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By DEBRA VAUGHN

s a young Naval officer in World War II, Malcolm Barker’s main duties involved serving as a flight officer in a PB4Y-2 Privateers.

It’s his second role for the Navy that put his name in a museum.

Just after he arrived at his first duty station at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island, his boss handed him an aerial photography camera, a Fairchild K-20.

With it, he took photos over Whidbey Island from the belly of a plane. He also captured more personal portraits of his petite redhead wife, Doris, around town. His photos are a rare window into life in North Whidbey during the war.

Barker didn’t know much about photography and he doesn’t recall anyone teaching him. But the camera was a good one with a simple no focus shutter speed.

Former Whidbey resident Malcolm Barker’s World War II era photographs captured life on the island and beyond.

“You just aimed and wound,” he said.

The PBY Naval Air Museum in Oak Harbor and the NASWI Heritage Center on the Seaplane Base both plan to showcase the photos in the future. The PBY museum will incorporate them into existing exhibits and Barker’s photos will be displayed on the Seaplane Base as its own collection.

The couple recently visited their old duty station and met with base commander Capt.

Michael Nortier.

Barker and his wife Doris met in high school in Bruceville, Indiana. With war looming, Barker decided it would be best to join the Navy.

“The war was not going well and most of the boys were being drafted at age 18,” he said. “If drafted, choice of service was often not available.”

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Malcolm Barker Collection

Doris Barker met her husband in high school. In 1946, she was a new wife in a tiny rural town, happy just to find a ball of yarn at the local co-op because supplies were so limited during wartime. Here she stands in front of married housing at Ault Field. Before they moved in, they briefly lived in a Quonset hut and an apartment downtown.

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ABOVE: U.S. Navy retired flight officer Malcolm Barker took this picture of Ault Field in 1946. Photography was a second job for him, but he ended up capturing rare photos of early Oak Harbor.

BELOW: Doris and Malcolm Barker came to Oak Harbor as newlyweds at age 20. Their first apartment was blocks away from the Garry Oak that used to stand in front of the post office.

PHOTOS FROM PAGE 2 After high school graduation, the Navy sent Barker to college for a year before then sending them to navigation training. He received his commission in 1945 and proceeded to NAS Banana River, Florida for radar bomb training and then NAS Master Field in Miami for operational training in the PB4Y-2 Privateers.

He received orders to San Diego, expecting orders to the South Pacific. Instead, he ended up receiving orders to Whidbey Island.

The couple were both 20 years old when they arrived here in the start of 1946.

There was no military housing for married couples yet, so they found an apart-

ment near where the Post Office is located now. They shared a bathroom with their neighbors and had a wood stove for cooking and heating.

“We were thankful for the co-op store, which had most necessary items, and for the ice cream down the street,” he said. “There was a theater and ‘sick bay’ at the Seaplane Base, all within walking distance except for Ault Field.”

Later, they would live in a Quonset hut for a month before moving into new married housing at Ault Field.

lucky when the shopkeeper at the co-op found her a forgotten ball of yarn under the counter so she could do some crafting.

While in Oak Harbor, Barker was deployed to Kodiak, Alaska, where they went searching for a ship in distress. Some of his photos include that trip.

Barker left active duty at the end of 1946 and served in the reserves until 1954.

He went to electrical school in Chicago and later retired from Alcoa in 1991.

“It was real cozy in there,” Doris Barker said of the hut.

The Barkers now live in Nolensville, Tenn. But they’ve made many trips back to visit Oak Harbor.

Supplies were few during wartime. Doris Barker felt

“Whidbey was a great duty station,” Barker said.

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Retired chief earns spot in golf tournament

By Jim Waller

Whidbey Island’s Dawn Kadolph earned a spot in the first annual Veterans National Golf Tournament by winning one of the eight qualifying tournaments for wounded warriors and veterans.

Kadolph retired as a senior chief from active duty in 2009 after 26 years in the Navy.

She pulled out a close win at Eagles Pride Golf Course at Joint Base Lewis-McCord in south Tacoma on Saturday, Sept. 19, to secure the allexpense-paid trip to the national finals.

The Veterans National Golf Championship is Nov. 8-11 at Pinehurst No. 2 Country Club Golf Course in North Carolina.

The celebrated Pinehurst No. 2 course has hosted more championships than any other in the United States.

This is the first championship for the newly formed Veterans Golf Association, a non-profit organization based out of Pinehurst.

The organization was the brainchild of several wounded veterans who played golf while recuperating at Walter Reed

Hospital in Washington, D.C. After recovering, the veterans moved to different areas of the country and missed the opportunity to compete regularly.

Forming the VGA gave them and others in similar situations a way to get together and golf in a competitive setting.

Because of golf ’s handicapped scoring system, the founders saw golf as a way for wounded warriors to continue to heal while competing on a level playing field with ablebodied players.

The mission of the VGA is to promote integrity, respect and perseverance for veterans and their family members through golf.

Kadolph, a member of the Gallery Women’s Golf Club, was joined at the qualifying tournament by two clubmates, Jerry Crabtree and Jessica Shaffer.

Crabtree narrowly missed qualifying along with Kadolph for one of the 80 VGA championship berths.

The top two finishers at the regional tournament earned

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Dawn Kadolph, a retired senior master chief, earned a spot n the first annual Veterans National Golf Tournament by winning one of the eight qualifying tournaments for wounded warriors and veterans.

slots in the national finals, and Crabtree placed third by one stroke behind second-

place finisher Holly Shaffer of San Diego.

ing golf regularly until five years ago.

“It was extremely close,” Kadolph said. “We all thought Holly was leading by quite a bit, (and) we knew Jerry and I were neck and neck. “

“Before that I only golfed in the annual Chief Petty Officer Golf Tournament since ‘99,” she said. “Not really any golfing courses in Adak, Iceland or on the carrier.”

Kadolph won with a net score of 73.

“We all had holes of brilliance and then we had ‘those holes.’”

Kadolph didn’t start play-

Kadolph decided to participate in the tournament because she wanted to “represent the veterans from Washington state in addition to representing all women

golfers.”

“I am still speechless that I will be afforded the opportunity to compete in this tournament,” she added. “My goals are to meet all 80 veterans competing in the tournament and listen to their stories of service and, of course, have fun.”

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Flyover set for Vet Day Parade Along with the roar of motorcycles, the melody of marching bands and the cheers of onlookers, a new sound will be a part of Oak Harbor’s fourth annual Veterans Day Parade.

Helicopter blades.

Terry Lacey, the parade’s organizer and founder, said one or two of the MH-60S Knighthawk helicopters from Whidbey Island Naval Air Station’s search and rescue team will do a flyover during the parade.

“This is the first time we’ll have a flyover,” he said. “It should be a lot of fun.”

This year’s parade will be Saturday, Nov. 7. Lacey said it will start at 11 a.m., which is earlier than in previous years; he said the organizers decided to see if an earlier start would boost attendance.

In addition, a ceremony honoring those who served will be at the Oak Harbor High School on Veterans Day itself, Nov. 11.

The parade will travel

State Patrol website IDs veteran applicants The Washington State Patrol has established a link to a website to identify individuals who applied to be a trooper and believe they were not given their veteran’s preference points on prior applicant tests. State law requires state agencies to give veterans’ preference points to honorably discharged veterans during the hiring process.

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Oak Harbor’s annual Veterans Day Parade will be 11 a.m., Saturday Nov. 7 on Pioneer Way.

down Pioneer Way, beginning at the intersection with Midway Boulevard and ending at Ace Hardware.

As for the parade, this year’s grand marshal will be Dick Johnson, who was the first force master chief of the Navy Reserve. Lacey said Johnson was the obvious choice since this year is the centennial of the Navy Reserve.

Lacey got the idea for the parade after attending a similar event in Burlington years ago; he said it makes sense that a community like Oak Harbor with such a large military presence should have a parade

marking Veterans Day. “Once we got the idea out there, it was an easy sell,” he said.

At 11 a.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 11 the Oak Harbor Area Council of Navy League of the United States will hold a Veterans Day ceremony honoring those who have served and currently serve at Oak Harbor High School Performing Arts Center.

The theme this year is

“Honoring our Nation’s Heroes” and will feature musical performances by the All-Island Community Band and Oak Harbor High School Treble Choir.

The National Anthem will be performed by a vocal ensemble comprised of active duty service men and women from Naval Air Station Whidbey Island.

The Oak Harbor High School NJROTC’ Wildcat Battalion will provide the Color Guard and ceremonial support, this year including a POW/ MIA tribute. The guest speaker will be Captain Scott “Topper” Farr, Commander, Electronic Attack Wing, Pacific.

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Corpsman honored as ‘Angel of Battlefield’ Wayne Papalski of Navy’s SAR team proves tireless in efforts to help others

By RON NEWBERRY

After a long day of training near Deception Pass followed by a rescue attempt near a mountain top in the Central Cascades, Wayne Papalski remembers he had barely climbed into bed to get some sleep when his phone rang.

“I was like, ‘Oh my God, what’s going on now?’” he said.

Papalski knew would have to wait.

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The Search and Rescue team from Whidbey Island Naval Air Station that he was a part of was being recalled to Mount Stuart.

Papalski, an experienced corpsman with 12 years

in the Navy, was the only member of the unit making the return trip.

Before he would be able to lay his head on a pillow again, Papalski was involved in two rescues in Chelan County at nearly 9,000 feet that required medical treatment of a hiker who tumbled down the mountainside and a local rescue team that had been dropped off to help her.

The result of Papalski’s efforts in June of 2014 led to a national honor. He is one of five service members who are being recognized as “Angels of the Battlefield‚“ this month in Washington, D.C. The award, sponsored by

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Papalski, 29, from Secaucus, N.J., said he was honored to be recognized in such a way, understanding that the award also is reflective of his cumulative career as a Navy corpsman. Yet he was still surprised.

“My first immediate reaction was, ‘Wow, they chose me for Angel of the Battlefield when I haven’t been in combat since 2012,’” he said with a smile.

Papalski deflected the credit to the tight-knit SAR team he’s known since he came to Oak Harbor two years ago.

The elite unit is normally called upon roughly 30 times a year for missions to rescue those in extreme peril.

June 4 last year was one of those occasions.

Whidbey’s SAR unit was dispatched to come to the aid of a seriously-injured climber, Viviane deBros of Bellevue, who had lost her footing while descending the summit of Mount Stuart and slid and tumbled roughly 800 feet.

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Wayne Papalski, a hospital corpsman with the Search and Rescue (SAR) unit at Whidbey Island Naval Air Station, will be honored at a gala Nov. 4 in Washington, D.C. Whidbey’s SAR unit returned to find safer wind conditions and was able to hoist deBros into the helicopter and into Papalski’s care after she spent about 20 hours on the mountainside.

Part of that time was spent huddled with her climbing partner to try to keep warm.

High winds forced the SAR unit to abort the helicopter rescue that night, however, it was able to insert a Chelan County Search and Rescue deputy and a medic with Cascade Medical Center about 2,500 feet below deBros at about 1:30 a.m.

“With the actual injuries that she had, I was surprised that she was conscious,” Papalski said, noting a massive skull fracture, compound fracture of her arm, severe hypothermia and dehydration. “I was surprised that she could talk to me.”

At the same time, a ground team representing two local search and rescue units had begun walking in from a high-elevation trailhead.

Papalski treated deBros while the helicopter flew her to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle. The fivemember SAR unit then reversed course and flew back to the mountain to help the exhausted rescuers.

Rescuers reached deBros and her climbing partner later that morning and found her to be stable with multiple injuries that required an airlift.

“We wound up giving IVs to a couple of the sheriffs on the scene because they were dehydrated,” Papalski

said. “They had been climbing the mountain all night trying to get to her.”

the time of the call back to Mount Stuart, Papalski was needed for the mission.

Five days later, deBros was on ABC News’ Good Morning America talking about the ordeal. She wound up fully recovering.

By the time he got to bed when it was all over, he had been awake for 36 hours.

Papalski called the outcome miraculous considering what might be expected from such a long fall from a mountain top and a long wait for help in the freezing cold.

“I’ve been in Iraq and Afghanistan and all throughout the Middle East,” Papalski said. “I’ve seen some crazy stuff.”

He calls the “Angels in the Battlefield” award a group accomplishment. He is one of 20 members of Whidbey’s SAR unit, which consists of pilots and air crew, and one of only two corpsmen.

Missions involve two pilots, a crew chief, a corpsman and rescue swimmer.

With the unit’s other corpsman unavailable at

That isn’t the norm but was necessary on this occasion.

“A lot of times we don’t get a chance to stop and decompress just yet,” said Cdr. David Waner, the officer in charge of Whidbey SAR. Waner called Papalski “an outstanding addition‚“ to the SAR unit.

“It’s a total crew concept,” Waner said. “The fact that he’s being recognized for the work he’s doing here brings credit to everyone here at SAAR. It’s five sets of eyes getting the aircraft safely into position to extract injured individuals to a higher level of care.”

Papalski will receive his award Nov. 4 at the Angels of the Battlefield Gala in Washington, D.C.

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VAQ-135 FLIES TO HONOR ST. LOUIS ARCH

The “World Famous Black Ravens” of Electronic Attack Squadron 135 conducted a flyover for the 50th anniversary of the construction of the Gateway Arch in St. Louis Oct. 24.

Lt. Cmdr. Matthew Maher and Lt. Anthony Nicolas from VAQ-135 conducted a commemorative pass over the Arch in an EA-18G Growler.

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by Boeing, the EA-18G is the Navy’s premier electronic attack aircraft capable of tactical jamming and electronic protection for allied forces.

The EA-18G is a variant of the combat-proven F/A-18F Super Hornet Block II that flies the airborne electronic attack mission. The EA-18G’s vast array of sensors and weapons provide the warfighter with a lethal and survivable weapon system to counter current and emerging threats.

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Station Whidbey Island, VAQ-135 operates five EA-18G aircraft and recently returned home from a sixmonth deployment to the U.S. Pacific Command area of responsibility. The “World Famous Black Ravens” are honored to represent Naval Aviation and the electronic attack community with this commemorative flyover.

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families in accessing services, providing ongoing support groups, and sponsored or supported multiple needed projects. Of special significance, the annual Stand Down, this past August served nearly 70 veterans and their families in accessing much-needed assistance in support services such

The Whidbey Veterans Resource Center asks for your assistance and support.

As a 501c3 charitable organization, the group depend significantly on the generous support of the businesses and individuals who elect to give.

Please contact us at 360-3318081, or the program coordinator at AprilP.wvrc@gmail. com.

NEW LIGHTS SHINE ON BASE Anyone driving or walking on Naval Air Station Whidbey Island at night will notice a significant change under way in exterior lighting. The base is close to completion of a $600,000 contract to replace existing light fixtures with energy efficient LED models.

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Farmer’s daughter is newly pinned chief

By DEBRA VAUGHN

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licia Parks didn’t plan on joining the military and the Navy was far removed from her childhood on a landlocked Iowa farm.

Sometimes life has other plans.

This fall she became one of 85 newly pinned chief petty officers at Whidbey Island Naval Air Station.

The promotion is an important one. A CPO is the point in an enlisted sailor’s career when he or she moves into a distinct leadership role.

She wears a different uniform and shoulders extra the responsibilities.

Her primary role has shifted from working on the flight line to taking care of her sailors, whether it’s personal or professional.

“If someone doesn’t know the answer to something, they go to the chief,” she said.

Parks, 33, is a chief for VAQ-129, a squadron that trains new EA-18G Growler pilots and EA-6B transitioning personnel.

She joined the Navy at age 21 after spending some time in college. Parks was a solid student but she felt directionless. She found herself wanting to work, not attend class.

As a farmer’s daughter growing up in Cherokee, Iowa — population 5,000 — she was used to working from a young age. First, she helped on her family’s 80-acre farm, where they grew corn and soybeans and tended 50 head of beef cattle. In high school, she worked in a warehouse.

She enjoyed making her own

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Alicia Parks of Oak Harbor is one of 85 sailors at Whidbey Island Naval Air Station pinned as a chief petty officer this fall. It’s an important promotion in the Navy, moving a sailor into a position of extra responsibility and leadership. money. At age 16, she bought her own car — a Chevy Beret — and paid for her own gas and insurance.

A Navy recruiter happened to live in her college apartment. She thought at first the recruiter was a flight attendant because she wasn’t used to the uniform. There aren’t too many sailors in Iowa. On a whim, she took the aptitude test and signed up.

“My dad was supportive,” she said.

“My mom was worried.”

She initially wanted to be a medical corpsman. That job wasn’t available so the recruiter suggested airplane ordinance.

“I had only been on an airplane once in my life,” she said. “It was uncharted territory. I thought, well,

that doesn’t sound too bad.”

After boot camp, her first duty station was to VP-40 on Whidbey Island and her deployments took her to Japan, Iraq, Qatar, Australia and Diego Garcia. Then she went for a Navy dream job — working for the Blue Angels. She was accepted. She moved to Pensacola and was a crew chief responsible for two jets. The job comes with perks. The crew got to do things such as attend wine tours and concerts and stay in nice hotels.

Glamour aside, she found it a sometimes hectic work schedule that pushed her to learn new skills. When a jet wasn’t functioning, she worked long hours.

“You go to these air shows and

people think you’re a rock star,” she said. “It’s humbling. You might be the only interaction someone is having with the U.S. Navy. It’s important to leave a good impression.”

She met her husband on that assignment. He’s also a chief petty officer, who is currently deployed.

The couple has two daughters, ages 3 and 2.

The couple often don’t see each other for long stretches of time.

“You make the best of it,” she said.

“You make sure you spend quality time together as a couple and more importantly as a family. If it were easy, everyone would do it.”

Parks and the other CPO candidates went through a six-week train-

ing process that included physical training and professional development and networking. At the beginning she didn’t know many of her cohorts. The experience allowed her to work with people who would form the “mess” — the other chiefs she can count on if she has a question.

“You might not know everything a sailor will bring to you but as a complete mess somebody has been through this.”

Parks completed her bachelor’s degree in 2013. Next she’s eligible for warrant officer and her husband for senior chief. They’ve talked about staying in 20 years and retiring.

“We’ll see which way the Navy takes us,” she said.

Navy’s aviation energy conservation to improve efficiency Naval Aviation is part of the Secretary of the Navy’s Energy Conservation Program.

The Aviation Energy Conservation (Air ENCON) Program is designed to optimize fuel consumption by naval aviation units-without adversely impacting safety or mission execution-to ensure the right amount of fuel is available for sustained mission readiness. Air ENCON focuses on operational awareness and practices that will conserve fuel and improve efficiency to not only protect

finite resources, but to ensure warfighting capability.

The Air ENCON Program was initiated by the Aviation Working Group (AWG) of Task Force Energy. The AWG is charged with developing strategies and initiatives to implement Navy energy goals within the Naval Aviation community, including developing operational energy conservation measures, as well as technologies designed to reduce energy consumption across the Naval Aviation Enterprise.

To ensure the success of the Air ENCON Program, an Integrated Project Team comprised of members from Commander, Naval Air Force, Pacific, Commander, Naval Air Force, Atlantic and Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) has been established to oversee the development of the program, design an effective implementation strategy, and manage sustainment of energy conservation initiatives.

Short-Cycle Mission and Recovery Tanking (SMART) for example, offers operators an option for airborne tanking operations at sea. SMART, or any of the many hybrid variations, improves efficiencies. CNAF and NAVAIR accelerated “Magic Carpet” technology for F/A-18 E/F Super Hornets and EA-18G Growlers which will further reduce tanking requirements and add efficiencies to aircraft carrier recovery operations.

Positive program effects are already occurring in the fleet.

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Lt. Ralph Tufano, a Sept. 11 first responder and retired member of the Fire Department of New York, visited the island’s two Carpet One Floor and Home stores Oct. 6 to recognize their participation in a nationwide campaign to build “smart” homes for wounded veterans.

Tufano, age 56, retired out of Ladder 80 on Staten Island.

He is one of several 9/11 first responders traveling the country in the Building for America’s Bravest Shadowbox Tour, presenting Carpet One Floor and Home stores nationwide with a shadowbox containing a piece of steel collected from Ground Zero.

The shadowbox is a means of recognition for the contribution Carpet One Floor and Home has made to Building for America’s Bravest, a program of the Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation.

The foundation was established in honor of Stephen Siller, who sacrificed his life

to save others on Sept. 11, 2001. The foundation’s mission is to support other first responders and veterans who have sacrificed “life and limb” for their country, according to the foundation web site.

Carpet One Floor and Home and its manufacturing partner, Mohawk, began a company-wide national campaign in early 2015. Their objective was to provide flooring materials and installation for 46 “smart” homes for veterans returning from overseas deployments who had been severely injured.

As a part of the campaign, stores also asked customers to donate a minimum of $10 in hopes of raising enough funds to donate flooring and installation for at least two more homes.

Each home is customized to meet the specific needs of each veteran, and is built using “smart,” adaptive technology to help these men and women to lead more independent lives. The technology used to build these homes typically

he walked across the Brooklyn Bridge and witnessed the second tower collapse.

When the dust cleared, he went to his command post and did all that he could along with his fellow first responders, he said.

Throughout his talk, Tufano related to fellow firefighters from the North Whidbey, Oak Harbor and NAS Whidbey Fire departments.

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Lt. Ralph Tufano presents a shadowbox containing a piece of steel from Ground Zero to Denny DeWispelaere, owner of the Oak Harbor Floors Plus Carpet One store. comes with a hefty price tag, far exceeding what most of these veterans can afford to pay for with their pensions.

During the presentation, Tufano recalled the morning of Sept. 11, 2001 and his arrival at the scene.

He was off duty when the first tower was hit, he said, and hurriedly grabbed his

“This was before there was total recall and every available first responder was called in to get to the scene,” he said.

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“We’re a different breed,” he said.

Though Tufano said he has not yet experienced any health issues related to breathing in the toxic dust that mingled in the air at Ground Zero following the collapse, many of his colleagues have not been so fortunate.

More than 100 first responders have died from stomach cancer, lung cancer and similar issues, most likely thought to be the result of toxic dust inhalation, he

said. Inside the Ladder 80 fire department, Tufano said, a memorial wall has been established in honor of those who died from illnesses related to 9/11.

Like first responders, he said, military personnel risk their lives on a regular basis in order to save and protect others.

The Building for America’s Bravest program helps to support these men and women in a gesture of gratitude for their sacrifices, he noted.

“It’s an honor, an absolute honor,” said Oak Harbor Floors Plus Carpet One owner Denny DeWispelaere of receiving the shadowbox and meeting Tufano.

The shadowboxes will remain in the stores for permanent display.

For more information on the Building for America’s Bravest program, visit https:// ourbravest.org.

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