JXiC3 NINE NEWS
SPORTS: On Wednesday the 4th of July, the Stingers of MCB NINE won the
softball Holiday tournament championsh ip. The first game was against the
^bP Detachment from Kodiak, McCann pitched a good game and allowed only one
hit in the first five innings, and led the team to a 4-0 victory.
The second game was played against the Naval Station Marines* Again, much
ofthe credit goes to the pitcher, Jim Brittle allowed only throe hits in the
entire game, This game was a 12-0 victory over the Marines,
The third game. was^played against Public Works for the championship. It
was-a hard and well played game, but the Stingers defeated Public Works
5-1.
DETACHMENT FOXTROT: The men of NINE at Kodiak completed repairs to the
grounding system of a 450 foot vertical radiator, continued w0 rk on the
rehabilitation of electrical and telephone distribution system0, .and the
work on 120 rental housing units.
Their bowling team took a commanding lead of first place last week with,three
wins and one loss against Special Services, It was strictly a team effort
with all the men contributing to the cause.
For their military training the Detachment went to the rifle range.
COMMANDING OFFICER: ' The Commanding Officelypf MCE. NINE, Commander Sturman,
left Adak this week to attend the CBPaC Commanding Officers' Conference.
He will be expected to return within two weeks. During his absence LCER
Washburn is Acting CO, and LT Godsey is acting X0.
CHAPLAIN: During the second week of July Chaplain Perry plans to depart
adak for conference and retreat to be held at the Mount McKinley State Park
in Alaska. During his absence Chaplain Parsons wall be available, for all
those aboard the Station who would like to have the services of a Protestant.
Chaplain.
PERJjTEM^ Sometime during the month of July, the officers and men of NINE
will Me receiving their per diem checks. This will be the last time that
Battalion and similar units on deployment will be receiving per diem according
to the Navy Do par Blent. ___________
FROM THE EDITORS DESKY We haven’t changed the format of the paper. Tt is just
that two articles were received late Saturday, A.M, and we had already gone to
press, so in order to get the news to you that was submitted late we had to re
vise the pages.
The deadline for submission of items to the paper is Friday night for Mondays
issue. In <some cases, where the item is important or circumstances prevent the
submission before Friday at 1700 please call the Editors.
if you have any information or news items don’t hesitate to call us. Your
' suggestions, criticism on what you would like to see in.the Adak Sun are always
welcome. We are sorry, but we cannot give you MORE GIRLS, but perhaps there is
a type of article you would like to see in the SUN, such as a series about Alaska
and the Aleutian Islands. • .
DAVIS, YN1 & MCCLUER, PN2