European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 22, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday september 22, 1978 the stars and stripes Page 9 Eifel radar controllers Job is Tough Story and photo by Jim William staff writer Span Dahlem Germany is it s really a Small piece of air space to be controlling for five air bases said capt. Ray brow but when you be got two air Way systems one on top of the other you have to be on your toes at All  brow from Euclid Ohio is the training officer for the 2137th comm so s Eifel radar control approach rap con Facil Ity Here. We control the air space Here As Well As Pitburg and Halm air bases Buchel and of Ersfeld German air bases and the German army Airstrip at Mendig and when you look at it on a map the area resembles a pork chop said brow. The air space allotted to the control facility is also shaped in sort of a Stair step said brow. Planes coming in for a Landing must Duck under commercial aircraft flying into Frankfurt International air port. Pilots wanting to land Here or at bit Burg have to Fly several Miles either to the Northeast or the South where our airspace goes up to 24,000 feet. Then we bring them Down below 7,000 and Over for a Landing. This Way they completely miss the com Mercial aircraft in the space above 7,000 feet said brow. The rap con has 58 air traffic control lers and four air traffic control officers who work in eight hour shifts. Working in a darkened room with just the glow of the radar Scopes can Wear you out pretty fast so we make sure the person behind the scope is Alert by giving them plenty of Breaks said brow. Controllers have to attend the Federal aviation Agency Faa approved 16-week air traffic controllers course at Keesler technical training Center miss., and then go through 10 months of upgrade training. I always looked up to others who were controllers before me. I could t Fly so this is the next Best thing it s a great Chal Lenge said airman . Mat Greene from Castle Rock Wash. The control Tower that everyone sees on an air base does t have the radar like we do said . Ron Gray of grand Junction Iowa. We Monitor the aircraft on radar and the people in the Tower take Over after visual control is  airman . Mat Greene watches a radar scope at the Eifel radar control approach facility. A controller s Job includes giving the Pilot vectors or flight paths to the bomb ranges. Fighter pilots use the army Range at Grafe Wohr Low level radar bomb scor ing Sites near Ramstein and areas Over the North sea. Once at the Range they Fly by visual flight rules said brow and when they finish their combat training Mission they radio us for flight instructions Back to their Home base. We give the pilots a flight path to follow and make sure there is plenty of separa Tion Between them and other aircraft added brow. Once they get within five Miles of their base we turn the Pilot Over to their respective control Tower for ground approach  no named army s top transportation manager by Merle Jacobsen staff  Germany is efficiently managing the flow of supplies into Europe helped an no Here win an army wide award. . Willie l. Hazel 4th trans Bri Gade will go to Washington ., in Early october to accept the military traffic management come s 1978 award. Hazel a  Native who has been in the army almost 20 years will get his award at a forum of the National defense transportation association. He is the most result oriented. Tactful yet aggressive professional no i know said Hazel s Boss maj. David a. Whaley of North Kingstown r.i., and chief of the brigade s Container management division. I m the operations sergeant for containers Hazel said. I m considered the Liaison Man Between the port and the consignees. I m also the Liaison Man Between the carriers and the consignees. Teen Ager wounds 26 kids Belfort France a a 17-year old boy wounded 26 children with Shotgun fire from the Balcony of his Home Here in Eastern France police said. They said they were not alerted to the incident for three Days while parents and a Neil boyhood druggist extracted pellets from the slightly injured children. They then quickly arrested the youth whose name was withheld under French Law. One of the biggest things we re Here for is to be sure that containers reach their destination quickly to avoid storage costs Hazel said. We Deal on the average with 6,000 or 7, 000 containers a  the tools for managing that flow Are the Telephone telex and messages. The nomination cited excessive storage charges avoided by Hazel s close Monitor ing of 21,000 washers and dryers and timely delivery of hold baggage to rotating troops of brigade 75 Over the past three years. It also stated that his close Monitor ing contributed to the smooth replacement of 300 containers of combat rations in Usa eur. From thanksgiving to new year s Hazel institutes special tracking proce dures to insure that turkeys and potatoes were not delayed and were promptly unloaded on Multi Stop routes to the commissaries. Three East coast longshoremen s strikes and one North German port strike during Hael s tour made his Job even trickier. But his nomination said he helped avoid critical shortages during the strikes and excessive storage charges from the resulting backlog when the strikes ended. Since october of 1973 i be been in the same Job. As a matter of fact i be put in for another Extension request for a year Hazel said. The no said the nature of his Job and his familiarity with it helped him win the award. We can see a problem Here before it happens he said. Supply troubleshooter . Willie Hazel the army s top computer readouts with pfc. Marcia transportation manager goes Over Remmler. Is photo by Jim Arwine