival Program will be held July 16th, at the Desert Counseling Clinic (814 N. Norma), from 7 to 9 p.m. Dr. Alan Edwards, M.D., will be the guest speaker. Admission is free to the public. For reservations call (619) 375-9781. Topics of discussion will be on helping families live and cope with a mentally ill relative; major mental illness and description of schizophrenia, bi-polar mood disorder, schiwaffective disorder, and major depression; and a discussion of medications and their side affeclS. Question and answer session will follow the presentation. ••••• Are you a parent or child care provider who would like to get out of the house -- and not just 10 the grocery store? Then join Community Connection for Child Care every Wednesday through Aug. 7 from 9 10 11 a.m. 81 Hellmer's Paric (off Warner, near the Senior Center and Pinney Pool) as they present The Kid Konneclion Summer Playgrou.p Series. This series is designed 10 offer fun activities for infants, t0d- dlers. pre-schoolers and elementary school-age children, while giving adults a chance 10 meet and form their own playgroups. For more infonnaIion, call 37S-3234 or 371-3269. • .' ...... . .'., . ............. .. ....-.-... , July 11, 1991 ~hile you're busy WIth one me~e, you may be missmg abetter one Record incoming calls while you're on the phone - something answering machines just can't do. Sometimes people miss impor- tant messages while they're busy with other ones. But with Conters Advanced Message Manager, you can record incom- ing calls - whether you're on the phone or can't pick it up. And Advanced Message Manager doesn't require any equipment or tapes that can break. So call your Contel business office and order Advanced Message Manager to- day. It's the sure way to keep important messages from drifting on by. To order Conters Advanced Message Manager or for more information call toll-free 1-800-624-2527 Co-=:; EL liIBP'II!'18 == = . Oper..... We go out ofour way.· • t • • 11. 1991 ON 111E INSIDE . ••• PAGE S~pperSez.... . .. . 2 Wellness. .... . . . .. 7 Sports . ... .. __. _. 14 Personnel News . _..16 CIasaifieds. . . . . . . . .19 .... Mu MIll G... TIIIn. 116 73 12 FrI lIS 73 15 Set. 11M 73 13 Sa 104 74 14 MIll. 90 (I) 20 Tues. 101 (I) 20 Jay era,sford talks on new Instttute Jay Crawford, head of AircIafI v.;~a:~:e:::~:I Deparanent's Com- Ipuling ThcbnotosY Oftic:e IIIIR I P ou Mi.. on the .. laS of an NWC instilale on COiiipIIIiq sySfe1lLl,1 IS .w~, 2:30 p.m. LIb,a.. l000D_ institllte will focus on Iresctarela and appIjcaIioas embedded COiIIJIIIIIIII syltelDS oo-boIInI mi.sj" .., aiR:nIft. A key concept is teaminl arranaemeDII between NWC, industry and aniversities throuJb Cooperative Research and De.elopmellt A&tecments- Center participaDts will be .1ec:Ied dInJaah Ibe ......Iiai- - JIlOCCSII- AaJwe inIiiest- eel in Ibis insIi,. IIIIoaId aIICIId \be July IS a .....i.. Far JIlIn infonnaliOll, caD Crawford NWC ext. 5674 « via E-Mail • GSSF::CRAWFORD. Housing OffIce picks top yards 1to.iII5aJL .. .o.pm.. lations 10 the "YIlCI of MaadI" w' iii I'clr -.0 -.II of July. 'l1Ie w' n Ire: MS2 ... MIs. VqiIio P. Gay-b. 1518 Nimitz Aft; BMCS IIIIIl MIl. 'l'beodoIe L. 1-. 1928 Bope CiIcIe., AMS2 ... MIs. MinJIIaD SzpyacIa. 350 V... Circle; and SSOT .d MIl. Ricblr' WbiUlODlb. 352 Viewe, Circle. Tbeir bard wwk. lime IIId dbt isIdIec:I- ~ ill Ibe exceptional appear- . .of....,...'l1Ie IMIt • , .riII aDd Cenler command ...... _ ......,..bdtlD iaprOfO .d maintaia FIDiIy lb·.... 'nD. ." ID orin dIeM wbll IUia- ........ A ........... ID all .. i " • 011 VineI Cin:Ie. TIle yIIda .. Jooti.. IR*I Vol. XLVI, No. 2f, July 11, 1991 Corpsmen return from war zone Eight members of Branch Medical Clinic team discuss life, experiences in Saudi Arabia & Gulf by Krisline L. Roquemore Rocketeer Starr Writer Legends of knights in shining armor sitting at King Arthur's round table discussing tales of war in the days of Camelot have prevailed for centuries. Now picture a round table with eight sailors in uniform around it discussing their tales of war during Operation Desert Storm and you've got a twentieth century ver- sion of the good kings' court. Eight hospital corpsmen from the Naval Weapons Center's Branch Medical clinic have all arrived home safe and sound from their travels in the desert sands of Saudi Arabia. They each, without even thinking, spouted off their exact dates of service over in the region, and shared hopes to never experience war again. You may stop and wonder why so many corpsmen were pulled from the Branch Clin- ic's small staff. The first conclusion drawn NEW DEPARTMENT-- capt. Douglas W. Cook, NWC Commander (left) was joined by Cdr. War- ren Seal (right), head of the new Weapons Sup- port Department and Jack Kavanagh, head of the old Ordnance Division of the Aircraft Department, in cutting the ribbon for the opening of the new Weapons Support Facility. Members of the newly formed department, including the EOD team, looked on during the ceremony. Capt. Cook expressed his support for work undertaken by this department for the RDT&E community. TID PholO by Clare Grounds might be there wasn't enough medical staff within the Navy. But, there's a little bit more to it than that. The eight corpsmen pulled from the Clinic all carry dual designators (called an 8404), which is a Fleet Marine Force designation. So, in addition 10 their individual specialties, they are also field med- ical technicians. This means when the Marines go, they go! Unfortunately, the Marines are beslOwed all of the glory for being the first ones to go into combat, while no one mentions the fact that many Navy corpsmen go right along with them. Not all Navy medical personnel serve on ships or in hospitals. Tbe majority of them go out in the fields with the Marines. Tbey eat the same horrible food, help them load the same heavy sand bags, and work in the same hostile environment HMI Wayne Brown can tell you all about living with the Marines. He spent eight months with the First and Second Fleet Sup- port Service Group roaming the desert of Saudi Arabia. ". set the stage for everyone else here," commented Brown. ". was the first one to go." And on the go he was. He was first recruited by the Navy Seal Team for two weeks to make excursions with them inoo Iraq until other corpsmen arrived 10 replace him. The sailor then took on Senior Medical Department Representative responsibilities with only three corpsmen under him to care for 2,000 troops. In addition, he ran convoys up the border of Kuwait and Saudi Arabia bringing supplies to different medical units and coordinating logistics of medical supplies. "Initially. spent six 10 eight hours on the road until more corpsmen arrived and then • was able 10 cut back 10 two hours a day visiting 100000000," said Brown. Because of Browns prior experience as an (Colllillu.ed Oil Pap 3) Weapons Support Department stands up Wben Capt Douglas W. Cook, Cdr. War- ren Seal and Jack Kavanagh snipped the red nllbon in front of the Weapons Support Facili- ty, \bey did more than signal the opening of a new building. The July 1 ceremony also rnaJted the stand-up of a new Naval Weapons Center deparunent, Code IS, the Weapons Support DepaImeat Capt Cook, NWC Commandec, remarlted. at the ceremony he had been and continued to be a strong supporter of the new organization. He added, ". am pleased beyond words at the ability of \be group to pull rogether as a team• . _meeting the requiremenlS of accountability and safety while fulfilling the needs of the customer." In an interview just two days after becom- ing the newest department head 8t NWC, Cdr. Seal said his group was charged with achiev- ing the arms, ammunition and explosives (AA&E) goals of the Centa'. A key c0mpo- nent of Code IS's mission is 10 improve over- all effectiveness of management and control of the AA&E inventory. Cdr. Seal and KaYllJlagb said essentially the departmental staius provides a single (ClllllUltud 0_ Pep 5) , OCR Text: lOam On Friday, July 12, the China Lake Astronomical Society will pre_ sent the fifth star party of the season at its site south of Ridgecrest. Bring a telescope or binoculars or share one of the club's. This month is a planet bonanza. The fun starts about 8:30 p.m. For directions or more information, call 37S-S68I or 37S-3697. ••••• Mervyn's and COmmunity Connection for Child Care will introduce Family 10 Famjly 10 the Indian WeUs Valley with a children's fashion show. Childrm who would like 10 participate in the Aug. 3 show must register by Jaly 12. Spaces are limited, so call 375-3234lOday! Family 10 Famjly is an employer supported child care grant from Mervyn's and implemented by Community Connection for Child Care in Kern County. This grant provides for the recruitment and IIlIining/accredilation of child care providers and seeks 10 educate par- ents about quality child care. ••••• Oil paintings and monoprints by artist Chris Kidd of Davis, Calif., will be displayed in the Sylvia Winslow Exhibition Gallery of the Maturango Museum beginning July 13. A preview reception for museum members will be held from 7 to 9 p.m. on July 12. Tbe exhibit ends Aug. 7. Admission 10 the museum is $1 for adults and 50 cenlS for children. Tbere is no fee to members. ••••• On July 13, the Maturango Museum will present a Saturday Adventure 81 2 p.m. Lorna Garrod, fonner teacher and a true story teller, will entertain children with some of her wonderful stories. I Lo~ Tall Tales is free with admission to the museum. ••••• Come help Jobs For Kids eat their way to improved schools! On SUDday, July 14, Santa Fe GriU will hold a Sunday Brunch from 10 am. 10 2 p.m. A regular menu will also be available. All proceeds will go 10 Jobs For Kids' school improvement project fund. For more infor- mation, call 446-6232. ••••• July 15th througb the 19tb, the Maturango Museum Summer Pr0- gram will be held at the museum, 100 E. Las Flores Street. Children going inoo fourth and fifth grades are invited to join the activities. This yeats emphasis is on how the local Native Americans live. Two field trips are planned, with one being an all-day trip. EvenlS will be held from 8:30 to 11:30 am., but times will vary on fJeld trip days. The fee is $20 for museum members and $30 for non- members. Registration is now being taken at the museum from Tues- days through Fridays from 10 a.m. 10 5 p.m. until the class is full at 25 SludenIS. For more information, call the museum at 375-6900. ••••• A workshop on Famjly Survival Training, ParI One, sponsored by the Kern Family Survival Program will be held July 16th, at the Desert Counseling Clinic (814 N. Norma), from 7 to 9 p.m. Dr. Alan Edwards, M.D., will be the guest speaker. Admission is free to the public. For reservations call (619) 375-9781. Topics of discussion will be on helping families live and cope with a mentally ill relative; major mental illness and description of schizophrenia, bi-polar mood disorder, schiwaffective disorder, and major depression; and a discussion of medications and their side affeclS. Question and answer session will follow the presentation. ••••• Are you a parent or child care provider who would like to get out of the house -- and not just 10 the grocery store? Then join Community Connection for Child Care every Wednesday through Aug. 7 from 9 10 11 a.m. 81 Hellmer's Paric (off Warner, near the Senior Center and Pinney Pool) as they present The Kid Konneclion Summer Playgrou.p Series. This series is designed 10 offer fun activities for infants, t0d- dlers. pre-schoolers and elementary school-age children, while giving adults a chance 10 meet and form their own playgroups. For more infonnaIion, call 37S-3234 or 371-3269. • .' ...... . .'., . ............. .. ....-.-... , July 11, 1991 ~hile you're busy WIth one me~e, you may be missmg abetter one Record incoming calls while you're on the phone - something answering machines just can't do. Sometimes people miss impor- tant messages while they're busy with other ones. But with Conters Advanced Message Manager, you can record incom- ing calls - whether you're on the phone or can't pick it up. And Advanced Message Manager doesn't require any equipment or tapes that can break. So call your Contel business office and order Advanced Message Manager to- day. It's the sure way to keep important messages from drifting on by. To order Conters Advanced Message Manager or for more information call toll-free 1-800-624-2527 Co-=:; EL liIBP'II!'18 == = . Oper..... We go out ofour way.· • t • • 11. 1991 ON 111E INSIDE . ••• PAGE S~pperSez.... . .. . 2 Wellness. .... . . . .. 7 Sports . ... .. __. _. 14 Personnel News . _..16 CIasaifieds. . . . . . . . .19 .... Mu MIll G... TIIIn. 116 73 12 FrI lIS 73 15 Set. 11M 73 13 Sa 104 74 14 MIll. 90 (I) 20 Tues. 101 (I) 20 Jay era,sford talks on new Instttute Jay Crawford, head of AircIafI v.;~a:~:e:::~:I Deparanent's Com- Ipuling ThcbnotosY Oftic:e IIIIR I P ou Mi.. on the .. laS of an NWC instilale on COiiipIIIiq sySfe1lLl,1 IS .w~, 2:30 p.m. LIb,a.. l000D_ institllte will focus on Iresctarela and appIjcaIioas embedded COiIIJIIIIIIII syltelDS oo-boIInI mi.sj" .., aiR:nIft. A key concept is teaminl arranaemeDII between NWC, industry and aniversities throuJb Cooperative Research and De.elopmellt A&tecments- Center participaDts will be .1ec:Ied dInJaah Ibe ......Iiai- - JIlOCCSII- AaJwe inIiiest- eel in Ibis insIi,. IIIIoaId aIICIId \be July IS a .....i.. Far JIlIn infonnaliOll, caD Crawford NWC ext. 5674 « via E-Mail • GSSF::CRAWFORD. Housing OffIce picks top yards 1to.iII5aJL .. .o.pm.. lations 10 the "YIlCI of MaadI" w' iii I'clr -.0 -.II of July. 'l1Ie w' n Ire: MS2 ... MIs. VqiIio P. Gay-b. 1518 Nimitz Aft; BMCS IIIIIl MIl. 'l'beodoIe L. 1-. 1928 Bope CiIcIe., AMS2 ... MIs. MinJIIaD SzpyacIa. 350 V... Circle; and SSOT .d MIl. Ricblr' WbiUlODlb. 352 Viewe, Circle. Tbeir bard wwk. lime IIId dbt isIdIec:I- ~ ill Ibe exceptional appear- . .of....,...'l1Ie IMIt • , .riII aDd Cenler command ...... _ ......,..bdtlD iaprOfO .d maintaia FIDiIy lb·.... 'nD. ." ID orin dIeM wbll IUia- ........ A ........... ID all .. i " • 011 VineI Cin:Ie. TIle yIIda .. Jooti.. IR*I Vol. XLVI, No. 2f, July 11, 1991 Corpsmen return from war zone Eight members of Branch Medical Clinic team discuss life, experiences in Saudi Arabia & Gulf by Krisline L. Roquemore Rocketeer Starr Writer Legends of knights in shining armor sitting at King Arthur's round table discussing tales of war in the days of Camelot have prevailed for centuries. Now picture a round table with eight sailors in uniform around it discussing their tales of war during Operation Desert Storm and you've got a twentieth century ver- sion of the good kings' court. Eight hospital corpsmen from the Naval Weapons Center's Branch Medical clinic have all arrived home safe and sound from their travels in the desert sands of Saudi Arabia. They each, without even thinking, spouted off their exact dates of service over in the region, and shared hopes to never experience war again. You may stop and wonder why so many corpsmen were pulled from the Branch Clin- ic's small staff. The first conclusion drawn NEW DEPARTMENT-- capt. Douglas W. Cook, NWC Commander (left) was joined by Cdr. War- ren Seal (right), head of the new Weapons Sup- port Department and Jack Kavanagh, head of the old Ordnance Division of the Aircraft Department, in cutting the ribbon for the opening of the new Weapons Support Facility. Members of the newly formed department, including the EOD team, looked on during the ceremony. Capt. Cook expressed his support for work undertaken by this department for the RDT&E community. TID PholO by Clare Grounds might be there wasn't enough medical staff within the Navy. But, there's a little bit more to it than that. The eight corpsmen pulled from the Clinic all carry dual designators (called an 8404), which is a Fleet Marine Force designation. So, in addition 10 their individual specialties, they are also field med- ical technicians. This means when the Marines go, they go! Unfortunately, the Marines are beslOwed all of the glory for being the first ones to go into combat, while no one mentions the fact that many Navy corpsmen go right along with them. Not all Navy medical personnel serve on ships or in hospitals. Tbe majority of them go out in the fields with the Marines. Tbey eat the same horrible food, help them load the same heavy sand bags, and work in the same hostile environment HMI Wayne Brown can tell you all about living with the Marines. He spent eight months with the First and Second Fleet Sup- port Service Group roaming the desert of Saudi Arabia. ". set the stage for everyone else here," commented Brown. ". was the first one to go." And on the go he was. He was first recruited by the Navy Seal Team for two weeks to make excursions with them inoo Iraq until other corpsmen arrived 10 replace him. The sailor then took on Senior Medical Department Representative responsibilities with only three corpsmen under him to care for 2,000 troops. In addition, he ran convoys up the border of Kuwait and Saudi Arabia bringing supplies to different medical units and coordinating logistics of medical supplies. "Initially. spent six 10 eight hours on the road until more corpsmen arrived and then • was able 10 cut back 10 two hours a day visiting 100000000," said Brown. Because of Browns prior experience as an (Colllillu.ed Oil Pap 3) Weapons Support Department stands up Wben Capt Douglas W. Cook, Cdr. War- ren Seal and Jack Kavanagh snipped the red nllbon in front of the Weapons Support Facili- ty, \bey did more than signal the opening of a new building. The July 1 ceremony also rnaJted the stand-up of a new Naval Weapons Center deparunent, Code IS, the Weapons Support DepaImeat Capt Cook, NWC Commandec, remarlted. at the ceremony he had been and continued to be a strong supporter of the new organization. He added, ". am pleased beyond words at the ability of \be group to pull rogether as a team• . _meeting the requiremenlS of accountability and safety while fulfilling the needs of the customer." In an interview just two days after becom- ing the newest department head 8t NWC, Cdr. Seal said his group was charged with achiev- ing the arms, ammunition and explosives (AA&E) goals of the Centa'. A key c0mpo- nent of Code IS's mission is 10 improve over- all effectiveness of management and control of the AA&E inventory. Cdr. Seal and KaYllJlagb said essentially the departmental staius provides a single (ClllllUltud 0_ Pep 5) , China Lake Museum,Rocketeer Newspaper,Rocketeer 1990s,Rocketeer 1991,Rktr7.11.1991.pdf,Rktr7.11.1991.pdf Page 1, Rktr7.11.1991.pdf Page 1