Should any of them come back in the evening, they could watchthe Olympics on the six screens in the Aces Sports Bar, whichopened last year and feels like it could be anywhere in civilianAmerica. “We need feedback and interaction - we geta better end product.
“I experience what theyexperience,” he said.
We work professionally, but now wealso can kick back with them.”īaker also likes the new order. “Before, you didn’t really talk to the officers,” Doll said.”Communication is better now. They chatted easily, something that would not have happenedyears ago in a place Pacheco and Doll never would have entered. Rodney Doll of Moreno Valley and SeniorAirman Richard Pacheco were eating lunch when their boss in theaircraft maintenance squadron, Capt. On a recent day in the Back Street Cafe, a section of the HapArnold Club, Tech. “We’re shifting from one culture to another, and it’s still inprogress,” Frye said. The club was named for the generalwho guided the Air Force through its formative years. The rest of the time, the Marines use it forclasses, meetings and events such as retirement parties.įarthest ahead in converting officers’ clubs is the Air Force,the Pentagon said.Īir Force officers’ clubs are becoming activity centers, saidHenry Frye, general manager of the Hap Arnold Club at March AirReserve Base near Moreno Valley.
A portion of the old club wasrenovated and reopened a few months ago as Pub 1795, named afterits building number. Even the Marines, the mosttradition-bound of the services, have closed officers’ clubs.Īnd the closures are fostering a new social order in themilitary, one where comradeship and cohesion are based more on atop-to-bottom unit allegiance rather than the stratified worlds ofofficers and the enlisted.Īt Camp Pendleton, one of the officers’ clubs was converted lastyear into a family-readiness center. The Navy has closed many officers’ clubs the Army has closed amajority, a Pentagon spokesman said.
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