European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 18, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse May 2007 stars and stripes Mideast edition Page catering to the troops a vanishing army Cooks know what their soldiers want dished up by Kevin Dougherty stars and stripes Afghanistan in a classic to episode of Hawk Eye Pierce chides an army for the same tasteless Slop he dishes out Day after Ive had a River of liver and an Ocean of the warmhearted doctor says be fore badgering poor Igor some More and igniting a mess Hall generations of soldiers have derided the Guy at the end of the serving line with a spoon in their even deep they find the fare fair to but these particularly at Large install military Cooks Are largely missing in at such Mega the Cooks in the Kitchen Are usually civilians employed by contractors like on in a War a person today Likely has to travel pretty far from the flagpole to find a Cook in combat Abr wont come to places like Phyl Lisa said one afternoon while whipping up oat meal cookies for the next Days the place Toney spoke of is Camp located near the afghan Village of Abr employees do work Here you just wont find them in the we Are getting phased Anitra Randall said of military Abr is taking Over every where four months when the 10th Mountain Divi Sions tour got extended and Jala Labad grew from a battalion to a brigade a Small food fight arose Over Kitchen in the Abr won Randall because it was determined there we rent enough army Cooks to support the much to the Chagrin of the they dont put the care and love into it that they Randall said of brim not saying they dont were just closer to the we know what its what they Are going through out at Toney and the other Cooks at Blessing pull guard that in a Cook at another base earned a medal for his role in a fight with afghan if they Are on a they Are fighting said Toby Haynes of company 1st 32nd infantry its hard to imagine Igor doing the but in the the Cook redeemed himself with a tasty rack of Barbecue ribs though the feast was Cut Short by the sound of choppers signalling incoming at Camp soldiers dont miss too Many meals if they can help a typical menu May Lack the variety of a Abr but Cooks make up for it with a dash or two of one recent lat night meal consisted of Chicken wings and onion and the Day baked Ziti was All the rage around that was one of the Best meals Ive had since Ive Michael and stripes Jason Huft removes the meat from italian Sau sages for a meat and Tomato sauce that will be served with Ziti noodles As he prepares supper for the soldiers of company 1st battalion 32nd infantry 10th Mountain at their base in the Pech River Valley in Eastern an army has a degree in culinary arts from be cordon been Down said staff Edwin an Engineer with five months in outside the screen door leading into the Little wooden Bozof Kitchen at a base called combat main is a Han drawn sign that reads you kill hell Grill it a Jason Huft joined the army two years ago be he everybody should serve one before he the 24yearold earned his de Gree in and then returned Home to new where he worked at restaurants in Santa be and on this Huft is preparing a dish of Ziti noodles and italian sausage he peels away the casing and lets the contents fall into a deep where it is later mashed and mixed with Tomato sauce and if you have a bad experience in a Huft youre probably not going to go soldiers dont have that at least not when but Huft Doest take his captive audience for Haynes said when soldiers return from a Remote outpost or from an especially taxing mis Sion of several Huft prepares a feast for its better to have your own Cook out Haynes he puts a Little More Effort into his meals than most plus he volunteered to come out to this he likes his and he likes it even More when soldiers come Back for no matter if Hes serving liver or email Kevin Dougherty at scientists with Dod find Sarin Gas could cause brain deficits stars and stripes scientists working with the de sense department have found Evi Dence that a Low level exposure to Sarin nerve Gas the kind experienced by More than american troops in the persian Gulf War of 1991 could have caused lasting brain deficits in former the new York times reported thurs although the results Are prelim the study is notable for being financed by the Federal government and for being the first to make use of a detailed analysis of Sarin exposure performed by the based on wind Pat terns and plume the times the times reported that according to a study in the june Issue of re searchers found apparent changes in the brains connective tissue its so called White matter in soldiers exposed to the and that the extent of the changes less White matter and slightly larger brain cavities corresponded to the extent of expo Many scientists have questioned whether the so called per Sian Gulf War illnesses have a physiological and far More research will have to be done be fore it is known whether those ill Nesses can be traced to exposure to the paper the Pentagon has admitted that about troops were exposed to Low Levels of a deadly nerve after they destroyed a weapons depot at Khamis Yah in Southern Iraq in for the Pentagon de Nied any when the roughly deployed troops returned about one in seven began experiencing symptoms such As Persis tent chronic joint pain and the times symptoms persist today for More than of according to the depart ment of veterans More than the number of troops exposed to the judge considers bail for fort Dix suspect by Geoff Mulvihill the associated press of the six men charged last week with plot Ting to attack soldiers at fort Agron Abdullahu had the Small est role and did not intend to kill prosecutors the attorneys office he should still be held in a detention Center until his Case is a judge on thursday was to decide whether he should be freed on is charged with helping illegal immigrants obtain which carries a Maxi mum prison penalty of 10 the other five men Ibrahim 22 Serdar 23 Dritan Anthony or Tony 28 Shain 26 and Elvir Elvis 23 Are charged with conspiring to kill military they face life in prison if a judge ruled last week that they should be held without the six men were arrested on May 7 As prosecutors said they were trying to buy automatic weapons to use in an authorities said Abdullahu kept weapons for the taught them How to hold guns and told them about How to make the government said Abdul Lahu acknowledged to investigators that he kept weapons for the other suspects because they were in the country illegally and that he made bombs to blow up logs in his he told an Fri informant he did not intend to kill anyone but wanted to learn about bomb Mak ing just in Case somebody pushes me to the according to a government Legal Brief filed according to the Legal Abdullahu told investigators that islam says it is wrong to kill civil ians and he thought it would be crazy to attack a military the attorneys office con tends Abdullahu would be a flight risk and a danger to the Community if 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