European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 28, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse May 28, the stars and stripes Page 7 refresher course gives vols food for thought by Bill Neal staff writer Rad Kreuz Nach Germany a four Man in Struc is and mess stewards at Rose Jar Racks. The instructor team is a completely self supporting unit thateus with it All needed equip Bent and supplies. The main purpose of our Lourse is to bring Cooks and Ness stewards up to Date on the i changes in the cooking e3d� said sgt. . Paul Sweet in Coic of the team. We cover everything1 from per cooking of meat to How to Hake a Good salad he said most of our classes Are prac Sical demonstrations in which Harge overhead mirrors Are used to that everyone can see., Cooks receive 24 hours of instruction and mess stewards get40 hours of classroom work. I the mess stewards receive instruction in Supply and me a accounting in addition to the regular food preparation said a 50-queslion Multi Choice final. Exam ends the six mess sergeants from the Pathfinder division scored 100iper cent on the test. They were is sets. Arthur Martindale Miichael Langner Roy Price Alifonso Martello Raymond Lem Lons and Junior Long. I Pathfinder Cooks scoring 100iper cent on the exam were sgt. Edward d. Maiden and spec. 5william Kizer. I it. Col. Elmer j. Gainok executive officer seventh army i support come presented Diplo Mas to the Pathfinder Cooks and stewards during a ceremony tithe 8th administration mess Hall. 3,000 marchers including gis Start health hikes Roll Calls. Sgt. John Fouts support come food service instructor demonstrates the proper Way to prepare and handle Rolls during refresher course at Rose Barracks bad Kreuz Nach. Zeven Germany is the Zeven evening marches com Mittee says there have now Bee More than 3,000 people ranging in age from 8 to 71, registered for the four evening health marches that began monday. People from near and Harare coming to participate in the marches which Are held for the first time in Northern Ger Many said Zeven mayor Fritz Are 10 groups of Chil Dren in age group 8 to 12 18groups of civilian marchers and 84 groups of military . Martha Bohm 71, from Zeven is one of the oldest scheduled to take part in the marches. Mrs. Bohm started with theother marchers monday but said she will Only make a Parton the trip around the world As she Calls the marching routes of four Large loops around the town in a four Leaf Clover de sign. The largest military contingent consists of 166 dutch soldiers from he co 42nd Panzer inf in at seeder Hof the Netherlands. Some military groups will layout a bivouac in a nearby Cavern since they Are too far from their bases to return at night. The dutch have some 1,000marchers entered Germany 900, the United states 65 and Britain about 20. Gigli a Turkey special airman . Michael n. Tara Bay was named airman of the Quarter and t. Sgt. Albert was named no of the Quarter at Gigli air base Here. Both Are assigned to Tus log Del 36. Hanau Germany special the 14th Supply and service in Here has announced the winners of three awards. Sgt. . Mitchel Berdoux of he Andhi co is no of the Quarter and spec. 4 John a. Atencio of the same unit is Soldier of the Quarter. Spec. 5 Paul j. Jab Kowicz 621st general Supply co is top Driver of the Quarter. Atencio and Zabkowicz will now compete for the 2ndsupport brigade honors. Sembach Germany Spe Cial five German air Force lieutenants working inthe Supply Field have concluded a four Day orientation visit to Sembach air base. The five Are recent graduates of the German of technical school. Wiesbaden Germany Spe Cial sgt. Michael d. Brad Ford has been selected to at tend Arizona state University through the airman education and commissioning program. Bradford of the 7405th sup port group is scheduled to be Gin College next month. He willbe enrolled in a two year electrical engineering course. He will enter officer train ing school at Lackland fab tex., after graduation. Maintenance co keeps Long hours out on the Range by Jim Thompson Grafe Woehr Germany special when Echo co 708th i maintenance in comes Here its men work seven Days a week 12 to 20 hours a Day according to1st it. Clarence c. Copeland the unit s co. He added in the Maint Nancefield you work until the Job is finished and that is very co e comes to Grafe Woehr every year during the july a gust tank gunnery testing to pro vide maintenance service and evacuation and direct Supply sup port for vehicles and tanks Dur Jing Field operations. 1 this year the company also came from bad Kreuz Nach for the pre tank gunnery testings held in late april and Early May. Copeland says the work Load for his outfit this year has been running from 200 to 250 third a Echelon repair jobs and from 700 i to 1,000 parts request per week his unit handles these with a " of 120 men roams Fields sgt. Carried Damron has served As Coic of Contact teams on the ranges for the Pas two years. He roams the Field co a dating maintenance efforts Ana providing assistance from a i wealth of knowledge gained i nigh years of experience. Copeland who joined the army Nen he was Only 15 years old Ownen his True age was discovered he was asked to resign be am but rejoined when he was now has More than 10 years i army service behind him troopers9 time giants9 clean gis no sweat for platoon by Jerry Drane staff writer Hoechst Germany is the sweat ability has vastly decreased since the old Days. Even when Hohenfels begins to look like a hog Wallow there s Hope. Guys coming out of Gra Fen Woehr too can smell like a Rose instead of a Goat. For those on Outing in these Sylvan campgrounds the Laun dry and Bath platoon b co,308th Supply and service in located in this Frankfurt suburb will More than Likely be close by. We re going to the Field can mean an eight week bavarian mud Bath. A Duffel Bagful of clean dry clothes too quickly be comes a nest of near living things that begin to move around on their is the Call to arms for the men of la platoon when frankness hath no privilege. Their weapons Are monstrous washing machines and dryers which each with us own Generator an trailer must be towed about with 2&4on equipped with two washers three dryers the Pla Toon can handle a divisions Worth of laundry a week an Send the troops Back to the fray on wings of Huff dried May make the Man but clean clothes can t make theman clean. Hence phase 2 of the unit s Mission make theman clean. In a word showers. A hot Shower is one of the biggest morale boosters there is for a Man in the Field said 0. Blackmon b co co. If the washing machines Are monstrous the Shower Rig Tias to be called ingenious. A Hose is stuck into the nearest water Supply a bubbling Stream the Rhine River a3,000-gallon water filled rubber bladder. Water is pumped into a gasoline fired boiler heated to110 degrees squirted out of eight Shower Heads to slather away grime and fatigue. The setup includes heated tents for bathing and dressing. Giving each Man tune enough under the Spray to sing Largo Al factotum from Rossini s i Barbiere i Seville three to five minute the platoon can Bathe 9,000 bodies a week run Ning two 10-hour shifts a Day. Mos title for the Job is Laun dry and Bath impregnation specialist. Nobody around the uni can say Why in some inspired stroke of creativity it was Given this name but some think it is related to delousing. The Pla Toon is equipped to perform this function but it would apply mostly to a combat situation now said Blackmon. The platoon serves units in Thev corps area and is on Call at All times. 4th army sextet 11 All army shoot Erlanger Germany Spe Ial six members of the 4th army div advanced Marksman hip unit Are among shooters representing Usa eur in theall army Small arms championship matches at it. Benning,ga., the first week in june. S. Sgt. Anton Hermann who won the pistol grand aggregate in the Usa eur Small arms matches at Grafe Woehr last month and spec. 5 Kerwin Davis top new shooter in the same event will fire on the usage Ramu pistol team. S. Sgt. Earl Waterman Vyth took second place in the Rifle grand aggregate and s. Sgt. Al Fred Flegge s. Sgt. Patrick Felix and spec. 4 Cecil Fox will fire in Rifle Competition
