European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 29, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pago 2 the stars and stripes april 1977 jells Progress must continue Blanchar excited about future Bayoan Synovec staff writer Germany Glowko commander in chief of Usarek and seventh thurs Day told Dio Gates to the 1977 meeting of the association of the army Ausa european thut he is encouraged by the trends and Progress the army has been speaking at the annual Ausa Pershing dinner thursday Blanchard told the am very excited about the possibilities o the future because we have so Many Good things going our units Are moving and this Forward Progress must then we can really Start concentrating on the Lillic things which separate great units from average out fits revival of Confidence Blanchard said during the past there has been a tremendous revival of self Confidence in the because the people in the army Are the army has been Able to move ahead in maintenance and the Field exercises needed to raise and maintain usar Kuhs combat Blanchard weve come such a Long and in very proud of your accomplishments three or four years ago the com Mandr in your shoes  have dared to try the things youre proud of today they were still working on the things we now take for Blanchard continued its All there for right fore your eyes the resources 100 per cent personnel equipment which is being Well maintained and the Money to train and said the altitudes of Piff t i pm 01fk b in i Joum Mfd i wifi t a vat 3 00p n it Taam main to to fire new Jersey Date flight cif1 3 Jop n to top May no u s wait films m j to t 10 p t 00 a 01 r 11 00 a m 4 Tea t m d t Wain iw0m go i m Way h my m j up t 10 p m wf1 u tj4 m flight number prefix a 8 c o f if n g cos and officers has and he added that standards and Pride Aru Robert Cocklin the Ausa director of Public delivered the associations annual report to the delegates and summarized auras activities on behalf of service personnel around the in a later who is to become executive vice president of the Ausa on said that persuasion and not banging on a table is the Best Way to fight for military fighting for the soldiers Benefit is a problem the Ausa has to approach from a variety of he the final place we Are most interested in influencing is the the Congress is the ultimate group with which you must Deal in order to procure what you this is a pretty hard task because the whole area of pay and benefits is tremendously he there arc a great number of people in uniform who today do not understand what it is they get in terms of retirement and we have the task of trying to work this into the education of new congressmen and senator who Are also trying to icam a Good bit about economics and other subjects that take up a great part of our National he said that the primary Effort of the Ausa with Congress is one of education and added that the Ausa has a somewhat similar problem with the Dod where the Ausa has taken on the role of ombudsmen in order to try to explain to the civilian leadership of the Dod what the Impact of various actions now under consideration i Mac flights the following information on military Airlift come commercial contract lights arriving us departing i Heinmann May 18 is provided for customer convenience All times Are local Stan Dnard All passengers departing Rhc Inmam Are reminded that they May checking up to six and on half hours ear Lier than the published times for further flight information Call Auto on or ithe main military 2305 6813 the worst is Over injured pan american Pilot Victor who survived a Canary Island Airport collision that killed 580 last sits with his wife at a Hospital a few hours before be was scheduled by doctors for Grubbs Arm is darkened and scarred by Burns he suffered in the a soviets to resume Salt session May 18 Washington pull the state department announced thursday that the soviet Union and the United states will resume their negotiations on a strategic Anns limitation agreement on May 18 in the talks will be a continuation of the Moscow negotiations which ended m late March Alwn the soviets rejected two american one of which would have entailed drastic cuts state department spokesman Hod dog Carter 111 Secretary of state Cyrus Vance and soviet foreign minister Andrei Grimy in wll meet on May 18 in Geneva to would be on the livelihood of soldiers on another Cocklin said the Public Ity that has accompanied the possible unionization of the military has been a cruel hoax on the people in the he said there has been an implication in the publicity that the unions can do some thing for the service men and women that in fact they cant Cocklin continued you dont need a Union to convince the Clain of command of what their response Bilics the people you have to influence Are those in and a Union has no tool to work i cant visualize a Union impacting on something As Broad As the National defense posture with con Gress and i cant visualize a Union being Able to Force collective bargaining with the you have to work to present the con Gress what it is the services need and what the people in the services need in a reason Able so that congressman can understand it and be willing to support All the emotion and fanfare just be Clouds the awards made a 3rd int div no was named the Ausa european departments Soldier of the year at the Pershing dinner thursday Michael a member of combat support 1st 15th an Armor reconnaissance was presented the sublet is a member of the Mamoran Conia chapter of the he will receive an Al expense paid trip to the annual Ausa meeting in incr Lite in the the 1st army div old Ironsides chapter of the Ausa took neural Ausa awards Peter i member of the 1st 35lh received the Ausa european Divi Sion award As the outstanding individual Alsa Recruiter in Liberti was cited for recruiting 203 soldiers into the Haptor from 31 to april tic Ausa cited co 1st 51st and co 2ml 37th both 1st army div for having 100 per cent number Nihil 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