European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 3, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 stars and stripes july 2007 submarine warfare Pioneer Dies at 93 by Matt Schudel the Washington Post rear Eugene one of the greatest naval heroes of world War who was awarded the medal of Honor and four Navy crosses for his daring sub Marine attacks on japanese ship died june 28 at Anne Arun Del medical he was 93 and had alzheimer who was born and raised in was a Pio Neer of submarine warfare and among the most highly decorated veterans from any Branch of the in 1944 and As commander of the uss he became a Navy legend for his nighttime raids that Sank dozens of enemy ships along the East coast of his bold forays were complicated by continual barrages from japanese air planes and boats and by shallow Waters that often forced him to bring his sub Marine to the he some times came so close to Shore that his men were Able to launch Sabo Tage missions on Fluckey and his 80man Crew were credited with sinking 29 including an aircraft Carri destroyer and he destroyed More Gross tonnage than any other submarine command for his wartime he became known As Lucky Fluckey and the galloping ghost of the China Fluckey sometimes violated Navy regulations by stashing cases of Beer in the officers show whenever the Barb Sank a everyone on Board was entitled to a cold which endeared him to his in addition to the medal of Honor and Navy crosses second Only to the medal of Fluckey received the distinguished service the legion of Merit and a Host of lesser his greatest achieve he often was that no one under his command Ever received another Well known medal the purple he was absolutely confident and absolutely but fear less with Good said re tired rear Robert executive officer of the he brought his ship and his people Eugene Bennett Fluckey was born he graduated from the naval Academy in he joined the submarine corps in 1938 and served in the Pacific before taking command of the after the he became the personal aide to Fleet Chester the chief of naval later in his Fluckey served As director of naval Intelli gence and commanded amphibious units and the navys Pacific submarine he headed the electrical engineering depart ment at the naval in he wrote a dramatic account of his experiences As a Marine Thunder below it won the Samuel Eliot Morison prize for naval Ross mothballed f14 tomcat fighter jets await demolition at Davi Monthan air Force base in the defense department is taking new Security Steps and paying a contractor to tear apart old f14s at the base in the military Boneyard for retired Dod Chews up old tomcat jets to keep parts from Iran by Sharon theimer the associated press Washington a mechanical monster grabs the f14 fighter Jet and Chews through one Wing and then ripping off the tomcats appendages before moving onto its All that s left is a pile of shredded rubble like the scraps from a thanksgiving the Pentagon is paying a contractor at least to destroy old a Jet affectionately nicknamed the rather than sell the spares at the risk of their falling into the wrong including within a a million fighter Jet that once soared As a showpiece of air Power can be destroyed at the Davi Monthan air Force base in the military Boneyard for retired there were things getting to the bad so to said Tim founder and executive vice president of Tri rinse in and one of the ways to make sure that no one will Ever use an f14 again is to gut them into Little 2by2foot the defense department had intended to destroy spare parts unique to the f14 but sell thousands of others that could be used on other it suspended sales of All Tom cat parts after the associated press reported in january that buyers for China and other countries had exploited gaps in sur plus Sale Security to acquire sensitive Mil itary including f14 among other middlemen for the countries misrepresented themselves to gain Access to the defense departments surplus sales or bought sensitive surplus from companies that had acquired it from Penta gon auctions and we rent supposed to allow its sex investigators also found some sensitive items accidentally slip Ping into surplus auctions rather than being destroyed As they were supposed to in an unusual move when dealing with retired the Pentagon is trying to shut off All avenues for Iran parts purchasers by demolishing the then combing through the scraps to make sure nothing useful re Iran is the Only country trying to keep Tom cats the United states let Iran buy the f14s in the 1970s when it was an Long before president Bush named it part of an Axis of Shock Lees company won a million contract to Render surplus equipment useless for military the work includes the recent demolition of 23 tomcats in accounting for about of Wyden Tri rinses the military is consider ing using the same process on its other the company has developed portable shred Ding machinery so the Pentagon can have sensitive items destroyed on a base instead of shipping them Long distances to be the shearing which uses pincers to rip apart the weighs the shredder is an f14 weighs about the Pentagon retired its f14s last at last the military Boneyard in Arizona held 165 believed to be the Only ones left out of 633 produced for the the oth ers were scavenged for parts to keep others went to museums or said a spokeswoman for the air Teresa Ron considers the f14 demolitions a Good but wants to go fur ther and outlaw the Sale of f14 parts to any one except Wyden sponsored legis lation that also would ban Export licenses for f14 which he believes will be More effective than Pentagon policies that he said have changed Over i dont think internal rules these inter Nal initiatives based on the track record of the department of Are Wyden the House passed similar legislation in june a Senate vote is expected later this sum the White House Hast said whether Bush supports the immigrant wife of missing i gets Green card the associated press Boston a woman whose Soldier husband is missing in Iraq has gotten her Green card after authorities threatened to Deport her for entering the Maderlin Hiraldo Jimenez walked out of a citizenship and immigration services office in on Friday with her permanent residency her lawyer she was moved to attorney Matthew who accompanied his told the Boston Globe for sundays her immigration problems have been solved in their entirety and now her focus is completely dedicated to her Hope and desire that Shes going to see her Hus band Kolken army Alex of has been missing since his unit was attacked in Iraq on May his wife Ille Gally entered the from the Domini can Republic in june paying to a smuggler and walking three Days from Mexico to the couple were married in Jimenez request for a Green Jimenez card and Legal residence status for his wife alerted authorities to her she has been living in Pennsyl Vania and had been facing deportation but an immigration judge put a temporary Stop to the proceedings after Jimenez was re ported last department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said his Agency would end the deportation he said in a letter to John that the sacrifices made by our soldiers and their families deserve our greatest re Kolken said his client Hopes to apply for citizenship and to at tend she commented about How much she loved this Kolken on the Pentagon changed the status of Jimenez and a Byron of from whereabouts unknown to miss the change reflects an official determination that the two were seized by hostile but it does not mean the military has gained any new information about their an iraqi insurgent group claimed in a video posted on the internet last month that the miss ing soldiers were killed and Bur but offered no proof they were