European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 8, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday june 8, 1990 the stars and stripes a a a Page 9 Over her Rota Petty officer at top of his class education pays off for Sailor of the year Gary Miller Mediterranean Bureau if anyone can Lay claim to having studied his Way to the top its Petty officer 1st class George r. Hot Heider 40 assigned to the maritime surveillance and reconnaissance Force at Rota Spain has a masters degree attended 17 Navy schools and completed a shelf full of military correspondence courses Over the past two decades. All those school Days paid off last month when he was named the 1990 chief of naval operations Shore Sailor of the year beating out five other finalists. Besides earning the title Heider will be meritorious by promoted to chief Petty officer and transferred to the office of the master chief Petty officer of the Navy. He will also receive a we Klong vacation anywhere in the United states from the Fleet Reserve association. On the Road to the title Heider faced four other sailors for . Naval activities Spain Sailor of the year title and More than a dozen competitors vying for . Navy Europe Sailor of the year. A there Are a lot of dedicated sailors who try to help their shipmates i just represent them a Heider said of the honors. Making his education pay off for others is one reason he was recognized Navy officials said. For example Heider started a training program at his command. From that program 32 Rota sailors earned their enlisted aviation warfare specialist qualifications. Sailors assigned to aviation units earn the aviation warfare pins by demonstrating extensive knowledge of aircraft weapons systems and related subjects. The pin is becoming increasingly important for promotions. A there Are a lot of sailors who want to qualify for programs like this but they get overwhelmed and feel that its impossible a Heider said. A what they need is a shipmate someone to show them its not impossible and that they can do it a Heider said. File Petty officer George Heider he also worked As the coordinator of a weekend program tutoring students in the fourth through sixth grades. A i work with kids who need to get up to Speed or those who want extra work a said Heider who has two children of his own. Heider also contributed to his commands Mission of detecting soviet submarines by developing data bases to increase the efficiency of flight Crews Hunting subs. A we collect recordings of a variety of electronic emissions. I developed a method of storing so they can be retrieved More efficiently a he said. He also flies with patrol squadrons especially reservists to help train air Crews. A i done to have to do it but it makes my Job easier because people bringing Back information have a better idea what they re  in a Way Heider has been in the military since he was bom. The son of a career army Man he was bom at fort Dix . He first enlisted in the Navy in 1968. A my dad who retired As a sergeant first class told me to join the Navy. He said the food was better and it was More fun. When you grow up in the military and like the lifestyle you just look upon it As natural to join yourself a hinder said. Still Heider left the Navy in 1975 for an eight year hiatus during which he earned a bachelors degree in psychology and a masters degree in science education. He also taught 11th and 12th-Grade biology chemistry and physics for four years before deciding to return to the sea service. A i left the Navy because i always wanted to attend College and teach in High school a he said. A i taught for four years and decided i liked the Navy better than teaching. I like the Navy because there a a camaraderie that you done to have in any other organization or even in other branches of the  in his new Job As special assistant to the master chief Petty officer of the Navy Heider will manage the Sailor of the year program. A a in la also be taking information gathered by the master chief from his visits to the Fleet and putting it in the form of reports that can be taken to the chief of naval operations or Congress or the chief of personnel information a Heider said. A the office is a place anybody can Call a he said. A a it a sort of a Clearinghouse for  team finally reaches b-17 buried in Icecap Chamblee a. Apr after a decade of trying to reach planes buried in Arctic ice since world War ii a Thermal Borer wednesday banged against the skin of a b-17. The bomber is one of eight planes a two by 7s and six twin engine p-38 lightning fighters a that crash landed on the Greenland Icecap they ran out of fuel in route to Europe after being decoded by false radio transmissions from German submarines in 1942. Pat Epps who with Richard Taylor co founded the Greenland expedition society heard by radio from Greenland on wednesday morning that the group had succeeded in reaching the plane. They re going to try to enlarge the Hole to get into a Hatch a said Epps owner of an air service in suburban Atlanta. Taylor planned to descend 250 feet to the plane through a 42-Inch Shaft Epps said. A we plan to get the fighters out this year. We will work until september 1,�?� said Epps who returned from the Icecap last week. The team left Atlanta on May 3 for Greenland. A second unit led by Angelo Pizzagalli of Burlington it left a week later. While Taylor and the first group got to the first bomber Pizzagalli president of Pizzagalli construction co., and his men used a huge Auger to bore a Hole 16 feet in diameter to one of the p-38s, a plane the germans called a a Fork tailed  they fell behind schedule because of bad weather including two blizzards after they landed on the ice in Southeastern Greenland. The eight planes crash landed july 15, 1942. Their Crews camped in one of the fins for nine Days until a sled dog team which mushed into a spot fixed by radio triangulation arrived to Lead them out. A month later officials Learned the Norden bomb sight on one of the bombers had not been destroyed so army air Force col. Norman Vaughan went in alone by dogsled to get it before it could fall into the hands of the germans who had weather stations in the area. Vaughan a vice president of the Greenland expedition society is among the Crew of a dozen men working on the Icecap. The planes were forgotten until the Early 1970s, when col. Carl rudder one of the p-38 pilots mentioned them to Roy Degan a commercial airline Pilot who brought the idea of an Arctic expedition to Epps. Epps and Taylor founded the Greenland expedition society in 1981. Vaughan of trapper Creek Alaska Learned about the group from a newspaper Story and joined up. The society eventually obtained search and Salvage rights from the government of Denmark which owns Greenland. In 1988, the society found the aircraft using Low frequency subsurface radar. Last year expedition members drilled Down to the b-17 and brought Back poker Chip size pieces of its skin. American seeks . Help for Hospital at my Lai. Ltd. E i i i. I to Chi Minh City Vietnam apr an american nurse appealed to her government thursday to Fly in supplies for a Hospital she has built in the Central Village where american troops committed their worst atrocity of the Vietnam War. Three weeks ago Cherie Clark and her private International Mission of Hope inaugurated the two Story Hospital building at my Lai where soldiers of Charlie company shot and killed at least 175 villagers on March 16,1968. But it remains an empty building. The $300,000 Worth of medical supplies needed to open the Hospital Are in Atlanta and Portland ore., and the Cost of privately transporting them to Vietnam is too High Clark said. Clark a Volunteer nurse in Vietnam during the War said the United states has agreed in principle to Send the supplies along when space is available on its aircraft going to Hanoi Vietnam a capital. But it gave no commitment and no supplies have gone thus far she said. The . Government she noted has embargoed All Trade and official Aid to Vietnam since the War ended in 1975. A a we re saying to the . Government give us a break this time. Fly the supplies Here. The people Are suffering All sorts of ailments a she said. Clark said More than half the children in the my Lai area Are malnourished. She spoke in a Telephone interview in to Chi Minh City Vietnam a Southern commercial Center where she has an office. Clark said villagers cried at the inauguration of the Hospital built by about 100 local labourers on the spot where . Helicopters had landed that bloody Day. The handful of survivors recalled How they Lay under heaps of bodies she said. A we wanted to bring health care to them a she said. A we wanted them to know that there were different kinds of americans that some care even though it was 20 years ago. A they say they cannot forgive but they love the new americans who Nave come Back. And it was for the my Lai Etc ans themselves who have suffered an enormous amount of  Charlie company a first platoon led by it. William l. Calley jr., killed an estimated 175 to 200 vietnamese men women and children at my Lai according to the 1970 report of the army inquiry into the massacre. A plaque in the Village is inscribed with the names of 504 men women and children vietnamese officials say died there. Calley was the Only Soldier convicted in the massacre. At a court martial in March 1971, he was sentenced to life imprisonment. But following a Public outcry then president Nixon reduced his sentence to 20 years and Calley actually served just three years under House arrest before his conviction was overturned by a Federal judge. Clark said the state department told her the Hospital supplies could be flown in with officials who regularly visit on missions involving missing americans. She said that was More relaxed than its previous position but added a they have pretty much tried to undermine me