European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 24, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday. January 24, 1987 the stars and stripes Page 9 most cafes stores will be closed monday Munich Sas the majority of cafes Europe s retail stores will be closed monday Tor annual inventory As the system closes Oul it business year officials said. The inventories will no be limited 10 exchanges and could1 include closings Ai other cafes facilities such at pick up Point and con Cessions. The amount of time the stores win be closed will vary depending on he it of the facility and the amount of merchandise that must be  should Check with their local stores for exact times officials said. 6 of colonels nominated for brigadier general ramste1n a Germany six air Force colonel in Europe have been nominated for promotion to brigadier general. They Are Clifton c Clark jr., Safe assistant Dep Uty chief of staff plans. Lawrence e. Day. Commander 52nd tac Fisher Span Dahlem a. Howell m. Estes Iii special assistant to chief of staff shape Frank k. Martin. Safe Deputy chief of staff Security police. Peter d. Robinson commander 36th tac fighter Wing Pitburg a. William a Studer commander 81st tac fighter Wing Raf Ben Waters England. Their nominations must be approved by the Senate. 87 Usa eur Art contest open to id card holders Schwet Zingen Germany Community crafts shops in Germany Italy and Belgium Are sponsoring the 1987 Usa eur an contest Craft officials at Usa eur s Community and family support directorate announced. Soldiers civilian id card holders retirees. Family members and nato personnel with full privileges Are eligible to compete in the contest. Sixty Winner will be selected. . Army win Ner will Advance to the All army contest. All entries must be submitted through a Spon Soring military Community. Contest details and entry forms Are available at All Community crafts shops. For local deadlines interested people should Contact their Community Craft shop. Judging will Lake place March 4 at the Heidel Berg officers club. Army schedules briefings on using new computers Schwet Zingen Germany stubby pen lib and paper Are on the Way out of the army s  records  will be replaced at personnel offices in Europe with the tactical army combat service support computer system tacos. Tacos Means less paperwork for personnel clerks said Sec. John Kinin in nc01c of 1st personnel come s automation Branch. We Wilt be Able to input personnel files such As promo Tion Rotten assignment instructions and authorized strength files giving commanders immedi ate Access to these records. It also Means Lime saving in gelling this in formation to the military personnel Center in Alexandria a Kinikin and his Crew will be travelling throughout Germany to Brief the personnel Community on tacos. Soldiers outside the person Nel Arena who Are interested in tacos Are Wel come to attend the briefings he said. Briefings Are scheduled for Jan. 26. Kaisers Paulera 90th personnel and administration in Jan. 27, Ansbach 1st annd div commanders conference Jan. 28, Wuerzburg. 3rd inf div feb. 17, bad or Cugnach sch inf div and feb. Is Frankfurt 3rd army div. Briefing times and places Are available from local military personnel offices. New on Post Homes open in Wil Flecken by Mike  Bureau Wil Flecken Germany the doors to 105 new two bedroom Homes far lower ranking soldiers were ceremonially opened thursday and 48 More units Are expected to be ready in late april. Occupants began moving in Jan. 7, and the Las family was to move in Friday said Richard e. Grace with Tecken Community housing manager by april waiting time for e-4s through a Fis who want their families 1o live on Post should be Cut from one year to about 13 weeks Grace said. The 37 four plexus and one five Tex Cost almost 19 million according to information from the . Army corps of engineers. They Are part of 7fil military housing units approved for construction in seven Mili tary communities at a Cost of More than 149.5 million. The other communities getting new housing Are Mainz Babenhausen Kil Zegen Derheim Vilseck and Bundlach Bayreuth. The Wil Flecken project was the first panel Zed housing to be built in Usa eur. Prebuilt Wall panels and other construction materials were shipped from factories in the United slates and erected by German contractor. Features include a Kitchen with dishwasher private laundry rooms with Washer and diver and Carport. For spec 4 Darlene r. Slack of the 22nd personnel and administration in s regional personnel Center the move will mean More Cash in hand after payday. She expects to save about $250 a month by living in the new quarters instead of a three bedroom apart ment in Sandberg 25 to 30 minutes from Wil Flecken. That s not even counting the Money Well saw on Gas she said. Gertrude Munoz had been living with her Mother in Kitzinger since october so rent and utilities were not a concern for her and her husband staff sgt. Walberto Munoz of co a 54th eng in. It s just ridiculous what they re charging for econ omy housing in wildflecken/1 she Saidt even so the couple was looking for a place to rent so they could be together. We knew they were building these quarters so we stopped looking and took a Chance we would get one she said. They did with a View across a Valley in the Rhoen mountains. This is the first time Munoz has lived in government quarters and she likes it. " my husband can walk to work. That s real Nice. At least i have a car. Ii Means we can be together. He can even come Home for  number of . Serv remembers stationed overseas Rose in 1986 Washington a the distribution of . Military personnel around the glob shifted slightly last year with almost 10,000 More americans stationed overseas a new report shows. The shift while Small statistically moved the unite states closer to having a full Quarter of its military Man Power assigned to foreign Points either on land or at sea. Moreover in a continuation of a trend that has Bee tracked by the Pentagon for several years the number of dependents of Active duty service members spurted by almost 37,000 last year As More military personnel got married or had children. The new figures Are in a quarterly Pentagon report entitled worldwide manpower  the re port released thursday completed the figures for Fis Cal 1986, the year ending last sept 30. The report shows the Overall size of the . Mili tary grew slightly in 1986 up 18.080 to 2,169,112compared to 2,151,032 at the end of fiscal 1985. Approximately 33 percent of those additional service member 9,937, Drew overseas assignments. No single Region grew disproportionately in terms of military personnel. Rather Small gains were recorded in virtually every Region of the world from Antarctica to Europe Centra and South America to East Asia and the Pacific. By the end of fiscal 1986, the United Stales had 323,304 men and women stationed outside the country or 24 i per enl of the total Force. By comparison the Pentagon ended fiscal 19ss with 515,367 men an women Nalio Ned overseas or 23.96 percent of the Force. The air Force and Navy absorbed almost All of the increased manpower during the year with the latter service showing a perceptible increase in the number of sailors deployed aboard ships at sea. At the end of the fiscal year the Navy had 232,701 sailors listed in the category of afloat compared to225,745 in fiscal 1985, if Marine corps forces at sea Are included the number of military personnel afloat climbed by 9,780, or More than 4.2 percent in fiscal 1986 Over the previous year from 230,613 to 240,393. As for dependents the new report shows military personnel reported 2,918,017 dependents us end of fiscal 1986, up 36,770 from the 2,881,247 reported at the end of fiscal 1985. The largest increase in the number of dependents Casein the category of spouses up 19,041 from 1,158,214 to 1,177,255, the number of children in military families climbed by 17,475 during the year to 1,667,431, White the number of parents and others claimed As dependents remained virtually Static at 73,331. The Pentagon has tracked an increase in military dependents for most of the past decade attributing the Rise to the nature of the All Volunteer service and pay increases in the Early 1980s that helped convince serv Icem Ribers to remain in the military. All 4 aboard escape fiery crash of Marine copter in Arizona Yuma Ariz. A a Marine helicopter crashed As it tried to land in the desert thursday but and four Crew members survived the fiery Accident authorities said. Two of the four marines aboard the ch-5 3d sea Stal lion helicopter were slightly injured and the other two were unhurt said a Marine spokesman in Washington . The spokesman. Gunnery sgt. Bur Bardl said the helicopter was flying with another chopper Back to their base at the Marine corps As in Tustin. Calif., when the other Craft developed Hydraulic  Crews decided to land in the desert. The Bird landed Loo hard and it erupted inflames said Burchardt who declined to give his first name. You could Call it totalled the two helicopters had left earlier thursday fro the Marine corps As in Yuma. A Rescue helicopter was dispatched to the crash scene across the California Border about 18 Miles Northwest of Yuma said base spokesman master gunnery sgt Ken Long who said the crash occurred about i . The sea stallion Long said is similar in size but a different Model of the troubled ch-j3e super stallion helicopter. Both helicopters Are manufactured by Sikorsky of Stratford Conn. Twenty marines have died in five super stallion crashes in recent years. Some of the crashes have been blamed on pans failures of a Type first detected in the Craft in 1983. There is a rather vast difference in the two helicopters " Long said. The ch-53e, or Echo Model is pow ered by three engines. The Delta Model is powered by two engines. Basically they re the same size but the super stallion has a heavier lift capability because of the added  we re talking Delta and Echo we re talking apples and oranges. We re talking two entirely different  Long said he did not have statistics immediately available on the ch-53d s safely record. Yuma is about 190 Miles East of san Diego