VOLUME VI, NUMBER 33
ADAK SUN
14 Aug. 1961'
CAPSULE NAVY NEWS FROM AFPS
The Navy has said it is prepared to
take a number of ships out of mothballs
reactivate them and get ready tc furnish
additional transportation if needed,
In testimony before Congress * Secret
ary of Defense McNamara said, 'we pro
pose to reactivate troop transport ships
at a cost estimated at $15 million and
to provide a military complement of
Navy personnel for these ships at a cost
of $3 million for the current fiscal
year.'1
He also said "we propose to increase
our amphibious lift capability." This
will involve the retention in the active
fleet of attack transports which have
been scheduled to be phased out during
the current fiscal year and the reactiv
ation of other amphibious ships.
Nineteen years ago,in the summer of
1942, a new addition to the Armed Forces
joined the Navy as "Women Accepted for
Volunteer Emergency Service."
The lengthly title was quickly short
ened to WAVES, now the official name of
the organization which grew to a stren
gth of 86,000 during WWII.
Navy Captain Larry-French, who is a
Supply Officer, was once an ace hurler
for the Brooklyn Dodgers. During his
tenure in the majors he chalked up 197
victories and forty-two of these were
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shutouts (about 25 percent). "This,"
the ex-Dodger says, is"The record I*m
most proud of. Nobody beat that in 30
years until Warren Spahn topped it a
few years ago,"
Captain French has not been idle in
sports during his naval career which
began in 1943. He teamed with DCDR
Elston Wyatt to pocket the All-Navy
Pacific Coast Doubles Championship alsa
Navies of the U.S. and 8 South
American countries participated in
joint antisubmarine warfare (ASW)
training exercises last week. Joining
the maneuvers were Argentina, Brazil?
Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Urug
uay and Venezuela.
Remember that the Freedoms Foundat
ion at Valley Forge, Pa.,is conducting
its Letter Writing Awards Program in
which all service people are eligible
to submit letters of from 100 to 500
words that may bring awards ranging
as high as $1,000.
The subject for 1961 is:"WHAT I CAN
DO FOR FREEDOM." and the Foundation
suggests than an ideal take-off point
for a letter on this theme might be
President Kennedy*s widely-quoted
exhortation in his Inaugural address:
"Ask not what your country can do for
you, ask what you can do for your
country."
-USN