European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 29, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday. August 29, 1987 the stars and stripes Page 9 military Roundup 486th tac missile Wing officially activated Woen Sprecht a Netherlands the 486th tac missile Wing was officially activated Friday As maj. Gen. Richard m. Pascoe 17th air Force commander turned Over the new unil to its commander. Col. Fredric l. Miller. The Wing s Mission is to operate and maintain ground launched cruise missiles. The . Unit at he dutch base is expected to be my operational by the end of 19s8. About 310 . Air Force members arc Sta lined at the base. The Wing will grow to about1,300 services members by the end of 1989, when All support facilities Are to be completed. The base is expected to have 48 ground launched cruise missiles. Squadron honoured for flying without class a mishap Oesterberg a Netherlands Gen. William l. Pm Safe commander Friday recognized the 32nd tac fighter so for completing 60,000 Hying hours in the f-15 without a loss of life or sizable aircraft damage. The Squadron wednesday logged its 60,000th hour in the Al 5 Eagle without a class a mishap one thai involves j 500,000 damage or destruction of an aircraft or an air Crew fatality or permanent total disability. The Squadron also is the first Safe fighter Squadron to Fly 10 years without losing or seriously damaging an aircraft a base spokeswoman  Squadron has flown the Eagle since 1978 and previously flew the f-4e phantom ii capt. Sylvia Freeman said Friday. The 60,000-hour Milestone was recorded in a four ship formation flight by the following pilots Mai. Eddie Branch Cape. James Flickinger 1st la. Jerry Kerby and 1st it. Jeffrey hard. German chief of staff being promoted to shape shape Belgium German air Force it. Gen. Eberhard Eimler will become Deputy supreme Allied commander Europe and be pro moved to the rank of general oct. I. Shape officials said  replaces Gen. Hans Joachim Mack who has held the position since april 1984 an will retire after 31 years of military service. Eimler presently serves As German air Force chief of  one of two Deputy supreme Allied comand ers Europe Dimter will assist and advise   Calvin supreme Allied commander. Europe on matters concerning readiness maintenance and employment of forces commuted to Allied come Europe for deterrence and defense. Soviet naval Fleet seen off japanese Island Tokyo a a Fleet of 25 soviet naval vessels has been sighted off Japan s northernmost Mam Island of hokkaido the maritime self defends Force said  appeared to be the largest soviet naval exercise conducted in the area since world War ii. A spokesman for the Force speaking on condition he not be identified said the soviet Fleet was cruising thursday in the sea of Japan toward the sea of okhotsk for an apparent exercise spearheaded by a soviet Carrier and a Battle Cruiser. Property Sale b1tburg a. Germany the Pitburg  and marketing office will sell televisions electronic equipment furniture clothes and other household items Friday sept. A. The Sale will be held from 9 . To noon in build ing ts66 at Pitburg a. All sales arc final and checks will not be accepted. A items will be sold As is and must be removed during the Day and hours of the Sale. More information can be obtained by calling ets 453-7173. Contest helps teach unit abcs of Abc combat byte Boivin Wuerzburg Bureau Friedewald training area Germany there was t an olympic Torch burning he name of eternal Light. There was the looming darkness of death from a nuclear biological or chemical Abc attack. The Lith army Cav Rygl held its second annual by olympics in the wind whipped Hills around Friedewald this  Mckay was t there to give the play by play but graders from the 54th chemical co provisional were on hand to note what the soldiers of the Black horse were doing right. And what they were doing when the results were tallied Friday. 2nd so look firs place by five Points Over 3rd so. Another seven Points behind was combat support so a close race considering 3,825 Points was the total possible. Second so finished Al 3,281.the events ranged from planting alarms to signal an Abc attack was under Way to decontaminating equip ment first in a Hasty environment during a Lull in a Battle then in a deliberate manner to ensure the sol Diers and their equipment arc completely Deco Tami  teams in chemical and radiological detection were part of the Competition As were control parties hat would advise a commander during an Abc at tack. One team climbed a Steep draw at the Fin ish of its exercise Reading maps and determining what areas had been contaminated. Another did a Road Survey from a Jep before finishing the final 1,000 meters on fool checking for contaminated areas in the Forest. This fits right in with my Job said spec. 4 Michael Baird a 2nd so cavalry scout. I could be out for 72 hours and before i came Back in 1 would have to go through that Baird was a member of the Prole love gear Exchange team that probably gave 2nd so the Little extra needed to Lake first place. His team missed Only four Points and made up for that by earning All 12 Bonus Points  was my first Lime and i did t know what to expect Baird said. The big problem we had was that one Guy lost a Glove and we had to Stop what we were doing decontaminate his hand and put his Glove Back  said the training his Abc officer gave during Slack Lime was the reason for 2nd so s Success. Maj. Harry Button i Ith army Cav regt s chemical officer said hat was the goal behind the event. The Bottom line is that the olympics stimulates training and interest All of the year Sutton said they started at troop level about six months ago and is Ponio by Tun b soldiers with the 1 Ullh afraid Cir regt practice decontamination techniques it the Friedewald training Are. Had to have their Squadron Competition no later than july to determine the teams for  Seton said he Hopes the olympics would help the Black horse soldiers stay keen on Abc training going into the regiment s critical training. Level i gunnery this  wanted to interlock this with our main training exercises of the Yean War Steed bold Lancer stallion stakes and level ii. In level ii the regimental com Mander wants us to fire in scenario Type situations and my end ii Abc. 1 Hope this helps them improve in the scenario Type  teachers win sick leave Case by Dave Walczak education writer teachers in Germany have won the right to use sick leave for their family s medical appointments follow ing a decision by a Federal arbitrator in Bamburg Ger  ruling ordered department of defense dependents schools optic gals in Germany to broaden a policy that had limited teachers use of sick leave for Iligir dependents to life threatening situations. Hayden Home labor relations officer for Dodds Germany said the Region would abide by the ruling and Noi Appeal. The Case ended a three year Effort by the overseas education association to end the restriction that existed in Only the Germany Region. The Union look on the Case in 1985, after Ihrcke teachers at Bamberg elementary and another at Patch elementary in Stuttgart were denied sick leave because their children s medical conditions were not life threatening. In his july 23 ruling Edgar Jones wrote that the Region s constriction of the group of teacher otherwise entitled to paid sick leave has no contractual  he stated that the restriction ran counter to societal i rinds that stress preventive Medicine. It would be counterproductive he wrote to re Strain teachers or their dependents from that kind of prudent resort to the health  the Union pressed ils Case after Beth Stephens in director of Dodds rejected the sea s grievance in 1985. Stephens resigned As director in August 1986. In rejecting the Union s complaint. Stephens said the Union had tailed to splain Why the appointments could not be made after work or Why they required the employee s  go in Stuttgart sentenced in assault it a or in a ,, ,., r.,i ,-im.i. Re the six member court panel found him guilty Stuttgart is a private first claw received a 90-Day prison sentence Friday for assault and Battery and indecent acts after a court martial cleared him of several other charges including rape pfc Terrell d. Winfrey 28. A Telephone repairman assigned to the 587th signal co at Patch Barracks also was reduced in rank to re Clit and ordered 10 Fork it s300 a month for three months. The Louisville ky., Soldier committed the offences May 7. Against a woman in the enlisted billets at Patch Barracks. Tji six my be thursday after four Days of testimony Al the Stuttgart trial Center. The court found him innocent of attempted rape and attempted sodomy charges in connection with the same incident. Winfrey also won acquittal on charges that he raped and assaulted another woman on Jan. 11. And on charges of site melt drape Ait copied sodomy assault and indecent assault that stemmed from a March 21 incident