European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 13, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday june 13. 1991 the stars and stripes \ a Page 9 by Gary Miller Naples Bureau san Vito Dei Normanna Italy having so far survived the draw Down of . Forces in Europe san Vito Dei Normanna air station has experienced the flip Side of the cutbacks. A As air Force bases throughout Europe close unneeded supplies on hand at those installations have to be shipped and san Vito has been on the receiving end for Many of those items. Located seven Miles from the italian port of Brindisi san Vito air station an electronic communications Security base is Home to about 4,000 service members defense department employees and family members. During the Supply flood that lasted for about two months the air station received everything from Forks and knives to a truckload of Horsehair. A Burgundy coloured packing material Horsehair More closely resembles scouring pads than Equine Bris. Tics. The 2-Inch-thick sheets measure 3 feet by 8 or 9 feet and Are used to protect delicate instruments during shipping san Vito now has enough to last years. The supplies almost All of which were free have saved san Vito an estimated $500,000, according to chief master sgt. Dennis d. Corbiser superintendent of san Vito a Supply division. The Cost of shipping was covered under the closing bases deactivation budgets. Quot the Supply redistribution was coordinated by 16th air Force. / a 7 a. Many items came from. Helle Niport a. In. Athens Greece which will close june 28, and com Iso air station in Sicily Comiso deactivated May 27, but nearly 200 air Force personnel will remain there until fall. The Normal waiting period on items such As dormitory furniture is Long sometimes years. But san. Vito has received enough furniture to refurbish More than 50 rooms Corbiser said. A. San Vito a civil Engineer Squadron received about san Vito air station mean san Vito s gain flood air station with freebies 100 sets of household appliances. Each set consists of a Washer dryer refrigerator stove and dishwasher said staff sgt. Gerald Freeman. A a. The appliances went to base housing units and dormitories said Freeman the squadrons material control chief. A a a. A. A a a a a a. A we spent a lot of time fixing old appliances that we have replaced with new units a Freeman said. The engineers got generous stocks of plumbing and carpentry supplies. The 6275th comm so also received a a spacer bounced High frequency transceiver a one unit radio receiver and transmitter it replaced a 30-year-old sys Tern for which locating repair parts was becoming increasingly difficult said tech sgt. Bruce Chatfield. A we ordered and received the new transceiver in a matter of six weeks to two months a said Chatfield the non commissioned officer in charge of wide band and satellite communications at the 6275th. Through Normal procurement channels it could have taken As Long As a year to obtain the new system Chat Field said. "777 7-r 7&Quot a we received it at no Cost which is great a Chatfield Quot said 7/ 7 Quot a a. \ .77. Although the supplies have gone a Long Way toward improving base morale keeping track of everything has been a a Nightmare a Freeman said. A imagine that you live in a House that a full. Then your Uncle moves overseas and leaves you another House full of  the Pace at which san Vito received the supplies presented a Challenge. A it was a mixed Blessing,7 Corbiser said. Quot we wanted to get All the things we needed but we wished they Hadnot arrived so quickly.�?�. During february and March As Many As seven containers full of supplies arrived every Day. Normally the base receives three or four of them per week. A a that a two weeks work in one Day a Corbiser said. The goods from the closing bases began arriving during the persian Gulf War while some members of the 79-person Supply division were deployed to the Middle East and others were temporarily filling Mother jobs such As augmenting san Vito a Security police Force. The result Long Days for division members. Civilians worked extra hours without pay. Military members worked Long hours and few got any leave. Finding storage space for everything was also difficult. A. A a v a 7 7 a7 7 a a a a a a a a a a a we re just a Small air station a Corbiser said. A we had to be creative when it came to where to put stuff until we gave it to our  the greatest Challenge to their creativity came in Early april a we have a parking lot outside the warehouse that a big enough for about 50 cars parked bumper to bump or Side to Side. It was filled with containers from trucks and trailers a said the air stations Supply chief capt. Michael Houghtaling. People from throughout the Supply division helped the warehouse staff stash everything from chemical warfare gear to Auto Hobby equipment. A a we re not talking about piling stuff 6 feet High either a Houghtaling said. A things were stacked 30 to 40 feet High. The main aisle was the Only Row we could in i. A a. A. A ass gory Millor airman 1st class Angela Hill checks incoming supplies. Move up and Down  when there was no More room at the warehouse Supply division members stored material outside under tarps or in temporary Sheds built of plywood and Angle Iron. Despite of the storage difficulties none of the items that san Vito received in Good condition was damaged while being handled by the Supply division Houghtaling said. The divisions organization saved the base other costs As Well. A a we be had five or six trucks of there at once and we have one Dock for unloading but we be never paid a demurrage fee for a Container a said senior master sgt. Gerald Nannien Tenhove chief of the storage and distribution Branch. Shippers charge demurrage fees when their containers Are delayed by customers taking too Long to unload them the time limit for containers is usually 24 hours and demurrage fees Range from about $80 to $200 a Day. A we just worked until everything was unloaded a Nannien Tenhove said. 7 by tracking incoming trucks the Supply division arranged to have people from the receiving organization at the warehouse when the trucks arrived. A a we tried to make stuff move to avoid bottlenecks a Nannien Tenhove said. A soviets near end of pullout from Hungary Budapest Hungary up a the monday. The closing protocol is sex Budapest the 2,000-Ycar-old a Paris of Lap reported tuesday few Hundred remaining soviet troops petted to be signed at the Start of next Eastern  according to the paper and civilian army employees in Hungary week by soviet adm. Juri Grishin Dep a a the hungarian revolt was crushed a in Sar Mellek alone 886 tons of Ker plan to withdraw by wednesday. Uty minister for International economic Vith the loss of up to 32,000 lives and Osine have seeped into the ground the withdrawal Quot comes two weeks relations and top hungarian officials. Nagy later was tried and executed. Where 131,000 feet of hazardous waste ahead of schedule from this emerging on june 30, Bells Are to toll through currently the soviets have vacated Are also buried. A total of 1.64 million democratic country and 46 years after out the country and there will be con \ military stations 340 settlements feet of soil has been contaminated in the red army occupied Hungary. Certs Street dances and other events to 600 buildings and 114,000 acres of land the process. Wells in the nearby Village but hungarians will celebrate the Mark the liberation of Hungary from _ leaving serious environmental dam have also been contaminated troops departure june 30, the original soviet occupation. Age and ecological problems in their a tool Airport and other areas Date set for the completion of the with Many hungarians Are still bitter Wake. South of Budapest Are also heavily pol drawls. The pullout began March 10, about soviet interference. The hungarian ministry of the envy muted and emergency measures Are 1990, when the two countries signed an in nov. .4, 1956, three Days after Rosment and its agencies have com needed to save water resources in the Accord. Then Premier Imre Nagy declared Hun plated a Survey indicating that the most area. Wildlife and vegetation have been the final round of talks on the soviet Gary would pull out of the Warsaw pact serious damage has been done in air damaged around military Fields in Many withdrawal opened in Budapest on Alliance soviet tanks rolled through ports the daily newspaper Magyar Hir parts of the country