European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 27, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday june 27, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 5 Pentagon reviewing of contracting service with largest procurement punishes fewest contractors Washington a Pentagon investigators Are reviewing air Force records to learn Why inc service punishes errant contractors less frequently than the army or the Navy although i has the largest procure ment budget a defense department spokesman said wednesday. The office of the department s inspector general recently began the review which should be finished this fall said Jim Turner a Pentagon spokesman. Michael enc hard assistant inspector general for Crimi Nal investigations policy and oversight is conducting inc review but was not available for comment. Last year the air Force barred or suspended 57 contractors involved in its $40.6 billion procurement program while the Navy punished 191 contractors air Force recruits inducted in Honor of Vietnam vets Washington a using inc Vietnam a ctr ans memorial As a backdrop he air Force on wednes Day inducted 84 Young men and women into service As inc first class dedicated to those who served in the Southeast asian War. About a third of the group of recent High school graduates had parents who served in Vietnam said chief master sgt Robert Jacques whose idea led to the special ceremony. Jacques head of the recruiting Squadron a Andrews fab said thai since coming to Washington he has wanted to do something for the Vietnam veterans. I was there in Vietnam in 1969 and came Back. In 1970 my Best fiend got killed. When i came to the city1 asked myself How can we pay tribute to every Viet Nam Veteran " he said he got the idea after visiting the memorial with its gleaming Black Granite Wall bearing the names of the War dead and the nearby statue of three soldiers. We wanted to pay tribute to those fallen and those who served and Lei them know we cared he said. The recruit from Maryland Virginia West Virginia and the District of Columbia were asked As they signed up if they wanted to be part of the group called the Vietnam Veteran memorial flight. They will go to Basic training together at Lack Landaff in san Antonio Texas and 6e followed by the recruiters As they Progress through the service. On wednesday the recruits stood with their patents on Al Grassy Knoll a few Yards from the memorial an were sworn in by la. Col. J. David Luna chief of base operations at Andrews fab. Luna was a prisoner in Vietnam for six years after being shot Down Over Hanoi in 1967. They then went 10 a luncheon at Andrews and at tended another ceremony in their Honor. We had certificates specially made for them signed by Gen. Andrew p. Lose who is in charge of the air training command Jacques said. They got hat Sand to shirts with the picture of the soldiers statue there has never been anything like this  and spent s32.7 billion and the army penalized 182firms while spending air 6 billion. Companies Are barred or suspended from work when the government believes hey have been cheating or overcharging. Most actions arc taken against Small contractors although in recent highly publicized cases the  twice suspended general dynamics corp. In connection with fraud and the air Force stopped buying from he general electric co after the company was indicted for allegedly filing false claims on a missile Deal. First word of the review of air Force suspensions came in a speech by the head of that service s suspension panel during a contracting symposium held last week in Ohio the Philadelphia inquirer reported wednesday. The review began because they Don t think our numbers Are High enough said Ira Kemp air Force associate director for contracting and manufacturing. We do not Debar or suspend everyone thai comes to us Kemp said in the speech. We iry to use reasonable thinking which sometimes Means giving someone another  some people look at debarment and suspensions As a body count Issue he said. We do not look at Ilas a body count Issue it is an Issue of protecting the interests of the United states  Kemp was not available for comment wednesday according to other department officials who said they did not expect further Pentagon comment until the review is Complete. Preferred ski site designated Washington a the Pentagon on wednesday designated Falcon air Force station in Colorado As the preferred site of experimental facilities for the strategic defense initiative organization which is directing research for president Reagan s Star wars system. The announcement issued by ski chief la. Gen. James a. Abrahamson did not indicate the pro posed Cost of facilities to built at the site and spokesmen were not available to elaborate. However in was expected that most Star wars research would continue to be performed at govern ment and private laboratories away from the base. Reagan launched Star wars in March 1983, and wants to spend $70 billion on research to allow . Leaders to decide in the Early 1990s whether to de ploy an advanced space and ground based missile defense system. A sceptical Congress Cut the president s proposed slur wan budget for this year and appears Likely to slash his request of j5.4 billion for next year. The Falcon station designated As the National lest bed for ski is expected to provide a comprehensive capability to stimulate and evaluate alternative strategic defense and Battle management control communications and  the announcement said. The site will include a number of geographically separated experimental simulation and technology validation facilities which will be integrated with each other it said. Lesbian lieutenant won t resign Mineola . Up1 an administrative offi cer for the new York air National guard said wednesday she will not Bow to the military s demand that she resign because she is a lesbian. I m not a quilter Ellen Nesbitt 33, of farming Dale said. I m fighting not just for myself but for he thousands of others who were forced to resign or were discharged because they Are  she said the military regulation that Stales Homo sexuality is incompatible with military service is in just and  my sexual preference has never interfered with the performance of my military duties Nesbitt said. She said her Battle to remain in her administrative Job As a 2nd lieutenant in the new York air National guard s 274lh combat information systems so in Roslyn has the full support of my colleagues  Nesbitt who works full time As a welfare examiner for the Nassau county department of social service sin Mineola said she admitted she was a lesbian last july during a Security clearance interview after she became a 2nd lieutenant. Did not try to hide it she said. I would t lie about in because i have to live with  feel quite comfortable with who i am and 1 think it is shameful Hal i have to justify my existence Nesbitt said. She said after she revealed her sexual preference inc investigator asked her if she had Ever been arrested or received  found these questions to be extremely humiliating pcs Bill  april she was notified by air National guard officials she could resign and receive an honorable discharge or submit arguments for her retention in the service to the adjutant general s office before july 20.she said she did not hesitate in making her Choice and the military in other cases involving homosexuals. I realize that this Effort is Goin to be very frustrating but i intend to go through with it she said. I have every intention of finishing 20 Yeara or More of part time military  joined the air National guard As a Mechanic in 1977. In 1983, she transferred to an administrative Post As an enlisted person and was commissioned after receiving officer s training in Knoxville Tenn. . Issues stamp honouring air Force Pioneer Arnold Gladwyne Paap the . Postal service unveiled a commemorative stamp wednesday during Cele bration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Gen. Henry Hartey Hap Arnold who helped develop the . Army air corp into the . Air Force Arnold who died in 1950, was the Only person 10 serve As a five Star general in the army and the air Force. He was also the Only five Star general in air Force history. The stamp was unveiled at the old guardhouse inn in Gladwyne. The Phil Adelphia suburb is the site of the Arnold family Home. President Reagan seat a message saying in honouring the memory of Hap i Arnold you pay tribute to a giant. Me loved his country so fiercely that he fought his whole life Long to see that our defences were second to  Arnold was a 1907 West Point Grad uate. He look flying lessons from the Wright Brothers. During world War i he organized the air defense of the canal zone after Chewar he transferred to the newly organized air service. Before and during world War ii. Arnold fought for expansion of . Air Power. Arnold became commanding general of the army air Corpt in 1942. Me re tired in 1946. Arnold wrote a nimber of books including books for boys to develop inter est in flying. Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. June 27, 1946 the . War department released inc first Post War casually Roll that lists 308,978 dead and missing among More than 10 million men and women mobilized into the . Army in world War ii. 30 years ago today. June 27, 1956 United steelworkers president David Mcdonald called a meet ing of the Union s wage policy committee in new York presumably to vote on a Compromise contract proposal. 20 years ago today june 27, 1966 ten thousand screaming chanting demonstrators surged to Ward the tense heavily guarded state Capitol in Jackson miss., to Climax the civil rights Anarch thai James Meredith began nearly alone three weeks ago. 70 years ago today. June 27, 1976 composer Johnny Mercer 66, who won Academy awards for bit songs Moon River and Days of wine and roses died at his Bel air calif., Home. Mercer underwent brain surgery last March