We're proud of the help the Marines of
Adak gave the Station All-Star Team and
especially proud, of Charles REEVES,Lance
Corporal from CbrnnSta that sparked Adak
team in their recent'competition withKo
diak. Lance; Corporal ,■ REEVES was a top
knotch ball player fof three years atBel,
Louisiana High School and - playedball one
year at Memphis, Tennesseebefore joining
the Marine Corps* In the Adak-Kodiak
bouts, 5’6" REEVES made a total of 70
points, an average of 18.2 per game.
We found out that past week that -the
Barracks contains some ping-pong experts;
Marines that really wield a mean paddle.
Barracks Special Services set upa couple
of tournaments for the table tennis en
thusiasts and true talent emerged to take
part. Of over 20 contestants,Staff Ser
geant # Herbert MAN won the singles com
petition and teamed up with RFC Fernando
LIRA to take the doubles. RFC Phillip
METOYER took second in the singles com
petition and Lance Corporal James DIAZ'
and PFC Earl CHASE were runners-up inthe
doubles. The Barracks Special Services
NGO is to be commended for keeping the
men active in every phase of athletic
participation.
CorporalBill EICHHOLZ and Private First
Class JackHSALEY left Thursday,the 23rd,
fora four-day orientationcourse inArctic
Survival at Eielson Air Force Base, Al
aska. The Arctic Survival Training School
is run by the Alaskan Air Command for the
purpose of indoctrinationand training of
personnel in survival techniques under
emergency conditions in the arctic areas
and to develop better procedures and sur
vival equipment. Corporal EICHHOLZ and
PFC HEALEY will return to this Command
early in March and put their knowledge
to good use by schooling the rest of the
Barracks and Station.
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It isn’t often that a nan becomes a leg
endary figure during his lifetime .‘Sergeant
Major Dan DALY,USMC,did just that. It was
not his idea, and neither was he a glory
seeder. He was just a nan who wanted to
bo a good Marine,
In the afternoon of June 4>19lS, (then)
GunneryScrgeant DALY, became an internat
ional figure and beyond doubt had much to
do with the name the Germans hung on the
Marines at Belleau Woods - ’’Devil Dogs”.
As the story goes, GySgt. DALY and his men
were pinned down.at the entrance to Bell
eau Woods when he received word to move
forward. He stood up, glanced along the
line of his platoon and made a forward
notion to the cold-, hungry nen, yelling
’’Cone on you Do you want to live
forever?” The results of this battle are
known the world over.' A small handfullof
Marines fought and beat the Germans at
Belleau Woods. The word swept across the
world and inspired all of the Allied men;
even brought comment from the enemy. When
asked how he liked all the publicity he
was receiving, he said he hated it. ’’Why
all the fuss, I was only doing ny job.”
This was Sergeant Major Dan DALY,winner
of two Medals of Honors-reluctant hero. A
legend during his lifetime,Marines of the
new breed and of the old breed all have a
nark to shoot at when they followDan DALY
as an example-—'and so many have done ex
actly that.
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Promotion warrants will be presented to
two new Lance Corporals this weekas a re
sult of the- ’’billet available”program the
Barracks maintains.
Personnel to be promoted are Danny J.
SCHACHT and Robert F• MERKEL, who took and
passed their tests in January during the
regular testing period. Because of our
quota already being filled, they had to
wait until now for their well-deserved
step-up.