The White Falcon - 15.02.1980, Blaðsíða 1

Fire Department earns most coveted award
The Naval Station Fire Department
has been awarded the most coveted
fire prevention prize the North A-
merican continent has to offer, the
National Fire Prevention Association
1980 Grand Award.
Competing against 496 military
and civilian fire departments
from all over the United
States and Canada, Fire Chief Sveinn
R. Eiriksson's team took top honors
in the "Learn Not To Burn" compe-
tition—an achievement which carries
a $2000 cash prize.
The award was won for the Fire
Station's year-round fire prevention
and escape planning program for the
Naval Station's resident community.
The campaign had three parts:
public education in home fire safe-
ty; participation of all residents
in Operation EDITH (Exit Drills in
the Home); and the installation,
testing and maintenance of smoke de-
tectors in each anartment—performed
by personnel of the Navy Fire De-
partment.
The crowning glory of the plan
was its effectiveness. For the
full year covered by the program
there were no fires in any home at
the Keflavik Naval Station.
See award on page 3
Volume 23, Number 6 February 15, 1980
Local briefs
New hours for shipment
counseling/scheduling
The Household Goods Office has
recently changed the hours for
shipment counseling and scheduling
will be as follows:
Monday 10 to 11:45 a.m. and 1
to 3:30 p.m.
Tuesday 10 to 11:45 a.m. and 1
to 3:30 p.m.
Wednesday—closed.
Thursday 10 to 11:45 a.m. and 1
to 3:30 p.m.
Friday—closed.
With the new hours the counsel-
ors will be able to devote more
time to the individual's situation
and it is felt there will be no
decrease in the amount of service
provided.
There also has been a change
in the household goods shipment
process, which now allows a per-
son to obtain a projected assign-
ment to quarters date and begin
the shipment process of household
goods to Iceland. This should cut
the waiting tim» involved and
greatly improve morale.
New Dental sick call hours
Commencing on Tuesday, Dental
sick call will be on Monday- Fri-
day for active duty itlilitary from
8 to 9 a.m. and 1 to 2 p.m. For
dependents, Dental sick call is
Monday - Friday 1 to 2 p.m.
JO tag inspection
The annual Icelandic mandatory
inspection of JO tagged motor veh-
icles is ongoing from 1:15 to 4:30
p.m., Monday - Thursdays, and it
is important to be on time. In-
spections of the vehicles are at
the NEX Car Wash, Bldg. T-507. See
page two for JO Inspection Sched-
ule.
Same people repeat
ceremony 8 years later
Eight years ago last Friday Staff
Sgt. Ed Winkelseth was reenlisted by
Major Bruce Ware, while they were
both astraddle on a "forest penetra-
tor" recovery device. The recovery
device was suspended from the hoist
of a hovering HH-3E helicopter.
Both were assigned to the 1600 Cjn-
solidated Support Group, Clark Air
Force Base, the Republic of the
Philippines in 1972.
At that time Staff Sgt. Winkel-
seth was a flight mechanic, and Maj.
Ware was the Group Standardization
Officer.
But on Wednesday, Feb. 6, LtCol.
Ware once again administered the
oath of enlistment to Senior Master
Sgt. Winkelseth. LtCol. Ware is Det
14's Commander, and Senior Master
Sgt. Winkelseth is his Maintenance
Superintendent.
The second reenlistment ceremony
was much more sedate but nonethe-
less official.
Mail service
There's one thing for certain.
Mail service ain't what it used to
be.
In our case, "Neither rain, nor
sleet, nor snow..." doesn't apply.
During past months, the mail ser-
vice has been irregular. This has
been the result of several factors.
A reduction of available mail
flights as well as a Fleet Post Of-
fice manpower shortage in New York
are the two main reasons.
According to postal officials
here, there is an indication that
some incoming mail from January is
missing and it is being traced.
Postal personnel in New York as well
as Atlantic Fleet headquarters in
Norfolk are also aware of Keflavik
SECOND TIME AROUND—Senior Master
Sgt. Ed Winkelseth was reenlisted by
Lt.Col. Bruce Ware for the second
time recently. Story at left.
mail situation and may be able to
find a solution.
Currently mail is received here
four* times a week and departs Mon-
days, Fridays, and Saturdays. The
Naval Station has asked that mail
formerly routed through Copenhagen
from the states be discontinued be-
cause of the numerous mail receipt
and tracing problems that have come
from that route.
Mail coming to the Defense Force
through the Fleet Post Office in New
York has been delayed two weeks or
more in some cases. According to
Atlantic Fleet headquarters postal
officials investigating this situa-
see Ain't what it used to be on page 2
"Ain’t what it used to be”