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CLUB OPERATIONS

and shows. “The Hangar E-Club strives to go above and beyond to give
The total revenue for Club Iwakuni in 2017 was $4.9 million, everyone a little taste of home with good customer service,
with $1 million in bar sales and $2.2 million in mess sales. a great atmosphere and something they’ll be able to enjoy
The remainder was spread across miscellaneous programs, responsibly. We have made this with them in mind.”
including catering and bingo.
There are no other club operations aboard MCAS Iwakuni, JOINT PROJECT
although there is a popular all-hands bar at the Strike Zone The Hangar E-Club, intended to provide the enlisted grades
bowling center. E-5 and below a place of their own, is one aspect of a joint
“What we are trying to provide here at the Hangar E-Club, project between MCCS and the Defense Policy Review Initiative
that we haven’t been able to provide at our other clubs, is an (DPRI) that takes into account the location of target custom-
opportunity for service members to experience those same ers, explained Paul Williamson, food and beverage program
types of club atmospheres that they might in town,” said Moses manager in the Business and Support Services Division at
Daniel, Hangar E-Club manager. Marine Corps Headquarters in Quantico, Va.
The joint project involves redesign of the entire
MCAS Iwakuni installation, located in Japan’s Ya-
The Hangar E-Club Bar maguchi Prefecture. The planned reconstruction of
menu features traditional the base over a seven-year period is finally, after sev-
bar food options. Food eral years-long delays, coming closer to completion.
service is provided by When finished, it will have transformed 1,267 of the
MCCS kitchen staff; and air station’s 1,633-acre footprint, or approximately
the kitchen does double 77 percent.
duty as a daytime produc-
tion facility for the MCCS The Sakura Theatre, which opened in the summer
food truck program, which of 2017, is directly located next to family housing
operates four units. and is within walking distance of barracks.
Also opened in summer 2017, the Torii Pines Town
Center, located in the midst of housing, is home to
the MCCS’ lodging operation, Inns of the Corps Iwakuni, as
well as Café, a concept serving Starbucks coffee. The 80-acre
Torii Pines community incorporates an easily accessible skate
park and a fenced backyard for all housing units. Its Town
Center is a first for installations in Japan.

The two-story Hangar E-Club aboard MCAS Iwakuni is a multi-use
facility that features a VIP lounge, poolroom and food court on the
first floor, while the second level has four bars plus a large dance
floor that can accommodate 250 people.

16 MILITARY CLUB & HOSPITALITY | APRIL 2018