77 Army, Air Force families forced to move

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77 Army, Air Force families forced to move
By Steve Mraz, Stars and Stripes
European edition, Friday, April 25, 2008

LANDSTUHL, Germany — Nearly 80 Army and Air Force families are being forced to move out of their quarters on the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center post so mainly Navy reservists on one-year, unaccompanied tours can occupy the dwellings later this year.

With the Army’s renewed focus on families, some affected residents questioned the decision to move families out of eight buildings by Aug. 1 and move in unaccompanied troops.

“It doesn’t make any sense,” said Army spouse Jennifer Gould, whose husband works at Landstuhl. “I understand we have to take care of our Navy personnel, but there are better ways to go about doing this. No project they do passes the IQ test.”

Since 2002, reserve units — numbering around 350 troops — have served one-year tours at the Landstuhl medical center in support of ongoing wars. Army Reserve units first filled the “contingency augmentation mission,” but Navy Reserve units took over the task in late 2006.

After arriving, sailors started to complain about their living conditions on Vogelweh housing. The units the sailors currently reside in on Vogelweh are set for demolition. With no place to house the incoming sailors, Army Col. Brian Lein, Landstuhl commander, said he made a request to the Air Force, which controls housing, and to U.S. Army Garrison Kaiserslautern for space to house the reservists.


Rest of article at: http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=54312



uhc comment: One of the better comments I've seen (outside of DU) --> No project they do passes the IQ test.