The White Falcon - 27.02.1965, Side 1

U.S. NAVAL STATION, KEFLAVIK INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, ICELAND
Volume IV, Number 8 Saturday, February 27, 1965
BarForLant Phasing-Out
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Enlisted Mess
Hall Changes
Start Monday
To speed up the renovation and
consolidation of the mess halls,
the following change of assign-
ment of personnel to mess halls
is effective for all meals as of
March 1, 1965.
The following will dine in Mess
Hall 755: military personnel in
pay grades E-7 through E-9; per-
sonnel residing in barracks 745,
746, 750, 751, 753, and 754; Ice-
landic civilian employees; and
authorized school children.
Mess Hall 758 will accommo-
date: Personnel residing in bar-
racks 741. 744, 747, 748, 756, 757
759. and 760; personnel in tran-
sient berthing spaces; Navy Ex-
change employees between 12:45
and 1:30 p.m. and authorized en-
listed personnel below pay grade
E-7 receiving commuted rations.
The following will dine at the
Hospital Mess; hospital patients;
officers on hospital staff with
duty; enlisted members of the
hospital staff; commissary store
personnel and base prisioners.
Hail & Bless
Personnel who have arrived
(Hail) and left (Bless) U.S.
Naval Station, Keflavik for
duty as of Feb. 20:
HAIL
Abenes, C. M., SK2
Bogoyevac, W., SN
Christianson, R. E., YN3
Doepping, J., AN
Goode, R. G., PC2
Green, J. L., BT2
Kirby, E. R„ YNSN
Nolin, J. J., SN
Pulver, B. G„ SN
Smith, 0. E., CS1
Thomas, J. A., SA
Wegmueller, P. G., AN
Wagner, D. G., ATN3
Warner, E. L., A A
Besara, A. B., TN
Grygelko, J. L., SA
Yurickones, J. G., AE3
BLESS
Kallis, H. J., PFC
Castino, R. J., RD3
Erickson, D. G., HM3
Hahn, M. O., CN
Mackie, L. K., RMSN
Rogers, G. R., ATR2
Head, D. M„ RMSA
Dunn, R. .. AK2
Volpe, J. P., CN
Witkavage, R. M., PFC
Werner, R. L„ SN
Weis, J. G„ ADRAN
Hodges, J. W., AMS1
Moncure, T. R., RMSN
Scheibe, C. R., AE3
Leabhart, N.S., Jr., ADRAN
Howell, J. I., PN2
Levake, T. J., ATRE
Gray, W. H„ AMH2
MEN OF THE MONTH—(from left) LCpl. Milton J. Dees, RAdm Ralph
Weymouth, Joseph F. Karp, ADJ3, and A2C Dwight W. Steele. RAdm
Weymouth congratulates these men for their efforts in earning the
‘Men of the Month’ distinction.
Steele, Dees, Karp Selected
January’s 4Men Of Month’
Airman Second Class Dwight W. Steele, intercept con-
trol technician for the 932d Aircraft Control and Warn-
ing Squadron, was presented his second Certificate of
Achievement and $25 check for being selected as Airman
of the Month this time for January 1965.
Presentation was made 1
Commander Iceland Defense1
Force, during ceremonies held in
Hangar 831 Feb. 15. Winner also
for the month of August 1964,
Steele is the second man to have
the distinction of being selected
twice.
A native of Rago. Kan., and
a graduate of Adams High School,
Adams, Kan., Steele departed Ice-
land Feb. 17 for duty at Tyndall
AFB, .Panama City, Fla. Prior to
reporting to duty in Iceland he
was stationed at Cottonwood,
Idaho.
Representing the Navy for the
month of January is Joseph F.
Karp, ADJ3, a native of West
Easton, Pa., and a graduate of
Notre Dame High School in Eas-
ton. Karp joined the Navy in
March 1962. Prior to reporting to
Iceland he was stationed in Bruns-
wick, Maine. While in Iceland
Karp is serving as the only jet
mechanic attached to Patrol Sqad-
ron 23, Detachment 13.
Selected to represent the local
Marines for the month of Janu-
ary is LCpl Melton J. Dees, a
native of Ocala, Fla., and a 1961
graduate of Ocala High School.
Dees joined the Marine Corps in
March 1962. While serving in Ice-
land he has been a member of
the security guard and a driver
for the Marine Barracks motor
pool.
Selection for the honor of being
y RAdm Ralph Weymouth,
named Airman, Marine, Sailor of
the Month for the Iceland Defense
Force is based on military appear-
ance, leadership capabilities, mili-
tary bearing and good conduct.
Holy Name Luncheon
Scheduled March 14
The Naval Station’s Holy Name
Society will sponsor a buffet
luncheon March 14 at the CPO
Club at 1. p.m.
Bishop Gunnarsson of the
Catholic Cathedral, Reykjavik,
will be the guest speaker and
talk about his recent travels to
Rome’s Ecumenical Council.
All hands are cordially invited
to attend.
Tickets can be obtained from
Holy Name members or contact
T. R. Ronan, BKC, on base at
2236 for reservations.
Judging from last year’s at-
tendance in which Bishop Gunn-
arsson also spoke this year’s lun-
cheon should prove to be equally
enjoyable.
In This Issue
BarForLant . pgs. 4-5
Sports pgs. 6-7
Navy All Stars .... . . pg. 8
Sergeant Robinson • Pff- 9
Doctors' Notebook . • pg. 10
Willie Victors, Crews
To Depart Keflavik
RAdm Ralph Weymouth, Commander Iceland Defense
Force, announced Feb. 18, the planned disestablishment
of his Barrier Force Atlantic staff and the Airborne Early
Warning Barrier function conducted thereunder.
The announcement came after consultation between the
Icelandic and American governments.
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Changes Seen
If Draft Ends
Should a study, begun by Pres-
ident Johnson last April, indicate
that the draft can be eliminated,
look for a number of changes in
the military services.
Among the possibilities for
change are: Higher pay for en-
listed personnel, more flexible
periods of enlistment, and more
binding commitments to enlistees
that they will get their choices
in training and area assignments.
These changes would be neces-
sary because the draft has been
a stimulas to volunteering; if the
draft were abolished, there might
not be enough volunteers to meet
the nation’s needs.
The President’s draft study is
“basically a market survey, to see
what is the natural supply of
people for military service — or
what the supply would be without
the draft,” says William Gorham,
the deputy assistant Secretary of
Defense in charge of special man-
power studies and requirements.
“The question is to what extent,”
Gorham maintains.
The Pentagon quizzed about
116,000 men in conducting the
survey. Included were civilians
who have not served in the armed
forces but who are draft eligible,
civilians who have served, and
men who were on active military
duty last June.
According to preliminary find-
ings, about 55 per cent of the
draft-eligible age group (18 to
26) years either were on active
military duty or had previously
been in the armed forces. Of the
remainder, about 80 per cent were
not drafted because of marriage
or because of family hardship.
The reduction is in keeping
with the Department of Defense
program of continued review of
existing forces and operations to
assure maximum defense effec-
tiveness with minimum costs.
At Keflavik, the primary effect
will be the end of airborne early
warning barrier operations by the
EC121J Warning Star (Super
Constellation) aircraft. The func-
tions under the NATO and Uni-
ted States agreement for sea sur-
veillance, anti-submarine detection
and identification will be conduc-
ted by the SP-2H Neptune and
P3A Orion aircraft from Kefla-
vik International Airport.
The Department of Defense has
also scheduled the phasing out of
other Atlantic and Pacific sea-
ward extensions of the North
American Distant Early Warn-
ing (DEW) Line. Included under
this program is the barrier patrol
maintained by the Navy radar
picket ships 300 miles off the east
and west coasts of the United
States.
The world wide reduction pro-
gram will affect, in total, 22
radar picket ships, 42 EC-121J
long range radar aircraft and ap-
proximately 9,000 officers and en-
listed men. The elimination of
these ships and aircraft will pro-
duce savings of $69 million (2.96
billion kronur) in the fiscal year
1966 in the Department of De-
fense. This cutback will be noticed
at Keflavik in the departure of
aircraft and temporarily assigned
aircrews and squadron mainten-
ance personnel.
The Atlantic Barrier Force was
organized at Argentia, Newfound-
land in July 1955, and became
fully operational in July 1957.
This command moved to Keflavik
and began operations Aug. 1, 1961
with the arrival of Commander
Barrier Forces Atlantic and his
staff.
FIRST REENLISTMENT—Gary R. Reynolds, SN, of Air Operations,
ships for six on his first reenlistment. He is being sworn in by Capt
Robert R. Sparks, Commanding Officer, Naval Station.