European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 28, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                January 1973 the stars and stripes ice stick shooter eyes 84 olympics Story and photo by by Dan Syno vec  chief ass Joseph wat says Hes a but till dreams Are he is shooting for the it the turks to who he Sije a member of a German ice Slick shooting ass a Nozic 2nd Jarrod Cav regt g Border tour program has been sliding is stainless steel and plastic Slock Down a 32meter Long Lane at tempting to get if to Glide to a gentle Hall next to a re Wrinch Square Block of Block of Wood sits in a rectangle Ocean Dahal meters wide and three Melee Long at the end of the Smeter Long a Novice will find it difficult to slide the 11pound Stock Down the Lane and have it Glide to a gentle just barely touching stick shooting is like playing on a ice covered said who wants to transplant the sport to the and possibly be a member of the first american learn to compete in this sport in the olympic he has been a member of the Schof 1911 sports for j4 years and competes on a Fourman tee stick shooting Points Are awarded to the team members who place their Stock As close to the of Wood As possible tee stick shooting requires a great Deal of concentration some tournaments last As Long As seven hours and and it gets cold out there on that he i got started in 1961 while i was assigned to the Camp May installation at West thais the Center of ice stick shooting in the sport uses a device similar to the Stone used in the sport of but it is shaped differently and weighs Only about 11 pounds instead of the approximately 40 pounds stones used in Curling the Curling rink is of different dimensions than that used in ice stick shooting and the players do not use brooms to sweep the ice around the Stone As is done in when you shoot your Stock you not Only attempt to Stop 11 next to the Block of you also Liy to Knock your opponents Stock out of the West West said said germans Are registered on various teams but he is the Only american stainless steel and plastic Stock costs to West said it comes with several differently designed Bottoms that Are the Bottoms have different colors to denote Dif Ferent if you want to deliver the Stock at a Stow so it stays in the you use a Blue or yellow rubberized if you want to have it travel at a High Speed in order to Knock an opponents Stock out of the you use the faster Gray or Black he said West said that people from 12 to 84 years old play in ice Slick shooting there Are teams for men and and for senior Over he trains on Friday and sunday nights when Hes not in the Road travelling to a i took part in 39 weekend tournaments last Wisl its even in the summer when we play on Asphalt or we have Toum ments in parking and we use plastic instead of rubber Bottoms on the he said the ice is Slippery and players often Lake even though they Wear a special rubber Slipper Over their it really gets he the hardest part of the game is to keep the interest you might Only shoot once every is one game takes about 20 minutes and you May shoot against 16 to 27 teams on one ice stick shooting is a game few americans have any knowl Edge the United Stales is going to have to gel involved in the sport because it will be one of the new sports introduced in the j9h our country will have to make a he Ive written to the u olympic committee and while i was on leave Tost month 1 talked to Winter olympic officials in Squaw i want to get interest in the sport started in the United he said that sports club authorities Here were stunned when he walked in and asked about joining an ice stick shooting they didst expect an american to be interest Din the he ice stick shooter Journ West registered american exem commander has battalion jumping a Busy Story and photo by pm Coles in staff writer Germany living in army Barracks generally int much especially in Germany where Many of the buildings Are of and in poor one the 5th of the 58th part of the 8th inf has found a Way to improve Barracks life which costs a mini mum of Money and gets the soldiers involved at the same the he Model room was instituted by William battalion according to the troops in his unit were living in is a Happy he says very unpleasant conditions overcrowded broken peeling cracked and broken buckled floors and a generally unsatisfactory Environ his idea was to Lake a Crew of men and concentrate their efforts on one room in each bring it up to at Tractive standards and then pattern All the rooms in the building after according to Leon co b com the change in living conditions has changed the mens most of them were Good soldiers but they had very Little to look Forward to when we a feeling of accomplishment of co 5th Totth dont Wail far a hmm Rrankie program to renovate their of arts they Pilch in and do the work Leon company stows a room that to being the has been stripped to planer and Ibe windows removed for och Jbv members say spruced of Quai Ien Radi ate a feeling of came Back from he he the men Are we never really had much of a problem with dope or fights in the but there was a time when All of vandalism was done to the simply because it  be any worse than it since the programs inception 10 months ago there has Only been one act of Vandal ism and that was to one of the old he this is also our first year with the a deuces and we scored higher in initial firing than anyone else has Ever other units May have scored higher with their old tanks than we but were still top guns last year lire battalion was High shooter in Usa eur with the Soai Bat Talion officials according to things Are begin Ning to turn around in my by that he meant that last year the battalion lust did pass its army training evaluation but this year it was rated As being another project the battalion has under taken is upgrading the dining Lozano said that the first complaint he heard after taking command was that us mess Hall was a look at the facility now reveals it to be attractive and the men say the Quality of food served there has gone up in recent another thing this unit can boast about is having he Best Day roam in the re inf Winner of last one of lozano3 methods to upgrade performance in the battalion was to Institute an extra training the men Call it the Coon Lozano said that about 25 members of the battalion had been identified As poor attitudes and constituting the Core of our multiple offenders in nonjudicial about 15 were ultimately As signed u the extra training once the soldiers had been they were assigned to Field training two nights a week and All until their attitude and performance improved to their superiors Lozano the program involved marching the sol Diers to an Assembly and training area then jetting Back to the basics of the sol Dierly arts foxhole Sill Trench Field sanitation and the weekday training began at 6 and lasted my the Early morning hours when the men were returned to the bar Racks in time to change possibly rest for a Short while and then go to weekend training went from Friday eve Ning through sunday according to the platoon was suspended for the Holiday but during its Active period it accomplished a lot and is expected to begin operation again he said that Many of the Sot Diere who had been retrained had improved significantly in Ihler attitudes and he added that altitudes within the rest of the battalion also have improved since the platoon came into Many soldiers in the battalion said they Are terrified at the Prospect of Wing As signed to one Soldier they can put you in it for anything and keep you in it As Long As they probable fear Ken Lozano said there probably was a fear element but fell that there Are to Many positive areas in the battalion that the Good soldiers have nothing of some of the men in the battalion dont one senior no he works the men too in retiring just As soon As t i never thought id see the Day when i wanted to run away from the Ive always loved it Lozano said that men selected for the extra training were salvageable and that putting them out of the service would not be fair to them or the tit said the course was designed u build Confidence and show the men what they could feds that it a former enlisted said that Etc rethink he has done he took Over the battalion has been done with his sol Diers welfare in i can remember All the things that used to bother me the in trying to eliminate As Many of those for Hymen As i i believe that a Busy Soldier is a Happy