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AIR FORCE
51 sergeants await promotion
The Air Force has released its servicewide senior master sergeant selectee list. Beginning April 1 and over the course of the next year, 1,354 new master sergeants will sew on new stripes. Of those selected, Hickam Air Force Base boasts 51 new senior master sergeant selectees.
This represents a selection rate of 8.36 percent, an increase from last year's rate of 7.89 percent. Hickam's selection rate was higher than the Air Force average overall, with the headquarters at 16.15 percent and the 15th Air Base Wing at 10.48 percent.
The average selectee has more than 19 years' service. The complete list of selections is posted on the Air Force Personnel Center home page.
PACIFIC COMMAND
Event highlights regional security
The 2001 Pacific Symposium is today through Wed-
esday at the Hilton Hawaiian Village. The event, staged in Honolulu every other year, emphasizes regional cooperation between nations.
Sessions include Asia-Pacific security and lessons gained from international security cooperation. Participants represent a number of Asia-Pacific nations.
The event is co-sponsored by the National Defense University of Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Pacific Command and Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies, based in Honolulu.
General information is available at the National Defense University Web site.
NAVY
Naval Reserve conference set
The Naval Reserve Association Spring 2001 National Conference will be Wednesday through April 1 at the Outrigger Reef Hotel in Waikiki. Events include professional development seminars and a reception aboard the USS Missouri. The local conference chairman Capt. Gayle Lau can be reached at 522-8155.
Midshipmen reunion near end
The Northwestern University Midshipmen's School Association's four-day reunion at the Hale Koa Hotel ends today.
More than 20,000 midshipmen attended a program at Northwestern during the period leading up to and including World War II, including President Kennedy; retired Vice Adm. Eugene P. (Dennis) Wilkinson, first commanding officer of a nuclear-powered naval vessel, the submarine USS Nautilus; and Tom Heggen, author of "Mister Roberts." Also among the alumni are those who survived and those who died in the Dec. 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor.
It's the Month of Military Child
Rear Adm. Robert T. Conway Jr., commander, Navy Region Hawai'i, and commander of the Naval Surface Group Middle Pacific, has designated March as the Month of the Military Child, focusing on child abuse prevention in Hawai'i and nationwide. Conway called on all sailors and their families to increase their participation in efforts to prevent the mistreatment of children.
