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coverage for timeliness and the ombudsman welcomes comments from and can be contacted by email at , or by phone at european and Pacific stars and stripes 2007 stalls and stripes web site letters to the editor tattooed soldiers look silly enough already with All of these our Force is beginning to look not Only in but downright Why Are Young men and women soldiers getting All of this Ink All Over their bodies Why has there become a sudden Rush to draw attention to oneself through tattooing funny silly japanese writing and scary monster faces up and Down the legs and  else gee enough is firs line us snap link in your Ranger buddies and let them know How stupid they there is no need to draw attention to be the quiet one who takes Pride in a Job Well not looking like some Poser athlete or burned out hip pie Bike builder in the Hope that others will find you All of these tattoos would be funny if they were not so shape soldiers be Stop inking the daylights out of you look William Moore Camp Iraq spouses Over veterans i was recently honorable discharged from the i decided to stay in Germany with my wife and kid simply be cause we started a life Here arid we Are comfortable living where we the one thing i have noticed during my employ ment search is that it is a whole other world in its own to find a Job i have Learned that spouses earn a 10point preference Over who Only earn five Points for Job How can that be i served my country for a Little under eight and have even been to a com Bat Here i am being told that a spouse overseas has More of a right to a Job than it simply blows my mind that when i apply for a Job that i have worked in for eight years with the military that seven out of 10 times the spouse with very Little knowledge of the Job is picked for the position before i simply because they Are a spouse i do understand that family members also deserve the right to attain employ there Are soldiers who have decided to make a new life overseas who count on these jobs and plan to hold the position longer than a family member who May be Here for a couple but these soldiers Are overlooked of some Point sys tem there has to be something needs to revamp this Point system and make it easier for a military personnel to transition into the civilian whether it be stateside or stars and stripes welcomes your comments on editorials arid columns that Are published in the Wulw Shiw vhf Ivett View Wal a few Tanca in the lives of our All letters must be and must include the writers address or Bale arid Telephone please limit All letters to 300 we Reserve the right to edit letters for taste and Send your letters to mail International and stripes and stripes Postrach 1330 Apo at 09211 64345griesheim via fax country code 0 Dan 3498395 email  Michael Skiscim Germany Cook was in uniform in reference to where Are Cooks gloves May from the master sergeant expressing concern Over a Cooks fashion malfunction to be cooking with out a hairnets and gloves Good Mas Ter she is in although a patrol Cap is required head hairnets Are gloves Are however not required outer blouses Are worn As per head the letter writer has been eating army food cooked in this manner for years and he failed to mention whether he has been finding hair or suffering from Coli Dur ing this before the a Cooks mount is per formed and it is during this inspection it is discovered whether fingernails Are in need of deep cleaning hair is filthy or not tucked underneath the Cap or whether the potential Cook is healthy enough to risk touching someones i Only mention this to help restore Faith in army i Hope in not behind times As i completed training for this military occupational specially two years ago and Haven received my memo informing me of the changes in mess Hall the army provides the most uniformly Well prepared meals of any institution on the the letter writer should feel free to have read to but hell be missing out on some of the Best food made with human Robert Swanson Camp Kuwait set a Baseline cola rate whoever the individuals Are who decided our costo living they Are using an outdated formula that needs a severe overhaul set to drop across most of june Europe Edi we Are continually told that developing a monthly budget is the Best Way to live on a military but How can we build a Bud get to live on if each month we have to con tend with drastic sudden changes to our cola rates its time that a Baseline cola rate be established for a 12month where Dur ing that period cola rates would not drop below that established Baseline rates can be adjusted but they can not drop below that Baseline doonesbury with the stress of our military lives in to Days this would give us one less thing to worry it is the least we can do for our airmen and Yeoman Chris Verhasselt Germany the dumb and dumber i saw terror plot tipster says he Doest feel like a hero May about How a circuit City clerk Doest feel like a hero tipping off authorities to a Ter ror plot to attack fort after a few years of military service and seeing what terrorists Are capable i do not believe this Story and a few terrorists adapt like they killed thousands of people in just one they drop helicopters from the they develop weapons that can destroy Multi Mil lion Dollar tanks that have taken years of re search and development to All of a their weakness seems to be video editing i dont believe for a moment that a terrorist group would go to circuit City to dub its vhf terror video to kid suicide bombings All Are Horri ble things they but probably take training and but they cant video edit do you expect me to believe that this is what stumps them they can make a bomb from a 7up can and some but game Over when it comes to video editing i dont buy it that All this stuff is they show a Grainy Blacka Edwhite video with some bomb dropping on some build ing somewhere and Tell me they killed a top Leader in the War on now they Tell me that after entering the and establishing a identifying a target and doing some they get stumped on putting a vhf tape onto i am not that dumb or brainwashed yet to believe the american Public should question the credibility of some of the claims the Media which i believe Are fabricated to create fear and which sell airtime and Commer Nick Breeze Germany housing for of plans to build 70 Homes at Feltwell june Europe edition says the air Force is planning to build 70 new on Post Homes in a million you do the math and find that s More than half a million dollars per Home on land it already the other military services dont spend half a million dollars per set of quarters for their probably not even on land they have to Are there going to be 70 generals living in them Are they being built for ambassadors i think the readers of stars and mostly members of taxpaying should be told Why they Cost so id love to move into a set of government quarters that Cost a half million but the army Doest do that for its lieutenant Colo Nels Robert Doleman Germany 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