The White Falcon - 10.09.1993, Síða 6

Feedback questions and answers from August
With CAPT Charles T. Butler,
Commanding Officer, NAS, Keflavfk
QUESTION: Our POV (privately owned ve-
hicle) has been in the lot for three weeks. Is there
a maximum time it will sit there before we can
get it?
ANSWER: There is no maximum time a POV
will be in the lot before it is available for delivery
to its owner. When containers are off-loaded
from the ships, the priority for delivery is house-
hold goods first, POVs second and other cargo
third. Once a POV has been off-loaded, the
personnel in the POV officesubmit the vehicle’s
make, model, color and VIN (vehicle identifica-
tion number) to the Foreign Ministry and Ice-
landic Customs for permission to import the
vehicle into Iceland. That information is also
provided to the Icelandic vehicle registration
people so they may process the license plates.
Once all approvals have been received from
Reykjavik, the owner of the car is contacted by
the POV office and giv en the license plate number
and instructions on obtaining insurance, a light
kit and base registration for their car. Once
owners have insurance and base registration
papers, they are given an appointment to go to
the POV Office to have their vehicle inspected.
After this, light kits are installed at the Auto
Hobby Shop. The next day, vehicle owners,
accompanied by someone from the POV Office,
take their cars into Keflavfk for inspection and
registration. The POV Office has a standing one
hour appointment with the inspection station
Monday through Thursday and is limited to six
cars per appointment. As you can see, the proce-
dure for importing POVs to Iceland is time
consuming. While our goal is to get your car to
you as quickly as possible, we rely on your
patience during this process. Thank you for your
call.
QUESTION: Why do security patrol personnel
speed around the base when their job is to stop
speeding?
ANSWER: I appreciate your concern, how-
ever, there are a number of reasons why a
patrolman may need to exceed the posted speed
limits. These include responding to a call or an
emergency situation. At no time during routine
patrols are patrolmen supposed to exceed posted
speed limits. Anyone noticing a patrol car ex-
ceeding the speed limit is welcome to contact the
police desk and report the situation to the watch
supervisor.
QUESTION: Why was an Icelander allowed to
enter the NEX without showing an I.D.?
ANSWER: This should not have occurred, and
Hometown News Program works
use it to your advantage
The Army and Air Force Hometown News Program, located in Kelly Air
Force Base, San Antonio, Texas, and the Fleet Home Town News Program,
located in Norfolk, Via., provide recognition for military personnel by
promoting a positive image of the military to the American public via the
news media.
—The hometown program gives a media link to grass roots America, reaching
across the nation through commercial media, and putting military personnel in
front of the American public.
—Thousands of news media outlets subscribe to the news service, which
extends to all 50 states and the territories.
—For Army and Air Force personnel, fill out DD form 2266, and for Navy
personnel, NAVSO 5724/1. Contact your command Public Affairs represen-
tative. These forms are also available at the Iceland Defence Force Public
Affairs office, Bldg. 936. When you have completely filled out the forms in
black ink, return them to the PAO office. We will verify the information and
send them off.
all NEX security personnel have been cautiom
to prevent it from occurring in the future. Thanl?
you for your call.
QUESTION: The pitching machine doesn’t
have a power switch and is switched off every
time people from the nearby building secure the
lights. Could we get this changed?
ANSWER: The outlet on the outside of build-
ing302 is connected directly to the circuit breaker
inside the building. The circuit breaker has been
tagged and personnel with access to the building
will be instructed to leave the power on for the
pitching machine so it should not happen again.
QUESTION: Is there a possibility that the road
to the Youth Center will be fixed before bad
weather sets in?
ANSWER: I appreciate your concern and have
instructed the heavy equipment section of Pub-
lic Works to pay particular attention to grading
this road. However, since it is not one of our
most heavily traveled roads, no plan has been
made to pave it Public Works Engineering is
developing an estimate to fix this road and make
it safer in the winter months.
QUESTION: I have a “pet peeve” about people
who smoke in the doorway of the gym, and I
think it should be prohibited.
ANSWER: I agree!! Smoking has been banned
at the entrance to the gym, and “No Smoking”
signs have been posted.
QUESTION: I’m a
age family member
have found there is not a lot
to do here. Could we use the
base bus for trips to
Reykjavik either daily or
once a week?
ANSWER: U. S. Govern-
ment transportation assets
may not be used for recrea-
tional purposes except for
command sponsored MWR
trips. However, I encour-
age you to go talk to the
people at Project Player.
They have many good pro-
grams to getpeopleoffbase.
Don’t worry, it will get
much more exciting when
school starts?
QUESTION: I am an avid
user of the wood shop, and
we havenotbeen able to get
any oak to work with for a
long time. Is there anything
we can do to get more oak?
ANSWER: The MWR
department has ordered the
oak, but to date it has still
not been received. The
Supply Dep artment is tn
ing the order, so hope:
you won’t have to
much longer. Thank you for
your call.
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Tom, Sheila Couch & family
Couches are
stationed in
IceCand
Ware Shoals natives Tom and
Sheila Couch, along with their three
chiltfren, arc currently stationed at
Couch, son of Carol Couch of Ware
Shoals and the late Pete Couch, was
promoted to the rank of Major in
February.
Mrs. Couch, daughter of Alice
Bryant of Ware Shoals and Joseph
Wayne Bryant of Snell ville, Ga., was
named to the spring semester Dean's
List at the University of Maryland.
An accounting major, she achieved a
4.0 GPA.
The May issue of Married to the
Military magazine featured Mrs.
Couch and their children, Matthew,
age nine, Kelly, seven and Lauren,
three.
The Couches are currendy travel-
ing over Europe and will be stationed
in Langley, Va. in September. Upon
retiring from the Air Force, the Couch
family plans to settle in the Ware
Shoals area.
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