European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 15, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday. March is 1967 the stars and stripes Page 9 gel. Chester is brigade s top clog b Caroline Drakeley Ansbach fic Many Cpl. Chester does t growl if Cut Call him ugly  or a Slob. Chester does t mind because in s nil pan of his Job As Mascot Lor the 3rd brigade 1st army div. Since he was 11 months old Chester a full blooded belgian bulldog has greeted visitors to the Bri Gade with a face Only an infantry Soldier could love. Some of them love him and some of Hern hate him said maj John Anderson brigade Supply offi cer. Because of his close work with Chester Tor the past four years Anderson has observed soldiers re action to the dog. A lot of them think he s stupid and ugly i Don t know How they could possibly think hat. He s so ugly it grows on you Anderson said with a smile. Former bulldog brigade commander Richard m. Scott is credited with reviving the unit s forgot ten Mascot tradition. Scott decided the brigade needed a live Mascot after seeing pictures of pics tors 1 and ii hanging in the brigade conference room Anderson  brigade s last Mascot was at ached to the unit during the 60s, when the division was at fort Hood Texas. Scoll soon found Oul that germans Don t Breed bulldogs so he travelled to Belgium to pick up the present Chester when Chester Iii is not sprawled in his Chc cd up Straw Basket in the brigade hallway or making the night rounds with the duty officer he is usually where most Good infantry soldiers Are in the Field with his unit. He probably has More Field Lime than most of our soldiers Anderson added. According to Anderson Chester relishes Munch ing inc typical Field fare meals ready to Eal he loves the Turkey and Chicken loaf res Anderson said. He kind of likes to come to the Field because he gels All the res he can  Anderson does t have much Good to say about Polo of Sis to to Moroni Frank Chester Iii of the 3rd brigade 1st army div Chester s eating habits but the Pooch Fin in Wilh the . He s a Good info nary Guy said Anderson lie i Iii and makes win noises and slobber All Over the  Chester has been known to Bend the rules at limes. The last brigade commander gave Chester a sus Pended bust because he was absent from place of  Anderson revealed. When he brigade was Al Camp Normandy Tor an exercise the unit could t find the squat dog in any of his usual places. Later he was found Midway be tween Grafe Naehr s main Post and Camp Normandy. Chester had decided to head for main Post to Chase women or to go to the snack bar i Don t know which Anderson said. Although Chester s wrinkly face with its squished a nose and Square jaw with floppy jowls brings smiles to people s faces having a bulldog As a Mascot does have disadvantages. Anybody who walks into the office has to guard his hat and gloves because if he walks in with them Chester will snatch them Oul of his hands and hell never get them Back said pfc. Roland Howard of the brigade civil affairs office. He s got a jaw Lilac a steel  Chester also snores. If you had a face like that with your nose shoved Back Between your eyes would t you snore an Derson asked. To prove Chester in t All brawn Anderson called to inc wrinkled bundle to demonstrate his two tricks. Chester bounded to him. Bouncing on his bowed forelegs and looking up with undisguised loyalty in his Brown eyes. Anderson told him to sit. Chester sat. The next order was look  Well Chester had no problem with that. Chi aka Drakeley adits the 191 a incl die newspaper. Iran Dei housing repair contract extended for 1 year by Mike Heronemus Wurzburg herein Wuerzburg Germany con traded maintenance Tor family housing in Wuerzburg and Kitzinger has worked so Well it will continue for Al least another year local army housing authorities said. Wurzburg is one of three Usa eur communities that hire maintenance companies to take care of family hous ing. Mannheim has had a civilian con tractor for 11 years and Stuttgart s Patch Barracks has had a total installation maintenance contract that includes hous ing Tor a year. Safe has no military family hous ing being maintained by contract a com Mand spokesman said. The first year s $1.2 million contract for family housing repair was a Good in vestment said it. Col. Tim Buckworth director of engineering and housing for Wuerzburg and Kitzinger. In february the contract was renewed for 11.5 million after being modified to include More grass cutting and Snow re Moval from sidewalks. Ehron fils pkg a subsidiary of Klec pkg the contractor Tor housing in Mann Heim retains the modified Wurzburg contract. In the first eight months of last year s contract Ehrenfels handled 4,256 service orders tick won said. Thai s probably not any More than the army engineers would have handled but our surveys Tell us inc customer has seen a Little bit belter service More responsiveness he said. The maintenance contract requires regular service requests to be completed within five working Days said Achim Ohlon Schlager who oversees the con tract. Before the contract was let customers sometimes waited is Days or longer far regular repairs to be made he said. Army engineers Are responsible for maintaining 12,000 buildings in Wurz Burg and killing in Buck world said and Only 100 of them arc family housing units. Even so housing maintenance was Given priority Over buildings where sol Diers work sleep and Eal he said. With the contract for family housing maintenance Buckworth said he can use his craftsmen to repair those often neglected buildings. So the maintenance contract for family housing is also a troop Quality of life program he said. There Are no immediate plans to in crease the number of maintenance con. Tracts in Usa eur a command spokesman said. However Headquarters Usa eur is developing a standardized family housing total maintenance contract for future use by interested  Weinberger going to Spon Turkey for Consu Taf on Washington a defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger will visit Spain neat week for consultations that will in clude a review of demands by thai government for a reduction in the . Mili tary presence the defense department said thursday. Weinberger then will travel to Turkey for consultations with defense officials there lying Home on Friday by Way of the azores where he will visit briefly with . Troops stationed there. Weinberger docs not expect to resolve the sensitive Spanish bases Issue on this trip a senior department official at the Pentagon said. Bui the question of in tending the leases for american bases in Spain is such a key topic that Wein Berger will certainly raise in the official said. The official agreed to meet with re porters after the Pentagon announced Weinberger s itinerary for a six Day trip starting this weekend. Weinberger was to depart Washington on sunday for Spain remaining in Madrid Spain s capital through tuesday the Pentagon said. While in Turkey Weinberger c efforts by the United Stales _ expects to discuss and its nato allies 10 Spur the development of thai country s defense Indus try including a review of plans to co pro Duce f-16 Jet fighters the defense official said. Those consultations also will undoubtedly include talks about the level of . Military Aid to Turkey which Congress has limited because of a continuing Dis Pute Between Turkey and Greece Over the Island of Cyprus he added. Weinberger s visit to Spain comes Al a Lime when . Officials Are growing increasingly concerned Over pledges by prime minister Felipe Gonzalez to re Duce the american military presence. The United Stales operates four bases in Spain the most important an air Force base Al Torrejon that serves As the Home for 72 f-16 Jel fighters protecting nato s Southern flank. There Are currently about 9,200 . Military personnel in Spain. The leases on the bases where they operate expire in May i98b, and negotiations Over their Extension began in Earnest last year. The negotiations recently recessed without any significant Progress being reported and Are scheduled to resume in april. In december 1985, the United Stales accepted the principle of reducing its military presence if based on the Span ish military s ability to assume those roles and missions thai we would leave. Of not diminishing the total Security posture of the nato Alliance the Pentagon official said. Since then inc senior official acknowledged the Spanish government has advanced the position thai the air Wing should be removed. But the United states docs not believe the Spanish Mili tary can till the Gap that would be Cre ated by the removal of he f-l6s in the near  thai s the very heart of the question that we re looking into the official said. The United states would like 10 think the Spanish government s de mands reflect a pro Spain position and not an Ami american position the offi Cial concluded. But the dispute could Hac serious implications for America s presence in other european nato countries. Right now we have n congressionally imposed ceiling of 326,414 on the num Ber of . Forces that can he permanently stationed in Western  the official observed. What happens to our forces in Spain has an effect not Only on that ceiling but in has an effect on the perceptions of the other allies and in has an of i on the perceptions of Congress und the Way europeans View our Mizilar