GHOST OF THE WILLIWAW3
Greetings and salutations! This is brand new "Casper" sending the latest in
go»sip your way. People may tend to wonder how Casper gets around so darned
much between editions to enable him to fill this page each week....well all I
can do is to quote a fellow spy and say..•."What evil lurks in the minds of men
....only Casper knows!" On that note I will proceed with this, the first in a
series of articles by your brand new Casper, the Ghost of the Williwaws.
It seems that we have a counterpart of that comic strip character knows as the
"Aquaman" right here on Adak. His name is Hagin (SA) from the MilPers office.
It all happened a few days ago when he and David Trowbridge (SA) came running
out of the dressing rooms with a burst of speed that would have made the Road
Runner look like a snail and then both of them dived right into the deep end of
the pool. After Trowbridge reached the edge of the pool he realized that Hagin
never broke the surface. Right to the .bottom went Hagin and he might have been
a part of Davy Jones* Locker Club if it weren’t for the fast thinking of Jimmy
D. Ashmore, the life guard, who dragged out the "Fish". The Olympic swimmer
(Hagin) swore never to swim again, but have no fear, for a collection is being (
taken up for him. The money is to be used towards the purchase of......what
else?.WATER WINGS!'!
A standing ovation is in line for the personnel that work down at AFRTS• They
work like the dickens to keep the island entertained and do a pretty bang up
job at it too! This' can only be accomplished through teamwork. Here are a few
examples of the close knit harmgny that exists at AFRTS.there is David
Kurth (J03) who is forever mistreating the stations’ mascot, a kitten that is
appropriately named "AFRITS", Chief Hodgson who is the "Tex Ritter" of the island
station (p.S. to the Chief....JAZZ is here to stay!) YUP!.The pride and
joy of the station is a comparative newcomer fresh out of Boot Camp, "Big Vern"
Pinkston who seems to think that he is the life of the party with a funny (?)
story about a fast-witted plumber, how does it go again "Big Vern"?...of course
there is "Big Sherm" who is always threatening "Freddie Junior" with the
splendid array of firearms that he keeps cleverly concealed in his locker,
which includes a sub-machine gun!.••••a nappy pair is "Easy Ed" Spence and Dan
"Flub-a-dub" Kennedy (no kin to our new Commander-in-Chief, fortunately) who
have a running argument over the use of the telephone (step into the head and
say that you no good #$**##$&! )....Can’t forget ole’ "Mumbles" himself, none
other than "Big Jeff" who makes a big hit with the teen set with such choice
phrases as this..."A screamin’ an’ jivin' hi to ya' out dere cats n' chicks, an
you too Mommio ’n' Daddio!....Moving down the line we come to the television
control room where "Killer" Brown is treatening to shoot Cpl. Roy Burns (ten
shun! ) with his home made Zip-gun....then at last we come to the glorious
leader ofihis melting pot of colorful personalities, LT(jg) Bunn.LTJG Bunn
spends most of his waking hours telling Dan Kennedy that he will beat him to a
bloody pulp if he eventually catches him. But seriously folks, AFRTS is really
a hard working outfit and a close knit group no matter how much fun Casper
pokes at them. Hip, Hip, Horray!
Talk about revolutionizing the service....Rich (PN3) has the right idea. He
suggests that Adak go on "Bankers Hours", at least until he gets transferred
anyway, sure would be nice....10 AM until 3 PM...,WOW! See you at reville Rich!
Until next week I will leave you with a little (very little! ) food for thought.
In the words of that great Chinese Philosopher and moral teacher, Confucius...,
"He who......who he?"
See you in the next edition
s..Casper