European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 11, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 stars and stripes june 2007 v corps sergeant major Dies in motorcycle crash name Gaetano Nino Dublino age 80 title after 54 years working for Navy during your retirement friends and colleagues called you a number of tilings a a Fountain of information and you joked that if youd known All you would have asked for More of a raise during All your years of working How did their words make you feel it makes me feel All my i worked with dedication and the Best of my they cited 54 years of 54 years dedication to the 54 years of this and make you feel old not maybe i feel too Young in my and i have a sense of which helps me feel what made you want to work for the Navy the Only reason i started Here in 1953 was because the Navy was the Only employer in Italy at 5 Oclock on a Friday you could quit working and have the whole weekend All for for us ital that is unheard i was thinking i would do it for a few months and then go for my real for my family was merchant Marine those few months turned into 54 the world has changed quite a bit in 54 technology has and yet you refuse to use a Why is that because i can use my and my Small its at the end of the fiscal All the representatives from the the the air Force and pull out their salary Scales they worked on the i pull out my Little calculator and i make them do it ail their computers often make Dublino helped calculate the salary Scales for italian employees at All the military bases in so what do you do with your Little calculator now i throw it its the in a huge Grin crosses his face in those 54 did you develop any hobbies i like i play the the guitar and the and you like that what youll be spending much of your time on Correct i have an 18foot boat with an outboard nothing i like to boat in and now that in ill be spending part of my time Here in part in and part in England visiting my he lives they said you can count on one hand the number of Days you missed work during your 54 you missed five Days or less once was for the asian flu in was so and another i have terrible and i had an asthma but dont ask me what year that interview by Sandra know someone whose Volunteer awards or Good deeds qualify them for 15 min utes of Fame How about someone whose claim to glory is a bit out of the Ordinary dare we oddball Send the persons name and Contact information to stars and stripes a v corps Soldier and Bronze Star recipient died in a motorcycle Accident near officials said William of served with battalion operations and was assigned to Headquarters and Headquarters special troops battalion at Patton Barracks in Matlock was Riding his motorcycle on a Road be tween Leiden and Naiberg on thursday night when he apparently lost control and hit a according to a news release issued by v German police and medical personnel responded but  save Matlock he was declared dead at the scene around the Accident is under Matlock began his career in the army in 1987 and joined v corps in May officials he was deployed to Bosnia and participated in the Gulf War and completed two Tours in the last with v corps Headquarters last he received the Bronze Star medal with one Oak Leaf Cluster meritorious service medal with two Oak Leaf clusters and medals for the conflicts in Kosovo and by All he was a great senior noncommissioned devoted husband and proud a said Charles to commander of the special troops Matlock colleagues say he loved helping the units basketball team win several he also loved to teach and help Matlock had a great attitude a Downto Earth said Troy he was always there to lend a helping and he loved his he is survived by his wife two and his Mother and the details for a memorial service Are married lieutenant colonels filling sister battalions commander slots by Nancy Montgomery stars and stripes Germany they started dating at a signal school for officers and struggled through five years of a off again relation they finally were posted together at the just six doors away from each other in the 17v2 Miles of hallway of whats been called the biggest High school in the because they were they both had extra duty As White House social that meant they pretty much went to a party at the White House every the biggest shrimp Ive Ever he the White House eggnog if you can get the Reci do she it also meant that they got to see the Clinton and the Bushes the second ones up close and president Clinton treated us very she i claim in the first military aide president Bush he explaining that when Bush reached past him to shake someones his Arm was bumping the top of my he proposed on the fourth of july on the White House Lawn As the Star spangled Banner he didst she she was looking at me with the fireworks going off behind he now married six Jay and Kris hold a highly unusual and what they say is a privileged position Shes the new 44th signal battalion Hes the new 72nd signal battalion commander sister battalions of 500 solders each within the 7th signal part of the fifth signal they Are the Only two tactical signal battalion commanders remaining in this is the most amazing he its not typical to put couples in the same she theres the concern wed be competing against each he but Treyve agreed that whatever happens from Here on out if one is promoted while the other is we both came into the army thinking wed do our minimum required service and get he but i liked what i was doing too we both you get sucked in to the family of the the sex the she the two a officious officers say that there a bit of a twofer for the with both working More closely than most battalion com Manders would be Able to move the Mission in Mannheim less than a the couple has Al ready had a Barbecue with the top officers and non Nancy and stripes married couple Jay Chapman and it Kris Kramarich Are the new commanders respect the 72nd and the 44th signal battalions in the 5th signal command in commissioned officers from their commands As a Way for them to get to know one another and work to if there Are conflicts ahead Between the two com mands there May be some resource he said the two have already agreed to make decisions on whats Best for the greatest num Ber of we owe it to our soldiers to put them Chapman both say they were drawn to the signal corps by its immediate theres no Way to fake commune he you either have a dial tone or you both were Roth cadets who joined for the College scholarship she studied electrical engineering computer science but came to love military i joined for the Money but i stayed for the people and the sense of accomplishment in doing the he the two had served 11 years before they got mar both putting a lot of time into their and say being a dual military career couple has its Adan we come and we get Chapman we can tackle problem solving but who does the cooking Hes a Good Kramarich she makes great Chapman and a housekeeper cleans up after the couples two which were added to the family after the couple had served a year in in separate in this Kramarich is to deploy to Iraq again with her it will be the longest separation for the two since Treyve been we command sister battalions but we have very different roads Chapman email Nancy Montgomery at montgomerym@e5trlpes.osd.mil