The White Falcon - 17.05.1985, Qupperneq 3

Arbaer Fold Museum -- Open air museum, farm buildings from 1890
and truf church, furnished houses, steam locomotive on display.
Sept-May open only on request, Tel. 84412, 9-10 a.m.
* Directions: Drive to Reykjavik, turn right onto Miklabraut
heading out of town. At the turnoff for Selfoss (Rt. 1) turn
right at traffic lights, about 100 yards on the right, turn
right again at the museum sign. This is before you bear left
to continue to Selfoss on Rt. 1.
The cities of Keflavik and Reykjavik as seen from the NATO Base
What's happening in
Iceland
Schedule of religious services
7:30 p.m.
5:00 p.m.
8:30 a.m.
9:15 a.m.
9:30 a.m.
11:00 a.m.
11:00 a.m.
12:30 p.m.
7:00 p.m.
Friday
Jewish. Sabbath
Saturday
Catholic Mass
Sunday
Lutheran Communion Service
(First and third Sundays)
Sunday School (Child Care Cen-
ter, Family Services Center and
Upper School)
Catholic Mass
Protestant Morning Worship (Com-
munion first Sunday)
CCD (Lower School)
Catholic Mass
Evening Bible Study
Lay Reader Services (Upper School)
9:30 a.m.
10:00 a.m.
3:00 p.m.
5:00 p.m.
Church of Christ
The Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints
Pentecostal Service at Chapel
Episcopal Prayer Service
(First Sunday)
Air Force to open previously closed Jobs to Women
WASHINGTON (AFNS) -- The Air Force announced
April 22 that it will open about 800 active duty
jobs previously closed to women.
The action was caused by a revision of the Air
Force's combat exclusion policy that resulted
from a personnel force composition study. The
study was directed by Congress last year. For
the first time, the Air Force policy that restricts
women because of combat involvement specifies
types of units, aircrafts and skills.
Under the new policy, women will not be eligi-
ble to:
* Serve with forward air control posts and
munitions storage sites.
* Fly and crew some EC-130E aircraft, EC-130H
compass call aircraft and C-23s.
* And serve with C-130s assigned to the 16th
Tactical Airlift Squadron, Little Rock AFB, Ark.
The positions are now filled by men. For these
and other jobs, the Air Force will not recruit to
a fixed percentage, officials said. The service
will consider individual merit and will provide
the same job opportunities for equally qualified
men and women.
"Women continue to make substantial contribu-
tions to today's high-quality Air Force," said
Air Force Secretary Verne Orr about the force
composition study. "As their numbers continue to
increase, the Air Force is committed to providing
full career opportunities."
Combined with the opening of the security
speciality and minuteman and peacekeeper launch
crew positions, about half the jobs closed to wo-
men a year ago have been opened.
About 26,400 jobs remain closed because of com-
bat exclusions. These jobs include four enlisted
career specialities: Combat control, tactical
air command and control, aerial gunner and para-
chute-recovery. There are no officer career fields
closed to women; however, some positions in open
fields are closed due to the combat nature of
their missions.
The Air Force, with about 11 percent of its
work force being women, has a higher percentage
of women than the other services. With the job
openings since last year and the new recruiting
approach outlined in the study, the Air Force ex-
pects the number of enlisted women recruits to
rise to 16 percent to 20 percent in the next few
years, officials said.
Women are excluded from combat roles by Public
Law 10 USC 8549 and by Associated Air Force Policy.
The law states women " ... may not be assigned to
duty in aircraft engaged in combat missions."
The revised policy relating to aircraft applies
to units and skills where people train in peace-
time for wartime deployment.
The new policy and its application will be
spelled out ina forthcoming Air Force regulation.
The policy will be reviewed in the future to
accommodate any force structure changes that come
with new weapons, units and skills, officials
said.
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