The White Falcon - 11.04.1975, Page 1

THE WHITE FALCON
Volume XXXI, Number 14
Room price* increase by $2
April 11, 1975
Navy Lodge to receive facelifting
The Navy Lodge will soon join
the ever-growing ranks of rejuve-
nated NATO base facilities.
Approximately $73,000 in funds
has been borrowed from Navy Ex-
change Headquarters to bring the
lodge up to first class stand-
ards , according to Lieutenant
Commander Linnea M. Olsen, Navy
Exchange officer. All room
prices at the self-supporting
lodge have increased $2 to help
cover costs and repay the loan.
LCdr. Olsen estimates the loan
will be repaid in about five
years.
The 31 assorted rooms will be
repainted and recarpeted. New
beds and other furnishings will
felso be installed. Rooms will be
remodeled one at a time for the
convenience of the guests.
Work is scheduled to begin as
soon as possible. The majority
of the renovation is planned to
be completed in time for the big
influx of personnel during the
summer months.
The lodge, located near the
Air Terminal building, is often
the first stop for many incoming
dependents and guests visiting
the NATO base and may serve as
temporary quarters for permanent
change of station personnel.
Several types of rooms are avail-
able: family-style, including
kitchenettes; private; semi pri-
vate with connecting baths; and
one apartment.
NATO rescue unit credited with ‘save’
in evacuation of blood poisoning victim
The Defense Force rescue unit
was credited with saving the life
of an Icelandic woman Monday
morning.
Acting on a request for assis-
tance from the Reykjavik Oceanic
Control Area, the Iceland De-
fense Force Search and Rescue Co-
ordinator arranged the dispatch
of a Detachment 14 helicopter to
the area of Skorravik in the
northeastern part of Iceland.
Heavy snows in the vicinity of
Skorravik had prevented evacua-
tion of the 74-year-old woman who
was suffering from blood poison-
ing.
The HH-3E helicopter, piloted
by First Lieutenant Randy
Padfield, picked up the patient
at 7:30 Monday morning and deliv-
ered her, along with an attending
Icelandic physician, to Reykjavik
at 8:42 a.m. The patient was
transferred to an Icelandic med-
ical facility in Reykjavik where
the physician credited the De-
fense Force with saving the life
of the woman.
Crewmembers of the helicopter,
in addition to the pilot, were
First Lieutenant Mike Rodzianko
as copilot, Staff Sergeant Don
Appleby, flight mechanic, and
Staff Sergeant Jack Bergh, para-
medic .
Captain John R. Farrell greets Secretary of the Navy J. William
Middendorf II as he arrives at Keflavik Airport Monday morning.
(Photo by PH2 Bill Large)
SecNav makes short Naval Station visit
AF opens scholarship program
AFNS—Air Force Military Per-
sonnel Center officials have an-
nounced that the Airman Scholar-
ship and Commissioning Program
(ASCP) is now available for four,
three, and two year scholarships.
Applicants must qualify for fly-
ing duties (pilot or navigator)
x>r be pursuing technical degrees
Ji.n specific academic areas.
Officials stated that no spe-
cific academic major is required
to qualify for pilot or navigator
scholarships, but technical de-
gree requirements change as the
needs of the Air Force change.
Two year scholarships are
available to individuals who can
From detailing responsiveness watch
complete baccalaureate degrees
and Air Force Reserve Officer
Training Corps commissioning re-
quirements in two years. Per-
sonnel must be qualified to be-
come a missile launch officer,
nurse, or be a premedical student
preparing to become a physician.
The ASCP central board to se-
lect airmen for fall 1975 en-
trance is scheduled for June 2.
Applicants must submit applica-
tions to AFROTC/SDSC, Maxwell
AFB, Ala., 36221, prior to April
30. Additional information may
be obtained by calling the Air
Forces Iceland Education Office
at ext. 7482.
After-hours detailing information available
Navy personnel seeking de-
tailing information after their
particular detailer's normal
working hours, 12-8:30 p.m.
Greenwich Mean Time, may find in-
formation through the detailing
Pesponsiveness watch.
This watch has recently been
modified to streamline the ser-
vice already available to Navy
personnel. It was included among
several measures established in
1971 to facilitate the change to
a centralized detailing system.
It was manned by a detailer from
each section to cover each rat-
ing.
There are now two telephone
lines dedicated to this watch.
A qualified detailer is on duty
8:30 p.m.-midnight daily and 12-
5 p.m. Saturdays, Greenwich Mean
Time. The AUTOVON number is 224-
1459/1489. All questions will
be personally delivered to the
caller's respective detailer the
next working day for action, in-
formation or personal telephone
contact.
These lines are manned only
during the prescribed hours. In-
quiries may be made during normal
working hours by calling the re-
spective detailer's number as
listed in Link Magazine.
The duty detailer does not
have the authority to issue or-
ders , change existing orders, or
respond to questions concerning
activity manning.
The Honorable J. William ings on Iceland Defense Force
Middendorf II, Secretary of the operations and toured the Naval
Navy, paid a six-hour visit to Station. Captain John R. Farrell,
Naval Station Keflavik Monday. NAVSTA Keflavik's commanding of-
Secretary Middendorf arrived ficer, accompanied the Secretary
from Washington, D.C., Monday during the tour of the station,
morning aboard a Patrol Squadron Secretary Middendorf departed
TWENTY-FOUR aircraft. from Keflavik Airport at 3:30
The Secretary received brief- Monday afternoon.
Manifest shapes transfer plans
June, July and August are usu-
ally heavy transfer months. Navy
personnel who have received or-
ders to another duty station
should be sure and check the
flight manifest distributed to
department heads each month.
Until the flight manifest is
published, there are no guaran-
tees that anyone, regardless of
rate, will be allowed to leave on
any particular flight. The only
exceptions are individuals hold-
ing orders to a school or separ-
ation activity where specified
detachment dates are required for
reporting purposes or when the
Chief of Naval Personnel has as-
signed a limiting date to a reg-
ular set of transfer orders.
The Personnel Department em-
phasizes to all those about to be
transferred that no plans, (Navy
Lodge reservations, commercial
air flights in CONUS, etc.)
should be made around a departure
date until the flight manifest
has been consulted.
The manifest will be out at
the end of the first week of the
month before the month of trans-
fer . Therefore, if you are
scheduled to leave in July, your
flight manifest will be distrib-
uted at the end of the first week
of June.
If you have any questions con-
cerning transfers, flights, etc.,
contact the Transfers Section
Supervisor, PN3 Laird at 2116 or
2124.
Southern Mississippi
USO show to perform
A USO show from the University
of Southern Mississippi will per-
form at the NATO base this week.
The show consists of six men
and five women. They will pre-
sent a variety show called "Lov-
ers , Liars and Clowns" and a the-
atrical show called "A Funny
Thing Happened on the Way to the
Forum."
The show will appear at Rock-
ville tonight at 8, at H-3 Satur-
day afternoon, at Grindavik Sat-
urday evening at 8, at the USO
2 p.m. Sunday, at the Top of the
Rock 9 p.m. Sunday, at the Youth
Center Monday at 3:30 p.m., and
at the CPO Club Monday at 8 p.m.