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AVAL FACILITY: This week the men of nine have started a night shift at.
ne Naval Facility site and they are splitting up an -l8 hour working pej.iod,
ciQ Builders under C*11. /iustin, BUI are working on the terminal Building
ad have been chosen safety crew of the month• They are to be commenced on
aeir accident free month* while on the topic of saxety xet me take this
pportunity to ask me parents of jxdak to caution their children 'O stay clecu
f the equipment and job sites. Some of the work the men are doing..is quiue
azardous and a child can be very easily hurt.
STnCHMbNT FOXTROT: This morning seven men of this battalion were sent to
odiak as part of the det..chinenu working there. I have also recieved some
nformation that our MGB Nine bowling team at Kodiak is m the first place
osition so far. Their high score man is Hoffman SKI whose bowling average is
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RO PAY: Thirteen men of the battalion were awarded proficiency pay I as a
-esuTt"of the tests taken the first, fifth and seventeenth of May 1962. There
ere four men in the Builder rate, three men in the Construction Mechanic
•ate, two men in the Utilities rate, one man in the Equipment Operator rate,
ne each in the Gunnersinate and Commisary rate. And one man J„Ae Wood, CEW2
ho is in detachment Foxtrot passed the P-2 test and will start receiving his
;ro pay on I July.
IRCHWQOD HANGAR: The job at Birchwood Hangar is coming along very well. .
here are about forty—three men assigned to this project at the present time,
heir job is to rehabilitate the building. The hangar is being completely re
ared, and the electricians have installed over 10,000 feet of electrical
onduit of various sizes and have run over 25,000 feet of wire.
UNWkY 5-23: The paving of runway #5-23 is still in full swing. Trucks and
miipment are entering and leaving the air strip at the 23 (east) end travel
og along Bayshore Drive. During the rext two months almost 20,000 tons of
-.ohaltic concrete will be manufactured and laid0 The ten man crew on the
• rip will work up to 16 hours a day as weather, plant production, ana air
raft operations will allow. CW0 Paul G. McCart and J.C-> McCrary, E0CS are
.n charge of the ope ration.
When the Battalion is through, runway 5-23 will be covered with a mini
um of two inches of now high strength asphaltic concrete. The overrun at
he #5 end will extend up the side of the hill in a smooth verticle curve,
mx inches of crushed compacted rock will cover its surface for 500 feec.