European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 10, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 a the stars and stripes wednesday july 10, 1991tksfl$ag0riks european edition circulation 100,000 col Gene e. Townsend Usan commander publisher Bernard a. Zov1stoski editor i. Col. Gayle w. Fix Usa Bill Walker Deputy commander european editor Marie Kohl Nocki William healer production manager circulation manager switchboard 06155-6010. Ets 348-5741 or 5823. Telex 419-332. News Tel fax 06155-601416 mailing address Apo 09211-4211 or Post Fach 11 14 37, d-6100 Darmstadt 11,  06155-601 plus Extension or ets 348-8 plus Extension. News ext. 237, 255, 282, 226, 326. Sports ext. 225, 269, 263, 332, 321, 221. Features ext. 230, 245, 341. Letters to editor ext. 208. Education Jimi Jones ext. 226, business Randy Mcclain ext. 326. Bureaus Bremerhaven Germany Ken Crauson building 103. Carl Schurz Cavern Apo 09069 Telephone ets 342-8659 or civilian 0471-88762. 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The appearance of advertising m his publication including inserts or supplements does not constitute endorsement by the department of detente or the stars and stripes of the products or services advertised everything advertised in mis publication shall be made available Lor Purchase use or patronage without regard to race color religion sex. National origin age. Marital status physical Handicap political aft Fatiori or any other non Moul Laylor of the purchaser user or Patron letters to the editor no medical glory i am a surgeon in the . Army and have recently returned from deployment in saudi Arabia. I was appalled at the Lack of support Given to medical units prior to the Onset of the War while the generals trumpeted our a medical  it would have been a sorry mess if Saddam Hussein had attacked Early or if the number of casualties had been High. T in fact our medical system looked Good Only because casualties were Light i was taught that the medical corps exists to provide combat casualty care in the event of a War. But in this War i am embarrassed to admit that we looked More like the Keystone kops. While in saudi the medical professionals from Europe were assigned to pre existing Field hospitals and were made to feel like unwelcome interlopers by the permanently assigned personnel. Our brigade and corps level command almost completely lacked organization and common sense. When the War ended we found out How badly the 7th medical come wanted us Back when it let us sit in the desert doing nothing but suntanning and playing volleyball for seven weeks after our Hospital closed i have Many suggestions for improving the system but since the army is not going to change i am going to get out of the medical corps As soon As i can. I predict that because of this experience Active duty and Reserve medical professionals will leave the military in droves. I will be quite interested to see How the army will provide combat medical care without sufficient combat surgeons. Or. Maj Garry t. Vallier Augsburg Germany real a feedback purpose a recent writer questioned the Validity of your a a feedback column asking seven enlisted people if they thought women should Fly combat aircraft. He asked if you could legitimately ask a firefighter whether he thinks someone would make a Good lawyer. I question his logic. I do not make $3 million a year to play second base for the Chicago cubs but i certainly can appreciate the skill of Ryne Sandberg. You need not perform a task to appreciate it. If so who besides an exp resident could evaluate an incumbent would this not make almost All of us unqualified to vote for those seeking office it seems to me he tried simply to prove tighter jocks Are Superior to women As Well As enlisted people and probably non flying officers. Instead of taking the Opportunity to get on a Soapbox for himself i think he should have looked at your column As i believe it was intended to gather the american service members opinion of women in roles they have not previously filled. A tech sgt. William d. Lee in Sembach a Germany Ifni Lin no. 1 priority As an 11-year-old, 1 am very concerned about our environment. Our future generations will have to live in space because our environment will be too polluted to live in. My family and i Recycle our trash and Many other things to help protect our environment. When 1 read the brochure a protecting our world published by cafes i realized that cafes too was helping to save our world. A couple of Days ago while i was eating in the cafes Burger King in Heidelberg the recycling sign on the Bottom of my Clear plastic Orange juice cup caught my attention. I watched people throw Alu of their trash into one trash can. This is not How recycling is done. Plastic paper and styrofoam at a supposed to go into separate trash cans. When i read the cafes brochure on saving the environment it said that recycling was one of their main things to accomplish. Do they really mean what they say cafes has to Start doing what they pledge in the brochure or we will never be Able to save our world a Angela Stevens Stuttgart German editor s note letters from readers expressing their viewpoints or opinions Are published daily in this space. All letters must be signed. We Reserve the right to edit letters for clarity length and taste. Preference is Given to Shorter letters so that More can be published in a timely manner. Letters should be addressed to letters to the editor the stars and stripes Apo 09211-4211. A a a letters requesting information or assistance Are answered in a feature called readers action line which appears on Page 16 every Day except thursday and sunday. Such letters should be addressed to readers action line the stars and stripes Apo 09211-4211.takes 2 to make mistake the letter a no right to abortion exemplifies exactly the attitude of far too Many americans mostly male and is exactly the reason Why i support the right to have an abortion. The writer said that a except for incest or rape if a woman does not want to handle the responsibility of raising children she should take preventive measures before engaging in sexual  Fine i agree. However in Case in a missing something every accidental pregnancy is at least halt the fault of some Man who failed to take preventive measures or failed to consider the possibility of parenthood. And unfortunately the reason most women choose abortion is because they cannot afford to or want to raise the child alone which is exactly what they would end up doing. In every unwanted pregnancy two people made a mistake. The reality is that Only the woman pays with the scorn of society the medical risks of either abortion or pregnancy the financial Burden of children As Well As the possible loss of employment. And what is the Man faced with nothing. For those of you who think adoption is a suitable alternative i beg to differ. No one should be forced to continue a pregnancy because someone else can to. 1 do not recommend abortion nor would i at the current time choose the option for myself but until men face totally equal risks in the face of an unwanted pregnancy they  be throwing stones nor voting against our preferable option of correcting the mistake that both of us made. A Linda Thayer bad sibling Germany an individual Choice the intentions Are Noble of those who believe abortions Are wrong but their perception of what is actually life is invalid and defective. The purpose and meaning of life Isnit greater than the Quality of life. Both Are interdependent. The balance is lost when people fail to View the two aspects of this equation for living in a world such As we have now. The results Are offspring living in families with no Bond void of mental emotional and physical qualities essential for proper development. The alternative of creating institutions to gather the unwanted offspring and supporting them Isnit economically feasible and would rapidly deteriorate. This is Why the Choice to terminate the birth must be allowed when these factors Are considered. Our Freedom of Choice originates from our democratic society and we Are custodians of this Freedom. Placing conditions upon it warps and twists its value. The consequences of the Choice to terminate a birth should rest upon the individual and her companion. It May or May not be a painful decision for the individual nevertheless it is a Choice made. A staff sgt. John a. Veguilla or. Heidelberg Germany a consumer debacle i read the recent article a Consumers seek Protection from credit reporting  this article struck me very close to Home As i was Given a common name at birth Robert Johnson. Just look in any Telephone Book any City across the .a. And Odds Are my name will be listed. I happen to be the honest Robert Johnson who has always paid All my Bills promptly As agreed. I am 34 years old and first originated my credit in 1972. Since then i have tried to keep my credit continuously exercised and within. My budget for the benefits of having a-1 credit. However twice within the past two years from two different major credit bureaus i have had serious mistakes added to my credit file. Both times i was denied credit from creditors with whom i had been a member for years. The denial was based upon an incorrect credit report both times. It took me four months each time to have the mistakes corrected. I had to do All the footwork make Many Long distance Calls write Many letters and undergo much stress each time. Of course after All that time i no longer needed the Loans nor wanted what 1 had originally intended to buy a partly due to humiliation embarrassment anger and total disappointment. The credit bureaus each time had a nonchalant attitude. There must be changes to the credit Bureau reporting system. 1 feel the two credit bureaus with which i had Long dealings were criminal cruel and unjust. 1 thought the reports printed on me had to be illegal but somehow the credit bureaus Are protected under the fair credit reporting act of 1970. So what i figure the credit bureaus can print anything they want to on hardworking americans Send it to whomever they desire without your permission and take As Long As they want to Correct the problem. Meanwhile you just lose out due to incompetence. The credit bureaus even refused to apologize. A Robert Johnson Neu Brikke Germany