European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 30, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday August 30, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 3 hassle taken out of Clearing quarters by Connie Dickey suit writer Hanau Germany Sarah Ingram has been going through the Job of Clearing quarters for 11 years. This week was the first time she did t get headache. I be always hired cleaning teams before and Thev can be expensive the Wile of 1st sgt. Roosevelt Ingram said. None of them Cost less than $300. This time the inspector just walked through and looked for damages not to see if the place was spot less. It was so Nice. I loved  Ingram s Relief Al Clearing quarters without expense hassle or stress is thanks to a suggestion implemented under the Model installation program. In november a German company began cleaning All family quarters when they Are vacated. The Community picks up the Cost. It is one of our most popular mip suggestions said col. Bruce Wilson acting Community com Mander. This is definitely something that most of the soldiers Here Are interested in and results can be seen  during its first five months the suggestion saved the government about $52,000 in temporary lodging allowance payments and saved soldiers about $22,000 in cleaning team fees. In the past whether families decided to clean their quarters themselves or hired a cleaning team they had to stay in hotels a week to 10 Days waiting for the quarters to pass inspection. Based on a staff sergeant s pay a family of four could run up $650 temporary lodging allowance for 10 Days. Now families spend about three Days in hotels so you can see How much is being saved Wilson said. If a family decided to clean their quarters them selves it was usually stressful because of the require ments taking the stove apart scrubbing the Toi lets cleaning the windows. Families deciding to hire a cleaning team could spend from $300 to $400. Families now Only have to Broom clean quart ers before Clearing. They Only have to sweep takeout the garbage empty the refrigerator things like that. They Don t have to worry anymore about clean ing Wilson said. Sgt. David w. Gullickson said Friday it was a Relief not to have to make his quarters  the time we cleared quarters before i Felt the inspectors went through with the attitude of this is a White Glove inspection this Way is so  for staff sgt. James Fox the mip suggestion gave his wife a break. I be been in the army 10 years and we be had to Clear quarters before but my wife always did most of the cleaning herself. I helped a Little but i can Tell you this is a lot better for the soldiers. We went ahead and cleaned pretty Good though just because i would be embarrassed to leave things dirty. But i think this Sugges Tion ought to be  Hanau is one of two Usa eur installations participating in mip. Other european Model installation communities Are Neu Ulm Germany Raf Lakenheath England and Rota naval station Spain. The program sponsored by the defense depart ment allows commanders to improve their installations by cutting red tape eliminating unnecessary paperwork or regulations saving Money increasing benefits and improving Quality of life. Since Hanau became an mip installation in octo Ber 1984, it has submitted 233 proposals. Almost half 115, have been approved by the level corps Usa eur army Dod or Congress where the Rule originated. Right now we need More proposals and we Are not getting As Many submitted As we did when we began he said. Wilson said Only about i percent of Dod installations Are in the test program. I m All for mip. It is a smarter Way of doing things. A common sense approach he said. If a suggestion is found to be Good at one mip installation the other installations within the pro Gram can choose to try it Wilson said. Eventually the suggestion could result in regulation changes and be implemented army wide. He said Hanau was selected for the program be cause of the variety of units within the Community and its Large geographic area. We Are hoping it will be expanded. We would love to see some of our ideas that have worked so Well Here be implemented elsewhere he said. Other popular proposals implemented in Hanau include setting up a re employment contract for teachers aides who were formerly dismissed each june and rehired when school resumed Selling old Library books waiving the six month Rule for hiring unitary retirees and eliminating the Driver s Orien tation for people who Are renewing their Usa eur Driver s License. Trost answers Post article Admiral defends Navy s newest destroyers by Carlisle . Trost special to the Washington Post a recent Washington Post piece depicted the Navy s new dog 51 Arleigh Burke destroyer As a billion Dollar Hole in the  contrary to that depiction the Arleigh Burke class ship reflects Many years of research and conceptual Effort. It will be one of the most capable destroyers Ever built and one of the most important surface shipbuilding programs the Navy has undertaken in recent years. The emergence of a threat from sea based tactical air the increased firepower of potential adversaries combatants and an increased submarine threat present a Complex Challenge. No longer Are there Safe or Low risk maritime Heaters in the world. The threat today is Modem sophisticated highly lethal and will come at us in significant numbers. The Challenge to build More capable and survivable surface combat ships has never been greater. In conceptual terms fundamental principles of naval warfare have not changed Over the years. But the level of sophistication required to operate effectively in current and future environments has changed drastically. Rapid and extraordinary improvements in anti ship cruise missiles by the soviets for example and extraordinary growth in numbers of ask launchers Between 1960 and 1986, have made the pre sent inventory of guided missile destroyers obsolete. Continuing to modernize further older destroyers with state of the Art equipment is no longer practical or in Many cases feasible. Destroyers used in world War ii were Quick fix Gap Craft pressed into service because we had Stopgap failed failed in the 1920s and 1930s to provide the capita investment to meet the threat posed by the modernization programs of our enemies. Those destroyers were primarily platforms designed for Short Range defens be Battles and were pieced together with new offensive systems As the War developed. In retrospect it is no surprising that these ships although deftly commanded by people such As adm. Arleigh Burke had a survival rate of Only so percent in the Solomons. The same capital investment mistakes made in the pre world War ii Era must not be made now. The Arleigh Burke class of ships is being built to meet the threat of today As Well Ashe threat of 21 is Century Long Range cruise missiles and torpedoes. This ship will reflect the Wisdom of the deck plates laboratories and lessons Learned in worldwide exercises and operations. The size and design clearly reflect the input of officers and sailors on the pointed endow the gun who Are currently found in daily con tact with our potential adversaries. The Arleigh Burke adm. Trost class represents the first destroyer designed from the keel up that incorporates All the characteristics Nec Essary to be effective in today s environment. It will adequately protect the sea lines of communication from the potential threat. It will include both the defensive capability required by the threat and the offensive capability to strike at the source. The High technology incorporated into the dog 51 translates directly into those attributes Burke himself possessed in War Speed Surprise and Force of numbers Speed the Mach 2-plus surface to air missile the dog 51 carries has the Speed to reach out quickly and kill any aircraft that comes within Range. This Speed in combination with the Quick reaction Aegis weapon system will meet the anti ship missile threat Well into the next Century. Surprise the Tomahawk cruise missile which flies hundreds of Miles to strike a threatening enemy ship at sea or destroys an aircraft parked on the apron of a Distant enemy Airfield qualifies As Surprise. So does a lamps Mark Iii anti submarine helicopter being controlled by a dog 51, which pounces on a enemy submarine threatening the Battle group. Force of numbers the new and less complicated vertical launch missile system of the dog 51 will permit it to carry a mix of 90 surface to air surface to surface or anti submarine weapons. The firepower available in one dog 51 exceeds that in the entire by of Fletcher class destroyers. The dog 51 incorporates Ninny of the survivability lessons Learned and released since world War ii. First the ship will Mark the return of All steel construction for . Ships. Second extensive topside Armor will be placed around vital command electronic and machinery , better and redundant firefighting equipment will allow the ship to withstand damage. Fourth noise and infrared suppression systems in combination with other electronic gear will make the dog 51 difficult to Delector target. And finally protective systems will guard against nuclear biological and chemical agents. Hard ening systems also will provide greater Protection against nuclear and Thermal blast. Controlling costs to meet affordability goals has been one of the major challenges of our planners and program managers involved in the Arleigh Burke destroyers. To Date these challenges have been  Between shipbuilders and productivity increases in the Industry have been the principal Means of reaching our goals. Dog 51 is designed As the Multi Mission surface combatant of the future that Best balances required War fighting capability and affordability. It represents the most versatile yet least costly destroyer option available. The writer is cruel of Neval opere lots report prompts a to revise prescription drug rules Washington a the veterans administration has revised its regulations on prescription drug use following a finding by its inspector general that a hospitals across the country were using some ineffective drugs according to a report published Friday. The inspector general found that during fiscal a 1985, 160 of the a s 172 hospitals used $1.1yeartcai 1 7o./t Vul a i million in prescription drugs that the food an drug administration had declared or expected to declare ineffective according to a report in the Washington times. The newspaper obtained a copy of the inspector general s report through the free Dom of information act. The inspector general s office said it found no Evi Dence that the use of such drugs would place the safety of any a patient at risk the times said. But the report recommended that the a immediately Stop using the ineffective drugs because Congress had outlawed their use for medicaid patients and be cause alternative Fra approved drugs were available. The inspector general s office suggested the a keep an up to Date list of drugs the Fra had declared ineffective or has not yet declared effective and rewrite its regulations to ensure the drugs Are not purchased the newspaper said. John w. Ditzler who was chief a medical officer when the report was issued last june agreed with the recommendation and took the necessary corrective Steps the times quoted the report As saying