European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 30, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday april 30, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 9 military Roundup Sembach a wins 1985 award for environmental Quality Washington Sembach a Germany is among the winners of the 1985 Gen. Thomas d. White Environ mental and natural resources conservation awards according to an air Force news release. Sembach won the overseas environmental Quality award. Other bases that received recognition were sey Mour Johnson fab n.c., for environmental Quality and Beale fab calif., for natural resources conservation. The air Force winners now will compete in the Secre tary of defense environmental awards Competition. June 15 entry deadline set for army writing Competition the entry deadline for a new Competition recognizing outstanding army writing is june 15. The main criterion for the chief of staff of the army s annual writing awards is that the writing be direct effective and Clear. The Competition part of the new army writing program is open to All Active duty and Reserve soldiers and department of the army civilians. The entries May be on any professional or military re lated subject of interest to the military Community including essays letters Magazine articles research papers Sto Ries and biographies. The entries must be typed double space on one Side of Plain paper and can be. No longer than 10 pages. Names should not be put on the entries. Instead contestants should attach a separate cover Sheet with full name rank or Grade social Security number mailing address duty Telephone number and unit of assignment. Sources must be documented and All work must be original and unpublished. Authors must submit their own entries. Manu scripts will not be returned. Entries should be submitted to the army writing of fice he training and doctrine come attn actg a fort Monroe a. 23651. 2nd signal brigade s dance cancelled Money to be refunded Heidelberg the 2nd signal brigade s 16th an Nual european signal Ball scheduled for May 17, has been cancelled a 5th signal come spokeswoman said. People who purchased the $25 tickets will receive re funds in the mail spokeswoman Donna Beach said. The ticket Money already is being processed for refunding she said. Profile Eagle scouts Mannheim Germany the transatlantic coun cil boy scouts of America has honoured five scouts in Europe with the rank of Eagle scout. Mason j. Branstetter ii of Vilseck Germany devised a program to Alert members of his Community to the Dan Gers of having expired medications in their Home then organized volunteers to collect outdated medicines. He also developed an environmentally Safe method of medi Cine disposal for the local dispensary. Branstetter 15, of troop 240 is a freshman at Vilseck High school. He is the son of it. Col. Mason a Branstetter and Marcia Branstetter. Joseph r. Mccauley of troop 58, Sembach a Ger Many and Douglass a. Borngasser of troop 232, Ramstein a Germany also planned and organized Community wide drives for the collection and proper disposal. Of outdated medications. Mccauley an 18-year-old Junior at Kaiserslautern High school is the son of it. Col. Robert Mccauley an Barbara Mccauley. Borngasser 18, a senior at Ramstein High school is the son of Frederick j. Borngasser and Sandra l. Born Gasser. Kenneth c. Richards a member of troop 156 at Ramstein a Germany created a puppet play to dramatize the hazards of drugs in the Home. The. Play performed before Ramstein and Vogel Weh american youth activities groups and All second Grade classes at Ramstein elementary school reached More than 400 children. Richards a 16-year-old Sophomore at Ramstein High school is the son of senior master sgt. Edward h. Rieher Ards and Linda a. Richards. Mark Alan Tribett 13, of troop 221 at Raf upper Heyford England achieved his Eagle scout rank by organizing and executing a 20-mile walk. The sponsored walk raised about $1,300 to Purchase and train a guide dog for a Blind person. Tribett an eighth grader at Croughton Middle school is the son of capt. William Tribett and Rosalita Tribett. Gwi i a  or Many careers Soldier finds army is Best in the bunch1 by Joseph Owen Stuttgart Bureau to Eslingen Germany staff sgt. Albert l. Kin was Only 15 when he arrived in Korea. The korean War was raging and King unwittingly found himself in the army. He and some Rowdy friends had joined a National guard unit in Fresno calif., just before it was activated by the army for 18 months. I lied about my age King said. I was in the ninth Grade. By the time he turned 21, he had earned a High school diploma had been married two years and had served More than three years in the Navy. He took an Early discharge with no plans for future service. Twenty seven years and almost As Many uniforms later King is Back in the army working As a food service ser Geant for the 299th support in 1st inf div fwd at Panzer Cavern in to Eslingen near Stuttgart. In the interim he served in the merchant Marine the marines the army Reserve and the air Force Reserve. Despite his habit of sampling various military jobs King said he will finish his career in the army. A the army is just the Best in the Bunch he  s no getting around  he has been a policeman a private detective a prison guard an insurance Salesman a nightclub operator and bakery partner. He has been to Mexico Canada Britain Chad Nige Ria Israel Egypt Singapore China and Vietnam. Along the Way he earned an associate s degree at Canada col lege in Redwood City calif., and picked up licenses to operate almost any kind of truck or boat imaginable. To me it s not unusual what i be done in my life the Gravelly voiced King said. I got to do what i Felt was right. I got to do what i wanted to do. I got the opportunities and i took  while in the Navy King travelled the Waters of the far East As a fire control technician on the attack aircraft Carrier Ticonderoga. It was a huge huge ship but after you got to know her she seemed kind of Small he said. After the Navy King floated from his father s construction work to a lumberyard and a steam cleaning business before settling into police work. He was a guard at a California state prison then a policeman at Stanford University and in nearby Santa Clara in the midst of violent student protests. He quit in 1966 to join the merchant Marine a two year commitment which again Drew him into the service through a Side door. King said he sailed on ships carrying soldiers to Vietnam receiving War pay when within 100 s8.s photo by Joe owe staff sgt. Albert l. King. I got to do what 1 wanted to  Miles of that country and he was attached to the Marine temporarily during that hitch. Returning to California King launched two enterprises which ended in disaster. He and his brother operated a bakery and doughnut company for More than three years before Competition drove them out of business. King Fig ures he lost More than $60,000, including a Home but a Sacramento nightclub he had opened in the meantime kept him from insolvency. Then the club burned Down. I was in a panic. I had just remodeler the inside of it and i did t have it insured 100 percent. 1 thought 1 did King said. He combed the want ads Landing a municipal police Job in Kamiah Idaho. King and his family lived in Idaho about seven years during which he narrowly lost a sheriffs election. The Winner named him chief Deputy. King later opened a detective Agency and one town hired him to probe its own police Force for prostitution and drug offences. He also joined the two Reserve units in that period. King turned Down a police Job in Alaska in 1983 to rejoin the army and see Europe. After stops at fort Campbell ky., and a tour with a multinational peacekeeping Force in the Sinai he was assigned to Germany i september. King now lives in the Village of Altinger with his wife Barbara and their daughter Barbara Ann 19, who is enrolled locally in the University of Maryland ., Bolivia hold joint Maneu vers Cochabamba Bolivia a joint  military exercises began in the heart of cocaine country monday despite bomb threats and opposition from coca Farmers and labor groups. About 300 american personnel will be in the Cocha Bamba and Santa Cruz regions until May 6 for the exercises and to conduct medical and dental programs in Indi an villages the  Embassy said. Many operations will take place in the Cochabamba upper Valley where thousands of Small laboratories turn coca leaves into paste that is refined into cocaine for the illegal american Market. The drug Trade has become a major element in the Economy of this impoverished South american country. Twenty american military doctors and dentists Are to visit Indian villages in the upper Valley during the Maneu vers. Gen. Raul Lopez Leyton bolivian armed forces com Mander said at the opening ceremony monday that the Maneu vers goal is professional zing the armed forces through the Exchange of techniques and knowledge from the world s most powerful military  he said the Maneu vers will help train bolivian soldiers to prevent resurgence of leftist guerrilla movements in Bolivia a reference to the guerrilla Campaign in which Che Guevara was killed in 1967. Witnesses said a bomb threat at the Santa Cruz Airport where a c-5 Galaxy aircraft unloaded soldiers supplies and six helicopters led to tighter Security in areas where american soldiers Are based. At least 300 protesters shouting anti american slogans greeted american troops arriving at the Airport Friday. John Caton an information officer for the  Armed forces said protesters surrounded and threatened him. On saturday bolivian military police took 24  Army Navy and Marine personnel into Capare the nation s main coca producing Region according to the  armed forces Public affairs office. American troops have set up a training Camp at puerto Villarreal in Capare. No incidents or threats against them have been reported. Last week a bomb damaged the offices of a .-financed program for reducing coca production and substituting other crops. Cochabamba police said there were indications the bomb was planted because of the Maneu vers. A group calling itself Hermanos Julian ran an advertisement in a Cochabamba daily newspaper threatening reprisals against american soldiers if the joint Maneu vers were held. Police and the  Embassy said they had no information about the group newspaper reports last week said the exercises would include spreading herbicides on coca plants in Capare a Lush tropical Region the size of new Jersey about 150 Miles Northeast of Cochabamba. Col. Victor Vargas of the bolivian army said monday that the Maneu vers were strictly military and do not involve anti drug operations. Eudoro Barrientos who leads the federation of Capare coca Leaf Farmers said members would watch for any attempt to interfere with their operations. The bolivian workers Central labor federation said the exercises interfere in Bolivia s internal affairs and strengthen the bolivian military which has a Long history of coups and human rights violations. Generals ruled Bolivia for 18 of the last 22 years but officers accused of human rights abuses and involvement in the drug Trade were dismissed after the return of civil Ian government in 1982. The  Public information office said the joint exercises Are the largest so far in Bolivia. American forces involved Are part of the Southern military come based in Panama