European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 27, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday october 27, 1988 the stars and stripes Page 3 career program for warrant officers Aims to attack the woes of the Wos b Crystal Laureano staff writer Heidelberg West Germany an overhauled army warrant officer career management program will better match rank and training to assignments provide timely professional development training and offer a 30-year career plan according to an official with the total army personnel Agency. We arc going to get Oul of what i Call the haphazard Way of management of the past said col. Billy Miller chief of the warrant officer division at the personnel Agency. Miller spoke tuesday to More than 600 army War rant officers in Heidelberg during the professional development Day of the we Klong army warrant officer association annual meeting. The new program called the Tola warrant officer system or twos is the result of the total warrant officer study approved by army chief of staff Gen. Carl e. Vuono in june 1985, although now in place the system still is in a transition period Miller said. A major problem for he corps was a vague coding system that listed positions on authorization documents Only As to without any further rank indication. Warrant officers now Are being assigned according to document coding completed last year that identifies All positions in one of three rank groups warrant offi cer for we and w-2-, senior warrant officer for w-3 and w-4 and and master warrant officer for master warrant or the proposed rank of we if approved by Congress. While awaking legislation that will establish the w 5 Grade. Army officials under Vuono s direction have gone ahead with master warrant officer training to provide officers to fill the master warrant officer Roqu ire mints Miller said. The first class of 30 students will graduate in december. A warrant officer will no longer face the possibility of being ass signed to any position and possibly not being trained for in said chief warrant officer 3 car Burnett also from Tapa s warrant officer division. Everything now is requirements driven the individual will be trained certified by his Branch proponent and then sent but to a position for utilization that he has been trained to do he said. To follow up Basic warrant officer school and tech Nical training the revised warrant officer training pro Gram automatically will schedule senior warrant officer training after selection to to and a master warrant officer training course for warrants selected for master warrant officer or w-5 positions. Another change allows warrant officers to count for retirement purposes Only their years of warrant office service instead of years of Active Federal service. The change makes possible careers of up to 30 years As a warrant officer or until the mandatory retirement age of 62, whichever comes first. It allows us the Opportunity to retain warrant offi cers that come in Many cases at 10 or 12 years of Active Federal service Miller said. They arc warrant officers for about 10 years now they be got 20 years and it s time to separate just about the time they get really Good and  another optimistic note for warrant officers is that they have been spared from current congressionally mandated officer cuts. Miller expects the number of Active duty army War rant officers now at slightly More than 15,330 to remain steady through 1992. That is just a prediction he said but i just Don t anticipate the warrant officers being  the elimination of five military occupational specialities and reductions in several others in the past few years May have led some warrant officers to believe they were congressional targets not so Miller said. We Are culling spaces not faces he said. We had More spaces than people and we were never going to Pel More people because the budget just would t allow it roughly there were about 2,000 warrant officer spaces that were documented but not required or needed. No one 1$ going to be put out of the service because of  Aschaffenbur educator named of Okinawa Post by Dave Walcza education writer an elementary school principal in West Germany was chosen Over seven other candidates to take Over As District superintendent of the military s Oversea school system s Okinawa District. Aschaffenbur elementary principal James Halley will assume his new duties supervising nine schools and 8,000 Stu dents in december. Halley who was named one of the nation s leading elementary school Princi pals last school year by the department of education was interviewed for the superintendent s Job oct. 13 by a pane that included a Parent teacher principal and two military officers. I Hope to improve the educational pro Gram there Haricy said wednesday. I d also like to begin a school improvement process and build Strong Community involvement in the schools much like we have Here at  Aschaffenbur elementary was cited by the department of education As one of the top elementary schools last year. Community involvement was noted by evaluators As a Strong aspect of the As Schaffenburg school  award was a first for an Elemen tary school in the department of de sense dependents schools  took Over at Aschaffenbur elementary in August 1983 after serving ass Sou ski Molof James Halle an assistant principal at  High school. The former social studies teacher began his Dod scarcer in 1983. No successor at Aschaffenbur has been named. A Germany Region spokesman said wednesday that candidates for the Posi Tion will be reviewed by a panel including parents teachers and military officials marking tie first time that a Dodds principal will be chosen through a process that includes input from outside the school system. Letters postcard written by Anne Frank sister sold new York Al two letters and a postcard written by Anne Frank and her sister Margol were sold to an Anonymous bidder at an auction tuesday for $ 150,000. The Young jewish holocaust Vic Tims mailed the notes along with two photographs to american pen pals in1940, a month before nazi Germany invaded the Netherlands prompting the Franks to go into hiding. The successful bidder said he rep resented a number of institutions but would not specify further said will Bennett spokesman for Swann galleries the auction House. How cd or. The bidder did say he would announce on wednesday the name of the institution where the letters will be kept Bennett said. Included in items on the auction Block were pages from Thomas Edison s note books Marilyn Monroe s certificate of conversion to Judaism and a collection of Greta Garbo correspondence the correspondence Between the two Sisters and their pen pals in Iowa was dated april 27 and april 29, 1940. It described the girls life at Home and school in Amsterdam mar got wrote that having a Frontier wit Germany and being a Small country we never feel  a month after the tetters were sent Germany invaded the Netherlands the Franks went into hiding but the were later discovered and sent to concentration Camps. Anne s diary published in 1952, carries a poignant account of their life in hiding. The Franks pen pals were Sisters from Danville Iowa Juanita Wagner,11, who was Anne s Ace and Betty Ann Wagner 15, who was Margot s age. The Wagner Sisters wrote Back but they never heard from the Frank girls again. After the War they wrote again and Anne s father replied explaining that he was the Only one in his family who had survived the War. The Wagner Sisters now live in California. Also sold at the auction were sever Al Marilyn Monroe autographs including her certificate of conversion to Judaism which took place just be fore her marriage to playwright a thur Miller the certificate was bought by a private collector for s7,000, Bennett said. A Handwritten letter of condolence from poet Emily Dickinson to the husband of a Friend who died brought $8,000 from a dealer he said. Faulty loading caused my tank fire letter says by Janet Howells Tierney staff writer a fatal Flash fire inside an m1ai Abrams Lank in August was caused by improper ammunition loading proce dures that brought an a chambered round in Contact with the hot base of a spent round according to information released wednesday from a 3rd army div safety Tetter. The fire killed two soldiers on aug. 14 during a nigh live fire training exercise at the graft Wohr combined arms training Center West Germany. The tank s four Man Crew was from co a 4th in 8th Cav in cell Hauson. While engaging a target on Range 117, the tank s loader failed to notice that he round in the main gun was not seated in the breach properly before he retrieved the next round for loading said maj. Van be Neretic 3rd army div spokesman in Frankfurt. When the loader saw that the round was jammed in the breach he put the round he had just taken from the ammo storage Racks Between his Knees and tried to reseat the jammed round Jen Crotte said. Meanwhile a hot stub base lying on the Turret floor from a previously fired round came into Contact with the  and burned through the casing Caus ing the propellant to ignite he said. Since the Accident memos have Bee distributed to tankers in the division Stres sing that the main gun must be fired before the next round is removed from the ammo storage area in accordance with procedures outlined in the technical manual he said. After the fire the gunner spec. John Alexiou was pulled from the vehicle an taken to the training area dispensary where he was declared dead on arrival. The Lank commander staff 50. Carlos f. Williams was flown to the Burn Center at Brooke army medical Center Texas for treatment the Day after the incident but he died in route. The tank s Driver and loader suffered minor injuries. Their names Are nol Avail Able for release until the investigation is Complete Jenrette said. A team from the army safely Center fort Rucker Ala arrived aug. 16 to investigate the Accident. Pc Neretic said the team is expected to Complete its investigation in three or four months. It is unknown when the team s report will be tiled he said