The White Falcon - 30.05.1980, Page 1

News briefs
American Express
increases
loan interest
Effective Monday, the interest
rate on loans at the Keflavik Mil-
itary Banking Facility will be
raised from 12 percent per annum
to 15 percent annum.
McMullen becomes
Tac Vice Commander
Langley AFB, Va. (TACPS)— Ma j .
Gen. Thomas H. McMullen has been
nominated for the grade of Lieu-
tenant General and will be reas-
signed as the Tactical Air Command
(TAC) Vice Commander July 1.
General McMullen is now serving
as Deputy Chief of Staff for Sys-
tems, Air Force Systems Command,
Andrews AFB, Md. He replaces Lt.
Gen. Phillip C. Gast, who will be
reassigned to the position of Di-
rector of Operations, Organiza-
tion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
General McMullen has spent several
years in TAC.
Youth Center
offers two classes
The Youth Center is taking reg-
istrations now for a Pre-School
'Gymnastic class to be held at the
Youth Center, and classes will be-
gin Monday, June 16. Children two
through five years old are eligi-
ble to participate in the program.
Also the Youth Center is offer-
ing Art classes for youth ages
three years through sixth grade.
A qualified teacher possessing a
degree in elementary art will be
teaching the course.
For more information on either
of these classes, call the Youth
Center at 7508/7822.
Episcopal service
is postponed
The Episcopal Church service is
postponed to Tuesday 6:30 p.m. at
the Base Chapel. All interested
personnel are invited to attend
this service.
Father Bailey from RAF Kinloss,
England will be on the NATO Base
June 3-5. Also Episcoplaians and
interested personnel are invited
to attend a farewell dinner for
Father ' Bailey in the Officers'
Club at 7:30 p.m.
This will be Father Bailey's
last visit to the NATO Base.
Det 14 aids
injured seaman
Last Monday evening Det. 14 alert
crew (Capt. Dale Cook, Air Comman-
der; Capt. Michael Hales, Co-pilot;
Staff Sgt. Dennis Wayman, Flight En-
gineer) was called upon to remove an
injured seaman, Sigurdur Gudmund-
sson, from a 100 foot Icelandic
fishing vessel.
The maintenance personnel (Senior
Master Sgt. Edward Winkelseth, Staff
Sgt. Richard Lechot, Airman First
Class Loretta Hill, Staff Sgt. John
Henehan) prepared the rescue heli-
copter, "Jolly Green Giant," for im-
mediate launch. The 15 foot seas
hampered the search in locating the
ship and also in the hoist proce-
dures which followed.
The unstable ship movements
caused the hoist cable to become en-
tangled with the ship's masts and
antennas resulting in cable failure.
The pararescue/recovery specialists
(Sgt. William Orsborn and Master
Sgt. Gregory M. Lepley) kept the pa-
tient's condition stable aboard the
fishing vessel. A second helicopter
was launched to make a successful
pickup of the injured fisherman by
hoisting him from the fishing vessel
into the helicopter.
The patient was delivered to a
waiting ambulance in Reykjavik and
took him to an Icelandic hospital.
The crew of the second helicopter
was Capt. Emerson Dyer, Aircraft
Commander; Lt. Gene Winterrowd, Co-
pilot; Staff Sgt. David Luke, Flight
Engineer; and Staff Sgt. Duane Hack-
ney, Pararescue/recovery team spe-
cialist with Airman First Class
Gregory Reed, a Pararescue/recovery
team specialist.
The professionalism displayed by
the aircrews ability to perform such
a rescue mission and the maintenance
crew's ability to rapidly prepare
two rescue helicopters, shows the
pride that the personnel from Det 14
take in carrying out Rescue's motto
"That others may live."
Det. 14 is credited with saving
a fellow human being's life who had
a severe head injury.
"JOLLY GREEN GIANT" is positioning itself over the Icelandic fishing ves-
sel shortly before lowering two pararescue/recovery specialists to the
vessel's deck.