The White Falcon - 10.11.1995, Blaðsíða 2

Dining facility changes
take effect next week
By JO!(AW) B. Natalie Dias
Beginning Monday with the breakfast meal, numerous
changes will take effect at the Enlisted Dining Facility (EDF).
The most noticeable change is that customers will be allowed
only one trip through either the main or speed line. “We’re not
trying to give customers a hard time,” says MSC(SS) Thomas
Goldberg, leading chief petty officer at the EDF. “We need to
get in conjunction with Navy regulations.”
Patrons can ask for a larger serving on certain items while
going through either of the food lines. A hot bar will also be set
up during lunch hours with either chili or pasta. The hot bar is
already available during the evening meal. Also expanding is the
salad bar.
“These changes will benefit the customer in the end,” says
Goldberg. “We’ll begin our take-out service again on Monday
because everyone will be going through only once. We need to
be cost effective.” Another benefit from meeting costs is the
future installation of a cappuccino machine. A yogurt machine
will also be made available at evening meals. “We can do these
things and continue to improve if we remain cost effective.”
Customers with meal pass cards must present them with their
military IDs when signing in at every meal. If eating in civilian
attire, patrons must also meet Navy regulations. “Sweats will not
be allowed unless they are designer sweats with pockets. People
wearing sandals must have socks on,” Goldberg reports. Clothes
must also be clean. Coveralls will be allowed only for pa
squadron personnel and ambulance drivers. Uniform regul
tions will be enforced for those dining in uniform. Males in
branches of the military will not be allowed to wear an earring
under any circumstance.
“Four master-at-arms will enforce the regulations,” says
Goldberg. “I ask that customers not hassle them; they’re only
doing what they’ve been told to do.” Repeat offenders will be
reported to their commands.
Meal hours will also be enforced. Doors will close at the end
of each meal period, which is 6:15 a.m., 1 and 6:15 p.m. Patrons
inside will have 30 minutes from those times to finish their meal.
“It will give us time to prepare for the next meal,” Goldberg
adds.
The EDF back door will also be locked at night for security
purposes. Commands that come to the galley may use a buzzer
located on the right of the first set of double doors.
“In fight of all the changes, I ask the customers to remember
that we serve 51,000 meals a month. That’s the same as on an
aircraft carrier,” Goldberg remarks. “We’re trying to work with
patrons by giving them better service within the restraints that
we must abide by. ”
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Dear John ...
By Chaplain Michael A. Walsh
Three months into a cruise, mail call
would go down. Outside my office,
Sailors would appear wearing terribly dis-
traught faces and squeezing letters in
their hands so tight their blood vessels
seemed about to burst.
Into my office they would storm, sit
abruptly, then stammer and grope for
words. Invariably with great incredulity
they would state, “Chaplain, you won’t
believe this. Read this letter.”
The person whom the Sailor had been
dreaming about and longing to see again
upon return, the one for whom he had
been living, just told him she wouldn’t be
there on the pier. Leaping to his feet, the
Sailor would pace the office deck, curse
the ship’s bulkheads and the thousands of
miles of ocean that separated him from
negotiating with his love. Reduced to
powerlessness and tears, the Sailor was
sentenced to misery for the rest of the
cruise.
I also know it was hard on the authors
of the letters. I knew how they had tried
to tough it out emotionally; how they had
suspended their fife, waiting for it to begin
again with homecoming. They could no
longer stand fife in suspension and from
their emptiness only negative emotions
welled up. Unable to hang on emotional-
ly, only flight seemed open to them.
From the cause of the pain, their love,
they fled. “I love you but I am leaving
you.” How ironic. Yet, in our fractured
humaness, how understandable. For
be together is most naturally pleasii
while to be separated most unnatural am
painful. Perhaps that is why Saint Paul
takes such delight in professing the Lord
as “he who is our peace, and who made
the two of us one by breaking down the
barrier of hostility that kept us apart.”
Ephesians 2:14
The “Dear Johns” and “Dear Janes” of
the world I can only console with the fact
that it isn’t over until you go eyeball to
eyeball and check your chemistry with the
pain of separation past. All things consid-
ered, an accompanied tour even in
Iceland can also be a balm for people’s
hearts.

Commander, Iceland Defense Farce Rear Adm. Stanley W. Bryant -y- Deputy Commander, Iceland Defense Force Col. David L. Lay
Commanding Officer, NAS Keflavik Commudcr, 85th Gr onp Chief of Staff, Fleet Air Keflavik Canmnd Onpliio Commanding Officer, Naval Hospital Keflavik
Capt. W. Robert Blake Jr. Col. Stephen H. Spencer Capt. Walter C. Spearman Jr. Cm dr. Michael A. Walsh Capt. John A. Mitas II
cbe uihfce faLcod
Public Affairs Officer
Lt. Vince Broome
Deputy Public Affairs Officer
Fri6J)6r Kr. Eydal
Leading Chief Petty Officer
JOC Dave Man-
Editor
J01(AW) B. Natalie Dias
Staff
JOl Kevin A. Mills
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YN2 Ronald J. Lema
Administrative Assistant
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