Air Force Academy Are 27½ Hours Devoted to Studies of Military Art and Science
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Academy Coaches ......... .... ... 11 the World Science Fiction Award in 1965), he began work ing increasingly in the animal and nature field until , now, Falcon Team Photo ............. ... 12 he devotes his entire time to drawing, painting and writing Falcon Co-Captains ..................... 13 about animals. Falcon Players . .. ...... ... .. .... ..... 14 He has traveled and done paintings for the National Falcon Team Roster ......... .. .... .. 22 Park Service, National Speleological Society, and U. S. Air Starting Lineups ......... ...... ........ 25 Force. He has many paintings in private collections, and Tulane Team Roster .................... 27 had a one-man show at the Bronx Zoo in 1968. Tulane University .... .. .... ... .. .... .. 29 His book illustrations , which have won many awards Tulane Coaches .. ...... .. ........... 30 and citations, include those for "Rascal" and "The Wolf Tulane Players . ..... .. .... .......... 31 ling," both by Sterling North, "The Golden Eagle" by AFA Homecoming ...... .......... ... 35 Robert Murphy , and "The Fox and The Hound" by Daniel Falcon Stadium ....... ....... ... ..... 37 Mannix. His children picture books include "Mississippi Tulane Engineer ....................... 39 Possum," "Fox and the Fire" and "Nobody's Cat," all Opponents' Schedule . .... .... ......... 42 written by Miska Miles, and "The Barn," written and Football Statistics ... .. ... ...... ...... 43 illustrated by himself . Football Lettermen ........ .. ... ....... 44 Currently he is living on a farm in New Jersey where Tailgate Picnic ... ..................... 45 he can study the animals he paints, and travels as exten College Football - Circa 2070 ...... ..... 46 sively as possible to find the others. Next Home Game . ..... ........ .... 47 He is a member of the American Society of Mammalo gists, National Speleological Society, and Society of Animal Artists. 1 CADETS TRAVEL WORLDWIDE ... Summer Military Training Programs By BILL MADSEN USAFA Office of Information Included in the 187 semester hours required for graduation from the Air Force Academy are 27½ hours devoted to studies of military art and science. Summer leadership and field training tasks account for a substantial portion of the practical experience which helps prepare cadets for careers as profes sional officers in the U. S. Air Force. Related below are adventures upper classmen had last summer on training missions which took them overseas. One involves a foreign academy ex change visit; the other a variation of "Operation Third Lieutenant" where cadets come into direct contact with the operating Air Force. DURING THEIR VISIT to the Tieu-Atar Special Forces camp under Operation Third Lieutenant auspices of the 7th AF, Air Force Academy cadets partook of skew • ered pork and Montagnard rice wine . From left are Cadets John J . Gorman, Hickam AFB, Hawaii; John W. Swanson, Harlingen, Tex.; Orrin S. Watson, Westbury, N.Y.; and Honi J. Garvin, Aurora, Colo. - Southeast Asia and Sam Wilson. Early last summer, the first contingent of 60 cadets spent three weeks in Southeast Asia under Operation Third Lieuten operations officer. In addition, he did a staff study on "The ant. In this group was Cadet Honi Garvin of Aurora , Colo . Triple Ejection Rack" for the F-100 "Super Sabre." "We flew in a C-97 to Saigon via Alaska, Guam , Taiwan "This installation , which is economically sound , would and Thailand ," Garvin said . " At Saigon, we split up , and I - double the paylo ad of the airplane with some accompanying with four other cadets - was assigned to Tuy Hoa , Vietnam." decrease in range," Garvin explained. "The study showed, how As a junior officer att ached to the 309th Tactical Fighter ever, that the advantages of the rack, with its additional bomb Squadron, Cadet Garvin performed the job of a squadron load , far outweighed the disadvantages for the F-100 ." The five cadets traveled to a Special Forces camp outside of Ban Me Thuot. In addition to Garvin CADET HONI J. GARVIN displays a silver bracelet presented to him , the participants were by a Montagnard chieftain at a Special Forces camp in South Vietnam Cadets John Gorman , John Swanson , Butch Watson and Sam last summer. Wilson. "This was the most interesting area of our trip," con tinued Garvin . "We got right into primitive villages. We met the people , the Vietnamese natives and the splendid Monta gnards. We learned about the baffling complexities of the situ ation .. and got a solid impression of the U.S. Air Force in action. "We saw the damage done by recent Vietcong mortar at tacks. We flew in helicopters to surrounding Korean base camps . We toured their facilities, learned about combat opera tions, saw rescue squadrons. We spent several days and nights with Security Police in their strenuous 24-hour a day jobs. We saw how they trained dogs , used them at night. We looked through night-light gunnery scopes, climbed observation towers, entered machine gun bunkers, learned how a barbed wire perimeter is put together and held our ears during a mortar fire demonstration." The five cadets were honored by the Montagnards, an esteemed people who live in small grass huts built above the ground. A Montagnard chief sacrificed a pig and served it to his guests shish-kabob style. The cadets were seated cross legged before huge earthen bowls of rice-and-banana leaf wine. Prior to the feast, the chief placed slender silver bracelets on the wrist of each cadet as a token of welcome. "Before we started, the chief blessed the wine which made us friends forever," Garvin explained. "We sucked the wine out of the jars with long tubes to wash down the meat. When we finished, we were very thankful to see 400 Montagnard troops come forward to finish off the potent wine!" The Special Forces Camp was located in the funnel of a valley that caused major flow of traffic through the area. Th eir visit was made during the wet season the cadets said, wh ich made the camp relatively safe from 'enemy attack. It is ex ceedingly difficult to move through the dense jungle in the monsoon season. The five cadets were unanimous in their opinion the Third Lieutenant experience was the highlight of their Academ y ca reers thus far. 2 Foreign Academy Exchange -Peru From the 10th to the 29th of June, four firstclassmen vis ited La Escuela de Oficiales Fuerza de! Peru in Lima. Cadets Joseph R. Cabrera, Roel C. Campos, Michael D. Dziedzic and Larry Cole got a personal look at the Peruvian acadamy facil ities, flight training program and training areas. "Our arrival at the Lima airport resulted in a bonus ad venture," said Cadet Larry Cole. "Mike Dziedzic and I got to fly with the U. S. Air Force in rescue operations!" On May 30 a terrible earthquake shook Peru. The Callejon de Huaylas valley was a funnel of devastation. An entire moun tainside slid down, wiped out one city of 20,000 and half buried many villages. More than 50,000 people were lost. The only way to provide medicines, food and equipment for thousands of people was by airlift. When the cadets arrived on scene, rescue operations were already in progress. Peruvian Army personnel, airlifted into the disaster area by helicopter, organized the ground effort. The Peruvian Air CADETS Larry Cole, left, of Phoenix, Arizona, and Mike Dziedzic of Force, assisted by Americans, Russians, Canadians, British and Lacey, Washington, participated in USAF rescue operations during Argentines were airlifting supplies from Lima over a 13,000- their foreign academy exchange visit to Peru. foot pass. Rescue packages were airdropped where needed in the 9,000-foot high valley. "About the first American we ran into was my brother - They made one free-fall drop. Blankets, tightly tied in 25- Captain Peyton Cole, a '67 Academy grad - who was flying pound bundles without parachutes, were pushed out in several a C-123 assigned to the 24th Special Operations Squadron," fly-overs where temporary tents housed hundreds of refugees. Cadet Cole continued. "He introduced us to the people run "It was a prime example of international cooperation in ning the airlift." disaster relief!" exclaimed Cadet Mike Dziedzic. "The Cuban Four USAF C-l 23's and four C-l 30's were flying daily made blankets we pushed out of American planes were fur supply drops. But the aircrews had a problem: a shortage of nished by the Russians ... " Loadmasters. Cadets Co le and Dziedzic volunteered to help. After three unbelievably active days with the U. S. Air "We rode in the back of cargo plane where supplies were Force on relief missions, Cadets Cole and Dziedzic joined the lashed to plywood boards which, in turn, rode on rollers in other two cadets at the Peru Air Force Academy at Las Palmas, the aircraft floor. Approaching the drop area, the pilot would a Lima suburb. They made new friends among the Peruvian call on the intercom, 'Load, one minute to drop!'" Cadet Cole trainees. related. "The Air Academy in Peru is basically a pilot school," "We released the lashings. Thirty seconds out, we got the Cadet Joe Cabrera said, "They go there four years, have a word, 'Get set!' and we pulled the antiroll safety block.