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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Thursday, February 5, 1987

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 5, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday. February 5, 1987 the stars and stripes Ann Landers Page 11 letters dear Ann Landers i be read enough in fact Loo much about How rude new yorkers Are and now i bid writ ing my tint letter to a newspaper. I admit then Are some clods in the big Apple but we Don t have any More percentage Wise than any other targe City. For every rude new yorker there ire a Hundred who Art just Plain Ordinary people trying to to to work every Day. For every horror Story about i politeness i can teb you at an incident where to the face or disaster someone did something wonderfully generous and kind. I be been stuck in blackouts blizzards you name it and have seen strangers digging out other people s cars. I be seen folks who had been nit by taxis attended to by men in business suits and women who took Oil their Gucci scarves to make a Tourniquet for a bleeding stranger. Because new York is the ultimate melting pot it has everything. So let s not Label it rude City without acknowledging the tact that an awful lot of people who live Here come from somewhere else. Please use my name. I m proud to be a new yorker. Kathleen Roseingrave Dor Kathleen Many people wrote to defend new York Bat Yon did it Bat. Dear Ann Landers a while Back you printed an essay called what is a Farmer i ran across the perfect companion piece in mid american Dairyman and am asking you to share it with your readers. I heard you Are an Iowa girl and am hoping you will say yes. Des Moines i am indeed. Here it is what is a Farmer s wife a it Nat s wife pm be found sitting on � tractor footing up favorite dish setting oat pilots looking for lost items and to noting an her husband. Beauty ins fim her children Latempt her mad perturbs her machinery quaies her phone alls deity her. Bat it tote her husband to Stop her. When recalls come help me Pat the cows in get the Factor fluted Bale the Hay or fetch t part a Farmer wife Boom it s her duty to lean dishes in the sink tie Titchen floor half scrubbed Tod go to his a if. But it b also her privilege to wort with her Man to share ill hit labor and dreams Tod  problems Tad pitas Tad Pride la Job Well Jane she usually knows where be b Tut what he s doing and tits to Gness when hell be to for dinner. A former s wife is a seamstress Secretary hired nun social chairman teacher nutritionist err Ogira Interi or decorator Hoase temper nurse Cook dishwasher and always wife and Mother. In spite of the trials that come to a farm family sukkot Tttus injury norms Tod crop full not debt and  a Fanner s wife la thankful too by the Many blessings of life oat Tarn the variety of changing Setsu the closeness of bet family the sight of a wobbly to whom Cau the helpfulness of neighbor the " t we tenets of acre of Snow the smell Oft Teir moral aa4 when it s been one of those Days and she has run til Ortr the Back for acres helping her Blu bid get the cattle oat of the Cam. The Fanner s wife feels it s Worth it ail worn he says thanks Honey i Don t know try to i a without  Rarden a Neq to Rue to news Amenta band Tala cell Prtrt tinder amay Andreu then in Utaji in can us the Elan and sir Pat. Apo 09211, u.5. Fc44 Cook questions extra duties gets answer for 4 years. My first duly station was in Pir Masens Germany which was great and was what made my decision to re enlist even before i was half Way through my first contract. My second duly station was it. Lewis with an infantry regiment. There in was t what Germany was. I hated it. I thought it could t get worse but the thought of coming Back to Germany on my second enlistment pulled me through. Now i am Here in Germany in a set female site and this makes it. Lewis look like heaven. At this duty station they Are understaffed for the work they have us perform. They want die Cooks in the Barracks to clean latrine and Shower stalls on their mornings off and now they want i to be the Neo staff for the newly arriving family members. Come on in t busting our buns 12-13 hours a Day that is constant on our feet movement enough now they want us to Cook their food with the hands that just cleaned the toilets of a couple of Hundred troops. Then go out with smites on our faces and give classes on How to evacuate your family members As safely As possible. Then All of this Between the belittling comments they make about our cooking the room and ta-50 inspection. Then of course we have to attend the common task training on our monday mornings that we have free. Maybe they should put us on the cd Rosier and Gate guard rosters just to Boll now in All of the places i have been and with almost four years in my mos i have never heard of or seen anything like this done to a food service specialist is this Legal or am i just crazy i mean am 1 really in the . Army or did 1 Wake up in someone else s army name withheld Cinson Germany editor s note maj Lee j. Hockman Public affairs officer 59th Ord brigade replies the 59th Ord brigade the largest separate brigade in the is. Army provides direct and general ammunition support to is. And nato forces Prelec Ting the free Dom of Western Europe. More than 7,900 soldiers and chileans comprise the brigade which is located in 71 cities and towns through oat the Federal Republic of Germany and the nether lands from the danish Border in the North la the foot Hills of to Alps in the South. Nowhere in the is. Army will a Soldier be exposed to More challenges and obtain More All around experience than during a tour of duty in one of the remotely located internationally risible artillery groups or Ord Nance battalions of the brigade. Whether assigned to an artillery ecu Chmell of 40 soldiers or id an ordnance or military police company of 250, every Soldier plays a vital role in accomplishing the brigade s Mission. No duly is More important than the one performed by the 133 Rood service a idlers working in the 49 dining facilities of the brigade. Then facilities Range in size from Small 3-Penoa open ton feeding 20 Soldier or ins per meal to Large facilities serving More Lhasa 400. In the Small detachment dining facilities Baring Only two or three food service personnel assigned Cocks Are required to work 11-hour shifts one Day on and one Day Oft with rotation of weekend Dalles. Because brigade detachments at Remote Sites Are Small every Soldier most Lhart in the responsibility of performing additional duties. At Many detachments food service personnel Are appointed to coordinate non combatant enc lob operations rat he All other Soldier have equity important and varied Tail la per form. Shim who live in troop billets Mast do their part to ensure the Csc Wiltress and orderliness of their own rooms � Well Ai common me Arm 1kb As latrines and showers. Technical medial bulletin 530, occupation. Environmental health food service sanitation Decem Ber 1983, prohibits personnel who handle and serve food from being Ned to Dean latrines or perform Limpar  time they an engaged in food prep Antim awl serving. However this prohibition dots not diminish Cooka  to assist in main Taining Ming areas nor Doe to prohibit food service personnel from performing these doties before or after their Abed need shifts la in tag facilities. Periodic ta-50 Zupec tons Are conducted to Check accous ullity a a  of organizational doth Ide and ind Dali equipment which an ease tial for unit readiness. Roan inspections Are a part of the com Mander s mandate to care for soldiers by ens Rino their health and welfare. Food service pen Onnel like men and women of every mos in the army Are soldiers first. They rout be Proa Dent in not Only their occupational specially but also in the common Soldier tasks. Commanders and col owe it to their soldiers to make them the Best trained most proficient soldiers they can be Noil readiness and proficiency demand nothing less. All soldiers in the 59th Ord brigade understand the challenges faced by food service personnel and All appreciate the Bard work and dedication that is evident a every meal served. Request for reunion anyone interested in a bad Kreuz Nach dependent reunion please Contact me. The last announcement i placed worked very Well. I had 25 people Contact me. 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