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Volume XI, Number 1
Headquarters, Air Forces Iceland, Keflavik Airport, Iceland—A MATS Unit
Saturday, January 7, 1961
Captains Set
To Pin Leaves
Slow & Later
Sixteen Keflavik Airport cap-
tains have been selected for pro-
motion to major. Captains Billy
T. Amend, Auda E. Luttrell, Ruth
M. Bradwell, James M. Griffith
and Floyd W. Scott will start the
new year prosperously. The ef-
fective date of their promotions
is January 1.
Others selected for promotion
at a later date include Ronald
E. Davison, Ralph C. Donnelly,
Raymond H. Irvine, Eugene L.
Kelly, Harold D. Slay and Ge-
orge W. Weber. These captains
are here now.
Captains selected and enroute
to Keflavik are Ruth M. Brad-
well, James M. Griffith, Alvin
W. Jahn and Lindley A. Wing Jr.
Captains who have derosed are
Harold G. Axmacher Jr., Floyd
W. Scott, Thomas M. Ward Jr.
and William A. Wolfe.
Policy Announced
IMavy Releases Dependent
Reduction Quota: 17,560
Washington (AFPS)—The Navy lias advised all commands that a reduction of 17,560
dependents must be made by fleet units in “highly industrial countries with strong
currencies.” This order excludes dependents in the fifty states, Canal Zone, Mariannas,
Marshalls, Midway, Puerto Rico,

Samoa, Virgin Islands, Ryukyus,
Guantanamo, Azores, Mexico,
Canada and Panama.
The Navy said the total
amounts to about 14,000 Naval
military 2,100 Marine and 1,600
Naval civilian dependents.
Also excluded are certain de-
pendent civilian employees, cer-
tain foreign national depen-
dents, and dependent tourists in
effected foreign countries at
their own expense.
Included in the Navy instruc-
tions are these specific points:
1. Reduction of dependents will
be effected impartially through-
out the grades and ranks in so
far as possible.
2. Generally, dependents will
not be returned in advance of
their sponsors.
3. Officers and enlisted men
with dependents now on ex-
AF Seeking Qualified
For Weather Officers
The Air Force foresees a need of weather officers.
To meet this need a special program has been offered
to all qualified officers and airmen to apply if they wish.
It is offering three plans.
The first is Undergraduate
tended tours overseas will be
brought home promptly, or at
the earliest time without undue
hardship. Personnel who have
extended their active duty “ob-
ligation” to serve at present sta-
tion are excluded.
4. Hereafter, normal officer and
enlisted overseas tours with de-
pendents will not be voluntarily
extended.
. 5. Consideration will be given
to extending, on request, overseas
tours with maximum numbers of
officers and men without depend-
ents.
The tours of officers and en-
listed sponsors with dependents
overseas will be successively
shortened up to six months in
order to meet quotas.
The Navy said that as exact
numbers “later require” some
fleet units with home ports over-
seas may be switched to the con-
tinent of the United States.
Pet. 13 Leaves IMon.
Fm Home Station
Next Monday Detachment 13 of Navy Patrol Squadron
VP-11 will close up shop at Keflavik Airport after five
months of patrolling the North Atlantic, the Denmark
straits and the Norwegian sea. ^
At 1 a.m. that day, the detach-
Meterology. Applicants must not
have a college degree in any field
to apply for this plan. The course
is open to company grade of-
ficers who are not over 37 years
old.
Scholastically, applicants must
have completed 30 semester hours
of college credits, including ma-
thematics through analytical geo-
metry and six hours of college
physics or chemistry. School grad-
es must be “C” or better.
The second plan is Basic Met-
erology which calls for a college
degree. This is open to company
grade officers who are not over
News Wanted
Squadron information officers
are urged to submit ideas and
material that will make good
stories. Quite a few unit activi-
ties, innovations to increase
morale and the likes are good
stories. Stories need not be in
final form. For further in-
formation, call the Informat’on
Officer at 4168 or the WHITE
FALCON editor at 4156.
37 years old. The applicant’s col-
lege credits should include ma-
thematics through integral cal-
culus and six hours of physics.
Again, a “C” or better average is
required.
Airmen may try for weather
officer in the final plan. Those
between the ages of 18 and 27%
may apply.
Most airmen must have at least
30 semester hours of transferable
college credits—that means cred-
its of “C” or above. Courses in
mathematics through analytical
geometry and six semester hours
of college physics or chemistry
are required.
Airmen who have graduated
from Course No. ALR 25330, or
the equivalent, may apply with
as few as 17 hours of college
credit. Nevertheless they must
have completed college courses
in algebra and trigonometry.
Those who meet this require-
ment and have the academic pre-
requisites should apply through
Air Weather Service here. Lit.
Col. Lamar C. Petersen, command-
er of Det. 13, 9th Weather Group
will screen applications. He can
be reached at Extension 4291.
ment’s heavily loaded P2V-7 Nep-
tunes will take o'f and head for
their home station at Brunswick,
Me. VP-11 ’s replacement, Det. 10
of VP-10 will be here to assure
continuation of the North Atlantic
watch.
Since arriving here the detach-
ments’ five aircraft have flown
hundreds of missions, including
over 200 hours of search and res-
cue missions. One of their routine
patrols was along the Greenland
icepack wdiere they were on the
lookout for icepacks or icebergs
(Continued on Page 4.)
CPA Lists
Promotion
SlotsforFeb.
Air Forces Iceland Centralized
Personnel Actions (CPA) an-
nounced the promotion quota for
E-2 through E-5 for the Feb. 1
cycle. Detailed information should
reach commanders by today and
recommendations are being tenta-
tively asked for by Jan. 13.
A promotion board will consider
those eligible for staff; unit com-
manders will promote to airman
first and below. The airmen first
class submitted for nomination in
the frozen fields to MATS will
be determined by CPA.
Air Forces Iceland received
six staffs compared to five last
year; 71 airmen first class slots
and 51 last year. A 147-airman-
second quota tops last year’s
allocation by 31.
In the frozen fields AFI may
submit five staffs to MATS and
the same number for airman first
consideration.
Fields where staffs are not
frozen include 204, 221, 222, 223,
241, 252, 253, 271, 273, 291, 301,
(Continued to Page 4.)
FINAL MISSION—A P2V-7 Neptune is towed out of the Navy hangar
prior to going on one of the final patrol missions flown out of Kefla-
vik by Detachment 13 of VP-11. At left, two Navy patrolmen, ATR-3
Robert D. Stolt and AO-3 Fred Driver in Keflavik, with grown beards
and rubber exposure suits smile at the thought of an early return
to Brunswick, Me. In lower center two of the six crates of toys drop-
ped by the detachment in Greenland are being loaded into a Neptune.
At lower right, Lt. (j.g.) William B. Smith briefs two AC&W airmen
who flew a patrol mission with the detachment shortly before Christmas.
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