European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 27, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 the stars and stripes tuesday february 27,1990 military Roundup Usa eur Engineer unit named Best in command Aschaffenbur West Germany is the . Army in Europe has named an Engi Neer company Al Smith Barracks As the Best inthe command for 1989. The unit co c. 9th engr combat in has Bee nominated to represent the command in army level Competition for the annual it. Gen. Emerson. Itschner award. The award recognizes the army s Best Engineer program and is sponsored bythe society of american military engineers. Competitors Are judged on How Well they per form their Mission. Co c s View of the year photo graphically documented in a three Inch thick Book focused on unit training leadership and caring. Competition started at he battalion level i november and the company was notified feb. 8 of the Usa eur award. Military civilian personnel win maintenance prize Ramstein a West Germany military and civilian personnel assigned in Italy and West Germany have been awarded the it. Marquez maintenance personnel award for the . Air forces in Europe. Tech. Sgt. Frank w. Taylor assigned to the487th tac missile Wing at Comiso air station in Sicily won honors As the outstanding missile maintenance technician supervisor for 1989. Taylor is the non commissioned officer i charge of the logistics operations Center. Sgt. James w. Parker who also was assigned with the 487th, won honors As the outstanding communication electronics maintenance technician. He is now assigned to the 1901st comm group at Travis fab calif., As a ground radio maintenance technician. Kurt Kehrein with the 50th component re pair so at Hahn a in West Germany was chosen the civilian technician of the year for air Craft maintenance. Kehrein designed numerous special tools an maintenance stands to simplify engine module repair. His designs increased the Section s productivity by More than 30 percent. Dietmar Stuermer also with the repair squad Ron was named the Safe civilian technician of the year for munitions maintenance. Sturmer. Munitions system technician worked with contractors when a bomb renovation facility was built. 3 receive top honors in Safe Competition Hahn a West Germany three Mem Bers of the 50lh explosive Ord disposal flight have earned top honors in the . Air forces i Europe annual Eod awards Competition. Safe winners Are senior master sgt. Mik Kenney named the Eod senior no of the year tech. Sgt. Robert inhuman the Eod Scoof the year and senior airman William Burn Ham the Eod airman of the year. Missile Wing readying cruise Mission yearbook a Aschheim As West Germany the38th tac missile Wing is preparing a yearbook to chronicle the base s ground launched cruise missile Mission. The facility is scheduled to be deactivated this year under terms of the intermediate Range nuclear forces treaty with the soviet Union. Persons interested in purchasing a cop should write capt. Eric Schnaible the unit pub Lic affairs officer at Apo 09109. The 100-Pagehardbound Book will be distributed in septem Ber at a Cost of $ 13 each. F-16s coming to Hahn Wing have new navigation system by Deedee Arrington Doke Burea Ramstein a West Germany a navigation system that turns night into Day for fighter pilots will make its european debut this summer on a new generation off a 6 fighters being assigned at Hahn a incest Germany. But air Force officials Are Quick to say that Lan turn the Low Altitude navigation and targeting infrared system for night will not Lead to More night flying or Low level train ing in West won t add any sorties said Brig. l. Jamirson us afe s Deputy chief of staff for operations. The 50th tac fighter Wing at Hahn flies about 1,000 night sorties Wing will get the new f-l6s in a changeover that will begin this july. And end in september of he next year. A i t lantern is just one Jajtner Sonoff the things it comes with Jamerson said of the new f 16. But i we did t have lantern at All the air plane Isan upgrade that s a very significant the ji3 million plane also features a new Genera electric engine with greater thrust and the global positioning system which uses satellites to accurately de Termine position. It also is capable of carrying the am Raam missile an advanced air to air of the 72 new f-16s coming to Hahn will be two seat models or Al 6ds.pilots will train on the new aircraft at Luke fab anz., in a nine ride program. One flight will allow the Pilot Roget acquainted with the new air plane which Jamerson said is significantly different from those in use at remaining eight flights will stress the skills needed to Fly with the night navigation naturally Are going to do a whole lot of walking before we run on that system Over Here Jamerson said. We re going to work our Way into lantern at a very reasonable Well thought out by Martin Marietta electronic sys tems lantern features a navigation pod which i attached to the new f-l6s. It uses an infrared sensor terrain following radar and computers. A targeting pod which will not arrive in Europe until next year allows pilots to pinpoint targets from ranges of several Miles. Jamerson emphasized that the new navigation equipment is not an All weather system and May not perform Well in thick Clouds or dense fog. It will How Ever help pilots work under Low ceilings and in dark and bad weather have been sort of the shelter for the enemy Jamerson said. You almost have to see lantern work to believe what it does for West Germany much of the training will be done during the Day. Pilots will use vision restriction de vices to mask sunlight and simulate heavy Clouds or other weather in which the system would be a safety precaution pilots flying with restricted vision devices will either Fly a two seat f-16d with second crewman aboard or be followed by a second aircraft. ?,700 civilian support workers May be Cut under Usa eur plan by Rosemary Sawyer staff writer Heidelberg West Germany about 1,700members of the army s fatigue Clad civilian support Force could be eliminated under a three year plan awaiting Usa eur approval. The proposal from the Usa eur organizational review activity Calls for eliminating reducing or consolidating half of the 94 companies that make up the civilian support organization. It also outlines a plan for convening about 800 of the organization s jobs to regular local National slots said Helmut Arnold chair Man of the head German works Council. The three year reorganization would save the army about $120 million according to documents provided the works Council by the organizational review Active said monday that he expects Usa eur commander Gen. Crostic Saint to decide on the plan this week or next. The army employs about 8,800 local nationals in it civilian support Force formerly called labor service. The workers fill such positions As Gate guard Cook an groundskeeper for the army. As part of the wartime Host nation support pro Gram the workers recognizable by their Green uni for like work clothes would be drafted into the West German army during War. A representative from the organizational review of fice told the works Council thursday that most cuts could be accomplished through attrition but Arnold expressed doubts. He cited one engineering company alone that would lose half of its 1,000 workers. The plan represents the first phase of a to phase plan that could affect the civilian support organization workers. Details of the second phase depend on the outcome of conventional arms reduction talks in Vienna Austria Arnold said. Phase one Calls for eliminating 17 companies consolidating seven reducing 16 and changing seven from civilian support worker to regular local National marked for changes include those in Engi Neering maintenance Supply ammunition Security medical and smoke generating activities. The plan will not affect signal and transportation companies. The organization review activity part of Theu Sarteur resource management division analyses the efficiency offices and operations in the command. Soviets begin czechoslovak pullout correction an article in saturday s editions incorrectly said that sgt. Paul Nikoleyczik of Raf Mildenhall eng land died in a car Accident tuesday. The 3rd air Force administration specialist die wednesday. Frenstad Czechoslovakia a Twenty two soviet tanks left this Northern moravian City monday signalling the historic Start of the red army s total withdrawal from Czechoslovakia. Few people came to wave goodbye. A brass band struck up the internationale the communist Anthem during a Brief ceremony inside the soviet base at Fri stat that signalled the beginning of the first Complete pullout of soviet troops from the territory of any of the soviet Union s allies. But the few czechs who came to the ceremony heavily out numbered by journalists showed Little emotion. To us it the stationing of soviet troops meant empty shelves in stores polluted water an occasional fight in the pub and a reminder that we Are not a free country explained Karel Micek a spokesman for the opposition civic forum movement. Their main problem was that they were Here said Micek whose organization played a key role in the peaceful november revolution ending More than four decades of communist Rule. The total withdrawal of 73,500 soviet troops stationed on czechoslovak territory is to be completed next pullout from Frenstad 110 Miles Southeast of Prague was accompanied by parallel withdrawals from nov on the czechoslovak polish Border. 150 Miles East of the czechoslovak capital. They Are to be completed by March 13 and March 25, respectively. This is our new peace policy in practice. A re treat from the policy of confrontation Gen. Vladimir Maly Sakievich Deputy chief of the soviet contingent in Czechoslovakia said during the ceremony. It is Only proper this process starts in the Center of Europe and on the Day of the official visit of president Vaclav Havel in the soviet Union he flew to Moscow monday on a two Day visit for talks with soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev just three Days after returning from the United states and talks with president Bush. Havel and Gorbachev Are expected to formally sign the agreement on the troop withdrawals which was concluded in Prague feb. 22
