European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 10, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes Page 11 Ann Landers dear Ann Landers after months of being put on hold i have decided to write to you about what has become my Pel Peeve. I la bet it s driving other people nuts too. Call wailing has become quite popular in recent years. Its primary purpose is to enable peo ple to receive emergency Calls while they Are talking to someone else. In my opinion too Many Pec t. Pie use it to inflate their egos and impress friends with How popular they arc. I hate it when i am told to hang on a my nine while the person who called puts me on hold and takes an Colht Cratl. Then instead of coming Back to talk to me he or she says ill Call you Back later As far As i am concerned this Means i d rather talk to the second caller than talk to  please Ann blast Call wailing out of the water. It makes a lot of people angry and is nothing More than a convenience toy that enables egomaniac to be mde on a routine basis. Disconnected Antu Nedoff in Poland Ohio dear tamed off ind disconnected a great Many folks share your sentiments and in my opinion your complain Are valid. But there is another Side. Call Walling can be a godsend in Case at Nemer gency. And ibis is the purpose for which it was designed. When it is used As a device to take More appealing Call the person who has been Shin led aside a every right to  Hung up. Dear Ann Landers i have a disabled child. Molly was not born this Way but an Accident left her confined to a wheelchair. She has a wonderful disposition and never com Plains. I am More devastated by her lot in life than she seems to be. Molly watches her friends play and tries to join in As much As possible. They almost always include her but sometimes she is left behind. What hurts most is that Molly never gets an invitation logo to the Homes of her friends. She is left out of All birthday halloween and Christmas parties although her Little friends come to our Home whenever invited. On Rainy Days she would love to go play Wilh a Friend but she never gets asked and i end up inviting a Friend Topur Home. I m sure that Molly receives no invitations because the parents of her friends Are afraid of being sued if something should happen to Heron their property. Please Ann Tell  Are wrong. Encourage them to include our disabled youngsters. We will be eternally grateful. Montrea heartache dear Montreal  1 tee different problem Here. Many Homes have architectural barriers. Steps and narrow doorways make wheelchair Access a problem. If such t the Case dear readers please do something about  -.  Call the child s parents and discuss possible ways to handle the problem. Of course the Ideal solution would be to enlarge the doorway and put in ramps. In any Case going us extra mile is the Best Way to Tach your Chil Dren compassion and curing. Pm an owl Trow Lindlow Tom Neil Ltd a unto i your Toflia. You in writ to or in Cin of the Sun ind Swan. Apo. 0211. U.3. Form letters writer offers rebuttal for Vii corps chief in reference to the recent article tilled general says personnel managers inadequately Back training Fig Linb about an interview with it. Gen. Ronald l. Watts commander of Vii corps upon examination of this article it appears Here s a Flag officer venting his frustrations As the largest corps commander because of his own inability to motivate and stabilize his soldiers into staying in Vii corps. For the first time in his multiple career he has received a mandate to really command and Lead. All he has to do is manage through his Disper and a his Force. First he must realize army funds Are at a Premium and All those things be wants Are extremely costly. Decades ago we used Money to do things like move people our soldiers to wherever we wanted them. Ticket punching was the order of the Day and we did t have to really manage our soldiers or their Careen within too Many limitations. We re enlisted people into specialities that were Al ready at a strength of 100 percent or More and also into units at the same Levels. Leaders Back then did t think Loo much about honouring recruiting promises As we had the Money to overcome problems such As los ing 70-80 percent of initial Wermers and keeping Mica reer soldiers dumb ignorant and functional. It was easy to cover up mistakes and mismanage ment within the ranks As documentation and accountability was manually done and books could say what a general wanted it to show. Today our Soldier Are smarter because of changes in recruiting management and Radoc training Doc Trine. Upon assignment to Europe in March 1986 it was evident those changes in programs taking place in for com were just getting to Usa eur. Regulatory updates came in within the last month of the Quarter that they were effective. It appears a Large portion of Usa eur division level managers were Homestead ers or those who simply went from one staff Job to another i.e., the Pentagon Tapa or itt from another overseas major command. You have few managers with Field experience who could adequately Access department of the army programs and. Their value to Usa eur or of her major commands within euro Pean command it seems no one Ever Lold Neucom managers to sit and plan out new programs to replace existing inadequate ones. A prime example is allowing microcomputers to gel into units and sit for a very Long Lime and not provide any organized pre planned training on their use and application to occur. Many units Nave Little concept of computer utilization because their personnel people Are not admin people bul in fact combat arms qualified soldiers possessing Tine primary Mili tary occupational specialities pos. Automation at company level created additional needs which weren t pre planned All the Way Down. So much for backward planning. Security clearances now appear to be tied to wide spread mistrust of our initial term soldiers especially those bom in foreign countries even though those gel Ting caught in the espionage and greed web Are the same Staft homesteading types mentioned earlier. Let s move those people around but allow your mid career and initial term people to change their minds and stay whenever they want just maybe la. Gen. Watts your personnel people Haven t Lold you the extra $80 per month for 36 months under the Over seas Extension incentive program Zeip More than helps to make up pay for the e-4 or e-5 who has t yet been promoted. Prepare your soldiers for the eventuality that leadership growth is getting longer and ticket punching is out. To further save Money we May need to centralize Soldier management within local communities reduce major commands and restructure Usa eur and Community staffs to meet future needs. With such unselfish planning you could be designated As a usar eur assistant or Deputy commander. With our pre sent wartime toe Tda overlapping systems we waste lots of Money. In using foresight and not Hindsight we can better support fighting raining and Quality of life programs. As a major commander ask yourself what do i know about current retention and enlisted personnel management programs that can be improved within Vii corps and implemented within Neucom that. Will allow All of us 10 get out of the crisis management business. If it works you get your fourth Star and could be the next . Army chief of staff. Sgt. J is class Herbert a. Nelsonjr. Kalsen Stern West Germany an saluted for showing Kennedy special thank you american forces network for present ing the documentary program four Days in novem Ber during prime time on nov. 22. The 25lh anniversary of the death of our beloved John Fitzgerald Kennedy the 35th president of the United slates of America i know that this May very Well have incensed some sports enthusiasts and i beg their indulgence in favor of a much higher priority. An 1 Salute your Devotion to your viewing Public by presenting that which can Only be described As a Quality offering of meaningful magnitude bringing Forth Tor the edification of Siose that were not consciously among us on nov. 22, 1963, the Workings of this nation during  its darkest and yet finest hours. This period constitutes a key event in the lives of All americans that Are now "35ish" or More and one indelibly engraved upon our memory. Each one of us is Able to recount in vivid detail exactly what we were doing during thai Fate filled moment when first we teamed of the unthinkable that our president had fallen at the hands of an Assassin Lee Harvey Oswald. In the Days that followed our nation did experience an orderly transition of the presidency As prescribed by our Constitution inc envy of the free world for two centuries and did continue in its steady course As the world s Champion for Freedom not Only during these Days of sorrow and strife but also in the subsequent Quarter Century following the lighting of the eternal flame. Sgt. 1st class Robert  ii Volhl Ngun West Germany pen pals i Oil cd ilk to hit hint pen Artandi a Trot. Pm Jim pub till my a few in your column. Buibas Baldovino 16s2 Klu  Mima i3m Sola Subz Day . Altim Publ i my my in your Phi Oil of us. I in in 1s.yur.ok pm who � my Delfio. Kindly pit Utah my Norw your in i you urn. My Horhun i n has Nina to mile . 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