The White Falcon - 12.03.1976, Page 2

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White Falcon
NEWS
BRIEFS
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Shot records
REMINDER--Personnel scheduled for
transfer from Iceland are reminded of
the requirement to update their im-
munization records before departure.
The desired time frame for doing this
is withiri three months of the depar-
ture date. Failure,to update immuni-
zation records may result in a delay
in transfer.
The immunization clinic is open
daily, Monday through Friday (except
Wednesday) from 2 to 4 p.m. Avoid
delay and update your immunization
records today.
Auto Inspection
The following JO-numbered vehicles
are due for automobile inspections:
Today ................ JO 6745-6850
Monday ................ JO 6851-6901
Tuesday .............. JO 6903-6954
Wednesday ............. JO 6955-7002
Thursday ............. JO 7010-7084
Friday ............... JO 7085-7098
(and stragglers and reinspections on
Friday.)
Gl Bill
The GI Bill Education Program is
still alive, awaiting Senate action.
The measure passed the House, but the
Senate failed to act on the bill be-
fore the Christmas recess.
Another part of the bill would
eliminate the Pre-discharge Education
Program (PREP). Since the Senate has
taken no action, the PREP Program
will continue.
The Senate is expected to act on
the bill within the next few months
and tentatively will cut off the GI
Bill Program.
The Senate is also expected to go
along with the House measure to limit
the time period for GI Bill use. The
proposed bill would require service
members to use their benefits within
12 years from the date of passage of
the bill.
Now service members must use their
education benefits within 10 years
following discharge.
The bill passed by the House also
would give service members nine addi-
tional months of education eligibili-
ty-
Most service members now are eli-
gible for only 36 months of educa-
tion.
Early releases
Approximately 3,000 first term
airmen serving in surplus specialties
will be granted early release, prob-
ably in May, under a voluntary sep-
I aration program currently being de.
veloped by the Air Force.
Only stateside airmen, and other-
wise eligible Alaskan, Hawaiian or
U.S. territorial residents serving at
the home of record may apply. Imple-
mentation details on the program are
expected to be available at personnel
in about a month. First termers in
approximately 100 specialties who are
scheduled for June to September 1976
separation will be eligible.
COMMANDING OFFICER
Capt. John R. Farrell
PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER
JOCS James A. Johnston
Whit*
Falcon
INFORMATION CHIEF
J0C Jerry L. Babb
EDITOR
J02 Jerry L. Foster
STAFF
J02 Glenna L. Houston
J03 Pat McGreevy
White Falcon is published Fridays
in accordance with SECNAVINST 5720.44
for distribution to U.S. military
personnel, Naval Station, Keflavik,
Iceland, and their dependents, and to
military and civilian employees of
the Iceland Defense Force and their
families. It is printed in the Naval
Station Print Shop from appropriated
funds in accordance with NAVEXOS
P-35. The opinions and statements
made herein are not to be construed
as official views of the Department
of Defense or the U.S. Government.
News items, questions, suggestions,
and comments may be submitted by
calling 7409 or by visiting AFRTS,
bldg. T-44.
Navy/AF navigator training combined
Navy and Air Force student navigators
will start training together at Mather
AFB, Calif., in July.
Air Force Undergraduate Navigator
Training will be expanded July 1 to in-
clude Navy Aerial Navigation Training
Programs. The consolidated training will
save the Department of Defense about
$900,000.
The Navy programs produce about 160
Navy, 15 Coast Guard and 32 Marine
Aerial Navigators annually. No Navy
aircraft or equipment will be trans-
ferred to Mather.
Navy and Coast Guard students will
enter the Undergraduate Navigator Train-
ing Program during its sixth week and
remain for approximately 17 weeks, re-
ceiving instruction in avionics and
celestial and global navigation. They
will spend 85 hours in the T-43 Jet
Trainer and 68 hours in the ground-based
T-45 Simulator. After their Navigator
training course, the Navy students will
receive specialized training required
for unique Navy missions.
The Marine Corps navigator students,
all enlisted personnel, will be trained
by the Marine Air Navigation School
which will move to Mather from Naval Air
Station, Corpus Christi, Tex. About
seven Marine warrant officer and en-
listed instructors will train Marines,
using Air Force equipment and facili-
ties .
The action is part of the Department
of Defense's continuing effort to in-
crease the quality and decrease the
costs of training through consolidation.
The navigator and non-rated candidate
backlog is less acute. All 210 naviga-
tor-qualified graduates in the backlog
can enter undergraduate navigator train-
ing by August.
There are 268 on the non-rated candi-
date waiting list; 26 distinguished
graduates among them. Those 26 should
enter active duty, consistent with aca-
demic discipline and AFROTC enrollment
category, ahead of the others. Along
with pilot candidates who elect non-
rated assignments, all will enter active
duty between July and September, by com-
missioning date, to fill non-rated va-
cancies matching their qualifications.
All of the 2,500 cadets programmed to
graduate between March and June 1976,
who have not yet been commissioned, will
be offered the opportunity for active
duty or a choice of voluntary contract
termination or "Palace Option." Addi-
tionally, 43 who have been commissioned
and will complete previously granted ed-
ucational delays will be offered the
same choices.
First crack at non-rated vacancies
will go to the March to June 1976 dis-
tinguished AFROTC graduates. The rest
of the non-rated candidates, as well as
excess rated candidates vying for non-
rated slots, will be brought into the
active Air Force, according to qualifi-
cations, in order of their date of com-
missioning. Even if all of the excess
rated candidates accept non-rated jobs,
all but a small number can come on board
by September 1977, unless there are fur-
ther reductions by the Air Force.
BUPERS seeks Trident personnel
The Bureau of Naval Personnel is
looking for applicants to fill the en-
listed billets on the blue and gold
crews of the lead Trident submarine, as
well as for the initial group of in-
structors for the Trident Training Fa-
cility, Bangor, Wash.
About one-half of these billets are
expected to be activated in Fiscal Year
1977 with training for some of the in-
structors to get underway in late 1976,
and for the initial crewmembers to begin
early next year.
Enlisted personnel interested in as-
signment to the Trident program should
submit their applications to the Chief
of Naval Personnel, attention PERS 513,
in accordance with the guidelines listed
in BUPERSNOTE 1306 of Jan. 20, 1976.
Applicants must meet the general re-
quirements of Chapter 12 of the Enlisted
Transfer Manual. In addition, all rated
or designated applicants for the lead
Trident submarine must be qualified in
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Within the past few years dental re-
searchers have added new techniques to
the field of preventive dentistry that
can make teeth much more resistant to
decay than ever before. Children in
particular are reaping great benefits.
In case you haven't taken a child to
the dentist for a while, you might be
surprised to see the doctor painting
teeth with a fluoride solution and ap-
plying a plastic sealant to the biting
surfaces. Both procedures are complete-
ly pain-free and, according to extensive
studies, both can help teeth fight de-
cay.
Studies have shown that certain fluo-
ride liquids and gels applied directly
to the teeth by the dentist can bring
about a substantial reduction of dental
decay. The reduction can be as much as
30 or 40 per cent — impressive but
still not the 60 to 65 per cent that can
be achieved by water fluoridation.
Dentists particularly recommend the
application of fluorides about age three
to protect children's primary teeth and
again about ages 7, 11 and 13 when per-
manent teeth are erupting.
The job of the fluoride applications
is to help the enamel of the teeth be-
come more resistant to decay. The seal-
ants, on the other hand, are designed to
seal the tiny cracks and pits in the
biting surfaces of the teeth so that
food and bacteria cannot collect there.
One of the first questions asked
about pit and fissure sealants is often,
"What are pits and fissures and why
should they be sealed"? The answer lies
with an understanding of how teeth grow.
As teeth develop, enamel usually
forms smoothly on the surfaces of front
submarines. A minimum of one year at
your present duty station, or two years
if you are on sea duty, is required.
Also, you must have sufficient obligated
service to serve at least 18 months on
board the ship after it is commissioned,
tentatively set for the end of August,
1976.
Application date deadlines vary ac-
cording to ratings, with some strategic
weapons systems Specialist NECs having
only until March 31 to get their paper-
work into the bureau. But some ratings
need not apply until the period between
January and June, 1977.
Qualified applicants will be identi-
fied and officially notified that they
have been placed on the Trident volun-
teer list.
Personnel selected for the crew of
the lead submarine will begin their
training in early 1977 and will receive
submarine pay during their enroute
training.
teeth. The teeth in the back of the
moutn, nowever, nave irreguiantxe& on
their chewing or "occlusal" surfaces.
These irregularities are in the form of
tiny indentations and grooves called
pits and fissures. They are actually
defects in the teeth which are common to
normal teeth.
The pits and fissures are the sites
of much of the dental decay that occurs
particularly in children and adoles-
cents. The bristles of a toothbrush
cannot reach effectively into the minute
depressions.
A sealant, then, is a material that
is applied as a ’coating to the grinding
surfaces to seal off the pits and fis-
sures .
The product is sold as a professional
product only to dentists. The material
is a liquid that is brushed on the
grinding surfaces of the teeth. In one
procedure, it hardens to a transparent
coating under ultra - violet light. A
small hand - held ultra-violet lamp is
focused on the teeth for less than a
minute. The material is not applied to
the sides of teeth.
Since pit and fissure sealants are
designed to coat only the biting sur-
faces, they have no value for other
areas that are particularly susceptible
to decay — for instance, the surface
between teeth and near the gumline.
The pit and fissure sealants and flu-
orides applied in the dental office are
not designed as an alternative to regu-
lar oral hygiene. Instead, they are in-
tended to augment other proven preven-
tive practices including brushing with
an accepted toothpaste, daily use of
dental floss, fluoridation of drinking
water and regular professional care.
The ‘Tooth Fairy* says:
Preventive dentistry helps
SCHEDULE OF SERVICES
PROTESTANT
10 a.m. Main Chapel: Lutheran 2nd &
4th Sundays; 11 a.m. Main Chapel:
Divine Worship; 7 p.m. Main Chapel:
Evangelistic Service & Fellowship.
CATHOLIC
9 a.m. Main Chapel: Mass Sunday;
5:30 p.m. Main Chapel: Mass Sunday;
11:45 a.m. Blessed Sacrament Chapel:
Mass Monday through Friday.
LAY LEADER
Sunday, Latter Day Saints 9:30 a.m.:
Chapel Annex; Sunday, Episcopal 10
a.m.: Main Chapel 1st, 3rd & 5th
Sundays; Sunday, Church of Christ
noon: Chapel Annex; Sunday, Latter
Day Saints 5 p.m.: Lower School;!
Sunday, Fundamental Baptist 10 a.m.^
Human Relations Center; Sunday, Fun-
damental Baptist 6:30 p.m.: Call
7278/7569; Monday, New Life Fellow-
ship 7 p.m.: Chapel Annex, and
Thursday, Baha'i 7:30 p.m.: Call
6260.
RELIGIOUS EDUCATION
PROTESTANT
9:30 a.m. Lower School, Sunday
School (Age 3-Adult) and 7 p.m. Main
Chapel, Bible Study Wednesday.
CATHOLIC
Grades 1-8 Monday after school in
classrooms. High School Monday 7
p.m. Main Chapel Conference Room.
LAY LEADER
Latter Day Saints Sunday School at
11:30 a.m.: Lower School; Church of
Christ Sunday Bible School 11 a.m.:
Chapel Annex; Church of Christ
Wednesday Bible Study 7 p.m.: Chapel
Annex, and Fundamental Baptist Thurs-
day Bible Study 7 p.m.: Chapel Annex.
The White Falcon wishes "Farewell and
Bless" to the following sonne1: departing per-
MS3 Eddie Acenas NAVSTA
AKAA Joseph Angle NAVSTA
AN Ann Berry NA7SU
CMCA Dixie Blea NAY®
CE3 Phillip Blea NAvSP
LISN Kandy Evans NAVSTA
AKAN James Funk NAVSTA
SKSN Robert Hickox NAVSTA
SK3 Theresa Patrick NAVSTA
SKI William Patrick NAVSTA
ASE3 Bruce Savor NAVSTA
AE1 Robert Slawinski NAVSTA
AKAN Kenneth P. Wirth NAVSTA
FIFE CORPS MARCHERS count cadence at
the NATO lower school during Mardi
Gras festivities last week, (photo by
PH3 Vic Caffaro)