European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 27, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday september 27, 1991 the stars and stripes a Page 9  officer receives Marquez award Span Dahlem a Germany a it. Col. Richard Bereit assistant Deputy commander for maintenance at the 52nd tac fighter Wing has been awarded the it. Gen. Leo Marquez award As the Best Field Grade maintenance officer in the air Force for 1990. Bereit was recognized for restructuring the inspection phase times of f-4g aircraft leading to a significant increase of the aircraft a Mission capable rates. He streamlined the wings three aircraft generation squadrons on base into two. His work was instrumental in having the wings f-4g aircraft ready for War Only two hours after Landing in Bahrain in september 1990.Pilot tops 2,000 hours Span Dahlem a Germany capt. Jay Pearsall an f-16 Pilot with the 480th tac flying so of the 52nd tac fighter Wing has become the 48th Pilot in air Force history to surpass 2,000 flying hours. The nine year air Force Veteran averaged 230 flying hours per year. He has flown the f-16 at Macdill fab Fla. Kunsan a South Korea Nellis fab Nev. Luke fab Ariz. And Span Dahlem  award made Span Dahlem a Germany tech. Sgt. Karen Mills with the 52nd Mission support so of the 52nd tac fighter Wing has been named the Best non commissioned officer preparatory course instructor in the air Force for 1991. Achievements include earning distinguished graduate honors from the no Academy at a it aun air station Germany and completing the first sergeants course by correspondence. The award was presented to Mills during the air Force honors banquet at the air Force sergeants associations International convention in san Francisco on aug. 7. 8 air controllers honoured Span Dahlem a Germany a four air traffic controllers from the Eifel radar approach control rap con team with the 52nd controller of the Eifel team tech. Sgt. Thomas g. Meyer chief of air traffic control training and tech. Sgt. Brenda l. Wood and staff sgt. Bryan r. Persohn watch supervisors received the badge from the German 81st regt commander from Karlsruhe Germany. The commander is responsible for All air traffic control operations in Southern Germany. Wood is the first woman to earn the award. Change of command capt. Richard Simms takes Helm at naval station Rota Navy capt. Henry k. Wong relinquished command of naval station Rota Spain and . Naval activities Spain to capt. Richard g. Simms on sept. 19. Wong will be assistant chief of staff for Shore activities for the naval air forces Atlantic in Norfolk a. He was commander at Rota from april 1990 to september 1991. Simms previously was commander of the . Navy support facility at Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean. Hard liners locked out of new Gorbachev Council Moscow apr president Mikhail s. Gorbachev on wednesday named his new political consultative Council a veritable who a who of soviet reformers that does not contain a single hard liner. The Legal role and Powers of the nine member Council have yet to be defined. But it is widely expected to be an inner Cabinet with significant input into Gorbachev a efforts to move toward a free Market and halt his country a disintegration. Its composition is a striking contrast to Gorbachev a former presidential Council and shows How far he has moved politically since the failure of a hard line coup against him in August. The former 16-Membcr presidential Council contained several hard liners traditional Central planners and cultural conservatives including former defense minister Dmitri Yazoo who was one of the coup plotters. It was eliminated several months before the coup when the government was reorganized last Spring. The new inner Circle contains former foreign minister Eduard a. Shevardnadze and Alexander n. Yakovlev both longtime Gorbachev allies who distanced themselves from him last Winter when he made a temporary turn toward communist traditionalists. Shevardnadze quit As foreign minister last december warning that hard liners were pushing the country toward dictatorship. Yakovlev was a member of the presidential Council and held no formal government Post after the Council was disbanded. The new Council also includes the reformist mayors of Moscow and St. Petersburg formerly Leningrad economist Gavriil Popov and former Law professor Anatoly Sobchak. Gorbachev named the Council in a Brief decree car ried wednesday evening by the news Agency Tass. He did not make any Public comment on it. Other Council members Are a Vadim v. Baratin 54, newly appointed chief of the Kab Security police. Last year hard liners forced him to quit As Interior minister because he was too soft on the separatist movements in the Baltic and other republics. A Yegor v. Yakovlev 61, recently appointed by Gorbachev to head the state television and radio company. An expert on soviet founder Vladimir i. Lenin he had been editor of the weekly Moscow news often called the flagship of glasnost. A Nikolai y. Petrakova 54, a former economic adviser to Gorbachev who resigned last Winter when the president hesitated on Market reforms and cracked Down on the Baltic republics. A Yevgeny p. Pelikhov 56, Deputy head of the soviet Academy of sciences. A physicist he has been an Active proponent of disarmament and was a leading soviet expert on the . A Star wars program. A Yuri a. Ryzhova 61, former head of the Moscow aviation Institute one of the country Stop engineering schools. He is chairman of the supreme soviet Legislatures committee on science and technology. All of the new councillors Are members of the same generation. Soviets Call them  or a children of the �?T60s,�?� because they first tasted intellectual Freedom during the Post Stalin thaw of the Early 1960s, when authors such As Alexander Solzhenitsyn were freely published. All Are also former communist party members and All graduated from top universities or technical institutes except Shevardnadze who attended the pedagogical Institute of Kutaisi a teachers training school in his native  to apply for special forces Washington a amps a  officers in Europe 8 inf div conference room building 8250 Contact a Washington a amps a  officers in Europe who think they have the grit to make it into the special forces will have the Opportunity to talk with recruiters next week. Special forces recruiters will visit various locations in Europe from monday to oct. 10. They will be looking mainly for officers in year group 1989 for worldwide assignments although there Are some positions still open for officers in the 1985-1988 year groups. Officers in year group 1989 should Nave received information packets from the special forces career Branch that explain application procedures for the next accession Board which will Convene in september 1992. The primary Mission of the special forces better known As the Green berets is to conduct unconventional warfare and special reconnaissance operations. Because it is a combat  specially the special forces Branch cannot accept women. Officials said the Branch offers command opportunities at All Levels and they encourage eligible officers interested in professional development to attend one of the briefings. Generally an officers Only Chance to apply for the  a newest career Field is the year that first lieutenants Are considered for promotion to Captain and Are in the target year group designated by the total  personnel come. For More details interested officers can Call the so office of the 1st in 10th special forces group at Panzer Cavern in Bobingen Germany at ets 431-2342. Briefings Are scheduled in Europe As follows. All Are in Germany except where noted. A sept. 30, Mannheim Coleman Annex a 9 . At 3-8 inf div conference room building 69 Contact maj. Greenwell at ets 382-5311. A oct. 1, Baum older Smith Barracks a 9 . At 2 8 inf div conference room building 8250 Contact maj. Blakely at ets 485-7212. A oct. 1, Mainz Lee Barracks a 4 p.m., 1-8 inf div officers club Contact 1st it. Of Leary at ets 490-6115. A oct. 2, Frankfurt v corps a 9 ., Abrams Complex Contact capt. Green at ets 320-7954. A oct. 2, Amburg a 4 p.m., 3-2 air Cav regt Contact capt. Wood at ets 476-5801. A oct. 3, Bamberg a 4 p.m., 2-2 air Cav regt conference room Contact capt. Tyler at ets 469-8756. A oct. 3, Karlstedt a 4 p.m., 2nd  div fwd Patton club Contact 1st it. Wood at ets 342-6226. A oct. 4, Berlin a 4 p.m., Berlin brigade conference room Contact capt. Gary at ets 332-7451. A oct. 4, Bundlach a 4 p.m., 1-2  Cav regt conference room Contact 1st it. Hay hurts at ets 4623821. A oct. 7, Vilseck a 9 ., 3-3 brigade conference room Contact maj. Rynott at ets 476-2791. A oct. 7, Erlanger a 9 ., 2-3 inf div conference room Contact Mai. Shillum at ets 464-3814. A oct. 8, Vii corps arty a 4 p.m., officers club Contact capt. Davis at ets 434-6101. A oct. 8, Aschaffenbur a 9 ., 3-3 inf div conference room Contact maj. Leonard at ets 323-7220. A oct. 9, Kirch Gons a 9 ., 4-1  div conference room building 4346 Contact maj. Critchloe at ets 346-8111. A oct. 10, Bobingen Panzer Cavern a 4 p.m., 1st in 10th special forces group conference room Contact capt. Smith at ets 441-4775. A oct. 10, Vicenza Italy a 4 p.m., setae officers club Contact chief warrant officer Mclean at ets 634-7751.Congress begins its Stopgap budget game Washington apr Congress still not finished with its budget work is taking Steps to allow the government to operate when fiscal 1992 begins tuesday. The House by voice vote wednesday approved Stopgap legislation that would provide enough Money for Federal agencies to operate through oct. 17. The Senate also by voice vote approved the measure with an oct. 29 Date. The two houses will have to reconcile the different versions. Of the 13 annual Bills needed to finance the government in the new fiscal year Only two have been enacted into Law. Without spending legislation in place agencies whose budgets have not been financed would have to shut their doors. The Stopgap legislation would allow agencies ranging from the Federal Highway administration to the  operate at fiscal 1991 spending Levels. President Bush will sign the legislation said rep. Joseph m. Mcdade of Pennsylvania ranking Republican on the House appropriations committee. In past years former president Reagan and others have fought with Congress when lawmakers have crammed controversial provisions into the Stopgap Bills. But this years version has no changes in the Law. Congress has finished All spending Bills before oct. 1 Only once since 1976. That was in 1988, when the work was completed sept. 30 at one minute before Midnight