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Keflavik included in
FY87 Navy budget
proposal
In the middle of the town of Reydarfjord is the herring factory,
shopping center and town church. Reydarfjord is a town
approximately 75 miles north of Hofn on the east coast of Iceland.
(NNS) — Naval Air Station
Keflavik, Iceland could benefit
from the Fiscal Year 1987
Department of the Navy budget
proposal submitted to the House
Armed Services committee in
Washington, D.C. Feb. 5. In the
proposal NAS Keflavik is slated to
receive 250 new family housing
units.
Other items featured in the
proposal include increases in
Navy pay, personnel, ships and
aircraft.
In asking for a four percent pay
raise starting Oct. 1, Secretary
of the Navy, John H. Lehman said,
"This is the absolute minimum we
need to to stay even and not widen
the gap any further." Presently,
the military is 8.3 percent behind
civilian wages.
Secretary Lehman said personnel readiness
remains the Navy's top spending priority. "The
success (of personnel readiness) depends on the
maintenance of adequate compensation and adequate
quality of life," he said. The proposed budget
includes increases in sea, submarine and special
pays and modifies aviation officer continuation pay
to make the bonus more attractive.
New construction of family housing for FY '87
includes 1,668 units Navywide. Locations are:
Naval Station (NS), Long Beach, Calif. (300 units);
Public Works Center, San Francisco (300); NS, New
York, (300 units); NAS, Moffett Field, Calif.,
(126); Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center,
Twentynine Palms, Calif. (392); and the 250 already
mentioned for construction here.
The budget requests an increase of 11,400 people
for a total of 592,700 to man new ships and
squadrons. Additionally, an increase of 12,992
reseve force people are requested to support
various Navy programs.
To reach and sustain a 600-ship Navy, the budget
proposes building 21 new ships and converting
three. Included in the request for new ships are one
Trident submarine, four SSN 688 Class submarines,
two Aegis class cruisers and three Aegis guided
destroyers.
Two hundred and seventy-one aircraft are
requested for FY '87 including 15 F~14As, 120
F/A-18AS and 42 AV-8Bs. This is the first year
Sh-60F anti-submarine warfare helicopters have
been requested. "This will build to an active
inventory of about 5,700 aircraft. A 14th air wing is
also planned," Lehman said.
The Secretary concluded his presentation to the
committee by stating how important it is that
congress pass the proposed budget. "The modest
5.6 percent average increase in the Navy/Marine
Corps budget over the last five years has paid
enormous dividends," he said, " and provided
capabilities many times more than that increment."
Photo of the Week
By Magnus Kristinsson
Sundag
8:30 a. m. Lutheran Communion Service
(First and third Sundays)
9:15a.m. Protestant Sunday School
(Child Care Center, Family
Services 8. High School)
9:30 a.m. Catholic Mass
lt:00a.m. CCD (Sept, thru May, Child
Care Center, Family
Services 8. Chapel Hall)
Schedule of religous services
11:00 a. m. Protestant Morning Worship
(Communion-First Sundays)
12:30 p.m. Catholic Mass
7:00 p. m. Protestant Worship Service
Lav Reader Services
9:30 a.m. Church of Christ, High School
10:00 a.m. The Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-Day Saints, High
School
12:00 p.m. Gospel Service, Elementary
School
2:00 p.m. Christian Science, Chapel
3:00 p.m. Pentecostal Full Gospel
Fellowship, Chapel
3:00 p.m. First Sunday, Epicopal
(Anglican) Evening Prayer,
Chapel
mandag
7:00 p.m. Jehovah's Witnesses,
High School
Friday
7:30 p.m. Jewish Sabbath, Chapel
Weekdays
11:30 a.m. Catholic Mass (Mon.-
Thurs.) Chapel
5:00 p.m. Catholic Mass (Sat.)
(Sept, thru May)
Contact the Chapei at 4111/
4112 for other activities.
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