European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 5, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday August 1977 5 weeks in Pris Bri i byjoe Bixby exiled from the rarefied lifestyle he knew As corporate and Cabinet John Mitchell is coming to i cow with his new As an inmate in a Federal prison he Only familiar creature Comfort May be the tobacco with which to stakes his of or present although pouches of Prince Albert arc provided free to in Mitchell Sticks with Bon Street available at the prison the former attorney general began serving a 8year sentence june 22 for his role in the watergate who have visited him say he is adjusting Well 16 life at the Maxwell air Force base prison the Camp has been described by some As having a country club atmosphere because of its bucolic setting along the Banks of the Alabama Bui even n Brief visit leaves no doubt that it is a where personal Freedom is the 63yearold Mitchell is confronted witha myriad of unfamiliar conditions thes buro Bah 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he awaken each morn ing in the Bottom tier of a double deck bed squeezed into a by 7foot cubicle in one of the Camps seven Warden it Grunska insists that Mitchell is accorded no special an assertion backed by persons who have visited the Mitchell was along with former Nixon chief of staff halic Man and Domestic adviser John Enron charges of conspiracy obstruct obstruction of Justice and lying under oath in connection with the watergate Grunska refuses to discuss specific de tails of Mitchells activities at the but the following description of his can Mitchells Day begins at 6 monday through to the sound of a Good morning greeting carried by louds pakrs into the single Story stucco dormitory he shares with More than other on there Are no work and an hour he wears the Khaki shirt and pants he received when he entered the prison Camp and Heads for the dining Hall for with some 300 other in before reporting to the education office where he works As a clerk during the Mitchell returns to the newly air conditioned dormitory to make up his steel Frame bunk and clean his Security at the Camp is there Are no wails or High fences to keep prisoners Only the knowledge that escape and capture would mean assign ment to another prison with tighter Security and More his new associates have been incarcerated for a variety of All almost half were convicted on charges of larceny or often involving interstate transportation of stolen or on narcotics for his clerical Mitchel is paid to a a far cry from the a year salary he is said to have commanded As one of the nations Bond he also a working on a the notes for which he carried into the prison in a Satchel and inmates Are allowed to buy Worth of items a month from Ibe prison commis including tobacco cookies and soft which they store in lockers in their unless Mitchells sentence is reduced by District judge John it will be late 1s79 before lie is eligible for in writing from a combat so they say 11 have More trucks than have to recruit Lakera from the line companies to drive some of most of the in this outfit Donl get much of Chance at driving you want to Call driving a goer Ai 20 an hour to Grafen Wuhr for a Field training exercise every so we Walc the tankers add up the so Why not have tankers drive All of the vehicles and Send truckers proper places transportation 7 then Eor Abat ready of you who think support Toons to clip Bat units Art get Over Pla i invite you to be in truckers in the 37th group and other transportation units around have got it the truck Era in this Platton would gladly drive or seven Days a week than to be it Doest do any Good 16 have wide you work hard at getting and eng your truck in shape Only to be pulled and it to Artye someone doer tease they dont have a License Lor it yet even though they Here seven or eight thay claim they still Haven had a Chance at getting Drivers trained on the goers so Evert time we gel near a problem you dont know whether to keep working an your truck or to quit Only because going to null you off of it anyway and Send you to drive someones user that they Seldom Lake care when were called out to support a line company Ullh Oil and lubricants pol for a Field that Lank company Geu Lime when we return we get sent to the motor since our pol Cage is in the tankers motor they often bring Back cans of Oil and grease with no tops on them and leave them set there so support platoon can go Over Here and clean item when we go to the pol five tons and goers carry so we dont know How to use since we do have the Millary occupational specially i Why not Call us the transportation we re not a detail 1 Only Hope we Are never Lor what its trucker editor note col Richard and 81st the Fei Lime i mar  combat Uncle i fall to do their and this a Titbit wow w the they ire 6 the Rywolt from per Bdl shortage and  Lions Over which us f Horti Bow we can ice using Boot and i pledge battalion doer Ude eed hive More trucks unqualified my mos  of the support platoon she 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