European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 13, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                July 1985 the stars and stripes Page 3 improvements permitting army to of Many More concurrent travel requests by Charlie Bowden staff writer Germany better improved data collection and automation have resulted in the approval of concurrent travel requests for nearly half of the married soldiers bound for according to army personnel automation is probably the most significant change in the process since military families began coming to eur said William the commander of 1st personnel the family travel Issue generates More congressional inquiries than any other he automation Means More information More quickly for the Soldier faced with a european said William the director of the personnel services sup port directorate at 1st personnel coupled with improved forecasting by army family housing it also Means More concurrent travel requests Are being statistics for the first Quarter of this year show that 45 percent of the nearly requests for concurrent travel were compared with 25 percent during the same time last said the Usa eur As part of a five year family travel is to reach a Point at which enough housing is available in army communities in Europe for All families concurrent travel requests to be a soldiers request for concurrent travel is approved if local housing officials predict that housing either government or Economy can be found or will be available within 60 Days of if the wait for housing in a Community is Between 61 and 140 then deferred travel is if the wait is longer than 140 the request is Usa eur statistics show that 37 percent of the soldiers coming to Europe in the first Quarter of 1985 received deferred with deferred the family members remain in the United once the sponsor finds the Soldier can apply for travel orders for his in the first 18 percent of the requests for concurrent travel were Ross said the number of approvals should continue to increase As More housing is either built or leased in army communities in housing officials also Are beating the Bushes to find More Economy he but the Ross is better forecasting on housing the forecasts for housing availability in most communities were generally Ross that has he and most communities now have More realistic predictions on the availability of Economy Ray who manages the program for the com also credits the rent plus program As a crucial Factor in the housing process and the increase in concur rent travel Jendras said rent plus opens More housing to soldiers because they can afford to pay a Little and that Means More concurrent travel requests can be Ross also considers rent plus the program is under attack by some critics who say it is being Ross but the demise of rent plus would have a severe Impact on the number of people were Able to Grant concurrent travel while the usar Euraide percentage is 45 per cent and five of the seven subordinate army commands in Europe reported approval rates of 50 percent or the smaller commands had higher rates of with the 26th support group tops with a 75 percent approval the Southern european task Force had 70 percent 7th army training come had 66 percent 21st support come and Vii corps each reported 50 percent and Berlin and v corps had approval rates of 39 percent and 37 of the requests slightly More than were for assignments to the two about involved assignments to 21 St support Jendras said that As the numbers personnel managers will Monitor the program to ensure that the assignment process is working As that includes surveying soldiers after Treyve found other facets of the program include improving communication with the Soldier once a pinpoint assignment has been determined by personnel managers in starting this results of concurrent travel requests will be sent to soldiers by electronic message rather than Jendras the message will be followed up by a letter provid ing detailed information on the Community where the Soldier is to be Jendras said the letter will be sent directly to the soldiers rather than to the 2 books suggest King Merlin actually lived London a two recent books suggest that the legendary King Arthur and his wizard Merlin although much earlier and in far different form than in medieval romances about Camelot and the round the discovery of King by Geoffrey contends Arthur was in reality a King called who is known to have ruled the British and campaigned on the european continent in the 5th some 50 years after the romans left the British the quest for by Nikolai argues that Merlin was a Pagan Bard and shaman of the latter 6th Century who mixed prophecy with his poetry and eventually went the evidence of Arthurs existence was so compelling to debretto the handbook of British that it has accorded him formal recognition As a Sov Ereign of the problem is that we have almost no historical sources for Post roman you really could say there is no recorded history for the said Oliver a Foremost expert in the neither Book claims to have uncovered any new they offer a new Reading of whats already both myths have their roots in the work of the 12thcentury teacher and cleric Geoffrey of in Geoffreys history of the Kings of Arthur was a Youthful celtic ruler leading the Post roman britons against Saxon barbarians who invaded from eur he rolled the saxons Back and re stored Britain to stable government and Christian according to Arthur conquered the area that is now Norway and Denmark and went on to fight in Gaul now France defeating the remnants of the roman Empire he was at the preparing to March toward when he heard that his Nephew ruling in had turned traitor and slept with his Arthur killed Modred and routed his but was mortally wounded him Over the writers from sir Thomas Malory to Al Fred lord Tennyson of the have embellished the practically everything about King a thur is acknowledges a Cambridge educated lecturer and Arthur Allim suggesting is that i have succeeded in laying my Finger on a real Man at the origin of the he was apparently what would have been called a High the Leader of a Council of local despots who ruled Britain after it broke from the roman Empire in he was the last of the High reigning in the Ashe but the record shows he was betrayed in the goths overwhelmed the last we know of he was heading West into Friendly Ashe said the breakthrough came in Dis covering that Rio thamus was not a but a Post roman British title meaning High Ashe theorized that his Given name was the author then consulted professor Barbara Moorman of the University of Southern a scholar of French medieval she came up with three references in French chronicles that conform to details of Rio thamus gallic campaigns but refer to him As for author Nikolai grandson of the russian novelist Leo Merlin proves an elusive again it is Geoffrey of Monmouth who provides the official in his Merlin foretells Arthurs in Vita Merlini life of Geoffrey elaborates on the describing Merlin As a Prophet in Southwest Wales a Century after he helps one celtic King against another in retires to the Woods in grief when three of his Brothers Are but goes on teetering on the Brink of in How could Merlin Consort with Kings More than a Century apart All Geoffrey could do was explain away the inconsistency by attributing supernatural longevity to the Nikolai Tolstoy Nikolai Tolstoy approach was to Dis miss the references in Kings As fictional but treat Vita Merlini he reports finding historical evidence of the Merlin Story in Welsh poems dating to the 6th Century the texts refer to him As there also Are medieval texts de scribing an ancient King who kept a court madman called la Loken and to a Northern Irish who went mad in Bat Tolstoy conclusion Merlin can be established As a Pagan Druid or surviving in a predominantly Christian protesters Force Navy to close bombing ranges Carson a opponents of expanded military operation sin the area invaded three bombing ranges at fal Lon naval air station on forcing officials to close the bomb strewn areas in a search for camouflaged chief Petty officer Steve spokesman for the about 60 Miles East of Carson said the protesters endangered themselves and searchers who hunted for them in the Brushy ranges where there Are unexploded they succeeded in closing Down our but at the same time they succeeded in undermining the combat Readi Ness of Navy he the incident delayed training involving 57 planes at the navys main West coast bombing and flight training the fourth Range used at fallen had been closed the protest was organized by a group known As the coalition of Rural Ameri spokesman Richard Bargen said three each made up of a few slipped onto the bombing ranges before and the Navy was notified before daily training he said the teams planned to leave at Bargen said members of the group want an Independent report on the Impact on Central nevadans of increased activity planned at the including the Impact of More sonic Burghardt said training would resume once the Navy is certain the protesters have left the but Bargen said his group May Send More people onto the desert bombing which Range from about to he said another move May be made in about two weeks and continue every week or two if Bargen said his group wants the Navy to comply with the Peoples constitutional rights Are they cant do this to the idea is a peaceful kind of he we dont want to Wii hero Dies Texas a John Harold who won the medal of Honor in world War has died of a heart he was a Marine corps he received the nations highest medal for action on iwo Jima on March besides ground the Navy also used a plane and a helicopter to look for the Burghardt said that anyone caught on the three ranges would be re moved because the ranges Are directly and undisputed Day under Navy Dick Holmes of concerned Rural Nevad ans confirmed the latest but said his group didst organize Holmes and others have been camping on the previously closed Bravo 20 Holmes said he was told the Navy base was advised there Are including women and on Bravo 17 and 19 bombing the Navy suspended bombing practice on the Bravo 20 Range last month to clean the officials protesters there Arent being removed pending Resolution of a dispute Over the control of the