The White Falcon - 01.08.1969, Qupperneq 3

Friday, August 1, 1969
THE WHITE FALCON
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Two Viet vets promoted
in Marine Bks. ceremony
CO pulls switch: interviews
departing newsman T. Duncan
Two Marines were promoted on July
25 during a ceremony in the Marine
Barracks parking lot. Marine Barracks’
commanding officer, Lt. Col. W. M.
Thurber presented the promotion certi-
ficates to Gy. Sgt. Edward H. Hoenig
and S. Sgt. Lucian C. Moscinski.
Sergeant Hoenig, from Glenn burnie,
Md., joined the Corps in 1953 and has
served in Vietnam with the First Bat-
talion, Third Marines, from 19 65 to
1966. Assigned to Iceland for two
years, he reported here June 1968 from
the Marine Corps Supply Center,
Albaney, Ga.
Sergeant Moscinski joined the
Marines in 1964. He reported to Ice-
land in April, 1968 for a two-year tour.
He served with the First Tank Bat-
talion, First Marine Division in Viet-
nam from 1966 to 1967, and was at-
tached to Camp Lejune N.C. prior to
coming to Iceland. Sergeant Moscinski
is from Honolulu, Hawaii.
Both men’s promotions were effective
on July 1.
J03 W.R. Leloo
Newsman Tom Duncan answers CAPT Hart’s questions during an interview
Tuesday afternoon in the commanding officer's office.
JOl Tom Duncan of the American Forces Radio and Television Station
bade farewell today to friends and viewers as he departed here for separation
from the Navy.
LOR AN CG Station gets new CO
as service celebrates 179th year
Lt. Harold T. Sherman, USCG, has
returned for his second tour of duty
in Iceland to assume command of the
Coast Guard LORAN Monitoring Sta-
tion on the NATO base. His arrival
is timely as he will be able to parti-
cipate in the Coast Guard picnic to
be held Monday in observance of the
179th anniversary of the Coast Guard.
From the 1st Congress’s authori-
zation for 10 revenue cutters in 1790,
the Coast Guard has grown in im-
portance to include icebreaking pa-
trols, search and rescue missions,
and navigational aids.
The Coast Guard has built a Long
Range Aid To Navigation (LORAN)
system which extends from the Arctic
Ocean to the South China Sea.
The LORAN Monitoring Station on
the NATO base is a member of the
LORAN - C chain of stations which
controls the North Atlantic.
Prior to receiving his assignment
to Keflavik, Lt. Sherman served as
chief of ET School at the CG Training
Center, Governor’s Island, N. Y.
Lt. Sherman enlisted in the Coast
Guard in 1956, and has attended
various electronics courses including
the two year program at the RCA
Institute. Following his commission
in 1963, he served as Combat Infor-
mation Chief and Electronics Officer
aboard the CG-C Half Moon.
His last visit
to Iceland was
from 1964-66,
when he was Coast
Guard Liason
Officer at the
£h^fllllk Sandur LORAN Sta-
1 tion located on
the Snaefellsnes
peninsula.
Lt. Sherman on his
two year tour in Iceland is his wife,
the former Mary Serrano of Stonington,
Conn., and their three year old daughter.
Lt. Sherman
Accompanying
Earlier this week, CAPT Ralph
W. Hart, turned the tables on the
veteran newsman and interviewed
Duncan about his plans for the future.
Afterwards, the Captain expressed
his appreciation for Duncan’s work
here.
Duncan, who is 27 years old, has
worked in several areas of journal-
ism since he began in radio at the
age of 13 in Greenville, S.C.
Bom in Staunton, Va., he lived there
until the age of 11, when his family
moved to Greenville. He attended
high school at Bob Jones Academy,
at which time he began working for
WMUU, a school-owned, commercial
radio station.
Although his first contact with the
radio industry consisted mainly of
doing odd jobs for the station, his
ambitions to begin broadcasting were
little dampened. After a short time,
he was given his first radio program --
a short, early-morning show spin-
ing records, which, because of the
time it was on the air he called
“music to milk cows by.”
When he was about 15 years old, he
somehow got sidetracked into selling
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