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~~ JANUARY 1967 Nav-Pers-0 NUMBER 600 VICE ADMIRAL BENEDICT J. SEMMES, Jr., USN The Chief of Naval Personnel REAR ADMIRAL BERNARD M. STREAN, USN The Deputy Chief of Naval Personnel CAPTAIN JAMES G. ANDREWS, USN Assistant Chief for Morale Services Features TABLE OF CONTENTS Ivy League On and Under the Sea: The Story of PACE and Polaris University... 2 Torfuga: Home Base at Sea... 8 Up-Side Down Duty-At the South Pole... 10 Rocket Rainmaker... 13 Corpsmen on Call: Heroes on the Spot... 14 First Ladies of the Fleet... 18 Helo Pipeline... 23 Departments Four Star Forum: Suppose You Were CNO for Sixty Minutes... 24 Today snavy... 28 Servicescope: News of Other Services... 36 TheWord... 38 Decorations and Citations... 52 Letters to the Editor... 59 Bulletin Board San Diego: A Great Navy Town and One of the Busiest... 40 The San Diego Naval Complex... 42 Seavey Segment A-67: Pointers and Cut-Off Dates... 46 All About Officer Assignment: Who Goes Where, Why and How... 48 Special Roundup (In Verse Yet!) Navy New Year s Log... 54 Taffrail Talk... 64 John A. Oudine, Editor Associate Editors G. Vern Blasdell, News Don Addor, Layout & Art Ann Hanabury, Research Gerald Wolff, Reserve 0 FRONT COVER: VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE4bservers on bridge of aircraft carrier watch Navy A-4 Skyhawk make arrested landing after mission over North Vietnam.-Photo by J. D. Goss, PH2, USN. 0 AT LEFT: UP, UP AND AWAY-Carrier sailor hoisted to helicopter from deck of USS Bradley (DE 1041) foreturn to parent ship after Exercise Silverskate in South China Sea.-Photo by William H. Powers, PHl, USN. 0 CREDIT: All photographs published in ALL HANDS Magazine are official Department of Defense photos unless otherwise designated.
A TURN-OVER TEST-Sailors from U.S. and Philippine navies check Swift Boat machine gun. Right: New crew of Swift Boat stands in dress uniform during turn-over ceremonies. U. S. gave six crafto Philippine antismuggling force. one private concert for a small audi- Cora/ sea Repairs Facility, everyone there knew they ence, however. It was for about 175 When uss Coral Sea (CVA 43) had a big job to do, but possibly not senior citizens at Copenhagen s Old arrived at Yokosuka s Ship Repair even Yokosuka s planners knew how People s Town. The oldsters thought - it was great. The visits provided plenty of opportunity for sightseeing, too. While their ship was in Portsmouth, Newport News Navymen also had a chance to visit the Isle of Wight and London. U. S. Navymen made friends with the small fry wherever they stopped by passing out hats, balloons and toy airplanes-much of the kids. to the delight Swifts to Philippine Navy The U. S. has helped to bolster the Philippine Navy s antismuggling force by giving that island republic six Swift patrol boats. These high-speed craft, which register top speeds in excess of 30 miles per hour, are of the same type presently being used to halt Viet Cong contraband movements. Swifts are equipped with radar and two-way radio and are armed with twin 50-caliber machine guns. With these characteristics, the boats should prove effective against smugglers attempting to land material in the Philippines by small craft. Filipino crews for the Swift boats are being trained by a special fiveman U. S. team from the amphibious base at Coronado, Calif. Upon completion of this training, some of these instructors were scheduled to go on to Vietnam Swift duty. lr An Island Is Born A funny thing happened to Parol Squadron 26 on its way to Ceflavik, Iceland, one day. Its )ilots looked down and there was a lew island. The island, which is called Syrtindur, made its fiery entrance into he world last July and has since Ieen growing under the watchful :ye of PatRon 26. Syrtlindur is located 60 miles ioutheast of Keflavik and less than a mile from the volcano Surtsey which rumbled into activity in November 1963 and continued erupting for almost two years. If Syrtlindur follows the example of its first cousin, Surtsey, there is no way of foretelling how much new real estate will be provided for the world. Tons of molten rock, with promise of more to come, have poured from the earth s core since the island s recent birth. JANUARY I967 33
A A A Our Americaneagleheritage is rymbolired in the painting above, which appews in full color in the Ameriron Eogle Brochure, prepored by U. 5. Deportment of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service, availoble from Suaerintendent of Documents, U. 5. Government Printing Office, Wash L,. c 20402. c, 3 and S AL of our NAVY ;