European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 26, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Thursday May 26. 1938 the stars and stripes Page 9 there s no traffic Jam on this deck Italy s Only Carrier finds itself without planes Mediterranean Bureau the italian Navy has a problem. 11 has a gleaming aircraft Carrier Italy s first by no planes to la from it. And. Unless a half Century old italian Law is changed the Navy a Richer operate its own planes. The ship in quntion a i Viiu Scippi Garibaldi presently on in first operational deployment. The Carrier Italy terms it an aircraft carrying Cruiser is extremely Small by . Standards Mea Suring just 591 feet prow to Stem. M that length i he Garibaldi would till just Mote than half the flight deck on Ameri Ca s sup Carrier the Nimitz. The ship is design to to carry a combi nation of harrier Lype Jet aircraft and anti warfare Hel Icopin. But it now car Ries Only its complement of Clos thanks to the Llano Halo Law. A piece of pre world War ii Knis Lalion giving the ital Ian air Force sole authority to Fly fixed Wing aircraft. The passage of Lime has loosened the Impact of i hat Law to the Point where the Navy docs have operational control Over some maritime patrol fund Wing air. Craft. Manning the aircraft however is shared with the air Force on a 50-50 basis Anil the air farce owns and maintains the planes. The Navy now wants to have its own pilots operating its own harrier Type planes aboard the Garibaldi but until Llic Law is changed am it May not be the Navy won t be Able to equip the Carrier. Legislation that would allow the Navy to operate fixed Wing aircraft has been making it Way through the italian far. I Ament. To Date it has passed the italian Senate but Mill faces impressive hurdles before it can become Law Veteran observers of the italian Politi Cal scene Sci ivc Trie legislation will in Lime be enacted. . The Navy is looking at a two year delay before u could begin flying is own jets from the Garibaldi since i Arlia Mcnol will have to Al Ocala Money to buy the planes aircraft will have to i contracted for and pilots trained to Fly them. Is Phola by 1 King Cut Ign a tone helicopter sits on the night deck of Lily s Only Carrier inc Guiueppe Cuba Bdl As the Navy Battles u Fly its own aircraft. It is by no Means decided what kind of aircraft could come aboard said ital Ian adm. Alfiero Mauelli who is responsible for defense of the country s Eastern coast. The question of what kind of air Craft to buy would be studied after the Law is two planes Are under consideration. One the sea harrier is a Small Veteran fighter whose capability to accelerate turn and decelerate in seconds proved of immense value to Britain in its War with Argentina Over the Falkland. The Gari Baldi already has recovered and launched sea harriers during operations with the British Carrier illustrious. The second plane the larger a a so is a joint project of British aerospace and Mcdonnell Douglas corp. The Garibaldi is the largest italian naval vessel to be commissioned since world War ii it is the culmination of the country s 1975 naval Law which Al Lowed the Navy to replace its Force of mostly outmoded ships with technologically advanced vessels. The italian Navy makes no secret of the fact that it would very much like to acquire a second Gari Baldi class Carrier. The main role of the Garibaldi at pre sent is to function As a command and control vessel directing anti submarine anti aircraft and urn surface warfare operations. Although the Garibaldi can accommodate a Crew As Large As 825, it now oper ates with Tbs aboard. A visitor accustomed to the constant coming and going aboard a Large . Carrier which can support a Crew of 6,000, is struck by the quiet and relative Lack of traffic aboard the Garibaldi. The ship s design Isha cd on a proven frigate Hull and the ship s Engineer re ports that the ship is so kindly in bad seas that even though it operated in a near Gale during recent sea trials the motion was not violent enough to enable the ship to conduct heavy weather sea trials he said the ship s stabilizers work so efficiently they can quickly Dampen a 30 a circe Roll to three degrees. The Garibaldi is powered by four Gas Turbine engines generating so,000 horse Power and giving the ship a maximum Speed in excess of 30 knots. The engines manufactured in Italy by Fiat under a licensing arrangement with general elec tric basically Are the same engines used to Power the . Air Force s giant c-5 transport plane. Army concerned Over possible nurse shortage by Janet d Agostino medical writer Garmisch West Germany the civilian Nurs ing shortage in the United states has not yet affected the army nurse corps but there Are signs the service May not be immune to the shortage forcing civilian hospitals to vie for nurses with eur serous salaries my other benefits. The nursing shortage is very serious snid Brig. Gen Clara l. Adams endur chief of the army nurse corps who was in Europe this month for a 7th medi Cal come conference. What i have been doing Here and have been doing since i was sworn in last september is making the army leadership aware of a couple of things. One. I Hutc made them aware of the fact that there is a Nurs ing shortage that is having effects on the civilian Community already and tint even though we have not failed our Mission there Are some indications that we May indeed be having problems and May indeed have problems before this fiscal year is recruiters Hae reported that it s harder to in Crest nurses in the Arm because of incentives in the civil Ian Market said Adams Ender who was chief nurse of the Frankfurt army regional medical Center from i979to 1981 and assistant chief from 1978 to 1979. However she said the array nurse corps is clicking with its traditional Selling Points to attract nurses stat us As an officer professional development through education Opportunity to use advanced nursing skills and More self regulation of professional standards. The things that we have to sell Are those things that keep nurses attracted Over a Long period of Lime Adams Ender said. Our initial salaries arc not com army nurses initially earn about $2,000 less per year than their civilian counterparts. In four years an army nurse s salary is on Par with that of a civilian nurse. After 15 years when the rank of lieutenant colonel should have been reached an army nurse makes twice the average salary of a civilian nurse with equivalent experience. Fewer women choose nursing and fewer remain in the profession Adams Ender said in part because More opportunities arc available to them and they want careers that pay More Money. For the first time the number of Adams tinier women entering medical school rivals the number of women entering nursing schools. The earning Range of a nurse is narrow from a mini mum of 120,500 to a maximum of s29.000 during a career according to the american nurses association. Adams Ender said. Fear of caring for aids patients also is keeping people from entering nursing and other health professions said Adams Ender 48, who joined the army when she was 19 to help pay her Way through nursing. School. But so far the army nurse corps has met its quota she said for fiscal in88. The corps is authorized to recruit 510 Active duty nurses army re sync nurses and 262 army National guard nurses the first major sign that the shortage has affected us would be that we do not make those numbers and up to fiscal year 87, we have not missed those num to avoid losing ground the corps has made some changes in recruitment such As raising the age at which a nurse can join the reserves from 35 to -17. Also nurses no longer must be employed full time for six months in the year before coming on Active duty. Nurses must be employed part Lime for six of the 12 months before going on Active duty. The nursing shortage May gel worse before it gets better because it is not possible to quickly educate the number of nurses that will he needed to care far an increasing elderly population and an increasing num Ber of aids patients. We have no mechanisms Login up numbers of nurses any faster in a Short period of time Adams Ender said. You have to have certain kinds of Stan Dards. Before you can say they Are qualified to go out and take care of patients. In my estimation it requires four years of education for a professional nurse to be Able to provide skilled and professional nursing care. Because the medical technology and the sophistication and the education of the Consumers Are so great these and if the nursing shortage does not improve the patients will be the ones to suffer. Some folks May fall Short of the care they need Adams endur said
