European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 28, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes june Berlin flights require a flier by Don Tate staff writer whats asks the Man behind the with that right stuff smile and a look in his Eye that says thrilling desk life is not All there than when its and the Clouds Are and youre feeling pretty Low Down and then you get up in that air plane and break out of the Clouds at and the Sun is and there Are Clear Blue skies above i what is better for a not All that Charlie Austin looks like a talks like one and is Charlie Austin is a when his Mother drove him Over to get his Auto he had already been flying air planes for two in those when things got a Little too mundane on Little Charlie flew above these when Charlie air Breaks he knows the position of every wayward he knows the weather and whats under the hed Hes not flying the Friendly skies anymore Hes flying its one of the worlds trickiest requiring handpicked men of both great flying skill and political if somebody strays and lands in a cow it would probably be a communist cow Pas at that would be an Embarrass ment to the United at it could result in what is called a grave International More than one plane wandering into restricted airspace has been shot Down Over East part of austins Job is heading off that sort of disaster before it among the air Force personnel in Austin is one of a Hes the Only Pilot flying As chief of operations and training with the 7350th air base group at Tempelhof Central Austin daily flies the Berlin he is the Only air Force Pilot flying out of historic Tempel Hof the Wright Brothers flew their Origi Nal flying machine there in though there Are army pilots using what was once one of the busiest airports in the a hectic Hub of the Berlin the ring is the 20nauticalmile zone extending out from the Berlin air safety rising feet and crossing carefully defined sections of East Berlin air Force Charlie Austin with ready to Fly the ring in photo for by Ramt Harcsztark and East you cant get lost on the ground in West says because any direction you drive youre Gonna bump into a its almost that Way in the air Over air corridors three of 20 statute Miles wide for Allied planes entering the City Are rigidly and youre under radar control completely the entire time youre you dont take off and just go flying around these one of the reasons Austin flies the ring so often is just to exercise that its part of the if the other Guys communists saw us not using it could just Wither another reason is As the air forces safety officer for West if something goes wrong with one of the three airfields serving the i can go out flying and say fix of sitting in his office in his flying had just re turned from shooting All the approaches to which is Only two Miles from the Section of Wall that divides Ber if theres a flying problem concerning Austin is the Man to i work closely with the army and anyone else who comes in Here and has a problem with the air the How to get in and out of in and out of a kind of bowl in the Middle of the City that requires Steep Landing approaches because of apartment complexes on both ends of the can be Sticky for someone who Hast flown says at during the dangerous Days of the great Berlin Airlift of the late planes practically had to spiral into while traffic at the 95 per cent is nowhere near what it was during those surrounded West Ber Lin has been forced to rely on air support too Many times in the past for anyone to assume it wont happen part of austins responsibility is to be sure that the Field is always fully Able to take on a full Load in an even ready to handle com Mercial traffic should Tegel with its longer be shut flying even on a Dull never Falls into the category of just another says the Man who could Fly before he could just knowing where youre who out what could is a stress keeps the juices one thing about you know youre Here for a All youve got to do is look and you see the army Roundup my groups 5 detach menus to be companies Germany the five detachments of the 42nd military police group will be predesignated military police a spokesman from 42nd my group an activation of units and change command ceremony will be held july 1 on the Parade Field at Taylor Barracks in Evelyn commander of the 42nd my will pass the colors to Walter members of All five reactivated military police companies will continue to perform the same the change will improve each company ability to perform its wartime Mission of handling prisoners of det a in Karlsruhe will become the 285th military police co det b in Bremerhaven will become the 560th Mili tary police co det c in Frankfurt will become the 236th military police co det d in Kaiserslautern will become the 294th military police co and det e in Nuernberg will become the 193rd military police 7th medical come to offer clinics to help smokers quit Heidelberg smokers who want to quit will soon have help in taking that last the 7th medical come is planning clinics in each of the military hospitals in Germany Italy and said Leslie health fitness consultant for the each Hospital will have a seven week cold Turkey clinic based on the american lung associations free Dom from smoking she the program includes sessions on Why people How to diet and exercise and How to maintain a nonsmoking to reach the Call the Hospital commanders of fice to get in touch with the hospitals fitness army to Start testing donations of blood for aids antibody Heidelberg the army starts testing blood do nations sunday for the antibody associated with Michael chief of preventive Medicine for the 7th medical noted that the tests Are being made in accordance with a defense department directive required by the food and drug administration and requested by the Public health the testing is aimed at protecting blood anyone identified As having the antibody will be evaluated to ensure that the test did not turn up positive because of other aids is a new phenomenon in our and there is still a great Deal that we do not know or understand about the blood tests Are being conducted solely to prevent the possible spread of the disease through blood transfusions and not As a diagnostic test to identify potential aids Benenson the presence of the antibody does not necessarily mean the donor has or acquired immune deficiency syn if the test is the donor will be notified and a thorough medical checkup military Roundup number of Active duty personnel in armed forces holds steady Washington a the size of the nations serv ices remained nearly Static last with the number of Active duty personnel up by 681 the Pentagon As of May the air Navy and marines had a combined strength of an increase of 681 compared with april but an increase of almost com pared with that at the same time last the size of the army and air Force increased last month up 396 for the army and 935 for the air but those gains were offset by Small declines for the Navy and marines 452 for the Navy and 198 for the Marine As of May the army had Active duty per compared with for the air Force for the Navy and for the Marine at the same time last the armed services had a combined Active duty strength of Europe first joint services recruiting Center to open july 3 Frankfurt a ceremony will be held july 3 at to Mark the official opening of the new armed forces recruiting station in a spokesman for the Europe recruiting co the new facility is located in the Frankfurt pm com building which adjoins the Uso the recruiting Center will be the first joint service recruiting Center in he