European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 13, 1980, Darmstadt, Hesse Saturday. September 13, 1980 the stars and stripes Page 9 he now appreciates women because he s a single Parent Story in photo by Rudi Williams Bremer Harco Bureau chief Soergel Germany is Gunther Gocbel a 42-year-old who chose the . Army Over the German says he now sees women with an entirely particularly when they Are out doing a Job then have to come Home and Start cooking cleaning and dusting said the army sergeant first class. It s quite a bit. Then there is the budget to think Gocbel is a single Parent who is trying to be both Mother and father to his 8-year old daughter Hellene without interfering with his Job As operations sergeant for the 162nd ordnance co. Separated from his wife for nearly five years Goebel Aid i think i can appreciate a woman much better now. I can say to those Fellows who think they should t help around the House that they have to share work does being both Mother and father interfere with his Job in no Way does it Handicap me said Gocbel whose goal is to be a first sergeant. My commander or supervisors have never had any have a wonderful set up in Ger Many he said with a German brother lives about two hours away and i have arranged with warrant offi cer s family to evacuate my daughter in of an Hellene who Speaks three languages thai German and English is a fourth grader in a German school in so gel. Goc bal fears that when she is old enough and they re still in Germany Miene will have to live in the dormitory in Bremerhaven. I Don t want to do that he said. She Only has one Parent now and i Don t want to put another Burden on Goebel said German television is doing a feature Story about him As a single father raising a daughter. It s something new in Germany because the Mother always gets the child he explained. Drafted into the German army in no vember 1957, Goebel went to the United states before his reporting Date instructions arrived. All of my immigration papers were ready so when my visa came through i went to my older sister s Home in new Brunswick his Freedom Only lasted a few months. As a new arrival in America i had to get an alien card report to the social Security office and the draft Board he said. I was draft cd into the american army in a gust 1958." promising his sister he would return by that evening after taking the army s Bat Tery of tests Goebel headed for the Induc Tion station. There i was inking a test and could t read or write English he laughed. An no who spoke German Tola me to guess at the answers. I guessed so Good that they told me a bus was Down stairs waiting to take me to Basic training at fort Dix n.j."1 called my sister and told her 1 could t baby sit because i was going in the army said Gocbel. After a few weeks of Basic training Goebel s absence from the German army was discovered. The assistant division commander called me to his office and told me the German government was looking for me because i was supposed to be in the German army Gocbel said. He said since i had taken the oath to the american Flag it was up to me to stay or return to Germany. I told him Flat out that i wanted to stay because i did t know what was waiting for me in Germany he said. Ironically his first assignment was with the 24th Engineer in 4th armoured div in Nuorn Burg. He is now on his fifth tour of duty in the country where he escaped from the said the Saddest Day of his life was three years later a few Days after receiving his citizenship papers. I was with the 2nd military police in at fort Din and we were called on Alert to go to old miss University of Mississippi be cause a Black Man wanted to go to an All White school he said. So there i was just after getting my citizenship papers facing my fellow american citizens with a Bayonet on my Rifle. Men women and children were screaming kill him throw him out i did t understand the different racial problems in the United states that Nad existed for More than 200 years Goebel said. Even today it bothers me some met his former wife in Thailand in 1972 and Hellene was born there that same How she likes her daddy s Cook ing Hellene said with a big smile it s likes my potato pancakes Best he beamed. I m teaching her How to make them. She likes to Cook breakfast for sharing household chores gun Lucr cd bal witches his daughter Hellene Wash dishes. He b teaching her How to make potato pancakes n turn Hellene makes her father breakfast. Rogers visits bar Frost Maneu vers in Norway Cort my a draw with her Homework. His gun collection decorate the Wall Bardu Foss Norway highlighting the strategic importance of the Northern flank of nato Gen. Bernard w. Rogers. Supreme Allied commander Europe completed a two Day visit to an Allied and and air Man Euver some 170 Miles inside the arc tic Circle in Northern Norway. Bar Frost is a norwegian sponsored Mulli National Field training exercise taking officers wives plan Wiesbaden Bazaar Wiesbaden Germany is the Wiesbaden officers wives club Here will hold its annual Bazaar this year on Colum bus Day weekend oct. 11 and 12. The theme of this year s Bazaar is Dis cover a world of the Bazaar will be held at the Vandenberg Middle school gym just behind the Haine Berg shopping Complex from 10 . To 6 . On the i Ith and from 11 . To 5 on the2lh.all proceeds from vendors fees and a percentage from each Sale goes Back to the Wiesbaden military Community for support and welfare programs. Theater critic Dies new York
