I NEWS' - Page Two JAX AIR 10 November, 1954 ROLLIN YJ1&f-Don't Let This Happen To You Jo RBi1W3Publlahed Better Car WinterizeVour Before every Thursday tor K avy aid Marine activities at Nana .Air Station. jMkionvilfe. Fla. That Trip NorthGoing NAB, J kM.rlB* -- Capt. John S. Thach -- --- .. Commanding Officer MARYLANQ I'omdr. John M. My era .-. ... ............................................_M_...Executive Officer North? e Fleet Alt J.CklBf> 111. Winterize your car before you VIRGINIA Rear Adm. John Perry Commander Capt. Richard O. Greene m_ ..Chief of Stall leave. The malnslde service station - Fleet Air {'tag CI... will clean your radiator Capt. Edwin: S. J.: Young...... .. ........ .. ........Commander Comdr. Frank D. Heyer _Chief Staff Officer check your heater, thermostat, Tttkaletl' 'Trftlaiif C)* transmission, differential, and Capt. Henry C. DeLonn;esi Air Commanding Officer will add antifreeze to test for Varal Ueepital Capt. Edward S. Lows _Commanding Officer protection against freezing at the Capt. L. At Newton Executive Officer NABTO temperature'you name. Capt. Wilson Jl. Bartlett ......._N... ..... _....._._..Commanding Officer Steps have been taken to speedup I'omdr. Laurence F. Steffenhogen: ....................___.:_. .. ._._..._.Executive Officer the pump Island service and Tttt JAX AIR NEWS U ;weekly at he U. 8. Naval Air Station quick oil changes are now in effect - Jaekionvllle. Florida, and printed commercially with non-appropriated funds - expense to the compliance with NAVEXOS tfn: Its,. An additional lubricatingrack - 'o.o IMt. Copies : : rcsarr"o of charge at the Naval Air s UM - Naval Air Technical Training Center, Naval Air Reserve Training Unit, and the and a special service section - U. S. Naval Hospital. hall been, set up whereby Editor-Andrew II. Planey ::: ' . Assistant F.dltor-lIrlt'n Editor_Gordon Robbie<<, 303; Staff minor adjustments can be made ./ ' prt..ra-Jark Holmes. i'Hlj; Charles Earl. JOSN; Clrculo.Uon-lJlstrlbuUon- When your car I* on the rack, __, /eY'fulcl1er / Chuck Paul A03.the JAX AIR NEWS la a member ot the Armed Forces freii Serylor attendants will check all trou- AFPS material In this not be reprinted without publication appearing may the written permission of Armed Forces Press Service. Republication of other ble spots, such M rusted muffler is me! What a dope I am for not getting my car winterized - matter, except by soviet oubllcatlons.\ ls prohibited; without permission of and exhaust": faulty wiring at the Navy Exchange service station before I left NAS Editor.: Editorial JAX AIR offices NEWS.located Main Administration Building. Phone exttnsloni tranMnUsIon, differential and Jar. I'll know better next time." 8346 216 and 8164.VF34. the like. - A standard form will be furnished No Finer Prouder Unit Pilot's Trans-Continental with each servicing advisingof , defects which are commonly _. Hop. Seen As Endurance Record this called extra danger service signs.Is provided Even .though, the Than The Marine CorpsNo Ensign Duane L. Varner, of patron is advised that the Navy Fighter Squadron 34, may be the Exchange is not authorized to furnish military unit exists today > many items such as mufflers, IT WAS ON Tins DAY In 1775! unofficial holder of a transcontinental with a finer and prouder recordof nor Item of that the Continental any greater Congim endurance record, after a monetary combat and readiness than the value. passed an act organizing the flight from Los Alamitos, Calif., United I States Marine Corps, to Naval Air Station Cecil Field, >ya;f Attendants at the service station which marks the 179th. anniver- Marines as a regular branch of If his contentions are upheld by are anxious to give good service sary of its founding today. our country's service. suggestions and criticisms The Marine Corps first came national authorities.The birth- The occasion of the Corps 24-year old pilot, just one from patrons are requested by the day will not pass here without to prominence in the war with the Barbary Corsairs in the Exchange Officer. ea'Iv1800's. out of flight training, was year Jacksonville Marines paying tribute - : routine weekend familiarization when ,a party of Marine on a Three separate balls are be- Coast Comdr. Forrer New under Lt. Presley O'Bannon rais- hop to the West city Ing staged here In observance of ed the American colors o v e i in a F2H Banshee. When he r Skipper Of VA-105 the anniversary. One dance for foreign soil for the first time to Jax ac Carted his return flight , 1,200 Enlisted Leathernecks is set Comdr Samuel Forrer has relieved Marine cannon fire subdued tinfoil Oct. 31 he had no plans r + Rt 4n Sunday r for Mainslde at 1900 one gym ; to make a non-stop hop, nor did Lcdr. Roy Reeves as commanding for non-commissioned at city of Dune, Tripoli.IN . he believe his fuel capacity would officer of Attack Squadron officers 1824, MARINES formed H the Mayflower Hotel at 2000 and enable him to fly the near lt)00 ENSIGN V AnN E n Ills 105 at NAS Cecil Field. Com landing party which operated the third ball for officers at the miles without refueling. weekend routine flight may be mander Forrer comes to 105 from against pirates In Cuba. WHEN INQUIRIES were madeto transcontinental endurance rec- I the USS Coral Sea. Lcdr, Reeves fleets' Club, also starting at During 1836-37, the Mat inf' the St. Louis Branch of the cord. I reports to NAAS Glynco, Ga. 2000. I' combined with the Army to fight McDonald Aircraft Corporation, fexas, he requested a ground the Creek and Seminole IndiansIn ! makers of the speedy jet plane, check on his speed and also weather Georgia and Florida. Later military and civilian authorities conditions along his loute. one battalion of Marines marched shared; this thought. They ex- Finding that weather' and prevailing with General Scott to Mexico! plained that the normal range winds aloft were favorable, City in the Mexican War. The rH J of the Banshee is estimated he abandoned his plan to refuel stripe that Marines wear on the lit some 800 miles, and to achieve and continued non-stop to Jax. t sides of their trousers Is a symbol - noie than double that figure AS HE CROSSED over Talla- of the Marine blood spilled ut vould be phenomenal. hassee at an altitude of 48,000 Chapultepec. It was during this! However, a check of the offi feet, the pilot shut off one of his' Mexican War that Marines maich- cer's takeoff time from California, two engines and throttled backon ed on the Hall of Montezuma.In . und his arrival In Jax, revealedhe the other. This procedure is the War between the Stated! , had become airborne at Los employed to conserve fuel l, and BMX'k Marines served afloat and (U1hOl P. Alamltos airport at 4:46: e.s.t, and thus increase the margin of safe- '111 MARINES WERE FIRST three hours and 58 minutes later ty. He landed with 500 poundsof *;: land on enemy soil in the Span- touched his wheels down at NAS fuel remaining.This ish-American War. Cecil Field, the flyer's home base. unscheduled cross counb'yflight This verified( Ensign Varner'sclaims. \ > o In World War I the Corps un- the record closely parallels S dertook the hardest fighting of 1U! breaking flight of three Navy his the officer history up to that time. The In planning flight, - pilots flying the famous Grumman had intended to refuel at.hl'e'cI"Ort "Devil Dogs" of the famous Fifth Cougars last year Lcdr. Gus La., but at Dallas, Brady, ,then executive officer of and Sixth Marines of the Fourth -- Brigade served with distinction in Oceana-based Fighter Squadron battles of Belleau Woods, Sol - Hudson Band 21, led two of his squadron matesin : _ sons, St. Mlhlel, Black Mont a 3 hour 44 minute dash from -.... .. ........-.- ._.. ..- Ridge and Argonne. San Diego, Calif., to Floyd Bennett - Opens 3-Day Field, N. Y. ORDNANCE CHIEF COMMENDED With the Japanese attack on AO Chief Cited Capt. Henry BeLong Pearl Harbor in 1941 the Marine This of record flight breaking , Stand TuesdayOne I commanding officer of Corps began to write its most proportions was not establishedas the Naval Air Technical Train- of the moot popular dance official, however since it was For Ideas On ing Center, congratulates Jo- glorious chapters. The First Marine seph Balzer Division invaded the Island AOC bands in this area, Dean Hudson not clocked by authorities. Duringthis for a commendation - received from the of Guadalcanal on Aug. 7, ]9(2, and his "New Look in Dance hop the three craft were" re- Rocket LauncherFor Navy Department's Chief of in the beginning of a series of Music," will play for dancing in fueled enroute. Naval Research. Chief Balzer, Marines his "interest and an instructor In assaults on the enemy. The a three-night stand at the Na- Ingenu- Aviation Ord- val Air Station, beginning next ity" in suggesting a modificationof nanceman School at the TrainInl' began a step by step. Inland the rocket launcher cir- Center met approval for his by island advance to Japan Tuesday evening. PO HonorsTo firing Idea of a modification to Im- Gilbert The Hudson orchestra plays fora cuit tester on fighter planes, Joseph prove the reliability of a The names of Solomons, rocket - crew's dance Tuesday at the Balzer, AOC an instructorat launcher test procedure. and Marshalls and Iwo Jima bring ThornetThis Aviation bitter memories to the World 1t'arII I NATTCenter gym; Wednesday, Ordnanceman Schoolat fleer of the Training Center, said, Nov. 16, at the Officer's Club and ( la another in a Petty- NATTCenter, received a letterof in part: "It is considered that Marine. If Thursday Nov. 18 for a crew's OfUcer-of-thc-Wcek aerie at the commendation from Chief of the modification will improve the THE WORLD THOUGHT . dance at Malnside gym. Naval Air Technical Training Naval Research of the Navy Department reliability of the rocket launcher could rest at peace after WWII'but The orchestra features Ann, Center.) teat procedure and will eliminatea then came the Iorean Con Loraln, "Mistress of :Modern Chief Baker's suggestion proposed flict. In' December 1950 the Marines Darrell Thornet AT1 safety hazard. Melody"; Lennie Love, piano sty- served the modification to preventthe together with UN compo- list; Sam Noto, trumpet artist, I in the Navy, during World War positive pin from becoming Golden hash-marked Chief Bal- nents, drove the North Korean Bill "Budweiser" Jones, the mad :II as an aviation radioman in-pa attached to the negative side of zer served in the Navy during Army to the Chosln Reservoir H drummer; the Hudson a capella I trol bombers. the teeter. World War n and during the was at this point the eight Chi choir, and the Dixieland Six, the The Chief of Naval Research Korean Campaign was aboard the nese Communist divisions entered At the present time he is an In- , tand within a band. 'I in a letter of commendation carriers USS Boxer USS the struggle, cutting off certain , presented Valley , All three dances get underwayat structor in the InstructorTraining to Chief Balzer by Capt. Forge fend USS elements of the :Marine Divlsl kln 2000. ; School e( Training Facilities. Henry PeLong-, commanding or. with Attack Philippine SeR The :Marines' carried back n"ia . Squadron 55. 'wounded in ,,"b. f'ro weatherI