The White Falcon - 02.04.1966, Qupperneq 2

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WHITE FALCON
Saturday, April 1, 1966
“The terrible devastation caused by the tornadoes in the
Middle West last year, brought home to me again the
urgent need for the great services of our Red Cross. Year
after year, in peace or war, at home or abroad, the Red
Cross is on the job. And once a year, we must remind our-
selves that only we can keep them there. For the Red Cross
depends on the personal contributions of private citizens,
and it depends on an army of volunteers to do the work.
So let us join up as volunteers, and join in to support our
Red Cross in all its missions of mercy.”
Lyndon B. Johnson.
U.S. Armed Forces
Served Around World
“Around the clock .... around the world, the American
Red Cross continued providing vitally needed services for
the Armed Forces, veterans, and their families during
crisis-ridden 1965,” Mr. Nicholas Fachilla, field director of
the American Red Cross, said today.
Rapidly moving world events'®1
brought Americans into combat in
the jungles of Viet-Nam and
found the Red Cross ready to pro-
vide traditional and additional
ARC services as needed.
Emergency Social Welfare
Emergency social welfare ser-
vices—a responsibility placed on
the American Red Cross by the
U.S. Congress—soared upward as
President Johnson ordered well
over 100,000 men into Southeast
Asia.
ARC services to active duty
military personnel and their de-
pendents—including counseling
with personal and family prob-
lems, assistance with emergency
leave situations and emergency
financial aid—also increased
rapidly as American troops once
more found themselves in a far-
away land fighting for their
country.
$40 Million To Servicemen
Some $40 million of the more
than $100 million ARC expends
yearly—was necessary to carry
on these vitally needed services.
During the year, nearly 556,000
American servicemen, veterans and
their families throughout the
world received help at military
installations, hospitals, or from
ARC chapters like ours, Fachilla
said.
As more than 51,000 service-
men each month enjoyed recre-
ation programs with a “stateside
touch,” conducted by ARC Club-
mobile girls in Korea, and at ARC
Centers in France, Morocco, and
Turkey, new Center-Clubmobile
Units were established in Viet-
nam at the urgent request of the
U.S. Military Command—-and Da
Nang, Bien Hoa, Tan Son Nhut,
and other places became familiar
names in the operations.
Vets Get ARC Aid
And the Red Cross didn’t for-
get the veterans. Red Cross volun-
teers served more than 155,000
patients in Veterans Administra-
tion medical facilities in the U.S.
Staff worked in VA offices in
co-operations with chapters to
help veterans and their families
with applications for disability
and death benefits.
Red Cross help to servicemen
includes:
Counseling servicemen and
their dependents to help them find
solutions to personal and family
problems.
Providing confidential informa-
tion at the request of servicemen
and their commanders concerning
personal and family emergencies,
and matters relating to requests
for leave, compassionate reas-
signments, and hardship dischar-
ges.
Financial assistance to service-
men and their families in cases
of sudden need.
Youth
Activities
The following is a schedule of
activities for month of April
which will be held for the most
part at the Youth Center.
Mondays
Girl Scouts .... 3:15 p.m.
Cadette Scouts .. 3:30 p.m.
(Chappl Annex)
Ballet ........ 3:30 p.m.
(Andrews Theater)
Tuesdays
Crafts ................3:30 p.m.
Ceramics ............. 3:30 p.m.
Boy Scouts (2nd Tuesday) 7 p.m.
Wrestling ...... 3:30 p.m. (Gym)
Bowling .. 4:15 p.m. 7-12 grades
Wednesdays
Brownies ............. 3:30 p.m.
Ceramics ............. 3:30 p.m.
PYOC .. 4 p.m. (Chapel Annex)
Teen Dance Class .... 6-7:30 p.m.
Thursdays
Crafts .............. 3:30 p.m.
Wrestling...... 3:30 p.m. (Gym)
Fridays
Junior Choir .. 8:15 p.m. (Chapel
Annex)
Story Hour ........... 3:30 p.m.
Movie* ............... 6:30 p.m.
Sub-Teen ............. 8:30 p.m.
(every other Friday)
*Except last Friday of month,
Bingo
Saturdays
Stamp Club ............. 1 p.m.
Bowling.......11 a.m 4-6 grades
Model Crafts.............1 p.m.
Tumbling & Trampoline 9:30 a.m.
(Gym)
Teen Club .............. 8 p.m.
Dramatics .............. 1 p.m.
Wood Craft............2:30 p.m.
Swimming Party.......8:30 a.m.
(April 9)
Fish Factory Trip ....... 9 am.
(April 23)
Sundays
Sunday School.........9:30 a.m.
(High School)
Catechism ............. 11 a.m.
(High School)
Bridge Lessons . 2-4 p.m. (Teens)
THE WHITE FALCON
U.S. Naval Station Keflavik
White Falcon’s mission—To in-
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serve as a positive factor in pro-
moting the efficiency, welfare and
contentment of personnel.
Capt Emile E. Pierre, Jr., USN
Commanding Officer
Cdr Richard C. James
Executive Officer
Ens William R. Brenneman
Service Information Officer
Staff
Joseph P. Schmieg, J03, Editor
W. H. Maisenhelder, J02
Technical Advisor
Sig Couch, JOSN, Reporter
Andre Levac, SN, Reporter
SSgt. D. Watkins
AFI News Editor
TSgt. J. Trombetti
Staff Illustrator
The White Falcon Is published
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with NAVEXOS P-35, revised June
1958, for free distribution to personnel
of Naval Station Keflavik. It Is printed
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Opinions and statements made in
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the authors and are not to be con-
strued as official views of the U.S.
Govt., Dept, of Defense or the Navy
Dept
Chaplain J
Cornet
by Chaplain R. G. Brown
“SINCERELY YOURS”
Happy April Fool’s Day! My boyhood memories of this
day are filled with reminders of youthful attempts to
cleverly deceive or trick some unwary child or adult.
Youngsters (and some not so young) still delight in such
chicanery. But even though it is April Fool’s Day, I would
like to discuss something that is the antithesis of chicanery
and deception. Let’s think about SINCERITY and TRUTH.
The first thing I would like to point out is that some
people are sincerely wrong in their ideas about sincerity.
For example, there is a popularly believed myth which
goes like this, “It doesn’t really matter what you believe
as long as you are sincere.”
It should be obvious that this is not true. A mother who
inadvertantly gives her child a deadly poison instead of the
medicine she sincerely thought she was administering will
do the youngster just as much harm as the woman who
deliberately poisons her offspring. A hunter who shoots
another hunter (whom he sincerely believes to be a deer
or elk) may be just as deadly as the deliberate murderer.
Actually, nowhere is the fiction about “sincerity” consi-
dered to be true except by those unthinking souls who con-
tend it is true in the realm of religion and morality. But
it is in these realms that blind sincerity can be most de-
vastingly harmful. Sincerity is a virtue only if it is proper-
ly related to TRUTH. The most dangerous people in the
world are those who are sincerely committed to some false
ideology.
No, man’s chief duty is not to be sincere in what he be-
lieves. It is important to be sincere but sincerity must be
subservient to truth; the chief duty of man is to determine
what is true then act positively upon it.
But can we really know religious truth? Yes! God will
reveal religious truth through His written Word to all who
genuinely and whole-heartedly seek it — if they are willing
to act upon it. God is a self-revealing God. The ultimate
revelation of Himself is in Jesus Christ who is TRUTH
personified.
Let us be sincere but let us be sincere seekers of truth.
Navy Reorganization Program
Becomes Effective May 1, 1966
Admiral David L. McDonald, Chief of Naval Operations
has been given the added responsibility of additional units
under his command effective May 1, 1966. The Naval
Material Command has been reorganized into six functional
commands and placed under the CNO.
The new commands are: Air'
Systems, Ship Systems, Supply
Systems, Electronic Systems,
Ordnance Systems and Facilities
Engineering. Under the old system
BUWEPS, BUSHIPS, BUSAN-
DA, and BUDOCKS reported to
the Secretary of the Navy.
CNO’s New Responsibility
With the new set up the CNO
will excercise authority over the
Chief of Naval Material (VAdm
Ignatius J. Galantin), The Chief
of Naval Personnel, and the Chief
of the Bureau of Medicine and
Surgery, in addition to operating
forces.
A rundown of the new com-
mands is as follows:
Air Systems Command, under
RAdm A. M. Shinn, 2,000-man
headquarters and 167,000-man
field unit. Responsible for air-
craft, air launched systems, air-
borne electronics, astronautics,
all air systems, photographic and
meteorological equipment and ac-
tive and reserve systems main-
tenance support.
Ship Systems Command, under
RAdm Edward J. Fahy, 2,400-
man headquarters, 105,000 field
personnel. Responsible for ships
and their accessories.
Ordnance Systems Command,
under RAdm Arthur R. Gralla,
2,000-man headquarters and
39,000 field personnel. Responsible
for all shipboard ordnance.
Electronics Systems Command,
under RAdm Joseph E. Rice,
1,000-man headquarters and 3,000
field personnel. Responsible for
ship and shore electronics, sup-
port of Air Systems Command in
electronics, Radiac equipment,
test equipment, set all standards
for electronics equipment com-
patability.
Supply Systems Command, under
RAdm Herschel J. Goldberg, 800-
man headquarters and 30,000
field personnel.
Facilities Engineering Command,
under RAdm Alexander C. Hus-
band, 1,000-man headquarters and
22,000 field personnel.