The White Falcon - 20.08.1960, Page 3

Saturday, August 20, 1960
THE WHITE FALCON
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Boy Had It Pegged Right
‘Home’ Belongs in House
WHO, US?—A human interest picture like this—catching the natural
expressions of children—could be a winner in the USAF Photo Contest.
Have you submitted your entries? For details, see the accompanying
story.
Photo Contest Nears
Aug. 24 Deadline
(Editor’s Note—This Part II of
a 13 series article on the family
in the Air Force.
Not too many studies on mili-
tary family life are available al-
though there are literally thous-
ands of books on family life ob-
tainable in the libraries. These
books are concerned for the mosl
part with “normal” family life
as lived by average civilians or
“abnormal” situations where some
of the family members are a bit
on the odd side.
There are many facets of fam-
ily life that military people re-
gard as normal, whereas, the same
circumstances might well be high-
ly abnormal for a civilian family.
Take, for example, the estab-
lishment of a “home.” Career
military people expect to move
IVIanual
On Press
The new Air Forces Iceland
Manual 35-1, bringing procedures
used by the Military Personnel
Division up-to-date, goes to press
this week.
When published the new manual
will be distributed to all squad-
rons and major sections or divis-
ions. The book covers numerous
personnel actions and permits sec-
tions to prepare Personnel Action
forms without asking for help
from the Personnel offices.
The manual deals thoroughly
with curtailments and what re-
asons or circumstances are ac-
ceptable to grant a tour cut.
There has been no change in pre-
vious policies put in effect in
December of 1959. The only ad-
ditional step in effect today is
that Lt. Col. James A. Whitt,
deputy chief of staff for person-
nel, is personally reviewing the
curtailment requests.
The seven chapters of the man-
ual will cover Centralized Person-
nel Administration, Administra-
tion of Airmen, Administration of
Officers and Warrant Officers,
Pay and Allotments, Morning Re-
ports, Station Clearances and
Leaves of Absence.
Personnel officials expect AF-
IM 35-1 distribution to be com-
pleted in two weeks.
for the excess.
The most recent list of countries
where only 2,000 pounds can be
taken includes Alaska, Panama,
Germany, Johnston Island, Labra-
dor, Okinawa, Saudi Arabia,
Guam, Hawaii, Japan and the
Philippines.
An increase in the number of
requests to waive the limitations
received at USAF has prompted
Headquarters to ask commands to
make sure its men are informed
of the limits before shipping to
the restricted areas.
Only in exceptional or unusual
circumstances will Headquarters
grant an exclusion to the weight
about quite frequently. The very
nature of the breadwinner’s job de-
mands this. There are training-
periods in one section of the count-
ry, school sessions in another,
operational duties in still other
areas.
Then there are the inevitable
“overseas” tours in the Far Fast,
Film Review
Will Show
Chile Area
Airmen who volunteered dollars
to the Chilean Fund Drive recently
will be able to see where their
dollars are being spent. Air Force
News Review No. 56 will show
MATS men and aircraft in a
mercy mission supported by funds
collected.
The Transport Service’s Air
Photographic and Charting Ser-
vice shot the pictures for the Aug-
ust Commander’s Call film. The
Base Film Library reports that
the- film has not arrived.
The film has close-ups of Pu-
erto Montt, one of many Chilean
cities devastated by a night-
marish series of earthquakes that
rocked the South American re-
public in late May.
In rapid reflex the C-124s of
MATS are on the scene with relief
supplies totaling 780 tons. In ad-
dition the cameras have recorded
the operations of two complete
field hospitals with their 677 med-
ical personnel which were also
brought in by the Air Force’s
airlift arm. Then the emptied air-
craft are loaded with refugees and
flown to other areas to be helped
by relatives or other more fortun-
ate Chilean families.
In other scenes the camera crews
went to Hahn Air Base in Ger-
many to record the Air Force’s
part in an Army mock war exer-
cise called “Operation Hawk.” An-
other sequence covers the presenta-
tion of the Legion of Merit to
Lt. Col. W. H. Turk, commander
of the 61st Troop Carrier Squad-
ron.
Armed Forces Day throughout
the world is shown in panorama.
Other scenes highlight the Air
Force’s activities in detail.
limits. Such a waiver has to be
submitted to USAF and be ap-
proved by the Secretary of the
Air Force.
Most of the problem, Headquart-
ers says, stems from the fact that
families acquire additional goods
while overseas. On preparing to
move they often discover they
have excess poundage.
The weight restriction would
not apply to an Air Force sponsor
moving his family from a non-
restricted area overseas to an-
other overseas restricted area be-
fore returning to the United
States.
Europe, Africa or in the Arctic.
The military family doesn’t have
the same opportunity as their civ-
ilian counterparts to “put down
roots.”
Yet we are far from being
“homeless” people. Only those who
confuse “house” with “home” arc
upset by these many necessary
moves.
A story is told of a youngster
from an Air Force family who
was living in a base Guest House
with his family while his newly-
assigned father was getting set-
tled. Someone said to him, “It’s
too bad your family doesn't have
a home.”
“Oh, we have a home, alright,
the little fellow said. We just
don’t have a house to put it in.”
“Home,” then, involves more
than a dwelling place. Wherever a
family unit—father, mother and
children—dwell together in love,
peace and harmony that is “home.”
There are thousands of people
who live in elaborate houses but
who are nevertheless “homeless”
because this happiness is absent.
MATS Units
In Exercise
MATS aircraft and crews are
participating in the biggest peace-
time airlift-airborne troop exer-
cise, Bright Star/Pine Cone III.
The exercise will conclude with a
massive airdrop of some 11,500
parachutists in full battle gear
over Ft. Bragg, N. C., Aug. 22
or 25.
(The indefinite date was estab-
lished as a safety measure to
permit the air drop of men and
equipment to be made in opti-
mum weather.)
The combined war game, which
began Aug. 13, involves 600 Re-
serve and Air National Guard
aircraft from 21 bases in 15 states
across the country, as well as
elements of the Tactical Air Com-
mand and MATS.
Anyone interested in military
affairs will find this updated ver-
sion of Alfred Vagts’ A History
of Militarism instructive.
Tracing the development of arm-
ies through the ages, Dr. Vagts
displays unusal insight, descrip-
tive power and a wealth of in-
formation in describing the cen-
turies-old interplay of forces be-
tween the military on one side and
governments, industry and people
on the other.
The book is a mine of informa-
tion on the actions, motivations
and characteristics of military
leaders and the military. The
cases of cowardice and courage,
brutality and kindness, pettiness
and magnanimity, stupidity and
brilliance, make fascinating read-
ing. Examples include Napoleon’s
waste of manpower; the Dreyfus
case; Foch’s emphasis on history
of old wars and discounting of
recent changes in the composi-
tion and machinery of armies.
Equally revealing are the ex-
Entries in the Ninth Interser-
vice Photography Contest have to
be in by 10 p.m., Aug. 24, 1960.
The contest is being conducted in
two divisions—Active Duty per-
sonnel and Dependent youth di-
visions. Winners of the Keflavik
contest will be announced in the
Viking Service Club Ballroom,
Aug. 27.
The first and second place win-
ners will be entered in the MATS
judging in seven categories of two
groups.
The Active Duty Personnel
Group I entries should be on black
and white on 8x10 to 16x20 un-
matted and unmounted and not
amples of “history” being hand-
made: the Austrian General Staff
wrote some of its finest battle
plans after the battle; Napoleon
wrote his famous address to the
Army in Italy twenty years after
the event; reports and histories
have often been written to pro-
tect reputations, ruin careers,
avenge personal grudges, cover up
mistakes, etc.
Also revealing are chapters
dealing with the growing suprem-
acy of militarism (as distinguis-
hed from “the military way,”
whose goal is simply to win a war)
and its tendency to subvert the
very purpose of armies by sub-
ordinating civilian institutions to
military institutions and mentality.
The new chapers on WWII and
its aftermath describe the new
forms of militarism and the im-
plications of present-day leader-
ship by military men. (Published
by Meridian Books, Inc, 1959, A
History of Militarism retails for
$7.50.)
tinted or color toned. Group II is
color transparencies which can be
as large as 4x5 and must be en-
closed in plastic envelopes or pro-
tective covering, mounted with the
face of each marked with a red
dot in the lower left corner.
Categories in Groups I and II
are portraits, babies and children,
animals and pets, sports or action
scenes, scenic, military life and
experimental.
In the Dependent Youth divis-
ion, children under 14 comprise
one group and those over 14 are
in this division will take entries
in only black and white 8x10 pic-
tures. They have to be enlarg-
ments, unmatted, unmounted and
may not be tinted or color toned.
Children under 14 do not have
to develop, enlarge or print their
own entries. Picture subjects in
this division are school life, de-
pendent youth activities, animals,
wildlife and scenic. Pictures taken
as early as Dec. 1, 1958 may be
entered.
Fifteen dollar prizes will be
given to the winner in Groups I
and II, and the under 14 and over
14 divisions.
Maintenance
(Continued from page 1.)
UCMJ, or Civil Court convictions,
OTJ activities and efforts toward
improvement.
Lastly the Commander of Kefla-
vik Airport injects critical items
of consideration that are covered
in pertinent directives or policies
and the rules say “should be part
of our normal routine.”
To equalize the rating system,
the Field Maintenance uses an ad-
justment factor based by total
number of personnel assigned to
each shop. This gives the same
opportunity to the large or small
shop.
Household Goods
Weights Announced
Household goods weight limitations are applicable to
members of the Iceland Defense Force’s command and sub-
ordinate units. Personnel anticipating a consecutive over-
seas tour will have to meet the weight limitations or pay
Book Traces Armies
From Earliest Ages