European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 22, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                April 1977 the stars and stripes Page 11 Jeffers to be editor tips for listeners to the bored with an radio listener in heed the following As probably the number one shortwave listener in the let me say that in the past six years out of eight i have been in i have never listened to an Why because i tune in to the Best entertainment stations in the world including a Clear so can an inexpensive 4band shortwave radio available in All exchanges will give you unsurpassed variety in Ite bbl in London is one of my radio Quito is another with Many hours in an is also available on shortwave in an All Newland information format frequencies to Europe Are voice of America broadcasts in English throughout the year on 1196 and 1295 Khz the evening for different half hour beginning at 1630 get until 2400 abcs world service broadcasts in English Are available in Europe on both Short wave and am throughout the Day As Well As bbl Home service on Long wave and am during the for a schedule write bbl n wco4ph for anyone to say he is restricted to an merely shows that one is just not buy a copy of Whites radio log aimed at the shortwave listener which tells you what is when and on what join one of the fastest growing hobbies in the there Are More stations on the spectrum in English than you would be Able to tune in to in your Hugh Vandegrift Germany can help she was a Beautiful girl in her a a daughter and a she was educated and a Good and now Sites she died because she  stay away from that first drink of alcohol is a deadly it cant be but it can be prevented by simply not taking that first anybody with the same Call alcoholics Anonymous and youll find you Are not members Are wait ing to help do it dont Al Cohol is baffling and powerful experience has proven that most people cant give up alcohol without the help of a could be your it worked for someone i love dearly and i am eternally grateful to god for that Mir something Germany want pen pals or slur and i Lim u How pall our to m in army m Normany and to thou Gnu ii Ftp trauma Sor Vrcoman mini not my anyone to mro to stall would m u Virbo own Tomono Burna Mossaro Clear lotto of Cali i  reminder All utters to the editor roust contain Lull Arne and address of the Tot nut be unsigned letters will not he considered for another answer we recently ran a Tetter from 4 Anne Lester objecting to a Vampire movie shown on of nov which she described As Rife with sexist although an apologized for showing the this letter writer want satisfied with the rest of the to 4 Anne Lester congratulations on your eloquent and courageous analysis of a recent Vampire i want to make sure that you receive an apology for the putdown and cookout for 18 Ive been concerned about the Media in the it is inter Esting that the answers never whether the complaint about human Dignin Community is levelled at arts radio or military Book stores or the reply usually starts with a Broa grinned remark we  be More in and we that is was or that Good but then comes the does not choose remark to absolve the military from any and the phrase that these items come Only in packages or in other the giant that it has no control Over what is printed or you Are now expected to Start crying Over the helpless sit the clincher remark is supposed to make you grateful because the Media truly has your Best interests at u goes like you already know in order to receive a few marginal must be dont ask Why somewhere along the line some responsible person cant take action so that thousands of persons Are not offend belittled or and always there is the final rubbing of hands with an even broader Grin than the the overan Dout phrase we Hope this information better enables the important word Here that excuses any real responsibility to see that this does not happen again is information one of the sacred cow words of our you Are supposed to be that you have been told there is absolutely nothing More you can and that the Mili tary intends no further thanks for courageously speaking up for so Many military continue to do it Eari Barcome Italy engineers praised i wish to Point out Krecu Zberg Cavern in we Brucken As being one Cavern in my has the very Best Post Engi Neer service in after More than 13 Yean of living at More than 20 different posts in in addition to visiting at least 35 other Mili tary i am convinced that Kreuzberg is an example of what some other Ameri can installations might desire to during the almost before the Snow could touch the teams were cleaning the sidewalks and trucks were salting the streets to prevent the oust is kept grass and Hedges Are trimmed and services rendered to All families on and whatever Type of Engineer service Kreuzberg contracted or noncom i recommend them for All military Taylor Germany some flaws in Aspin proposal in a recent news article i read of spins proposal that military retirement pay be delayed for those service members retiring before they reach age m or his goal apparently is the reduction of costs of the present retirement while i agree that such costs need to be reduced and have written him my proposal for attacking that id like to Point out some flaws in the proposal to delay or postpone retirement his premise seems to be that the 20year at an age Between 37 and Doest really need the retirement income since he is entering a second while those retirees in his sphere of in fluence May be going into highly paid Industry or government i think it is Safe to say that the majority do Many retirees i think the majority must begin careers beginning at the lower rung on the pay scale this May be because they Are truly starting a new due to the fact that their military training was not applicable to the new civilian in these the 50 per cent retire ment when combined with their new May Only equal or scarcely exceed former military pay and allow to delay retirement benefits to these people would be to Force them into a reduced Overall income retirees Between the Ages of 37 and 47 Are often those whose children have just reached the late High school to Early College try to convince any civilian family Man in a similar age bracket that he can get by on a reduced most retirees after years of constant moving from one part of the world to to at Long a per manent represents a real and earned need for retirement income just at that age he considers too Young for retirement he carefully avoids the argument whether the 20year military Retiree de serves or even is legally due his retire ment he does after years of hard work and sacrifice to give All americans the very liberties he forfeits in the Pursuit of Les Aspin should reconsider his he should ask the average Retiree for ready to Call it quits Ive been in the army Over 12 years and Ive been on the e6 standing list since in struggling to stay i have a wife and Lour kids to take care i know Many e5s and e6s now whore getting out because of the military benefits Why is it always the military and no other organization no wonder White Collar workers think that we Are not ready Over Here in what would happen if we ail just quit like civilians we Are americans but everybody in the states thinks we Are but were we can Only take keep on cutting the military and you Arent going to have enough trained men left to direct let alone fight a you get soldiers coming in with one or two years of Fine and he finishes his tour and then gets there Are a few soldiers left like me who were drafted and Are proud to be but the cutoff Point has remained so High that i cant reach so in about to give up As a and they talk about Rnorman Germany advice on the Impact of delayed retirement then find some other method of reducing create an interest bearing retirement fund administered by a nonprofit Agency to reduce retirement Cost to the tax it works for Why not for the government Frank Ramsten Germany until i started Reading the propaganda in the i didst realize that my potential retirement program was so Supe rior to Many civilian pension of the articles went to a lot of trouble to publicize retirement income averages for the military at specified Grade and tenure i dont recall seeing any Dollar figures for civilian retirement programs or even civil service employees retirement Bene one can Only assume that the articles arc therefore making any further substantiating data such As which pro Grams Are inferior to the military pension or supporting dollars and cents figures superfluous to the this additional information would probably have Only served to con fuse the Reader As to the actual Case being Ive read about those Nasty old double i dont think there is any Possi ble Way that i can defend these especially after learning that by combining their retirement incomes with their had managed to achieve a total income of almost 50 per cent of con Gressional or senatorial but you know 1 Haven 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