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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Tuesday, September 16, 1986

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 16, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                To suday september 16, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 9 Pitburg airman takes body building honors Munich Tilburg s Billy Yokely upset Safe Champion Domino Ortiz to capture the Overall men s title in the All service body building championships Ortiz from Torrejon a near Madrid won the Usab Tiue in july in a meet that included Yokely. Maryellen Campo one of several body builder in the meet from Hanau Germany won the Overall worn in s litle and look first in her division during the 5th annual International Munich bodybuilding championships said organizer Mark Schroder. The meet held saturday night in the Munich High school before a crowd of about 300, had 53 entrants 10 of them women. Schroeder said. The men s Competition was divided into four classes based on weight the women Inlo two classes Campo won her class up to 114.5 pounds followed by Mary Enanuel of Frankfurt and Rente Boykin of Augsburg Germany the class ii Winner was Chris Stevenson of Friedberg Germany followed by Gail Reiser of Parma was Germany and Maureen Migliazzo of Schweinfurt Germany. In the men s Competition the top three in each class were class up to 154.5 pounds Tony Brown Neu Ulm Germany Greg Abe Malhy Darmstadt Ger Many and Andrew Ferguson Bice Haven Germany. Cuss ii up to 176 pounds Yokely James Law rence we Wizburg Germany and Brodwick Moore Ansbach Germany. Class lit up to 198 pounds Ortiz Kevin my Neal Hanau Germany and Rich Galloway Bamberg Germany. Class in Over 198 pounds Danny Troulman Hanau Robert Gray Hanau and Bobby Williamson to Ebtinger Germany. Nav eur staff earns meritorious unit award London the . Naval forces Europe received the Navy s meritorious unit commendation for outstanding performance Over a 15-month period to a ceremony sept. 9, the command announced Friday. Adm. Arthur s. Moreau jr., Nav eur commander presented the Secretary of the Navy s award to Fleet master chief Petty officer Ron Cole who represented the staff. Members of the Headquarters staff were cited for meritorious service. From february 198 s to May 1986." sampled by Tow Stais and slip Natl lion rows wow. Two 1 Starm div members earn $7,700 each for Bright idea  Nuernberg Bureau Ansbach Germany two 1st army div sol Diers earned 515,400 from the army suggestion program by simplifying the red tape needed to sex lend soldiers foreign service Tours of duty. Chief warrant officer Andy Maxfield and capt t. Scott Lloyd each earned $7,700 for a suggestion officials say will save Usa eur s2.5 million. Lloyd the commander of the 177th personnel service co on Hindenburg Cavern got the idea from seeing the Way the air Force did business when he was stationed in saudi Arabia. They Only had two people to handle personnel actions and were doing the same amount of work that we the army were doing with 12," Lloyd said. He said the air Force used a computerized prompting system that automatically kicked out questions about the status of airmen. Lloyd looked at the Way soldiers Are extended and found that under the present system the sol Dick must initiate action to extend. He also discovered that the process requires each level of com Mand to prepare separate paper work and attach it to the Soldier s original request for personnel action a form 4187 Lloyd said Many requests would get loss on the Way or would be shovelled into somebody s hold Box until they could get to it. Soldiers often got fed up with delays or had too much Lime to change their minds Lloyd said. Lloyd went to Maxfield his chief of personnel actions and asked him to work out the details of simplifying the process. The result is a computer printout with All the information needed for the Chain of command to malic the decisions about extending a Soldier. At the top arc All the commanders signature blocks. All they have to do Lloyd said is read it approve or disapprove in and sign it. Nobody has to do any additional paper  and it s automatic. Two months before a Soldier becomes eligible to extend the computer kicks out the form and personnel specialists Send it on its Way. Mrs Field said that during a lest from october through december 1985. The division extended a by Tony Nai old capt. T. Scott Lloyd right and two Andy Maxfield. 11 60 soldiers. Noi Nally they extend 300. Savings to Usa Keur were figured on the basis of a 5 percent increase in foreign Lour extensions although Manfield cited a test figure of 35 percent. Savings were in two areas the administration and paper work savings and the much larger area of actual moves not being made As a result of the increase of  additional 1 10,000 suggestion award. Safe test eliminates social actions offices  kaisers Laulom Bureau Kaiserslautern if a lest pro Gram Al six air bases in Europe proves successful airmen in Safe with sub stance abuse problems or with an equal Opportunity complaint will no longer be seeking help at their social actions office. The 15-Monlh test will dismantle the social actions offices and move the serv ices formerly provided there to other base agencies. The program starts in no vember Al Aviano a Italy. We Don t want people to get the opinion that social actions is going away that they no longer have a place to go with their problems said it. Col. Steve Simpson Safe director of social action. Nothing could be farther Irani the truth. We see Ilas an enhancement of the  presently social actions offices have iwo branches. For alcohol and drug problems the social actions Agency pro Vides counselling and rehabilitation. In also works on Quality of Force matters evaluating the effect of substance abuse on Job performance. The second Branch of the office handles equal Opportunity problems. The test program places counselling and rehabilitation under a base s director of medical services Quality of Forre mailers will fall to he personnel office. Equal Opportunity complaints will be handled by the base commander s office or the Mission support roup. Test bases selected provide a Range in both size and location throughout the command. After Aviano the program begins at Halm a Germany and Raf Grenham common England in Jan uary at hell Nikon a Greece in february Zweig Wiecken a Germany in april and in Ciurlik a Turkey in june. A change in the nature of the air Force s substance abuse and equal Opportunity problems gave Rise to the test Simpson said. The social actions program started in 1971, with the air Force still involved in Vietnam. Bolh hard drugs and race relations posed major problems. Since then the environment has changed Simpson said. Alcohol presents a larger problem now than drug abuse. And a method of dealing with race and equal Opportunity problems has made those issues less explosive. We still have  Simpson said. You would be stupid to say that no problems exist but they Are of a Dif Ferent nature. We now have a system of handling the complaints and they use that  while other air Force commands Are trying different approaches the Safe test attempts to place the social actions program closer to a source of help. Simpson said with alcohol there Are far reaching medical problems. Thai s one of the reasons we think in should be More closely managed by the medical  and the changes Are supposed to in crease the Quality of service without in creasing the work Force. We Are eliminating the chief of social actions  Simpson said. Thai will be changed to a psychologist Posi Tion in the medical area dedicated to Al Cohol and drug abuse  the officers or cos formerly report ing to the social actions chief on equal Opportunity mailers will report directly to the base commander. The chiefs of social action at the test bases Are resuming 10 the United states As the programs begin so that no jobs Are being lost As a result of the test Simpson said. Simpson s office will evaluate the pro Gram by watching the drug and alcohol problem caseload surveying base com Manders before and after the test surveying the base population at Large be fore and after the lest and monitoring problems with the system. The test will continue until about sep tember 19ss. In sch new file found discarded on path London a a London newspaper said sunday hat secret documents detailing an expected reduction in Brit ish naval strength were found discarded on a path by the thames River. The mail on sunday said the file was marked secret and confidential and detailed How Britain s naval strength would shrink Over me next decade. A defense ministry spokesman con finned that certain classified material was found and an immediate inquiry into the circumstances has been  the newspaper said two people walk ing by the thames River at Sonning out Side London found the documents on a path Friday in two unwrapped bundles. Jozhe newspaper which Tum fens ministry. The newspaper said the documents originated at the directorate of naval staff duties and were marked for capt. . Goodwin the new assistant director of the office. Ii said the file showed the number of Britain s Polaris nuclear submarines would be reduced from 13 to 96 before they can be replaced British coastal Waters we to 47. A major Cut is planned in auxiliary ships supporting the Fleet at sea  
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