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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Saturday, April 18, 1987

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 18, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday april in. 1907 the stars and stripes military Roundup Reagan nominates of officer for . Pacific come Post Washington api air Force maj. Gen. I Chad i a cams has been nominated by i resident Reagan for promotion 1o lieutenant general find assign ment As Deputy commander or the . Pacific . The Pentagon said thursday. Cams 49, a native or Junction cily kan., now commands the i3lh air Force. He would replace army i. Gen. William a Schneider who has held the Post for the past three Yean. Monument for Gander victims to be unveiled memorial Day fort Campbell by. A Monument honouring soldiers killed in an air crash in Gander newfound land on dec. 12, 1985, will be unveiled memorial Day on the Post according to a release from the task Force 3-502 memorial association. Task Force 3-502, composed of soldiers from inc Loisi airborne div air assault and fort Campbell ky., lost 248 members who were returning from peace keeping duly in Egypt s Sinai Peninsula. The Monument consists of two slabs of Black Granite etched with each fallen Soldier s name rank and unil. Another Granite slab placed Between the etched ones portrays a kneeling Soldier holding a Down turned Rifle symbolizing death and three background figures sym Bolic of the surviving family members. As of late March $45,000 of the $75,000 needed to pay for the Monument had been raised a spokesman said. Donations May be sent to the task Force 3-502 memorial  Ion Fon Campbell ky., 42223. Of begins incentive program to extend overseas Tours Randolph fab Texas the air Force has approved three professional military education incentives to encourage people to extend their overseas Tours. The first incentive guarantees eligible officers who extend their Short overseas Tours by at least six months the Opportunity to attend Squadron officer school an air Force news service release stated. The officer May choose to attend in a temporary duty status from the overseas area or upon returning to the Stales in route to a new duly station. Also senior cos previously selected to Alcind the senior no Academy who Volunteer to extend a Short overseas tour by at least six months will be Al Lowed to attend the Academy in a temporary duty stat us from the overseas area. Those senior cos who extend a Long overseas tour by at least one year will be guaranteed a specific class Date to attend the Academy. There is no specific Gua Rantee on which class an airmen will attend. European society to hold management training in May Frankfurt the european recreation society will hold its annual Spring training Institute May 20-21 at the Kur hotel Krone bad Muenster am Stein near bad Kruc Znaco the Institute will provide intensive training in pric ing setting fees and charges and negotiating for fun and profit. The society will also offer an eight hour Indiana University recreation management course As part of the training. Registration fee is $50 for ers members $60 for non members. Attendees May choose to pay $75 or 160 on site to receive graduate and undergraduate credit for the University course. For More information Contact Denise humbly at civilian 06706-8302. Non members who need a registration packet should Contact Harriet Rice at ets 320 5855 or civilian 069-5j57j3, irs accused of violating Church s rights in raid Uniondale . A1 a Church raided by internal Revenue service agents has sued the government asking fur the return of it Crucifix. Sunday school attendance lists and other items. The lawsuit filed in . District i curl charged that the irs violated inc Constitution when 20 armed agents searched St. Mill Rcw Church in Len int on Jan. 22 and Sci a d two truckloads of materials. Mail Call Germany the i Mart of a fort Riley kan., Soldier Reading a idler from Home during a forger 86 Hiis judged the lop entry in the portrait personality category in the military photographer of the year contest the photographer army sgt. Jennifer Teeter of the arty Reserve personnel Center in St. Louis. Crooked investors bilking vets in Homeowner scheme a says by William j. Bartman Washington Bureau Washington con artists and deceitful businessmen Are having a heyday with veterans Home Loans robbing the government and homeowners of millions of dollars Federal findings show. Defaults on veterans administration Loans totalled $ i billion in fiscal year 1986, and most were the results of so called equity skimming the office of manage ment and budget said it estimates the frauds Cost the government More than $2 million. Generally speaking equity skimming is not being done by the Veteran a a official said. That is not to say it has not or could not involve  equity skimming works this Way an investor persuades the troubled Homeowner to sign the property Over to him. The property is then leased out and the investor collects the rent but Clous Noi pay on the nor Toni eventually. The Lender fore closes on the properly. Tht1 a then reimburses the Bank for any inns it incurs and the unfortunate Veteran must repay the government. The government Riidu Jill some of the seam artists last year crediting $1.4 million Back to v Eli rans the a said. Its investigations continue while a Tut of other veterans have been or arc Luing taken m tin1 schemes. The person having trouble pulling Hontus payments usually does t know where to  the a official said somehow the people who obtain these prop erties learn about what properties Are in  the investor then contacts the Homeowner. Sometimes there s a Small payment maybe a Cou ple Hundred dollars and the property s deeded Over the a official said. The Promise is Well Lake care of All your problems that probably sounds pretty Good to a person facing  Little does the seller know that the investor has no intention of continuing the mortgage payment. The a does t know about the transaction unless inc Veteran reports it. The a guarantees the loan and once that s completed the a s pretty much out of the picture until some problem  the official said. After the Bank forecloses on the properly it gels rid of it in i sheriffs Sale. If it suffers a loss in the Sale then the Bank turns Back to the a to cover the loss. When we catch someone if i quite skimming peo ple have none in  the official said it s considered a particularly onerous activity and anyone engaging in it that we have caught will probably by going to  As an example of the loss the a can suffer when inc age nov s investigators uncovered equity skimming affecting to veterans in Sui Horn California Between april and is Olymbi a 19s5. Use loss to the government exceeded is million. In another Type of loan a Henning the a last year Wou Roj  million in Minimi and Mil penalties from a Zibili Quinif manufacturers Ului out the last three years failed id identify rebates made to buyers with  Loans  
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