CAPSULED NAVY. NEWS edited by your ADAK SUM staff.
3 new subs will be named for Generals# The • names ' for -3 fleet ballistic missile
subs now' urider construction have been announced ass Ulysses S# Grant, the Stonewall
Jackson, and Nathanael Greene. All are in the Lafayette class, a 7,000 ton, 425 ft
sub launhhed May ,8th. The.3 new submarines will be launched in 1964#
From.the original field of more than 1,000 competing general messes, of which
Adak*s own was the Seventeenth Naval District nominee, four ships and three shore
stations remain in the running; they are:.MAS, Miramar, California, NAS Patuxent
River, Maryland, NS Argentia, Newfoundland, the destroyer DECATUR, the fleet oiler
KAWAISHI and the heavy cruiser IE LENA and the guided missile oruiser NORTHAMPTON.
The winning ship and station of the Ney awards will be announced very shortly.
No more needle - at least for polio vaccine - is the word announced by the Def
ense Department. Soldiers, sailors, and airmen who dislike the medicos needle got
some relief when the Department of Defense announced that military personnel will
receive orally administered Sabin polio vaccine next fall instead of Salk inject
i ions. ’ ,
Seabees' were flown to Thailand, to support U.S. Forces there when Detachment
Zulu of MC3-10 were ordered in to build temporary structures to house American units
during the Thailand monsoon season. MCB-10 did quite a bit to improve Adak the
last time they were here.
Effective 1 January 1963, the armed services, including the Coast' Guard will
have uniform reules for the awarding of Distinguished Marksman, Rifleman, and
Pistol Shot badges. At present, each service has its own rules for awarding the
badges, which are given for the highest achievement in the field of competitive
marksmanship. The new rules are designed to enhance and insure the continued
prestige of the badges.
Matches' recognized for these badges are National Trophy Individual Rifle/Pistol;
Interser-vice Rifle/pistol; each. All-Service Rif-le/PSstol Championship; each Major
Command! (Fleet, Division), Rifle/pistol Championship and the National Board for the
Promotion of Rifle Practice Region.
T*he new rules state that the Distinguished Marksman/Rifleman or Pistol Shot
badge awards.shall be made on the basis of individual unassisted performance in
recognized individual matches. They also state that the award of the expropriate
Distinguished.Badge shall be made when an individual has earned a minimum of 30
credit points for excellence in competion in such recognized matches.#
Navy*s-outstanding place-kicker Gfceg Mather and football Captain-Guard John
Hewitt, both seniors were' named to receive the Naval Academy’s top athletic awards
for 1962.
Mather an outstanding shotputter also on the Navy tracK team, win receive tne
Academy*s Athletic Assn, sword for personally excelling in athletics,
Hewitt, a letter winner on Navy*s undefeated lacrosse team earned the Thompson
Trophy for doing the most for the promotion of athletics at the academy during
the current year. The 185-pound football captain became known as the man who
sprang All-American halfback Joe Bellino loose on his spectacular runs, Mather
booted 11 field goals and 22 of 23 conversion attempts last year to set a colleg
iate scoring record of 55 points,
QUOTE OF THE WEEK—Curt Flood, S't. Louis Cardinals* center fielder on the Cards*
outfield of Stan Musial, Minnie Minoso and himself: "Our outfield consisted of
Ancient Age and Old Granddad-with a little Squirt for a chaser,"
At the library MOODY, SF1 of Ship’s .Department asked STELZER, GMG1: "Have you a
book called "Man, the Master of Woman?" Stelzer’s reply: "The fiction department
is three aisles down,"
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