European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 9, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse June 2007 stars and stripes Page 3 Courtesy of Michael Hanford Petty officer 2nd class Michael a Navy culinary is the second Sailor and one of Only three service members to earn the personal certified executive chef meat and potatoes Are Good for his Art by Sandra Jontz stars and stripes Italy the mention of meat and potatoes might make you salivate if youre but it Doest often conjure up images of culinary but make no said Petty officer 2nd class Michael his meat and potato dishes Are anything but routine and Boring and dont Only serve to feed a hungry in a Meagan potatoes Guy and can take that meat and Pota toes and go anywhere with its anything but the 11year naval culinary specialist that Knack for flourish and creativity contributed to the 33yearold Navy chefs certification As a personal certified executive an acclaimed certification from the american culinary he Hes the second Sailor to earn and one of three in All the military to reach the career mile said the personal chef for Harry com Mander of naval forces Europe and of Allied joint Force i wanted to do it because it was the highest goal i could go for As a personal i dont brag about it or but i know Ive accomplished a a chef certified As a Pec must prove advanced culinary have a minimum of six years of professional cooking experience and a minimum of two years As a personal and must pass written and practical applicants Are tested on a variety of skills beyond the from menu planning to running a household that includes manag ing a staff and budgets and keep ing a Kitchen Hanford the certification helps More for future endeavours once he leaves the he Hanford already has gotten a taste of the Tough Competition in the civilian culinary who had served in the Navy for four worked in the executive culinary Field for two hotels in Florida at the same it want enough to he i want earning enough to support two children and a so Back to the Navy he went after a fou year he met his wife of 11 while in culinary theres definitely a rivalry be tween he but Shes fab i put her above Hanford is one of four sailors to serve on the first Navy culinary he is looking Forward to competing against the worlds top chefs in the 2008 culinary olym at army mum on Gas alleged attack on German woman by Charlie Coon stars and stripes army authorities Are continuing to investigate the alleged bludgeoning of a German woman by a German based Soldier Over memorial Day the 28yearold victim was hit Over the head multiple times with a flashlight on the night of May 26 while in her Home in near Ger Man police the who was de scribed by police As the soldiers was put into a coma by doctors at the German Hospital where she was according to Arno a spokesman with the Kaiserslautern police de German police arrested the sol Dier several hours the 25yearold was brought before a German who turned him Over to military the army on Friday declined to name the Soldier or disclose his whereabouts or whether he was being nor would they state the current condition of the several sources said the Soldier is assigned to the 554th military police it would not be appropriate to comment on specifics of the including naming any because it could jeopardize the suspects right to due process and could jeopardize the i Vestiga according to a statement is sued by master Derrick Crawford of the 21st theater sup port commands Public affairs of Crawford also stated that the victims condition and whereabouts would not be released with out permission required under and German no one has been charged in the according to the and no Legal proceedings have been on heeling said Ger Man police had yielded to the a mys who Are now handling the German police said that after the woman was attacked inside her Home on Kaise Strasse in the attacker left and closed the door behind lock ing it on the Way neighbors heard the woman cry for help and called the status of forces agree ment requires that military personnel who Are arrested by German police be turned Over As soon As possible to author according to Paul Conder chief of the foreign Law Branch of army Europe judge advocate if charges Are an article 32 hearing could be held to determine if the accused sol Dier would face German authorities retain the right to try a service member under their Justice but that rarely Conderman it usually Only occurs in cases of particularly heinous or when there Are and German or when German authorities Are Wor ried that the suspect would not be convicted by email Charlie Coon at army Europe Marks 65 years by Matt Millham stars and stripes army Europe had a major birthday its but there was no no balloon no commemorative slaps on the the army service component of the european continued with business As taking no More than a moment to recognize the were not going to Stop things just to celebrate said Bruce a Usa eur were going to focus on the army in Europe is Busy juggling the preparation of its troops for War and shipping them off and what it Calls transformation an initiative that is reducing the number of soldiers in Europe and changing How the remaining units Are looking Back at its transformation is nothing new for Usa eur preparing for Large the command was established in 1942 with an even longer and More complicated name Europe an theater of United states it changed names in 1947 in 1952 when it got its current new we rent the Only changes for after world War ii ended in the number of soldiers in Europe plummeted from almost 2 million to about by that number almost tripled by 1952 in response to the communist when the Berlin Wall went up Courtesy of the army v corps troops disembark in Ireland in january the first Ameri can troops to deploy to the european theater during world War army Europe marked its 65th anniversary in the commands ranks beefed up to More than at its greatest us a eur commanded a numbered army the 7th two five three a Mored cavalry an in Fantry the Southern european task Force in and a logistical according to the Usa eur history office Usa eur deployed in the cold War but most of those operations were Small humanitarian the largest deploy ment of forces from Europe Between world War ii and die Gulf War came in 1958 when soldiers deployed to Leba at the request of the Oceba Nese president to stave off the col lapse of his after Usa eur was occupied with the defense of West Germany Borders with East Ger Many and Accord ing to one of the commands Histo from the Fulda Gap to Kun since the Wall fell in a eur has closed More than 600 of its facilities in and its troop strength stands at about that number continues on a downward spiral even As nearly All of the commands combat troops an armoured an aviation a Stryker cavalry an infantry an airborne brigade and a Divi Sion Headquarters Are deployed or Are preparing to go to Emall Matt Millham at
