AF ATLAS FLIES 3,000-MILE TEST ROUTE
Wash.•(AFPS)-A third successful 3>000
: mile tune-up flight for a full range
i shot of the Air Force's intercontinental
i ballistic missile, Atlas, has been re
; ported from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
The Atlas launching over the.6,000
: mile Atlantic test range was announced
; by the AF * only as "one of a continuing
series of advanced development flight
: tests being conducted on the Missile."
; Press accounts from the Florida test
; center, however, said the firing was the
; third in - four launchings when a fully
i powered Atlas ICBM,had blasted-off on a
^3>000 mile space flight- in preparation
^for a full-range shoot of the 3»500 mile
; missile*
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MEDICARE FACTS PUBLISHED
Wash..(AFPS) - A 12-page fact sheet
outlining the October 1 changes in the
Dependents’ Medicare Program has been
published by the Office of Armed Forces
Information and Education, Department of
Defense.
Intended for distribution through
Armod Forces Information and Education
channels, the pamplet brings dependents
up to date on the Medicare Program and
spells out the changes for military fam
ilies .
The fact sheet also reviews the Medi
care Program generally, reflecting the
revisions that have been made since it
went into effect on December 7> 1956.
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PROFICIENCY PAY UP FOR APPROVAL
Wash..(AFPS) - The directive estab
: lisliing a uniform policy for awarding
; proficiency pay throughout the services
i has been submitted to the Bureau of the ■
Budget for approval, according to the i
: Defense Department0
Once the proposed funding is cleared :
there, the program then must receive :
sanction of the Armed forces Policy Cou
ncil, after which the Secretary of Dof
: ense will sign the .-instruction to the
servlce*.9.r:?IT NEXT COLUrjN)
As a "permissive” provision in the 58
pay legislation, Congress gave the Def
ense Secretary’the option of making pro
ficiency awards not to exceed 15 percent
of the enlisted strenght of the services
ade advances or monthly supplemental
payments# • ,;
The new directive will fix the amount
and system by which proficiency payments
will be made Armed -^orces-wide as well
as the number to receive the incentive
awards from the money available*
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NUCLEAR SUBS HOLD EDGE. OYER LARGE j
NUMBER OF CONTENT ION AL S UBMARINES BY i
SOVIETS
Asked recently hew two nuclear sub- :
marines would fare against each other, i
CRT William R. Anderson,- Skipper of the :
NAUTILUS, borrowed this apt analogy* •
'Must picture two men in a, dark room :
swinging with baseball bats," he said*
Until and unless adequate countermen- .
sures not now in existance become avail- I
able, the "baseball bat swinging" subs i
on both the democratic and communists •
sides offer a ghost-like portrayal of ::
nuclear cat-and-mouse tactics in the un- i
derseas drama of the future.
"The threat from the sea against our ;
cities may assume completely new, and :
more ominous dimensions beginning about ;
1962, according to a recent report of ;
the' Underseas Warfare Advisory Panel to \
the subcommittee on Military Application \
of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy. \
Although the possession of nuclear- j
powered underseas craft in U.S. hands j
gives our nation a distinct edge over j
the USSR today, we cannot discount Russ- :
ia's 475-plus conventional-type subs.
"If all-out war broke out within the j
next two years,"again reports the Under- \
seas Warfare Advisory Panel, "the Soviet j
diesel-electric submarine fleet could j
inflict very severe damage against all- :
iod naval, forces and shipping."
At the present time Russia possesses I
no known nuclear submarines,Undoubtedly- i
she is going all-out to get an SSN fleet i
underway. The real potential, present :
and future, of nuclear subs lines in the ;
speed, stealth and endurance. i
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