ACS NEWS - BOB MINTON
Sheep Mountain ACS station has had
a changeover of personnel ..All Air
Force personnel for Sheep have arriv
ed to replace the Arm'jr personnel that
will be departing between the twelfth
and the twenty-second of March. Leav->
trig on March I7tH'will be SFC Sam
Kaawai’oa and his wife and family.
They will be driving out « Sam has
been Site Commander of Sheep Mb• for 1
the past year0 He and the family
will be going to their new assignment
at Ft. Monut h, New Jersey. Sam has 15 |
ye“ars service in the Mi lit ary-leav
ing on March 22nd will be Sgt.Geo.
Re yno Id s .Ge o rg e s a 1 ong wi t h -wife,
Joyce and daughter,DeborahAnn will
fly to Ft. Lewiss Washington where
George will be discharged. Joyce and
Deborah Ann will continue on to Ala
bama for a vacation while.George re
turns ‘to Mile 105 on the Glenn Hy.
He is going to homestead there.As
soon"aS' he has a house built,and
things Sp.uared away, the family will
join him rthe:re ^ George has been with
AGS for 4-g- years— SP4 Philip.
Augstadt will be leaving about the
•12 th :of March for Ft. Lewis, where he
will -be discharged and then to his
home in Platstown, Penn. Phil has
been at Sheep for’about a year.Befor#
his arrival at Sheep?he was. stat
ioned at King Salmon and Tok.:—New
arrivals si oneep ml .are bbgL G-eraici
WolfejAIC Ronald Hall and.AIC Robert
C-eib « Jerry will take over as Site
Commander from Sam. Site duty is not
-a new thing''to Jerry„He has spent 5
years on Site tours m Germany, Franc*
and" Formosa before comming' to Alaska,
Wife; Shirly and the two little ones
will be joining him at the station
in April."Jerry has 9 years service,
AIG Ronald Hall will be taking over 1
one' of the lineman jobs at Sheep.Kon!
ha s 7 -V years service. V/ i f e, Pa t r i c a
and daughter,Lisa are presently in
Traverse''City, Mich. No word has be eh
received as‘ to whether they will be j
c omming‘ t o Ala ska B-AICRobert■ "Gelb is!
the other lineman assigned, to Sheep.|
Prior to his assignment here he was ;
stationed at Ottis’AFB .Mass.Bob has j
16 gear's service .Wife, Betty and a au
ght e r 0 Marge- ’ Le e a re now living _.in
Dietchley, Vir3— It was ohj/Hi : Ther
Glad to see you" time "in Glennallen,;
Station- for three new;nem~we: would j
like to welcome to the firm AIC' Sal-1
vat ore Campagna,AIC Darrel Hardy andj
Al'CPaul Myers- Sal is single (and he j
says available),hails from Long
Island,N.Y. and has 3 years^ serviceJ
His previous assignment was‘ at Georgj
AFB? Cal0Sal will be working with the
line crewc-Darrel is a married man
and comes from Okla,His wife,Susie
is still there,living in Sapulpa,.
Darrel had 2h years service and.was
stationed at Cannon,AFB,N.M. before j
coming to Glennallneno He^will be
working in the plans section uncer
the guiding hand of Mr. Bill MunsenQ
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Paul is also a single man and
wishes he had brought his new
car along. Paul has 9 years ser
vice and was stationed at Elgin
AFB,Fla. proir to his assignment
to AGS .At Elgin Paul was working
on drone aircraft,so this is
quite a change in jobs as well as
c 1 imate . pauT, V111 also .be working in
; hop-pl ant section- imer Mr' Munsen.
Wo would like t'o say "Bon Voyage" to
the "Sourdough Pole jockeys " of the ACS''
Glennalien station from the cold handed
choecheko. "Ply Boys" - now that all name
calling- and wise cracks have :been lain
aside,r we as members of the air‘force as
signed to a -small link in the vast chain
of the Alaska Communication system,' who
have been chosen to replace, but by no
means outdo, the great army team, who are
departing .-this station during the month
of March 1963. We would like to take this
opportunity to thank all of you for a big
job will done. Your cooperation in the
training of new air force men will he long
remembered. A note worthy example of this
cooperation was when you, working along :
side‘the boys in "blue", re-stured telephone
circuits from Glennallon to Valdez at Mile
31 on the Richardson Highway on.-March 8th.
A snow slide occurred in.this area and ■
onoeked ..out nine spans of open wire. These
uere temporarily restored in record-timer
v the same afternoon. This was done7'under.
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