European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 6, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Wednesday augusts 1986 the stars and stripes Page 9 female Navy officer blazes Trail at German Academy byjoe Mapother Bremerhaven Bureau Hamburg As one of a handful of . Mili tary officers attending the elite leadership school of the German armed services Navy it. Cmdr. Caryl Buck is part of a minority. As the first woman at the Academy she is a minority of one. Anybody would be untrue to themselves if they said they weren t proud of being a Pioneer Buck said As her class prepared to break for the summer after the first year of the two year training program. But the limelight associated with being the first woman at the Der bund Estehr. A something Buck said she prefers to avoid whenever possible. Because of the fact that i happen to be the Only woman it tends to be noticed More than the average foreigner if i Don t appear at a school related functions i a Little More attention to my so called social schedule Buck said. After you be been in the situation a few times the irritants the annoyances that go along with being a Pioneer make it a Little bit harder to keep laughing. You hear the same jokes Over and Over again. But the 35-year-old Buck said she has had no Trou ble finding professional acceptance among those at tending the school despite the ongoing debate in German society on whether women should play a role in the nation s defense. Instruction at the Hamburg school includes lec Tures seminars and mock exercises plus twice weekly sports training. Class work is done in German which Buck majored in at College and during studies in Innsbruck Austria. Tactics politics and history Are major areas of concentration As Are various management skills. Buck said. Emphasis is placed on travel. By the end of her two years she expects to have an overview of nato defences throughout Europe and Turkey. You Don t learn a certain tactic that you can go running Home and say look Here s what i Learned at this school you learn what they know Buck said. And then when you Are together again say on a nato staffer some sort of joint staff working together you have a lot of insight As to Why they Are recommending what they Are recommending and of course that can Only help you work better Buck will work in the coming year with a French naval colleague and a German on a thesis on introducing women into the German Navy. Buck believes the group has come up with a new perspective based on the roles of women in the French and . Navies. If the paper wins acceptance in German military circles its Impact could stand up longer than som of Buck s other Marks at the Academy records in every athletic event she has entered. Buck was one of seven . Military participant sat the school this year. About 2,000 officers go through the school each year and Between 600 and 700 Are there at any one time. Unlike the american practice of maintaining sep Arate service academies the is a is photo by to Alpo tour it cmdr. Cyl Beck Central location for All branches of the German Mili tary. All 12,000 German career military officers attend the Academy but Only Loper cent Are selected for the two year general staff officer course. German graduates have an inside track for promotion to top staff positions. Suspect admitted spying of agent says Beale fab Calif. Up . Bruce Ott admitted he was caught red handed trying to pass secrets to undercover Fri agents dosing As soviet spies an air Force Security official testified. Oil 26, also expressed concern that he might be shot for his crime. Special agent Richard Certo of Theair Force office of special investigations said monday at Oil s spy court martial. Cero said he drove the airman Back to scale from Davis Calif., following Oil s Jan. 22 arrest. They la shoot me won t they Certo quoted Ott As saying. Ott of Erie pa., is accused of trying to sell classified documents concerning the top secret High flying or 71 spy plane at Beale to two Fri agents posing As soviet spies during a meeting in a Davis Motel. Ott was an administrative clerk in the 1st strategic recon so handling spy plane missions out of Beale. He made several unsolicited statements Certo said. One statement was you got me red handed. I la make a statement after i talk to a lawyer. When did you first get on to me?1" if convicted Ott faces a sentence of up to 32 years in prison. A military psychiatrist testified that Ott had the emotional maturity of a 13 or 14-year-old but was Able to discern right from wrong despite some personality . Robert Kooker of Travis fab near Fairfield Calif., said the behaviour i observed and heard indicated he was Able to have a motive make plans had certain flexibility when certain delays arose and was Able to modify his attorneys last week sought to portray Ott As suffering from mental and emotional impairments that prevented him from perceiving the difference Between right and wrong. Fighter Squadron vets look for lightning lady los Angeles a members of the 96th fighter so Are looking for their lightning lady the woman whose pinup was a Little fragment of Home during world War ii. My bet is that she is still around the Southern California area said former sgt. Dick Lingenfelter working As a one Man missing persons Bureau in search of Jackie Brundage. He Hopes she can be located before october when the Squadron and its ent 82nd fighter group hold their an Nual reunion in Atlanta. You know we were All Young dream ers during the War and she was part of those dreams Lingenfelter said. Jackie s picture was a Little fragment of Home like mail Call like Home movies that gave the Guys a Little extra encourage ment against the privations they had to Jive with the lightning lady was the idea of set t d Allen who has since died. I be Squadron decided it needed an exclusive pinup girl to Grace the gloomy Bare Walls of the enlisted men s club near Foggia Italy. Brundage was a 21-year-old clerk and Assembly worker in 1944 at Lockheed aircraft in Burbank where the p-38 lightning fighter plane was produced. She was picked for the pinup Over 38other female riveters clerks painters and Assembly inspectors. She was a composite of All that is Fine and Beautiful in the average american girl Allen wrote at the time. Her photo graph was installed on the clubhouse Walls and her name went on the nose of the Squadron commander s p-38. Maj. Richard Willsie the unit com Mander said her last Contact with the Squadron was a goodbye kiss he received when he broke off their Romance to concentrate on a woman he d met on a train. There were a couple of phone Calls after that we stayed Good friends but then i just lost track of her said Willsie now 66 and retired in Huntington Beach. He eventually married the other woman. Attempts to find Brundage have failed Lingenfelter said. Lockheed said employee records for the period were destroyed during a clerical cleanup in 1965 and there has been n9 response to appeals in Lockheed publications. None of the four Brundages listed in the Telephone Book in Pasadena where she was from Ever heard of her he said. House approves 2% hike in disabled vets benefits Washington a a Bill authorizing a 2 percent increase in disability benefits to 2.3 million veterans was passed monday by the House on a voice vote and sent to the Senate. The measure authorizing the Cost of living adjustment of ments veterans receive for service connected disabilities is estimated to Cost $156 million in the 1987 Fis Cal year. Payments Are based on the severity of the disability. The increase which would take effect dec. 1, also applies to dependency and indemnity payments to widows and children of veterans who died As a result of service connected injuries. Rep. . Montgomery d-miss., chairman of the House veterans affairs committee celled the increase a Small Cost item but very important to the severely wounded serv ice connected the 2 percent cos of living adjustment is essential to the continued Well being of disabled veterans and their families said rep. Ger Ald Solomon . The Reagan administration not ing that the Cost of living adjust ment for social Security beneficiaries is projected to be less than 2 percent has indicated it will seek to lower the disabled veterans cola when the Senate con siders the Bill. A provision that exempts certain disabled veterans Bene fits from cuts under the Montgomery Gramm Rudman deficit reduction Law has drawn a veto threat from the administration. Exempted from the cuts would be burial allowances for service re lated deaths Grants to help veterans buy wheelchair accessible Homes and certain education benefits
