European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 5, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                February 1981 the stars and stripes Page 9 Chart for Dollar Mark conversion dollars into Marks Marks to dollars fellow my unintentionally tired weapon wounded by Cole Goodwin Germany 4 Joseph Stroshine breathes with difficulty after he climbs a flight of stairs he really cant run any distance and has trouble with the exertions he has to go through As part of his daily when he does Sharp pains lash through his right three months Stroshine was a Active weightlifter on a Ger Man weightlifting team and competed regularly As one of its few american Mem All this changed when a fellow my unintentionally fired a injuring the round entered through the upper left area of his Chest and exited through the lower right part of his the Bullet collapsed a lung physicians told him that the round passed within a centimetre of his cardiac now Stroshine spends his time work ing with dependent youth activities Chil Dren at the depot in Able to take advantage of the Opportunity to build myself up again by and he even with regu Lar exercise and his doctors Tell him it will take one to two years to recon if at although the incident caused him great physical Stroshine says that the greatest effect of the mishap has been on him in afraid of the dark now and scared to be i always feel As if someone is trying to kill and i dont like guns at All in an Effort to relieve some of his negligent weapon discharge Stroe Shine is seeing a psychiatrist one Day a its not one of the worst misconceptions that persists in the army is that a negligent weapons discharge is that it happen every so warns Richard assistant chief of 59th ordnance the Only reason a weapons discharge occurs is a result of a soldiers lackadaisical often a Soldier gets bored walking guard duty or sitting in a Tower to occupy his or her he plays a Long 4 Joseph Stroshine in therapy building myself up again slowly and steadily Road Back dangerous game with his in its his familiarity with his weapon that Breeds these says Lyle Comer of the 59ths safety can Clear a weapon without thinking about it sometimes they dont think and miss a Many soldiers believe that a negligent discharge can never happen to them and it never but there Are Many soldiers sitting in brigs who can say it Only happened to them Johnson going along with this misconception is a belief that most negligent weapon Dis charges occur on the Range or at that not there is no partic ular area that these mishaps tend to they can happen Comer blames a casual attitude toward weapon discharges As a result of soldiers failing to recognize How serious a Bullet wound the m16 is not like the you the my was big and you knew it could Hurt but the m16 looks like a toy one you would give and even though the projectile is not much larger than a it travels at a much higher it creates a sonic disturbance within the disintegrating the organs that it theres really no reason for a negligent weapon discharge if the Soldier carefully follows Comer Goodwin is with the Public affairs office of the 59th at gypsies voice threats after seizing apartments Athens a Over 500 gypsies occupied four unfinished apartment blocks in suburban threatening to throw their children out of the windows if forcibly police the claiming that they have been homeless for 40 crept unnoticed into the buildings and established them Strong police contingents surrounded the blocks but did not attempt to enter the army photo