To Participate In Air Indoctrination Course II
















 VOL. 7-No. 23 8 September 1949



It. Headquarters of the Commander Fleet Air Jacksonville and Commander Naval Air Bases Sixth Naval District .


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 ,;;I" Noel Davis Cup


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!1 Award Goes To NARTU


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\ organized Reserve Squadron of Jacksonville Na-

.1- .[. [ val Air Reserve Training Unit was awarded the coveted

 Noel Davis trophy for the second consecutive year whert

 1 VP (ML) 56 was adjudged the finest of its type in the entire\:

 .. Naval Air Reserve Training Command which'comprises 27

 I- + I activities throughout the nation.
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 The Noel Davis Trophy, which I --
 I posed of civilians from Jackson
 I will be presented vllle and vicinity who attend trainIng -

 I ceremony October 8, at Norfolk'i sessions one weekend every
 Va., is awarded annually month at NAS where they maintain ..
 their wartime service skill
 squadrons adjudged the best of
 and military occupations and undergo 
 t its type throughout the Command. other training

 Fleet Air Service 158 .
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 of NARTU won the trophy last
 t I, year. Fleet Air Jax Unit

 a of near
 Culminating year per.
 I feet attendance at week-end drills To Join ServicesIn

 _....._ .. ... and at the annual two weeks active
 
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 ;. TWO YEARS IN ARROW- NARTU's commanding officer Capt. Frederic W. Priestman (right) training period Patrol Bom
 ., congratulates Lcdr Charles W. Rogers, commanding officer of the "Weekend Warrior" patrol ber squadron 56 displayed excell.! Huge ExerciseFighter
 squadron VI (ML) 56, winner of the coveted Noel Davis Trophy. It marked the second year In a ence I In flight and ground trainingand
I '\ row that a NARTU unit had won the trophy, awarded by the Naval Air Reserve Training Command also at the annual military
 f to the squadron voted the best of its type. Lcdr. Robert L. Outings, commanding officer of NAR inspection held last March by the Squadron 131 of Air
 TU's Fleet Air Service Squadron 158 (left) holds the plaque of the Noel Davis trophy won by his Chief of Naval Air Reserve Train Group 13 of Fleet Air Jackson
, ; men last year. ing. ville will represent the Navy at
 -- KfrUlently Trained Air Indoctrination Course n.t..
 major Air Force, Army and Navy

 ..4 166 Station Employees Local PreviewOf commissioned Patrol Bomber along squadron with NAUTU 56 was joint to begin training October exercise 10 at Eglm schedule Air

r : Jax on July 1st, 1946, and Is now Force Base, Fla.
 'Task Force'A commanded by Lcdr. Charles W.
 known
 Formerly
 Rogers, the first Jacksonville man as Operation
 1.Victims Of Cut preview of the Warner to join NARTU as a "Weekend combine the air demonstrationand
 Economy Bros. movie "Task Foice" which Warrior" Executive officer of the Indoctrination course is an
 all-out tactical
 of Naval Air maneuver designedto
 depicts a story Noel Davis Trophy winning squadron 
 '. Aviation will be held tonight is Lcdr. Thomas Ray of Monti- put into action hundreds of
 The first effects of the economy program announced recently planes, and thousands of combattroops
 (Thursday) at 2000 at the Stu- cello Fla. The squadron has 35
 by Defense Secretary Louis Johnson realized at NAS last Friday in simulated combat drills
 were -
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 Officers' Auditorium mt'd.ical
 dent pilots, 13 ground officers, one
 : with 166 of the Overhaul and to demonstrate the united effortsof
 I' employees Repair Department selected group of guests. officer and 127 enlisted men
 land, and naval forces.
 receiving notice of reduction in force effective October 1. Featuring Guy Cooper, Wal. VP (ML) 56, along with Flt'etAll' air
 ter Brennan and Wayne Mor Commanded by Harold S. Bot-
 The cut here Is but of the Service Squadron 158, com
 one
 :" the month of July was 67. These ris, "Task Force," is a story of pleted two weeks of active train- tomley, Jr., VF-131 will depart:
 / many installations beingmade following at government the announcement were dropped owing to lack of the birth and progress of Naval I ing duty at NARTU last week. from NAS Monday, September: 12
 funds or resignations without replacement Aviation, emphazing the work While on duty the Patrol Squadron to prepare for the main opera..
 of to cut II
 civilian a program in anticipation of fur done by the Navy and its I II engaged in a mock battle with tions which will actually get un.
 employees.
 government ther cuts in appropriations In aircraft carriers during the past derway October 10. Some 80 enlisted .
 the visiting British frigate HMS
 to the Defense Secretary's
 According I
 A'I 'August an additional 86 civilian war. It also Includes the progress Snipe in open sea near the St. men and 18 officers of the
 economy program an. employees were discharged and I of a Naval carrier pilot'straining. John's Lightship and held joint Fleet Air Jax squadron will participate .
 nounced August 24, some 135,000
 in the exercise. .
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 through September a further de- Squad.roe
 maneuvers with the Destroyer Escort 
 civilian would be discharged
 ir employees crease of about 50 in the Public I A good many of the scenes USS McClelland and the sub. 131 is equipped with K8F
 with cut from theNavy's
 76,000
 Bearcats considered to be the
 Works and Supply Departments for the movie were taken onboard marine USS Pickerel. i
 payroll, 41,000 from the will be made effective. the carrier USS Antie- fastest climbing conventlal typ-
 Army, and 18,000 from the Air Organized reserve units are comV -
 I tem. Lauded as one of the best fighter in the world today.
 Force, which 377- A nt hurl ml Oiling Set
 employ 359,000 I of the post war films exploit Hundreds of students from
 000 and 169,000 civilian employees I Last Friday's reduction in force ing efforts of branches of the Efficiency Pennant armed forces schools, plus high
 respectively. : was in compliance with the directive Armed Forces, "Task Force"is Army Navy and Air Force officials 
 Commanding Officer of NAS from the Bureau of Aero I slated to open Sept 20 at Ceremony Slated will witness the joint exercise .
 Capt. Alvin I. Malstrom has stated nautics which states that the ac. the St. John's Theatre in which Is slated to hut
, that employment in depart. tion was based upon "revised Jacksonville. Attack Squadron 175 will officially through November 15.
 ments other than Overhaul and planned workload schedules for be presented the Battle Ef- The 14th Air Force is charged
 + Repair already has been reduced 'the balance of the fiscal year," Admiral Thurber fflciency Pennant for 1949 at a with the logistics supply an.I
 owing to lack of funds. The total which began July 1. When the formal ceremony scheduled todayat maintenance mission for the combined .
 reduction in all departments in I full cutback will be in effect, the Visitor At NAS I 1130 at Cecil Field with Rear operation. The 14th Air
 .---- -- -. Station will have an authorized Rear Adm. H. R. Thurber Adm. John H. Cassady, Comman.der I Force along with numerable oth.
 Personnel Moves I civilian personnel ceiling of 4,966, Chief of Base Maintenance Fleet Air Jacksonville mak I er Air Force supporting unit

 Enlisted Personnel division has only three above the 4,963 pro I, Washington D. C. was a two day ing the presentation. I will participate in the maneuvers
'.. moved into it's new location in posed by Secretary Johnson. Actual visitor at NAS this week. Admi- i VA-175 was awarded the pennant along with the 82nd Airborne Division .
 ,' the east wing of the Administration employment figures will be j ral Thurber, accompanied by along with VF-41 last month combat team which will
 building and will be considerably below the ceiling fig. : Captain F. Close, arrived here I II for outstanding performances in represent the Army, and VF-131
 ready for normal operation today I ure allowed on this date, due to i i Tuesday and left Wednesday following all forms of exercises and assigned which will carry out the Navy'ipart

 I (Continued on Pace 2)) I j a brief orientation. tour. : duties for the past fiscal year. in the operations. _
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 '* National Jlnlhem Birthday Denotes War Methods Strides II


+ !I', 135 next Tuesday
 Just
. ago 
 So in the years early dawn of September everywhere and later adopted as was not until 1931 that the hymnwas ments may be obsolete by newer collected more than $l,000,0t( )

 13, 1814, a young American the National Anthem. Key, who officially proclaimed by Congo I applications of scientific principles tribute from the U. S.
 .r? lawyer stood on the deckof visited the British fleet under a re.ss as our national anthem. In secret laboratories. I, That was enough for President
 the British HMS Minden, I flag of truce in an effort to save But there Is small comparison Fast Pacing: World John Adams. The country went to
 his drink in the ''a war-prisoner friend of his from between the rockets and bombs of I Every new weapon Incites the
 letting eyes work and the Constitution
 soon
 beauty of his country's flag still I a voyage to Halifax, had been de. that era and those developed dur. 1 development of some means to the UnitedStates
 tamed by the admiral for eleven ing and since World War II. Norin neutralize it. But the principles always I. Constellation and
 above Ft Mc.tenry
 streaming gallantly tIt
 the night's furious 1 days as the fleet tried to slip past this day of long range artillery, I remain the same with the slipped down the ways, .
 # despite other Finally
 Ft. McHenry and up the Patapsco fast flying jet aircraft, high altl.I forces of air. land and sea finding be followed by ships.
 the British fleet.
 shelling by 30, 1798 the U. S.
 t "e War of 1812 was still be. river to capture Baltimore. I| tude bombing, the atom bomb, and ways and strategies for of. Navy on was April organized.The ,
 lag ',fought, Washington had been \Word InuiHirlallxAd: I II I guided missiles can any combat observer tense I and defense I
 burned. Now as the bright colorsof I The effort was unsuccessful. be moved emotionally as Only once in our history, between lesson learned then has not

 J tf le flag, graced by 13 signlfi- I Though the night "became a soothing -, was Key, War today is a cold- i 1785 and .1793 in the period deterred later enthusiasts' of economy .
 t Can( stars hung high, the young sea of flame and the harbor blooded calculated job, its 1'regies I I following the Revolutionary War or Ignoring the contributionof
 mart heart filled with emotion. was lashed to fury," the fleet re. charted by military minds of I his this country been without a the Navy in the last war. Thimportance
 Suddenly from his jacket pocket he treated. But only In the dawn'a' genius. with little if any 1'0011for Navy. At that time Congress de. of maintaining a fully
 I
 personal emotions.. cited I in : Interest of equipped naval organization in war
 took an old envelope on which he early light could the anxious Key the economyto
 began scribbling rapidly, I Ibe assured that Old Glory was I I America, !and the world too has disband the,Navy of the United and In peace, will be apparent to
 His name was Francis Scott flying over the land of the free ', come a long way In- the race for Colonies. The Immediate result was the student of history of weapon
 Key and the hasty lines adapted to with new victory and grandeur. weapons since those early days. the rise of the Barbary pirates a* long as the seas exist. The roleof
 the tune of "Anacreon In Heaven," I Thanks to Key "the rocket's red New development have revolutionized who .aucceiwfiiUy: waged the first I' the Navy may change, but <twill
 gave birth .to the "Star Spangled I I glare and bombs( bursting* .<n air". I !all military thinking and protection racket 'against this not lessen in any future war.
 Banner," ..>on sung. by Americana were immortalized. Although It each day even modem develop-' country. The pirates In ore year fliN.VF131 .