European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 9, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                July 2007 stars and stripes pages Singer takes concert tour to Afghanistan country music Singer Brian Stace and his band performed for sailors and airmen Satur Day night at Kandahar airfields Boardwalk As part of a three week tour of various Mili tary whose song daddy comin is popular among the was travelling with a Tennessee National guardsman and medic who played the Marcus of was invited to play with the band through a Mutual Contact in where Stace who began training in classical violin at age said he was thrilled to accompany the this is All new to Mullins Ive never been in a combat theater delivering entertainment to the its exciting i know that at some Point in going to be deployed Here states visit to Afghanistan was country music Singer Brian Stace performs saturday during a con Cert at Kandahar Airfield in afghan coordinated through Wel fare and recreation but due to an oversight the mar employee responsible went on leave the bands appearance in Kandahar was never publicized or a crowd of More than 200 bulgarian and other troops gathered when the concert Monte Morin Wei a vivid memory for vet Frank buckles so wanted to he lied about his age to join the army by Vicki Smith the associated press Charles Frank buckles is 106 and not As Spry As he used to but try to help him from a chair to his and he will Bellow a Clear ninety years after the head Strong teenager lied his Way into a then into the european theater of world War buckles remains fiercely More than million Ameri cans joined the military from but the department of veterans affairs says Only three for Buck Les sat in his living room and read issues of a military Magazine called the watching the list of fellow veterans i was Able to of my i am going to be one of the he buckles is the youngest of the known survivors 107yearold Harry Landis of Florida and 108yearold Russell Coffey of none of the three saw a John from so served in the Canad an buckles moves slowly his Small Frame both ears re quire mechanical but his mind is with names and numbers from the Early part of the 20th Century slipping readily from his strict manager at Large note 13 annual limited tenure note 13 months full time Germany expeditionary stars and stripes amended announcement applicants who previously applied for announcement number eunafess07051701 need not duties trains and supervises contractor organizations in assigned area of for service and collections within assigned distribution needs for deployment assigned and coordinating successful distribution within assigned deployment be Able to successfully communicate with High level military and civilian decision makers to accomplish assigned distribution the Good will of european stars and stripes and assists with other newspaper needs that May be required due to staffing in assigned qualifications required United states nation Agency work to include 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at his Home in Charles he reminisced about his the smaller provided by the buckles shows him at the time he enlisted in the army in August he Speaks Spanish and Ger even surprising a visitor of filipino descent with a warm sendoff in a remnant of 3 years spent As a civilian Pris Oner of War in the Philippines Dur ing world War his living room is full of me commendations and Pho including one of French presi Dent Jacques Chirac presenting buckles a legion of Honor medal in but his military service was just a moment in an Esca Pade from an Era when a boy with a Quick mind could talk his Way into buckles was born in Missouri and raised on a at he delivered a Load of horses to landed a Job at a Bank and moved into a when the entered the War in april i wanted to get out and do he re Mem but he was Only i went to the state fair up in and while went to the recruiting station for the Marine he the Nice Marine sergeant said i was too Young when i gave my age As said i had to be buckles returned a week i went Back to the recruiting and this time i was he said with a i passed the inspection but he told me i just want heavy then he tried the whose Recruiter told buckles he was buckles would not in Oklahoma an army Captain demanded a birth i told him birth certificates were not made in Missouri when i was that the record was in a family i you dont want me to bring the family Bible do you buckles said with a he Well take he enlisted and eventually boarded a ship to in he worked mainly As a warehouse clerk and a drive using of duty hours to visit tombs and but i was still trying to get to buckles and i would pester every officer of any rank to get after a few he landed an assignment escorting an officer to where he used his free time to cruise the country Side on a after armistice buckles helped return prisoners of War to in january he re turned to the United states aboard the uss Pocahontas with in his Landis signed up to fight the germans again in but was rejected As too old at but that while on Busi Ness with the shipping Industry in the the Man who had tried so hard to reach the front lines of world War i was Cap tured by the japanese and be came a civilian prisoner of world War eventually he was freed and re turned he married and raised a i was never actually looking for buckles it just came to special Ops Soldier killed in Mali incident a Soldier from special operations was killed saturday in a Weathe relat de incident in the european command said the Soldier was working with the trans Sahara counter terror ism which seeks to help Nigeria and Senegal con front terrorist three other soldiers were injured in the incident and were being transported to a medical facility in Turkina for the names of the soldiers Are being withheld pending next of Kin from the associated press