European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 2, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday october 2, 1978 the stars and stripes Page 9 waiting till the cows get Home the technology of modern warfare is asked to Rev Down and wait As a West German Farmer raises his Arm to signal for caution on the Road so he can bring his Herd of cows Home safely. The meet ing of motors and milkers took place near Budinger during certain shield action. Photo for is Rudi Williams addition to sports Complex German City gets help engineers practice by John Savard Nurnberg Bureau chief Furth Germany is when City officials Here decided to build an addition to a local sports Complex they asked 1st army div soldiers of cob 16th engr in at Johnson Barracks for help. Estimates were that a commercial contractor would Cost the City 15,000 Marks a Day said 2nd it. Don Fiorino who s the project officer. With our help it s Only costing them fuel for equipment and food for the  return the engineers Are getting lots of practice using their heavy equipment to move some 9,000 cubic meters of Earth. We Are combat engineers said 1st it. Thomas Littlefield co b executive officer. During wartime we spend our time dig Ging tank ditches defensive tank positions and other things. But we Don t get the experience during peacetime. This is Good training for our equipment  the biggest part of the project is build medic volunteers shape up a Castle Baum older Germany Volun Teers from the 56th general Hosp 99th med det and the 766th med det got together recently to beautify Frauenberg Castle a tourist attraction near Here. The Castle which dates Back to the 14th Century has been a place to get away from it All for local troops and germans for years. Unfortunately it had also be come a litter Box. The Castle was a mess and i Felt some thing should be done about it said . . Christopherson non commissioned officer in charge of the radiology depart ment of the 56th general Hospital. When a few of us asked for some time off to clean the Castle our commander decided to make it a company project. We ended up with about 16 volunteers including the commander said the Wolsey s.d.,  volunteers with brooms Flash lights and rakes cleaned the Castle in  and  was not too hard to clean but the inside of the Castle is very dark and Dusty said spec. 5 Rick Isgitt of Charleston . Ill be glad when we re  cleaning the Interior of the Castle was a big Job. The trash and dust plus a spiral staircase that is Little less than an obstacle course to climb kept the volunteers on their  of the narrow staircase a lad Der was hoisted to the roof of the Castle to enable volunteers to clean the hard to reach  Castle was not easy to clean but it had to be done said Christopherson. Now that it s clean i Hope everyone in the Community keeps it that  another certain shield spec. 4 Billy Columbel an armoured personnel Carrier Driver with the 3rd in 77th Armor uses this mask to protect his face from wind which was often blowing during certain shield Maneu vers. Photo for is Rudi Williams ing a massive berm along an autobahn which runs by the sports Platz. The berm will act As a sound Barrier against traffic noise. Before that can be built the engineers must move two other mountains of dirt across the sports Platz to form the sound Barrier. We be moved quite a bit of dirt and put it Over by the  said pfc. Philip Cody 19, of Alexandria by. This berm will be moved. And when we re finished. There will be an Extension to the soccer Field. We started last monday and it should be finished this next  spec. 4 Tim Hoban used his Road grader to build an Access Road to the construction site so engineers could move in heavy equipment. I helped build that Access Road but had to redo it five times already Hoban said. The equipment coming in keeps tearing it  we re doing this for the City of i  said spec. 4 Steve Eby who drives a dump truck for the 16th engineers. They Are really treating us Good out Here even taking us to the Gasthaus he said. In the morning they bring us sandwiches and bratwurst then at 2 . They bring us More. They Are treating us like  these Guys have been working seven Days a week this summer said Fiorino. They be been supporting tank gunnery for the division working labor Day and weekends. They Are even working during a unit training Holiday this week. They really work  Fiorino said that by working Long hours on the equipment the soldiers Are quickly building credits they need to qualify on the army s apprentice training program. They can use this experience to get a civilian Job later he said. It s hard to get enough time on equipment by working on it a couple hours a week in the motor Pool. Out Here the hours really mount up. The Only Cost to the army is depreciation of the equipment which is about $1,600. That s All. 1 have no idea what it s costing the germans but it s a lot less than $7,000 a  s Good for them and it s Good for