European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 24, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday june 24, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 9 the Why Rinkor cod Cutey Donald sloth Bowles David Hoffman Nich its not of or Tonj Mike Turtle Barber Graf tank gunners Zero in on perfection  Bureau Hohenfels. Germany pvt 2david Nich milled deep in the Bell of his tank the Bottom or the  Hii buddies Call him Hoofman be cause of the skillful Way he uses his unusually wide feet to put the pedal to the Metal Down in the Driver s seat Oran 8th in div m-60aj tank. The four Man Crew he chauffeured during Crew level gunnery at Grafen woe hrs Range 117 hit the big triple zeroes 1,000 Points perfection but then so did tanks from the 2ndarmd Cav regt 1st Arrond div and. The Lisl continues to grow. Perfection in tank gunnery came As Challenge in april from the lint unit to do it under current standards. Two tanks from com 3rd so 2nd army Cav regt challenged tankers through out Europe to join the 1,000-Point dub Ana line up on the Border facing the bad  but that cavalry unit from Amber was using the army s new Abrams it Lank. The difference in equipment is not lost on Nich. I Don t see How anybody can miss with them a Nich  Queen s gunner spec. 4 Tim Othy Caley said he even turns off som of the systems on the older less Auto mated m-60a3. I Don t need All that stuff he said. Caley. Nich tank commander staff sgt. Mike Barber and loader pvt. 2 Donald Bowles belong to co a 5th ,68111 Armor from Mannheim Ger Many. They Are in Hohenfels this week undergoing evaluation tests after firing perfect scores at Grafe Woehr. People who dont know inking Don know what it Means to turn in a 1,000 Point score Caley said it s the superbowl without the $25,000  1st sgt. Willis Frazier has been Tanker for 18 Yean. He said a Good Crew on a real old m-4s Unk predecessor to the old m-60 can Oul shoot a bad Crew on a Brand new my tank. A perfect score he said depend son a Little Luck and a whole lot of Check ing checking  Crew members Call Barber  and if satisfied with his Security he pokes his head out of Battle Queen s Shell and directs the care and feeding of Bat lie Queen. Barber talked about the strategy his Crew employed in gunning for Perfec Tion. They re always scampering around on Bailie Queen late hours at the office. When we re on her we can t help thinking about tanking he said. Maintenance they say is vital Bot during gunnery and on the Battlefield. We started thinking 1,000 Point before december he said. The Crew works As one single mov ing pan. Of we argue occasionally he said but we argue like Brothers during preliminaries to Crew level gunnery the Crew purposely experimented. They asked themselves what would happen if we did t have such and such equipment then they went downrange As if they were crippled. We did t always get the targets but then it s Only table 8 Crew level gunnery that counts he said. They emphasize  often Barber said bunkers think they re shooting targets. The should think they re shooting russian  earned the Crew an uni peeled trip to London Given to Ihm Byi hair battalion. They also earned a Ster Ling Silver Coin along with a firm hand shake from 1.1. Gen. Sam Wetzl then inc v corps commander. The second highest shooting Crew received a trip to Paris what might next year s gunnery hold in store for Battle Queen surprisingly the Crew in t looking Forward to it. There were too Many generals too much  had to spit Shine our boots and crease our uniforms out in inc Field Barber griped Good hum redly. Caley outlined nest year s strategy next War we re going to shoot a 999score. That might get us to Paris plus somebody else will Nave to worry Boutall this  but at the Rale tankers throughout Europe arc taking up the original 1,000-Point Challenge 999 might Only put them in a crowd lied for last place. 6 speech therapists moved to Dodds schools by Mary Hladky education writer in the first move toward putting into effect recommendations of a manpower Survey school officials in Germany have transferred sin speech therapists out of education resource centers and into schools. Officials in the Atlantic Region and Mediterranean Region also expect to pare the number of personnel working in regional or sub regional offices. They Are awaiting information that could come during a meet ing twit week Between regional directors and Beth Stephens director of the department of defense de pendent schools. A draft manpower Survey completed by the  manpower requirements and documentation Agency concluded that Dodds is overstaffed an should Cut 19 management jobs during the next three Yean to save $2 million. One Turvey recommendation said 20 positions could be saved by ending what army manpower specialists described As duplication below eco services provided by the resource centers and the 7lh medical come for children with special education needs. Dodds Germany it the Only european school re Gion with the resource centers. Eight offices and two Branch offices Are located throughout the country each staffed with a psychologist behaviour management specialist social worker and educational prescription some have a teacher for the visually impaired and until recently six had a communication specialist. Communication specialists formerly known As speech therapists provide therapy and other assistance to children with speech problems said Dean Wiles education division chief. The resource centers and the army s exceptional family member program both evaluate and diagnose children with handicapping conditions. But educational and medical officials dispute the Survey finding that they duplicate services. They say the school program is designed to develop an appropriate educational program for exceptional children and provide speech therapy for children needing it White the medical program handles any medical causes of learning or communication problems. The six communication specialists transferred to schools for the coming school year Are filling spots vacated by departing school therapists. Dodds Germany last school year had 84 communication specialists serving about 1,800 children wit communication impairments. Those in the centers worked with All the schools in their area consulting with school specialists on cases providing in service training to school staff and handling cases referred to them by school specialists. The change concerns Center directors it will reduce the Quality of the team approach Forus somewhat said Ken Payne director of the Bonn Center. But Payne said if staffing cutbacks had to be made the proper position was selected. If they bad to choose one this was inc appropriate one he said. Papandreou offers cooperation against terrorism Iii Al a run prime minister government authorities were not Frame Gad Afy s regime for its alleged involve to Virga said Papandreou  i u re 1 11111 i���.-.-. I it in n Tain Mem chill of that a . A pm not a tin Athens up r "1/ a Andreas Papandreou a offered to co Ite Wilh tie United Stales and other Western countries in the struggle against terrorism the pro government weekly to Vima Taid sunday. Pan Androu made the offer in a Tetter to testut of state Owuje Shuta. Explaining Greece s position on Ter Ronsin the weekly said. Government immediately available to comment on the report Papandreou wrote to Shultz in response 10 a letter by the Secretary that deplored the prime minister s statements on terrorism during a parliamentary de Bate last month. To Vima said. Greece condemned the april is . Air strikes against Libya and has refuse to impose sanctions against Moa mar Gad Afy fitment in terrorism. During the parliamentary debate Papandreou Drew a distinction Between terrorists and Freedom  in concert with syrian presiden Hafez Assad whose government is also accused of supporting terrorism Papandreou called for a  conference to define terrorism. To Virna said Papandreou wrote to Shultz that he condemns terrorist actions committed by liberation movements out Side of the territory they Are trying to Liber ale particularly when they cause innocent casualties among third country nationals. But the prime minister rejected suggestions that a list be drafted of countries which allegedly Are involved in terror ism the weekly said