European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 22, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page stars and stripes july 1977 Start writer England Isis Many people in this part of England keep their eyes focused an action Lihe these Treyve always had an interest in this planes Hal Fly Over from the air base Here but the one that fascinates them now is a new Star in the repertoire of aircraft com Peling for their attention inc a Beautiful Arrow of a plane that darts across the horizon at clinics the Speed of a plane whose special features and Power have earned it kudos in the military a plane Hal describe As a thrill Lolly there arc now so of these planes at by the end of Lite Iacre will be Ftp replacing the re Toms that have been flown from King Loti to Homes at air bases in Nevada and this Exchange of known As the Heady switch is said to be the Bigg Tsi peacetime move o aircraft m one of the participants in the big move is i who flew Anmuth from Mountain Home fab in Idaho to the 30vearold air Force officer has been flying the plane for six hut it never Gecta tic Hen were very Busy practising shoot approaches to different air bases in i really enjoy this it has a lot of great handling a lot of interesting the system the fill is most renowned for is its terrain following you just throw a couple o switches and the plane will descend to an Altitude you have Mularky this feature enables the Plant to approach a target us supersonic speeds just above tree tips and below the sight of def Crit is radar the Al ii also has adj Usla for 1st i Oliver Moss if Eft and Cape bid its thumb up to Belr fi11f at lower speeds the wings Are Forward but As the Pilot accelerates the wings moving closer and closer to inc body of the plane until they Are almost flush with the there is less therefore an Opportunity for greater who is a nigh sets an Opportunity to log More Houra in die Phi cockpit than inc average Pilot of the sophisticated Malarkey has noticed a big difference in Hying the plane in England with flying it m Idaho the no one can find much about the British climate that merits bomber pilots Are no the almost constant Haze and overcast skies make it Lough to get Down on to the bombing Malarkey when the weather is you just cant gel in and keep visual he an earlier Model of the the a was used in Vietnam where it was known As whispering deals because it could descend upon a target so Low and remaining virtually undetected until i had carried its to the plane is known As the aardvark pc because in win its polled it resembles the ant retired no trains Young soccer players in his Spanish Joe is Don Jose t i mum final i by Mike speak staff writer Spain Sis if there Ever was the absolute Antithesis of the ugly Ameri can he can be found in Ituna very much alive and for the his name is Joseph an Thony Grosso but to americans he is simply Joe and to the Spanish among whom he is equally Well known he is often they speak to him m terms of High then in is Don Jose Anlo lie is a retired army sergeant thriving in a Navy town where Many americans have retired from the services some Semir tired from not so Ullh when he walks Down the Street Here everyone appears to know and he always has time to pass a word with them and give a word o encouragement or Good Joe is very much a part of the Spanish is a physical Trainer for a Huta Spanish teenage soccer often referees soccer games and teaches boxing and physical training in the Spanish it is hard to believe Hal he retired from the army More than 2t years Hes go Yean old and As hard As his person Al training program includes running and punching the Speed u he has fat on it would take an expert to find it Joe was a Boxer during his army career and a still maintains a in when he was Al Schofield Barracks in Hawaii he made the semifinals once in the Bong Light weight Dunn that time Fie also finished second m s 800meler i was always interested in i love you he said m an accent that s5ll strongly hints of the Bronx where he grew Joe is Short and he talks with stylized Arm and hand gestures Hal almost immediately bring Jimmy Cagney but unlike canc is movie Jnes style is to Praise rather than Load he wins respect from the players Wilh fatherly probably the key to his philosophy of sports lies in his statement when you learn a Little bit Aboul athletics and you get in you have More Confidence in kor More than two dozen years Joe was in the infantry and for a big part of Hal time he was a platoon he entered the arty in i9k and by the Lime world War h broke out he was a seasoned sol he was at such places As two Jima and afterwards he came to then did hours in the Pacific before going to Korea for that War in inc Early Joes dad worked All his life As an Engi Neer for the Pem Central his Mother died when he was very Young and he lived in a Catholic Home until he was u at 17 he we the when his wife died in he decided to come to figuring to live cheaper on his retirement i Dindl speak a word of Spanish when 1 he but he was t he knew that languages came easy to he Perkins lived in Majorca then when tourists began to Hood he moved to Marbella or More than a year before going on to where he stayed in a Short Lime a got involved with training the teenage soccer learns i was retired and didst have a Damn Wing to do or anyplace to i didst have to work and 1 listed working with a i gave them exercises to train their you if you get tired while youre playing youre i always give them leg strengthening exercises end a lot of its one of the toughest All you do is its Young mans in 1970 Joe moved to Rota to be Able to take advantage of military facilities and immediately got involved with the teenage this team is the Best Ive Ever he and Hes sure his training has had some effect on the improvement of the the team is Good and i have the re Spect of the he i treat them they listen to me and theres no doubt Hal there is additional curiosity about me because in a last summer the league paid special tribute to Al a game dedicated to he was presented a Gold medal Al Midfield that had engraved on u in Spanish with the mayor of Rou Lold him it was the first time a foreigner had aver received the in 1973 he was presented a plaque for his soccer work that called him first sportsman of the they Are the kind of tributes Joe values his help is purely voluntary and he likes in that Way if i was id spend then i  have he but ill always have these the medal and they mean a