European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 21, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday August 21, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 3 547th engr in beginning change to mechanization by Connie dickeys Luft writer Darmstadt. Germany the 547lh engr in at Adley Barracks received its first tracked vehicle wednesday in inc Slan of its conversion to mechanization. A Usa eur spokesman said the mechanization impart of a Usa eur wide project to mechanize corps level combat Engineer. The 547lh engr in will Complete v corps conver Sion. The s4lh and 317th engr ban of the 130th engr brigade already have converted. In Vii corps 7th engr brigade the 82nd engr in has completed conversion Ana the 9th engr in is in transitional training. The 78lh and the 237th engr ens will be converted by fiscal 1989, the armoured personnel camera Are replacing the battalions 5-ton dump trucks. According to an information paper by la. Col Stephen Winsor 547lh engr in commander studies show the truck the prime mover of corps Engineer units docs not provide the necessary mobility or survivability to be effective on the modern Battlefield. Thirteen armoured personnel carriers one Light re covery vehicle and one cargo vehicle rolled into Nathan Hale depot on a train from Ger Bersheim Ger Many wednesday for the 547lh. The vehicles Are from rebuilt Slock said Cape. Randy Richardson mechanization officer. The battalion was Able 10 lest the tracked vehicle s Worth when a broken Railroad track almost slopped delivery. Since the broken track prevented inc locomotive from pushing the Flat cars with the tracked vehicles to the ramp the battalion a d a cargo vehicle it already had to push inc cars about 200 feet to the off Load ramp. Richardson said inc first vehicles will go to co c and the remaining vehicles should be at the battalion by october. The 547ih will have a total of 63 tracked vehicles he said. In addition Ilic battalion will receive three new command vehicles from inc Stales. We will turn in most of our 5-Lons," Richardson said but will keep some because we still have a haul ing Mission. Because of that our operators will be spread  Bui there is no plan to assign More personnel to the battalion he said. Training on the tracked vehicles will be in three phases Richardson said. We will begin inc first part of the training after labor Day and it will consist of classroom work. It will be a 40-hour course aught by Central Texas col lege. From there he soldiers will have 40 hours of hands on experience. We arc planning for about 30 to 40 soldiers per week to attend these training sessions Richardson said. He said the battalion has targeted oct. 3 As the Dale for the whole battalion to have completed the first two phases of raining. The third part of training will be when each of the units lakes out the tracks on bivouac for Field experience and learning to operate the vehicles under and verse conditions he said. 986 Csc will once again allow donations to All tax exempt groups by Joseph Owen Stuttgart Bun despite Reagan administration attempts to exclude some organizations from the government s annual Charity fund raising drive Federal employees will be allowed to pledge Money to any non profit Agency again this fall. The office of personnel management decided this week to operate the upcoming combined federa Campaign by 1984 rules opening the fund drive to thousands of tax exempt organizations according Toyama Page european representative of the National Volunteer health agencies. Page is a member of eur com j Csc coordinating group. He said wednesday the group now must decide on a system for picking the agencies whose names Wilt appear in Csc leaflets distributed in Europe and on the dates for he overseas regional Campaign. The Campaign probably will not be starting until the first of november which is extremely late said cmdr. Phillip Souza the Neucom Csc coordinator. We Haven t even started printing the  fund drive rules limit campaigns to a six week period in the fall. Page said and Dales May vary among the 500 regional drives lie said the overseas Region Campaign which generated about 110 million of the 1141 million pledged in All the drives among Federal employees last fall usually takes longer to get started than other regional campaigns because of printing and distribution obstacles. At the present time we re in no shape to say when the Campaign would be Page said although he predicted that it might occur in november and Early december. The Csc pamphlet listed 211 agencies last year but donors were allowed to designate any non profit Agency As a recipient regardless of whether it was  will be True again this year. The Reagan administration issued rules in april that would have dropped Legal and political advocacy groups from the list of eligible beneficiaries but sever Al agencies secured a Federal court injunction in june to Block the government s efforts. A probe will focus on health of female Vietnam veterans by Chuck Vinch Washington Burema Washington the veterans administration has asked civilian contractors to submit proposals for i studying possible Long term health effects among women who served in the military in Vietnam. I most studies of health problems among Vietnam veterans have relied on information about men since a relatively Small number of women about 7,600 served in Vietnam according to a a spokeswoman. This meant that for statistical purposes women veterans could not be identified for exposure to specific environmental hazards she said. This would be the first a sponsored study to do that. The a study proposes to examine the entire Viet Nam experience not specific incidents and its relationship to the health of women veterans she said. We re looking Ai the Overall picture. The Point is to see whether females who served in Vietnam Are show ing any Long term health effects compared to females who were in he military during that Lime but did not serve in  she said information from the study could be useful for female Vietnam veterans who May be seeking disability compensation. The a has asked that the study include a review of published scientific literature and a report on any Gen Der specific health problems associated with Chemi cals medications environmental hazards herbicides such As agent Orange trauma and combat experiences. A Pilot test to evaluate the proposals will be required before a contract for the full scale study is awarded. The army had the largest number of women in Viet Nam about 5,180. About 1,800 air Force women 4 so Navy women and 27 women marines also served in Vietnam. Nine women were killed in Vietnam. Two air Force nurses died in a plane crash an army nurse was killed by direct combat fire and six women were non Battle casualties. Little Sim Bordeaux arrives in Israel. Sioux Indian set for bar Mitzvah at wailing Wall Jerusalem a lil Lesun Bordeaux a Sioux Indian who came to Israel to celebrate his bar Mitzvah met president Chaim Herzog and said he is trying to strike a balance Between his jewish and Indian identities. Lil Lesun 13, of the Teton Sioux tribe in Spokane wash., wore a beaded Indian headband and a Blue Yarmulke the Skullcap worn by jew ish men or boys in prayer and religious study. Herzog a former army general and military historian invited lil Lesun to the presidential residence for a 15-minute Chat and gave him an autographed copy of his Book the Arab israeli  the president said he believes lil Llepun willbe the first american Indian to celebrate a bar Mitzvah at the wailing Wall. The bar Mitzvah is a jewish coming of age ceremony. Lil Lesun will publicly read a portion of the scriptures for the first time. The ceremony will be thursday at the Wali remnant of the ancient jewish Temple which is Judaism s holiest shrine. Littlesun and his Mother wire flown to Israel for a week s visit As guests of the National Al Al israeli airlines. After meeting Herzog the toured Jerusalem. Littlesun is a descendant of the Oglala Sioux chief crazy hone who with silting Bull and other Sioux chiefs wiped out Gen. George Cus Ler and his troops in the Battle of the Little big Horn in june 1876 in what is today Montana. Littlesun could be the next tribal chief if he is elected by a Council of elders when he reaches he age or 18, asked about the unusual combination of being jewish and american Indian Littlesun told reporters it s kind of like a balance.  is kind of like a wave that is going Over my India Ness. I m really into my jewish Ness now lil Lesun is considered jewish because his Mother Armalina Greenfield is jewish. Under jewish religious Law a child s religion is passe through the Mother. I Don t see anything strange about ii Greenfield told reporters. She said her Mother had also married an Indian. They re Nice looking men. You can t help who you meet an who you fall in love  Greenfield said her son divides his Lime be tween studying with a rabbi at a synagogue and going to Indian dances and tribal conferences