European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 16, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Many seeking to buy discharge British servicemen january me the stars and stripes Page 11 letters to the editor up in arms Over pay clarification on Church of god West the morale of Bri Tali servicemen is taking a pounding these Dayi because of mounting discontent with Man and More now to Northern Tor re quota for discharge by Purchase show that a growing number of service person and no longer Are prepared to risk Ira bul pay of As Little As a week for married Man with two officers Arent Riding an unmarried second lieutenant is paid a week excluding rent and certain other according to conservative member of parliament Graham people receive that much from unemployment Bene fits and still complain it is not enough to live the seeds at discontent have nourished during Britain firefighter to their servicemen taking aver firelight ing they Wen being paid less than those on the picket some service personnel even Are malting threatening noises about forming their own Trade Union a revolutionary idea that should make old time blimps commanding Chain in quiet choke on their prime minister James Callaghan labor government fighting to hold pay increase across the nation to 10 has pledged an increase when conditions but the servicemen Are unlikely to accusing the government of giving them a raw same servicemen resort to moonlighting to make ends some of the most hard pressed even have sought to get on welfare under Britain discharge by Purchase a Serviceman can get out service by paying a certain sum of Money to the the amount is calculated against the length of enlistment and the amount of Lime left to for if a Soldier on a three year hitch quits in the find 12 months it will Cost him a Soldier sex thes peeled to serve u years who leaves in the first year would have to pay what must be of particular concern to us Callaghan Cabinet is the number of troops on Antiterrorist duties in Northern Ireland who arc applying to full troops there live like caged animals in squalid says conservative party my Alrey the opposition so Kestran on Northern troops Are becoming increasingly bitter As the sheer misery of their mean and dirty surrounding make their four month stays seem he pay is poor and is reducing them to third class thirty four out of 390 men in one Artill Ery regiment in for have asked for discharge by Purchase in three that is about 10 percent of the in the Royal air forces general duties and engineering such requests increased by 25 percent Over the last in seven years the provisional has utterly failed to make so much As a pinprick to the armed he defense minister and his colleagues have succeeded in seven months to demoralizing the said conservative my Winston v grandson of Britain world War ii such talk May have a political hut it is music to the ears of disgruntled servicemen who feet they have hit hard interviews with service people indicate they like military but feel they Are being forced to seek better financial re wards out of Home life is the sailors and airmen families association says that More than 30 percent of the 11jok cases handled in a year involve marriage in Many instances Domestic problems Are often aggravated by financial difficulties involving one or other partner having to get evening the association one army unit on firefighting duties de scribed its temporary quarters As the cockroach although the Label was found to be an it focused attention on the bitterness of Britain 000 service people who feel they have been abandoned in the nationwide Battle Tor better Nummi Sun met Start Fth n my inn us Thuv Mwiwa my her Imu Tim Sun Smon Apo mat 1m Sun m ii m Mia ovum my 4wwwth Ort Tolm id Only mid ill my of Maui Matt fee Fem ism h in not one who complains in excess nor responds to every Little whim that comes my at present 1 am not complaining in the wrong but just for the Sake of a Short time the reappeared an Art icle i almost half a Page entitled the de Programmer by Deborah United press in the daily edition of the Stan within this article there were several references to the Church of god in the sense of being a religious cult and i Church of cod acolytes spent tour hours indoctrinating Michael on july the Tea old of religious Cults is still feeling the fury of Michaels Ted the article continues with reference to the cultist churches of Hare Krishna and shopping violations the other evening As i was leaving a dinner party and thanking my she Nve me a shopping list and requested that lick up these items for her the next time i was at the apparently in response to my stunned expression quickly Marie has always shopped for but Shes gone you dont mind do you of i but this was hardly the Lime or place to educate my that list went into the round although Ive Only been in this country a Short i see violations All Kan the tune come to educate the no government americans of the reason for the distance of commissaries and exchanges perhaps an could do a few announcements explaining and that intimidating friends by asking then to pick up a few items is rude and a Good Way to lose or is this Why us Friendship was cultivated purchasing Tor other Sis it could also be considered As Many people lost their Cost of living allowances hard Cash when posted in an area serviced by the commissary and companies who employ Ameri cans overseas ukr the Cost or living into consideration when establishing salary those Recei Lilg commissary items Benefit on both lets not let our selves be withheld Germany Myung paralleling the Chardi of god with the article associates the Church of god As an exotic sect i feel in knowledgeable enough to know frailer was but not so to the average Dally this is exactly Why Lam at in the european representative to the ministry to the military sponsored by the Church of us oldest pentecostal organization in the weve been in the ministry in Europe a proximately seventeen a have at m Chris than Servi Clemens centers and m weekly Christian fellowships meeting in a Loury do Pels throughout y our servicemen Venters operate Semi liar to a Uso with a spiritual emphasis in a spiritual they Are also serv ing As a Home away for Home to the rican military Community we sponsor mar rage enrichment Bible studies and Retreat sat the arc facilities we Ore recognized and approved by the us eur and Safe my concern is that without clarification in articles like the de Programmer and a distinct explanation of this Church of god cull it could reflect on our program which is Bona successful approved and legit As a matter of already had several unnecessary inquiries and questions that indicate such reflection from such an Ewla Kubuj Germany greetings from irs in to the recent Arilde published in behalf of our benevolent 1 say horse on my husbands unit had a special Christmas mail one of our Holiday greetings was irs form 1040 in baby i certainly feel an apology is in order from the heartless irs life Bis representatives word not or perhaps even More an outrageous re quest would be an equally Early return of my in certainly glad that i was property taught not to believe everything i read or thai the government Mary Lynn Ford Germany is ump or Kui inf