The White Falcon - 12.11.1999, Side 2

Seaman Ronda Prince
S/ White Falcon
Commander, Iceland Defense Force
Commander, l-'leel Air Kcflatik
Rear Adm. David Architzel
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Command in the Spot Light
Submitted by Capt. Fred Horne
Commander, Fleet Air Keflavik
“I wanted more of a challenge in my life and to
see the world,” that’s how Seaman Ronda Prince
answered when asked why she was interested in a
career in the United States Navy. Although this
would be more of a typical answer given by any
service man or woman, this particular case is
unique. Prince was not a United States citizen.
She was born in Guyana, South America and
moved to New York 12 years ago with her family.
She graduated from Great Lakes Recruit Training
Command in January of 1998 and reported to
Commander, Fleet Air Keflavik (CFK) the follow-
ing month.
While part of CFK, Prince has worked in the
First Lieutenant Division. She has also been able
to train with Air Operations for the Air Traffic
Controller (AC) rating. In her spare time, Prince
works with the children’s basketball program and
she is currently completing a program in Liberal
Arts with the University of Maryland to earn her
Bachelor of Arts degree.
Prince’s non-citizen status was an obstacle
toward one of her goals - becoming an air traffic
controller. To acquire such a rate a security clear-
ance is required. That clearance cannot be grant-
ed to a service man or woman in a non-citizen sta-
tus, so in the interim Prince has continued her
work at CFK as a striker.
Like most non-citizens in the Armed Forces,
Prince had applied to become a naturalized citi-
zen. She started the process on her own, but ran
into many problems and questions. The CFK
career counselor, AKC John Kocianic, and her
department head, CW02 Ken Torrey, looked for
Seaman Ronda Prince recently received U.S.
citizenship and has orders to attend the Navy’s
Air Traffic Controller school. (Photo by PH3 Liisa
Bjiirk)
ways they could assist her. They put her in contact
with the CFK legal office, which provided the
assistance and expertise she needed to press for-
ward with her quest for citizenship. They were
able to work through the required information and
make the necessary contacts with the U.S.
Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS).
Prince returned to New York to take the citizen-
ship exam on Oct. 21. She passed the exam and
then took the Oath of Allegiance. By taking the
oath she declared her “attachment” to the United
States and the U.S. Constitution. This was the last
step required to be naturalized; Prince was now a
United States Citizen.
She has returned to Keflavik with her goal com-
pleted and will now be able to strike for AC. She
has since received orders to detach from CFK in
January to report to the Air Traffic Controller A-
school in Pensacola, Florida. So the next time you
run into Prince, take a moment to congratulate one
of the United States’ newest citizens.
Lyte Bytes
Discipline Works
By Chaplain Henry W. Hensley
Sometimes it hurts, but using discipline is sometimes the only way of
reaching our children. I have learned this through the trials of parenting
three children, now 25, 22, and 18. Let me illustrate this with the fol-
lowing story:
A grandfather once found his grandson jumping up and down in his
playpen, crying at the top of his voice. When little Johnny saw his
grandfather, he reached up with his little hands and cried even louder,
“Out Grandpa, out Grandpa, out!” The grandfather reached down to lift
little Johnny out of the playpen, but as he did Johnny’s mother happened
to walk into the room and said, “No. Johnny, you are being punished,
you will have to stay in your playpen until Mommy says you can get
out.” The grandfather felt at a loss as to what to do. On the one hand,
he knew he must comply with the mother’s efforts to discipline the
small boy. On the other hand though, Johnny’s tears and little uplifted
hands tugged at his heart. Love found a way though! If Grandpa could-
n’t take his grandson out of the playpen, he could climb in and join him
there!
Discipline, in it’s finest form, is “directing a child toward the better
way.” Discipline goes beyond punishment. It should instead, instill in
a child the desire never to repeat the wrongful deed. It should make a
child realize the reason for a better choice of behavior. The desire to do
what is "right” is born of love, the love of the parent for the child, and
more importantly, the love of the parent “shown” to the child. The
writer of Proverbs writes these words, “He who spares his rod hates his
son, but he who loves him disciplines him diligently.”
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Showing that “Can do” spirit...
Naval Mobile Construction Battalion Detachment 4 mem-
bers (from left) Lt. j.g. Scott Kosnick, BUI Eric Tatia, SW2
Gerald Wheeler and NAS Commanding Officer Capt. Mark
Anthony cut the ribbon Nov. 9, officially opening the new
storage facility near Hangar 885. (photo by J03 Mike C. Jones)
November 12, 1999