European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 18, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse Sunday March 182007 s Tarsan stripes Page referral Bonus extended to army civilians by Lisa Burgess stars and stripes f c v Arrngton civilians can now collect the referral Bonus for persuading someone to join the vice army officials announced thursday the referral Bonus Pilot Gram which began in january 2006 originally was instituted As a Bonus open to sol Diers regardless of component or rank and then opened to retirees the Bonus went from to on nov 13 thanks to a clause in the 2007 defense authorization Bill but it took a while for the army to develop mechanisms to provide the payments for civil ians according to Al Green chief of the army recruiting policy Branch the program came out of the Gate in january 2006 and was restricted to soldiers referring other soldiers Green told stars and stripes on Friday at that Point Green said army officials Learned there were other communities that were affiliated with the army that should Benefit from the pro Gram like retirees and civil ians who work for the service so Congress revisited the act that authorized Money for the a punic department of the army civil ians can now also get the Bonus As instructed in the defense Bill Ufi Vehe programs first year there have been 24472 referrals made to the program Green said of those referrals 3378 recruits joined one of the three army components payouts come in two Lump sums when the referral candidate enters Basic training and the second after the Soldier graduates from either one station unit training or ad1 Vance individual training the enlistment can be with any component including the Active army army National guard or the army Reserve the person who enlists must not have previously served in the us armed forces but for a referral to count i the program a civilian has to use one of two web Sites to Regis Ter a recruit before the recruit first meets with an army Recruiter or for potential army National guard recruits email Lisa Burgess at army chaplain jailed for death threats adultery the associated press fort drum by an army chaplain was stripped of his rank and sentenced to five months in military prison after pleading guilty to adultery and threatening to kill his British mistress when she wanted to end their relation ship officials at fort drum said Friday capt John Lau a Southern Baptist minister described by the mistress As a manipulative sadist was tried by a military judge who also ordered him dismissed from the army with All pay and allowances forfeited Lau 50 admitted he threatened to Hunt Down and kill Amanda Tyler a 34yearold woman he met in 2004 while stationed in England then brought to the United states and married during a mock ceremony last year at Niagara Falls Lau was so Cavalier about his extramarital relationship that he routinely brought both women to offi Cial fort drum functions and introduced Tyler As his wife Friend he testified during a general court martial thursday my wife and i were in a Lull in our relationship and looking for something to spice up our sexual relations the ordained Southern Baptist minister said during the proceeding Tyler lived at his Home As his second wife Lau said and took vacations with the family to Cyprus the Caribbean and the Florida keys he said Tyler wanted to live with the couple indefinitely in an exclusive relationship Tyler however told the water town daily times that Lau was a sexual sadist and expert Manipula Tor who lured her into a relation ship with promises of emotional stability and a life in the United states it want like i just fell m love with them and decided to be the second wife Tyler said what i thought they were doing was put Ting me on the straight and Nar Row restoring my Confidence Lau said the three had sexual re lations which he described As con sensual but which Tyler described As occurring under duress the Price for objections is severe if you object you pay be cause Hes the master she told the newspaper in september while Lau was deployed in Iraq Tyler informed the family that she planned to move out Lau responded by sending three emails threatening to kill Tyler Lau was sentenced to 14 months in military prison but under the terms of his plea agreement he will serve Only five months 3rd Sailor from Mississippi unit Tarcen into custody by Teri Weaver stars and stripes one Sailor has died another is recovering and a third has been taken into custody after a shooting thursday morning on a us Navy base in Guam a Navy spokesman confirmed Friday the shooting happened at about am thurs Day at Camp Covington a military area inside Guam naval base in Santa Rita the sailors were members of naval Mobile construction battalion 74 a deployed unit from Gulf port miss the incident is currently under investigation by the naval criminal investigative service Navy spokesman it Donnell Evans wrote in an email in response to stars and stripes one Sailor died at 2 pm thursday at us naval Hospital Guam according to Evans that sailors name was being withheld Friday pending notification of family members Evans on Friday the wounded Sailor was recovering from surgery Evans wrote his name was being withheld out of respect for his privacy Evans wrote the Sailor in custody remained in confinement Friday at Andersen air Force base on Guam Evans wrote his name was not released the Navy provided no other details of the shoot ing the construction battalion provides military construction support to Navy Marine corps and other forces in times of emergency the battalion conducts disaster control and recovery operations according to the navys news release email Teri Weaver at cub scouts lend a hand and some shovels Rick Obermite Courtesy of the us army cub scout pack 81s Morgan Baek right holds a tree As Chance Parrotte left and Ben West Center cover its roots with soil the scouts from the us military Community from Taegu joined 40 us and Katusa soldiers from area installations on Friday for the annual Taegu metropolitan tree planting ceremony some 500 others from City government and civic groups also took part
