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PAGE 12 THE MASTHEAD, SATURDAY, SEPT. 22, 1945 REPAIR IJIIMIIOE CIIIJSED BY KIIMIKIIZE II T OK/NII WII

Benefits and Insurance
FREE FOOTBALL
Office Discusses All Military Personnel in
Uniform, will be admitted
Disability Pensions FREE to the Football game
between 2nd Air Force and
(The office of the Coordinator Fleet City at Kezar Stadium
for Benefits and Insurance and the
Sunday, September 23.
Tadcen Benefits and Insurance of-
ficer is now locate,d topside in
Theatre N,o. 1. Local extension -nual income must not exceed
is 640.) $1,000- if married or with minor
Two types of government pen- children, $2,500.
sions are payable for disability A ~isability pension wil_l be paid
suffered by persons who have ·only 1f a man leaves active serv-
served in the armed forces during ice under honorable conditions,
the present war. There are two and it will not be paid while a
kinds of disability pensions: man is still in active service.
There has been no attempt here
1. Paid for disability suffered to explain the various degrees of
because of service in the armed
disability or the amount of pen-
forces. MIGHTY MIDGET-Commissioned in November, weld new beams into place. Skipper Lt. E. Saroch,
sion paid in each case. If there is
2. Paid for a permanent and to- any question in your mind about 1944, the LCS 119 suff,ered heavy damage when Jr., and communicati,ons officer Ens. E. P. Reilly,
tal disability that occurs after she was hit by a Jap Kamikaze at the invai,i,on of ( in picture at right), both on the ship when she
the pension program, you are ad- Okinawa. Above (left) workmen of the Treasure was hit, discuss repair schedules. The 119 is tied
leaving the service and is in no vised to see the Benefits and In- lsla,nd Industrial Dept. clear away wreckage and up at Industrial Pier 14.
way connected with it. surance officer of your activity.
In the first case stated above, correction Please
pensions are paid for the per- In our discussion of death pen- "Facts For Your Veteran . of Okinawa Invasion
manent loss of specific parts of sions last week we committed two future" Now Available • f •
the body, and a1so for an im- errors in the provisions for pay- Puts 1n at T. I. or Repairs
pairment of the mind or body. ment. We said, "Pensions are pay- To All Hands
The amount of pension paid is able for death outside the service Continued from Page 1- must go no small share of credit
Civil Readjustment Information
based on a pe:i:ce_ntage rating. The if it results from a service con- Officers are directed to provide in- for securing Okinawa and all the
pensions in these cases can run nected disability." Actually, pen- given another assignment. This other stepping stones to Japan.
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as high as $265 a month. formation to all hands on vet- t· 1me s e was o pa ro an screen Even the Japs called them
sions are payable whatever the erans' rights and benefits and the th ma 1 ·n anchorage Under no
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"Mighty Midgets."
In the case of the non-service cause of death. Pensions cannot Navy Civil Readjustment pro- circumstances was anything to •
connected disability, the pension be paid to a widow whose income gram using the references con- get past her and impair the safety
is $50 a month; but for those who exceeds $1,000, to an orphan with tained in Alnav 199-45, advance of the anchorage.
have been on the pension rolls 10 a like income, or to a widow with Navy Will Retain
copies of "Facts For Your Another "Close Shave"
years, or attained the age of 65, children whose income exceeds th
the rate is $60 a month. However, $2,500. Last week we applied the Future," and e chart, "Rights "It was about 0100 of the morn- ROTC Graduates
and Benefits of . Navy Enlisted
if unmarried, the veteran's an- figure $2,500 to all cases. Dischargees." Specialized inform- ing we were hit when we heard The Navy, this week, announced
ation on legal matters, education, anti-aircraft fire and saw the sky the future of some of its train-
fill with flack," said Ens. Presen-
and insurance should be obtained ing programs.
Half of Navy to be Home in Six Months only from individuals aboard com- za. 'The bogies' (enemy aircraft) Trainees in naval reserve offi-
petent to supply accurate data. ' were there and the other ships on cers' training corps scheduled to
Washington (SEA). - SecNav 20,000 pharmacists' mates, 9,000 Civil Readjustment Information patrol were firing at them. Soon be graduated on November 1 will
estimates one out of every two, hospital corpsmen and 500 nurses. Officers will not undertake to in- the planes dropped flares so they be retained on active duty after
could see us more clearly. There
Navy personnel "will be home Male doctors need 60 points and terpret statues, regulations, or must have been 50 of them in that commissioning unless eligible for
within_six months," in announcing nurses must have- 35 points to be rulings. Personnel should be ad- release on points under the de-
credit of one-fourth point for eligible. Dentists have been eligi- vised that the ultimate decision as one area. Before we hard_ly knew mobilization formula.
it, a bomber was heading for us,
every month of activ,e duty out- ble for release with 49 points to eligibility for a benefit is deter- Transfers From V-12
side the continental limits since since August 15. mined by the agency charged with strafing all the way in. Our aft Transfers to this training group
Sept. 1, 1939. The credit became The Navy's demobilization is the administration of the parti- gunner let go with all he had and from V-12 will increase the num-
knocked off the right wing, and
effective September 15 and made "the most ambitious and fastest cular benefit. ber in the program to approxi- '-.,,
750,000 immediately eligible for schedule of any armed service," Advance copies of "Facts For the plane crashed q!f our bow." mately 19,000 by November 1.
release. SecNav said. Your Future," have been sent to The bomber had barely hit the Disposition of other groups now
Future reductions in the critical The Coast Guard has lowered all Civil Readjustment Informa- water when a fighter "Rufe" came enrolled iii' the NROTC will be de-
scores will be made as soon as its requirements for male officers tion Officers; shipments in suffi- in on the llD's starboard side. Al- termined later.
conditions permit, he said. The fz:om 49 to 43 points and for male cient quantities for distribution to though hit and burning, the plane Engineers, p h y s i c s majors,
scores remain as before--49 for enlisted personnel from 44 to 40. all hands have begun. Info,rmation scream:::d in- it was very close aerology, majors and pre-supply
male officers (except 44 for naval This reduction was made because- copies of "Going Back to Civilian a'ld the gunners had little time candidates will complete train-
aviators in flight status), 44 for average age of Coast Guard per- Life," booklet designed only for to train. ing in V-12 and be retained on
male enlisted personnel, 35 for sonnel is lo-wer than that of Navy distribution to dischargees as they Then It Happened active duty. They will be com-
Wave officers and 29 for enlisted personnel. leave separation centers, will be "Before the plane hit it dropped missioned as officers when they
Waves. Sixty per cent of the 750,000 sent to Civil Readjustment In- a large bomb on our fantail, and complet,e'', their V-12 courses.
Among the 750,000 eligible on eligible on September 15 were formation Officers beginninrr Oc- the instant the plane and bomb Medical, dental, and theologi-
September 15 were 1,100 doctors, outside the continental limits. tober 1. struck, the ship was enveloped in cal students will be released to in-
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raging flames. All our fire fight- active duty in the naval reserve
AREAS SERVED BY SEPARATION CENTERS FOR ENLISTED MIEN ing equipment had been damaged with the stipulation that they
ai;,id we could not fight the flames, continue their training.
but still no one abandoned ship. Middies Retained
It wasn't 'Jong before the ammuni- In the midshipmen training
tion started going off and we program, carried on through the
knew we wouldn't be on the 119 naval reserve midshipmen's
much longer." schools, all graduates prior to
The skipper gave the order to 'sep,t~mber 1 and since that date
abandon ship and the wounded haVe been called on active duty.
men were first into the life rafts-. Those graduating in tpe future
Everyone who was not badly in- will be retained on active duty.
jured was rounding up less for-
tunates and helping them onto
life rafts. The pharmacist's mate Submarines Sink
worked calmly and quickly ... an
officer swam back after a drown- 1,187 Jap Ships
ing man ... a crew member dove (SEA). - The Navy's under-
after a badly burned mate. In water fleet sank 1,187 vessels in-
minutes each man had become a cluding 146 combatant ships at
hero,
a cost of 52 submarines. Since
Saved by Tug 1940 the Navy has inc;reased its
A tug that soon pulled along- sub fleet to 240. A total o{: ._211
side the 119 finally succeeded in subs were built in the last ,tjcye
dousing the raging flames, and years.
after two hours in the water the Of U. S. submarines lost, :';i3
crew was picked up by a rescue failed to return from patroI, fqµr
ship. The LCS was saved but 14 are known sunk, two were de-
men had lost their lives. stroyed to avoid capture and three
Enlisted personnel meeting demobilization requirements will, with certain exceptions, be There you have it- the saga of were scrapped as obsolete-.
transferred or ordered to the Separation Center nearest their home. To find the Separation Center the trial by fire of a 157-foot ship Jap submarine losses are esti-
to which you will be tram,ferred, locate your home on the map and check the number shown for that
in the battle for Okinawa. She mated at around 130. Approxi-
area with this list: 1-Lfdo Beach, Long Island, N. Y. 2-Great Lakes, Ill. 3-Bainbridge, Md.
4-Boston, -5-Toledo, Ohi'o. 6-Minneapolis. 7-New Orleans. , 8-San Pedro, Calif. 9-Shoemaker, alone didn't make the headlines, mately 50 are still afloat. Nazi
Calif. 10-Camp Wallace, Tex. 11-Jacksonville, Fla. 12-Norfolk, Va. 13-Sampson, N. Y. 14- but to the 119, to her valiant crew losses were 713, of which 151 were
Bremerton, Wash. 15-Charleston~ S. C. 16-Memphis. 17-Norman, Okla. 18-St. Louis, and hundreds of others like her sunk by U. S. Naval forces.