European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 26, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday november 26, 1993 budget cuts r of ,. Stretching 6th Fleet Lopez says by Gary Miller Mediterranean Bureau Saeta Italy a shrinking . De sense budget and world contingencies will make it difficult for the . Navy to meet All its commitments in the Mediterranean theater the commander of the . 6th Fleet said tuesday. There Are going to be some hard choices in the future said vice adm. T. Joseph Lopez. Since assuming command of the Navy s Mcd Terra Nean Fleet in july Lopes 1992, Lopez has seen dozens of . Ships move in and out of the  kind of wish like any commander that you would have All the possible assets but in today s world that s not pos sible Lopez said during an interview on the Cruiser Belknap the Admiral s Flag  will move to Washington to As sume the Post As Deputy chief of naval operations for resources warfare requirements and assessments. He is expected to leave within a few weeks. Rear adm. Joseph w. Prueher has been named to replace Lopez As com Mander of 6th Fleet and is expected to arrive in Europe next month. During his tenure As 6th Fleet com Mander Lopez frequently Hay had to shift 6th Fleet ships to other  example last month he sent the aircraft earner America from the Adriatic sea where its planes were supporting operation deny flight Over the former Yugoslavia to the Indian Ocean where the ship supports Allied operations i famine stricken Somalia. The Pentagon ordered the move after american and other . Peacekeeping troops were killed by forces Loyal to local warlord Mohamed Farrah aided. The America remains offshore read to support Allied forces in the somalian capital of  s predecessor the Theodore Roosevelt also was diverted front Den flight operations. It moved into the red sea after . Navy ships launched cruise missile attack on Iraq. However the varied deployments have shown that 6th Fleet ships Are combat ready and flex Bill Lopez said. The stars and stripes paged 80s Vine  the Day Yon just by Here in Pool of feat ays sgt Ian Nesbit fitting inside he banker near Mog Dushu som til. Go gets Hole View of Somalia Soldier prefers quiet duty inside checkpoint Bunker  writer Mogadishu Somalia army sgt. Ian Nesbit promised his wife Deanne that he d find the biggest Holbein Somalia crawl inside and not come out until the air plane shows up to take him Home. Sitting deep inside a checkpoint Bun Ker on a recent afternoon peering out Between sandbags to escape the heat of the african Sun the infantryman seemed to be keeping his word. At night it cools off but during the Day you just Lay Here in a Pool of sweat the 26-year-old fire Tea Nejad Essaid. 7 / Nesbit an Arvada coio., native i assigned to 2nd in 22nd triple Deuce inf regt in fort drum . He is one of the 4,200 american combat task Force soldiers whose main Job is to defend the other 3,300 .troops on the ground in Somalia who Are assigned to . Logistics duty. The situation in Somalia appeared Calm from Nesbit s Vantage Point inside the Bunker on a Dusty Convoy route Southwest of Mogadishu. His Job is to guard an already heavily defended Road on the far outskirts of the chaotic somalian capital. The quiet duty was t what he expected when he was sent to Somalia a month ago to bolster american de lenses in the Wake of the oct. 3 raid that killed 18 army rangers. But nes bit in t complaining. I Don t plan on taking my team into the City he said. And if i do have to take them in i plan to bring them fallout Safe because they re All married. One has a 12-year-old daughter another has a 2-year-old daughter and i have two  in Case the Chilly peace in Mogadishu heats up again Nesbit s outfit is practising tactics for City fighting till we can do it in our sleep if that s what they want us to  he wants to be prepared he said. Nesbit like Many . Soldiers in so Malia in t quite sure he agrees with All the political mane vering As the United nations attempts to thaw its cold War truce with somalian faction Leader Mohamed Farrah aided. I think what we came Over Here Todo at the beginning was the right  he said of last year s american led Mission to feed the starving ungoverned Sonfilian people. Now it s Hardtop say. If we re going to be Here then what s going to be the Mission Are we going to disarm the warlords what s going to be our Clear Cut mis Sion just untie our hands and let us  Nesbit realizes that these Are Tough questions and Tough decisions and that walking a hard line in Mogadishu Means climbing but of the Safe confines of his desolate Bunker risking the Hance that some of the fathers in his squad might not go Home to their Chil Dren again. So he said ill leave that to the  still he said if the . Pulled out then within three or four months it will be right Back to where it was before. Think that s one thing they should do is just go in and confiscate  in the meantime somalian children Stop by his Hole in the ground on their Way to and from school they would learn new words and try them out on thesis. But even the children like every thing else in Somalia Are unpredictable. Sometimes kids la come out and say go Home we Don t like you " Nesbit said. And then five minutes later a different group of kids la come by and say we like americans " Union pressing efforts for exclusive status in Dodds by Chuck Vinc Washington Bureau Washington a teachers Union has appealed ruling that rebuffed its bid to become the sole representative of overseas teachers with the department of defense dependents schools. The overseas education association s clarification of unit petition filed in july 1992, was denied in an aug. 18 decision by the Federal labor relations authority s regional office in Washington. Union officials have appealed the ruling to a three member panel of officials at the authority s Headquarters in Washington. A decision is not expected for several  overseas education association represents teachers in the Germany Atlantic and Pacific regions of Dodds. The overseas federation of teachers rep resents teachers in the system s Mediterranean an Panama regions. A decision favouring the overseas education association would have allowed it to supplant the overseas federation of teachers As the sole bar gaining unit in the Mediterranean and Panama regions. Current Law requires that Union bargaining units must contain employees who share a Clear Ana identifiable Community of interest and must promote effective dealings and efficiency of operations of the agencies  overseas education association s petition is supported by Dodds. In the petition the association argues that because the school system is shrinking re drawing its regional map and consolidating functions i Washington there should be Only one Union negotiating with school system officials the overseas Educa Tion association. The Union says the consolidations have changed the character and scope of the management labor negotiations. But the ruling by the labor authority s office said overseas teachers still have unique local concerns with in their respective regions that Are overshadowed by any  predicted All along that the overseas Educa Tion association would lose said Ernie. Lehmann spokesman of the overseas federation of teachers who is based in Verona  said the centralization actions by Dodds Are less extensive than the overseas education association claims. The association plans to continue efforts to become the sole bargaining unit for overseas teachers. Association spokeswoman Sandra Vickstrom said this week that the Union will file a petition with the labor authority within the next few weeks seeking tomake the overseas education association the sole bar gaining unit for the relatively new Panama islands re Gion of Dodds which includes Panama Cuba Ber Muda and Newfoundland. The association is already the bargaining unit for teachers at Dodds schools in Cuba Bermuda and Newfoundland