European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 9, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Mountaintop comm sife the stars and stripes Page 9 Pateras people have seen it All Lynch left and Jay he Lawman Trace a communication Nyji Colonna Scalf writer Greece s4si an assignment to nothing but Sun beaches Miles and mites of beaches accepting the mild Waves of the Aegean that wonderful warm Mediterranean All the Opportunity in the world for ancient history buffs to relish in the Archeo logical Beauty of Olympus and the Many and being stationed near get rid of the were going to hold on tvs Lime get the facts and the 70plus air Force people As signed to the Mountaintop communications site at a Pateras just love to give the straight the men and women of Dot 2140th comm who Are assigned on this Mountain live seen it it does rain in enough to cause floods and strand the members Here on site for up to three most of the people assigned Here live in Athens Miles from the site but a Good 90minule drive through the dense Athens people on a 30month tour will ride some Miles just to get to said 1st Jerome site that is equivalent to twice travelling the circumference of the Earth at the Equa Jennison said an air Force bus picks up the site members who live in and around Athens and takes them to the site each we Are a 24hour operation with three so the bus makes three 86mile round trips per every year the bus runs up w the last iwo years were interesting ones for the members of this site and they had plenty to write Home about the great mudslide occurred on and stranded the site personnel for More than 38 hours until a Bulldozer airman Karen treat checks out a Generator at the Pateras Sites own Power Plant Sas photos by Gui Schueller could be brought in to Clear the Access Jennison then there was the great Hurricane two months winds exceeded 100 Miles per Jennison we even had we were stranded for another 24 the wind was so Bod that doors were blown open and ripped from their we even had to have ropes tied from building to building for people to cling to when they had to venture then there was the great fire last August that burned two mountainsides and climbed right to the site greek sea planes dropped water on the All the people on site assisted greek fire fight ers and soldiers to Clear a fire break right below the the Only damage to the site was to the Jen Nison most recently was the great flood last 2 and we were stranded again for More than 3a we were unreachable by Relief weve had our share of great Jennison the ropes remain a permanent fixture at this we get High winds All the Lime up added site commander Mike we had a vow bus get blown right into the Side of a building Ive been knocked Over by the wind More than Best la stay inside airman Karen who works in the Sites Generator said she lights the Windy Days by staying most of our work is the Only time we have logo outside is to go Home or go to the dining 1 just try to avoid going outside when the winds Are the Pateras Sile is an air Force main Long twill telecommunications site carrying teletype and High Speed data circuits for All telecommunications traffic in the Eastern u is also the main station for All Auto Matic voice network a Tyvon sys tems in the Eastern being on top of a Mountain is Nice in most Jennison on Clear Days you can Sec for Miles its really Beautiful up but when we have bad it can be a while most people live in and around 23 Young single airmen live in one Man Barracks rooms on the we Are a self sufficient Jennison we have our own generators for electricity and but the water has to be hauled we have two daily truck runs deliver ing we keep Gallons at All supplies for 31 Days we have the storage capacity to lain supplies up Here Tor 30 Days or so if we Are Ever Cut off for an extended period we can weve been Fortu the longest time 1 can recall weve been stranded is a Little Over 36 Jennison said the Summers Here Are there is so much to do and this is really a great but he recommends Winter visitors bring warm Winter its a real dream imagine rain and Snow in maybe the world really is entering another ice people at the site put up a directional sign pointing among other Saigon and a Miles away somewhere in the u they Are places people Here  mind but they Are places the people surely  want to be swept to by some of those High Marble head of Athena found Tel Aviv Lap an intact Marble head of the goddess Athena the first of its kind in Israel was discovered near the israeli town of beit the depart ment of antiquities the find was discovered by workers paving a Road outside beit