European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 22, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday May 22, 1991 find jobs the stars and stripes Page 9 hard to fill As by Vince Crawle Niernberg Bureau spouses of returning persian Gulf veterans Are quitting their jobs to stay Home leading to longer lines at on Post facilities in Germany officials say. In addition other potential workers Are getting jittery about base closings meaning fewer people Are applying for jobs. \ c a with desert storm and All this talk of scaling Down i think a lot of wives Are hesitant to get jobs a said Tom weekly who manages the Niernberg areas military clubs and Bowling alleys. A if the work Force does no to improve and we lose More through attrition then we re going to have to Cut Back in services. Operating  v entry level jobs with Odd hours Are the hardest hit including such positions As club janitors and clerks commissary stockers and Post Exchange sales person Nek said weekly and other military employers. Soldiers broke All time sales records this month when they spent their desert paychecks at Furtha a main Exchange the largest in the Niernberg area said Jack e. Bego the general manager. But at the same time the troops returned the working wives a left us and went Home with their husbands a Bego said. He estimated that his manpower dipped by 25 percent during the first two weeks of May when nearly All of the area units returned from the Gulf. However he said he expected to get Many of the workers Back since Many took temporary leaves. Other employers Arentt As optimistic. In Stuttgart the civilian personnel office sent out a memo warning employers about the Lack of Job recruits. The May 7 memo described a a severe shortage of applicants from outside the current work Force for almost every civilian position regardless of occupation and  it was signed by William t. Jones the chief of the Community personnel office. The situation a has been very critical since april when desert storm began drawing Down and tha temporaries began leaving a said Barbara Baccus chief of employment services for the Stuttgart personnel office. The postponement of troop rotations to and from the United states added to Stuttgart a labor problems Baccus said. A a we re not getting new troops in so we re not getting any new families a she said. As Veteran workers move up to jobs with More pay or better hours there Are fewer peo file replacing them she said. A jobs that have the most Dif cult schedules Are the jobs we can to  German workers called local nationals in military parlance Are apparently seeking jobs elsewhere now military 21 members inducted near into sgt. Morales club that Uncle same a Days in Europe seem numbered. A a we be been losing Large numbers of in applications for a Long time a Baccus said characterizing it As a not a new urgent  instead Ner office has Over the past year opened More positions to family members she said. Baccus and weekly said Many unemployed people probably Arentt aware that it is possible to get a Job these Days. Although there a been a freeze on Federal hiring for appropriated fund jobs for More than a year the rules Ana exceptions keep changing. The latest exception is a March 29 Pentagon memo that allows agencies to hire two new people for every five who leave. Baccus said the . Army in Europe further tightened the ratio this month to one in three. To make things even More confusing the commissaries done to belong to Usa eur so they arc still working on a two to five basis. Unlike Stuttgart Niernberg Hasni to seen a drop in the number of people applying for its sparse offering of appropriated funds jobs said Aleck Hernandez chief of employment services at the Niernberg personnel office. However a that May change Down the Road As we see More and More of the troops leave a he said. Many people mistakenly think the hiring freeze is across the Board so they done to even bother applying for jobs said weekly the Niernberg area club manager. However his facilities earn Money so appropriated funds done to pay some of his salaries. That Means he can hire whomever he wants under the present set of rules. The trouble is he said most people think the hiring freeze applies to every Job everywhere. So he a trying to spread the message by a doing spots on the radio co announcements fliers up in facilities and even  mouth.�?�. However Job openings at the clubs and Bowling alleys have always been Tough ones to fill he said. Still he said the current labor shortage is the worst he has seen since he got to Niernberg 2vi years ago. His 250-person work Force which ordinarily has 10 openings at any Given time now has about 40. A that does no to sound like that much on a percentage basis a weekly said but a lot of his shifts now have just one person a for instance one Cook instead of two after attending a Europe wide meeting last week Baccus said she found that Many communities Are facing the same unskilled labor shortages especially those already slated for closure. Those communities Are finding it a very difficult to fill Job openings a Baccus said. A a there a not going to be anybody left to lock the  Usa eur Cut through rules to Aid Gulf families officer says by Rosemary Sawyer staff writer Willinger Germany a army officials in Europe  take the word a a impossible for an answer when they made plans for support of families left behind by soldiers sent to the persian Gulf a personnel official says. /. Quot a everything that happened in desert shield and desert storm 80 percent of it was impossible a said col. Ronald m. Joe chief of the human resources division for the . Army in Europe. A for everything you want to do there a a Reg there a a line there a a Page number and there a a bureaucrat in Washington ., who knows it verbatim who can Tell you How come you can to do what you want to do. We just Cut through All  thanks to the commands determination family members were allowed to Fly space available without their sponsors Joe told women attending a conference of the american women a activities Germany. The organization provides training programs for women a clubs. About 2,500 families flew free to the states on military aircraft As a result of the commands a Cut through the Bull motto. ,. A and we re still doing stuff like that a Joe said at the gathering of about 400 women. For example when soldiers from Europe headed for Northern Iraq and Turkey to take part in the kurdish Relief Effort Usa eur officials tried to give those soldiers families the same privileges. They were told it  be done because the exception was Only for families in desert storm not provide Comfort. In response Joe said a do it.�?�. In All the commands support operation included 100 initiatives running the Gamut from hot lines and support centers to beefed up unit support programs and children a desert storm colouring books. A Joe said Usa eur Wasny to really set up to think about supporting families outside the United states because of its Forward deployed posture and the Long held expectation that Europe would serve As a Battleground not a Home front. But its leaders did believe the families would be better off staying in Europe Joe said. In fact Joe and his colleagues set out to persuade the defense department to let families remain when it was announced that Usa eur troops would be sent to the desert. They argued that the overseas army communities understood the families needs. Chaplains for example understood stresses of deployment Joe said. A they Are military people. They be been through it before a he said. A a a civilian ministers Counselor and mayors in the United states might not have the same understanding he said. A a the people Here were geared up to take care of families and there Ayou  was a common Bond in misery if usage urn a family support efforts were not without its snags however. Child care centers were unable provide the Long hours of service needed by soldiers civilians and family members involved in the desert storm support Effort Joe said. The command also believed it could provide families better communication with saudi Arabia through videos electronic mail Tel faxes newsletters and bundled mail Joe said. A in Many instances these things were just Flat broke a Joe said referring to the communication failures. A they were Good ideas ideas that we ought to maintain that we ought to Fine tune so they work next  Heidelberg Germany a Twenty one soldiers were inducted into the sgt. Morales club earlier this month in a ceremony at the Heidelberg officers and civilians club. Staff sergeants inducted at the ceremony were Ricard a. Herbert Thomas e. Kosakowski Keith r. Michael j. Groak 59th ordnance Bri Dward Miles Joseph l. Millard Jeffrey d. Rongner Andre w. Tucker and Nick c  32nd army air defense come Jay Mcfadden 42nd my group and Andreas k. Kroschke and Evan l. Wilchur 7th medical come. Sergeants inducted at the ceremony were Susan Brand Jusus Degracia Darren Hooker Ronald g. Lackey Steven Moore Frank Morgan and sense come Thomas a. Engin 26th support group and Robert Reid 1st personnel come. The Lone Corporal inducted at the ceremony was Prince Young from the 32nd army air defense come. A a a a a. A a a a a a a a a a. A a a. The 7th medical come hosted the ceremony. Top managers named Ramstein a Germany the . Air Force in Europe has announced the winners of the civilian personnel program manager and specialist of the year for 1990. R. Edward mar Roll the civilian personnel officer at Ramstein received outstanding manager honors. He was recognized for his role in orchestrating an effective employment and recognition program within budgetary constraints. Gloria j. Gladden was recognized for her manag Crial skills As a supervisory personnel management specialist at Span Dahlem a Germany. She As Sessco local programs and instituted corrective or support actions. Gladden also was honoured for pro Viking sound advice to managers and commanders on All personnel related subjects. More reservists in Gulf Washington a army reservists in the persian Gulf now outnumber Active duty troops in the Region according to the Pentagon. Of the 84,422 soldiers still on duty in the theater last week 42,972 were Reserve component soldiers on Active duty. About 43,212 personnel from the other services Are still in the Middle East and about 6,300ofthosc arc reservists. At the height of the military build up in. The Gulf the number of . Reserve  reached 105,000. More than half have since returned to the United states. 900 slogans submitted Washington the Federal voting assistance program voter slogan contest has received More than 900 slogans As it nears the midpoint of the contest. Although the contest is aimed at military members and overseas citizens any us citizen is eligible to enter. Those interested May Send any number of slogans on an Svi by a 1-Inch Sheet of paper to the Federal voting assistance program room 1b457, the Pentagon Washington  203011155 a. Participants should include their full name mailing address and Day and evening Telephone num.-. Ber. Military participants should also include the name of their service. The service with the highest percentage of individual participation will receive special recognition. The originator of the winning slogan the second place finisher and honorable mentions will receive certifications of recognition from the Secretary of defense. A the contest deadline is july 31. Davis tabbed for shape Casteau Belgium a amps a president Bush has nominated air Force it. Gen. James b. Davis to serve As chief of staff of shape according to a statement released by the nato military Headquarters. Davis is commander of . Forces in Japan. Davis 55, from Wayne neb., is a command Pilot with More than 4,500 flying hours including 270 combat hours. He has served in numerous assignments throughout Europe the Pacific and the United states. Davis would replace retiring . Air Force Gen. John a. Shaud who has served As chief of staff since july 1988