European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 9, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Sunday aprils 1989 the stars and stripes Page 3 smooth budget sailing forecast for by Gary Miller Mediterranean Bureau Naples Nlaly the Navy should fare Well in he coming years of no growth defense budgets. To cause spending cuts would make it necessary to re worldwide naval commitments the service s lop enlisted Man says. I be had to work with inc House armed services Coati Millic. I be had to work with the Senate armed services committee. The feeling i m coming out of those meetings with is that we in the Navy arc going to do of said Duane Bushey master chief i Etty officer of Llic Navy. They be gotten inc word that they be screwed with us and Cut on us and hacked on us and whipped we be taken just about All we re Gonna take. V they Aho understand that in every single crisis that s come up in inc last 10 or is years the first time something happens Ihu president asks where s inc Fleet where s the Navy " Bushy made the comments in a Forur i with Naples area sailors during a visit Friday in response to Oiler questions a Tushy said that Inci service is Short 20,000 sailors but thai he expects about 4.800 of those slots 10 he replaced soon. Bushy also said he has buried too Many of my friends Over the years and warned the sailors to heed the message of balanced diet and physical fitness. The former command master chief of the Carrier Theodore Roost yell which to How operating in the Mediterranean arrived in Naples on wednesday. Along with wife Susan who often accompanies him on such trips so she can meet Wilh Navy family members Bushey will visit Italy Greece Turkey and Spain in the next few Days. If of lushly had a Choice however he would be Back on the Roosevelt i had the Best Job in inc Navy Bushey said of his Job aboard the Carrier a position he assumed while the ship was still an empty Hull. A helped build the ship e helped build the Crew and i was looking Forward to taking them to Bui Bushy s Captain had different plans Trie skipper asked me to apply for the master chief of the Navy Job and i refused. So he submitted an application for me behind my / Bushey said he later was invited to Washington for a week of meetings Wilh lop Navy officials be cause he was four finalists for the Job. When i Sal in the chief of naval operations office looking at the three other candidates i figured i did l have a Chance Bushey said was really Junior Wilh Only 25 years in the Navy and i d never been a Force master chief or a Fleet master. 1 figured i d use the week in Washington to let some brass know How messed up some of their programs were and head Back where i belonged on inc Roose by wednesday of that week bus Licy was ready to go Home. I stormed Inlo our hotel room and Lold Susan i d had it i d just blown any Chance i had of becoming master chief of the Navy and i wanted to gel Back to the Roosevelt where 1 was needed. I d just come from having a meeting with a three Star vice Admiral hat turned into a shouting match lie said. Susan Bushy calmed her husband Down and persuaded him 10 stay the rest of inc week. That Friday inc chief of naval operations announced he had be master chief Petty officer of the Navy Dunne Bushy. We be taken just a boil All we re Gonna Lake in Clad Bushey. Testifying before Congress is a . The Job and it is one Arena where Bushey has earned a reputation As a straight Forward advocate of the sail or who Speaks his mind even to senior military and . I almost got fired in inc first couple weeks when i said that. The enemy is nol across the Ocean and the enemy is not across the Border in Canada and places. Like thai. The enemy is right Here in Washington d.c., and he looks and dresses just Lile a Congress Man he said. Bushy also quickly formed some opinions Aboul How Congress conducts is Day to Day business nor Mally people called to testily before Congress sub Mit a statement about three weeks in Advance. A speaker usually reads his or to empty chairs except for one or iwo Commil co members and then answers written questions from Hie missing lawmakers Bushy said. Thai s dumb As hell lie Lold so rips. I refused to Kiva a statement so 1 showed up Wilh nothing and there were a Loi of people there waiting to see what i had to say. 1 threw a lot of things out. Among Ihm he said were comments that today s sailors arc politically aware and thai they tire taxpayers and voters so you d better watch it or. Con Gressman because they re watching you Bushy remembers testifying. Afterwards people told me i could have been cited for disc Spicl to Dushny has since softened some of his views about Congress noting that most lawmakers Are very very committed and they in the Middle. They be got to make the right decision or they won t be there to make decisions. They la gel voted out of .office/1 the military has Many allies in Congress As Well Hushey said. He pointed out to inc groups head dressed in Naples that rep. Beverly b. Byron d md., for example was a Strong advocate of improving living conditions for and their families stationed abroad. Bushey said incl Quality of the personnel assigned in Naples impressed he Nellc said that,.white plan Ning his trip to the Mediterranean k told his staff he did l need to spend much time in Naples be cause he had been in and out of lie City often during his career. But things seem to have changed for the Bellcar in Naples he said. People stationed Here Are asking what they can do to improve their own Quality of life not saying that they Bushy said hell continue to make trips to meet. With the Elcel Southai sailors can keep him in touch with reality museum refuses to give up Cree Indian relic new York. A the american museum of natural history announced Friday thai it would nol give a 150-year old Indian relic to a Cree Indian who ran across the country to Reiri exe it saying he wanted the sacred object for his peo ple spokesman Herbert Kurz said the museum sent Jim Thunder a letter to his Home in Edmonton. Alberta on thurs Day to notify him of the decision. I had been anticipating this Thun Der said. He would not say if he would continue his Effort to retrieve the artefact and said he had no further comment. On sept. 1 in Edmonton the 38-year old Indian began a 2,700-mile run across Canada to draw attention to his Mission. He arrived. March 21 in new Vork and formally made his request to museum officials the next Day. ". Thunder claimed to be a great great grandson of chief big Bear inc Crew Leader who created he artefact a sacred Calico wrapped bundle holding Bear claws Sweet grass and a plug of to Bacco to give his people spiritual strength and guidance. Ten years ago Thunder said. Big hear spoke to him in dreams and visions and instructed him to bring the sacred Bun dle Back 16 his tribe in Western Canada where it would be used in prayers and sacred Indian ceremonies. In 1934," a son of big Bear gave inc bundle to a museum anthropologist. Since then it has been stored As part of a special research collection. While it is available for study by scholars and indians never been put on display. Stanley a. Freed a museum curator who Mcl with Thunder told him1 in the letter thai several factors including claims for the bundle by other cries went into the. Museum s decision the museum has received communications from other cries. Asking that the Medicine bundle not be Given to m r. Thunder and raising questions about his relationship to big Bear Kurt said. Other indians and tribal groups have told the museum that the bundle should be Given to Ihm rather than to Thun Der. Thunder admits lie has no blood relationship with big Bear but said he was adopted in 1985 by a great grand Dughi or of the Leader big Bear made the bundle More than so years ago when he was about 13 years old and later wore it in id Battle for Protection and guidance. A son of big Bear Joe Pimp who was also known As Morse child sought but the museum anthropologist who was leading an expedition Inlo Central Canada and presented it to the museum for safekeeping inc museum said. It is our responsibility to Honor Pimp s wish freed wrote to Thunder
