European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 20, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Tily the stars and stripes Page airman Rick Wolf kit reuse on nil inn of tog Mulla their life remotely resembles that at other bases by Barbara Cullen stuff writer Germany the jeep parked near the Fence and the Driver Apt b this the Headquarters build dig the sergeant asked the woman sit Ting on the she pointed to another building and an swered that but Hes not a few buildings and a few men Are All thai Are located at ills most military personnel know the army has Remote Lour Sites in but its often a Surprise to learn that the air Force located about m Miles from Heidelberg hat outside the fanning Community of Rel Wenbech is the 803rd tac control outly ing location Alpha to Solai communications relay one of Only two air Force isolate Siles in fifteen men Are assigned Here and the site commander is a technical like at most Remote Sites there is no no Exchange no med ical no education no recreation Center or other facilities Mili tary personnel Are accustomed u a car is a necessity and mechanical skills for keeping it running an important part of life if one desires to do More than reside in the airmen Here the Lour is a 15month unaccompanied but some airmen have brought their families for the commuting distance from Home to work is As close As the next Small for others who found quarters near the next military it9 a dominate according to John an assignment to Elsenbach comes As a sur prise to Many for radio relay people its common to be assigned to a Remote but for Power production this comes As a the first thing some airmen look for is be Way we get a kick out of the letters to stars and stripes from people complaining about poor to reception and the bad service they get at their we cant get to Here and the radio reception is on a site like ills you dont have Many if you you get it Over quickly because you have to live with one Aneth he living conditions Are not the the site is provided with movies five limes a committee at Wiesbaden air Force fight child abuse by Lucia Gujardo staff writer Wiesbaden 80 per cent army and 20 per cent air Force Community has banded together to perform an apparently much needed social reports of child abuse and neglect Rose from two to about s a month after the combined services child advocacy com Mittee was formed Here last Accord ing to Arthur psychiatric social worker and child advocacy officer at the air Force Hospital Moser attributed Ibe use w several fac tors because of a More visible and viable people know reports can be made and action will be taken the Popula Tion increased when the majority of the air Force moved out and army moved and More army personnel Means More Spon sors the resulting in sol Paragon and higher which leads to neglect complement each other in the army would not the professional capabilities to oper ate the committee without the air Force and he air Force would not have Foster Homes without army Moser until last there were no footer Bomes in in september we had none now we support two communities with Foster Wiesbaden and Moser Moser attributed the programs viability in part to the committee operating under the air Force child advocacy regulation which is the army regulation is lacking by not specifically Labelling responsibility of who does my experience with the army program is this gets the air Force regulation is very and the chaplain and each professional knows what they Are supposed to he u was mainly maps and med ical personnel who reported cases of child abuse and or parents came for help and Ive got a through the advocacy committees Educa Tion of the Community on child he finds More stairwell Coordie neighbors and school authorities reporting child the child advocacy committee Here is composed of equal numbers of army and air Force social school Counselor and criminal i Vestiga who inspect records to team if family has had any previous the investigators then get involved Only if charges Are or the child Dies or 4s seriously we cant make them accept our Moser we cant make them put their child in a Foster if there b Seri Ous endangerment of the we can go to the German authorities we Haven had one single incident where to had to go to the German jugend amt German child welfare All confirmed cases Are sent to the pen where i master file is but the main thing is helping and not Pun while preventing Moser he added that the committee would work toward getting a sponsors Lour cur if the needs of the child Arent week free of charge and there u a battered of Pool table in the game the singles quarters Are scheduled for renovation and site personnel have been told that within a few Yean a new 20man dormitory flu be built u replace the men Lay that one advantage to being on a site Lour is the fact thai they Seldom have inspections and the rules on How they can decorate their rooms Are More lax than at a larger Wendland said some men tried going to Heidelberg for but Between cars breaking Down and the distance to com they with the number of exercises and tale missions we its hard to set up he added if the men want to continue their they have to take correspondence when youre on a Remote site you can forget about the Bene according to airman Joseph Bast whose 15month tour b coming to an there Are no dorm rats i was a military dependent and knew something about but i didst this he shrugged his its not that the place grows on for Dennis who brought his family Over at nil own being assigned to Reisenbach Means commuting to work each Day and living on the Economy in a Flat that has a Worob umling stove and no hot its not bad but id rather be in a place where they have More to do than he another advantage the men painted out about being on a Remote site is that you tend to learn also if youre not a Good Cook when you come you learn your stomach Tun Only take so an airman said of their As at other there is no dining facility to dish out hot meals three times a what they eat on Post is what they As one airman summed up life at Rei Senbach u you want to learn this is the place to
