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A  KC-135  Q  from  Beale  made  an  emergency  landing  on  a  dry  74 
lake  bed  at  Edwards  AFB,  California. 
Brigadier  General  Young  from  Headquarters  NORAD  visited   39 
Beale. 
The  president  of  Hero  Inc.  (  the  Housing  Maintenance  Con-  132 
tractor)met  base  officials  to  discuss  problems  with  con- 
tract performance.  After  the  meetings,  the  contractor 
hired  seven  additional  personnel. 
The  annual  Beale  Guest  Day  was  held.  All  activities  were  39 
successful.  Base  Officials  estimated  attendance  at 
25,000  people. 
A  U-2R  incident  occurred  at  Detachment  2,  Osan  AB,  Korea.  74 
Caotain  Shervl  \\.    Davis  assumed  command  of  the  9th  Combat  45 
Support  Group  Headquarters  Squadron. 
■"clonal  !   Briaadier  General  selectee)  John  R.  rar-ington 
^ssum-d  comma nc  o*"  tne  1-th  Air  Division.   He  came  so 
"sale  from  Gr-issom  ArE  .  Indiana  wnere  ne  was  covmar.aer  or 
-ne  305tn  Air  Refueling  Wing.   He  is  a  command  pilot  w"tn 
'•^2   combat  missions  in'a  variety  of  aircraft.   In  adcicion 
tq   u  «;  military  decora c ions,  he  was  awarded  the  rating  or 
ciioTm  tne  Yuaoslav  Air  Force.  He  received  his  regular 
commission  in  July  In59  as  a  distinguished  qraduate  of 
*-r,=.  Air  Force  Reserve  Officer   Trainina  Corns. 
'•JorV  on  the  new  administrative  building  at  Detachment  3,  131 
Akrotiri  SBA,  Cyprus,  was  placed  on  hold  pending  the  our- 
^cnase  of  the  building's  interior. 
Aonroximat'lv  three  oallcns  of  K2  dichlorobenzene  was    13^ 
^nlled  in  Building  10?.6.   Civil  Engineering  housed  tne 
the  area  and  the  command  ■  post  was  evacuated. 
The  Mobile  Processing  Center  at  Detachment  1,  K.adena  Air  129 
Dase,  Japan  tool  delivery  of  a  newly  desinned  and  Unit 
Double  Van  Imagery  Comulex. 
Captain  Wilbert  E.  Charles  took  over   command  of  the  9th 
Combat  Support  Group  Headquarters  Squadron. 
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22-24  -  The  SAC  16  conducted  a  Management  Effectiveness  Inspec-   25 
tion  (MEI)  of  Detachment  5,  Patrick  AFB,  Florida.  This 
represented  the  initial  MEI  for  the  unit.  The  overall 
rating  -  Satisfactory. 
26    -  "he  wing  conducted  a  Mass  Accident  Response  Exercise(MARE)35 
with  an  overall  rating  of  satisfactory. 
31    -  A  tanker  crew  from  the  9th  SRW  won  the  Navigation  Trophy  41 
at  the  annual  SAC  Bomping  and  Navigation  Competition. 
The  trophy  was  awarded  to  the  tanker  crew  which  compiled 
the  highest  scores  for  four  navigational  legs.   Beale 
crews  scored     1530  out  of  1600  points. 
November 
7-8   -   Mr.  Thomas  G.  Ward,  Vice  Chairman  of  the  Committee  for    39 
Imagery  Requirements  and  Explotation,  attended  the  wing's 
Senior  Staff  Orientation  Course.  Other  senior  officials 
at  the  session  included;  Colonels  John  P..  Nesbitt  and 
Glen  W.  Redmond,  Mobilization  Assistants  to  Headquarters 
SAC,  Deputy  Chief  of  Staff,  Intelligence,  United  States 
jnited  States  Air  Force  Reserve' USAFP ) ;  and  Colonel 
Cna-'les  ?.  Sloan.  Deputy  Director  fc^  fjoeratior.5  Support, 
-eadGuarters  ~SAi 
aior  Jonr  C.  r'icKo  assumed  command  c~  tne  ?tr.  CSG  head-      -5 
2,._5r,  5cuac>~cn. 
20   -    ~he  wine  conducts  a  Major  Accident  Response  Exercise(MARE  ;36 
in 
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which  a  ratine  of   satisfactory. 
21   -    Lieutentant  Colonel  Kenneth  L.  Stanford  took  over   command  u- 
of  tne  99th  Strategic  Reconnaissance  Squadron. 
27   -    Lieutenant  Colonel  Dennis  C.  Gagen  assumed  command  of  ^5 
..  ^Detacnment  5,  Patrick  AFB,  Florida. 
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Captain  "arv   E.  Velarde  assumed  command  of  the  9th  C3 
Headquarters  Squadron . 
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1    .   Major  Russell  L.  Szypanik  assumed  command  of  Detachment    45 
1,  Kadena  Air  Base,  Japan. 
4-5  -   Lieutenant  General  Faurer.   Director  of   the  National       39 
Security  Agency,  visited  Beale. 
6    -   The  wing  conducted  a  Contingency/Mobility  Exercise.       38 
Overall  rating  -  Satisfactory.  A  MARE  held  in  conjunc- 
tion with  the  exercise  was  rated  excellent. 
14-19  -  Slue  Ribbon  Panel  investigatina  recent  U-2   incidents      07 
visited  Detachment  5,  Patrick  AFB,  Florida. 
21   .   Ceremonies  marking  the  20th  Anniversary  of  the  first      40 
SR-71  flight  were  held  on  the  Beale  flight! ine.  The 
program  included  a  SR-71  rlyby,  landing  and  taxi  into 
the  reviewing  area.   The  remarks  were  delivered  by  Robert 
Gilliland,  the  first  pilot  to  fly  the  SR-71  and  also  bv 
Ben  Rich,  Vice  President  of  the  Lockheed  Corporation. 
The  SR-71,  nicknamed  the  "Blackbird"  was  flown  on  22  Dec- 
ember 1964. 
Seven  construction  and  repair  projects  were  completed    129 
representing  a  total  of  S  2,028,2^7.   Examples  included 
tnree.  projects  to  ^esair  and  mair-air  '•'i'iitary  Family 
Housing:  reoair  of  tne  sewaoe  rlart:  *~ezaiK~   2nrj  ro'^„ 
vatior  of   r.-ji Icing  21"?;  ^epav-  pf  -r,e  $?-?2  elect'-i:- 
al  distribution  system;  and  repair  cf  tne  pnoto  waste 
injection  system. 
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