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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 05, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday May 5, riot Check planners get Home Washington is the army is moving two in is of Thea Duplant general s office from the Pentagon to it. Benjamin Harrison in Indiana in order to make Way for the defense de Nart Mcnol s new riot control com Mand Center. The first group has already left a units leaving Are the efficiency report Branch of the personnel actions division an the personnel records division. About 174 military and civilians Are involved. In their place will come the new command Center officially known As the directorate of civil disturbance planning and operations the directorate is headed by it Gen. George r. Mather cd of the Iii army corps at , Tex. His Deputy will be maj. Gen. Joseph a. Cunning Ham commander of the 22nd air Force military Airlift come Travis fab  directorate now partly operational is responsible for supervising All military activities related to civil disturbances within the country. Military lists availability on quarters Washington is there Are 1,866 sets of excess military quarters at army Navy and Aii Force bases in the . Available for families of officers and enlisted men who wish to motto a military base while thei husbands Are on Short Oversea Tours this information was contained in the latest report on1 excess military housing released i by the air Force. Units include Capehart Wherry and regular government quarters. They arc located Alpine Bluff Arsenal Ark. Yuma proving ground Ariz. Schilling Manor sub Post Kan. Lorinda feb Maine Edgewood Arsenal my. K. I. Sawyer fab Mich. Self Ridge fab and Wurtsmith Hab Mich. I also Glascow fab Mont. Roswell housing authority and White Sands missile Range . Lincoln housing author Ity neb. Reno housing authority Nev. Pittsburgh fab and the Seneca army depot  defense depot Utah Nav Iraq Sta Driver  port of Moses Lake housing division land the Navy ammunition de ipod at Bangor Wash and Truax old wis. T Scott fab to. Special a new 21-Page pamphlet entitled career advantages inthe . Air Force has been prepared by the Mili tary Airlift Cornel personnel directorate. Intended primarily for first term airmen and supervisors it covers 16 areas of concerto airmen who must decide whether or not to make Theair Force a career. T h e pamphlet includes among other things information on promotion family Protection benefits Buso of preference program slate Andrea hours and earning re training and commissioning programs. The stars and stripes Page 7 a \ loolt9 of to keep8 Reserve units Active a. A be kept i temporarily Richard s. As a � ,4" a department of defense cameraman chief photographer s mate Richard r. Stover went to an Altitude of 500 feet in an army h21 Heli copter to take this fisheye Lens View of the Pentagon. Approximately 30,000 military an civilian personnel now work at the Pentagon More than when it began its 26-year history during world War ii. Washington up eight air Force Reserve units originally scheduled for deactivation after june 30 will existence at Leas according to rep. Schweiker a a. The units include the lilt military Airlift group of the Pennsylvania air National guard based at Willow Grove naval air station 170th military Airlift group Mcguire air Force base,. 105th mag Westchester county Airport n.y., 195th Mili tary Airlift Sydn Van Guys air port Calif. 908th tactical air lift group Brookley fab. Ala. 927th tag. Selfridge fab. Mich. And the 930th-931st tag Bak Alarab ind. Schweiker a member of the House armed services commit tee said he Learned of the abandonment of deactivation plans from defense Secretary Clark m. Clifford at a committee  said seven of the eight units including the a Lith will retain their present role for about a year after which they will be 1 converted to tactical air support i  the eighth unit now flying c121 aircraft will be converted nearly 1971 to a ?141 unit a Strate Gic Airlift unit. I Rifle shoot scheduled Lackland fab Tex. Spe Cial several Hundred shooters will descend upon san Antonio this summer to compete in the i summer olympic tryouts and the eighth National Rifle association j International championships. Stateside service i i 3 of bases named for Hennessy honors Washington is ail Force chief of staff Gen. John p. Mcconnell has announced that Mcclellan fab. Cal. Air Force logistics come and Shu proving out dogs used to spot dope by Marc iiuets4s Washington Bureau chief Washington is the defense department is studying the possibility of using Man s Best f r i e n a the dog in it stepped up Campaign against drug abuse in the armed  decision has been made at Unis time but Frank a. Bartimo assistant defense department general counsel and chairman of the new drug abuse control com Mittee reports the army Navy air Force and Marine corps Are investigating the use of k9 dogs to help military police track i Down illicit narcotics including \ marijuana hashish heroin Opi turn and even us. The commit i tee is made up of the nation s top military criminal investigators j dogs have proven themselves j in the War on crime and in the armed forces As Tunnel trackers und on patrols in Vietnam. Bar Jtimo feels there is a Strong pos Sivility they will be useful against dope users and paddlers. Two four footed experts with a nose for marijuana Are rebel and Sandy German shepherds who have been trained at the police a school in Plymouth Mich. In a series of recent tests the dogs found dope in six suspect automobiles at Border Crossings in the . And 108 pounds of marijuana in the false floor of a truck in California. In other tests they scored 15 successes without a single failure. With their super sensitive smell the dogs also spotted Small packages of dope in such places As locker rooms a handbag and filing Cabinet. Lin Kou As Taiwan Pacific air forces have been selected to receive this year s Hennessy Tro Phy awards for excellence in air Force food service operations. Mcclellan won the coveted Sil ver trophy for bases with More than one food service facility and Shu Lin Kou won the single unit Competition. For the second consecutive year officials also chose to give special recognition to an air base in Vietnam for dining Hall operations in the combat zone. This year s Winner was Ibert Thuy a. Through the paces a police dog is trained to spot hidden narcotics on a bus tit a . Border crossing. Dogs May soon spread use fur tracking dope. Be in wide  
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