The White Falcon - 23.07.1993, Blaðsíða 8

NATO Men’s team cleans up in NOREUR golf
By J02 Carlos Bongioanni
Let no one confuse the issue. When “tee
time” arrived, no one was sitting in the club-
house sipping from a cup of steaming water
or eating from a plate of crumpets. Rather, the
four members of the NATO Men’s Golf
Team attacked the Machrihanish Golf Course
in Scotland with a vengeance that left all five
opponents utterly defeated.
For three days last weekend, the swinging
clubs of Jason Magee, J. D. Rios, Tad Hanich
and Mike Smith dominated every competitor
at the NOREUR Golf Tournament.
By tournament’s end, the foursome had
won by over 170 shots. “Normally, in team
competition, you should win by no more than
three or four shots per day,” said Magee. “We
beat the other teams by nearly 60 shots per
day.”
So completely did the NATO Men’s team
dominate, their lowest man beat out the best
players of all the other teams. NATO’s low
man. Smith, recorded a 94, 85 and 79 for a
258 total.
It may be said that the NATO men had an
advantage, since the weather was bad during
the tournament. “We’re used to playing in
bad weather,” noted Magee. “On the other
hand, because the weather is so bad in Ice-
land, we don’t get as much of an opportunity
to practice as the other teams do. In a w;fl
that speaks of the quality of players we haS
at the NATO Base.” ^
Besides sweeping all four individual
awards, the NATO men took first in the
scratch and handicap categories.
In addition, with his second-day round of
73, Magee scored the lowest round ever re-
corded at the Machrihanish course for the
NOREUR tournament. His other rounds were
a 76 and 78.
Rios also shot impressively with 74, 82
and 76, while Hanich shot 85, 79 and 75.
Lava field slowly evolves into a full size soccer field
Story and photo by
J03 (SW) Andreas Walter
Construction started recently on what is to
become a full size soccer field and running
track. The wind-swept lava field between the
Public Affairs Office and the Safety Office is
being leveled by heavy equipment (below
left) from the Public Works Department.
The field, slated for completion by early
summer, 1994, will be of regulation dimen-
sions, and will be sur-
rounded by a full-size
quarter-mile cinder
track.
In the past, the high
school soccer teams
have had to practice
on a somewhat un-
even and rocky
stretch of grass be-
tween the Safety Of-
fice and the base hos-
pital. Before that, a
piece of earth ear-
marked as a playing
field was erased by
new base housing.
“The high school
continued to inquire into the feasability of
constructing a field with available funds.
Finally a work request went through and the
job was tasked to us,” said LT Dale Hartman,
Operations Officer for the Public Works De-
partment
He added that the cost for construction was
split three ways between the Department of
Defense Dependent Schools, Naval Air Sta-
tion, Keflavik and the 35th Wing. A
Although the field itself will be leveled, tlfl
sod layed and the track completed by Octob^l
of this year, the playing surface will not be
ready for service until next year.
“If we end up using a grass surface, the sod
needs time to root before taking abuse,” said
E02 Mark Raudenbush, project supervisor.
For now, the dust will keep billowing from
the earth as workers tame the boulder ridden
ground. Base residents might even feel a
tremor or two when Public Works decides to
blast some stubborn rock formations.
EXERCISE, from page 1
include the Navy’s P-3C Orion aircraft of Pa-
trol Squadron Forty Nine which is on a rou-
tine six month deployment to Iceland, the Air
Force’s permanently assigned F-15C fight-
ers of the 57th Fighter Squadron and HH-
60G PAVEHAWK rescue helicopters of the
56th Rescue Squadron. An E-3A AW ACS
aircraft from Tinker Air Force Base, Okla-
homa, is scheduled to be on hand for the
exercise as well as a KC-135 Tanker and a
HC-130 Tanker aircraft which are routinely
assigned to Iceland from stateside units.
The exercise will also test the capability
to conduct rapid runway repair, non-combat-
ant evacuation, emergency refueling opera-
tions and response to mass casualty situ-
ations. These live events will all occur on
what is known in Iceland as the “agreed
area,” or the main base, which includes the
Naval Air Station and its outlying areas. A
limited number of military forces will also
exercise off the “agreed area” and will deploy
to certain locations within Iceland. Officials
of the Defense Department, Ministry for
Foreign Affairs and Civil Defense Agency of
the government of Iceland will work closely
with these deployed forces as well as with
local police.
Active duty, reserve and national guard
units participating in Exercise Northern
Viking 93 will primarily come from units in
Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania,
Virginia, Oklahoma, and the Washington,
DC area. A small number of personnel will
come from as far away as Washington State,
Iowa, Georgia, Alabama, and North Caro-
lina.
The larger units are: The Army Iceland
Headquarters Staff and Elements of the 187tlu
Separate Infantry Brigade out of Fort IjM
vens, Massachusetts. These units are coiu^
inanded by Colonel Robert A. Lee, United
States Army.
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