European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 11, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday february 11, 1993 military Safe colonel wife named for Gen o Malley award by the stars and stripes Raf Ben Waters Woodbridge England col. Roger r. Radcliff and his wife Suzanne have been nominated by the . Air forces in Europe for the Gen. And mrs. Jerome o Malley  award recognizes the Wing commander and spouse whose contributions to the nation . Air Force and local Community Best represent the highest ideals and leadership of a military couple Ina key air Force position. Roger Radcliff was cited for his leadership in maintaining combat capability of the 81st tac fighter Wing at Raf Ben Waters Woodbridge and dissolving the twin bases which will close this  Radcliff was cited in part for fulfilling the traditional roles of a commander s spouse As Well a helping As a part time Counselor at Woodbridge elementary school. The Radcliffe now will compete for the award at the air Force level. Furth commander changes Furth Germany col. Roy Goroncy has taken command of the 99th area support group at William o. Darby  replaces col. Norman Maclellan who was in charge of the area support group since it was created on oct. 1,1991. Maclellan is retiring from the military this month. Gortney was most recently the chief of staff of the 32nd army air defense come in Darmstadt Germany. His previous assignments include Tours in Korea Germany and the United  was commissioned through office candidate school at fort Bliss Texas in 1969. He and his wife Ellen have two daughters Becky and Jennifer and one son Eric. Vow picks aide de Camp Wiesbaden Germany a member of Wiesbaden s veterans of foreign wars Post has been appointed to serve As a National aide de Camp for the organization for 1993.dean White of Post 27 was appointed by the vow s National commander John m.  his yearlong appointment White will assist the department commander in promoting vow programs. Nato exercise planned Bielefeld Germany nato s rapid reaction corps will conduct a trial deployment called exercise first guard at the scene lager training area in Germany during the first week in March. The multinational corps is made up of 300 officers an troops and is part of nato s Allied come Europe environmental work hailed Ramstein a Germany is Ramstein s environmental restoration program and the program s director have been named the Best in the . Air forces in  s 1992 Gen. Thomas d. White environmental Quality award for individual excellence has gone to Rainer p. Mueller the base s environmental management flight chief. The base itself was awarded the Safe air Force environmental restoration award. Ramstein a also won the 1991 Gen. Thomas  environmental Quality award for overseas installations. Christopher aide named Bonn Germany is career foreign service officer a. Elizabeth Jones has been named executive assistant to Secretary of state Warren m. Christopher. Jones has worked since August As Deputy chief of Mission at the . Embassy in Bonn. Appliance furniture Sale Glessen Germany is defender utilization and marketing office officials have announced the following appliance and furniture Sale in Germany Giessen. Washers dryers refrigerators ranges and various furniture pieces will be sold tuesday in building 521 at Pendelton  Sale will be open from 9 . To 10 . For id card holders and from 10 . To noon for the Public All appliances Are 220-Volt and Are sold As is. Purchases must be made in dollars in Cash Only and must be removed by the end of the Sale. The stars hand stripes Page 11 is j. Eng Nigor a Crew member leaves an airborne warning and control system aircraft at Aviano a Italy after flying Over Hungary. Aircraft pulls sentry duty for nato s Bosnia it by j. King Cruger Northern Italy Bureau in the sky above Hungary on a recent Hilly morning Well before Dawn an awkward looking plane lifted off from Aviano a in Northern Italy head ing for  30, an airborne warning and control system aircraft was beginning a seven hour flight to Monitor compliance with the  no Fly zone Over Bosnia and Herzegovina. The no Fly zone pertains to serbian military aircraft and does not affect humanitarian flights into the War torn Region. The plane flew Over Austria before entering Hungar Ian airspace and took up its station South of Budapest. Air traffic personnel in Budapest controlled the plane s flight path and were prepared to divert the unarmed aircraft to a hungarian Airfield in an emergency. Who would have thought two years ago that we would be operating in hungarian airspace and looking West said Wing cmdr. Stan Hickey of Britain s Royal air Force. On that Day Hickey had Overall control of nato s a acs detachment at Aviano. The nato plane flew in an unbroken circular path that took it from a Point roughly 15 Miles Southwest of Budapest the hungarian capital to close to the czech  aircraft was an e-3d. The modified Boeing 707 commercial Airframe features a rotating radar dome nicknamed the Frisbee by aircrews which sweeps an area every 10  have the potential to track aircraft in excess of a 200-mile radius said Raf flight it. Andy Thomas the plane s tactical commander. The plane s radar can detect air activity Over any Earth surface and into the stratosphere Thomas said. The e-3d is one of seven such planes Britain contrib utes to nato. The aircraft Are the Only Raf aircraft under the peacetime command of nato Hickey said the British aircraft normally Are based at Raf Waddington in Eastern England and work jointly with 18 other a acs planes operated by nato out of Gei Lenoir Chen  deployed a acs aircraft to Aviano not Long after the United nations declared the no Fly zone oct. 9.two a acs planes their Crews and maintenance personnel a total of 95 people Are deployed to Aviano. The Azacs planes along with the others flying out of Geilenkirche support operation sky Monitor de signed to ensure that warplanes do not violate the no Fly zone Over Bosnia. The Azacs planes also help ensure the safety of . Relief flights. Aboard nato 30, surveillance operators part of i screw of 20, studied color video consoles that displayed electronic maps of the former Yugoslavia and adjacent areas. The no Fly zone was outlined in red. It is quiet today said Thomas pointing at the no Fly zone outlined on his screen. Two key serbian air bases Are located in the zone Thomas said but neither site has been an area of air activity for some time. The last fixed Wing aircraft violating the zone was detected More than a month ago Thomas said. Now we just see the Odd Clos helicopters he said. Anything flying in the no Fly zone has to have .approval," Thomas said pointing to a steady Stream of electronic blips indicating approved humanitarian flights headed into Zagreb Croatia and the bosnian capital of  s a . Air Force c-130 headed into Sarajevo from Rhein main Germany said Thomas indicating a southbound  . Flights Are monitored and can be warned if hostile aircraft arc approaching them Hickey said. Sky Monitor missions As the Azacs flights arc called usually occur during Daylight because Serbia has limited capacity to launch nighttime flights said squad Ron Leader Richard Todd the Mission s operations of  a week we Fly a random night sortie Over Hun Gary just to make sure there is no nighttime flying in the zone Todd said. The missions Are linked electronically with away planes patrolling Between Southern Italy and the for Mer republics of Yugoslavia and with nato warships in the area. Ships and planes constantly Exchange information giving them a composite picture of what is on the sea and in the sky throughout the troubled Region. That information also is passed to . Officials i Zagreb and to nato s Southern Headquarters in Naples Hickey  planes on the nato Mission Fly with Multi National Crews. Nato 30 has a Lone american aboard air Force sgt. Marvin j. , a 28-year-old surveillance operator from Portland ore., said he gets satisfaction from his role in sky  the most part we Are airborne police a pres ence he said. Maybe a lot More people would have been Hurt by air Power if we weren t up Here special forces recruiters plan Vilseck visit Schwet Zingen Germany is recruiters will meet wednesday in Vilseck with enlisted soldiers interested in applying for special forces duty. Sgt. 1st class David Gonzalez will be at the retention office building 700, from 9 . To 3 . Spouses of interested soldiers Are encouraged to at tend. Applicants must be specialists sergeants or staff sergeants who have completed the primary leadership development course. In addition applicants must take a physical fitness and swimming test. Soldiers Are required to score 220 on the army physical readiness test in the 17-to-21 age group and swim 50 meters in Battle dress uniform and boots. Applicants must also pass the special forces physical. Soldiers should bring their most recent physical fit Ness test score card and copies of their personnel data forms 2a and 2-1 to the presentations. For More information Call the Vilseck retention of fice at Dan 476-2648 or gon Alez at the european special forces recruiting office at Dan 379-6430 or 6558 or civilian 06202-25825