European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 21, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                January 1978 the stars and stripes Page 27 enlistees now seeking adventure Navy recruiters do a Little better1 by Merle Jacobsen Sun writer Frankfurt they dont know what we who we Are or what were doing according to a Navy Recruiter in this overwhelmingly army master chief Navy Counselor Ted Van the navys  for that goes from the generals on even if the Navy mens uniform recognition level by soldiers u at a Low the recruiters do claim Success in their mis Sion of signing up future according to Peno Nulman who the paperwork Tor the we 104 new con tracts during fiscal that com pares with 72 persons recruited in fiscal year he asked to compare Navy recruiting efforts with those of the army and air Hofman last year fy77 per Recruiter we did a Little better than they who came Here in june 1876 when the naval Security group activity in Podendorf divided the 104 fy77 recruits into four categories male High school two female High school three other service and two people with prior naval the Only difference is the Basi Cally its a bigger scale in area said chief Navy Counselor Bob Mccottum in comparing rec dung duty in Europe Van Cott Between the two of us we cover 42 ugh schools in an area that stretches from Iceland to Bahrain from Scandinavia to the recruit ers said they do not visit All the countries in that but do process prospective recruits referred to them by american at taches or naval personnel in countries which dont have us Ive got spots where it takes me four Days to drive from one High school to an last Spring i covered Miles by Van Cott Hofman said Van Cott and Mccollum spend most of their time on the Between septem Ber and you were Here in Frank Furt about 90 said Hofman of his Van who began recruiting in was asked to compare motives then and now for the majority of them were joining the Navy because they were one step ahead of the Van Cott said of 196s for today he its the adventure of going to sea plus education and training Van Cott and Mccollum were shipmates we served on our last ship together Mccollum the two who both Wear submariners served on the Fleet ballistic missile submarine Ca Simir Pul Ash in before coming to both men served on recruiting duty in the Mccollum in and Van Cott in new theres no Walkin traffic in this office at Van Cott this Doest even compare with a tour of recruiting in the states can a Soldier or airman in Europe Start paperwork to join the Navy we have a lot of inquiries from other but we have to see a dd214 discharge papers in their hands before we can process Van Cott Hofman said Calls from Citi Zens come in about twice a How the recruiters said they cannot process citizens for the Hofman receives at least 10 inquiries per in some cases weve shipped processed paperwork for people who basically weve never Van Cott he raid that some applicants Are processed via mail with the cooperation of contacts in areas not regularly visited by the recruit the recruiters said about 90 per cent of their recruits Are service connected in some armed services vocational aptitude Battery Svab computer readouts from an air Force base in Texas save time for the recruiters by listing Likely candidates for Van Cott said the Svab readouts list the names of their school and test scores broken Down by each services scoring according to Van the Svab is available in about 75 percent of the schools the master chief said eligibility for schools is determined by Svab when there sworn its right in their contract what school there going he the Navy recruiting office is in s of the Abrams Complex at Hans Allee and Bremer Telephone or Supply Craft launched to join salyut Moscow a the soviet Union Friday launched an unmanned resupply spacecraft to Dock with the manned salyut 6 orbiting space the Tass news Agency the called Progress will also Dock at the space station along with the cosmonauts soyuz 27 it did not give the time of the launching or the scheduled time for Progress 1 presumably will use the same Docking port used 11 by the spacecraft of two other cosmonauts fired into space on an resupply those cosmonauts stayed aboard for five Days with the first pair of spacemen and departed last that Docking marked the first time two spacecraft had linked up at the same space i Progress 1 is intended to repeat that double the first of cosmonauts have now been in space aboard the salyut station for 41 tourism show opening today in Stuttgart Stuttgart the 10th annual motor tourist in Cut opens saturday in the Kiu Esberg exhibition Halls Here and runs through about 60 percent of Cut 78 is taken up by camping included Are travel Van motor Homes and while most of the units Are made in Brand names from other european countries and the United states will also be the major part of the tourism stands will be local Eden Hall the Hall of a More that so different countries and regions will be among the cultural presentations will be the hawaiian air serenades and Dane closing Stock prices through the Courtesy of Bache Halsey Stuart they will perform in Hall 6 saturday and sunday the other is percent of the exhibition is devoted to motor primarily race and show included Are the 12cylin Der Ferrari Nicki Lauda drove to a world motorcycles and american funny Cut 78 is open daily from 9 to 6 and until 7 on saturdays and the Cost is 6 do for for children with a ticket Good for the entire nine Days for 20 conversion rates London up fridays closing rates of the Dollar to european cur figures Are expressed in dollars to the British other local currencies add Tuorn ally Cham a Illson a at 174 As Paa cac Acau two Palm 144 104 As Oil 114 14 pan am air s4 744 11 is i Amr Thau Amaler Flor am 174 can Edison cant 144 a town Pala roil 211 is 014 am am can c Amcy amid am Eipur am 144 in As Mocham on Pom do 1104 744 Jalm Nulu in Attarah in at Royal si4 414 s17 104 a Maurs Snail amp Ash Landum Al Hin 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the Progress spacecraft was built on the Model of the soyuz spacecraft that Are used to carry it said Progress 1 is intended for transport operations to insure Long functioning of Orbital space it said the aim of Progress its to carry out tests and comprehensive optimization of the design of the systems and equipment of the new automatic transport to exercise Docking and to bring supplies to the Sembach group is nominated for Hennessy Germany the food serv ice operation of the 601st combat support Sembach has been nominated by Safe for the Hennessy a Safe spokesman the annual Hennessy award selections recognize the Best dining facilities in the air John safes Deputy chief of staff for engineering and announced the nominees were judged on food prepare equipment commanders interest and adequacy of the Competition was extremely close again this Catlin interest in the program has grown to the Point where a Large number of bases Are extremely fumes kill honeymooners stopped by Snow storm France a a Young honeymooning couple was found dead in their snowbound asphyxiated As they tried to wait out a violent snowstorm in the South of Jeanpierre and his 21year old were apparent Vic Tims of a malfunctioning Auto beater that tilled their car with Carbon police the couple was among at least five known deaths linked to a today rain and Snow storm that swept the the storm dumped As much As six feet Snow in parts of the Arteche Dow Jones averages new vow api Cutuk Tori in Friday Hight Law in Iota