European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 15, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes August 1985 of officer finds As he just gets better with age1 by Dave Ideiil Bureau Jerry Mckenna As they a starving Young artist in the years following his College Days As an Art major at notre times were with one child and another on the he needed More income than the sales of his paint Ings joining the air Force As a second Lieuten ant  seem to be the logical move for a Man who took lop honors in Art while he was at notre but that what Mckenna if id been single i would have been Able to make a pretty Good go at Mckenna but i  support my so i decided to join the air Force and do a Little Twenty two years Mckenna is again finding his place in the Art but its different Hes found that sculpture an Art form he scorned As a student is one of his artistic the vice commander of the 6950th electronic Security group at Raf says his career in the air Force Hast dulled his ability As an artist its increased he says it All amounts to artists need the experience of he i just get better with the ohioan didst give up his love of Art in those 22 years he kept the Brush on the pallet from time to time and kept his cars and mind he says Hes a better artist for Hes spent 14 of his 22 air Force years Ive seen the utter poverty in Southeast Asia to the affluence of he without lifes any artist cant do As the struggle to establish yourself army Roundup european Telephone system coming to Fin then on Friday Germany the european Telephone system will begin service in Fin then Friday at 8 according to the 5th signal the new service will Only affect phones with the current military prefix of after the service goes into users must dial the Universal ets seven digit numbers for All both local and Long a continuous dial tone indicates the new system is people at other locations who Are calling Mili Tarot military into Fin then and do not have an ets phone should continue to dial the same num Bers As to convert the old military number to the ets use the information contained in the users guide that was handed out during the customer education an explanation is also available on pages s18 through s25 of the 1984 usar eur Telephone when the ets switch is turned the emergency numbers at As Well As emergency Calls to Fin then from civilian will change to 117 for 116 for ambulance and 114 for military the civilian Access code to Fin then will not to Call from a civilian phone to a Fin then military dial 06131469 plus the last three digits in the ets seven digit users May experience a 15to 20second delay when calling because Calls Are being processed from old switches to new ets military users having problems with their phones at Fin then after Friday should Call the ets hot line at German general awarded american legion of Merit Stuttgart German Wolfgang chief of staff for was presented the american legion of Merit the authorized by president was Given to Odendahl for his achievements in German american cooperation during his tenure As com Mander of the 4th mechanized inf div from sep tember 1982 to March j and your career makes you a better Mckenna didst find out he really had a Good hand for sculpture until about five years he was asked to do a bust of the late Bernie the former commander of the electronic Security i found out i was pretty Good at Mckenna most of his artistic endeavours since College involved since the larger Mckenna he has put most of his efforts into forming Clay into lifelike Mckenna said he used to think that anybody could be an he Doest believe that he says he Over the years As an artist and a College Art that what he has is a i used to think anybody could do because it was so easy for he i realized that want you either have it or you Ive got he that Why i have a real love affair with Mckenna Doest supplement his income with his in because he usually gets a copy of any sculpture he it costs him the rest is done for the Cost of not his time or he has done about 10 sculptures since he and Hes looking for More he wants the he said the holds for each Hal scale piece he does Cost about and every Bronze casting from those runs about Mckenna says most of his work has been for the air but one of his most impressive pieces is of Winston Mckenna says he Doest consider sculpture hard photo by Dave Lehl Jerry Mckenna with his bust of Winston Churchill he usually Doest spend More than about eight hours from Start to finish on any one but he says theres More to the Art than the time spent on a single the life experience has to be added really it Doest take eight it takes 30 if i didst have 30 years behind i  do he Safe unit centralizes control of electronic combat systems by Dick Hodgson Kaiserslautern Bureau Sembach Germany when the 65th air div and the 66th electronic combat Wing were activated Here in they opened the door to a new concept in electronic warfare in according to base John Scheldt commander of the new said the task of the new units is to bring together All aspects of electronic combat in Scheidt explained although All the elements of the new organization have existed for several they have operated independently of each other a situation that he says has not resulted in the Best possible use of safes electronic combat the division combines the ground systems of the 601st Tow tactical control Wing with the ef111 radar jamming capability of the 66th eco and the f 4g wild weasels from the 52nd Tow tactical fighter Wing at Span Dahlem he what we have lacked in the past is the centralization of All those sys now we will be Able to ensure that they comple ment each other in a combat centralized planning if we let everyone just do their own we  have the effect that will come about with centralized planning and he bringing every thing together will be an evolutionary we in the division will be developing the tactics and methods to be used Over the next we have to make for when an ef111 is jamming enemy it int interfering with the operation of the he there Are lots of problems which need to be ironed out and tactics which need to be developed to maximize our effectiveness against a potential the ef111 is an unarmed update of the air forces f 111 fighter bomber series that uses sophisticated electronic gear to Hurt the efficiency of enemy radar the f 4g wild weasel has what air Force officials describe As a Hunter killer Mission directed at destroying ground based radar and missile defense Scheidt also said plans Are being made to set up a nato electronic combat Range where aircraft and air Crews can train using the centralized control tactics his division is Safe officials said the Range called poly is a multinational the German ministry of defense is the executive agent for its on a scale of one to a we Are right now about percent into the potential of electronic 66th electronic combat Wing commander Frederick Zehrer this is the Only electronic combat Wing in the air and its the Best thing to happen to electronic combat in the air Force in its what were doing is a quantum leap for the electronic warfare when we get this concept fully it will be critical to All our National and Allied he we will for the first time a weapon system which will Cut across every services the army is going to depend on it in the close air support the air Force and the Navy will be affected in terms of their interdiction what we do in this Wing will Impact on everyone involved in a combat when we Send a specified number of aircraft into using the electronic advantages this Wing can a much larger number of them will be Mak ing the return flight Mission coordinator Behrers new Wing replaced the 601st tac control Wing As the Host unit at it is also the organization that will coordinate the missions of the 42nd elec tronic combat Sis ef11 based at Raf upper hey with the ground based radar and aircraft controlling equipment of the 601st tac control its kind of a strange Zehrer the Wing commander is at Sembach and his oper tonal aircraft Squadron is in a different numbered air Foi but Zehrer said there Are no plans to movie of ills to there Are millions of dollars Worth of facilities Al ready in existence at upper Heyford avionics facile new aircraft a new simulator is Hal built right he to move my Headquarters Over there Doest make much sense because it would destroy any close association we would have with the air and that would be counterproductive to the coordination and planning aviation consultant to 3 presidents Dies a Paul former director of the National air and space museum of the smithsonian institution and an authority on air Power who advised three has died at Johnston was an aeronautical aviation history naval officer and author who had advised presidents Truman and Eisenhower and served As a consultant to the Navy and the Central intelligence