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Key admiral in Waddle
trial tapped to lead
Pacific sub forceNavy Rear Adm. Paul Sullivan, who was one of three admirals who presided over the unprecedented court of inquiry two years for Cmdr. Scott Waddle, has been named commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet's Submarine Force. Waddle commanded the submarine USS Greeneville, which collided with a Japanese fisheries training vessel in February 2001, killing nine people including several high school students. Waddle was reprimanded and allowed to retire keeping both his rank and his 20-year military pension.
Sullivan is director of the Chief of Naval Operations' Submarine Warfare Division. He is a 1970 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy. He commanded the fast attack submarine USS Birmingham (SSN 695) when it homeported in Pearl Harbor and the Trident submarine USS Florida (SSBN 728), homeported in Bangor, Wash.
With Hickam Air Force Base designated as the potential home of a C-17 Globemaster transport squadron, the command there will have a new designation and a new commander.
Tomorrow, Col. Al Riggle will be the last commander of the 15th Air Base Wing. He will be replaced by Col. Raymond Torres, who will become the first commander of the 15th Airlift Wing.
Torres leaves the post as commander of the 15th Operations Group. He will be replaced by Col. Jeffrey. Riggle has been named as Pacific Air Forces director of security forces.
Maj. Gen. Antonio Taguba, acting director of the Army Staff at the Pentagon will become the deputy commanding general for support for the Third U.S. Army at Fort McPherson, Ga. Taguba is a 1968 Leilehua High School graduate who has been director of management and vice director of the Army Staff. Prior to that Taguba was commanding general of the U.S. Army Community and Family Support Center in Alexandria, Va., in 2000.
The Armed Forces News reports that the U.S. Senate has passed Sen. John McCain's "Troops Phone Home Free" bill. The bill would authorize the Defense Department to provide free phone cards or an equivalent telecommunications capability of up to $40 a month to troops deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq. The bill also would require the Department of Defense to work with telecommunications firms to provide additional telephone service from the combat zones to the States. The bill, which contains no funding provisions, now goes to the House.
Moving Up
>> Marine Corps Base Hawaii: Cmdr. Robert Racoosin relieved Cmdr. Tyrone Payton as commanding officer of VP-4 "Skinny Dragons" squadron.
"In the Military" was compiled from wire reports and other
sources by reporter Gregg K. Kakesako, who covers military affairs for
the Honolulu Star-Bulletin. He can be reached can be reached by phone
at 294-4075 or by e-mail at gkakesako@starbulletin.com.