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Volume XI, Number 15 Headquarters, Air Forces Iceland, Keflavik Airport, Iceland—A MATS Unit Saturday, April 22, 1961
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Slides of the remote interior of
Iceland will be shown at the Vik-
ing Service Club Monday at 8:130
p.m. with commentary by Dr. C.
H. Cassens of the West German
Embassy. Dr. Cassens is a world
traveler with an extensive col-
lection of slides which he will
show at the club in a series.
* * *
The Viking Service Club is ac-
cepting reservations for the Kris-
uvik-Selfoss-Hveragerdi tour to
be made April 30. The trip will
include visits to hot sulphur
springs, the famous Church on
the Beach and greenhouses.
* * *
You can really save some money
by purchasing your ticket home
from AMEXCO through the Am-
erican Express branch here. In
fact you will save $10 on every
$100 fare which means a consid-
erable savings for families and
men who will travel to the West
Coast.
You can contact AMEXCO now
and have your 10 per cent sav-
ings ticket waiting for you at
McGuire.
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One of every three aircrews
will swap a lieutenant’s space for
a major’s space, Hq. Military Air
Transport Service announced.
The swap will begin the first
quarter of FY 1962 and will ef-
fect MATS strategic airlift forc-
es, weather reconnaissance squad-
rons and photomapping and char-
ting units.
ESTAF units will receive 35
major spaces and turn in 35 lieu-
tenant spaces effective is the first
quarter FY 1962 through FY
1964. WESTAF is scheduled to
receive 37 majors for the same
number of lieutenants during the
same period.
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A six man British crew suc-
cessfully test-fired a Thor in late
March at Vandenberg AFB, Calif.
The Royal Air Force missile
men who did the firing are part
of a British group receiving op-
erational missile training in the
United States.
The March launch of the Thor
was the missile’s 16th training
launch at Vandenberg.
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The GAM-72 Quail decoy mis-
sile, carried aboard our B-52s in
the bomb bay, flies a similar
flight path and speed as the bom-
ber itself. It gives off multiple
radar blips to radar defense de-
tection so that the operator doesn’t
know which bird is the real one,
the Quail or the B-52.
C-118 Crash-Rescue Exercise
Carried Out For MATS Team
HOSPITAL BOUND
A3C John Terry, A1C William V. Kelly and A1C Howard L. Stratton
load one of the injured in an ambulance for evacuation to the hospital.
An ambulatory patient with diagnosis tag looks on. In the background
other medical personnel are identifying the dead.
KXTeleviewers to Get
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Fourteen and one-half hours of highly varied program-
ming make up today’s tops in televiewing fare on Channel
8. Kartoon Karnival, Captain Kangaroo, Robin Hood and
Bold Venture lead off the video®*
parade in a three-hour series
which should keep the youngsters
entertained.
Chet Huntley Reports at 12
with another relaxed account of
international tension.
Service rivalry takes up Sports
Time at 1 o’clock with Army and
Navy cagers filling in for the
gridiron teams. Be sure to stay
tuned for the Bob Hope Show at
2:30 when Durable Bob welcomes
Patti Page, Bobby Darin, David
Rose and Orchestra, and Joan
Crawford. You’ll also see the
Hollywood Deb Stars of 1960.
A Family Portrait at 3:30 tak-
es in the Festival of Britain and
life in England. “Portrait” is a
too-modest title, for the program
is closer to being a family album
in its scope.
• Art Linkletter returns with
People Are Funny and the same
girl who was on last week’s show.
She’s given another sad story for
the unsuspecting and . . well . .
see for yourself at 4 o’clock.
There’s lots going on, and up,
during Air Power at 5:30, in a
three-phase story of the missile
age. This is one to see whether
you’re a technical bug or just
trying to keep up to date.
If You Are There at 6:30,
Walter Cronkhite will whisk you
out of that easy chair, right back
to July 4, 1776. It’s a hazard-
potential date but we guarantee
your return in time for Perry
Mason at 7:30. The D. A. takes
another courtroom beating in this
episode about a waitress, her mink
coat and a payoff racket.
Josh Randall gets a helping
hand during a gun battle in to-
night’s Wanted, Dead or Alive
western opera at 8:30. At 9
o’clock Marshal Dillon and Ches-
ter discover there’s a stranger in
town. Name of this Gunsmoke
story is “Johnny Red,” podnuh!
The Best of Paar at 9:30 has
good old Charlie Weaver, Alex-
ander King, Alice Pierce, Jose
Mellis and Orchestra in for an-
other informal session.
Prompt, Efficient Operation
Commended By MATS Inspectors
By SSgt. John W. Horky
A C-118 lost power in both starboard engines on take-
off and veered off the runway. That was the substance
of a call received over the Keflavik Airport crash net at
11:01 a.m. Wednesday setting off®^
a simulated crash alert ordered
by a visiting team from the Head-
quarters MATS surgeon’s office.
The crash ambulance was im-
mediately dispatched with a crash
alert team consisting of Dr.
(Capt.) Herbert J. Smokier, SSgt.
James Morse, and A1C Edward
Wooters and Howard Stratton.
An umpire from the MATS medi-
cal party accompanied the crash
alert team.
In the meantime a command
post was set up at the 1400th
USAF Hospital headed by Lt.
Col. Walter W. Dewey, hospital
commander, and Lt. Col. L. S.
Wiegele, executive officer.
Dr. (Lt. Col.) Russell E. Butler,
base dental surgeon, proceeded
immediately to the hospital com-
mand post to assist the command-
er and direct the dental people
who are so important in such a
disaster—at the crash scene, in
the sorting area and wherever
needed in the hospital.
Air Police mobile units report-
ed to the hospital command post.
In all 10 walkie-talkie radios were
used in the exercise in addition
to radio-equipped communications
vehicles.
At the same time an auxiliary
and overflow capability was esta-
blished in the base gymnasium to
take care of other phases of the
base medical disaster control
plan. Dr. (Capt.) Gifford S. Ja-
cobsen, VC, was in charge of a
team of preventive medicine and
veterinarian people ready to cope
with other eventualities.
Members of the 519th Air
Force Band and Detachment 6 of
the 7th Air Postal Squadron re-
ported to the hospital area to
serve as litter bearers if required.
The crash alert team rendered
first aid to the victims at the
crash scene. Dr. Smokier reported
the medical estimate of the situa-
tion to the command post at 11:12
a.m.—three sucking-chest wound
cases and one multiple jaw frac-
ture which were given first prior-
ity for movement to the hospital.
Because of the extent of the
simulated disaster Dr. Smokier
asked that the triage team head-
ed by Dr. (Capt.) William D.
Stewart and TSgt. Brenislaw S.
Yuodis be rushed to the scene.
This team included a dental of-
ficer, Dr. (Capt.) Eugene J. Stoe-
benau, and three dental techni-
cians, A2C Cecil E. Horde, Gor-
don W. Olson and James Peterson.
There were 17 other injured
suffering from fractures, abras-
ions and lacerations. After being
given first aid treatment they
were placed in second priority for
(See Exercise, Page 3.)
CONSULTATION AND FIRST AID
Dr. (Capt.) William D. Stewart in group at left consults with command
team members on diagnosis of injured. In the center SSgt. James
E. Morse ministers to casualties, assisted by A2C John C. Schmitt Jr.,
ambulance driver. The injured received first aid including splinting
and the simulated administration of opiates.
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