European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 08, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes tuesday. October 8, 1985 air Force Roua up tour lengths at some locations in Europe will be increased rando1ph Ami.  tour lengths will in  no a War in   in , according to air in acc manpower jul personnel Center official. Itic  mid the gluing is will affect people leaving Llie annl mental i nil cd Sutemi after dec. 31, or who to Mac from one overseas Luoin to aim Thor after the end of the Cir. The change will nut affect those already serving a unit at one of lie affected areas unless  Volunteer to serve a longer tour. Locations arc bidding a  to accompanied and six months to unaccompanied tour lengths to .16 months and 24 months arc Placon a and Sig Melki. Tal holy Loch. Rai Morman Mill and Thurm. Scotland and Brindisi Italy. Brawdy Wales will increase its hours six months for both accompanied and unaccompanied to 3d and 24 months. Ducimo Mannu Italy will change both the types and length of Tours beginning june i. After he change Here will be a 24-month Lour for those with families and a 15 month Lour for those unaccompanied. England based fighter units go to Spain for practice flights Raf upper hey word England is air Crews and maintenance and surf mrs people from the first of i rec Fighier squadrons of use 2 la tac fighter Wing began heading for the skies of Spain last week to practice bombing missions. The 79lh tac fighter so look eight Al i if aircraft 13 air Crews and about 12 support people to Arago a a according to a base spokeswoman. They will be using the air base until oct. 25 to practice Low level bombing mis Sions at the Bardinas bombing Range. Each of inc Wing s squadrons travels to Turkey and Spain each year to practice urn level bombing missions. The 77th tac fight or so will  the Spanish base from oct. 25 to nov. 15, the base spokeswoman said and the 55th tac fighter so will operate there from nov. 15 until dec. 6. Firefighters set standards for rescues from burning jets Pitburg a Germany is Safe firefight ers training to pull pilots from burning Fiss will soon have new Lime standards following tests Here last week. With Safe officials observing firefighters of the 36lh tac fighter Wing repeatedly pulled a Man from the Pilot s seat of a plane that simulated a crashed Jet. Firefight Cis at All Safe air bases must be prepared to pull pilots from any Safe aircraft. Their training will be done by time standards being set in tests Al several bases said James hotel a Safe fire Protection manager. Tests will be done at Torr Jon a Spain and Hahn a Germany to Sci standards for the f-16 Al Raf upper Heyford England for the Al 11 at Raf Alcon Bury England for the f-5 and at Ramstein a Ger Many for the f-4, he said. Methods used in a Rescue would depend on whether the engines were running on whether the aircraft was fully armed and on whether the situation arose outside or inside an aircraft shelter said master sgt. Thomas Vilh assist ant chief of training Here. . Team finds no remains in wreckage of Wii bomber b Jok my  Brenu Hahn Bureau twist. Germany sinking water Levels in a Moor near the dutch Border uncovered portions of a world War ii bomber and led to i Vii list weekend by . Army morticians in a futile attempt to locale missing  officials said monday. An unofficial team from . Memorial affairs Europe in Frankfurt was sent to the site at the invitation of the iceman ministry of defense said George Grimes a spokesman for the . Anny s 21st support come. Several pieces of a b-17 flying fortress were recovered from the Moor More the search for the main wreckage was abandoned Friday officials said. Portions of a Landing gear engine and fuel tank were pulled from the wetland area they said. By the time the army team arrived a decision had already been made to abandon the search because information on the crash was too sketchy. Grimes said. Nothing recovered at the site indicated where the plane might have come from. Grimes said. We will not be further involved unless the germans Call us Back in Grimes said. Four bodies were recovered after the plane crashed March 0, 1944. Said Hein. Grcic general director of the local administration in twist. It is believed that there were several   aboard he said. Mili said a b-17 normally carried a Crew of m ii. Tile wreckage surfaced last summer when unusually weather lowered the water table in the Moor and exposed the pieces Grove said. Preparation for the excavation that began late last week had been under Way for several weeks he said. The War materials removal service of the German police in Hannover made the search. A department offi Cial said the official report on the excavation would be available at the end of this week. A Safe spokeswoman Cape. Gail Hayes said the Lack of identifying markings from inc air plane was a major Block to determining where it came from. Recovery of world War ii aircraft is nol unusual especially in inc United kingdom where clubs have sprung up that Chart inc history of the military fliers of 40 years ago. According to Hayes. In september a world War ii Wellington bomber was raised from inc Depths of Loch Ness in Scotland where it had crashed in 1940. The peat Laden Waters preserved items in the plane so Well that salvages hoped to develop a Roll of film found in the aircraft. More than 12.000 b-l7s were produced during the War. The american fliers in the skies above Northern Europe during world War ii were largely based at eighth air Force Sites in England. Boost in allies Reserve combat units would add to deterrent official says army Roundup Brig. Gen. Ray takes command of army Engineer div Europe Frankfurt Brig. Gen. James w. Ray assumed command of the . Army Engineer div Europe on oct. 4, replacing maj. Gen. James Van Loben Sels who has been assigned command of the . Army Engineer training Center Al Forl Leonard Wood to. The Engineer division is the department of defense contract Agency for design and construction of military projects in Europe. It also monitors nato construction projects conducts engineering studies and provides technical assistance to . Military units in Europe. It is currently working on projects Worth about is billion. Before taking command of the division Ray was com Mander of inc . Army Engineer div Middle Easl. Aviation group will Host formal military Ball nov. 9 the army aviation association of America will Host a formal military Ball nov. 9 at 6 . At the Heidelberg officers and civilians club Patrick Henry Village according to an association spokesman. For reservations or More information Contact local Kaaa representatives or maj. Hank Hosteller Mann Heim military 2137-7198 or 8397. The ets prefix is 382. By Dick Hodgson  Bureau Ramstein a Germany the development of major Reserve combat units by nato allies could re Duce the need for massive Airlift of . Reinforcements in the Early Days of a potential conflict the assistant Secretary of the air Force for manpower Reserve affairs and installations said monday. Tidal w. Mccoy said congressional concerns about trimming the defense budget particularly in the area of suggesting overseas base closures Point up the possibility that inc United states is building up too much unilaterally. We Don t think so but we have to take their concerns seriously he said. Perhaps going Back to inc old ques Tion of Burden sharing they arc concerned that we arc doing Loo much and that our nato allies Are not doing As much. Most of the allies guard and Reserve units Are in More territorial or local forces All of which arc very Good he said. Particularly since hey arc in inc for Ward  Mccoy said it is appropriate that most of inc major combat units in Europe should be american because the United Stales has the Industrial capability to build i Host kinds of units. He said he would like inc allies reserves to contain More of the types of units the allies have in their Active duly forces. When we re fully mobilized in inc ., both the Active and Reserve Fon is we have 1.5 percent of the population mobilized he said. When inc germans Are fully , they have 2.5 percent. Interestingly enough Many of the Neutral countries like Switzerland when fully mobilized have 12 percent. Those mobilization figures reflect very different National geographical political and military missions but they show that a lot More can be done. To inc extent that the allies can do More Wilh their guard and Reserve forces we would have less of a need Fot these huge amounts of Airlift to bring . Troops into the theater in inc Early Days of a War he said. That is ver critical when we have to be Able to show thai we can quickly have a very Large and effective conventional deter rent to make any Warsaw pact decision maker think twice about what their numerical superiority might mean. We want to make sure they realize that they can t achieve the historical 4 or 5-to-l Ralio necessary for Success in a conventional offensive he said. If we can convince them of Hal and realistically thai can be done by perhaps a Lillic bit More help Wilh Reserve forces from our allies i believe it s going to have a major helping effect on our  in  2 italian agencies Are top bidders for travel contracts on . Bases by Charlie Bow Dun Munich Bureau Vicenza Italy commercial concessionaire con tracts have been awarded to two italian travel agencies to operate travel bureaus on american installations Here and at Camp Darby near Livorno Italy according to a spokesman for the Southern european task Force. Nine travel agencies submit cd bids to operate a con cession on the installations the spokesman said. Two bids were for outlets on both installations there were four bids just for Vicenza and three for Camp Darby. The automobile club of Italy s Bureau in Vicenza won inc rights to operate the travel Agency at de Croc Cavern and Taurus Viaggio of Livorno was awarded the travel contract for Camp Darby. The winning bidders were determined on the basis of proposals submitted to military contracting officials. Officials said the proposals were evaluated according to the firms ability to meet the services required of the con miracl and the percentage of the profit offered to the military. The contracts take effect nov. 9. With the installation Fri no Uteri d idling services required by fcbruarv1986, he spokesman said. The contract for commercial travel services is similar to a contract awarded by the . Army in Europe earlier this year to Barbarossa travel Agency of kaisers Maui can for travel concessions at army caverns in Ger Many. Later the . Air forces in Europe awarded a contract to Sun Tours of Mannheim to operate travel of lets Al air bases in Germany and inc Netherlands. Under inc terms of the contracts the italian firms will pay a percentage of their Gross profits to the local mor ale support operation. Automobile club of Italy will pay Vii a no Var the Fivi cars a Lac in act. Taurus 5hh in tract is for a viable percentage. Sure Contr a 3hrccnl .duri"8 " first 24 months of the 4 mar ii 5 ncrcasn8 1� 3.25 percent 3.75 percent and4 percent during each succeeding year of the contract the terms of inc contract in for airlines Chart flight. Ferlinc i  not to duplicate services of formation Tours and travel offices