European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 28, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pago 10 the stars and stripes tuesday june 28, 1977 facility has grown of 1,500 persons they get the message on . Base in Edzell by Brad Durfee staff writer . Scotland is so a Youn Sailor assigned to the . Naval Security group activity Here pinpointed the Geo graphical location of the base in the follow ing manner we re 700 Miles from the Arctic Circle eight Miles from the North sea. And be tween the cities of Dundee and  in july 1960. One officer and eight enlisted men arrived to establish the Security group Here and since that time the base tins grown rapidly according to naval officials. It now accommodates about 1.500 persons sailors. Marines civilians and  base which lakes its name from the adjoining Village of Edzell. Is on 490 acres of ground on the Hoyal air Force station Here the Village is three Miles Down the Road from the main Gate and about 1.035scots Call it Home. The Mission Navy officials Here say their Mission is to operate a High frequency direction finding facility and provide communications and related support including communications relay. Communications Security and communications manpower assistance to Navy and other Dol ele ments within the area " one of the largest units aboard the basis Coli Marine support in. We moved Here from the  naval Security group activity. Bremerhaven. Germany in april of i9ki." said maj. C h. Tobinson. Co b commanding  re signal intelligence people and fully integrated with the Navy in the per Fornace of the communications Mission of the  added the senior Marine Here. In addition to the larger units Here therein also a  naval communications Sta Tion Londonderry detachment.  performs maintenance on the us Northern l k. Microwave system Accord ing to local Navy communicators. Outdoor activities most of the sailors and marines assigned Here like the life style especially if they Are fond of fishing and outdoor  and marines Here sound like members of the local chamber of com Merce when they talk about the golfing fishing Pony trekking camping hiking and other outdoor activities available to those assigned to this naval Security  really like it Here said chief communications technician Dick Zablocki. It s Good for the kids. The schools Here arc  said Zablocki whose oldest daughter goes to High school in nearby  facilities Are generally Good a storekeeper third class Doris Arnold and communications technician Seaman Cathy Johnston relax in the cording to most of the Young enlisted people who live in the Barracks. About 185 live in a three to a room dormitory Calle Campbell Hall and about 25 Are berthed in an older  facilities used to be adequate but with the growth of the base and new Annj acts going on around Here we Don t have All the things we need  said be manager Michael  third class Doris Arnold and communications technician Seaman Cathy Johnston were awarded room of the Quarter Here recently for the appear Ance of the room they  they have Pride in the room the sailors both said they live for Ali weekends when they can go to the City at Home in Scotland quarters which won them the room of the Quarter award at the Navy facility near Edill recently. Although they both said life in their room at Campbell Hall was pleasant hut they wished they had cooking facilities. Married personnel who live on base rein Raf  which Are three bed room two storied duplexes or in us Homes prefab three and four bedroom  families Are quartered in Inverbervie about in Miles from the  Here May attend a Dod Doeur american elementary school kindergarten through 8th Grade or go to a scottish school. Admission to scottish schools is free along As the children live in the same county As the school they attend according to Navy officials Here. Have Pride in the room both sailors say they live for the weekends when they can go to the  is Cole single sailors assigned to the naval Security group activity live in Campbell Hall a three to a room dormitory. Health records a must at rec Center nurseries Garmisch Germany is parents wishing to place a child in arc nurseries at Garmisch. Berchtesgaden or Chi Emsee must have the child s shot record and certificate of the child s health signed by a physician an arc spokesman said  will not be admitted into the Nursery without the documents. H apparently has been a sore Point with Many Visi tors to the areas because they Are no aware of the situation said one employee of the rec Center at Chi Emsee. The arc s sponsor numerous Tours i their respective areas each week. Al though children Are permitted on the Tours Many parents prefer to leave them at the Nursery. But the first priority is to have the shot record and certificate. Jj5 popular East entertainer arrives in West Berlin Berlin up East German actor Sui Ger Manfred Krug whom communist authorities had granted permission to leave the country has arrived in West Ber Lin the 40-year-old Krug was joined by his wife and their three children. Krug. One of East Germany s most pop ular and highest paid entertainers refused to Tell reporters Why he had decided to leave his communist Homeland. But he apparently had fallen in disgrace with the own Monist leadership for joining other tast German artists in protesting the stripping of Folk Singer Wolf Biermann Sec ast German citizenship last , Cole