European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 02, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday november 2, 1993 the star3 and stripes Page 3 airmen at Aviano a poor Concrete to keep tent City free of mod. Watch Worff is in Fen to please  Italy Bureau Aviano a Italy the Rife Itin to but Aviano s state of the Art tent City keeps its 279 residents nearly . Marines warm and dry in rela Tive  tent cities erected elsewhere by . Forces have sometimes turned into Boot sucking quagmires during Rainy periods Aviano s tent City has stayed dry during the recent weeks of heavy rain in Northern  took the lessons Learned from the tent City at in Ciurlik a Turkey an used them Here said air Force senior master sgt. Wayne e. Quattrone heavy repair superintendent for Asianov 401st civil engineering so. The biggest lesson we Learned was that moisture coming under tents there was causing the Harvest Eagle tents to rot said Quattrone who Heads construction at the tent City. To head off that potential problem engineers ripped out old Concrete slabs graded the site and Laid 1,000tons of moisture absorbing gravel. They also poured new Concrete ten slabs installed water and sewer lines for latrines and showers installed underground electricity Lis and built Concrete sidewalks. A the tent City Cost just More than $200,000 to construct including labor and has paid for itself several times Over Quattrone  City saved $1 million in Billet ing costs in 75 Days based on an aver age occupancy figure of 270 people Quattrone  the utilities Are permanent and will permit this site to be used for ten cities for Many years to come said Quattrone 30, from Jamestown  tent Complex offers amenities such As constant hot water two physio 1 eng a us senior master set Wayne Al Quat Trone left and Settlor master of Steve Swie Chowke. Cal fitness centers two tents outfitted with televisions and Vars a base Exchange trailer and a clinic v this is the Best tent City i be overseen said senior master sgt. Steve Swiechowicz a construction special stat tent City along with several dozen engineers from the 52nd civil engineering at Span Dahlem Germany. Aviano s tents come equipped wit with heating and air conditioning sys tems which probably will become the Standard in the future Quattrone said. Improvements continue at the City which can accommodate up to 500 Resi dents. Engineers recently raced again Stan approaching rainstorm to replace a latrine s roof and More sidewalks Are being installed. Air Force reservists in May were the first to move into the City. In july. Marine maintenance personnel supporting eight f/a-18 fighters from the 533rd fixed Wing Marine fighter attack Al weather so from Beaufort Marine corps air station , moved in an now form the bulk of the residents. The marines Are at Aviano in support of operation deny flight nato s. Enforcement of the . S flight ban Over Bosnia and Herzegovina. Hunt for Elora s killer 7,500 Bood samples being tested by Craig Martin staff writer Darmstadt Germany army officials have collected More than 1,500 blood samples from americans for test ing in Hopes of finding the killer of 2 year old Elora Mckemy sources close tothe investigation say. A Florida congressman also has sent Aletter to the european come asking for copies of medical and police report dealing with the toddler s death sept. Is in  source reported Friday that 1,500 blood samples Nave been taken from sol Diers in Babenhausen Miinster and Darmstadt for Dan testing in a German lab in  detox ribonucleic acid Isth genetic blueprint for living things and is used in court to establish individual identity. Sgt. Brent Mckemy and his wife Penny lived in the army s housing area on Babenhausen Cavern with Elora their Only child. Elora disappeared from their fourth floor apartment Between 1  4 . Her body was found lying next to a Quarry a few hours late officials have not said How Elora got out of the family s  police Are heading a joint investigation that includes the Darmstadt office of the army s criminal investigation come commonly called  close to the investigation said last week that pol ice h and no suspects. V corps spokeswoman Hilde Patton said Friday that. Cid agents have inter viewed 1,500 people about the Case. A corps spokesman last month said that Cid is investigating americans while the germans Are questioning non Ameri  Patton could not say How Many Cid agents were investigating Elora s death she said agents throughout Mcco Ilura Europe and the states Are Check ing leads. We Don t have aset number of agents to investigate she said. It depends on the leads we have then we assign  on oct 19, .rep. Bill Mccol Lum r-fla., sent Aletter to the euro Pean come on be half of Brent Mckemy asking that medi Cal and police reports be released to the congressman said Elaine Whipple an aide to Mccolum. No response has come from Euc Meven acknowledging they received the congressman s request Whipple told the stars and stripes on monday. A spokesman for Neucom said Mon Day that the command had not received Mccollum s request. Mccollum s request was his second Effort for the Mckeys Whipple said. In late september he asked that the .military insist that German officials re lease the body and Speed Mckemy s com passionate reassignment to the United states. Those requests were met Whipple said. German officials would t release Elora s body for Aboul a wee while tests were conducted a German medical official said. Mckemy s former commander at Babenhausen it. Col. Randall d. Chase has said the family does not want to talk to the press. Mckemy s parents Jim and Betty Grant of Orlando fla., did not answer phone Calls monday. Contributing to to rap Dit sufi writer Cindy Obion in Washington and de Revit in farm Tuff. Task Force in Macedonia Marks quiet 3 months i. "  writer the . Infantry task Force in Mace Donia marked three months of peace keeper duty along the serbian Border Ina . Ceremony saturday a task Force official said. President Clinton deployed the 320soldiers of the Berlin based task Force to Macedonia in july to help prevent the spread of the bosnian civil War making it the first american ground combat uni sent to the former Yugoslavia. Members of task Force 6-502 will receive the . Protection Force s award for 90 consecutive Days of peacekeeping said maj. Donna Barthle the task Force Public affairs officer. The soldiers rescheduled to finish their six month bal Kan stint after the new year s Holiday. The situation is still Calm Barth Esaid of the american patrols along Mace Donia s Border with Serbia. ". Patrols have seen and talked to serbian patrols with no  the task Force is built around a company of infantry from Berlin s 6th in 502nd inf regt. The unit keeps one Pla Toon along the mountainous 15-mile american sector of the macedonian Bor Der one platoon in Reserve and one Pla Toon at the base Camp at Petrovec air port near Macedonia s capital of Skopje. In addition a platoon of infantry to macedonians inthe Region Are quite curious about the americans and have been quite Friendly maj. Donna bar title scouts patrols different sectors of . Border at the request of Brig. Gen. Finn Kaermark Thomsen commander of the 1,000 . Forces in Macedonia. The macedonians in the Region requite curious about the americans and have been quite Friendly Barthle  called Skopje a very interesting International City the first place i be overseen Catholic churches sitting across from  americans also work closely with the . S nordic battalion which patrols other sectors of Macedonia s rugged Northern Border with Serbia and  americans also Are planning to do one week exchanges with finnish norwegian and swedish peacekeepers. The Petrovec base which used to House the yugoslav army is sealed off by barbed wire and Concrete anti tank obstacles. I consists of three Barracks and three Han Gars for the unit s armoured vehicles. S