European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 7, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Thursday. August 7,1986 the stars and stripes Page 3 medical team helped Jenco specially easing sex captives transition Eis pm by l in vow amur. L4. Col. Citrin Neptune Fot Lowi inc her. Lawrence Jenco Down Al Plue step at Ritin Moln Al. Syjud Sarasohn medical writer Heidelberg when moslem extremists re leased the Rev. Lawrence m. Jenco last month a Lillic known medical learn flew to Syria to help the former hostage make inc transition from Captivity id Freedom. Team members also were in Egypt 10 Greet hostages from inc cruise ship Achille Lauro and to console members of the 101st airborne div after 24 e of their comrades were killed in a Gander Newfoundland plane crash in december. The learn also counselled an american tour group returning to Germany from in soviet Union after inc chernobyl nuclear Accident. Known As the stress management team inc 7ih medical come unit works to prevent stress reactions including sleeplessness and anger from coming Home with returning hostages. Combat experience has shown it s Best to treat mental health problems As Clow As possible to inc site of the trauma said Leam Mem Bers la. Col. Calvin Neptune and or. Maj David Mcduff. The . European come and 7lh medical come created the learn following the s experience at lands Uhl regional medical Center with injured marines evacuated from their bombed Headquarters in Beirut Neptune said Neptune a 7th medical come social work officer said lands Uhl medical personnel recognized inc marines need for a support group in which they could discuss heir feelings about losing their friends or about going to sleep in Beirut and waking up in a Hospital in Germany. The team took to the air for the first time in june1985, when Twa hijacking hostages were released. The Core Leam of six headed by or. Col Robert Sokol 7th medical come psychiatry consultant includes psychiatry and social work specialists from 7th medical come and the Hospital in Heidelberg. Itcan be expanded depending on the situation. When the tour group resumed from the soviet Union personnel from the Hospital in bad Cann Sittl joined thelmam. The team assesses the emotional condition of the people involved then starts working with those suffer ing the most acute emotional problems. They continue working on flights Back to Germany where former hostages undergo medical exams at the Wiesbaden air Force regional medical Center sometimes their work seems simple Ordinary conversation getting a cup of Coffee for someone sitting close by. One Achille Lauro hostage told Neptune "1 never knew they had Olti cers for flight team members focus on seating patterns and Hel natural groups stay together. Group support even when it s simply a presence has tremendous therapeutic value they said. Americans from the Achille Lauro already were a Light knit group Chuff said. Many were lifelong friends and older pc pc. They had a wealth of life experience to draw from Mcduff said. There was a lot of stability in this group. They were extremely objective about whal had happened that s not to say they were not angry or Jenco did not have a natural support group because he was the Only hostage released me Duff and Neptune said. So they formed one for him including Terry Waile the special envoy of the archbishop of Canterbury and a Friend who was in the Middle East. The group flew to Germany with Jenco and drove with him from Rhein main a to the Wiesbaden Hospital. Shortly after release hostages Start reviewing and judging what they did and Felt during Captivity Mcduff and Neptune said they Don t Label the experience As abnormal. The Label what they were thinking feeling and their behaviour As abnormal Mcduff said. Team members Tell the hostages they acted normally Given abnormal circumstances. Also they Point out that the anxiety disorientation guilt and anger they Are feeling Are common to hostages it s the circumstances that arc crazy not the individual Mcduff said. Neptune said he Relea Mcd lesson one in social work business during the Twa hostage release Start where the patient is. The social worker said he had t understood Why the Twa hostages were silent and unmoving after he traded places with the terrorist guard in their Van until he realized the hostages had t recognized his Battle dress uniform. The moment he said he was with inc . Army the former hostages started cheering and crying. Everybody wears camouflage outfits Down there Neptune said. They were afraid they were being shifted to he control of some other Arab nation or got the news in a lightening Boll i assumed they had been told exactly whal it was going to program now in effect mandatory1 for those eligible wants to help families with special needs by Chuck Vinch Washington Burea Washington Only about 8,000 of the 30,000 families eligible for the exceptional family member pro Gram Are enrolled and officials want the others with special needs to be enrolled by oct. 1. The is screening family Mem Bers of stateside Soldier with overseas orders and All those already overseas to determine whether they should be included in the program. The program helps meet special educational and medical needs of family members by attempting whenever Mili tary requirements allow to assign sol Diers to locations where support is readily available said Fred Odom a spokesman for the Community and family support Center. The program has in effect gone from voluntary to mandatory for those who Are eligible he said. Problems covered by the program in clude mild retardation birth defects deafness cerebral palsy asthma and Epi Lepsy. Personnel officials speculate that sol Diers fear the program will adversely affect their chances for promotions schools and assignments because i somehow identifies them As special within the system. That Jusi in t so Odom said. The effect on the Soldier is not is no penalty for enrolling. 11 is not punitive in any Odom said regulation 600-75, which governs the exceptional family member program specifically prohibit personnel officials from providing enrolment information to promotion selection boards. Soldiers enrol by going to their local medical treatment facility to fill out questionnaires. This information is sent to a local program team which begins inc process of entering the data in inc s personnel computer system. When the Soldier s name comes up fora new assignment the personnel Center assignment manager receives a printout of the special needs of that Soldier s fam ily and attempts to assign him or her to a location where those needs can be met. If a Soldier has a family member with special needs it s obviously to his or her advantage to allow the to Odom said. At the same time the pro Gram enables the to allocate re sources where they re most . Songwriter Dies in boy George s mansion London a police said a new York Musi Cian was found dead of a drug overdose wednesday in a London mansion owned by boy George the British pop Singer who recently was treated for heroin Addic Tion. It s a terrible Nightmare said boy George s brother Kevin o Dowd 26, who discovered the body. When s it All going to end Scotland Yard said Michael rude sky 27, a song writer and electronic keyboard player was found dead shortly before Dawn in a rambling gothic style House owned by boy George in the affluent Hampstead District of North London. Boy George 25, whose real name is George o Dowd was not at the House at the Lime. Scotland Yard spokesman Nick Jordan said the Singer was not involved at the police Agency later said we Are no treating this death As suspicious. Boy George and his brother Kevin o Dowd have been interviewed and no further action is a Scotland Yard statement said an autopsy showed Rudetsky died of respiratory failure due to the intake of it said tests were under Way to determine what drug was involved. Jordan said no drugs or drug paraphernalia were found near the body and there was no evidence to suggest violence or criminal Rudetsky had flown to London to work with boy George and his band culture club said Elly Smith of Virgin records the Singer s record Label. She said rude sky co wrote sexuality for the band s latest album from luxury to heartache which reached the top 10 in the British and american album pop charts earlier this year rude sky had been staying at boy George s House with Kevin o Dowd who found him lying unconscious on the living room floor at about 5 30 a.m., Jordan said. Kevin o Dowd and three other people were charged july 8 with conspiracy to Supply boy George with be Roin. All four arc free on bail awaiting trial. Boy George noted for his effeminate gowns and makeup was convicted july 29 of possessing an unspecified amount of heroin and fined $370
