The White Falcon - 07.01.1961, Blaðsíða 4

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WHITE FALCON
Saturday, January 7, 1961
Sports to Start
After Holiday Rest
Activities in the Field House are gathering momentum
this week after the holiday period. A volleyball clinic this
week was being held by Tom Cokley and basketball will
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start Jan. 9.
The Volleyball clinic was for
players and coaches. Fundament-
als and brush-up sessions were on
Cokley’s agenda.
Most basketball activities came
to a standstill during the holi-
days but the All-Stars never let
down. They held practice sessions
from 4:30 to 5:30 each day. They
are inviting anyone who would
like to tryout for the Keflavik
Airport team.
Next on the basketball schedule
will be a meeting of the coaches
on Jan. 9 at 1 p.m. in the Field
House. An elimination tourney
will be planned to find a Keflavik
Airport champion.
Elsewhere on the physical exer-
l\!ow Hear This
The “Truculent Turtle” is still
the distance flight champion. It
flew 55 hours and 17 minutes,
covering 11,235 miles without re-
fueling. A wire story recently
said a B-52G was the champion
in a 10,000 mile non-stop and non-
refueling flight.
The same story said the Air
Force had held the previous rec-
ord for all airplanes with a B-29
which had flown 8,544 miles.
The Navy’s P2V-1 Neptune
which was named “Truculent
Turtle” holds the distance for re-
ciprocal-engined aircraft. The B-
52G holds the distance for jet-
engined aircraft.
Promotion Quotas
(Continued, from. Page 1.)
302, 303, 304, 311, 312, 313, 314,
315, 321, 324, 342, 344, 361, 362,
403, 432, 433, 434, 461, 471, 551,
552, 561, 562, 563, 564, 565, 566,
567, 568, 601, 643, 644, 645, 646,
673, 681, 683, 685, 687, 701, 702,
721, 731, 733, 741, 751, 761, 771,
901, 902, 903, 904, 905, 906, 907,
and 981.
Promotions are open for air-
men first from 002 through 602;
604 and 621, 624 through 646;
and 651 through 991.
cise scene, the Sauna Bath opened
its doors to the ladies. Since Jan.
3, the bath is opened to the ladies
from 5 to 7 p.m. on Tuesdays
and 1 to 4 p.m. on Thursdays.
Del 13 Leaves Mon.
Lor Home Station
(Continued from Page 1.)
drifting toward international sea
lanes.
A highlight of their tour is the
aerial delivery of Christmas toys
on Dec. 22. Purchased by the de-
tachment, the toys, candy and
fruit were for 400 children in iso-
lated Greenland villages and were
dropped by low flying Neptunes.
Inside each crate was a mes-
sage in Danish and English
which said, “These gifts .... are
provided by the men who fly and
service the Neptune aircraft you
have seen during the past months
.... since we are separated from
our families during the holiday
season, we are determined to
celebrate Christmas by sending
you these presents
A Navy airman probably echo-
ed the sentiment of many when
he crawled up to Chaplain (Lt.
Col.) Mark W. Gress, who also
made the Santa Claus flight,
“Chaplain, this one trip has made
the whole tour worthwhile!”
Cmdr. William L. Hudspeth, the
detachment commander, feels that
his men have obtained experience
here which increases the mission
potential of the unit. He notes
that the squadron must have the
experience and capability of op-
erating in either tropical or arctic
climates on short notice. “If the
boss in Fleet Air Wing II at
Brunswick presses the button, one
hour later we’ll be in the air ready
to handle any situation we’ll find
at the end of the line.”
In Brunswick the detachment
will join the other half of VP-11
returning from five months de-
ployment to Rota, Spain.
ICELANDIC GOODIES—Icelanders of the Keflavik Airport fire de-
partment helped make Christmas like home for all the firemen. They
brought in cookies and cakes for a “coffee” Icelandic style. Left to
right A2C Donald Oulette, A3C Louis Warden, Emil Kristjansson,
A3C William Clements and A3C Charles Rose help themselves. Goodie
contributors were Heimir Stigsson, Kristjansson, B. Stefansson, M.
Olafsson, H. Marteinsson, S. Eiriksson, H. Stefansson, H. Bernhardsson,
E. Palsson and A. Eiriksson. (Photo by Heimir Stigsson.)
Welcome
Aboard
Recent arrivals at Keflavik Air-
port with previous duty stations
and AFSC are:
Lt. Danilo B. Medigovich, 7524,
Portland AB, Portland, Ore.
SMS Albert W. Froeschle, 27390,
McGuire AFB, N. J.
MASTER SERGEANTS
F. M. Moloney, Mitchel AFB, N.J.
Chester Arkman, 70270, McGuire
AFB, N. J.
TECHNICAL SERGEANTS
Bernard C. DeCoster, 70270, Oxn-
ard AFB, Calif.
Graham Keesee, 62370, Winter
Haven, Fla.
STAFF SERGEANTS
Harold R. Maahs, 30352, Norton
AFB, Calif.
Harry C. Wilson, 30352, Norton
AFB, Calif.
Willie R. Howell, 90550, McCoy
AFB, Fla.
Norman R. Gowdy, 60152, Mc-
Chord AFB, Wash.
William L. Moss, Turner AFB,
Ga.
AIRMEN FIRST CLASS
Boyce N. Langley, 57150, Berg-
strom AFB, Tex.
Billy G. Petty, 27530, Dobbins
AFB, Ga.
Clarence W. McKenzie, 30352,
Olmsted AFB, Pa.
Robert Dovzak, 64550, Ellington
AFB, Tex.
AIRMEN SECOND CLASS
Kenneth D. Stanley, 27350, Mc-
Clelland AFB, Calif.
Bobby G. Simmons, 30453, Mc-
Clellan AFB, Calif.
James O. McFarland, 30453, Ham-
ilton AFB, Calif.
Ralph L. Thompson, Lackland
AFB, Tex.
Gordon E. Spinney Jr., 36330,
Sheppard AFB, Tex.
AIRMEN THIRD CLASS
Ladislao H. Lopez, 70230, Amar-
illo AFB, Tex.
Alexander L. LeClair, Amarillo
AFB, Tex.
Paul Missland, Amarillo AFB,
Tex.
CC Film 61 Reviews
I960 AF Activities
During the January Commander’s Call sessions, air-
men will see what the Air Force was doing in 1960. It
was a very lively year indeed, what with the X-15 record
flights, the “big step” that won
the altitude parachute record for
the USAF, the three mid-air
snatches of satellite capsules, the
Congo Airlift, peppering the up-
per atmosphere with assorted mis-
siles and satellites, to name but a
few.
AF Tells Retirees
To Watch ETS
Keflavik Airport airmen who
intend to submit applications for
voluntary retirement are advised
bjr Hq. USAF to pay close at-
tention to the date they expect to
retire as it relates to the date
when their enlistment will expire.
In message PMP-4C 1459/60,
Dec. 14 to all commands, Penta-
gon personnel officials advised
unit commanders to take steps to
insure that applicant for retire-
ment have sufficient time remain-
ing on their enlistments to allow
for processing of the necessary
documents.
Airmen whose enlistment will
expire before the effective date
of retirement should voluntarily
extend their enlistments in writ-
ing, the message said. Failing
to do this will nullify the retire-
ment application because the
member will have ended his ser-
vice under normal ETS (Expira-
tion of Term of Service) and
must reenlist.
He then must start the retire-
ment process all over again. In
this case, however, his statement
of service and his physical exa-
mination papers may be carried
over from his original application
for retirement, provided the re-
tirement date and the date of the
original physical examination is
within a 180 day period.
The message requested that all
applications for retirement not
yet sent to Headquarters be
screened to see how the retire-
ment date squares up with the
ETS date.
The story of these achievements,
and others, is told in another Air
Force full color “spectacular” now
making the rounds as Command-
ers Call film No. 61. Naturally
enough, the 26-minute film is tit-
led “USAF Highlights of 1960”.
In the film Maj. Robert White,
an Air Force test pilot with the
National Aeronautics and Space
administration, sets an altitude
record of 136,500 feet in an X-15.
While he is going up, Capt. Jos-
eph Kittinger is photographed
coming down, all the way from a
record 102,800 feet, 85,300 feet in
a free-fall rush to earth before
his ‘chute popped open.
The crew of the ‘Pelican Nine’,
commanded by Capt. Harold E.
Mitchell, is shown making the
first mid-air recovery of a satel-
lite capsule, a flawless example
of precision navigation and air-
manship.
Other sequences in the film
show SAC crews participating in
the 1960 USAF Combat Competi-
tion, TAC shows how its fast-
moving, hard-hitting Composite
Air Strike Force can cover the
world as a self-contained fighting
force in an exercise called ‘ Mo-
bile Yoke” which brought TAC
CASF from bases nation-wide.
There are scenes showing
MATS hauling troops and cargo
from bases in the U. S. to Puerto
Rico and back again in “Big
Slam”; MATS in action as part
of a United Nations force sup-
plying air lift to the Congo, bring-
ing out refugees, and moving men
supplies in. MATS is later seen
flying relief supplies to earth-
quake-ravaged Chile.
Casey Jones, Air Force style,
makes his appearance in sequ-
ences showing the Minuteman
train, a mobile unit that toured
a half-dozen midwest states last
summer testing communications.
Air Force men will live aboard
the train as it makes what ap-
pears to be an endless trip to
nowhere in particular.
Christmas Fund
Donations Net
Over $ 1,000
Keflavik Airport donated
$1,017.68 to the Base Christmas
Fund.
The fund was set by the Com-
mander, Col. Benjamin G. Willis,
to accommodate those who wanted
to contribute dollars to the needy,
aged and orphaned.
Air Base Squadron donated the
most with $190.86; Consolidated
Aircraft Maintenance Squadron
was second with $172.60. The
932nd AC&W Squadron was third
with $128.80 and Headquarters
AFI airmen gave $120.50.
Other donations in standing se-
quence are 1971st AACS, $85.05;
Civil Engineering Squadron, $81.-
75; Officers’ Wives Club, $50;
Det. 13, 9th Weather Group, $44.-
55; Naval Air Facility, $35.11;
Hospital, $33.75; Transportation
Squadron, $17.05; 57th Fighter
Interceptor Squadron, $15.40;
Supply Squadron, $14.55; USAF
Auditor Gen. Squadron, $10;
Corps of Engineers, $9; and
Reykjavik Army Port, $8.71.
WELL SANTA—The tiny tot at one of the Reykjavik orphanages
won’t respond to Santa’s chin-tickling. But Santa had many goodies
for the tot and his orphan playmates. It took a two and one-half ton
truck to carry all the presents Keflavik Airport donors help Santa buy.