The White Falcon - 25.06.1976, Blaðsíða 2

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White Falcon
NEWS
BRIEFS
Tickets
The Enlisted Dining Facility will
celebrate the Nation’s 200th Eirth-
day by having a Special Dinner on
July 3 from 3-6 p.m. Officers and
civilian guests will be welcome.
The wardroom will be closed for the
evening meal on July 3 because of
the number of people planning to at-
tend, it is necessary to sell tick-
ets for this meal only. Tickets
will be sold at the Enlisted Dining
Facility during normal working hours
from June 13 - 30. No tickets will
be sold after June 30 1976.
Teaching
A Red Cross Senior Life Saving
class will be taught at the base
pool on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday
and Friday. For more information
and to sign up, call 7870 or 6131.
Test
The Naval Station E-3 and Military
Leadership Exams will be held at 7:30
a.m. July 6 at the Midnight Sun Club.
This and following Military Leader-
ship Exams will not covunt toward eli-
gibility for the August 1976 Navy
Wide Advancement Examination. Uni-
form of the day and I.D. cards are
required. All recommendations for
the July 6 exam. should be in the
Personnel Office no later than 4 p.m.
June 28. This time limit gives the
Personnel Office the opportunity to
prepare a memorandum of eligible
personnel for distribution to all
departments one week prior to the
exam.
Tots
Registration for the fall session
of Nursery School will begin on July
1. Children who will be three or
four years old by December 31 are
eligible to be registered. For more
information, call the Base Nursery
at 7603.
Thrift Shop
Starting July 1, the Thrift Shop
will be open on Thursdays on a trial
basis from 10 a.m. to noon.
The Thrift Shop will have a "Bag
Sale" Monday from noon to 4 p.m.
Please bring your own bag.
The stork
Richard Lee Reichman, Jr. was
born at 12:19 a.m. on June 14. His
mother is Ruth Ann Reichman and his
father is EN3 Richard Lee Reichman.
EN3 Reichman works at the Naval Com-
munication Station.
Jennifer Lea Bausch was born June
15 at 8:30 a.m. Her mother is Cindy
Lou Bausch and her father is UT2
Robert Dale Bausch. UT2 Bausch is
a Navy Seabee who works at the Naval
Station Public Works Department.
Travis W. Cecil was born at 1:16
p.m. June 15. His mother is HM1
Frances I. Cecil and his father is
HM1 Warren L. Cecil. Both parents
work at the Naval Station Dispen-
sary.
Randy James Hanson was born June
16 at 3:30 p.m. His mother is Helen
F.L. Hanson and his father is DP2
James H. Hanson. His father works
at the Naval Facility.
Commanding officer
Capt. John R. Farrell
Public Affairs Officer
JOCS James A. Johnston
Information Chief
J01 Jim Miller
Editor
J02 Glenna L. Houston
Staff
J02 Jerry L. Foster
AA Bob Sienko
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 NAVEX0S
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 4692 or by visiting AFRTS,
bldg. T-44.
MEMBERS OF THE NAVY WIVE1S TOUR explore the inside of a P3C Orion aircraft. More
than 40 women took advantage of the orientation tour Tuesday sponsored by the
Naval Station Human Relations Department. The women on the tour were greeted by
the Naval Station Commanding Officer, Captain John R. Farrell, visited many Navy
and Air Force activities and departments.- Another tour of this type will prob-
ably be scheduled this fall.
by Fran Preston
During the summer, flights to the
United States, Europe and to sightseeing
attractions in Iceland all fill up
quickly. If you want to get a reser-
vation on the day you choose, be sure
to book far enough in advance. Even at
non-busy times it takes a few days to
make the reservations, process the re-
quest and write the tickets. Don't be
disappointed, book early.
Camping tour
Don’t forget about our good camping
tours coming up. June 30 is the four-
day trip to Landmannalaugar-Eldgja, July
3 is a three-day camp-out at Skaftafell
National Park, and starting July 5 is
the next 12 day Circle Safari around
Iceland. If you want to get away for a
while, check into our specials for
London, Copenhagen - Oslo - Glasgow or
Luxembourg.
Greenland
Ready to try something different for
a tour? Go to Greenland! From now to
late September, Boeing 727 flights op-
erated by Icelandair connect Iceland
with Narssarssuaq, an airfield lying
just across the fjord from the site of
Brattahlid, the settlement Eric the Red
founded in 985.
Greenland is indeed green and beauti-
ful in the summer. Sheep and ponies
TRAVEL
graze on rolling meadows that sweep from
the water to the floor of the snowless
mountains. Colorful wildflowers and
Artie cotton grass (the fifa which the
Vikings used for wicks for their lamps)
cover the fields. Ice floes are in the
bays, and glaciers cap the mountains.
Flights take you to this unique land
four times weekly, and once you are
there, hotel accommodations are available
at the modern Hotel Arctic All rooms
are doubles, with a bath located between
each two rooms. Meals available at the
hotel feature delicious Danish cuisine
since Greenland is a Danish possession.
After you have arrived in Greenland,
there are a variety of tours and excur-
sions available. Boat trips take you to
to several-different Eskimo settlements,
or to the ruins of ancient dewllings of
both Eskimos and Vikings. There also
are tours by foot or by boat to various
glaciers and glacier-outlet fjords.
If you are interested in a shorter
trip, there are one-day excursions to
Kulusuk, Greenland. You land at the
airfield on Kulusuk Island in east
Greenland, and have several hours to
walk through the small Eskimo village at
Cape Dan and explore the untamed
scenery. Leaving late that day, the
plane circles over Angmagsalik village
and its nearby magnificent glaciers and
icebergs.
For more information on any of these
tours, call the Tour Office at 4420 or
4200.
Bus tour
Next Saturday the bus tour goes to
Whale Bay, Husafell and Kaldadalur. Buy
your tickets by noon on Friday.
Hospital Corps celebrates 78th birthday
The Navy Hospital Corps was 78 years
THE OLDEST AND THE YOUNGEST corpsmen cut
Navy Hospital Corps' 78th birthday cake.
old last Thursday. Naval Station corps-
men and corps waves celebrated the oc-
casion Saturday night at the Sand Hut
with a semi-formal dinner-dance.
Distinguished guests included Captain
John Farrell, commanding officer Naval
Station; Commander Mary Ann Bogdanski,
head nurse Naval Station Dispensary;
Lieutenant Commander William Good-
hart, administrative officer, Naval
Station Dispensary; and Lieutenants
(j.g.) George Wilkinson and Evelyn
Davis, both who are former enlisted mem-
bers of the Navy Hospital Corps.
The birthday cake was cut in a tra-
ditional fashion — with a sword and by
the oldest and the youngest hospital
corpsmen stationed onboard the NATO
Base. Senior Chief Larry Jones and Hos-
pitalman Apprentice Dave Lemieux did the
honors and then presented the first
piece of cake to Cdr. Bogdanski.
Prior to the cake cutting, Hospital
Corpsman Second Class Will Ware gave a
brief presentation on the history and
mission of the Navy Hospital Corps.
After dinner, the remainder of the even-
ing was dedicated to having a good time
and dancing to the music of "Free and
Easy."
The origin of the Navy Hospital Corps
dates back to June 17, 1898 when Con-
gress approved it as an organized unit
of the Medical Department. During World
War II, Secretary of the Navy James For-
restal paid honor to the Hospital Corps
for its singular attainments during that
conflict.
First LACC
AS degree
awarded
Air Force Master Sergeant Michael A.
Stone, of the 932 AC&W Squadron at Rock-
ville, became the first student to
receive an associate degree from the
Keflavik Center of Los Angeles Community
College (LACC) Monday. His degree is in
Electronics Systems Technology.
MSgt. Stone arrived in Iceland in
July 1975 and was one of the first stu-
dents to enroll with LACC when it began
operations here in August 1975.
During his one year tour, MSgt. Stone
has been able to accumulate 19 semester
hours with LACC. His grade average is
"A." This meant that he had to attend
classes four nights a week at times,
quite an accomplishment considering the
location of Rockville,
In addition to the 19 credit hours
from LACC, MSgt. Stone had transfer
credits from other colleges, CLEP Test
credits and credits from military ser-
vice schools to earn his degree.
RAMA seeks
understanding
by T5gt. Willie Wright Jr.
President of the BAMA
The message of brotherhood is being
renewed on the NATO base by the Brother-
hood Association of Military Personnel
in Iceland (BAMA). The BAMA has been a
chartered organization on the NATO Base
since December 1972. The organization
is a branch of the world-wide Brother-
hood Association of Military Airman.
BAMA, which was formed in 1970 at Kunsan
AFB, Korea, is based on the principles
that the individual has infinite dignity
and worth. BAMA seeks to create under-
standing between man and women of all
races, creeds, colors and religions.
Starting out as a social club for
members of the Kunsan Human Relation
Council, BAMA quickly developed into a
bi-racial movement to promote under-
standing between Airman and Koreans. A
member of BAMA pointed out the goals of
the organization: "The BAMA goals were
the same as mine—to get people togeth-
er so they can talk to each other. Be-
fore long, BAMA was stopping incidents
before they started, and that gave us a
chance to start thinking about better
things ot do, like working on community
projects and sponsoring rock festivals.
Soon we had everybody working together
to make Kunsan a better place for every-
body." If they can do it at Kunsan why
can't we do it at Keflavik?
Today there are organizations in
Okinawa, Japan, Hawaii, Alaska, the con-
tinental United States, the Azores and
Europe. Togetherness and brotherhood is
the message.
Frank Waller, Jr., a former vice
president of the national Brother Asso-
ciation had the same dream as did Dr.
Martin Luther King, Jr., 'That little
children will one day live in a nation
where they will not be judgedby the col-
or of their skin, but by the content of
their character."
If you are interested in finding out
what BAMA is all about, you are invited
to attend our meeting held on the first
and third Sunday of each month at 3 p.m.
at the Lower School. For further in-
formation, contact TSgt. Wright at 7528.
It is a fact that the percentage of
casualties among the medical department
personnel in both the Korean War and
World War II was greater than that of
the Marines they supported. Five out of
seven Congressional Medals of Honor con-
ferred upon Navy personnel during the
Korean conflict were bestowed upon hos-
pital corpsmen.
The mission of the Hospital Corps is
to give on land, sea, and in the air
assistance to Medical, Dental, Medical
Service, Nurse and Hospital Corps Offir-
cers in the eternal war against disease,
injury and death, and to aid in main-
taining the supply and administrative
functions of the supportive branches of
the Medical Department.
The Hospital Corps is also the only
such organization in the U.S. Armed
Forces to be comprised solely of en-
listed personnel.