European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 12, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday december 12, 1993 the stars and stripes Page 3 of life standards listed communities in Europe child care dining services among items covered the following list details major standards for Community based activities under the . Army Europe As approved so far by its commander Gen David m. Maddox a child development centers Are to be within 30 minutes driving time. Area support teams arts Are authorized one or two centers base support battalions bib Are authorized from two to five centers. The number of centers is to be based on documented need. Centers Are to operate at least 55 hours per week. A dining facilities must be within 15 minutes walking distance from soldiers billets or workplaces. Each facility must serve three full meals each of which must be available for at least 90 minutes. Weekend operations will be based on demand for services. A a education centers Are to be located so that patrons average driving time is 20 minutes. The command will operate 41 full service and 11 satellite education centers averaging two per bib. Full service centers will operate 40 hours weekly satellite centers at least eight hours. A fitness centers or gymnasiums Are to be available within 15 minutes walking distance in locations that have 50 or More soldiers quarters. Other locations must offer those services within 15 minutes driving distance. Large facilities will operate 80 hours weekly Small facilities 60 hours weekly. A libraries each bib with a population greater than 10,000 will have one Large Library open 60 to 70 hours weekly. Each smaller bib will have a Library open at least 50 hours weekly. Arts will have a Branch Library or Annex open at least 40 hours a week or at least 30 hours in arts with a population of Levy a than 500. A a military health clinic and a military dental clinic will operate in locations where the Active duty population exceeds 750. Personnel assigned elsewhere will use the civilian health and medical program of the uniformed services. V a a full service postal facility will be available within 15 tin utes driving distance of a military sponsors duty station or family housing area in every stand larger organization. Barracks army housing areas and duty locations must have stamp vending machines and mail drop boxes a recreation centers one Community recreation Center will operate in each bib. Each ast or other Small army location will employ at least an activity planner even if that person is not located in a recreation Center. Community centers other than those at bib Sites will function using no appropriated funds provided that they break even financially. _ a a main youth Center will operate with five appropriated fund staff members in each bib. Arts and posts that Are More than 20 minutes driving distance away Are to have one youth Center Annex with three staff members. The centers will operate at least 35 hours weekly. By Joseph Owen Heidelberg Bureau Heidelberg Germany the . Army Europe setting an army precedent has developed quantifiable standards for the establishment and operation of several Community based services in Europe. The list of standards originally expected to be finished by october remains incomplete. But those standards that Are finished took effect 0�t. 1, and More Are expected within a month according to a command spokesman col. Richard Bridges. The most prominent services already covered include child development centers dining facilities education centers fitness centers libraries medical services postal services recreation centers and youth centers. The demographics based standards Nave Sev Schroeder eral purposes according to it. Gen. Daniel r. Schroeder Usa eur Deputy commander. A they will provide incoming soldiers with information about the minimum services they can expect to be available anywhere in the command. A they serve As a yardstick against which the command can measure its performance. A they can act As a tool with which to defend funding requests to Congress. A they serve As a guide for determining where capital investments should be made. A they discourage the tendency to distribute budget cuts evenly but inefficiently among activities rather than to terminate those deemed unsupportable. The standards address such details As staffing Levels minimum numbers of operating hours and maximum distances for the Community based services which army officials refer to As Quality of life activities. A this has not been done before. We re coming to grips with it for the first time a Schroeder said. A was you can imagine its a Tough Issue and it causes you to make some Tough decisions especially sheif you be got competing requirements All for a limited pot. The fact that his command is the first in the army to produce such standards echoes usage urn a role As one of the first commands to focus on Quality of life issues in the 1970s, Schroeder said. The command has briefed several senior army leaders about the standards development project during those leaders recent visits to Europe. By see Palumbo Mediterranean Bureau Naples Italy a Navy Secretary John h. Dalton refused saturday to comment on the latest Tait Hook allegations made by several witnesses that the Navy Stop officer was in an area where dozens of women were assaulted at the 1991 aviators convention. A i think it would be inappropriate for me to comment on the actions being taken in Norfolk a by the Legal Community a Dalton said in a 10-minute interview with the stars and stripes and an. A live never had any reason to question Admiral Frank a Kelso a  in october Dalton recommended to defense Secretary Les Aspin that Kelso resign for failing to show appropriate leadership before and after the Tail Hook scandal. The recommendation was leaked to the press even before Kelso had been notified. Aspin later decided that Kelso would stay and work with Dalton to review records and make recommendations on the disciplining of a dozen senior Navy and Marine corps officials. Dalton toured Naples and Gaeta on Friday and saturday and was to visit the guided missile Cruiser Monterey the destroyer Thorn and units participating in operation deny flights Over the next several Days. The operation supports the  no Fly zone Over a everyone acknowledges that Vout be got to come to grips with it especially in times of diminishing resources so you can make Tough choices a Schroeder said. Activities for which standards Are pending include i processing out processing housing maintenance and  the objective is to have this concluded so that by the end of fiscal year 94, we Are applying those standards across the Board a Schroeder said. A getting with it sooner rather than later helps.,us build a much better documentation in terms of what the staffing required is the thing we Call a Tda a a table of distribution and  while application of the standards might make some Bosnia and Herzegovina. Or. Karye Larocque testified thursday that she saw Kelso on the third floor of the Las vegas Hilton in the a Rhino suite watching two women drink from a Dildo containing mixed drinks attached to a painting of a Rhinoceros. Kelso had said earlier that he was not on the third floor that saturday night at the 1991 aviators convention. Dalton in other issues Dalton called for military members to be prepared to tighten their belts in the face of attempts to Cut military retirement benefits As part of the deficit reduction package. A everything we have today is being scrutinized and reviewed but 1 am committed to keeping face with our Sailor and Marine and the commitments we be made a a Dalton said a i am committed to seeing that we Honor those commitments and 1 will continue to speak out on behalf of the Sailor and Marine a a services less convenient he said what remains will be better. Of i have a place that s got three of the same thing All within a Given driving distance or walking distance and its being diminished and eroding in terms of its Quality and availability would t it make better sense to get away from doing three by closing two and making a capital investment in the one in order to make sure that it runs at a first class basis its those kind of choices a he said. Schroeder said consolidation of facilities was not the automatic prescription for such situations however and added that he said he was not prepared yet to give examples of where such choices Are  sergeant Dies in apparent suicide Case Quot Butzbach Germany a amps a 1st army div Soldier apparently shot and killed himself in his apartment Early saturday according to a division statement. Military police found sgt. Scott Coer of he co 4th in 67th Armor in Butzbach dead at 7 15 . Saturday in his roman Way housing area apartment the statement said. Authorities believe the gunshot wounds were self inflicted. A neighbor phoned the military police station about 5 30 . And reported that Coer had locked himself into his bedroom with a gun. The military police responded and along with his company commander tried to talk to him hut they got no response the statement said. Military police forcibly entered the room at 7 15 . And found Coerts body a .41-caliber automatic pistol registered to Coer was found near the body but no gunshot was heard during the incident the statement said. Coer s company commander and a chaplain notified his wife at 11 15 . The statement did not include the names of the commander or the chaplain. Coer attended mandatory suicide prevention training in november according to the battalions executive officer Mai. Richard Bourgault. Every Soldier assigned to the . Army Europe is required to get such training. Navy Secretary won t comment on reports of Kelso at Tail Hook