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TDE WH3TE FALCON
Saturday, March 26, 1960
Another “First” for ABRON
The 1400th Air Base Squadron chalked up another “first” last week
when they became the first Keflavik Airport organization to fulfill
their quota for the current American Red Cross Fund Drive. Major
Paul O. Gaughenbaugh, ABRON Commander (center) congratulates
project officer CWO Bill Sapp (right), and 1st Sergeant John Mahaney
for their part in the drive. In the background is the coveted Com-
mander’s Trophy awarded the Air Base Squadron for the period ex-
tending May through October 1959. The “eager beaver” ABRONer’s
racked up a total of 275 points in athletic competition during that
period to take home the trophy. Slated to run through April 7, the
Red Cross Fund Drive has not yet reached the 50 per cent mark
according to Major Edgar J. Becker, Base Project Officer. The officers
and men of the 1400th ABRON contributed $105 to be the first to
reach the 100 per cent mark. (Official USAF Photo by A/3C Elvan
Jorgenson.)
Girl Scouts Visit “MARS”
Keflavik Airport’s Girl Scouts received the “thrill of a lifetime” last
week when they visited MARS—not the one which our space scientists
have in mind. Here, TSgt. Tom King, NCOIC of Keflavik Airport’s
MARS Station entertains some members of the distaff side of the
scouting program. Left to right are Saundra Huff, Rosemary Dray,
Lottie Shultz and Jennifer Helms. Jo Anne Haveland occupies the
seat of honor on Sergeant King’s lap. The girls toured the station
and watched Sergeant King demonstrate the MARS System.
THE WHITE FALCON
Volume 10 Number 12
HEADQUARTERS, ICELAND DEFENSE FORCE
Col. Benjamin G. Willis, USAF
Island Commander Iceland (ISCOMICE)
THE WHITE FALCON is an official Armed Forces newspaper published weekly at Kefla-
vik Airport, Iceland, by and for the Army. Navy and Air Force personnel of the Iceland
Defense Force. THE WHITE FALCON receives AFP8 material. Views and opinions expressed
herein are not necessarily those of the Department of Defense.
Deadline for copy: 9 a.m. Monday. Telephone number: 4J56, k!9h.
Information Officer.............Major Lawrence A. Keefe, USAF
Information NCOIC ........... MSgt George W. Williams, USAF
Editor...........................A/1C Laurence O. Smith, USAF
Sports Editor.......................... SSgt Jim Warner, USAF
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etroleum Distribution
Man-Size” Job at KA
Toil, Not Glamour
Is SAC Mission
High on SAC’s problem list is
the difficulty of securing and re-
taining its top men. Two books
recently published highlight this
problem area and make us realize
that there will probably be no
permanent cure for this personnel
ailment.
Both volumes are aimed at the
younger reader and reveal the de-
tails of SAC’s complex operation
in terms of weapons, manpower
and training. Both books also show
there is less glamour and more
sweat and dedication to duty in
SAC than the general public will
ever understand.
JET NAVIGATOR by Ruther-
ford Montgomery and Lt. Col.
Grover Heiman, USAF, describes
the experiences of aviation cadet
Bob Williams, who picked his job
over that of pro football. However,
he is washed out of pilot training
for defective vision and goes into
navigator training. Only after a
severe test of his endurance, cour-
age and ability does Williams real-
ize the essential role of a naviga-
tor in a SAC crew, and decide to
make it a career.
SKY SENTRY by Arnold Brop-
hy is a true and accurate port-
rayal—in words and pictures—of
the life of a SAC B-52 combat
crewman, SSgt Michael O’Keefe.
By following his training and act-
ivities, the reader learns how SAC
works, what it does and the dif-
ficulties that confront the com-
mand in keeping its intercontin-
ental bombers on the alert or fly-
ing, 24 hours a day.
Wext Week'A
fttcrie Schedule
ANDREWS THEATER
Sunday & Monday — ONCE
MORE WITH FEELING - Yul
Brynner, Kay Kendall.
Tuesday —- KING KREOLE -
Elvis Presley, Carolyn Jones, Dean
Jagger.
Wednesday — CASH McCALL
- James “Maverick” Garner, Na-
talie Wood.
Thursday & Friday - BECAUSE
THEY’RE YOUNG - Dick Clark,
Victoria Shaw, Michael Callan.
Saturday — THE BIG CIRCUS
- Victor Mature, Red Buttons,
Rhonda Fleming, Kathryn Grant,
Steve Allen.
THEATER #2
Sunday — THE HORSE SOL-
DIERS - John Wayne, William
Holden, Constance Towers.
Monday — PRETTY BOY
FLOYD - John Ericson, Joan
Harvey.
Tuesday — THE BIG CIRCUS
- Victor Mature, Red Buttons,
Rhonda Fleming, Kathryn Grant,
Steve Allen.
Wednesday & Thursday - ONCE
MORE WITH FEELING - Yul
Brynner, Kay Kendall.
Fridav _ KING KREOLE -
Elvis Presley, Carolyn Jones,
Dean Jagger.
Saturday — CASH McCALL -
James “Maverick” Garner, Na-
talie Wood.
There will be continuous show-
ings at both theaters on weekends
beginning at 1 p.m. and theater
2 will offer matinee showings all
week long.
Examining the nozzle of a 5,000 gallon refueling unit assigned to the
Keflavik Airport USAF POL section are, from left, Major Frank W.
Simmons, POL Section OIC, MSgt Frank T. Faulkner, POL Section
NCOIC, TSgt Myron C. Wells, NCOIC Aviation Stock Fund, MSgt
William C. Tedder, NCOIC Truck Refueling, Mr. Edward B. Cleaver,
head of the Plans, Requirements and Administrative Section, and TSgt
Thomas B. Early, NCOIC, Tank Farm. (Official USAF Photo by A/3C
Elvan Jorgenson.)
Liquid petroleum products equivalent to the contents
of a string of railroad tanker cars 121 miles long have
been brought into Keflavik Airpoi-t during a six-month
period. Figuring on a monthly basis, this adds up to about
two million gallons of fuel per'
month—all consumed by the De-
fense Forces here at Keflavik Air-
port.
Administering the distribution
of this tremendous amount of com-
bustibles and lubricants is the
POL (Petroleum, Oil, Lubricants)
Office, headed by Major Frank
W. Simmons. The POL section,
part of the 1400th Supply Squad-
ron, employs 75 persons to order,
receive, exercise quality control,
store and distribute these POL
supplies.
Airmen from the POL section
receive the liquid petroleum pro-
ducts at the refueling pier just
outside the Keflavik Breakwater.
Here they help unload oil barges
which were loaded at the oil
storage areas in Hvalfjordur or
Hafnarfjordur. The fuel was de-
posited at these two points by
ocean-going tankers coming from
Aruba, Dutch West Indies and
from coastal cities in Texas.
From the Keflavik Pier the fuel
is piped to fuel storage tanks on
the base.
From these tanks on-base, the
fuel is channeled towards its final
destination. During the last six-
month period, some four and one
half million gallons of oil were
funneled into airport heating fac-
ilities. Thousands of gallons of
other POL products were piped
to the flight line.
Major Simmons, a veteran of
some 30 years in the POL business
both military and commercial,
heads this group of highly trained
specialists. It is his job to see
that an uninterrupted supply of
pure and uncontaminated fuel
flows ceaslessly into the thirsty
tanks here at Keflavik. That, in
brief, is the mission of Keflavik
Airport’s POL Section.
Its a thankless job—some 75
per cent of their work is outside
in all. kinds of weather. Thus far,
the fuel has come through regard-
less of the many operational hand-
icaps.
Major Simmons had high praise
for all the personnel in the POL
Section. “It is their skill and their
dedication to duty which has made
our operation a successful one,”
he said.
933rd Emblem
Shows Mission
The 933rd Aircraft Control and
Warning Squadron recently re-
ceived approval from Headquart-
ers USAF for a new Squadron
Emblem. The emblem, was pre-
pared by A/3C Richard A. Knoll,
a former member of the 933rd.
The emblem is in the shape of
a disc with an Air Force Blue
background, bordered by a golden
yellow ring. On the blue field
there is a white eagle in flight
grasping a golden yellow lightn-
ing flash in his talons. This stands
above a second golden lightning
flash. These are surrounded be-
tween three white stars, one above
the dexter (right) chief, one above
the sinister (left) chief, and one
at the base. Issuing from the
border in sinister and surmount-
ing the lightning streaks is a
white mailed right hand with the
palm up. All outlines and details
are colored Air Force Blue
throughout.
The emblem is symbolic of the
Squadron and its mission and
bears the Air Force colors, ultra-
marine blue and golden yellow, to
indicate its relationship to the
USAF. The blue background with
stars represents night, the golden
yellow border represents day, and
together they represent a contin-
uous round-the-clock operation.
The Eagle carrying the lightning
bolt indicates the interceptor, and
the mailed hand represents radar
guidance and control for defense.