European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 25, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Fir -7 the vol. 53, no. 130 500 thursday August 25,1994 d 8693 a Navy grounds some squadrons for Lack of funds Bye Offley Seattle Post intelligencer Nas Whitbey Island Wash. Five Carrier squadrons at Whitbey Island have Bee fully or partially grounded because the Navy does not have enough Money to pay for training flights and foreign operations at the same time officials officials said the grounding is unprecedented. Even in the Cash strapped Era of the 1970s, the service was Able to maintain flight faced with unexpected requirements to Send additional warships to Korea and Haiti this summer the Navy has squeezed hard to come up with the operating funds to pay the Bill official said. Nationwide three Carrier air wings and a half dozen p-3c Orion patrol squadrons have been see funds on Page 2 troops ranked Over technology of arms cuts of Aid Quality of life Dod says by Cindy Killion Washington Bureau Washington Quality personnel Are heeded More than new High tech weapons in this Era of reduced defense spending Deputy Secretary of defense John Deutch said tuesday at a Pentagon news conference. The decision to maintain Quality service members and Quality of life for them is Why Deutch told military leaders Friday to prepare to cancel or delay production of new weapons systems. He said that defense Secretary William Perry agrees with the decision and that it s generally supported at the White however sen. Sam Nunn d-ga., chairman of the Senate armed services committee said monday that it this Point enlisted housing is More important than new laser guided munitions Ense a pfc for by r is in Georgl keeping trim in Uganda at a Cut rate Salon in an Entebbe Airport hangar air Force staff sgt. Randy Hall left and tech. Sgt. Tim Thivierge get their locks trimmed by ugandan Barbers. The noncommissioned officers both based at Mcguire fab nj., Are doing their ugandan stint As part of operation support Hope. Hall is a c-130 Load master while Thivierge is an air operations specialist. See re lated stories on Page 3. Eliminating new weapons will prevent the services from being capable of fighting two nearly simultaneous regional conflicts. In defending the decision Deutch said shifting the emphasis of defense spending from programs to people see troops on Page 2 . Expanding refugee Camps at Cuba base Washington a faced with a continuing flood of cuban refugees the Clinton administration announced wednesday that it is dramatically expand ing detention Camps at Guantanamo Bay Cuba to House up to 40,000 have a flood of boat people on the Way to Grant stamp now defense Secretary William Perry said at a White House briefing. Perry said that about 9,000 cubans already have been picked up at sea by . Coast guard and Navy ships and that 2,000 of those Are now at the . Nav base at Guantanamo Bay. The 7,000 others Are in route to the . Base which is situated in Southeastern Cuba. The administration has said those people have no Chance of being allowed into the United people feel if you get to Guantanamo you la get into the United states. That is not so attorney general Janet Reno said at the same briefing. To the boat people she said do not risk your lives. It is Dan administration Hopes to reach an agreement to Send some of the refugees to the turks and Raicos is lands and Suriname. Perry said that As of now the . Military has Roo for 23,000 cubans and haitians at Guantanamo and will have expanded that to 30,000 by the end of this week. He said it would reach 40,000 capacity next week and would be expanded further if administration took a hard line on prospects for the refugees being kept at the Bleak Navy base a Guantanamo Bay. None of them will be considered for see Camps on Page 2 judge turns Down Chavis bid for a act reinstatement a labout Ndon see stripes Magazine see Page 2
