The White Falcon - 18.03.1961, Blaðsíða 3

Saturday, March 18, 1961
WHITE FALCON
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SECRETARY REWARDED
Mrs. Naomi O’Leary, secretary to the commander of IDF for the past
five years, has won the Navy Meritorious Service Award, Navy’s third
highest civilian award. Extending her congratulations is Col. Benjamin
G. Willis, IDF commander.
News Continued From Page 1
Tests Change ...
to lower standards. Additionally,
quaifying levels for most fields
should remain about the same.
February test results will be
expressed in both standard and
the new percentile scores. For ex-
ample, an airman testing out pre-
cisely in the middle of the group
will receive two scores, a stand-
ard score of 100 and a percentile
score of 50. In effect, both grades
mean the same thing.
The new changes will have no
administrative effect on scores al-
ready recorded. They remain in
force and a part of the record
and will not be converted.
Washington officials emphasiz-
ed that USAF will maintain close
liasion on this matter with all
major commands. In fact, officials
indicated USAF is making a sur-
vey now that may result in furth-
er changes to the Airman Pro-
ficiency Testing Program.
Expenditure...
U.S. Military operated resale ac-
tivity, and then only to goods for
which a real need exists;
(2) Are required for the use
of the individual or his household
incident to his duty overseas and
a reasonable substitute cannot be
purchased from an exchange out-
let or from the United States, and;
(3) If not covered by either of
the other two points, do not ex-
ceed a total cost of $100 per year
for each individual overseas.
Another method by which the
United States expects to conserve
a considerable amount of gold
concerns the shipment of foreign-
made automobiles at government
expense. Foreign-made vehicles
purchased on a foreign market
after March 6, 1961, will not be
sent back to the U.S. at the ex-
pense of the government.
Mrs. Herrlich Wins
OWC Cover Contest
Mrs. H. F. Herrlich, using the
theme United Nations, won a con-
test sponsored by the Keflavik
Airport Officers Wives Club in
redesigning the front cover of the
OWC newspaper, Frettir.
She received an award of $5
for her entry at the March lunch-
eon held last Wednesday.
Judges for the contest were
Mrs. Benjamin G. Willis and Mrs.
Charles Muth. Mrs. Harold R.
Heeszel is editor of the Frettir.
Greater Variety...
Current planning by the. AFTS
staff at Keflavik calls for an ex-
tension of programming time to
midnight bringing televiewing
time to a minimum of 60 hours
each week.
New regular programs fore-
casted in the near future are
‘Celebrity Talent Scouts,’ ‘Sea
Hunt,’ ‘Treasure,’ ‘Social Security
In Action,’ ‘Fight of the Week,’
‘Lock Up’ and ‘Bold Venture.’
Also in the new film area is
‘Frontiers of Faith’ which made
a premiere on Channel 8 last
Wednesday night at 8:30 in a
test of viewing response. Special
one-time shows soon to be seen
include ‘Tribute To A Patriot’
with Dwight D. Eisenhower as
the subject for the program, ‘Hol-
lywood Sings,’ ‘National Tennis
Singles Championships,’ ‘Esther
Williams at Cypress Gardens,’
‘Fred Astaire Time’ and for the
football fans ‘Los Angeles Rams
Hilites.’
Icelandic Choir
To Appear Here
The Reykjavik Male Chorus
and members of the National
Theatre’s Female Chorus will per-
form at the Viking Service Club
Sunday at 8:30.
This will be broadcast over the
local radio station.
There will be no charge for
this performance and selections
will include Icelandic and Ameri-
can musical selections.
Also on Sunday, another tour
has been planned by the Service
Club. It will leave Keflavik Air-
port by bus at 9:30 a.m. and visit
Reykjavik and Selfoss. The cost
is 115 kronur and military mem-
bers must wear Class A uniform
and have a Recreational Pass. In-
cluded in the cost is lunch and
a late afternoon coffee and pastry
snack.
Next Wednesday, the Reykja-
vik City Band is slated to appear
at the club at 8 p.m. Selections
will include the works of both
American and Icelandic compos-
ers.
On March 28-29, the first phase
of the base talent contest will be
held at the club. Persons winning
out here in various categories will
be eligible to participate in the
MATS-wide talent contest to be
held at Dover AFB, Del. May
28-June 1.
Navy Assigned Important Part
In Military Air Transport Role
An Air Force plane glides to the runway at Rhein-Main, McGuire, Travis, or Tachi-
kava. It taxies smoothly to the apron, and parks. Then its crew appears, enroute to
check in at base Transport Control. A young airman, unfamiliar with the Military Air
Transport Service, stares at their'
uniforms and asks a by-stander
“What the heck is the Navy doing
here?”
The answer? What they’ve been
doing since the birth of MATS in
1948.... airlifting cargo and mili-
tary passengers in the oldest ex-
ample of armed forces unification.
Of the 34,000 people engaged in
strategic airlift for MATS, about
4,000 are naval officers and blue-
jackets. Organized into two trans-
port wings, one each under
MATS’ two sub-commands, EST-
AF and WESTAF, these sailors
work with the Air Force and are
further subdivided into five squad-
rons.
Three Naval Air Transport
Squadrons (the Navy calls them
“VRs”) are based on the east
coast. VR-3 and VR-6 are at
McGuire AFB. While VR-3 crews
fly Air Force C-118 Liftmasters
Top NCO’s To Have
Dining In March 23
Keflavik’s top Non-commission-
ed Officers will hold their second
big Dining In affair next Thurs-
day evening at the NCO Club,
with the dinner to begin at 7 p.m.
Special guest for the evening
will be Col. George J. Shyer,
Deputy Commander for Support,
Air Forces Iceland.
Following the dinner, the NCO’s
will discuss a number of subjects
including host responsibilities and
other areas of support concerning
the welfare of enlisted men.
All E-8’s, E-9’s, and first ser-
geants are invited to attend the
very social affair.
over Atlantic routes into Rhein-
Main and other European bases,
men of VR-6 keep these same
planes ready to go. At Norfolk,
Va. Naval Air Station, VR-22
does its own maintenance and
flies the southerly MATS routes,
into Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and
Port Lyautey, Morocco.
Two more Navy squadrons are
based at Moffett Naval Air Sta-
tion, about 30 miles south of San
Francisco, Calif. VR-8 maintains
the C-121G Super Constellations,
while VR-7 crews fly them on
regular and special missions from
Travis AFB. Navy crews also fly
the “Embassy Run,” making stops
at Hickam AFB, Wake, Guam,
Clark AB, Saigon, Bangkok, Cal-
cutta, New Delhi and Karachi,
before ending their trip at Dhah-
ran, Saudi Arabia, easternmost
terminal of ESTAF. A small seg-
ment of VR-7, called Detachment
Alfa, operates four C-54 aircraft
out of Tachikawa AB, near Tokyo.
Top Navy man in MATS is
Capt. Lloyd H. McAlpine, a senior
naval aviator with plenty of multi-
engine time to his credit. He won
his wings in 1935 and was a
pilot in one of the early mass
flights from San Diego to Hawaii.
With him on the staff of Lt. Gen.
Joe W. Kelly, MATS commander,
Capt. McAlpine has 40 Navy of-
ficers and men. Since most of
them are sprinkled through the
staff agencies, working side by
side with Air Force men, people
visiting MATS headquarters at
Scott AFB, are startled to see a
white hat or shoulder boards
where they expected to see only
Air Force blue.
Navy crews flew in the Berlin
Airlift for MATS, took Moslems
to Mecca in 1953, and helped move
casualties from Indo-China and
refugees from Hungary. Opera-
tion Amigos, Exercise Big Slam
and Operation Deep Freeze have
all seen Air Force and Navy flight
crews working together in a com-
mon effort. At Tinker AFB, Okla.
Navymen get transitional train-
ing before entering MATS as pil-
ots, flight engineers and flight
traffic specialists.
So, when aboard a MATS air-
craft, if you’re offered a cup of
coffee by a man in Navy blue or
the crew is composed of Navy-
men, don’t be surprised — for
whether he’s wearing the Navy
emblem on his cap, or a round
white hat, he’s a member of the
MATS family, too.
(This is the first in a series of
feature artciles concerning the
MATS Family. Editor.)
More Than Half
Get Area Choice
More than half of the Keflavik
Airport airmen returning to the
States in May received assign-
ments in at least the area of their
first choice, personnel officials
announced this week.
Of the 96 on the May deros list,
16 are being assigned to their
base of first choice, five others
to their second base and nine more
to the state of their choice.
An additional 20 will be as-
signed in the first area of choice
and 14 in the second area.
One-third or 32 of the airmen
to deros in May received other
assignments than those for which
the expressed preferences.
Officer Returnees To Be Assigned
Under Hew Zone Of Interior Plan
KA Students Slate
Art Exhibit Mar. 31
Grades One through Six, Kefla-
vik Airport Dependent School,
will exhibit drawings at the Vik-
ing Service Club March 31.
This exhibit will be held in ob-
servance of National Children’s
Art Month, and Iceland was stres-
sed as subject matter for the
drawings.
Art work will be judged in a
closed session and ribbon winners
will be announced next Saturday
at 2:30 p.m. at the club.
Children and parents are invit-
Officer technicians in the “Lim-
ited Resources Specialties” will
be reassigned on completion of
their overseas tours to ZI sta-
tions under a new system, USAF
personnel officials announced last
month.
These officers—defined in AF-
M 35-11—are mainly in the elec-
tronic, weather, and communica-
tions fields. They have been as-
system would revert to stateside
duty at some staton within that
command.
Effective immediately, such of-
ficers will be reported to USAF
for reassignment, and may or may
not be reassigned to their former
global commands.
The reason behind this change,
USAF officials said, was that
manning statistics show serious
inequities existing in the various
major commands in certain skills.
Inter-command ZI transfers were
ruled out by USAF, except in
critical cases, because of the like-
lihood of encountering restrictions
on multiple personnel moves. In-
stead, USAF plans to redistri-
bute these skills on an equal basis
by means of careful assignment
of returning overseas personnel
in these categories when they be-
come available to USAF for ZI
rotation.
The new plan is actually the
reassuming of authority once de-
legated by USAF to global com-
mands (USAF ltr, dtd Apr. 15,
Subj: Delegation of Officer’s As-
signment for Lt. Colonels and Be-
low.)
The change affects only those
officers currently serving over-
seas in global commands in the
“Limited Resource Specialty”
group.

ed to attend the exhibit where
refreshments will be served.

signed overseas by their global
commands, and under the old
Eight O’Clock Is Comedy Time
Eight o’clock on weekday
evenings is comedy time at
Armed Forces Radio, with the
Joy Boys, the Great Gilders-
leeve, and Art Linkletter’s Pe-
ople Are Funny coming along
at that time.
The Joy Boys — Ed Walker
and Willard Scott — hold the
fort on Monday, Wednesday
and Friday with their program
of music and comedy. Features
of their show are: that pop-
ular radio-TV personality,
Arthur Codfish; The Sodbust-
er, with Marshal Matt Dillard
and his sidekick, Chester
Drawers; The Unmentionables
with Elliot Mess; and the
weather lady, Miss Janitor.
On Tuesdays, the water com-
missioner of Springfield,
Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve,
appears with his pals, Mr.
Peevey and Judge Hooker, and
his nephew Leroy.
Linkletter proves every
Thursday, at 8 p.m., that Pe-
ople Are Funny. This week,
for instance, Art has a woman
decide which of three men is
a professional wrestler—so he
can compete against Gorgeous
George.
Other comedy program heard
on AFRS are: Fibber McGee
and Molly (Saturdays at 12:05
p.m.) and William Bendix in
The Life of Riley (3:30 Satur-
day afternoons).