European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 24, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 14 letters to the editor european edition col Steven s. Hoffman Usa commander publisher Bernard a. Zovistoski editor. News and editorial Deborah Absher. New editor Bill Walker european editor Bob wicket sports editor George Martea City editor to write us unit 29480 Apo a 09211 orpostfach111437 64278 Darmstadt Germany newstelefax6155-661416 to Call us dial 06155-601 plus Extension or Dan 348-8 plus Extension As follows news ext 237,255,282,226,326. Sports ext 225,269,263,332,321,221. Features ext. 230,245,341. Letters to editor ext. 208. Education Jimi Jones ext 226. Business news ext. 326. News bureaus Heidelberg Germany Joseph Owen room 117, Rome str. 104,69126 Hawe Toerag car 419, Box 1318, Apo a 09102 Telephone Dan 370-7010 or civilian 06221-23421 Tel fax 06221-27239. Kaiserslautern Germany Kevin Dougherty John Bohmer Stev Schow building 2899. 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Sunday april 24,1994 supports Singapore when Jefferson drafted the Constitution Don t think his intent was for it to become a device for protecting criminal Sand thugs at the expense of society s Wel fare. Fortunately Singapore did not cop your Legal system. To All the bleeding heart armchair liberals who think the caning of or. Michael p. Fay is excessive i have Only one request walk a mile at night in Baltimore Washington los an Geles Detroit or any of America s numer Ous free fire  i think your attitude will drastically change when coupled with Strong dose of reality. Thugs Are not afraid of our quasi Legal system. Too badge can t copy Singapore s. 2ndilt, Clyde m. Buckle Wiesbaden Germany. V. / add s no defense i find it interesting that Michael Fay s lawyer is now trying to defend his client with a so called mental illness defense stating that this Young adult s attention deficit disorder add is an excuse forgot caning him because it will cause him irreparable mental anguish. Children with add Are not mentally ill. They can be More impulsive in some cases than other children but that in no Way absolves them from personal responsibility for their actions. Parents of add children Are counselled that they must constantly reinforce to the child that add is not an excuse for out of control behaviour. V v furthermore As he is .18 wrought to Stop calling Michael Fay a boy. He is not a child. He chose to destroy cars an break the Law in a country that makes it quite Clear that they do not tolerate Van dals defending him by making add a mental illness does a great disservice toll the other Young people with add who do not act like hooligans and Strug Gle on a daily basis to Lead productive Law abiding  s. Whiteaker Frankfurt Germany i punishment fits crime we All know about the Young Man in Singapore who is scheduled to be whipped with a Cane for committing acts of vandalism. This has been held up As an act of bar arianism by the bleeding hearts who would like to see him get a jail sentence or monetary Fine As we do i America. I beg to differ. Caning teaches a lesson that should have been taught years ago. If our prisons and Legal system really worked in America we would have fewer offenders instead of More Why Are they increasing because our humane system does t work. Perhaps if our offenders received such punishment we could free some jail prison space. We could also save Money As keeping these thugs in prison is costly business. It would also keep anyone with a Grain of sense from savaging someone else. Bring in the Cane and use it. Use the Money for something else. William  Ramstein a Germany. Fay asked for it i am 100 percent in favor of the Singa pore government caning Michael p. Fay. I m tired of these bleeding heart Ameri cans crying about cruel and unusual punishment. The Lack of appropriate punish ment is one reason America is going Down the tubes. Reginald m. Clark Stuttgart Germany coddling criminals the Best Way to fight crime is to make it Tough on the criminal. We need to make the criminal earn his keep in Pris on. It s sad that prisoners Are better taken care of than most hard working americans. Any new gun Laws just give the Crimi nals another Law to break. It s a pity that the lawyers and judges care More for the criminals than the victims. Paula Elliott Wurzberg Germany shooting Down myth the writer of diverting attention from violence to what s said sunday Magazine april 10makes his Point using the anti Era Armor piercing bul lets myth. What s the True Story first in 1966, three sex Law enforce ment f professionals designed a Teflon coated Tungsten Core Armor piercing Bullet. The Kew Bullet the designers initials was manufactured Only for la enforcement agencies. In january 1992, Abc first broadcast cop killer bullets. Law enforcement agencies asked the network not to air the fact that Many cops Wear body Armor. The fear that their Una Mored head would become criminals main target came True. The cop killer Bullet is a mis Nomer no police officer had Ever been wiled by a Kew Bullet. Then former rep. Mario Biaggi rightly concerned about police safety sponsored a Bill to ban any Bullet fired from test barrel that would penetrate a Vest. The original Bill was so Broad that almost85 percent of Hunting and Rifle bullets would have been tested then ? the Vest was designed to Stop handgun bullets not Rifle  National Rifle association the International association of chiefs of police the . Department of Justice and the . Treasury department oppose the original Bill. Protecting police and defending Hunt Erst he Era and., others successfully lobbied Congress to focus on Armor piercing bullets. Since 1986, private pos session or use of bullets designed to punch through body Armor has been banned 18 United states code 921 when passed former rep. Biaggi said our final legislative product was hot some watered Down version of what we set out to do. In the end there was no Compromise on the part of police  finally myths have no place in the de Bate on reducing crime. Why perpetuate the myths that the Era backs Armor piercing bullets or such bullets Are readily available let s focus on criminals no criminally misused firearms. Let s take the six percent of criminals who commit80 percent of violent crimes and lock them up. " "  master sgt. David l. Gerber Span Dahlem a Germany -. � where credit is due an article reported recently that the army gave $7 million Worth of medical supplies and equipment to Belarus. While the army did present and instal the Materiel the Materiel was donated by the United states air Force and was Parton the 608th contingency Hospital pack age that was located at Raf Upwood England. The personnel of the 608th contingency Hospital worked for Over a year in preparing the Materiel for this action. The mate Riel that went to Belarus was the last remaining supplies and equipment out of Over $13 million that was originally on hand. The first part of the resist nution involved shipping Materiel to More than 70 other department of defense location worldwide and making several other humanitarian assistance program  army was involved in the last 60 to 90 Days of this process by repacking some of the Materiel into smaller increments and taking it to Minsk and separating out other Materiel for a later shipment to another to  activity that was heavily involved in this project was the transportation management office at Raf Alcon Bury England. Without their assistance. In packing crating moving and arranging transportation none of this would have happened As smoothly As it  paid for rapid areas distribution support rads packing and grating teams to come in and pack and crate All the equipment and supplies. Alconbury transportation also established the transportation contract requirement and monitored the whole process of loading these vans. Another aspect of their involve ment was the preparation of shipping an customs clearance documents. The 870th contingency Hospital sup plied two Complete a Ray systems to be included in this shipment. These unit were donated after we coordinated with the air Force medical logistics office a fort Petrick Maryland for them to be released for Hap use. They will also be providing the bulk of the Materiel for up coming shipments to other locations. We would like to see All the players Inthis project get some of the credit and to have the full scope Story of what was involved in the successful completion of the project understood. Other units that have contributed to this Effort Are Headquarters 3af/lgtt, upper Heyford transportation a tic he Safe so contracting 100 Reg and demo. Maj. Susan e. Hughes Suffolk England " " � tour guide lauded while in Germany recently i had the privilege of going with my daughter her husband and two sons on an armed forces recreation Center tour of Neuse Hanstein Castle and Oberammergau. Our tour guide was. Jessica and when a couple of Days later we went on the Innsbruck tour. We were fortunate enough to have Jessica As our guide once . She was absolutely Superb. I Don t be Lieve i have Ever enjoyed any tour Smuch As those. Jessica was personable and considerate yet extremely Knowle Deable about every aspect of each of the Tours. Arc is fortunate to have some one so Brilliant. Mrs. Lou g. Squire Fairmont a. A a a " in Praise of Sato recently our family flew round trip from Frankfurt Germany to Detroit to Anchorage Alaska to Phoenix Back to Frankfurt the logistics of planning this trip were  i have the Good Fortune of working with the Sato office at the am terminal at Rhein main a which was determined to find us the least expensive and most convenient routing while keep ing us on our air Carrier on which we Are accumulating frequent flyer Miles. I had read All those anti Sato article sin the paper so i did my Homework i checked with a Good off base travel agent. They could t even begin to meet my particular needs and they lacked the flexibility i required. Additionally i had to pay in full in Cash Marks for the tick ets credit cards were not accepted. I know there s Good and bad in Ever organization but Don t Rule out Rhein main s Sato office because of All the bad press. I would highly recommend them. 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