the pershing cable (dec 1989)
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Vol.
29, No. 8
Update FYI
irth registration
Having a baby overseas is
not
like having a
baby in the United States: the parcnu, instead of
the hospit.al, must register
the
baby's birth with
appropriate U.S.
or
foreign authorities.
The
birth
registration documents the baby's citizenship and
enables the baby to get a passport. A baby must
have a passport to travel in Europe and to enter
the United States.
To start processing a baby's birth registration,
the parents must report, with the b~by, re~uircd
documentation, and fees, to the servacmg mahtary
personnel office no l ater _than
.30
days after the
b.a
by's birth. The btrt~ regtstrauon agent ~t the mil
itary personnel office must see the child before
taking
the oath
affirming
the
truthfulness of
st
ate•
ments. on ,he rcfort of birth from the parent on
the baby's behal .
If both parents arc U.S. citizens, the r.arent sub
mitting evidence of citizenship (pre crably the
mother) must take the oath.
~nd
sign the fo~. If
only one person
is
a U.S. cmzen, the U.S. cmzen
parent will take the oath and sign the form. When
neither parent
is
a U.S. citizen, the
milit_ary
per·
sonnel office refers parents to ,he servacmg legal
assistance office.
(USAREUR Bulletin).
Retiree registration
You can retire in Germany and still use U.
S.
sa
les facilities. Your local 42nd MP Group customs
office has the form you need, said Pfc.
Kalinowski, Goppingcn Field Office Customer
Service Representative. You can also use
the
Army
Post Office (APO) mail system after retirement.
Upon
submission
of
a status verification,
German Customs will give you a customs certifi
cate , he added which, with your retired military
ID card, entitles you to buy non-rationed items at
U.S. sales facilities in Germany.• However, rou
must return 10 the same German Customs office
with each month's cash register receipts and pay
tax
on
what you bought and did
not
consume on
the premises (the current rate is 15 -). After this,
German Customs will extend
your
certificate for
another two months. If you don't, your customs
certificate may
be
withdrawn. As for your mail, it
must
be addressed
to
Box R at your local
APO
and
the
address must include
the
word retired .
You can then pick
up
mail at the APO
but
you
must take any parcels to German Customs for
clearance unopened. If you don 't present
your
parcels in a reasonable amount of time, you may
lose your mail privileges.
•
Spec
.
Joseph
Allen
bllancee
•
dime
on
the end
of hls M16A1
rffle
to
Improve p,-oper
trigger
1quNZlng
technique•
See
page 4 for story.
Spec
.
Richard Van Pay, light wheel mechanic, Charlie Battery, 111 Battalion, 9th Field Artillery check • milltary
·vehicle to mak1 sure the
tr1n1miHlon
hydraulic
lines are
properly maintlined.
attery earns award
Credits success to NCOs simplicity
_
by Bob Rubinosky
1st Bn., 9th
f
A Correspondent
The
Sword of Freedom, U.S. Army, Europe
(USAREUR)
top
mai.ntcnancc award for fiscal year
1989, was awarded 10 Charlie Battery,
1s
t Battalion,
9th Field Artillery (Pershing).
Recognized in
the
intermediate density category
(701 to 1000 total items of equipment on which un
it
lev
el
maintenance is performed), Charlie Battery will
be USAREUR's representative in the Army Chief of
Staff Award for Maintenance Excellence.
The
US
AREUR
inspection team, from 200th
TAMMC based in Zweibriicken, evaluated organiza
tional maintenance
progr
ams.
The
largest area of
evaluation was motor pool operations,
but
they also
inspected arms and NBC rooms, communications
and field mess equipment, along with awards,
publications and traini~g programs.
Maj.
John
Houston, commander, C Btry., 1st Bn.,
9th FA, explained that in order for the battery to
accomplish its mission in Europe, it has
10
maintain
Inside the Cable
• Sports enthusiast, page 2
• Flylng at night, page 4
• Suggestion Program, page 5
• A German Christmas, page S
• Hall, rain or sleet, page 6
• Commander s Cup, page 7
unit readiness in two interlocked arca.s - training and
maintenance.
• A soldier may be well trained, but if he can't
maintain his equipment in a high state
of
readiness,
he
can
't
accomplish his war-time missions,~
Houston
said.
Maintenance is difficult to maintain. It 's one
of
those on-going battles which you have to focus on
every week,• he said. During our standard training
week, we have three afternoons dedica1ed 10 main
tenance. I f our mission dictates that we utilize our
maintenance time for something else, then
we
work
on it as time allows, Houston added.
Assessing his maintenance program,
Houston
said,
Our
program
is
unique. The first thing we did was
develop an
SOP
(Standard Operating P~ocedures)
built
on
simplicity.
We
removed unnecess
ary
com
plexity from our guidelines. We now give o ur
NCOs
a document they can understand and execute.
The next key ingredient was leadership involve
ment. Until soldiers see that their leaders are willing
10 crawl underneath a truck with the proper techn
ica
l
manuals and get dirty, they're
not
going 10 feel
that
it's (maintenance) important. (Conti nued
on
P. 6)
• World
W•
r II
German
velerans
like
In the sites
of
HHB,
56th FA
CMO s motor
pool
during • rec•
ent vl t
to
Bis·
marck KaMme.
See
page
3 for
story.
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Pershing Ca J e
December
989
AAFES:
ot just another retail store
The mu•lc
NC on
of Bismarck
Kueme s
Post Exchange lnvlt11 Spec. Steven
Gipson
to
look through the variety
of
music AAFES has to offer.
by
Anthony J. C.
Hosch
Staff Writer
In
m-any
pans
of the United States, as
tradition has it, Thanksgiving marks the
beginning of the Christmas shopping
season.
Shoppers throughout the United
States arc crowding into stores like Ma
cy's in
New
York, Springdale's in
New
Orleans and Gcorgio's in Beverly Hills
loolung for exotic
and
special
giftS
for
Christmas.
The
56th Field Artillery
Command
soldiers' version of Macy's, Springdalc's
and
Georgio's
is the
Army
and
Air
Force Exchange Service (AAFES).
AAFES, however, is not just a retail
store. According
to
Maria Achwarz,
manager of Schwabisch
Gmiind's
Burger Bar,
.AAFES
provides quality
our proves inspirational
merchandise at reasonable prices.•
Quality
merchandise
and
reasonable
prices can be found at all AAFES stores
such as food operations like
Tony's
pizza, burger bars
and
31 Flavors.
In
addition, shoppeues, military clothing
and sales, beauty salons and class six
outlets offer
the
same savings as well.
Since its inception in
Jun
e 1941,
AA-
FES' goal has been
to
"provide its
patrons
with
excellent service and a va
riccy
of
merchandise,• said Achwan..
AAFES goal of saving its customers
20
percent
or more is not
an unreach
able one. According to a 1989 A.C.
Nielsen price survey, AAFES saves the
military familr an average
of
25 percent
in commercia products.
Additionally, by shopping at an
AA-
FES facilicy, customers have three ways
to
stretch their dollar.
These savings are guaranteed through
AAFES brands, AAFES exrra value
items and AAFES special buy
pro
grams.
AAFES brands include sports shoes,
shirts
and
automobile batteries. These
products carry t
he
AAFES quarantce
and provide alternative savings
to other
merchandise widely advertised.
AAFES extra value items arc items
that carry the vendors brand name.
They arc specially stocked every day for
customer convenience.
AAFES special buys are limited
quantity specials.
They
offer
an
impo
rt-
ant savings
to
the
customer
because
these pruchases arc
one
time buys.
Service,,
AAFES commitment does not end
there. AAFES provides special services
t
the soldiers at remote sites.
For
in
stance, areas like
Camp
Redleg,
wh
ere
soldiers must remain on-site
for
weeks
at a time, a mobile snack bar is
dispatched
to
service them.
This
is
only
one of
many examples
of how
AAFES
takes care
of th
e soldier.
. Community Support
After all this, AAFES still looks for
innovative ways to pass on savings 10
the soldiers and their family members.
Through
agencies like the Morale,
Welfare
and
Recrearion (MWR) divi
si
on,
AAFES is able to channel funds
back into military communities.
The
money received from AAFES
provi~cs funding for libraries, hobby
shops, recreation centers,
swimming
pools
and
gymnasiums.
The funds
also
support
and
promote intramural sport
ing activities
and
acknowledgement
pro$rams for military personnel.
Finally, AAFES provides job
opponunties for
military spouses.
According
10
Barry
Gordon, area
gene
ral
manager in Stuttgart, AAFES is an
excellent organization
to
seek
employ
ment and a good place for advancement.
"AAFES offers family members a
great
opportunity
for employment,"
said
Gordon.
In
Schwiibisch
Gmiind
alone over 60
jobs arc available
for
family members,"
said
Bob
Smith, exchange manager.
Providing savings, job opporrunitics
and quality merchandise has
become
an
ongoing quest for AAFES' manage
ment. By meeting these goals, AAFES
has undergone many changes
to im-
prove
the
quality of services offered
to
the military family all over the
wor
ld.
WWII German soldiers visit Bismarck
by Anthony J. C. Hosch
Staff Writer
A
bus
filled with Germans pulled up 10 the en
trance
of
Bismarck Kascmc. They were
not
ordinary
Germa:n citizens.
The group
which
poured
through
the gate of Bismarck Kaserne were a part of the ka
scrnc's past.
Members of the German army's 2nd Battalion,
JI
9th
Infantry Regiment, their wives and children
came co sec how their place of duty during World
War
n
changed.
The walk down memory lane took place during the
first
we
ek of November. The tour ga
ve
the former
German
infantrymen, who were stationed here, an
opporcunity
to
experience and relive moments
of
their personal history.
Mr
. Reiner Wieland, the chief organizer, thought
it would be fascinating" for the old German unit to
get together and visit the kasernc, according
to
Hans
Herdeg,
maneuver manager.
After coordinating the tour through the German
liaison office,
th
e World War II veterans were
on
their way to a reminiscent afternoon.
The afternoon
for
rememberance began
with
a
20-minutc slide show
about
the Pershing mission.
Immediately following the slide presentation,
the
German veterans
and
family members were divided
into
two
groups lead
by
the staff from
the German
liaison office.
Each group
toured
the Kaserne
and
was briefed on
each building's modern-day use.
The tour
included a visit
to
the
Post
Exchange,
Burger Bar and 56th's
motor
pool. At the
motor
pool,
the
group discussed
the
types
of
transportat;on
us
ed
.during
World War II. They
also toured 3,
8th
Signal Battalion's barracks and
motor
pool.
According
to
a member
of
the group,
•38th Signal
Battalion's
motor
pool, the recreation center and the
Rodman theater were used for horse stables and a pa
rade field."
The tour of barracks
and
facilities ended with a
walk
through
HHB, 56th Field Artillery
Command's
living quarters.
The
two
groups came together
at
a plaque dedicat
ed
to
the fighting men
of 2nd
Bn., 19th lnfancry
Re-
giment. Fuset Haefele, a member
of
the deactivated
unit, said,
We
arc happy Americans arc her
e, be
ca
use
i,
(Amcric.an presence) helped guarantee peace for
che past 40 years."
A German Army veteran
point•
out the room he llvtd
In during World War II
to
a group
of
38 h
Slgn•I
Batt1
llon 1oldler1. He and • group
of hla
fellow veterans vi-
sited Bismarck Kaseme during November.