European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 22, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday. November 12, 1967 the stars and stripes Pago 5 93.8 percent hear Reserve readiness Call by Norman Black a military write Washington Reserve and no tonal guard units across tic country managed to Contact Almon 94 percent of their members during a finl of ils kind emergency readiness test last month the Pentagon said of those contacted Only 1.5 percent foiled 1o report for duly without having a valid excuse Ike Pentagon added. Or. He of try , a Asili Isryl us were unable to Contact 6.2 percent of their members during the test which was conducted of. 2.1 to 25. The Drill staged without prior announcement of the schedule was de signed to lest the Reserve system s notification procedures and Call up response rate. While such drills Are conducted routinely by individual units the octo Ber lest was the first to Fen lure ii Sini Ulsa Nenus Call up of units spread across the country drawn from All four services plus i acc oat guard. The president has the authority 10 to bitia1 up to 200,000 so tailed selected reservists without declaring a National emergency. According to the Pentagon the october test was conducted with a statistically valid Sample of  reservists assigned to 119 different units. The pcnlco1 f 1rli�lf t for i Lnu mrhar. Cricri a the Success of the emergency Call up saying the results were still being studied. In response to reporters que Ries however he Pentagon agreed to re lease the raw results. They show that 93.8 percent of All the reservists included in the Sample were successfully contacted. All told 72.5 per cent of the Sample ultimately reported for duly 19.8 percent were contacted but excused for valid reasons and 1,5 per cent were no Hows who had been expected to appear. The remaining 6.2 percent of the reservists were never contacted by heir units among the individual services the air Force did the Best Job of contacting members 97,3 percent while the army did the worst with 91.4 percent. The air arcs i cd�5 a jul shared lop honors for Overall response with All of those contacted who did not have a valid excuse appearing for duly. By Contrail. 2.6 percent of he army personnel 1.8 percent of the marines and 1.6 percent of tile Navy personnel were no  the Marine corps on the other hand granted the fewest number of excused absences. As n re mall. To. I percent of the Marine reservists included in the Sample actually reported for to Days of duly. The air Force granted inc largest number of excuses ending up with 57.3 percent of its Sample actually appearing for duly. The it it Agni said the services had been told to Honor excuses in the event of unusual personal circumstances or  Trie selected reserves refer to inc Pentagon s so called weekend warriors members of army Navy Marine corps and air Force Reserve units and the army National guard and Arr National guard who Drill regularly once a month and receive to weeks of Active duty training. There arc 1.16 million men and women in the selected Reserve. Fort Devens remembers deaths of 22 Axis pos aver mass. A a military band played taps an Honor guard fired three volleys and iwo wreaths adorned with tic colors of West Cic Many and Italy were placed Friday before simple gravestones be longing to 22 world War ii pos who died in captive  italian and Ecsi German Consul general from Boston standing at the prisoner of War grave at the fort Devens cemetery told the nearly 100 people at in in i input ceremony that disputes hat Breed War can be forged into Strong alliances such As the North Al Lantie treaty organization. The Bonds of human beings Are. Stronger than the lines thai Divide  said West German Consul general Jurgen Kalb runner. The strength of nato is a tribute to the ability of men to Settle heir  said italian Consul general Chancellor ton i no Demusis. From february1 1944 to mid-1946, about 4,500 Ger Man and 450 Laliar prisoners were held at fort do a inv pan of a network of nearly 250 pow Camps in inc United slates thai held More than 450,000 prison ers. I Don t think in was really that bad for those sent Here. They have said in was better than the Camps in Europe said fort Devens spokesman John Rasmuson. Many of the pos captured mostly in North Afri Ca and Sicily enjoyed relative Freedom at fort Devens said Rasmuson. They organized a theater group and a soccer club. Small newspapers were published in Lial Ian and German. But shark vision of imprisonment survive in the form of 10 Large paintings believed done by a former pow. The surrealistic and disjointed images stare Down from the Walls of a Devens warehouse. I s still a mystery if they were done by a prisoner said Osmuson. Bui from the looks of them i d say it s  Ai so Cenua Day wages the pos worked in the Camp laundry or filled jobs left by local men fighting in Europe or the Pacific. They d be doing hings like picking apples or Cut Ting Timber said Rasmuson. It was no secret they  a few romantic liaisons with local women prompted unsuccessful escape attempts but generally Camp life was fairly routine said Rasmuson. Wesl Germany s Jurgen  left and Italy s Tonina do tuis stand before memorial wreaths. The 20 germans and two italians buried at fort Devens All died of illness with one exception. Friedrich Steinhoff a a Boal Captain involved with research into sea based missiles shot himself in May 1945 after being ordered to surrender his vessel off the coast near Portsmouth . His body was shipped to fort Devens. Steinhoff had worked with German Rock i expert worn her von Braun on a plan to build underwater v-2 missile launch Sites in the English Channel. His body lies Only a few Hundred feet from an area used in the 1920s to launch Proton pc rockets by Rob Ert Goddard who was idolized by Kleinhoff and von Braun. Final Titan missile silo slated for destruction Sands of time Washington a the last air Force silo used for the Titan ii missile will be destroyed tuesday by the . Army corps of engineers the Pentagon said. The silo located near Quitman ark., will be demolished using approximately 6,700 pounds of explosives the Penta gon said in a staler nent. The resulting rubble filled Crater will remain in place for about six months to allow verification of the site s desire lion by the soviet Union. By mid-1988, the area will have been levelled graded cleaned up and turned Over to the general services administration for property  the air Force constructed 54 mis Sile Sites in the 1960s to accommodate the liquid fuelled Titan a spreading them Between bases in Arizona Kan Sas and Arkansas. President Reagan decided in 1981 to scrap the titans As part of his strategic modernization program which saw the introduction of the my missile. The deactivation began in 1982 and was. Completed May 5 when the last of the missiles was removed from Alen in Arkansas. In the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. Nov. 22,1947 president Truman named cart r. Gray vice president of the Chicago and Northwestern railway association to head the veterans administration and Gen. Omar n. Bradley to succeed Gen. Dwight a Eisenhower As army chief of stall. 30 years Ogo today. Nov. 22, 1957 Treasury Secretary Robert b. Anderson did the Eisenhower administration might ask Congress to raise the $275 billion ceiling on the National debt. 20 years ago today. Nov. 22, 1967 a trans world airlines four engined Jet pressed into service when a sister plane developed a malfunction crashed while approaching the greater Cincinnati Airport. Sixty four of the s2 people aboard were believed dead. 0 years ago today ,. Nov. 22. 1977 stunt Man pm Knievel surrendered and began serving a jail sentence for inc baseball Bat beating of a telc Ision executive who whole a Bouk about him. Me was to spend nights and weekends in jail for Sis months