The White Falcon - 18.03.1961, Blaðsíða 4

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WHITE FALCON
•Saturday, March 18, 1961
Welcome
Aboard
Recent arrivals at Keflavik Air-
port with previous duty stations
and AFSC are:
AIR FORCE
1st. Lt. Ronald M. Locke, 1744A
Boron AFS.
TSgt. Charles M. Gardner,
64670, Myrtle Beach, S. C.
SSgt. Thomas E. Holley, 29170,
Andrews AFB, Md.
A1C Richard M. Carducci, 29150,
Lockborne AFB, Ohio.
A3C Michael L. Rife, Ft. Leon-
ard Wood, Mo.; John F. Foley,
67130, Sheppard AFB, Tex.;
Ronald H. Atwell, 43231, Shep-
pard; and Raymond N. Belk,
62250, Beale AFB, Calif.
NAVY
EMI Robert J. Dehart, Great
Lakes, Ill.
AB2 Edgar D. Southerly, Nor-
folk, Va.
SFP2 Claude P. Moore, Char-
leston, S. C.
AE3 Sidney L. Rateman, Nor-
folk, Va.
Globemasters
Phased Out
By MATS Units
After serving for over nine
years as “workhorses” of the
Military Air Transport Service
(MATS) strategic airlift force,
13 C-124A Globemasters are re-
tiring from the command’s in-
ventory.
The first Globemasters to be
phased out of MATS and the first
four-engine aircraft ever to be
assigned to the Air Force Re-
serves, the C-124A’s will go to
Reserve units based at Donaldson
AFB, S. C. and Tinker AFB,
Okla., replacing C-119 “Flying
Boxcars” currently in use.
The first plane was delivered
recently to the 77th Troop Car-
rier Squadron, AF Reserves, at
Donaldson. Seven more, all from
Travis AFB, Calif., are slated to
be added to the unit’s aircraft
roster by the end of March.
The “A” model was the first
C-124 built by the Douglas Air-
craft Co. in 1949. The Globe-
masters have seen extensive use
on such airlifts as the Lebanon
Crisis, U.N. Airlift to Suez, Chil-
ean Disaster Airlift, Congo Air-
lift, and the Annual Deep Freeze
Support Missions. The “C” model,
built later, still makes up a good
part of the MATS inventory and
is not scheduled for transfer, ac-
cording to MATS headquarters
officials.
MATS Plans Division spokes-
men said that five more of the
big C-124’s will be delivered to a
Reserve unit at Tinker AFB,
Okla., by the end of March.
Test Flight Successful
The new B-52H with turbofan
engines was test-flown success-
fully Mar. 6 at the Boeing plant
in Wichita, Kan.
The flight was part of a series
of tests to check out the H series
prior to delivery this spring to
the Strategic Air Command.
The B-52H is the model design-
ated to carry Skybolt missiles
which can carry a nuclear war-
head more than 1,000 miles.
ICELANDIC DENTIST VISITS
Dr. Gudrun Gisladottir, one of Iceland’s outstanding women dentists,
visited the Dental Clinic at Keflavik Airport, and was conducted on
the tour by Dr. (Capt.) Arnold Angilici of the KA clinic. Here, Dr.
Angilici discusses one of the Air Rotor Hand Pieces used at Kefla-
vik’s clinic.
McGuire And Travis
AFB To Get C-135s
The Air Force will assign its
new Boeing C-135 jet transports
to Military Air Transport Ser-
vice units on both the East and
West Coasts.
Gen. Joe W. Kelly, MATS Com-
mander, said today from his glob-
al headquarters at Scott AFB, Ill.,
that McGuire AFB near Ft. Dix,
N. J., and Travis AFB, near Fair-
field, Calif., are the bases select-
ed to receive the C-135s. The jets
will be operated by the 18th Air
Transport Squadron of MATS
Eastern Transport Air Force at
McGuire and by the 75th Air
Transport Squadron of MATS
Western Transport Air Force at
Travis.
Deliveries to these squad-
rons will begin in June and fol-
low at the rate of two per month.
The 30, four-jet aircraft, were,
ordered earlier this year by the
Air Forte to modernize MATS’
Strategic Airlift Force.
In peacetime they will be used
in training, joint operations and
exercises with other branches of
the military, missions such as the
Congo Airlift and for intratheatre
cargo airlift. In event of war, the
aircraft would provide a means
of moving military forces and
equipment to whatever area they
are needed.
MATS will be assisted in train-
ing C-135 crews by the Air
Force’s Crew Training School op-
erated by the Strategic Air Com-
mand at Castle AFB, Merced,
The Big Move Is On
The vonguard of CONAC Hq.
—300 military personnel and 100
civilians—began the trek in early
this month from the Mitchel AFB,
N. Y. Hq. to the new CONAC
Hq. at Robins AFB, Ga.
Mitchel AFB is closing down,
effective June 25.
More than 2,000 CONAC mili-
tary personnel are involved in the
CONAC New York to Georgia
move.
Other units at Mitchel are shift-
ing to Stewart AFB, N. Y.,
Hempstead, L. I., Otis AFB, Mass,
and Wash, D. C.
Calif.
The assignment of the C-135
to MATS will require an increase
of about 150 personnel at Mc-
Guire AFB and about 100 at
Travis.
K.A. Volleyball Team
Leaves For California
For Tournament Play
Keflavik Airport’s volleyball team, a coach and manager,
is scheduled to leave here this afternoon to represent KA
in the annual MATS volleyball tournament scheduled to
be played at Travis AFB, Calif.®'
Those representing KA include
Arnold A. Angelicia, Hospital;
James D. Woehlert and Ralph I.
Bredbenner, Supply Sq; Ralph L.
Thompson and Donald W. River-
kamp, Transportation Sq; Frank
J. Schauffle and Donald L. Her-
old, Air Base Sq; Charles M.
Freburger, Joseph D. Neuburger,
Dale E. Kishkunas, Peter KcKane,
William T. Cokley, all of AFI.
The team plans to leave Keflavik
today.
Cokeley is coaching the locals.
Ten-man teams compete for the
command trophy as well as a
berth on the team which will re-
present MATS April 11-15 in the
USAF-wide championships also at
Travis.
The tournament, which will be
governed by the official U. S.
Volleyball Association rules, will
be a double elimination playoff.
All active duty military per-
sonnel assigned for duty at MATS
bases are eligible to compete.
Team trophies will be awarded
to the tourney winner and runner-
up and individual awards will go
to members of the first place
team. The tournament’s most val-
uable player also will receive an
individual award.
Two Big Globemasters Complete
Longest Single Airlift mission
Two MATS C-124 Globemasters
made the longest single airlift
mission of the Congo airlift this
month. MATS officials say it may
be the longest on record any-
where.
The big planes flew 21,300 miles
each, five-sixths of the way
around the world, to carry 130
Malayan troops and their equip-
ment from near Singapore to
Leopoldville in the Congo. They
made the entire trip using air
Officer Education
Program Broadened
Regular and career reserve of-
ficers are now authorized to ac-
cept academic scholarships and
fellowships for university gradu-
ate study both at home and
abroad, under certain limitations.
This means eligible officers
could accept a Rhodes scholarship
in England or a similar grant in
the U. S.
Basic restrictions, as outlined
in AFR 36-95, 27 Jan. 61, are:
(1) military considerations must
be satisfied; (2) the academic
award must cover tuiton and re-
quired fees; (3) the academic
tour can be completed in 24
months; (4) applicants have less
than 16 years total active federal
service; (5) applicants have not
exceeded the 48 months of US-
AF-sponsored IT Professional
Education.
Those eligibles receiving schol-
arship offers should forward
them to Hq. USAF (AFPMP),
Wash. 25, DC and an information
copy of the correspondence to
Commandant, Institute of Tech-
nology, Wright-Patterson AFB,
Dayton, Ohio.
fields at which there are no
MATS support squadrons or
maintenance facilities for C-124s.
The two aircraft handled two
other shorter missions along the
way. They left Chateauroux Air
Base, France, Feb. 4 carrying
7,000 blankets to southern Jordan
for needy people. After unloading
the blankets, they droned on to
Butterworth, Malaya, near Singa-
pore, where the troops were pick-
ed up.
Retracing their route back to
the Red Sea, the aircraft then
changed course to Leopoldville,
where they unloaded the troops.
At Leopoldville, the Globemasters
each took on 65 Moroccan troops
with equipment and airlifted
them back to Morocco before re-
turning to Chateauroux. After 17
days away from Chateauroux the
two weary crews landed their
planes within 10 minutes of each
other on Feb. 21.
The Aircraft, from the 31st
Air Transport Squadron, Dover
AFB, Del., were commanded by
Capt. Francis M. Burroughs and
1st. Lt. Bobby F. Lowe.
New Planes Assigned
C-130 Hercules cargo planes
have been assigned to modernize
the Discoverer recovery force
based at Hawaii.
The Discoverer catchers have
been snagging the space capsules
with slower C-119 Flying Boxcars
which are limited to altitudes of
15,000 feet.
With C-130B types with 100
mph more in speed and a ceiling
of 30,000 feet, the capsule catch-
ers wili be able to cover more
territory with fewer planes.
A rules interpretation meeting
will be held at the Travis Service
Club at 3 p.m. March 26 when
coaches and base project officers
get together for the tournament
pairings. Later that evening,
players, officials and guests will
be honored at a banquet.
New Unit Badge
Precedence
Told By USAF
A new order of precedence ef-
fective Sept. 1 for all unit badge
citations has been announced by
USAF. This follows the recent
USAF decision to move such em-
blems from the right pocket of
the uniform to the ribbon rows
over the left pocket.
The U. S. Distinguished Unit
Citation with gold-wreath frame,
the Navy Presidential Unit Cita-
tion without frame, and the Air
Force Outstanding Unit Award
will be worn in that order of
precedence after the lowest rank-
ing United States decoration
(Purple Heart) and before the
first United States Service
Awards (Good Conduct Medal).
The Philippine Presidential Un-
it Citation with gold-wreath frame
the Republic of Korea President-
ial Unit Citation with gold-
wreath frame, and other foreign
unit citations will be worn in
that order immediately after for-
eign decorations and before Ser-
vice Awards of foreign countries
(United Nations Service Medal).
In principle, all foreign decora-
tions follow U. S. decorations,
unit badges and service awards.
The new order of precedence
for the various unit badges goes
into effect not later than Sept. 1.
USAF expects that the reduced
sizes of the unit badges, designed
to coincide with the normal rib-
bon size, will be available in base
exchanges around Aug. 1.
Forces Defend Canal
In Simulated Attack
Air, land and sea units of four
American nations - Panama, Peru,
Columbia, and the U. S. - have
concluded a simulated defense of
the Panama Canal.
After aggressor forces moved
into Panama, five Peruvian F-
80s and 50 Panamian paratroop-
ers in three C-47s joined Pana-
mian ground defense units.
Response also came quickly with
the dispatch of USAF C-123s to
transport troops from Panama
and Columbia. Twenty-five C-130s
ferried U. S. troops from Fort
Bragg, N. C.
USAF fighter craft came from
Ramey AFB, Puerto Rico, and
served in dual roles as “friendly”
and “aggressor” air power.
More than 3,000 Army troops,
1,500 of them Canal Zone based,
took part in the exercise.
“OPERATION SOLIDARITY”
involved two U. S. Minesweepers,
one Columbian destroyer, and
five Columbian F-80s attached to
the naval forces.