European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 13, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                July 2007 stars and stripes pages of changing it uniforms by Lisa Burgess stars and stripes enlisted airmen will be getting an extra pair of better fitting shorts and an extra shirt in their annual cloth ing thanks to feedback from deployed air Force Mem Bers who Are wearing their offi Cial workout gear for More than just gym the annual enlisted clothing bag Issue will go from three sets of shorts and shirts to four in Fis Cal the reason for the increased Issue is that when airmen Are on combat youre either in your combat flight suits or your fitness gear you dont Wear civilian Roger Deputy chief of manpower and person told reporters during a round table when youre wearing this stuff every and sending them to a commercial they get beat up pretty said who just returned from a trip to the Middle East to visit so we probably need to make a Little More available to not Only going to be More Plen they will fit better beginning this according to senior Mas Ter Dana air Force uniform Board shorts Cut according to a new pattern will Start hitting the air forces inventory in where they will gradually replace existing gear As the Stock of old shorts Are Athnos told stripes on Lisa and stripes senior master Dana air Force uniform Board shows the unpopular Interior pocket of the airman Battle uniform which adds two hot extra layers of material to the the shorts pattern has been modified so that the inside liner fits and there not so Athnos in addition to better fitting starting this airmen will have two optional pieces of fitness gear to spend their own Money Athnos said a Lon sleeve shirt and a Gray both of which will be sold through the army and air Force Exchange deployed airmen Are also help ing to Iron out some of the Early design bugs in the airmans Battle uniform for the Interi or pockets in the these Are of if you want to carry some Brady but when the pockets Are there Are three layers of material in the making the uniform Blouse feedback from deployed air men indicated that the pockets Are not something people want or he the pockets seemed like a Good idea at the it turns out it Brady Well get rid of for airmen who already have been issued the uniform and dont like the Brady recommended they do to the Interior pocket what Athnos has done to hers Cut it out if you dont like stripes reporter Jeff Schogol contributed to this email Lisa Burgess at  officer recommends marines Leader in had tha deaths face court martial san Diego the Leader of a Marine Battal Ion involved in the killings of 24 iraqis in Laditha should face a court martial for dereliction of the investigating officer recommended in a report obtained by the associated Jeffrey was charged in de Cember with dereliction of duty and violation of a lawful order for failing to report and investigate the deaths of the women and children in the big Gest criminal Case involving civilian deaths 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notor8 Send your cd or resume to  Jaguar 1bp in Hadenwald 2 67661 Kaiserslautern web experts Tell Congress pts still has stigma by Leo Shane Iii stars and stripes Washington health experts want More master sergeants to admit that sometimes they get in testimony before Congress on defense medical officials said most troops will continue to see mental health prob lems including traumatic stress disorders and depression As an unfavourable Mark on their records until they see their Lead ers dealing with those same is sues and treating them like any other we dont fault people who break their we dont fault people who get said vice Donald surgeon general of the but we tend to blame people who get Post Trau Matic stress its not your fault if you get and its not your fault if you Are affected by Post trauma in stress from having been in com he said Arthur told members of the House armed services commit tee that despite years of emphasis from military leaders and health experts the stigma of mental is sues still persists among in part because of the hardened military stereotype Many Young troops believe they have to live up but if a lieutenant colonel or a sergeant major gets up after an at tack and Ive never been so others under them Are going to talk about he the comments came during a subcommittee review of the recently released report by the departments mental health task co chaired by combating the stigma of psychological treatment was one of the task forces main Lon term along with boosting fund ing and personnel to treat mental health Ward assistant Secretary of defense for health said department officials Are planning another Summit on mental health in August and will provide guidelines to military leaders in september on How to implementing the task forces 99 recommendations to improve its health Shelly co chair of the task Force and director of the military family re search said convincing military leaders to drop their pre conceptions about mental health treatment will require More train ing at every we need to be marking this on the fitness reports the same Way we treat someone who broke their she its an illness that can be email Leo Shane at  report Dod awarded contracts to companies that didst deliver the associated press Washington the de sense department put troops in Iraq at risk by awarding con tracts for badly needed armoured vehicles to companies that failed to deliver them on Accord ing to a review by the pentagons inspector the june 27 report examined 15 contracts Worth billion awarded since 2000 to Force Protection and Armor holdings the contracts were issued with out the Normal Competition for government work because the military determined these Compa Nies were the Only ones capable of supplying the vehicles fast enough to meet the demands of deployed get legally married while deployed Usa marriage certificate recognized by military no travel required completed in 3 weeks personalized service do the right thing Contact Sam or Barbara Call 0016103535381 toll free 8774822406 com yet the inspector generals re port concluded Force Protection of lad received 11 contracts from the army and Marine corps Worth million for a variety of but failed to meet All de livery according to the Mike a Force Protection vice acknowledged the delays and said the problems were caused by an in ability to get essential manufacturing in written comments to the in Spector the Marine corps defended its acquisition decisions for the while Many of the Dodig recommendations have the Marine corps believes it is inaccurate and misleading to assert that officials knowingly violated the Law and rules and the corps statement the acquisition professional Community properly selected the sources to meet urgent War fight ing needs and to save the statement the corps also acknowledged that maps from two companies that were sup posed to be delivered by june 30 did not arrive until july said Marine corps systems command 1st Geraldine in separate written the army did not object to the re ports stripes Jeff Schogol contributed to this report from the