The White Falcon - 09.04.1965, Page 1

THERE’S HIS POSITION—As LCdr Lester L. Reardon, Senior OPCON
Watch Officer, Barrier Forces Atlantic (BARFORLANT), seems to be
pointing ont while answering the phone. Taking down the message
verbatim is Ltjg John W. Anderson, assistant OPCON watch officer
at BARFORLANT. The Search and Rescue mission occurred Satur-
day. Commander Reardon, incidently, was pointing at the large plotting
screens located in the OPCON’s room.
100 New Base Housing Units
To Be Made Available Soon
There will soon be 100 new prefabricated homes avail-
able on base for the servicemen stationed here in Keflavik.
Of the 100 homes, 90 will be erected for use by enlisted
men, and the other 10 for officer personnel.
The enlisted-homes will be located behind the NCO Club.
They will consist of 72 three-bedroom and 18 four-bedroom
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structures.
Because of their location, they
will be easily accessible to the
NCO Club, Viking Service Club,
Andrews Theater, and the Field
House.
The area around the homes will
be leveled and sodded, and the
bus route will be revised to in-
clude service to these new homes.
The 10 officer-homes will be
erected east across from the
B.O.Q. 636. These will include 4
three-bedroom and 6 four-bedroom
homes.
MSTS Is Relocated;
Moves To Germany
The Militai-y Sea Transporta-
tion Service (MSTS) re-organized
its Regional Command and offices
in the Eastern Atlantic and Medi-
terranean area July 1.
The headquarters of the MSTS
Eastern Atlantic and Mediterr-
anean Area Command moved to
Bremerhaven, Germany from Lon-
don. An office will be maintained
in London for coordination with
Department of Defense agencies
and commercial shipping offices.
Additional MSTS offices are to
be established in Rota, Spain, and
Rotterdam, Netherlands, to meet
the changing pattern of MSTS
operations. The MSTS office in
Naples, Italy, will be disestablish-
ed.
The reorganization was ordered
VAdm Glynn R. Donaho, com-
mander of MSTS, following a
management survey in September
1964
An annual savings of $30,000
and a small reduction of military
and civilian personnel will result
from the reorganization. It is de-
signed to make the Command more
responsive to military sealift req-
uirements.
MSTS is the single agency for
ocean transportation of the De-
partment of Defense. In 1964
MSTS ships in world—wide opera-
tions sealifted 12.9 million mea-
surement tons of dry cargo, 17.6
million long tons of petroleum and
more than 390,000 Department of
Defense personnel and their de-
pendents.
Units En-Route
The first 34 units are on their
way and are scheduled to arrive
April 15. Occupancy is expected
to begin in the early fall of 1965.
Plans are to have all the units
completed by the end of the ca-
lendar year.
All the houses are built by Home
Builders in Port Royal, S.C. They
will be erected here by Iceland
Prime Contractors.
Factory Finished
All structures are completely
finished at the factory in Port
Royal. The piping, electrical wir-
ing, cabinets, kitchen, sink, and
bathroom are included in each
pre-fab home. The floor tiling is
done here by the contractors.
While the pre-fabs are being
erected, the groundwork, roads,
parking areas, pavements, power-
lines, sewers and water pipelines
will be installed.
All structures will have a con-
tinuous footing, reinforced con-
crete foundation.
The cost of one apartment unit,
including inside and outside fix-
tures, such as the sidewalk
grounds etc., costs $24,500.
Local Direction
The construction of the hous-
ing units at Keflavik is super-
vised under the direction of RAdm
N. J. Drustrup, Director Atlantic
Division, BUDOCKS, Norfolk, Va.
The local Resident Officer-In-
Charge of Construction (ROICC)
at Keflavik is LCdr Robert A.
Litke, CEC, USN.
Each apartment, shipped in 18
boxes, is being transported by the
Military Sea Transport Service
(MSTS).
The pre-fabs are built under the
supervision of U.S. Army Corps
of Engineers sponsored by the De-
partment of Defense (DOD). Be-
sides outfitting such units to
Keflavik the company also is
building and shipping pre-fabs to
other military bases all over the
world.
Purpose
The purpose behind the U.S.
Government’s building of pre-fab
homes in the States for military
installations abroad is to limit the
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Story On Pages 4 - 5 —
Two Pilots Bail Out Of Jet;
Rescue Operations Underway
AFWL’s Eighth Ranked Sea Service Newspaper - 1964
THE WHITE
U.S. NAVAL STATION, KEFLAVIK INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, ICELAND
Volume IV, Number 14 Friday, April 9, 1965
| Where's Your Idea
HERE’S MY IDEA”—Col. Alan G.
Long, AFI commander, actively
supports Air Forces Iceland “Sug-
gestion Day” scheduled for April
26 by turning in his own suggestion
to 1st Lt. Nelson A. Yalle, MSP
monitor. On that day a little more
than two weeks from now, all AFI
personnel will submit a suggestion
under the Military Suggestion
Program, or will have one in the
mill. (USAF Photo by A1C W.R.
Keener)
New Retail Store
Opens At Keflavik
Tomorrow, 10 a.m., marks the
Grand Opening of Keflavik’s new
retail clothing store. This new
Navy Exchange store will be lo-
cated in Building T-100, the old
Keflavik Bowling Lanes.
An assortment of men’s, wo-
men’s and children’s clothing will
be displayed in greater depth due
to the expanded floor space.
Featured will be merchandise
from the United States and Eur-
ope. Some of the imported items
will include women’s gloves and
handbags from Italy, and English
and Scottish woolins.
Customers can now look for-
ward to a much greater selection
of items to choose from. It was
estimated that there would be a
53 per cent increase over the past
stock carried in the current Navy
Exchange Store. Included in this
assortment are Easter styles for
the ladies.
Store hours during Grand Open-
ing Day will be from 10 a.m. ’til
6 p.m. Normal operation hours are
10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. to
5:30 p.m. weekdays, except Wed-
nesday, when the store will be
closed all day. It will also open
every Saturday at 10 a.m. and
close at 4:30 p.m.
In This Issue
Doctors’ Notebook .... Pg. 2
ARLIS-II .............. Pg. 3
Sports ............ Pgs. 6-7
Movie Schedule..........Pg. 8
Capt Bratten Takes
Communications Post
Capt Toria J. Bratten, Jr., officially relieved Capt Henry
E. Thornhill, Jr., as commanding officer of the Naval Com-
munication Station Tuesday morning in Hangar 831.
Guests at the ceremony included RAdm Ralph Weymouth,
Iceland Defense Force commander, Capt Robert R. Sparks,
commanding officer of the Naval Station, Lt. Col. A.E.
House, commanding officer Marine*5* " "
Barracks and Col. Alan G. Long, Wis- They havTe three children.
Air Forces Iceland commander. Clare, age 15, Jams, age 1-, and
Captain Bratten is a native of
Tennessee. He attended Webb Pre-
paratory School in Bell Buckle,
Tenn. prior to entering the Naval
Academy in 1941. Before coming
to Iceland, Captain Bratten was
commanding officer of the USS
WARRINGTON (DD 843).
Captain Thornhill will assume
command of the USS MT. MC-
KINLEY (AGC 7). The MT. MC-
KINLEY is now operating with
the Pacific Fleet.
Among the duty stations where
Captain Bratten has served are
the USS NEVADA (BB 36), the
radiation laboratory at the San
Francisco Shipyard, USS VER-
MILION (AKA 109) and com-
manding officer of the USS
THOMAS L. GARY (DER 326).
Captain Bratten has earned the
American Defense Service Ribbon,
the American Campaign Ribbon,
the Asiatic Pacific Campaign
with three stars, World War II
Victory Ribbon, National Defense
Service Ribbon and the Navy
Occupation Service Ribbon.
He is married to the former
Miss Alice Mary Groves of Ripon,
Peter, age 9.
Other commanding officers of
the U.S. Naval Communication
Station, Iceland since it was de-
signated “Operational” on July
1, 1961, have been Capt J. J. Mc-
Mullan and LCdr C. R. Hawkins
(Acting).
New Job For
VAdm Colwell
The Secretary of Defense has
approved the reassignment of
VAdm John B. Colwell, U. S.
Navy, to the position of Deputy
Chief of Naval Operations (Fleet
Operations and Readiness) as re-
lief for Vice Admiral Alfred G.
Ward, U. S. Navy.
Admiral Colwell presently is
serving as Commander, Amphibi-
ous Force, Pacific Fleet.
Admiral Ward previously was
named the United States Repre-
sentative on the Military Com-
mittee and Standing Group of the
North Atlantic Treaty Organiza-
tion.
4 YEARS OF DRIFTING—ARLIS II, from May 23, 1961, until the
present, has travelled from Northern Alaska, straight across the Arctic
Ocean, and down the East Coast of Greenland.