European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 22, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                August 1977 the stars and stripes Poge 9 Sha increase Dollar allowances go up Heidelberg Thi bad news for service personnel in Germany tins been the steady decease in the Mark conversion Fate As the Dollar dropped from marts in january to in june to an alzime Low of last it has since increased the Good news is that this drop in the off Pat buying Power of the Dollar Baa been offset by ail increase in the Cost of living allowance Coplai and station housing Al Lowance stat for military personnel in Helen a Isar eur housing management said Cou is authorised under any of test conditions Beca Aie of a military member s duty requirements or because to is author used to reside with command sponsored family or it he is an by with two Vears service or less or lower he can collect cola at a lower Rale if medics coming in out of the Field to learn functioning of a Hospital photo by Floyd  Kaiserslautern Bureau chief Germany id Hale to be Oul in the Field and gel shot it Iii have one of our medics ran up and your grease plug and spare that remark was made by an officer in an infantry unit about the army medical corpsmen assigned la his it was related by s Dave education and training service of the 2nd general Hospital Steffensen used the remark to Point out the necessity and of an expanded medical proficiency training met program which general and other army hospitals in Europe Are con the program a aimed at review updating and improving the medical skills of particularly those signed to combat Nonic decal chores the program is Steffensen because most of the medics assigned la Field units Are not needed us medics except in a combat consequently their use them to help maintain their units combat the medics will spend the majority of their ume greasing changing dust ing off shelves that sort of said three years ago realizing the problems the medics in these units wrote a Usarek regulation de signed to make up for the Lack of Dayto Day training the medic received in a Field the Reg says Lhart very medic in Usa heur will yet w Days o training to attain and maintain obviously they Haven been getting said Elizabeth chief of the education and training said  have i Lutr been unaware til the regulation or Are rely Colnul to lose their medics for a three month period Steffensen said that with the Advent of the army my skill qualification tests commanders becom ing More aware of the need to train medics to meet promotion if they dont train heir medics to set then next Wawn the set there going to hit a the Way the set is if a medic Doest meet his or her skill they can be usually an infantry said the Only place Field medic can receive this training is at a Hospital such As 2nd in the past year met classes at Grid general have jumped from an average of Idis students to More than 60 students in the present last these Stu dents look Forward to a wry full 90day said a native of son an during their first two weeks at 2nd Gen eral the students Are Given formal classes in such subjects As interpersonal relations and death and they learn to relate to Pixie the in general and have la learn to Deal with the did or dying and their own feeling toward those said Taj oct logs a patient into 2nd general Ila Piuta emergency the two weeks also include subjects such As medical patient Hygiene and Freand postoperative then the students Are assigned to wards and clinics throughout the Hospital for hands an experience each except those with a specially such As an operating room tech will get two clinical experiences each of four weeks during those time he or she might work in any Ward in the Hospital or in any of the outpatient Clin they function on the Ward As though they were staff but under us direct supervision of the Yardmaster or head said medical technician Larocc Meeks of is one of Only three women u attend the met program at weeks said she normally makes sure orders and records fit newly arrived people gut to to their units for the hard a co in Ranj fun after two weeks of Dos Ruom instruction requested work in the hospitals emergency room Ier opinion of the pro Gram was echoed by Many of her fellow students i think this program is the people Here Are great and the doctor really my goal is to be a doctor and in the id like la get As much Hospital training As 1 she said Meeks did Haw one a number of of duty education classes Are offered exclusively for the met mocks said she wanted to enrol in an intensified emergency medical technician but it was filled by other met Stu dents before she could sign Steffensen said thai most of his students have the same attitude As its by no Means a vacation for but there really glad to get the Chance to come and As you can see from the enrolment in of duty education they make the most of what Weh Jve to be although the met classes Are getting Ryan a still concerned that so few women medics Are being sent to the course she said that according to tic in formation she about 50 per cent of the mutes in the held units arc these girls could be doing clerk work and have become invaluable to their com she said Hes authorized to live with his none Ora min sponsored these service personnel Are now More Likely to spend Money for food in commit Sanes and civilian grocery stares and restaurants than those who live in troop billets and eat free in dining Lopez said cola is she because it involves numerous categories of in the and including food at food away from miscellaneous furniture and household operating on july cola rates increased from 10 10 50 per cent depending upon the locution arid the rank of the service station housing allowance is paid la service personnel Here who Are entitled to Basic allowance for quarters Barf be cause they live in of base be cause a Dollar tows no go its far when the conversion Rale is is a is paid to supplement the when the convenient Rale drops Sha is the which varies according to to has been incr Rasid from 10 to 2s per cent throughout Sha rates arc based on both rank which governs Baqi and for example for in an Kab i tic living in the gets an in Cruso in Sha from to s per a first lieutenants ska climbs from so to iw50 in both sponsors would draw in addition in an Efi with a family will now draw w up 9 per while a first lieutenant with family will Ako get a s9 up in an Kab with dependents will receive Sha of while a first lit ii Umant with dependents will cola varies according to Many including the number of military Aci lilies available to the service the spokesman cola Iii Remote areas in Remote areas such As Monc Englad where troops have no commis Barber the cola is now per Joday month for an k4 with More than two years and for a first both with two depend the spokesman at duty locations where military facilities Are cola is paid at a lower for in a Regis where com pm arc near an with two dependents will receive f30 per White a first Lieuter ant will draw pm Pur Lopez both allowances Are computed by the department of defense per travel and transportation allowance based in part on questionnaires submitted by service that Why its so important for them to nil out the Survey forms completely and Lopez the next cola and Sha surveys Ore scheduled far this she whenever a service Membra sends in a form showing that his living expenses have the committee has More basis for increasing these allow detailed information about cola and Sha is available at local finance Lope said flooding continues in India India map the flood situation in northeastern Assam stale was re ported grave As the Brahmaputra River continued to burst its Banks in several read official spokesman said six people have been killed in the Assam and that at least Iso villages Are under leaving about people Home