The White Falcon - 26.03.1965, Blaðsíða 7

Friday, March 26, 1965
WHITE FALCON
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KEEP ’EM WHOOPIN!—Jimmy Case and the Cherokees featuring
Miss Dale Turner, have gone to the blue yonder but here is a souvenir
photo as they appeared at the Polar Club.
Enlisted Men Train
In Pre-Flight School
The Officer’s Candidate Airman (OCAN) Program is
designed to take an enlisted man, currently on active duty,
and after 12 to 14 months schooling, turn out an officer.
Men selected for this program are designated as officer
candidates in their present pay grade. They retain this
pay grade until they are commissioned or disenrolled.
Their first assignment is the®"
Pre-Flight school at Pensacola,
Fla., which is of 16 weeks dura-
tion. Successful completion sends
them on to Naval Aviation Of-
ficer’s (NAO) School, also in
Pensacola. This school is of eight
to ten weeks duration.
Finally they are designed for
duties in one of the Naval Avia-
tion Observer categories. Here
they will receive their final eight
to ten months training, prior to
commissioning.
In this phase of the program
there are two stations to whicn
one may be assigned, depending
on his particular designation:
Corpus Christi, Tex., and Glynco
Ga.
Designators available to the
candidate are: Radar Intercept
Operator, Bombardier, Navigator,
Bombardier/Navigator, Airborne
Early Waz-ning (AEW), Anti-
Submarine Warfare (ASW).
Electronic Control Measure
(ECM) Evaluation, Maintenance,
Electronics Maintenance, and Air
Intelligence.
For this program there are, of
course, a number of qualifications
to be met. One must be single and
agree to remain so until time of
commissioning. He must be eva-
luated as being physically and
mentally fit and be at least 18.
but not more than 25 years of
age. The maximum age however
may be adjusted on a month-to-
month basis for each month of ac-
tive military service.
Educational requirements are
two years of college work, a com-
bined GCT/ARI of 120, and a
MECH of 58. Completion of the
college level GED may be substi-
tuted for the college work.
Officer z-anks continually need
to be swelled by capable young
men. Qualifications are high as
are the compensations.
For additional information, call
the Education and Training Of-
fice, (5238) or (5139).
THE NATIONAL ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS
Killed — 105,000-4 per cent up from 1963.
Injured — 10,300,000.
Cost — $16,700,000,000. Includes wage loss, medical ex-
pense, overhead cost of insurance for all accidents, inter-
rupted production schedules, time lost by workers other
than the injured, etc., due to work accidents and property
damage in traffic accidents and fires.
KEEP ’EM FLYING—Any time day or night this VP-56 crew may be
called upon to perform any of their many tasks in keeping the SP-2H
Neptune aloft. The Neptune, an all-weather patrol plane, demands the
vigilant care of skilled mechanics to stay in “4.0” status. The problem
of weather and the constant temperature changes present difficulties
which must be dealt with by these men.
New Anti-Sub
Weapon Now
In Production
A U. S. antisubmarine weapon,
the first capable of coping with
a high-perfoi’mance nuclear sub-
marine, is now in production by
the Navy.
That the weapon is a deep-
diving, self-guided torpedo of out-
standing importance, was told the
House Armed Sei-vices Committee
by VAdm Chai’les B. Martell.
In his first l’eport to the com-
mittee since his appointment as
dii-ector of the Navy’s antisub-
marine warfare programs, Mai'-
tell stated that, the Mark 46
torpedo could be launched by sur-
face ships or aircraft.
That the Navy’s antisubmarines
are continually used “in many
cold war situations against the
major thi-eat now facing us at
sea—the submarine,” was added
by Martell.
He told a closed hearing that
Russia has the biggest submarine
force in the world, “the result of
an effoz-t unparalleled in the
history of peacetime submarine
construction.”
“DO IT YOURSELF”—Busy com-
pleting his own and other reen-
listment papers is John J. McGrath,
PN3, of NavCommSta. Johnny Mac,
as he is known to most, is reenlist-
ing for four years on the incentive
program. He will leave here for
a tour of shore duty in Jackson-
ville, Florida.

Antarctic Ice
Melts Away;
Takes Airfield
An unusually heavy ice break-
up is threatening to destroy the
airfield at McMuz-do Sound, Ant-
arctic.
Williams Field is built on solid
ice. Aircraft from Australia and
New Zealand utilize the field to
transport men and material for
Operation Deep Freeze.
A seven-mile-long ci-ack has ap-
peared in the 20 to 30-foot thick
ice in one of the skiways. Over
3500 feet of one skiway already
has broken off and floated away.
The skiways are constructed
on what is termed “fast or per-
manent” ice. The ice pack each
year creeps slowly towards the
sea, but seldom does it break off
in lai’ge pieces.
Should the break-up continue,
aircraft will be forced to land on
other runways. Rians are under-
way now to construct a new air-
field next year.
Old Williams Field, the present
airfield’s predecessor, which was
built in 1959, has already floated
out to sea.
WHITE FALCON
Deadline
Mondays—8 a.m.

CLOTHING STORE’S PROGRESS—Gardar Petursson installs the new
lighting fixtures for the new clothing store scheduled for completion
next month. Working on the wall-paneling are Borgeir Gislason and
behind him Jon Einarsson. The future retail clothing store is being
built at the site of the old bowling lanes next to the Navy Exchange’s
Main Snack Bar
American-Icelandic Doctors
Inaugurate Group Meetings
A series of intergroup professional meetings between
the U.S. Naval Station Hospital staff and the Medical As-
sociation of Iceland, an affiliate of the American Medical
Association, was inaugurated Tuesday evening.
Thirty-five well-known Icelandic medical practicioners, in-
cluding the president of the medical association, Dr. Snaedal
and several chief nurses from*^-
Reykjavik hospitals attended the
dinner at the Officers’ Club.
Hosted by the staff of the
NavSta hospital, this meeting was
planned as a general get-together
more than an organized pi-ofes-
sional program to allow members
of both groups to become ac-
quainted.
A language problem did not en-
sue as many of the Icelandic doc-
tors had renewed post graduate
training in the U.S.
This event is significant in that
it enhances better relations with
the medical community in Reykja-
vik and an improved consultation
service for NATO personnel.
The program was organized
through the joint efforts of Dr.
Kolbein Kristofersson, a leading
Icelandic radiologist, and Dr.
Richard A. Petrie of the Naval
Station. It is anticipated that bi-
monthly meetings will follow,
altei'nating between
and Keflavik.
Reykjavik
Navy Sets Record
With F-104 Launch
A 14-ton F-104 jetplane was
launched at the record-setting
speed of 250 miles-an-hour at
Lakehurst, N.J. A catapult de-
veloped by the Navy was used.
It was on the first of a series
of high-speed launches that the
recoi-d was broken. The tests were
being conducted by the laboratory
of the Naval Air Test facility at
Lakehurst and the Naval Air
Test Center, Patuxent River.
This speed—220 knots—is the
fastest aircraft launch speed ever
l-eached by a catapult, either on
land or sea. Marine Capt. Kent
Johnson, of Patuxent River, Md.
was the pilot.
WOMEN INSPECT—Guests of the Officers’ Wives Club put on the
earphones during part of a recent tour at the Rockville Site as MSgt.
Robert Laswell, non-commissioned officer-in-charge of the Power Pro-
duction Plant, demonstrates. The women are (from left to right)
Fru Olaf Kristiansdottir, Mrs. Pietersson, Mrs. Karitas Sigmundsson
and Mrs. Ellen Hammam.