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THE WHITE FALCON
March 12, 1971
AFRTS speaks...
If you weren’t satisfied before,
chances are you won’t be now
If you weren't satisfied with AFRTS before,chances are five out of
six that you won't be after. And it's not our fault.
AFRTS personnel designed an audience survey a few weeks ago. More
than 5,000 copies were published and distributed as carefully as pos-
sible to reach all segments of the
NATO base population, including
military, civilian and dependent.
The return totaled a piddling
901, or about one-sixth of the
surveys published. That means,
for one reason or another five
out of six of you didn't even bo-
ther to fill one out.
Thanks a lot.
We've compiled results of the
901 surveys we did get back, and
we're now in the process of ana-
lyzing them and making program-
ming and scheduling changes ac-
cording to what the surveys say
is wanted. But, in reality, we
are running blind. Such a small
response to the survey means
chances are pretty poor that the
results will represent the de-
sires of the base as a whole.
It means the views of one man,
woman or child who filled out a
survey have to represent those of
five others.
If that seems unfair to the
five out of six of you who didn't
take the time to fill out and re-
turn a survey, just think about
it from our point of view.
We don't know what the problem
is for sure, but we think it has
something to do with an overall
lack of enthusiasm for anything
among people on the base. It's
tnat feeling of knocking your
head against a brick wall — or
having it knocked for you — then
just wanting to slump on the
floor and complain that your head
hurts. In a word, it's apathy.
And, it's a damned tired excuse
for making misery a community af-
fair.
It's also a fruitless occupa-
tion — one that takes time to
pursue. If you've got time to
get apathetic, you've got time'to
do something useful — like fill
out a survey, read a book, volun-
teer your time where help is
needed.
But we're getting out of our
realm. And we might be wasting
our time anyway. So we just want
to say one more thing.
Everybody on this base gets
our broadcast signal in an equal
fashion. It doesn't get clearer
if you wear more stripes, have
take-off, or have a family with
you. That makes little people
very important to us. As import-
ant as big people.
In fact, the only people who
aren't equally important are
the apathetic ones. We just wish
they'd stop slowing the rest of
us down.
HEV MABlb/ AFRTS
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G&JE ktuJj) LATE SHcudj
REPifiCe-
mewr, ASA/kJo-p
57th FIS command^
to change hands *
next Friday
The new commander of the 57th
Fighter Interceptor Squadron has
been named.
Lt. Col. Thomas W. Sawyer will
assume command next Friday. He
arrives on station Tuesday from
his previous assignment with the
Headquarters, Aerospace Defense
Command at Ent AFB, Colorado.
Col. Sawyer relieves Lt. Col.
Raymond J. Wyskup, who has held
the post for the past nine months.
Col. Wyskup will become the As-
sistant Director of Operations on
the staff of Commander Air Forces
Iceland.
During Col. Wyskup's tour as
commander, the 57th won their
fifth Outstanding Unit Award foji
the period January 1 through A^
gust 31, and the Hughes TrophW
awarded last fall. ^
The change of command ceremony
will take place at 2 p.m. in Han-
gar 831. All interested person-
nel who can be released may at-
tend the ceremony.
The White Falcon
U. S. NAVAL STATION
KEFLAVIK, ICELAND
CAPT Lloyd H. Thomas
Commanding Officer
CDR A.N. Kline
Public Affairs Officer
JOC Bill Wedertz
Newspaper Adviser
J01 Chuck McDonald.....Editor
UM2 John Getker........Writer
0T3 Ken Burrows...Illustrator
AN Don LaChapelle.....Layout
SN Sol Kruger..........Writer
A1C Bob Walker.........Writer
AN Rob Wagner...Photographer
The White Falcon is pub-
lished weekly on Friday in
accordance with NAVEXOS P-35,
revised July 1958, for free
distribution to personnel of
the Naval Station, Keflavik.
It is printed at the naval
station printing plant from
appropriated and non-appro-
priated funds.