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WHITE FALCON
Friday, June 25, 1965
IVew French Course
Offered By ISA FI
The United States Armed Forces Institute (USAFI),
has announced the limited availability of a spoken French
course (C 600). This course is experimental and is being
made available for use by USAFI under special arrange-
ments with the Defense Language Institute.
Course materials for this program are as follows:
Text booklet: “Speak and1^
Read Essential French,” by Dr.
Paul Pimsleur.
Tape recordings: “Speak and
Read Essential French.” A set of
15 dual channel, five-inch tapes.
after one to three exposures. On
this basis, the materials would
be completed in 15 to 45 hours.
Loan Basis
Simple French
The introductory tapes are de-
signed to teach beginning students
at the high school or college level
to speak and understand simple
French. These introductory tapes
are programmed in half-hour
sessions.
It is anticipated that students
will be able to master each lesson
The course is intended primari-
ly for individual study. Since both
channels are prerecorded, no at-
tempt should be made to record
responses on the tape since this
would erase the second track. The
materials will be issued to indivi-
duals on a loan basis of 30 days.
For additional information, con-
tact the Education and Training
office at ext. 5238 or 5139.
Father’s Day
Has Surprise
For Kef Dads
by Helen J. Morgan
Last Sunday, “Father’s Day”
to most E-7’s and above, was cele-
brated all over the United States
as wives and children let their
“man of the house” know how
much they appreciate him.
But what about the fathers who
are without their families on this
June 20th, especially these sta-
tioned at Keflavik, Iceland? Do
they have to miss the pleasure of
small gifts such as home-made
cookies, cakes and pies?
“No!” said the CPO Wives
Club. And backing up their words
with action, each member of this
women’s club baked all day Sat-
urday, June 19, and came up with
an assortment of cookies, cakes
and pies, best to please the fathers
who were unaccompanied.
Finally, on that one day of
the year that all fathers consider
their special day, the CPO wives
sprang their surprise on the un-
aware and grateful fathers.
As one club member expressed
it, “We tried in this small way
to make Father’s Day a little more
memorable to those fathers who
aren’t as lucky as our husbands.”
We all hope that you fathers
enjoyed the baked goods as much
as we enjoyed making them.
Men of Month -
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career of the Air Force.
Another Pennsylvanian
L.Cpl. Richard Vought, the Ma-
rine of the Month, is currently
with the Marine Barracks’ Secu-
rity Guard. He was previously
assigned to 2nd Marine Division
at Camp Lejeune, N.C., Corporal
Vought hails from Isabella, Pa.
Although he returned to the
Continental United States for re-
assignment before presentation of
his award, Robert P. Lynch, SK3,
received the congratulations and
esteem of the men of the Iceland
Defense Force as Sailor of the
Month for May before departing.
WHITE FALCON
Deadline
Mondays—8 a.m.
Dental ...
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Follow The Rules
If we follow the rules of good
dental health, the American Den-
tal Association says, our teeth
can last a lifetime. Nature meant
them to.
Strange, isn’t it, that although
our teeth are naturally strong and
although we know more than ever
about how to keep our teeth, most
Americans suffer from dental
disease.
A recent national survey showed
dental patients under four years
of age had an average of three
teeth in need of filling:
....those aged 15 to 19 had
five on the average, and these
figures don’t include those per-
sons who never see a dentist.
.... one American out of eight
has no teeth at all.
Know Your Teeth
Yet, if we understand the cause
of tooth loss and act on knowledge,
we need not be a nation of dental
cripples.
What are our teeth like?
A tooth consists of a crown and
a root. The crown is protected by
a hard outer cast of enamel. The
bulk of the tooth under the ena-
mel consists of dentin.
Inside the dentin is the pulp,
a delicate tissue, which contains
nerves and blood vessels.
The root of the tooth is covered
with cementum, which serves
to bind the tooth to the jawbone
and the gums by means of per-
iodontal fibers projecting from it.
The jawbone, periodontal fibers,
and the gums are the tooth’s sup-
porting tissues.
The Visible Shield
The enamel protects the tooth
against damage from the outside
and provides the hard surface we
need for biting and chewing. The
dentin, which is also hard, and
the pulp, provide the pathways
for tooth nourishment.
Food for the tooth is carried
by the blood stream through the
jawbone and into the tooth’s blood
vessels in the pulp.
So long as the teeth remain in-
tact and the supporting tissues are
kept strong, our teeth remain
healthy.
Good dental habits assure good
tooth health. In future articles,
we will discuss what these dental
habits are.
QUICK CHECK—Ground crew members pull alert duty too, insuring that the aircraft are always ready
to scramble at a moment’s notice. SSgt. Harry A. Wilson looks over the wheel assembly while A1C
Robert W. Johnson Jr. checks a wing pod.
Air Defense Command Salutes 15th Year;
57th FIS Pilots Keep F-102s On Alert
Sunday will be “alert” as usual for pilots of the 57th Fighter Interceptor Sq. and
Air Defense Command as ADC marks its 15th anniversary of continuous runway vigilance.
Command pilots were ordered to 24-hour a day alert in 1950 just two days after the
outbreak of the Korean conflict. The news of Soviet possession of the atomic bomb,
the intensification of the Cold War and the outset of fighting in Korea were major
factors to ADC’s start of its runway alert system.
At least two pilots of the 57th Fighter Interceptor Sq. here are on alert daily with
their sleek F-102 Delta Dagger^
aircraft poised in the alert barn
ready to be launched at a mo-
ment’s notice.
transmitted back to headquarters
and the pilots await further or-
ders to remain with the aircraft
or return to the base.
aircraft that can seek out and
destroy any aircraft presently
possessed by a potential aggressor,
at any time and in any weather.
“Scramble”
Actual air intercepts are made
almost daily by 57th pilots who
“scramble” at the sound uf the
klaxon, the warning signal that
means an unidentified aircraft has
entered the airways protected by
the Black Knights of Iceland.
Once airborne, the pilots are
guided to their target by radar
intercept operators of the 667th
and 932d Aircraft Control and
Warning Sqs., both located on Ice-
land. Upon identifying the pene-
trating aircraft, information is
LEARNING THE TERRAIN—1st
Lt. Thomas Evans (left), a new ar-
rival to the 57th alert barn, takes
a few minutes to go over maps
of the Icelandic terrain over which
he will be flying. Helping him
“learn the ropes” is Capt. Robert
R. Hafner, who is a qualified
senior pilot.
57th Pursuit Squadron
While its parent command cele-
brates its 15th alert anniversary
Sunday, the 57th FIS has yet to
see its 11th candle here. Original-
ly activated in January 1941 as
the 57th Pursuit Sq., the unit was
closed, opened and transferred a
number of times before it finally
was ordered to Iceland in October
1954 as part of the Iceland Air
Defense Force.
From the date of its arrival,
pilots of the 57th began their
day and night alert, flying at that
time F-89 Scorpions. It was not
until September 1962 that the
Delta Dagger, an all-weather in-
terceptor, was assigned to the
Iceland Defense Force to replace
the slower Scorpions destined to
become a fighter aircraft of the
Air National Guard.
As originally planned in 1951,
the alert system is an integral
part of the country’s air defenses.
New Command
Three years after inception of
the alert system, ADC joined with
its Army and Navy counterparts
under a new U.S. Continental
Air Defense Command (CONAD).
In 1957, all these organizations
merged with the Canadian RCAF
to form the North American Air
Defense Command (NORAD)
Today, some 131,400 hours
later, ADC pilots still maintain
that constant vigil with the latest
missiles, rockets, and interceptor
North American Alert
There are more than 100,000
highly trained and professionally
apable men and women who back
up the pilots and missiles standing
alert. They are located at major
Air Force installations through-
out the North American Continent.
Against a hostile attacking
force, today, ADC stands ready
with 38 fighter interceptor squad-
rons and six air defense missile
squadrons armed with BOMARC
pilotless interceptor missiles. Back-
ing them up are over 20 Air Na-
tional Guard Fighter units who
stand continuous alert with re-
gular ADC squadrons.
Equipped Squadrons
The fighter interceptor squad-
rons are equipped with the Mc-
onnell F-101B Voodoo, the Con-
vair F-102A Delta Dagger, the
Convair F-106 Delta Dart all-
weather interceptors and the Lock-
heed F-104 Starfighter.
Although maintaining its alert
status constantly, ADC is con-
tinually measuring its existing
capabilities should they be needed
against the growing power of any
potential aggressor.
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