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Great Falls Tribune MILITARY Sunday, April 1 1 1 999 5M Military Cost concerns swirl around 4M Sunday, April 11, 1999 Great Falls Tribune QUESTIONS OR TIPS? Call Associate Editor Tom Kotynski 791-1477 or (800) 438-6600 yiAlbertsons Malmstrom Museum highlights base's varied missions itl52ndari volunteer force, young single the Marine Corps (1958-62), sees The Army is committed to having 6 Copyright 1999 by Albertson's, Inc. All Rights Reserved 1 1 as extravagarit. The money could be better spent, he argues, on programs with more direct impact on readiness like pay, spare parts or ammo. Roberts last year asked the General Accounting Office to review 1 1 and its impact on readiness and retention. The GAO report, released in March, concluded that the new stan I For the month of April, the Malmstrom AFB Museum will be open 1 1 a.m.

to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday. Later, as more volunteers are brought in, hours will extend through Saturday, with possibly extra hours as well. Admission is free, though visitors must stop off at Malmstrom 's Main Gate Office for a visitor's pass. Call 731-2705 for more information. By BENJAMIN DONNELLY Tribune Staff Writer Welcome back to the past.

After a two-and-a-half-year hiatus, the Malmstrom AFB Museum will be reopening. The Museum had been closed for extensive renovations since the spring of 1996; though the airpark, with its static displays of aircraft that had flown from Malmstrom, has been open, the museum building has not. The Malmstrom Museum first opened in 1981 in a double trailer-sized building. However, the building allowed Bounty Big Roll Paper Towels Selected Varieties 1 Roll Great Falls Ar ea Employer RAD Defense Region, the 341st Strategic Missile Wing and the 401st Air Refueling Wing. There are also two complete Min-uteman launch stations that visitors can walk through and sit at, with everything but an armed nuclear missile and the launch keys.

Visitors will notice that there still are a lot of incomplete exhibits. "You never have a museum that is all ready," Shannon explained. Many new exhibits are planned. These will show the base's role in training B-17 bomber crews during World War II, and the training of the Berlin Airlift crews in 1948. It's a little known fact that nearly all of the transport aircraft crews who flew the dangerous route into Berlin were trained at Malmstrom.

Existing exhibits will also be expanded and updated. Volunteers are needed, and donations, including artifacts, are welcome; to donate or volunteer call either the museum at 731-2705 or the Malmstrom Public Affairs Office. "People come here all the time," Shannon said. "It's exciting. There's a lot of history involved with Malmstrom that people don't know about." areBareBareBareVareBarJBaTeB.

aiMir' Mt iiH jLm mm dard will cost the services an extra $12 billion over eight to 10 years, compared with the cost of maintaining the "22" standard that the Defense Department set in 1983. Under that standard, enlisted barracks were built as two-room mod Tribune photos by Wayne Amst Malmstrom Air Force Base Museum curator Curt Shannon demonstrates one of the early computers used in the base's air defense system. The memory capabilities of a modern digital wristwatch is greater than the computer shown here, Shannon said. Thursday, April 15, 1999 2:00 5:30 pm McLaughlin Center, BONUS mW WMF mm I A WW JmfmW for University of Great Falls Campus emisiea members were considered adequately housed if bunked in an open-bay room with access to a common latrine. Barracks standards were raised in 1972, and a couple of times since then.

But Sen. Pat Roberts, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, believes the most recent revision, in November 1995, went too far. The new construction criterion was dubbed "1 1." It says unmarried enlisted, if not assigned to ship, boot camp or initial skill training, should have a private 1 18-square-foot room, and should share a bathroom and kitchenette with only one other service member. It's a construction, not an assignment standard. That's why only a fraction of 212,000 single enlisted on permanent duty while living in barracks enjoys such privacy.

Every year, however, the Army, Navy and Air Force build or renovate more barracks that meet the 1 1 standard. The Marine Corps alone sought and won a waiver from the standard. Marines leaders argue 1 1 could harm unit cohesion and weaken a bond between young Marines that is seen as critical to Marine Corps values. Marines also worry about the cost. So does Adm.

Jay Johnson, chief of naval operations. Johnson believes unmarried sailors deserve the higher quality of life 1 1 offers, an official said. "He's just choking on the cost." The CNO's concern, another official explained, is not that too much money is being spent on bachelor housing. His worry is that with tight construction budgets, bachelor quarters built or renovated to the 1 1 standard won't be ready -for sailors fast enough. "If we did 1 1 everywhere, we couldn't afford it," a senior Navy 'official said.

"And we would stretch out modernizations of barracks into the second decade of the 21st century. He's just not comfortable with that." all barracks, including those in Germany and Korea, up to 1 1 standard by 2008. By the end of budget year '00, about 60 percent of Army barracks will be built, renovated or funded for 1 1 conversion. Moving a lesser standard now, Seymour said, would create new disparities and a "promise broken." Roberts' criticism of 1 1 is not widely shared on Capitol Hill. Indeed, Congress has added barracks dollars to administration defense budgets routinely since then-Defense Secretary William Perry adopted 1 1 in 1995.

The barracks debate seems, to some extent, generational and to some extent dependent on a modern versus traditional view of the military "professional." Pumping billions of dollars into quarters for first-term bachelors, critics argues, only drains resources from more pressing readiness concerns like pay or spare parts. It coddles the force and the focus on privacy threatens the need to fight as a team. Proponents of 1 1 argue today's military is filled with talented volunteers trained in high-tech skills at great expense and are sought after by private industry. It would be foolish not to provide singles among them with decent quarters and some of the privacy enjoyed by civilian peers. Single service members with still the worse housing in the military are the 36,000 assigned to ships and expected to live aboard even while in homeport.

Navy officials from time to time weigh the possibility of providing some alternative housing ashore. If and when that happens, an official said, ship-based singles can expect better than they have but also something less than 1 1. Comments and suggestions are welcomed. Write to Military Update, P.O. Box 1230, Centrevllle, VA 20122-8230, or send e-mail to: mllupdateaol.com little room for growth, and did not meet the appearance standards of other Air Force museums.

Though the museum is funded by donations made to the Malmstrom Heritage Foundation, and staffed almost entirely by volunteers, the U.S. Air Force provides the Make plans to attend the Employer EXPO. wartime Lend-Lease program to the Soviet Union. A quick tour through the tense years of the Cold War follows, with displays on the 29th Interceptor Squadron, the 24th NO- Folger's Coffee This is an excellent way to learn about employment opportunities in our community and the surrounding area from more than 60 employers. This year's EXPO will include resume critiquing and tips on job hunting on the Internet.

39 oz. A model of a Min-uteman Missle in its underground silo is under construction at the museum. chief master sergeant, the museum was ready to open. With a much larger building, exhibits have been expanded and new ones added. A display of uniforms worn over the base's history has been added, and the aircraft model collection, one of the largest in the Pacific Northwest, has been expanded and updated.

For those familiar with the museum, all of the exhibits in the old museum are still in the new one. There's a small exhibit on Lewis and Clark, the first military residents of Great Falls, who passed within 100 yards of the museum's location. Visitors can still step into 1944 and look at the base flightline as it looked during the height of the (da build homes toifh a tohofe neoi yours! New to Great Falls See us at booth 49 Call For more information ules, two occupants per room. Each room has 180-square-feet of space. The four share a single bathroom.

The Marine Corps, while rejecting 1 1, improved upon 22. The new Marine standard, called 20, allows two Marines to a room sharing their own bathroom. GAO concluded that while 1 1 improves quality of life and narrows the disparity in housing benefit between married and single enlisted, there is "no quantifiable evidence" that better barracks improve readiness or reenlistments. That's not surprising, said Birgitt Seymour, who oversees 1 1 for the Army's assistant chief of staff. The first barracks built to that standard only opened last year when GAO began their audit.

But common sense, she said, suggests it will make a difference. Before 1 1, Seymour said, a 6-year old child was entitled to more living space on base than a well-trained soldier without family. "Improving barracks," she said, "was 699 HOMES Sponsored by: University of Great Falls, MSU College of Technology, Malmstrom AFB Community Support Center, MSU-Northern at Great Falls, and Great Falls Job Service Center In early 1996, the 341st Wing was faced with the decision to either expand and renovate or close entirely. The decision was made to expand. A month ago, with the hiring of curator Curt Shannon, a retired Local Dealer Key West in Westgate Mall 406-771-7644 in Your Mortgage Pros! Register to Win a Yard Water Fountain Both 28 Sunny Delight Citrus Punch Regular, Plus Calcium or California Style 64 oz.

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