European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 23, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                August 1985 Deborah Ketch looks Over Joey Machado shoulder As the 13yearold boy scout checks identification cards at Pitburg the Eagle scout the son of Joseph and Susan has been helping with base Security As part scout helps Check ids photos for by Kevin Goss of the requirements for a citizenship a base spokesman said Machado was instructed by Security police to Check cards for broken lamination to note the expiration dates and to match physical descriptions and pictures with the stars and stripes military Roundup Page 9 of Sarge finally taking off stripes by Chris Estes staff writer Frankfurt you know Hes an of Sarge right his face is his hair int much longer than the Basic training Cut he had in his uniform is like a second a constant part of his world War ii Veteran Gabriel Marroni is near the on he will have Given 41 years of military service to his country in the army and the National on he turns 60 and will retire from the id stay 10 years if they let he drafted in 1943 at the age of Marroni left his native Mason and was sent to fort for Basic he then was trained As an artillery fire direction controller at fort from there he went to an artillerymen in the 408th Field and the 408th went where they needed you he the 408th was sent to give artillery support to the 1st inf the 3rd the 7th Marroni was in the he has three Battle stars on Campaign ribbons Central the he crossed the Bridge at he walked through the devastation at near the belgian the main thing i remember is the and the heavy Cost we paid for a lot of this he Aachen was just there was a lot of injury and death you dont forget those Marroni has not returned to any of the towns he went through during the he remembers the Battle of the and the 101st surrounded at the 408th was with them Early we managed to get out of they they saved the course of the War if they the germans would have taken Bastogne they could have gotten to a lot of our major Supply he remembers being shot living through each Day without knowing if he would see the you dont take it one Day at a time you take it a minute at a he he remembers being in the thick of the War and not knowing where he we were always anxious to read the stars and stripes and find out How things were you didst know where you were or what you were doing half the but you found out How the Progress of the War was going in the stars and he still remembers the Willy and Joe cartoons drawn by Bill there Are other More pleasant the looks on the faces of people As you liberated photo by Lynda Sparks Gabriel Marroni a minute at a he the War was Over for then the War ended for Marroni and the rest of the troops in he became part of the army of occur and was waiting to be sent to the Pacific to meet a different As the wait wore word came of the atomic bomb and japans in the Spring of Marroni went discharged from the in january the National guard was Rem Obi Marroni signed and Marroni has had several Active duty Tours in the National no weekend he says of him he had gotten out of the regular army As a As a guardsman he became a first sergeant for 23 he spent eight years As a warrant officer running guard units while the commander and troops were on civilian the warrant officer slots were and he again became a first three years he was promoted to sergeant Marroni is stationed at fort he was recently in Frankfurt on temporary duty at v corps head Quad Griffitts Given German forces Cross of Honor in Silver Washington army Richard Griffitts has been awarded the German forces Cross of Honor in Silver in a ceremony at the German an army spokesman Griffitts was honoured for improving training and cooperation with the German 12th Panzer brigade in while he was commander of the 2nd 1st army div in Griffitts is assigned to the where he is Deputy chief of Public 7 Usa eur entertainers selected for touring show Germany seven Usa eur Soldier entertainers have been selected by the department of the army for participation in the 1985 army Soldier touring a 1st personnel come spokesman soldiers selected for the show will arrive at fort to begin rehearsals for an 12 command performance at Constitution Hall in following the troupe will begin a 65day tour of the United Usa eur soldiers selected for the 1985 army show Are 4 Catherine he 3rd inf div 4 Vanessa 2nd 189th army training come co 4 Kimerlin he 3rd inf Wuerz specially Howard he 197th Ord Pinna 5 Lillie 53rd army support bad Ira 596th Maint Steven 92nd my of director of civilian personnel to retire after 30 years service Washington a Craig the air forces director of civilian personnel for the past eight will retire this month after More than 30 years of government a Pentagon spokesman a native of has received several honors for his including the meritorious executive rank award and the air Force award of meritorious civilian he will step Down the Pentagon a Succes Sor has not been some schools delay opening Germany children at four communities in Germany will get an extended vacation because of delays in school construction a schools spokesman said the two elementary schools in Frankfurt and the Junior High school will not open for classes until said Noel spokesman for the Germany Region of the department of defense dependents the opening Day at Munich High school has been delayed a until Span Dahlem elementary school will not open until 28 for children in kindergarten through Grade and not until 3 for grades four through at Pitburg a the Middle school and the High school will not open until according to base six other schools had considered delaying the beginning of the school but Tillman said they have All decided to Start on the school year begins the delays Are the result of construction and renovation projects that were not completed during summer Tillman the missed Days will not be counted As absences for the nor will the time have to be made up later in the school school officials Are confident the missed work can easily be made Tillman will be in for Tillman teachers will be focus on i service training and the schools improvement the construction is part of million spent by Dodds this year on construction and renovation projects at schools in he