European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 06, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Friday May 6, 1977 the stars and stripes Page 11, tetters to the editor another piece of Fatu Ity in defense of Apo personnel at the risk of sounding altruistic 1 must through the dictates of my own conscience voice my objection to the Usa eur bogus run for your life program. As always the army has succeeded in masterminding another great museum piece of most outstanding feature in this exercise of Asi Nittoly is its title run for you life and How it cognates with combat readiness. Anyone who has t been living in a Cave the last 10 years is painfully aware that our next Little police action will initiate a mad game of genocide be tween superpowers. Whether or not a sol Dier can run two Miles or 20 in 17 minutes will hardly be material. There was a Day when physical conditioning was Para mount to a unit s effectiveness in this is the second half of the 20th Cen Tury and in an age when evil and corrupt men have turned the world upside Down the question of Small arms and Strong legs has become academic. A closer examination of our present Geo graphic location should give any rationally minded person an idea of what our Priori ties should be. We All know How we stand in comparison with enemy forces on our East Ern Border. Let s face it we re outnumbered Oul tanked outflanked and out of Luck in the event of War. What it All boils Down to is that thou Sands of hours every month Are being wasted by service personnel who. Are run reference the article on Gross inefficiencies in the Apo mail system s4s, april 28. I am in Complete agreement with the inefficiencies pointed out by rep. Charles h. Wilson i do disagree wit being branded As a hard hearted Stepfather who abuses his poor stepchildren since tin lung problem and All personnel As signed Are administrative clerks who were trained to sit behind typewriters but end up throwing 40-Pound mail sacks for 12 hours a Day. All you executives should take Alook at your Secretary or clerk and imag Ine what a lift to their morale and eff Cien i am one of those parties who participate in by they would enjoy if you placed them into the military mail program. The tone of the this Type of hard labor environment. Article insinuates that the military pers Nel caught us in and trying to service i Ning for their lives during duty hours when they should instead be expedient in build ing bomb shelters for their wives and other dependents. I won t waste any further time because i am quite confident that this letter will be shelved As i will Only say that it saddens me to thin that the men who Are leading our miliary forces can think of nothing More constructive to do than to try and dupe us into be Lieving that being Able to run fast has anything to do with modern warfare. Where in heaven s name arc we going Torun spec. 4 Wayne c. Nelso Augsburg Germany Erson Caugh up i our fellow military members Are not doing their Best to upgrade the system. This is not True. We Are doing the bes with what we have to work with. There is an old axiom that you can t make a silk purse out of a sow s i believe that military postal personnel Are obtaining their working material from a place fur ther to the rear of the can Only speak from less than a year s assignment to the air Force s postal serv ice and More than 26 years of diversified military service. I Loo believe that the postal system and i emphasize system run under the guidance of the . Postal service and department of defense is the most inefficient system 1 have Ever Bee associated with. Most of the equipment we have i Europe is More than 20 years old. Air Force has t published an adequate governing directive since the demise of head quarters command in 1976. Personnel shortages in the Germany area Are a con seeks to upgrade mammal s image Bafs Blind not so says biologist new York not an assistant pro Fessor of biology at Barnard College has disputed the adage Blind As a Bat an Hopes to remove through scientific re search Many of the other stigmas an myths that have made bats the social out casts of euro physiological and behave european edition col. Billy e. Spangler. Usa Ltd. Larry e. Joyce. Usa.T.,- Mert Proctor Elmer o. Frank. Henry s. Epstein. This now Pipor is on or . Arma Porco or of. T lit conjunct in Nui Inorg Rwal of Ritmo. My the St nol to . Gow Mont. To. Sopor Trent of . Scropton pm mind to ppm Ronco Dit Pujia Hill Mem per Contr Olno a Sll not Eom Tito
