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CORPS

OF

ENGINEERS

SAUDI ARABIA PROGRAM

The Corps

of

Engineers

Program

in

Saudi Arabia resul ts

from

a USG-SAG

diplomatic agreement, effective on 24

May

1965.

Under th is agreement,

the

US provides engineering and construction

management services

to ass i s t the

SAG in developing certain fac i l i t i es for i t s armed forces. The Corps

of

Engineers

implements

the USG respons ibi l i t ies in concert with the Ministry

of

Defense and Aviation which acts for

the

SAG. Corps part ic ipa t ion in

any

project i s

approved

by

the

USG DOD, DOS,

Congress)

and SAG

on

a project -by

project basis . All aspects of the program are fully

funded

by the SAG.

Corps of Engineers ac t iv i t i es consist of four

major

subprograms:

a. The Engineer

Assistance Agreements

EAA)

Projects .

b.

Saudi

Arabia National Guard

SANG) Projects .

c. Saudi

Naval Expansion Program

SNEP) Projects .

d. The Saudi

Ordnance Corps Program

SOCP).

The

aggregate

scope

of these subprograms

i s valued

a t

7.8

bi l l ion as of

the

time

of in i t i a l USG-SAG

approval. Execution of these programs

stretches

into

the

mid-1980's. The SAG has

funded the

program

a t 2.7 bi l l ion to

cover

on

going

design

and

construction

ac t iv i t i es and

support

projects

approved

for

s ta r t

in the next

f i sca l

year.

Project essent ia l i ty

pr io r i t i es and

funding

are reviewed annually by

the

SAG.


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saudi rabia District Information ulletin

.

NUMBER

13

OFFICIAL

SANG

ontract

Sets

The

largest

ll.llTp

sum dol

l r value contract

ever

awarded

by

the u.s. Army

Corps of Engineers was re

cently awarded

for

the

con

.

struction of

a

headquarters

oatplex for the Saudi Ara

bian

National

Guard SANG}

near Riycdl.

The

record breaking $208

million

contract was

award

ed

30 July by the Middle

IS THAT

ALL THERE

IS

10 MILKING

A

GJAT

?-Ruth

Patterson

displays

her

pioneer ingenuity

a t a

goat

milking

contest

dUring Bicentennial

activites

in Riyadh. For nore Bicenten

nial ooyerage, see Pages 17

-

19.

SEPI .EMBER

1976

Record

East Division Rear

Office

n Ben:yville, Virginia, to

the Riyadh based joint ven

ture

of Leon

D. De Matteis

and Sons, Inc.

of

Elnont,

New York,

and Sam

Whan of

Seoul,

Korea.

(' he SANG headquarters

contract

was one

of several

.

contracts

recently awarded

for

Saudi Arabia Distr ict

projects. For stories

on

other contract awards, see

story belCM

and

Page 2.}

The $208 million SANG

contract

t:oRJed

the

previous

high award figure by s a t e

$27

million. That contract,

also for Saudi

Arab;i.a Dis

t r i c t administered

·work, was

181 million awarded n No

ventler

1975

to

Hyundai


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·

Port

· W·i

·

Have. Four

(Continued fran

Page 1)

off share

support fac i l i t ies

to include

a

turning basin-,

an access

channel, an

op

erating deck

am

wareOOuse

am

cxmm.mity

fac i l i t ies .

Two

of

the

four

berths

are scheduled for coople

t ioo

in

July

1977,

am t he

ent i re

project

wil l .be

coopleted in

March

1978.

One of

the

berths sched

uled

for

coopletion

in

1978

wil l

be

for bulk

cenent

handling.

' be

por t will

be

a

dedi

cated MJDA

fac i l i ty am wil l

be

used

to SlJRX>rt Corps of

Engineers

military

OCI l

s ~

projects for

in the kingdan.

' be contract for the

sec

ood

MJDA port will

be adver

t ised

about 1 October.

This

por t

wil l be

located

approximately

200

ki lare t

ers

north

of Jidda on the

Red

Sea.

.

Because o f

the

present

port OCI'lgestioo

am

the

l arge v o l ~ e

of

materials ·

am equipnent

needed

to

cooplete planned MJDA con

~

projects ,

the

Council of Ministers

in

Deoeuber 1975 authorized

t he Corps supervise

the

port design

and O a l S ~ o n

n

Nova1ber

1975 Mediterr

anean

Divisioo

offic ia ls

SNEP

Awards

Made

had presented

a

briefing

to

the Sau:li. Arabian Goverment

on

the

c:x:mcept

of

a

dedicat

ed

Corps

of Engineers por t

on the Eastern Coast. The

Saudi

Arabian Govermrent

increased

the 8Cq)e of

th is

project

to

include

a seoorxi

por t - t h i s

one

on the Red

S e a - am doubled

the mm

ber of

berths fran four

to

eight .

Two major

construction

contracts--to

be admi.ni-

stered

by

Saudi Arabia

Dis

trict : Were recently

award

ed for fac i l i t ies included

n the Saudi Arabian Na

val

Expansion Program

{SNEP).

The contracts

are

for the

construction

of the

SNEP

Headquarters CCJrplex in

Riyadh

and

for

the

expan

sion

of

the ITObilization

camp

fac i l i t ies a t Jubail .

Wierter and Trachte Con

struction Carpany of Dort

m.md, Gennany, received

the $23.6 million ccntract

for the

SNEP Headquarters

CCJrplex.

n

addition

to

the

headquarters ocrtplex,

this 900-day contract in

cludes construction of

oammunication

fac i l i t ies

and

bachelor

officers '

quarters.

of Seoul, Korea for

$16

mil

l ion. Hyundai i s also the

construction

contractor

for

the SNEP Off-Shore Fac i l i t

ies a t Jubail

The

mobilization

fac i l i t

ies

are designed as semi

permanent

structures

so they

may

be converted

to

opera

t ional and

maintenance faci l

i t i e s when

the

SNEP s i t e be

canes

operatiooal..

A

simi

l a r expansion i s planned

a t

t he Jidda SNEP s i te .

liJwever, because of Sau:ti

Arabian :fuOOs

being

a l lo t ted

am the cost estimates

be

ing prepared

before

tOO

f ina l

design

was cx:upleted,

there

were

al1y al lo t ted

funds

to

cover the Ooostruct-

ion

of

four

.

berths

a t

Ras

A

Mishab. The

foor

addi

t ional berths may be added

la ter .

Editor s· ·c a

rific atio

n

The

information

contained

have

taken place within the

n

th i s

issue

of

cast le

can-

Ordnance Program

Management

rrents was researched and wri t -

Division

{OIMJ) {see stories

ten

n

la te

August

and

early beginning on

Page

8) •

Colon-

Septartler.

Because of un- e l

Henry

B. Miller has turn-

avoidable

delays in having

ed over

. ~

cx:rmarKl of

the

this

edit ion published, sare Ordnance

Program to Colonel

of

the information

i s r£

John

Stenger. The program


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ME

Prog ram

Goals

(Continued

fvom Page 3)

cer to

establish

a cx m-

rnarrl

in

Saooi

Arabia,

outlined

his

division's

organization, program

goals, personnel

status

and i t s

e:u:eas

of prior i ty

focus during the five

hour

briefing for

the

OCE

visitors.

n the area

of

organiza

t ional

changes,

BG Wells

· talked about

the

estab

l ~ s h i n g of a second

dis

t r i c t

in

Saudi Arabia in

April,

in

Jidda, to man-

age construction in the

western

portion of the

kingdan,

and

the

forming

of an

Engineer Support

Group in Riyadh to handle

a l l support

and logist ics

operations.

The Division Engineer

also

noted

tha t the

Riy

adh Planning and

Liaison

Office RPID)

has

becare

Riyadh Liaison Office

(RLO),

and

an Engineer

Planning and Liaison Of

f ice

(EPID) has been fornr

ed.

The Riyadh

Liaison

Of

f ice wi l l continue

to

be

the single point

of

con

tac t

within the Corps for

the

Saudi and United States

Governmants.

The

Engineer

Planning and Liaison Of

f ice wi l l be the engin-

eer division point of con

t ac t in Saooi Arabia,

BG Wells

explained.

The

.

-

MIDDLE

EAST

DIVISION

HF.AI)OOARI ERS, RIYADH

BG

Wells saiu

the

Divi-

sion was

going to

push

for

maximum work

placenent in

funded

areas

and work to

expedite ~ I p l e t i o n and

sul:lnission

of

plans,

speci-

fications and other

con

struction docurrents in or- ·

der to accanplish the nush

roaning Saudi construction

program.

In addition,

he l is ted

planning and

programning,

financial management,

cus

tarer

sat isfact ion,

contract

administration

and public

perception as priori ty

goals for

the

new Division.

He also included engin

eering and construction

co

terranean Division to be

cxxrpleted by

1 October.

Middle East

Division

Head-

quarters

(pictured above)

i s located

in

the

western

section

of

Riyadh.

The

main building

(called

the

Palace )

houses

the

executive off ice sui te ,

Counsel,

Construction

nivi

sion, Riyadh

Liaison

Office,

Engineer Planning and Liai

san

Office and the Aviation

Office.

Personnel, Adrninistrat

t ive

Services

Provost Mar-

shal l , Planning and u:>gis

t i cs Crnptroller

and other

s taff

offices are

located

in

the

surrounding adja


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Visits

Saudi

Major General Bates C.

Burnell,

Chief

of

Mili

tary Construction for

the

Office,

Chief

of

En

gineers CCE) and

other

OCE

department heads

visi ted

Middle

East Divi

sion and Saudi Arabia

District construction ac

t iv i t ies in

la te

August.

On his f i r s t v i s i t to

Saudi Arabia since the

establishment of Middle

East Division in Riyadh,

M3

Burnell

was accx:npan

ied by Mr. Frederick

McNeely,

Chief, OCE

Mili

t a ry Construction Divi-

OCE

VISITORS--Major General

Bates

C. Burnell, Chief

of

Military

Construction,

above) greets

Central Area

Engineer Lieutenant

Colonel

Jarres

P.

Fero, upon his

ar

rival in

Riyadh.

Also pic

tured

fran

l e f t are

Middle

sion; Mr.

Lee

Garrett ,

Chief, OCE

Military Engin

eering Division; Mr.

E.

Manning

Seltzer ,

OCE

Chief

Counsel,

and

Mr.

\ k:x:rly

Berge, Chief,

OCE

Real

Es

ta te

Division.

Upon their arr ival in

Riyadh,

the OCE party was

greeted by

Division

and

Distr ict s taff personnel

and

were

then briefed by

Middle East Division En

gineer Brigadier General

Richard M.

Wells on the

new

Division's

organiza

tion, personnel

status

and program goals. See

rabia

related

story

on

Page 3)

In Riyadh, the visi t ing

OCE party toured Saudi Ara

bia Distr ict

construction

s i tes

and traveled

75 kilo

rreters

southeast

to

A1

Kharj t vis i t depot opera

tions

supervised

by

the

Ordnance Program Management

Division

(OPMD).

The group also

visited

Saudi Arabian

Naval

Expan

sion Construction si tes a t

Jidda

and a t

Jubail

and

construction s i tes a t

Tabuk

and a t Al Batin.

SO P

rovvs

(Continued fran

Page

l l

of

$350

million

and

the

con

tinued goals

of

providing

the

best advice and

assis

tance to the

Saudi Arabian

Ordnance Corps.

Editor 's Note: This

ar t ic-

le

on

SOCP concludes

the

series

of Historical

Sket

ches ,which began in Castle

COI flrel1ts

in

September

1975.

Subjects

for the Historical

, I

Sketches

have

been the

Corps'

construction

programs

in

Saudi Arabia beginning with

the construction of

Dhahran

Air Base in

1951.


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Contracts

Signed

or

2 orilesr

Saudi Arabia Distr ic t

has

recently signed

two

lease-back construction

contracts for

200

single

family

hares for Corps

of Engineers

•

personnel

in the Riyadh area.

The f i r s t contract was

signed

in

July with

Al

Hikmah

Enterprises of

Riyadh see picture be

low)

for

17.3 million.

The 100 hares

in

th is

contract wil l

be

cas t - in

place and wil l be con

structed

in

the western

section

of

the ci ty.

The second

contract ,

for an addit ional 100

homes,

was signed

8

Sep

tember with Rabiah and

Nasser

Coopnay

of

Riy

ady

for

13.7

million.

The 100 prefabricated

hones under th is con

t rac t

wil l be

located

approximately eight

ki lo

rreters eas t of Riyadh on

the Khurais (Dhahran)

Rood.

The f i r s t

tmits

of the

prefab CCJ:tl)ound

wil l

be

ready for

occupancy in

January 1977,

and

the

re

ma.inder wil l be carpleted

in April 1977.

Thirty-three vi l las of

the 100 vi l l a cc:rrp:>und

located within

the c i ty

l imits

wil l

be

finished

in April and the remai. 'l-

der

wil l

be coopleted by

August

1977.

The houses in both

can

FOunds

have

an Anerican

style layout. There

are

two,

three

and

four bed-

room

units ,

and a l l

wil l

be

central ly

a i r condi

t ioned

and heated. The

hares wil l

be

equipped

with

u.s.

appliances,

in

cluding dishwashers, and

wil l

have

carpet ing and

drapes.

Both cc:rrp:>unds wil l

have

the i r

own )?C IINer

ge11.erating system. Each

carpollJ. rl

wil l also have

potable (drinking)

water

f ran the tap. The

C'Cllp)Uild

on Khurais Road wil l have

a washer and a dryer in

each

unit ,

and

the other

c:orrp::>und

wil l have a

can

nunity laundry rocm..

n the area

of

recreation

a l

fac i l i t i es both can

pounds

wil l have a sw.i.nming

pool, recreation

center,

tennis

courts

and childrens '

playground. The

OCJrf?OUI d

on Khurais Road

wil l

also

have a

basketball court .

Both

carp::>unds wil l be

landscaped and

have

i r r i

gation systans. The can

pound in the c i ty is

locat

ed in a wadi dry stream

channel)

,and

the contract

guarantees each

uni t wil l

have

a

t ree

in

the

yard.

Lieutenant

Colonel Janes

P. Fero, Central

Area En

gineer,

i s project off i -

cer

for

the vi l l a a:iistruct-

. ion, and

he

said the Corps

1

decision to

build

the two

large catpOunds wil l ~

housing

ma.intenance

costs

and

improve

.the

t rans-

portation system (by consoli

dating

personnel

locations) •

He also pointed out tha t

with

the

two 100-vi l la

can

pounds, the

Corps· wil l get

Arrerican quality construct

ion, and tha t c:orrp::>und

l iv ing

wil l create

an

Ameri

can

ocmnuni

ty

at::lrosphere,

which wil l

increase

morale.

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__

PIDM:Yl ION

CEREIDNY--Assistant Saud.i

Arabia

Distr ict Engin

eer

Colonel

George B. Anderson congratulates Lieutenant

Colonel

Gary

Scharberg

following

his

prarotion to Lieuten

ant

Colonel. At

r ight i s

Lieutenant Colonel

Harry

N. ·

Wh-

i t e

of the

Ordnance

Program

Mana.gerrent Division

(OPMD).

L K:

Scharberg

i s the

OPMD

advisor

a t

Al Kharj

•

Promotions

IWo mili tary :rrernbers of

the Ordnance Program Man-

agement Division (OPMD)

have

recently

received

promotions, and one off i -

cer

has

received

notice

of

his

upcoming promotion.

Gary

Scharberg,OPMD ad

visor a t Al Kharj , received

his

si lver

leaves a t a cere

ll'Ony, July 21 in

Riyadh.

L OC Scharberg, who is

fran

South Dakota, has

been

in

Saudi Arabia

since

February.

He

prev

iously was

assigned to the

Arny s Ordnance

enter and

School,

Aberdeen

Proving

Grounds,

Maryland.

In the second

OPMD

pro

ll'Otion,

Ra.Yll Ond

H. Vance,

nnounced

and three children.

OPMD

advisor Major

John G. Coburn

of

Riy-

adh recently received

notice that he i s on the

promotion

l i s t

to

l ieuten

ant

colonel

fran the

sec

ondary

zone.

n

other promotion act

ions, Distr ict Engineer

Colonel George

B.

Gray

and Colonel Miller were

both naned to the

:pennan

ent l i s t for Colonel,

Regular

Anny.

In the

area of

civi l -

ian

prarotions,

the

Mid··

dle East Division Person

nel

Office has announced

the following prarotions:

Dana Doyle, Personnel Staff

hief Plans

Saudi Visit

Chief of

Engineers

Lieu

tenant General John W. M:>r-

r i s

wil l

vis i t Middle East

Division and Saudi Arabia

Distr ict during

October.

General M:>rris succeeded

re t i r ing Lieutenant General

William C.

Gribble

as

Chief

on 1 July. General Morris

was fonrerly Deputy

Chief

of Engineers,

and

Major

Gen

eral

Robert

C. Marshall was

recently

naired

to

f i l l that

post.

When General Gri.l:ble turn

ed

the Corps

1

leadership

over

to General M:>rris in

June,

he l is ted

the

increas

ed workload in Saudi Arabia

as

one

of

his biggest chal

lenges during his three

years

as

Chief.

We've

had our share

of

challenges--fran

the

s:pectre

of

a

federal Department of

Energy

and Natural Resources

to a

200-fold

increase

in

the scope

of responsibil i

t ies

in

Saud.i

Arabia,

he

noted.

Also, during

the

farewell

cererrony,

General

Gribble

presented his successor with

a

pair of gold cast les,

which

were given to

General

Douglas

MacArthur

by his

father when young

HacArthur

graduated

fran West Point.

General MacArthur

in

turn

gave

the

castles

to his

assistant

Major

General Lief

J Sverdrup, who presented ·

them to General Gribble

in

1975. In giving the cas

t l es to General Sverdrup,

General MacArthur said, "they


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his to rica

sketches

Corps

Assumes New

The

Corps

of

Engineers'

ro le

as

program

manager

for developing a

rrodern

logist ics

system for

the

Sau:ii

Arabian

Arley off i

c ia l ly

ended

in Novelrber

1972.

During

the five

and

one

hal f years of

the

Sau:ii

Arabian r-t:>bility Pro-

gram

(SAMP)

and

the

R::Jyal

A.rrnairents Maintenance

Program (RAMP) , the

Corps had placed

alnost

98 million in

construct

ion,

t raining

and services

toward develcping the

lo -

gis t ics system.

Editor 's

Note:

See

His

tor ica l Sketches, July Cas

t l e Ccmrents,

for

the

story of the Corps

1

role

in

SAM ? RAMP.

At

the

conclusion

of

S \MP

RAMP,

the Ministry

of

De-

fense and Aviation

asked

tha t the (brps continue

to

work

with the

Ordnance

Corps but in a new role .

In t he new

agreenent

signed

in 1972, the responsibi l i ty

for

the

future operation

and managenent

of

the

logis

t i cs

system develc:ped

dur-

Ro le n

ing

the

previoUs

five

and

Cl le-half

years

was

charged

to the Sau:ii Arabian Ord-

nance

Corps. (Under the

SAMP

RAMP

arrangenents, the

contractor

ani

the

.ODI:ps

were respOnsible for overal l

program

management.)

The Corps

1

role sin e

1972

has been

one

of giving

ass is

tance

to

the

Ordnance

Corps

in

the i r

managerrent

tasks

;

planning, budgeting ,and

audi t

ing procedures ; contracting

for persormel ,and CO\mter-

p r t t raining sauii

persOnnel

(Continued oo Page 9)

Ordnance

Advisor s

Role Explained

By

Major John

G.

Coburn

Operations/Persormel Advisor_

The Ordnance Program

Manager' s

Division's OPMD)

advisory

effor t i s sorre

what unique. I t s unique

ness stems from

the

fact

tha t the Saudi Arabian

Arley Ordnance Corps SAACX::)

has enployed

a

contractor

to aCCCilplish many of

the

tasks tha t

an advisor would

normally be expected to

acoarplish.

In

i t se l f ,

the

employrrent

of a contractor would re

l ieve the advisor of sorre

of his normal duties. How

ever,

since

the U.S. Govern

ment,

specif ical ly the

He processes res'lllt'Es

for key positions, writes

job

descriptions

for con

t ractor positions

in his

area, prepares input for

review

and analyses, wat

ches t ine reports and in

general stays aware of con

t ractor

effectiveness

in

his area.

He

i s in a

sense the eyes and ears

of

the

Contracting

Offi

cer

1

s Representative

OOR)

• However, he i s not

a mR and

nust

be

part icu

la r ly careful not to

give

direct ions

tha t

might

resul t in a

contractual

claim.

The

second

role

of

the

OPMD advisor could be l ab

elled the

pure

advisory

and procedures,

etc .

UOOerstamably, these ad

visory

roles wil l

often

overlap.

Thus, t will

sanetilres be

diff icul t

to

separate them in

day-to

day operations. Also,

the

degree

to which each

role

i s

erphasized

wil l depend

on

the

advisor's location.

An advisor in a rerrote

area might be

nore oanoern

ed with b:M

well

the con

t rac tor supports his

pecple

than would an

advisor

oot

so ratOtely located.

In

the

f inal

analysis ,

t

rray

rrake

l i t t l e difference

as

to whether an advisor

urxlerstands the

technical i

t ies

of

his

dual role . I f

his a t t i tude

i s one of


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Ordnance

(Continued f ran Page B)

in

contracting and

f i s

ca l administration rreth

ods.

The goal of th is ass is

tance has

been

to t ra in

the Saoois

to

manage

the

logist ics program and to a l -

low for the Corps'

gradual

wit:Mrawal.

To re f lec t the new arrange

rrents and

new

goals, the

program

was

naired

the

Sa\.rli

Arabian Army

Ordnance

Corps S A A C X : / ~ )

Program.

lbe Sal.rli Arabian

Govern

rrent

pays a l l

costs of

SCXP,

and

the

funds

are provided

to the Depart:m:mt of Defen

se urrler Foreign Military

Sales Cases.

The

principal

contract

to

support s::x::::P

was

a

person

a l services contract award

ed

1

Novenber

1972

to the

jo in t venture

o f

Bendix

Field

Engineering

of Co

llllTbia, Mary ani

and

the

Satrli Maintenance

Corpora

t ion of Sa\.rli Arabia.

The

in i t i a l

contract

was

for 14.

5 mill ion and

pro

vided

for

the furnishing

and supporting

of

ar.proxi

mately 450 ski l led

person

nel a t the Ordnance Head

quarters in

Riyadh

and a t

·

s ix

auxil iary

s i tes

in the

kingdan.

In

1974, Bendix

Siyanoo

was awarded

a seoond

two-year contract

for $26

million.

To inplerrent

the

new pro

gram

goals,

the Corps of

Engineers realigned i t s

orps

·

Prog r.a m

rrents

direct ly

to the

ven-

dors

for

local procure

rrents, ani the Distr ic t

s ta f f

was

also

reorganized

to provide greater counter

par t

t raining.

The Distr ic t s ta f f div i

sion, which manages

the

ordnance program,

i s naired

the

Ordnance Program

Manage

rrent Divisioo (OPMD).

Col

onel Hem:y B. Miller i s

chief

of

th i s

divis ion,

and

he i s assisted by 15 mili

t ary persamel

and

12

c i

vil ians.

In ass i s t ing the Sa\.rli

Ordnance

Corps

with

the

managemant of

i t s

logist ics

systems,

OPMD has been con

centrat ing

on

establishing

systems

and

procedures

in

three areas:

personnel

man-

.

agemant, contracting and

f iscal

administrat ion.

The rrost signif icant de

te r rent to .

the Corps'

grad

ual withdrawal and the fu

ture self-sufficiency of

the

Sa\.rli

Ordnance

Corps i s

the

lack

of

qualif ied,

trainable personnel.

To

overccrre th i s deterrent ,

OPMD has

developed

and reoo

rnrended

to

M:>M several

t raining and education

programs.

OPMD has received awrov

a l

for

and

i s currently

f inal izing developtent

of

a

special t ra in ing

pro

gram for the Sal Xli Arabian

Army Ordnance Corps

(

SANX:.)

• Known

as the Re

crui t Training Program,

the

program which wil l make

the SANX:

self-suff ic ient

within

eight

years.

To

acoarplish

these

oo-

ject ives,

200 recruits

per

year (1,000 to ta l wil l

be t rained in the United

States

over

a seven-year

period.

Each recrui t wi l l

receive

two

ani

cme-half

to

three years o r inten

sive

training to

incl\Xle

basic

mathematics

arrl

science.

OPMD

envisions

that the bulk o f this t ra in

ing wil l

be OCilducted by

a civi l ian oantractor.

.Administration of the

.

program

wil l

be oorrlucted

jo in t ly by

representatives

of

the SANX:. statiooed in

the

United

States ,

arrl

the u.s. Army Training and

Doctrine

cannand

( l RAIXX:) •

plans to use the

program manager ooooept

for inplementation

arrl ad

ministration of the

program.

OPMD has also received

approval

to inpleaent a Mili

ta ry

Occupational

Specialty

System (M>S)

code

ani

class i

f icat ion structure, which

has been de ve l qa l for O:r:d-

nance Co:rps

enlisted

.

per

sonnel. 'Ihe M>S code

structure i s

a silrple,

f lex

ib le arrl easy to urrlerstand

system

which i s speci f i

cal ly

designed

to

rreet

O:r:d-

nance Corps needs. The

concept

provides

for

a

classificat ion

system

that

wil l ra:nain stable

regard

less of

changes in

organi


13/32

Ordnar ce Division

Featured

Featured in th i s

nonth

• s

Office

Spotlight i s the

Ordnance Program Manage

ment

Division

OPMO).

Tqis organization

i s

head

ed by

Colonel

enry B.

Miller,

and OPMD i s re-

sponsible

for

assis t ing

and

trainin,g the

Saudi

Arabian Anny Ordnance

Corps

SAN:£)

under

an

agreerrent

signed in

1972

by

the

United

States

and Saudi Arabia.

Colonel Miller has been

Chief, OPMD for alnost

two years

and

will

be

leaving

ear ly

next

nonth

to becc::ne

Director

of Pro

curement and

Production

a t

Redstone

Arsenal,

Hunts

vi l le

Alabama.

His

\-life, Judy, and

younger daughter, Alice,

have returned to

the

States.

The Millers•

older daugh

te r

Mary, i s

a

recent

graduate

of Maryville

(Tennessee) College.

The

Millers

are from Castal

ian

Springs, Tennessee.

Lieutenant Colonel

Harry

N. White i s

the

sen

ior advisor

for mainten

ance,and

he

i s

currently

acting executive officer .

He and his

wife,

Mary

Grace, have

s ix

children,

Ju l ie Michael, John,

l Iichelle,

Noel and Chris

topher.

LTC White

is

from

Tennessee.

Major John G. Coburn

is

the

senior advisor

for

operations and personnel.

He

and

his

wife,

Janice,

and

two

sons,

John and

Rob

er t

are from

Ypsilanti ,

Michigan.

Major Doyling

Gene)

Pat-

terson, the senior

advisor

for

supply,

i s in

Riyadh

with

his

wife,

Ruth, and

daughters,

Katherine

and

Kristen. The

Pattersons

are from

I l l ino is .

Captain Walter Weir,

the

supply and

automatic

data

processing advisor,

i s

from

New Jersey. His

wife,

Linda,

and

daughter,

Aman

da, are

residing

in

Lakewood,

New Jersey.

Another mil i tary

rrerrber

of the OPMD

s taf f Lieuten

ant Colonel cecil R. Jones,

will

be arriving

th is nonth.

David Wi

t tnebel fran

Schaumburg, I l l ino is re-,

cent l

y

arrived to becorre

Chief, Contracts

Branch.

He

i s accompanied by

wife,

Martha,

and

children,

Laura,

and Karl.

Constantine

Alex) Econo

nou

i s the

faci l i t ies

main

tenance and management

ad

visor. From

Athens, Greece,

he

l ives in Riyadh,

with

his wife, Anna Maria, and

children,

Mario

and

Katherin.

A

contract special is t

Wadime YoroN,

i s

accarpan

ied by his wife, Pat,

and

daughters,

Tania, and Nat

al ie . The Yonows cal l

Paris , France,

hc::ne.

Another

contract

special

i s t John

Lagerquist

i s

accanpanied by his wife,

Barbara.

The

Lagerquists

cal l

California

home,

and

their

grawn children,

David

and Patric ia ,

l ive

there.

Robert

Anton

i s

a digi-

t a l

corrputer systems advis


14/32

(Continued

fran

Page 10

the

Contract Services

Branch

are

John

Wass

fran

Chicago, I l l inois

am Gary Tha:nas fran San

Diego, california .

Nazzal

B. Nazzal i s the

senior

interpreter arrl

t ranslator

for

OPMD.

He

arrl

his wife, Samirah,

have

s ix

children, Sawson,

mad,

Jihad,

Barham,

Manal and Nader. The

Naz

zals are fran Ramallah,

Jordan.

The secretary to the

Chief, OPMD i s

Pat

Hat

f ie ld. She i s

from Coh.mr

bus, Georgia, where her

parents,

Mr.

and Mrs.

Bobert

Hatfield

l ive .

Clerk-Typist Shirley

Reynolds

arrl

her

.

husband,

Robert, have four chi l -

dren

I2a, Eileen

Carol

and

Scott. The Reynolds

family came to Saudi Ara

bia from

Champaign,

I l l i -

nois.

Joe

Ellen

Greenis

an

ad

ministrative clerk. She

i s

acca.tpanied by

husband,

Marion

(Beau) ,

and

daugh

t e r Prepa. The

Greens

are fran Smainsboro,

Geor

gia.

Amad

Abd-Al Kasem

fran

Jordan i s

the

Arabic ty

pist . She

is

s ingle

and

i s in Riyadh with

her

parents,

Mr.

and Mrs.

Hussein

Abd-Al

Kasern.

In addition to Riyadh,

OPMD

mili tary personnel

are

stationed

in five

Spotlight

CW3 Aldridge's children,

Petra, Paul and Thanas,

are

residing in

Williams

burg,

Kentucky.

M SG

case

i s acccupan

ied

by wife Sue, and son,

Jerry. The

Cases

are

fran Indiana.

Taif

-

Major Gary

Gard

ner i s

the

senior advis-

. or, and he is a.cc:a:rpan

ied by

his

wife, Myrna,

and

son

Matthew.

The

Gardners

are fran Okla,

hana City, Oklahana.

Major ot to

Weber

i s

the senior advisor a t

the

Ordnance Corps School. He

is

fran Detroit , Michigan,

and

i s accarpanied by

wife,

Betsy,

and children,

ot to

Ronald,

Virginia,

Gerald and Mary.

Story

Also,

stationed a t Taif i s

Serge

advisor

in Jidda.

OS System

s Keystone

(Continued fran Page 9)

system

i s

one of the

key-

stones to the ent i re

m:xl-

ernizat ion

program

since

the

planned

introduction

of new

equip:rent wil l

·

have a s ignificant inpa.ct

on the mmber and type s)

of sk i l l s required.

Until the discussed

t raining program, and

possibly

other

t raining

programs

are

c:arpleted.,

the

Corps plans

to

ex-

pand the ro le of the

per

sonal services contractor

to provide the

additiooal

skil led persamel

needed

to

be

the inpleaentation of a

financial manageaent plan

for

the

Saudi Arabian

Ord-

nance

Co:rps.

At

present,

there i s

no

decentralization

of

funds

control in the

SatX.li

Arabian

Q:>vernment,

and i f the designed plan

is adopted by

the SatX.li Ara

bian Ordnance

Co:rps J

t

wil l be a new

approach

to

f iscal

managarent. The de-

centralized

system

is viewo

ed by

OPM:>

as a test for

possible future execution

in

other

departments of

MDA.

As SOCX>P nears the end of

i t s fourth

year

of opera

........


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Hous i ng

Staff

Keeps

usy

ame

of

the

busiest people on the Saudi

Arabia uist r ic t s taf f during the sUITIT r

m::mths have been those involved with the

preparing

of

new l iving

quarters for

inccm

ing personnel.

Arriving Distr ict

personnel

and

the

re lo

cating of Mediterranean Division personnel

from I taly pro:luced a peak need for new

houses during the

m::mths

of July

and August.

The

housing preparation

....ork

i s coordin

ated

by

the

Facil i t ies

Management Branch

of the Riyadh Base Support Division,

but

other

staff

divisions are also

involved.

Real Estate

Division

leases new houses,

Riyadh Residency

supervises

the

housing

preparation contracts , Procurement and Sup

ply

Division procures

furnishings and

fur

nishes the houses, and the Executive Office

makes a l l housing

assignments.

To prepare the large

m.nnber

of

new houses

needed

in

a

short

tilre, the Distr ict con

tracted

the preparation

....ork to

several

lo

cal finns. During

a

recent tour of the fa

c i l i t i es

being

prepared,

Housing Officer

Jef f

Reaves said,

Once a faci l i ty i s ac

cepted fran the

landlord, the

fac i l i t ies

management

s taf f

f i r s t surveys the new

structures to

see what needs to

be

accom

plished before assigning a vi l l a prepara

t ion team. e said the preparation

need

ed varies with the state

in

which the fa

c i l i ty

was

accepted fran the landlord,

but

the s+-rmdard

items of

preparation

include:

upgrading the elect r ica l power

and

in

stal l ing

i r

conditioners,

·deser t coolers,

hot water heaters,

nedicine

cabinets and

hanging

l igh t

fixtures. When

the

elecJr i -

cal and/or

plurribing ....ork

i s carpleted,

· the

Distr ic t s

warehouse staf f

begins

ahv

ing

in appliances

and

furniture,

Mr.

Reaves

explained.

Mr.

Reaves

said

the biggest preparation

job

th is SUITIT r was preparing the

24-unit

townhouse cooplex C-1)

for occupancy.

e

noted tl1at f i r s t prior i ty had been given to

preparing

family

quarters ,

and

ncM

the

em-

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will shif t

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o CLOSED CIRCUIT TEST

e ICE HOUSE PROCEDURES EQUIPMENT) TESTS

o MYSTIC TARGET PROGRAM

FEED

TESTS

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CONTINUITY TESTS


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