i SEALS HOOP IT UP (Continued from Page 1)
j congratulating all members of your team
j for their excellent sportsmanship, loyal
j ty, and spirit. WELL DONE."
i Adak’s Seals now go to Fort Richardson
j in Anchorage for the All-Alaska Armed
| Forces Tournament. Regardless of how
j they come out there they will go to Port
j Hueneme in March for the All-Navy Western
j Division play-offs.
j Members of the Seals’ squads are:
JERRY K. DORSEY, CTSN, USN; LOWRY K.
MC MILLEN, CTSN, USN; and JAMES W. PORTER,
CTSN, USN; all of the Naval Communication
Station, Adak. WILLIAM 0. SOUTHWORTH,
CD1, USN, Public Works Department, Naval
Station; WALLACE F. BLACKBURN, YN2, USN,
AFRS, Adak; RICHARD L. COOPER, HM3, USN,
Medical Department; DELBERT P. DAVIS,
SKG3, USNR, Administration Department:
HARLAN D. HORNBACHER, YNSN, USN, Admini
stration Department; GEORGE W. LUCAS,
HM3, USN, Medical Department; TOMMY J.
MEEKS, PHAN, USN, Air Department; ALBERT
TOMICH, SN, USN, Navy Exchange; and
CHESTER R. WINNETT, FN, USN, Security and
Ordnance Department. .
So this week we wish to extend to every
member of that Championship Team, our
most sincere good wishes and we hope they
bring back the All-Alaskan trophy along
with their Seventeenth Naval District
Championship trophy. At any rate they
will give someone a lot of competition
in putting them out of it-if that
should happenl
-C. W. Morrison, YN1, USN
! ARMY UNITS ON -LAST LAP
| TO ARCTIC MANEUVER SITE
I EXERCISE •MOOSEHORN*—Tanacross, Alaska,
I (AFPS)-A 1,200-man battalion combat
! team in the process of making winter
! army history has passed through here on
I the last lap of its 2,600-mile icy trek
I from Ft. Lewis, Washington, td' 'the Exer
j cise Moose Horn maneuver site 83 miles
I east of Fairbanks.
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I The cold-weather caravan, 215 army trucks
i was forty miles long. The BCT involved I
I is part of the 5th Infantry Regt.
j The soldiers looked hearty and healthy ;
I despite their 19 days on the road, and I
! morale was high. !
i :
I Lt. Col. Donald M. Callahan, BCT comman-i
j der, called the hike uneventful except j
j for minor damage to a few vehicles and I
I injuries suffered by several of his men.i
! Two men suffered broken legs, one con- ;
j tracted mumps and a fourth was treated j
! for possible appendicitis in a Canadian j
[ hospital.
Before starting on the trip the men took j
a special training course in driving,
skiing, snowshoeing, marching and living j
in the snow at Mt. Ranier, Washington. j
"We sure know how to pitch a tent in the j
Arctic snow," commented SP3 Richard Sor- j
ensen. "The snow is usually knee-deep, j
We pack it down with our feet and then !
set the tent up. It’s really cozy in- j
side our tent once we get the Yukon
stove going."
The troops were carried by trucks for
two hour periods and then discharged
to move up the Alcan highway a quarter j
of a mile on Skis, snowshoes or by foot, j
This was the stretch break devised to
loosen muscles and relieve monotony.
Meanwhile, 100 officers and enlisted
men of the 71st Signal Co. moved in a I
30-vehicle convoy from Ft. Richardson j
to Ft. Greeley, Alaska, in three days
and two nights.
All expert electricians, linemen and
communication technicians, the men were i
to lay 70 miles of wire for all com
munications during the exercise.
This convoy experienced temperatures
that dipped to 72 degrees below zero. \
"The only big problems we expect to have ;
throughout the exercise is the destruc- I
tion that moose and buffalo can do to
wires which are laid close to the ground'!
Captain Richard Winn, the CO, reported, j
"Their hooves get tangled in the wires j
and rip them out."