REENLISTS FOR SIX
Jiarold M* DRIESSE, AGO of the Opera
tions Department reenlisted on board
the Naval Station on 27 July 1962 for
a period of six years. This is the
third time for the Chief to sign up.
Chief DRIESSS reported on board the
Naval Station on 22 August 1961 and will
be on board until February 1963. He
reported from the Naval Missile Center r
Point Mugu, California. Pryoc to being
in California the Chief was aboard a
couple of APATs.
The Chief comes from Manchester, N.H.
were he graduated from Manchester
Central High School.
The Chief and his wife, Yvette, reside
on board the Naval Station with their ' ■
four daughters, Dorothy Marie, Patricia
Ann, Sandra Lee and Margaret Ann.
Congatulations on your reenlistment.
REENLISTS UNDER THE SCORE PROGRAM
Melvin C. MATTSON of the Navy Exchange
reenlisted on board the Naval Station
for a period of six-years under the
Score Program, MATTSON has been granted
•. authority from the Chief of Naval'
Personnel to convert his present rate
of SH2 to BT2 via Class "A" school.
He reenlisted on the 27th of July
► and hopes to have orders to' the school
in the very near future.
Mel and his wife, Clara Joanne, reside
on board the Naval Station. Mrs,MATTSON
is the former Miss Clara Joanne GIOBBI
of LaTrobe, Penn.
SH2 MATTSON reported on board for
duty on 10 November 1961 from the USS
UNION AKA-106.
He hails from Onamia, Minnesota where
he graduated from Onamia High School.
Congratulations on your reenlistment .
and a lot of luck to you on your
schooling and conversion.
For further information on the STAR
Program contact Chief HOLSTEIN, PNCS,
at the Military Personnel Office,
STAR PROGRAM
Selective Training and Retention (STAR)
Program is a program'of many incentives
to induce selected, high quality personne
to make the Navy a career.
The Navy is in need of greater numbers
of high-quality career enlisted personnel
for training in all technical skills. The
heavy training investment in time and
loney makes it mandatory that personnel
so trained be those who have indicated
that they plan to make the Navy a career.
The STAR Program is for those personne]
in their first enlistment who desire to
indicate they are career personnel by
reenlisting for .6 years.
The ST.Ji, Program was not established
to be a normal reenlistment incentive
program, but rather a means of obtaining
long-term reenlistments as early as pos
sible in the first term of naval service.
Gn and after 1 October 1962 the maximum
number of years of active duty military
service is reduced from 6 to 3 years for
eligibility for the STAR Program. Person
nel who will have completed more than 3
years of active military service on or
before 1 October 1962 who desire to
participate in the STAR Program must make
application prior to that date.
Enlisted personnel who reenlist unde
this program after a minumum of 1 year oi
active Naval service and not more than 3
years of active military service, for a
period of 6 years, are considered to be
career designated.
The benefits are numerous, such as
guaranteed Class "A" school for E-3 with
automatic advancement, reenlistment bonus
The E-5 group has the same similar bene
fits.
"Requests for career designation are
particularly desired for the following
ratings in which personnel shortages
are critical:
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