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By John K. D'Amato
NCOJC Public Affairs Staff
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Services extended
To provide a better service 10 U.S. Forces per
sonnet, the 42nd MP Group has extended its cus
tamer service operations to all major military communities in Germany. "This means people no longer
need to drive to Mannheim to clear their personal
imporutions," said Cpt. Jeanne Burden, '42nd MP
Group's customs operations officer.
42nd MP Group's Customer Service Office on
Taylor Barracks, Mannheim, however, is closing its
doors to walk-in customers on April I, 1989. lnstead,
if yourc in Schwabisch Gmi.ind you can now receive
all the same services from your local customer service
office located in Building 306 on Cooke Barracks,
Goppingen. Soldiers in Heilbronn can go to Building
two on Wharton Barracks and in Neu-Ulm the office
is located on Nclson-Kasernc, Building 304. These
services include approving import permits, permits to
transfer, authorization for relatives to operate a POV,
(42nd MP Group)
and retiree registration.
Aprfl 1189
In 1980, the U.S. offers to negotiate with the So,iets on Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces ( INF} and
the Soviets refuse. By the end of the year, the Sovie,
Union has deployed 200 SS20's with 600 nuclear
warheads.
1984. Gymnast, Mary Lou Retton captures the
Olympic Gold Medal and U2 is considered one of
the best new acts of the decade. Following the death
of Andropov, Number 2 man in Moscow behind
Chernenko, Mikhail Gorbachev visits Margaret That
chcr for talks in Britain.
Glenn, Hart and Jackson make bids for the Presidency, and the Democratic ticket of Mondale-Ferraro
is overwhelmed by Ronald Reagan, seeking his second term. A gas leak at a Union Carbide plant in
Bhopal, India kills 2,500.
It is the 20th anniversary of Pershing, and a critical
year of the NATO alliance. The Soviets have ,valked
out of the Geneva talks on reducing Intermediate
Nuclear Forces, but have deployed 360 SS 20's ,vith
1,080 nuclear warheads.
Two months prior to the start of 1984, a ne"
Pershing missile, the P-11, is deployed in accordance
with the Twin Track Agreement.
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ers and Headquarters Battery, 56th Field Artillery females. HHB 56th held
on to second and 55th Support Battalion finished third.
At the VU Corps Junior boys
Basketball Championship in Munich,
last year's champions, the Schwiibisch
Gmiind junior boys, upset Neu Ulm by
the score of 69- 49. The team also went
to the USAREUR finals in Grafenwohr, where they gained conrrol of
the game again st Gelnhausen with less
than two minutes left. Final score
60- 52 Schwabisch Gmiind.
Neu-Ulm's bantam team edged out
Schwiibisch Gmiind in overtime during
the VII Corps Bantam Championship
tournament held
in Schwabach.
Schwiibisch Gmiind was in the lead by
two points in the last minute of the
game. With three seconds on the clock a
Neu Ulm player made a desperation
shot and scored two points to squeak
by Schwabisch Gmiind 26- 25.
In bowling, 38th Signal's men took
first place in the 56th FA CMD Bowling Championships held in Heilbronn.
The team from 55th Support Battalion
placed second and 1st Bn., 9th FA finished third in the competition.
25 Years ...
The new system increases PH's range
1989 George Bush is the 41 st Presiover the old PIA from 400 10 1,100 mi- dent of the United States. The Reagan
les, and fewer cables allows quicker em- legacy is an Intermediate Nuclear Forplacement and displacement by firing ces Treaty signed on December 7, 1987
crews. A new terminal guidance system, and ratified by the Senate the following
allowing the use of smaller warheads, summer.
gives the system an almost unheard of
Pershing celebrates its 25th anniveraccuracy rate and allows the use of
sary in Europe. In 1986 it had become a
warheads with a smaller nuclear yield.
Command and added the 38th Signal
Protest demonstrations attract hun- Baualion, a restructured 55th Support
dreds of thousands of anti-Pershing/ Battalion and the 193rd Aviation Comanti-nuclear forces across the country.
pany to this command structure.
At one point, a human chain of deBy the end of 1988, Soviet inspectors
monstrators stretche5 from Neu Ulm to have visited each of the Command sites
Mudangen. Almost exactly on the on init;al inspections to verify that the
twentieth anniversary of Pershing in number of treaty-limited items listed in
Europe, another demonstration results the Treaty's Memorandum of Under
in four demonstrators ibreaking through standing are present.
perimeter fences at Mutlangen and three
In the fall of 1988 and the early
warning shots being fired.
months of 1989, a flawless rmograde
Pershing soldiers, already tasked with operation has allowed one battery from
fielding the new weapon's system arc Heilbronn, Schwiibisch Gmund and
stretched to the breaking point when Neu Ulm to remove its Pershing missicalled to pull round-the-clock guard les and support equipment and inacticommitments to safeguard the equip- vate.
ment.