European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 9, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                May 1985 the stars and stripes it it if Page 11 Ann land ers letters dear Ann Landers a group of women were talking about our gynaecologists at lunch a ques Tion that i have heard Many times came but no one seems to know the do you How do wives of these doctors Cope How do they excite their husbands after a Day at the office Ive heard that sexual feelings Are trained out of medical students As part of the academic if their wives Are certainly being cheated out of something every gynaecologist i have gone to be have in a very professional Noth ing out of the Way was Ever said or i would be interested to hear what doctors and their wives have to and How about Ann any thoughts on the subject and wondering in dear i have dealt with this topic but it is unrealistic to assume that everybody reads every word i medical schools do not attempt to train out if the re verse is More emphasis is being placed on sensitivity and car a gynaecologist at work gets about As sexually aroused As a Mechanic who is checking a fuel pump or installing new spark actually the most responsive sex Organ is the the wife of a gynaecologist if the marriage is a Good one gets cheated out of dear Ann Landers a divorced Mother of a High school student has accepted her daughters boy Friend into their these two teen agers live together same bedroom As if they were the girl is her Boyfriend is his parents kicked him out because he was staying out All night seeing this my own daughter age 15 is she thinks its a neat the woman is a close Friend of mine and whenever i go to her Home and see those kids i feel has morality out the window am i living in the dark Ages please express your in Alabama dear Bama the living arrangement you describe is pathetic and it is also loaded with i would not recommend it to that Mother sounds like a Kook who is getting vicarious kicks out of what goes on in the next dear Ann Landers recently my husband was diagnosed As having inoperable the doctors say he Hassid months at the most to the news has devastated us both and we Are unable to be our teenage daughter is eager to go to but her fathers illness and death will make this i am Over 50 and have no working what do you think about putting in his obituary which we Are now writing together a line that no contributions to our daughters educational fund would be greatly would it be Tacky broken hearted and in a dear Friend it would be your daughter should investigate student Loans and part time my should get some career counselling at 50 is Middle the plight of the single Soldier in the Barracks i am angry because i have not yet read a letter about single gis who live in Barracks its always the military families and their problems and i also hear the statement about How easy we have it in the Barracks because we dont have to pay for room and we May not pay in but believe we do pay we Are told exactly How to our superiors Tell us How our furniture should and will be we Are supposed to be uniform in almost every Way which drawers of our inserts we have to put our shirts and underwear our locker is set up according to a Chart posted on the theres a regulation for every i can understand their wanting us to be neat but a limit should be sure we can have if its regulation and stuffed animals Are no pictures on the Wall Are Only it has to hang on a thin piece of please forgive us for being human and forgetting to take out because if we we will find it scattered on the floor and our or if we should be in a hurry and forget to lock our we will find All the contents on the floor and and if we should dare to forget to open our curtains before work we will find ourselves with no we get the weekend off Only to spend sundays gling our rooms for or to be awakened on saturday or sunday morning to clean a latrine the staff duty no didst we e4s and below Are not allowed to drink in the Barracks but e5s and above that amazes we Are old enough to put our life on the line any Day for our country but we Are not mature enough to drink a Beer after a hard Days work in our that is discrimination in my in a letter i it also mentioned the Lack of privacy in the but when they exit that they enter total Pri Vacy of their own How would they like to run three or four Miles and then stand in line along with 20 other people to take a Shower or wait in line to use the latrine we cannot get off go Home and relax in our own living room and watch to or get a Home cooked we get to come to the Barracks and still be surrounded by the we Wake up in work All Day in get off in it and go to bed in we get to live with three other people we never met before who could be thieves or talk about no and what about the i parties we have until Midnight for some big sergeant major who is supposed to visit and then never looks at the at my last unit 1 lived off Post because 1 was right at and though the unit was harder duty i could Deal with it because i got a break from the army once i went but we single gis living in the free bar Racks have no family Here to share times we have to share it All in we Are thousands of Miles away from Home and our and yet we cannot even make our temporary Home Barracks As Comfort Able As we i sympathize with the military families but we put up with More All Day and we do pay to live in the bar mentally and withheld Germany replacing the Light fixtures in apartments it seems like everywhere you you can see signs telling us not to waste to turn off not to waste or any thing just this morning a Crew from housing came to change every Light fixture in the if there had been a problem with the fixtures i could understand them being but there were no it seems to me that this is a Gross waste of Money that could surely be put to better it really makes me wonder just How much this will Cost and if we in the military will be told once again to tighten our belts to pay for with More and More people in the Mili tary finding it harder each month to make ends it really makes you wonder just what is going when i look around me and find people trying to get from one payday to the next then see what i would Call Complete waste of funds that could help some of these peo ple live a Little easier it makes me won Der who really cares about if i am i Hope someone out there has an but from where i it looks As if the reason for these so called repairs is just to give someone a one other Gripe i have is the fact that i received a notice that the work Crew would be at my apartment from 10 to i had several errands for this Day since my husband was leaving for Field but rearranged my schedule to comply with the work the work Crew showed up at Why do they give you a time if they Are not going to comply with it withheld Germany editors note Scott directorate of engineering and Schweinfurt military replies the projects to replace the Light fixtures in the government housing areas in Schweinfurt were done for a combination of most of the existing Light fixtures were Over 10 years old when replacement globes and parts could no longer be this project allowed for standardization of a wide variety of Light fixtures which also reduced Ware House the Light fixtures Over the bathroom sinks were replaced based on numerous occupant complaints that they could not easily replace the bulbs in the old additional Light fixtures were added under Kitchen cabinets based on requests from occupants for More Many of the fixtures in the basements were damaged frequently and were re placed with a sturdier this project also allowed for installation of More Energy efficient fixtures in com Monuse areas while still providing the same amount of a typical stairwell building had a reduction of about Watts with the new electrical Energy consumption continues to increase in Usa eur and every project is reviewed for incorporation of electrical saving the Energy awareness programs referred to in the letter have been particularly effective in the housing where the occupants have saved about 7 percent Over last the Cost to have the contractor provide and install the Light fixtures in a typical three bedroom apartment was about the Cost to buy the Light fixtures individually for the same apartment is about without the Cost of in order to get occupant involvement in this project it was announced at two town Hall meetings about six months before it it was also publicized in the Community the a group of six wives who live in the housing areas reviewed and commented on the fixtures selected for the design and another including three re viewed the actual fixtures before the project during each and after the project the design and the contract were modified based on comments of occur without knowing the specific apartment number and Date of the arrival of the con tractors it is not possible to determine Why they were generally the contractors work on the apartments in one stairwell at a even though notified in some occupants Are not at Home when the con tractors in these cases the contractor moves on to the next apartment on the schedule in order that his workers can continue in the amount of time scheduled for each apartment is based on an for a variety of unforeseen the contractor May finish earlier or any old fixtures removed which Are still serviceable Are stored in the Furni Ture warehouse and issued to families living on the the european edition Usa editor in chief us Deputy editor in chief Blackwell production manager Proctor managing editor Mcdermott circulation manager pen pals i would like to correspond with people in other i am 27 years i like collecting different kinds of cooking and playing aaa Banag Bureau of land transportation regional office x caravan de Oro City 8401 Philippines please add my name to your pen pal i Enion watching movies and and collecting i am 24 Rovo Bureau of land transportation regional office x Bagayan de Oro 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