European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 17, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday april 17, 1987 the stars and stripes master of All he surveys a Drill sergeant floating in sea of Oracle mention feature category in the lest for spec. 4 James Turner Garvin of at fort Jackson. Occasion we a july 4 trainee to fort Jackson , won Bon military photographer of the year con to. . Army training Center Pao Celebration. Space program expected to get slow Start   Bureau Ramstein a. Germany air Force astronauts expect a slow Start next year for the nation s space shuttle pro Gram despite a 20-Mission backlog in the satellite deployment business. When we Start flying again we re going to be starting slowly said col to Bobko a Veteran or three shuttle missions. Certainly in the first year we re going to make sure that the solid rocket motors Are in Good shape Between flights. We re not going to get to the Point where we were for a couple of years at  Bobko and five other air Force Mem Bers of the astronaut program arc visit ing Safe this week As part or a re glueing tour. The military astronauts based at Johnson space Center Texas periodically put on uniforms and reacquaint themselves with their services. Baolto commanded missions of the shuttles discovery and Atlantis and he was the Pilot on the Maiden voyage of the shuttle challenger. No shuttle missions have flown since the january 1986 Accident that destroyed challenger. The next flight is scheduled for Spring 1988. Without the shuttle program deploy ment of satellites in the United slates and Western Europe has been log jammed Bobko said. The astronauts estimated 20 shuttle missions would be required to meet demand. Expendable vehicles such As Delta rockets arc again in production to provide an alternative deployment program. But developing and testing new safety measures for the shanties arc taking priority Over getting scientific Commer Cial and military missions Back on rack. You have a whole new rethinking of the launch philosophy said Mai. Elaine Hammond. It s completely subjugated to Overall flight surety changes made to enhance safely including stricter launch guidelines Indi Cate shortfalls of the program before challenger the astronauts said. We put a lot of emphasis on Quality and reliability said col. Frederick d. Gregory also a former challenger Pilot who is Nasa s chief of operational safely for manned programs. The Assumption being if you have a Quality product. Nothing will Ever to wrong with it. And if you ensure reliability it will last forever. 1 think safety May not have gotten the emphasis it should have we be at tempted to at least balance those Quanti ties now the challenger Accident and the result ing spotlight on the shuttle program have had positive cart cols said col. John Blaha. The Down time has Given everyone an Opportunity to look throughout the entire vehicle and improve it he said. Every Little piece of hardware has been looked at with a Fine toothed  the group of air Force astronauts also included col. John Casper and col Richard Mullan. Their Lour will cover Ramstein a Berlin and Raf Alcon Bury England before they return to the United states saturday. Army comm shares pursue vase not program by Daryl e. Green zwe1bruecken, Germany army commissaries arc following the adage waste not want not. We have things that no longer May have any resale value said chief War rant officer Paul d. Taylor staff sanitarian for the troop support Agency euro Pean commissary Region. Rather than waste these food items by throwing them away As was done in the past. European commissaries Are Donat ing them to agencies such As army Community service and chapels to be distributed to families who May want and need them. The commissaries which began collecting the food dec. 15, 1986, have donated More than 59,500 pounds of food As of March 31, the food that is donated May have lost its resale value but not its nutritional value. People have this thing that they see the Dale stamped on the product and they think that it s bad and they won t buy it. And we know thai there s nothing wrong with the product Taylor said. Dates play an important role in the commissaries operation. We have several Dales Taylor said. We have expiration Dales we have sell by Dales we have Best if purchased by dates.  have bust if used by dates he said. The sell by Date Means the commis sary can keep the product on the shelf until close of business that Day. Depend ing on the product the item will still be Good enough to eat for a time after the sell by Date. Well for milk we would expect our customers to still have three Days. After the sell by Dale to take it Home and be Able to use it without it going  he said. But it is More than dates that deter mine what items will be pulled front the shelves and earmarked for donation. It s a combination of everything Taylor said. It s things that maybe have gone past the sell window whether it be a sell by. Hest if purchased by or bust if used by Typo thing. Or it can be just a damaged item a dented can a torn Box. Something thai we be had on the reduced Price shelf fora while but the just Don t want to buy it he said. Before the food donation program commissaries operated under the philos Ophy that if the customers won t buy it in must not be i to give away. Our old Rule was that at a certain Point based on customer rejection of the product regardless of what Price we put in at we had to just throw those things away Taylor said. All donated food is inspected to make sure it is Safe to cat Taylor said. The commissaries Hove Given 27,785 pounds of their total for the first Quarter of the program to acs 15,845 pounds went to chapels and i $,953 pounds were Given to the . Agency for International development european commissaries collected 48 percent of donations made through army commissaries worldwide said Denise Gomes spokeswoman for the european army commissaries