European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 27, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                February the stars and stripes Page 11 letters to the editor Lowdown on civilian household goods insurance for enlisted i read your recent article entitled army fiscal official emphasizes need for com plete listing of shipped Russ Hamilton stated that the Only Way to get around the limits placed on expensive items being shipped was to buy civilian insurance or Send the expensive items in separate ship after Reading your article i came to the conclusion that Uncle Sam was never going to pay me what All my household goods were Worth if they were lost or off to the Legal office i went to get a list of insurance companies that sell insurance on household i figured that it would be better to spend or on insurance since it has taken my wife and i 10 years and a whole lot More than to acquire what we to and when i got to the Legal office i was told that there is no list of the european 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cant 1 buy the insurance that i need if no private firm offers this insurance Why cant Uncle Sam offer it at a reasonable rate the next Point he made in the article was that you could ship separate shipments to get around the limits have you Ever been to to and tried this you May succeed at this but i guarantee that you Are going to hear about How much this is going to Cost the How much longer it is going to take your goods to get and How much More damage youre going to to make a Long Story to is not very receptive to the to end let me say that i intend to pursue this matter As far As i be Lieve in the free Enterprise system and if i have the Money there has to be someone out there offering this where is he Reginald West Torreon Spain editors note John acting army claims replies i am Able to respond to Only one of the two concerns raised by your both i personally and this service in general have recognized the fact that obtaining private insurance for overseas moves is not easy for enlisted particularly Junior enlisted this difficulty is definitely not a matter of official policy by the military but it is instead an actuarial decision by the respective insurance this has located at least two insurers who apparently will in sure household goods shipments to and from overseas locations without regard to the rank of the they Are Royal Globe 154 Williams attn International new and american International underwriters 102 Maiden new in a bulletin dated september we provided All Usa eur claims offices with this we further asked these offices to attempt to discover other Avail Able companies so that we could provide their names to All i must emphatically note that both ethical and conflict interest considerations preclude army officials at All Levels from endorsing or warranting services provided by private including the two named in Plain we offer their names Only for your convenience we Arent stirring up customers for we cant Tell you How Good they Are at their and we cant Guaran tee the results that you May get if you Deal with in response to the readers second ques concerning the reasonable availability of separate i May say Only that it is my understanding that service Mem Bers Are entitled to such separate ship ments upon practical difficulties encountered in obtaining such shipments Are matters within the official concern of military transportation and the Reader should be addressed to them for response to his need cited for More dedicated teachers perhaps i sound but when i read a letter and a related article which appeared in the stars and stripes some time i could say about the former is that i Hope that another one bit the one thing that Dodds could do without is the kind of specialist who bemoans her underemployment in the overseas the kind of expertise she represents is Usu ally indicative of a previous failure As a classroom teacher who did not have the ability to succeed in her initial most of these recognizing that they could never make it facing the usual classes on a Day byway basis along with the unique responsibilities re turned to and after taking additional slush returned to the scene of their original failure As an expert with a special a higher salary and massive administrative most of these experts began in Elemen tary school where the jobs or they were afraid of the big boys and girls then moved into senior High school As although they their elementary personalities did not change nor did their teaching so they carry their new specialist spangled failures into a situation where their juvenile bungling magnifies the already existent tensions facing the older i also find it depressing when i notice the readiness and docility with which parents submit to the domination of these latter often ignoring the More stable advice of the classroom teacher who rep resents the nearest thing to parental control that Dodds has to offer the when they Are involved in their primary there is a great Deal of cynicism in their drive to maintain an operating these specialists cannot operate without they must have a certain number of cases to justify their placement on the fac so they Are constantly combing the student body for enough material to justify their retention in the their methods Are quite similar to the social workers in the states who create generations of welfare families so that their quotas remain stable and they can hold on to their these persons insist that the school administrators Supply them with adequate numbers of even though the so called problem child could be straightened out with the firm but fair expertise of the Best Friend outside the Home the child May have the classroom teach perhaps the new Dodd South administrator will take an objective look at those academic parasites when making a closer examination of the it might be More interesting if the trips were made unannounced just dropping in on some of the school administrators a recent comment attributed to that adminis Tator was that we should get away from for her so Many of Dodds teachers have been so far away from official that if a Pupil is transferred 100 Kilometres up or Down the that Pupil is in another cd Cuca tonal it might be if parents just dropped in unannounced at their local school and looked the situation and not be spoonfed by those joint committees that promote mediocrity Over As stated in the beginning we can do without Send us dedicated teach withheld Germany keep up with the hews1 Home delivery accept my subscription to stars name please Street Telephone 1 will pay the Home delivery Carrier when he comes to area Good morning take advantage of the stars it stripes Home delivery service in most government housing delivered to your Mailbox daily for a please Complete this form and mail to stars stripes 09211 attn sales promotion