European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 18, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                              Thi stars and stripes sunday Dod liberalized combat pay Pueblo Case cited i White Sand per siring men prove skill Washington is the defense department has liberalized the ground rules for hostile fire pay to cover servicemen who become involved in combat anyplace in the world. According to a new directive anyone belonging to a unit sus Taining casualties in an attacks entitled to the special pay for the month in which the action takes place. In the past this additional $65a month was limited to military personnel in South Vietnam an parts of South Korea As Well As casualties in actions outside the combat zone. Those who were Neigher killed nor wounded i hostile action technically received  have been several in stances in recent years where hostile action took place outside of geographical combat zones notably the attack on the Intelli gence ship Liberty by israeli air Craft in the Mediterranean the capture of the Pueblo by North koreans and most recently the attack on the . Air base at adorn  exception the Navy granted combat Payto the Liberty crewmen but this was an exception to defense policy a Pentagon official said. He also explained that if the new directive had been in effect at the time of the Pueblo incident in january the 82 surviving crewmen of the intelligence ship would have received the pay. Special legislation recently passed the House of representatives to cover the 82  exact wording of the new directive states servicemen Are entitled to the pay if they Art an actual participant in a Landsea air or combined operation during which a member is Kille Cor wounded As a result of hostile fire explosion of a hostile mine or any other hostile action. The participant in the hostile action must be assigned to the Sam vessel aircraft or military unit which sustains the wounding or death of a member. Schwa Ebisch g m u e n a Germany Sas ninety per Shing missile men have returned Here after flawlessly launching two missiles on the White Sands missile  men assigned to the 4th in 41st arty and 3rd by 84tharty, travelled the 12,000 Miles to test their launching and maintenance skills with the  were successful with both missiles had they been armed with warheads the tar gets would have been destroyed said col. Patrick , co of the with arty of. He added that the two Bat teries proved their ability with out a  annual service practices Are conducted in the . Rather than Here in Europe because of the 400-mile Range of the missiles. Launchers and fire control equipment were also flown to the . From Here so the men would be tested on the equip ment they maintain every Day. Third was get and would i done Pershing units in euro on constant Alert As Fott part of the strike aggressive countries they be ordered to action White House will Honor Thrifty Trio Wiesbaden special three of the air Force s most Thrift conscious individuals Wilson receive a personal invitation to attend a White House cer Emony when the nation salutes them and their successful cast cutting methods. Honoured will be the commander whose unit was recognized As having the most effective Cost reduction program in the air Force his major air command commander and the unit s Cost reduction Monitor. The defense department will include an outstanding unit award presentation in the Forth coming White House ceremony. It will be the first time Suchan award is presented in con Junction with the annual do Cost reduction program award ceremony. Each major command selects subordinate unit which among other things demonstrates to management interest in and sup port of the air Force Cost reduction program. Other criteria include the unit efforts to promote Cost reduction its size Mission operating Bud get and the actual savings. Battery from the 56th arty group prepares Pershing for firing at while Sands. Army photo final 16 toss for ringers Munich special sixteen Horseshoe pitching aces survivors of earlier service club command and District Elimina Tion contests have won places in the second Usa eur service club Horseshoe pitching tournament to be conducted aug. 24-25 at the open Hearth service club in Grafe Woehr. All play will be governed by the rules of the National horse shoe pitchers association of America. Under rules governing Usa eur championship Competition each game will consist of a 30-Point maximum. Individual matches will consist of the Best two of three game series. Special award appropriate trophies will represented to the first and second place winners in the tournament and a special award made to the individual scoring the High est percentage of ringers. In the first Usa eur horse shoe tournament last year at he Warner service club in Munich sgt. . Wilbert Ealy Ber in brigade captured first place honors by defeating spec. 4 is Rael Whitaker Amberg service Lub in four games. Increase of 25,000 arc s free travel boosted by top Kuks Garmisch Germany is Usa eur top sergeants have been Given a lion s share of credit for the Success of the armed forces recreation Cen Ter s free transportation pro Gram. In the past fiscal year participation in the program totalled Over 81,000, an arc spokesman said Here. Previous fiscal year attendance was 50,000. Over 800 sergeant majors Inu Sarteur have been contacted about publicizing the program the spokesman said. The program provides free bus transportation to the recreation areas Here at  at Chier Asee to groups of 25 or More single enlisted me who live within eight hours of the areas. Though some sergeant majors have not been reached the response so far has been sufficient to warrant a letter of appreciation from arc command ing officer col. Robert Moore to those who have participated the spokesman said. We get two or three letters Day from sergeant majors in Quiring about the program he declared. Over 710,000 persons took advantage of facilities of arc s three recreation areas last  is about 82 per cent Capa City. We could handle about a Mil lion a year easily the spokes Man said. Cost for staying at one of the enter s hotels runs about $1.50 per night for single enlisted Menand $2.50 for single officers. Wiley see hot blooded Drivers invite cold blooded accidents. Usa eur fatal accidents Tynce july 1 army motor vehicle non army motor vehicle weapon and expletive a Phy Utulo drowning Atli a1667 ims 13 21 Al 11 18 17 0 9 4 total 66 44 Viot Natii Asa is largest Danang Vietnam special capt. John ii. Fitz Goh Furone month As chief of staff Here at the . Naval support activity Asa i he Navy a a rest overseas Shore command says i have never seen a Supply operation to compare in size with this  Fitzgerel continued the magnitude of this i Ommandt beyond the comprehension any naval officer until he tally sees it for hims. To command s Mission is unique naval history. Until now j unheard of for a Navy base to support More than m 000  Asa  throughout the five Northern province South Vietnam to serve As " in a Supply c  for 200,000 Gas. The stretches from the zone to Chu l Ai. Fitzgerel replaced hum r. Johnson As c for rear adm. A Eva born commander support activities p i  was serving it Telic operations of i r the joint chiefs of Staffin joint in ton . When ordered