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Show Edlitoirfisiflg IEvemts THE SAMPLER Friday, March 6, 1981 2 d Army discipline-- - viva la difference A ' " -- " - ' ti?.- - mon presented him, you missed a real work of art. It was a plaque, the center of which was a beautiful ovalshaped rock creation. That was removable to become a belt buckle. Off to one side, about half an inch high was the DARCOM emblem, made of red and blue stone. Obviously hundreds of hours of work went into that creation. I hope Dr. Salomon is still here when I retire. . .ahem! Heres some good news for those of you that travel Skull Valley Road. The By Doug Whey. Dr. Rothenbergs retirement party was one of the nicest events of that sort I have ever attended. Most of those responsible received their kudos from the speakers podium. . But there is one group here mi Dug-wa- y whose expertise and creativity never cease to amaze me. They were responsible for a great deal of the success of the evening. Im talking about Section. the folks at the Audio-Visu..or as everyone knows it, the Photo .County has found some extra change Lab. to fix the upper 8 miles of that roller, While trying to keep up with their coaster. SFC Dan Daniel and PFC John regular assignments, those folks still turned out many of the awards and Da villa, on a clean-u- p mission in the presentations that were given that basement of HHCs Ware barracks, night. All too often, when some group came up with quite a find. Portions of consistently turns out superior work, the Sept. 25, 1955 Salt Lake City Triwe tend to accept if as commonplace bune and seven bottles of beer.. ..all and forget to give thanks. Well, here empty. What made it interesting you are, Elaine, Frank, Ron, Bill, were the old labels on the bottles, obCecil, Chuck, Jeff, Glen, Ivan, Ed and viously stashed there in 1955 by somePhil - Thank You. one taking a break. Thats 26 yegrs What makes their assignment real- ago. Looks that could ldll. ...the look you ly difficult is everyone on Dugway knows how to do their work better give that guy down the hall that than they do. spends the entire Monday telling you One other note about Dr. Rs reabout the 85 he shot in 65 degree tirement. If you did not have the opweather at St. George while you are home shoveling snow. portunity to see the gift that Dr. Salo al . by Jan Wood Ft Belvoir, VA Cast's When MSgt. Walter Dunkle-fir- st came in the Army, PFCs were "Sirred" by new recruits, soldiers did what they were told without asking why, soldiers could boast of being paid $50 a month, and anyone who blinked an eyelash at the wrong timewas recycled into another 10 ' weds of grueling basic training. Hie year? 1955. Our day started at 3 a.m., and ended at 2400 hours," Dunkle re- To illustrate the changing times between 1955 and 1962, Sarge told another story. Three years after dis- -. duuge upon his first tour of duty, he came back in. Although he had to minisced. Between those hours you go through basic training again, he ' never even touched your bed. was delegated as Platoon Sergeant I remember one day the troops because of his prior service. were out training and I was left beOne day, TOP came to formation hind as barracks guard. I rushed and said to me, I caught one of around cleaning up the barracks and your troops asleep. Do you want to making sure everyones brass was. send him over to the commander or shiny until everything was spotless. would you rather handle it yourself? Then I lay down against the dodr I said Id handle it on my level. I ' and napped. . . took the young soldier to the grease, . . . I spent the next 15 hours in a which was located across the street grease pit six feet wide, six feet long from the commanders office. and six fed deeji. T told him to roll up his sleeves The grease pit, in those days, was and pants, take off his boots and a hole in the ground located outside socks, and jump in. Just then, the the mess hall where' the cooks left GO came running across the street, their grease drippings, Sarge went shouting, What are you doing? I on. It was March and coldern told him about the. incident years heck. I was waist high in water and ago when I had learned not to sleep grease, but I knew I had messed up, . on duty. He said, Fantastic, but, reand I learned a lesson. Even to this member only 15 minutes or he has . -- ding Anniversary open house celebration from 3-- 6 p.m. op Mar. 7 at 5232 - In the ok! days say, back in the fifties it was unheard of for a federal employees salary to be attached by hisher employer for the satisfaction of a debt. But today, with the governments heightened sense of so- following too closely there could have been disastrous results. I cite this instance because just the evening before, in a heavy snowstorm, another van was following too closely through the pass. The driver of the car in front became nervous because of the tailgater, went over the top of the pass a little too fast and skidded off the road down a bank. The accident did not result in any injuries. The car wasnt even damaged, but the occupants were for Leprechaun Lane in Salt Lake City. Mr. Mechlm retired from Dugway in 1977. He worked in Facilities Engineers as a high voltage electrician. tunate. I dont care how experienced a driver you are, being followed too close is to say the least, disconcerting. There are only a few inconsiderate slobs who tailgate through the pass. To you, I address this letter. , Get off my back. If it werent an inconvenience to others who want to get home, I have a solution. When you get within 15 feet of my back bumper, I would like to slow down to a crawl, but that only invites dangerous passing. We can only appeal to your good judgement, if you have any. Back off a couple of feet and everyone will be more apt to get home in one piece, and with a great deal less ag- Tfroill. band of adventurers with rusty The small, rag-ta- g drain mail or armor, used swords, dented helmets and shields, warily rounds another bend in the seemingly endless passageways. Their sputtering torches barely light the eerily darkened, damp and cold corridor ahuL Somewhere beyond the light of their torches, comes a horrible smell, an aroma of something either very dead, or not of this world, and better left alone. However great treasures await them; the lure of precious gems, gold, silver, magical weapons and potions calling them on, so they proceed. Suddenly, as they round a comer, a dreadful something leaps out at them. . DUNGEON-MASTE- solemnly R an- This game its own terminology, and rules, as well as trade and fan magazines. There are specialty stores that deal exclusively in the books, special edit idns, game boards, figures, score sheets, paints, dice and other essentials for the avid D&D afficianado. There are several spin-of- fs from the game and has been said that while wargaming isnt new, it D&D is to games what Star Wars is to science fiction films. There are D&D conventions, championships and a national ranking of players. Dugway has its own D&D groups, one of which is lead by SSG Willard G. Smith. When Smith isnt running another band of fortune-seeker- s through one of his dungeons, he is the Equal Opportunity NCO for Dugway. IT WAS IN Germany, almost three yean agov when Smith got involved in D&D, and he has continued to play it even after his .arrival at Dugway in May 1980. IBs wife Pamela also plays D&D and lure her own characters. When he first started playing the game, it was because he enjoyed the fantasy of it, and he felt it was . . .an inexpensive way to pass time. .. Little did he realize thid it wouldbecome much more involved than he originally thought and he eventually spent around $300, over the three-yeperiod for miniatures, gameboards, paints, etc. In the beginning, Smith said,there werent really that many rules. There were guidelines, a framework within which the campaigns would . Not a Mission Story. r , f The Armys ar by Sgt. Dave Pinnick take jplace, but the dungeon-mastand the players had much more freedom in the situations they er created. D&D IS A form of communal story-tellin- g, which is why its so popular, and it is a bit like life in some ways. You create a character, and go through and his life with him. You learn as you grow-u- p Smith all tells the rules, explained. nobody you He continued, The key to D&D is hot so much having a character with super powers or abilities, but how well you play the role of the character. You can be male, female, an elf, dwarf, hobbit, human or one of the various mixutres of such. You can be a cleric, druid or thief, fighter, magic-use- r, whatever you want. This, according to Smith is one of the special parts of the game, being someone you arent, acting out a role, as if you really were the character. IN FACT, he explained, thats how the most successful playhrs survive the game, by choosing a different character from their personality and play-in- g according to the characters limitations. Common sense, and reacting to situations as if you were realy Gronk the fighter, Zapps the or whatever instead of just playing the magic-use- r tiny figure on the board, is the key to success in D&D, Smith related. Although there are several DMs on post. Smith is considered one of the best by those who have' played in his world. Sometimes though. Smith takes one of his characters down into someone elses dungeon, because he enjoys being a regular player as much as being a dungeon-maste- r. Several of the characters he uses, he has had for almost three years, (which is unusual for a game where characters can be snuffed out with a couple of tosses of the DKls dice). To participate at one of the games here, just show up for the game with paper and pencil. After rolling up" a character using different kinds of dice and charts, you decide what you want to do, and what kind of being ybu are. Now youre ready to join the hardy band of adventulters, and the DM begins to roll dice behind his DM screen, using his charts, tables and graphs. pro-fessio- t, ! Ii.rvn.wi I I.. . ffUi'.n1' m mil. MMt n a tv 'i Si 4 pro-ceed- s, who play inSmiths dungeon is his expressions and acting-ou- t of the people, and things, that the groups may encounter. He also uses miniatures of his own to represent the things that the group encounters on the characters better identify ?lehelP with what they re dealing with, where they are, and how it can affect them. &nith s expressions and impression of the various characters that the players run into can from moment to moment. One second, hes change an angry or confused group of Kobolds (small, nasty, violent versions of the Munchkins from Oz), who are drag-pn- g several of their group back in a hasty retreat after having a sleep spell cast on them one of tne players. Then the next moment, hes abyhorrible were-thin- g with a total so high he virhit-poi- nt mini-figure- ." . - nal a large size measured-ou- t game board, usually on a laBB table or even on the carpet, and use children's, lock together type bricks to represent corridors, walls, doors, and rooms. They move in calculated paces, taking defensive formations. As the game they map the dungeon and explore strange caves or abandoned mines. Sooner or later, the DMs dice hit a lucky number and the group encounters something, and usually it isnt friendly: The something can be a bunch of large rats or a group of rampaging trolls out to kill everything they can get their hands, claws, etc., on. The group may or may hot defeat the things they run into, depending mi their abilities and how they use them, or how they react to the situation. Encounters may produce treasure and experience points, and advance them to ahigher level of ability, or it could, (and has) ended with destruction of the entire party. ONE OF the high points of the game for those tually decimates the party before the combined group puts the beast away. About anything is possible in one of Smiths games, but sometimes, most .of tne party survives, dragging its wounded and some bits of treasure out of the and to the back dungeon, town inn, or tavern, to relax, heal their wounds, plan theirnext adventure. Sometimes the group gets riches, fame and experience points, leading to a higher level of ability, r times. there arens even any bones or bodies left. All that may remain is some broken Some players play strictly on paper, with pocket 1 some dark stains on the dungeon floor. calculators and its a duel of mathMnatcial probabili- . .its only, a aftceLaU according to Smith, ties. But usuauly in the game Smith DMs, the players Sometimes game. the monsters and sometimes s, win, have their own D&D painted and and Smith is an "Equal Opportunity equipped to match their created character. They use Hy Dungeon-Master- r .pi" Non-Commissio- t Dragons" (TSt). hire 5 Dunkle sees things in terms of the future for the Army. He says about todays soldiers and discipline, The Army will be run by these people someday. Id hate to come back to see I trained my replacement wrong. long-standin- 1 l NCO. New EER form coming The court order should name the delinquents employing agency, or the agency that pays the worker, as gar- nounces, Well, its mostly teeth, claws, eight-fe- et tall, and hungry. . You have just experienced a brief sample of a new game that is sweeping the nation: Dungeons and t Discipline will not prevail if the NCO lacks a proper haircut or uniform, or has been seen pnming out of the NCO Club drunk, or has been caught DWI. If he doesnt have these moral traits, he cant expect soldiers under his command to respect him. Discipline in the Army has never actually been defined by law, but, todays policies have been standardized to give protective rights equally to the junior enlisted soldier and the ut THE , He continues, driver Fir Whom .Woo ever, has been called oversimplified by some NCOs. Comments such as,DA policy has restricted NCOs so much that they practically have 29-ye- ar the-need- s gravation. A disgruntled This version of discipline, how- to tuck their soldiers in at night reflect their frustration. Good leadership still remains the key to preventing disciplinary problems among soldiers, reports CSM Thomas T. Tucker, 2nd Battalion, veteran Fort Belvoir. The different arent soldiers now any says 10 20 to were years ago. than they order an and they will accept They will perform duties, but they want the individual issuing the instructions to be a leader. mark-sens- e ficulty in processing the Officers Corps soon will be rated on portion of the form in computers, evalua- MILPERCEN had little trouble in a simpler and easier-to-rea- d nishee. The original garnishment tion form, according to officials at producing the new version. order, along with specific identifying the U.S. Army Military Personnel information about the debtor, if Center (MILPERCEN). For the new form, the mark-sens- e cial responsibility, theres little known, should be sent by registered blocks have been, removed from the chance that a delinquent payer of mail or certified mail return- The simplified fprm, the Enlisted format. Also, the contents have been alimony child support can escape ceipt- - requested to the appropriate Evaluation Report (EER), will re- reorganized to provide a better picthe long arm of garnishment. . agency.' place the Senior Enlisted Evaluation ture of the rated soldiers professionReport (SEER) form starting Oct. 1, alism, duty performance and poten191. Officials say the new form will tial. The narrative blocks have been As applied to Army personnel, this less even . . chance. theres Lately be distributed to the field during the expanded to encourage complete' for the U.S. Office of Personnel means that for civilians the court summer months. should sent order be the to descriptions, specific comments on payroll Management (OPM) has issued its office that services the individual. performance, and more detailed refinal regulations on the uniform prohas officials The new form, commendations say, For all soldiers, it should be mailed mi schooling, assigncessing of garnishments for ensuring to the been developed for easier prepara- ments and leadership FiU.S. commander, Army potential, ofpayment of alimony and child sup- nance ami and The filing. Army ficials add. Attn: tion, copying port. The regulations, based on the FINCL-G- , Accounting Center, decided that, with the new form, the 46249. IN. Indianapolis, updated social security act, apply to The newly issued regulations re- current EER system could be effectservice members as well as the federAlso, the scored portions of the remaintained and improved al civilian work force. In general, sulted from a years worth of revi- ively have been changed slightly. OPM officials. without having to shift to a new and port sion and they provide that a delinquents sal- One of thereview, saybroadens the de- untried evaluation philosophy. Offi- However, officials maintain, the toary or annuity can be garnisheed, finition of changes to include not cials comment the EER tal possible report score still adds up. party and that other government- - conhas served the Army well in to 125 points. This' constant will altrolled assets not payable for person- only former spouses, but also state system of individual sol- low the simplified EER form scores ana local agencies that provide wel- meeting al services are exempt from to fit into the Armys EER weighted fare or family assistance and that diers, commanders, career managers average (EERWA) system. Because have been assigned for rights to child and promotion boards. They add the the simpler form is compatible with revised report form is designed to support or alimony payments. the further improve and stabilize that present evaluation system, iere Under the regulations, persons will be no close-oSEER requiresystem. seeking to bring garnishment actions Also the way the EERWA is ment. A copy of the regulations appears must first obtain garnishment orders Because of g problems calculated will remain the same. from local courts or through other in the Federal register for July 22, with the current form, including dif (ARNEWS) procedures established by state law. 1980. (ARNE WS) Dear Fellow Commuters: Tuesday evening a Dugway resident, traveling east towards johnson Pass, had a tie rod drop off. The result was a near accident as he attempted to get his truck off the road. He was being followed by one of the carpooling vans. Had that van been re-di- Pay Garnishment Update Invitation extended to Dugway residents Marvin and Annie Mecham extend voir military lawyer. Before, he says, discipline might have been digging a ditch and filling it. However, toit up only to g redays corrective training must be lated to the soldiers problem area. For instance," explains Kasold, If a soldier is consistently late for formation, the NCO can give him corrective training in the evening or after duty hours as long as it is related to that problem area. Such a soldier may be required to report to the CO every 15 minutes for the next two hours. That would be considered corrective training. . . ah invitation to the Dugway community to attend their Golden Wed- an IG complaint. . I toM the soldier to put his boot back on and forget his punishment. in the Today, putting a soldierunheal grease pit would be totally 5. Some NCOs claim the changing an times have refined discipline to art of deciphering between punishment and actual discipline. .Discipline today can be defined as corrective training, a mixture of trainstraight discipline and actualy a BelKasold, ing, says Capt. Bruce day, I have never gone to sleep on duty. Dunkle, Chief of Post Reenlistment at Fort Belvoir, VA., is one of many sergeants who enlisted in the Army when discipline was at its harshest. Many, like him, feel that todays discipline is not harsh enough. A' 3? ' f .V1 ' ' s - |