European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 24, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Crane with vehicle radiators in background at Kaiserslautern. Continued from Page 13 until july of this year the Agency was renamed to underscore its reuse role a service that is touted As a second Supply source Lor Money tight units under pressure to hold Down spending. Dams carries out its Mission at . Regions in Ogden. Utah Memphis. Tenn., and Columbus Ohio at the european Region in Wiesbaden Germany and at the Pacific Region in Hawaii. The re utilization of military property has never been  says col. George j. Hehemann. Commander of the european Region. Hehemann attributes Success of the program to centralized management and growing customer awareness of the wide Range of property available. Property is stored at 138 defense  and marketing offices 14 of which Are in the european area. Al the Kaiserslautern office largest in Europe and second largest in the system. 500 activities Are serviced from an inventory of 11.000 line items. Tied into Battle Creek Headquarters the Kaiserslautern office is capable of providing equipment to customers anywhere in the world. From arms offices property May be requisitioned for military use. Transferred to other Federal agencies donated to state or local governments sold to the High bidder or destroyed when it has no further use or is not marketable through sales Helmut Jahnke. Chief of the re utilization division at the european Region stresses the reuse role which provides excess property to requisitioning units and eliminates the need to procure new equipment. In Europe some 30.000 line items valued Al More than $70 million the acquisition costs Are picked up annually by military clients. From 1974 to 1984 arms officials say property valued at an acquisition Cost of $7.8 billion was requisitioned by military customers. Re utilization is the key. The idea is to match Supply with  says. We need to Tell people what we have. And we need to ask the military services to let us know what they  to promote the reuse of equipment in Europe. Jahnke has three people travelling to major commands to sell the concept. It s most effective to have the customer come in and eyeball the equipment Jahnke says. And 75 percent of re utilization is done by visitation. But. That is not always possible. Where parts Are hard to find we recommend use of our interrogation system designed to spot equipment anywhere in the world if we enter the National Stock number of an item into our computer in Wiesbaden it goes by satellite to Battle Creek and in a matter of seconds we can Tell in the item is available anywhere in the system. Of course the Stock number is needed to search the system. Without it the system does t  ii there is no military use Lor excess property it May be donated to state or local governments. An example of such a donation might be a fire truck Given to a municipality. Property with no military or other Federal s & s photos by Lynda w. Sparks at your disposal reusing military property scrap lira at Kaiserslautern defense re utilization and marketing office rocket Container in Kaiserslautern at the re utilization and marketing storage area. Page 14 the stars and stripes tuesdays a