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Supply Corps celebrates 191st birthday Sunday
By Lt. Cmdr. Kenneth Icenbice, Jr. and Ens. Kim Beeson
The Supply Corps will celebrate its 191st birthday
on Feb. 23, 1986.
The celebration was marked by a Birthday Ball at
the Officer's Club on Feb. 19 and a special luncheon
for all supply enlisted ratings on Feb. 20. Capt.
Charles E. Smith, SC, USN, Assistant Force Supply
Officer for COMNAVAIRLANT will be the distinguished
guest speaker.
The Navy Supply Corps began Feb. 23, 1795, when
an Act of Congress established a “Purveyor of Public
Supplies." Known initially as Pursers, and later as
Paymasters, supply corps personnel became part of
the military order in 1847, when they received
military rank and precedence according to their
responsibilities. In addition to business skills,
Pursers were required to have an extra skill in
order to be promoted. They had to speak fluent
French or Spanish. The name was officially changed
to the Pay Corps in 1870, and the Supply Corps in
1919.
The Supply Corps of today is made up of its
officers, the enlisted ratings of Storekeeper,
Aviation Storekeeper, Mess Management Specialist,
Disbursing Clerk, Ship's Servicemen, and Civil
Servants of many specialties.
The men and women, military and civilian,
Icelandic and U.S., who provide supply support
services take pride in their work and know that their
job is to help keep the fleet operating above, on and
below the oceans of the world.
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• Maintain a safe and orderly atmosphere on the
buses. They shall also do their best to prevent,
report and deal with all major and minor
infractions.
• Report vehicles to the Security Department that
are observed causing a safety hazard, which will
include a description of the vehicle, license plate
number, location of infraction and when possible, a
description of the driver of the vehicle.
• Report any unusual conduct on the part of the
bus driver that endangers students.
• Attend to other related matters in regards to
the conduct, safety and supervision of DoD children.
One of the primary changes to NASKEFISNT
5100.7A, is the requirement of the parents of DoD
school children to meet (regardless of the
weather), any child who attends grades
Kindergarten through the second grade.
The new instruction also indicates what action, if
any, will be taken to repeated violators of this
policy and the results of the failure to comply with
these responsibilities and specified duties.
Some of the duties and responsibilites tasked to
the parents of DoD school children, include:
• The responsibility for the safety of their
children going to and from bus stops and to their
The Supply Corps mission here at the NATO Base
is, wide and extremely varied. The categoories of
material and service support are numerous:
Aircraft parts, electronic parts, fuel, contracting,
messing, berthing, warehousing, household goods
and POV shipments, cargo movement, financial
accounting, payroll, the Exchange and Commissary,
vehicle support parts, the barber and beauty shops,
stock management, and the list goes on and on.
The NAS Supply Department is one of the largest
departments on base. It's associated division's
manage, account, and warehouse over 32,000 line
items of stock, and similarly manage over 40,000
gallons of fuel, with both combining for an inventory
value of over 80,000 dollars. They provide aviation
support, food service, berthing servmart, aircraft
refueling and a broad range of other material and
services that support the naval Air Station and
tenant commands.
NAS Coimptroller provides financial and ADP
services for NAS and Navy tenants. The Navy
Exchange and Commissary, under the command of
the Navy Resale Systems Headquarters, support the
entire NATO community through service outlets.
Last year they rang up over 3,000,000 dollars in
sale. The Disbursing Office of PSD provides payroll
and payment services for the base. Other
commands supply organizations do such business as
support of communications, logistic planning,
storekeeping and material control.
homes.
• The responsibility of parents to meet children
at their assigned bus stops, children kindergarten
through second grade.
• Inform bus monitors supervisors and command
approved child care providers of any schedule
change for their child for the next day
transportation is needed. If a child's name does not
appear on a Child Care Center list for appropriate
transportation from the center, the child will be left
at the center.
• Be responsible for any damage caused to a bus
by their child.
• Make themselves aware of the duties and
responsibilities of the bus monitors and monitor
supervisors.
There are a number of additional duties and
responsibilites included in the new instruction which
pertains to students, bus monitors, bus monitor
supervisors, securtiy and DoD school
administrators, as well. It is to the benefit and
interest of all persons concerned, to become
familiar with this new instruction and it's
requirements.
Persons having any questions concerning
NASKEFINST 5100.7A, should direct them to Ms.
Jenny Myers at ext. 2008.
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