Show Active Duty In Guard Kon active some Air with a. we go ted somewhat more iy members of the o-Medical of the Utah Air which pro-port and care of in flight from tal station to an-s going to fly a simulated missions route to Lajes Azores id Dover Lake to medical tech- f and nurses ran two simulated missions in which they were airlifting patients suffering from tuberculosis and cardiac WHEN one of the simulated heart cases went into cardiac there was no simulation in the skill and dispatch displayed by the medics and nurses as they applied emergency heart massage and artificial resuscitation techniques to the Landing in Dover about 9 p.m. the medical and flight crews were glad to see the visiting crew with its hot showers and soft beds after a hard day of work and training feet up and 2000 miles THE NEXT some attended local church services in while others rested in their writing letters or reading the Sunday editions of the Washington Post or New York Delayed by a maintenance difficulty found while readying the big for its trans-Atlantic flight the next the crew-members took advantage of the extra time to see the sights of the first state in the and Dover its capitol are islands of small farms and local businesses in a surrounding sea of major industries and the largest metropolitan of the The capitol buildings of red brick in colonial styling are set in a central square known as The Green and surrounded by clean and brightly painted colonial homes which have been converted to law offices with the names of the residents displayed in a quieter style reminiscent of the birth of the BECAUSE of the necessity to land at during daylight the Air Guard and its crew left Dover that night for the hour flight to Lajes arriving 12 noon After a quick shower and the nurses and flight crew headed for Praia da Vitoria the closest and second largest town of the next to the largest island of the THE GREEN terraced fields separated by low rock wall fences in which shocks of corn and grazing cows could be seen were a pleasant sight after the sameness of the ocean The paved road from Lajes passes through local off-base housing with Chevrolets and Dodges parked alongside and changes to the narrow cobble-stone streets of Praia with and Mercedez Benz FEELING almost as if they had walked into a late movie the Utah visitors entered the Prossa or square as the high sided pony cart of a local farmer passed The first stop for many of them was the Astoria Linen Shop on the Rua Da Republica where they sampled and bought hand-woven Others were captured by the sight of hand carved with which other stores were And some just walked around soaking up the feeling of a foreign country and THE NEXT day some continued their shopping expeditions of the previous first in Praia and then to the largest city on the Angara da Where they also had a look at the gardens of with shaped and trained trees in shapes such as a a boat and the WHILE some shopped others took advantage of the low cab fare to see more of the island in a taxi Although in some cases there was some difficulty in English-Portuguese the Utah visitors found that the drivers were full of interesting anecdotes to island Like the time a German submarine in world war II hid between two rocks off the island and couldn't be discovered until it THAT night one of the Nancy Long had an impromptu birthday party at the officers club complete with chorus of and a somewhat startled who at her last birthday would never have guessed she would have the opportunity to spend the next one in the Thursday everyone boarded the for the flight After having been airborne for less than an hour trouble developed in the number four engine and it had to be FOR THE first time were donned in not just as part of a There was a although somewhat unexpectedly return and landing at Where the crew was told they'd probably have to stay for an additional two days while the engine was With 48 more hours to investigate a foreign land least an everyone checked their wallets and wished the mechanics a speedy repair ALTHOUGH the engine was replaced by high winds made it impossible for the to leave the hangar for an engine check delaying departure until Sunday Some of the and the nurses impatient to get home caught a ride with a bound for Dover by way of the They only had a three-hour lead on the rest of the unit as winds died and for the second and last time Utah Air Guard 1149 departed Lajes for Dover and Salt Lake |