The White Falcon - 08.02.1980, Qupperneq 1
Volume 23 Number 6 February 8, 1980
Pass program here to be fully implemented soon
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The PASS Program, Pay/Personnel
Administrative Support System, was
formulated, or introduced Navy-wide
by the CNO in April of 1976, and has
been effective for about two years.
The idea of PASS was to get all per-
sonnel officers out of each command
into one 'shop'; get all the 'tal-
ent' into one place, in order to
provide better service to personnel.
This would save the Navy time and
money. So far its proposed purpose
has been much of an improvement over
the services provided by personnel
offices in the past.
The office here: Personnel Sup-
port Activity Detachment - Keflavik,
Iceland (a detachment of the Norfolk
central activity, rather than under
the CO as in the past), will fully
be established by March 1 of this
year. It will consist of the offi-
cer in charge of each personnel of-
fice of every command, and as of
December (a tentative completion
ate), located in a new building be-
ind the Comptroller office; once
'ground is broken in June. Many im-
provements are expected over the
past program. Among them; the new
office will be dedicated strictly to
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Lt. Cmdr. James S. Taylor was re-
cently awarded the Navy Commendation
Medal by Capt. T.J. Keene. He was
cited for meritorious service while
on the staff of Chief of Naval Tech-
nical Training.
out of the authorized 47 billets, 30
people will be assigned to the ac-
tivity at a minimum at all times;
with one officer in charge.
A considerable lack of accuracy
is linked with the former program as
far as personnel pay information and
service records due to the split in
responsibilities among various of-
fices. These flaws will take exces-
sive manpower to correct, but with
the new plan of management, no long-
er will so many channels of communi-
cation be necessary. Only one place
will hold the responsibility of
these records. With this plan, pay
or service records can be dealt with
in a single day, rather than the
month it has taken in the past. And
Inspection schedule
FEB. 12 - JO-6698 tt JO-7037
13 - JO-7038 it JO-7339
14 - JO-7340 it JO-7526
18 - JO-7527 tt JO-7716
19 - JO-7717 it JO-7853
20 - JO-7854 it JO-7941
21 - JO-7942 it J0-8056
25 - JO-8057 it JO-8156
26 - JO-8157 tt JO-8239
27 - JO-8240 it JO-8307
28 - JO-8308 it JO-8383
TheAAUC presents
heritage program
In observance of Black History
month on the NATO base, the Afro
American Unity Club presents
a cultural program on Sunday at
4 p.m. in the A.T. Mahan
High School's Multi Purpose Room.
We are inviting all families,
singles, and unaccompanied personnel
to attend. All guests will be wel-
come.
The program will include an invo-
cation by Mr. D. Smith followed by
two films. The films are: "Blacks-
---Have Helped Make America Great"
and James Weldon Johnson's "The Cre-
ation & His Life". Next there will
be cultural readings by Mr. A.
Zeigler and Mrs. Z. Smith.
There also will be an art display
which is by Mrs. L. Gilbert. Then
there will be a potluck dinner for
everyone to enjoy. They are asking
each family to bring one dish.
Everyone come out and spend your
Sunday evening with the Afro Ameri-
can Unity Club.
Monday there will be an
airt display 5 p.m. at the USO.
the potential 3500 errors made now
because of the changing of hands
with records, will be reduced con-
siderably; less people handling
them; less error potential, and less
time to trace those errors.
Better things have happened al-
ready. As E-4 and E-5s don't have
the experience officers do, the of-
ficers can provide more service.
They can do better by serving every
and anybody anytime they need
help—both enlisted personnel
and officer problems. In the
long run it will help the individual
involved.
The Support Detachment will also
order the exams, as well as adminis-
tering them to all commands, with
the exception of the Naval Security
Group Activity (NSGA), for testing
processes. And will be running a
guard mail service to enhance the
concept of PASS.
One drawback to the program might
be, although a career counselor will
remain at each command 'personnel'
office, the lack of the 'personal
touch' one might have been used to.
However, in the long run, the new
system will prove to be 'personal'
as well, and to some's liking, even
more so. An individual will be tak-
en care of in such a short time,
that compared to the old system, it
will seem more personal.
So from now on, the OIC, as well
as Disbursing Officer; will be En-
sign Maxine S. Richard, the Person-
nel Officer; Chief Karl L. Braley
and the Education Officer; Chief C.
W. Stephens. Plans for the activi-
ty's beginning have continually been
distributed through monthly newslet-
ters, and before long the program
will be familiar to everyone.
On the inside
Tie a yellow ribbon - Page 2
Black History - Page 3
NEX changes for 1980
- Page 4
Chili supper - Page 5
Sports - Page 6&7