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A4 FORT HOOD SENTINEL
By Evelyn D. Harris
A ric a rc In form a tio S rv ic
President Bill Clinton has declared January
National Volunteer Blood Donor Month.
“In an act of generosity that takes less than
an hour of our time we can save the life of
another hum an being” said Clinton. “Becom-
ing a blood donor is a safe fast easy way of
waking an important difference in our world
advancing the great traditions of compassion
and community responsibility that have al-
ways been apart of our nation’s character.”
Air Force Lt. Col. Michael Ward hopes peo-
ple in the Departm ent of Defense community
will take the message to heart. Ward heads
the Armed Services Blood Program Office a
joint health agency. Each service has its own
blood program.
“Blood supplies are traditionally at their
lowest during January” said Ward. “T hat’s
why we need to try a little harder this tim of
year to remind people of the need. From
Thanksgiving to New ear’s Day people are
caught up in the holidays and don’t have time
to give. The flu season also contributes be-
cause we want people to be healthy when they
give.
“The large number of service members de-
ployed in overseas operations also reduces the
number of donations” added Ward. “In addi-
tion service members who deployed to Haiti
will be deferred from giving blood for a year
after their return due to possible exposure to
alaria.”
Ward said active duty service members do-
nate the lion’s share to military blood pro-
grams. Active duty people account for 92.5
percent of donations dependents 6 percent and
DoD civilians 1.5 percent. He believes raising
awareness is the best approach to improve
donations.
“Anyone who is 17 or older healthy and
weighs more than 110 pounds can give blood.
Healthy people can give blood once every eight
weeks” he said.
“The biggest reason people don’t donate is
By Rudi Williams
A ric a rc In form a tio S rv ic
Members of the U.S.-Russia
Joint Commission on POW/
MIAs have yowed to continue
efforts to locate servicemem-
bers of both countries listed as
missing in action.
The first goal is to determine
the fates of U.S. servicemem-
bers from World W ar II the
Cold War Korean W ar and
Vietnam W ar missing in the
former Soviet Union or about
whom the Russians may have
inform ation said alcolm
Toon commission co-chairman.
"The commission’s second
goal is to try to determine the
fates of Russian servicemem-
bers still missing in action
from World W ar II the Cold
War Korean War and Russian
involvement in Afghanistan”
Toon said during a Pentagon
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press conference.
Toon a former U.S. am bas-
sador to the Soviet Union said
the commission continued its
steady progress in four work-
ing groups.
The World W ar II working
group met for the first time as
a separate group. It is sched-
uled to publish an initial re-
port in May 1995 he said.
“This report is intended to
commemorate the 50th an
niversary of the end of World
War II and serve as a gesture
to the memory of Russian and
A erican servicem en who
fought a common enemy” Toon
said.
“The Cold W ar working
group agreed on new lines of
inquiry relating to several
shoot-down incidents identi-
fied additional witnesses to be
interviewed and received new
information from the Russian
border guards’ archives which
because they think there is no need” said
Ward. “They always respond in disasters but
not in normal times. But we do between
80000 and 100000 transfusions every year.
Very few of these are related to disasters or
even combat. The bulk are just done in the
day-to-day operations of our medical treatment
facilities.
“Some people don’t realize that we need
blood all the tim e” he said. Blood stays good
only 35 days and while the military freezes
and rejuvenates universal donor Group O
blood the option is not as convenient because
of the thawing and processing time involved.
DoD is also very careful in collecting blood.
“We do a number of tests and that screens
almost one out of five people from donating
blood on that particular day for some reason.”
The result is an extremely safe blood supply.
“You cannot get HIV infection from giving
blood” said Ward.
The military is researching alternatives to
fresh blood.
“We have an active research community
within the Departm ent of Defense spear-
headed by the Army and Navy in blood re-
search” said Ward. “They are working on
artificial blood and blood substitutes. However
we are at least five years away from a Food
and Drug Adm inistration licensed substitute
and even then it won’t meet all our needs.”
Scientists are also working on a detergent
treatment for plasma the liquid part of blood
to kill viruses like HIV and hepatitis. DoD is
watching developments with an eye on using
treated plasma.
The military has a state-of-the-art computer
system called the Defense Blood Standard Sys-
tem. This allows blood supplies to be invento-
ried quickly and tracked so they can be sent
where they are needed added Ward.
But what the military still needs now he
said is people willing to roll up their sleeves
and give the gift of life.
Local installations will hold blood drives for
the military program find out any drives
numbers to contact.
Commission continuing efforts to locate World War II POW/MIAs
provides a fuller picture of sev-
eral shoot-down cases” Toon
said.
Toon said the Korean W ar
working group received four
sets of documents on aircraft
downings. Delegates said the
search for missing U.S. Air
Force personnel should remain
a priority since the former So-
viet Union had the most tech-
nical interest in the aircraft
and had anti-aircraft regi-
ments in China and North
Korea.
“The U.S. side of the Viet-
nam war working group was
greatly encouraged to learn
that the Russian side will con-
duct an aggressive search to
locate newly identified docu-
ments with detailed informa-
tion on American POWs in
North ietnam ” Toon said.
“These documents would great-
ly assist our work in ietnam .”
Toon emphasized the com
Vietnam veteran visits
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During the plenary session
Toon said family members of
missing Americans were given
a chance to question the Amer-
ican and Russian sides.
ussian arm Col. Gen.
itr ii lk co-
chairman of the commission
said a few years ago the exist
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The Office of Personnel an-
agem ent issued regulations
that immediately change and
improve the Federal Employ-
ees Health Benefits Program.
For example annuitants can
now alter their health benefits
coverage over the phone during
Open Season. The new system
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changes quickly and that is a
step toward waking the gov-
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mission’s work is a two-way
street.
“The U.S. side is prepared
and willing to do what we can
to resolve the POW problem
for the Russian side” Toon
said. “We’ll continue our work
to find information on the 290
servicemen Russia still has
listed as missing in action from
its involvement in Afghani-
stan.
“The U.S. side will increase
its efforts to help the Russian
side determine hat happened
to its missing citizens from
World W ar II the Cold W ar
and the Korean W ar.”
David C. Dolby who received the Medal of Honor while serving with Co B 1st Bn 8th Cav
Regt 1st Cav Div during the Vietnam War stops for lunch at the 1st Brigade dining facility
during a recent visit to Fort Hood.
Regulations improve benefits
The new rules also allow le-
gally separated employees and
annuitants covered as family
members under a spouse’s en-
rollment coverage to enroll in
self-only coverage.
During Desert Storm many
civil service employees lost
th ir a lth en efits en-
ro llm en when they were
called to active duty by their
reserve units.
Under the new rules these
individuals will have the op-
tion of reinstating their civil-
ian health benefits if they re-
tire from their civilian position
while on active duty.
ence of a U.S.-Russian com-
mission on POW/MIAs would
have been unimaginable.
“The fact that such a com-
mission is functional bespeaks
major changes in the world”
Volkogonov said. “We area t-
tempting to restore the past
and find out what took place
and how it took place.
“We think we’ve established
the fate of more than 22000
Americans who at one tim or
another were on the territory
of the former Soviet Union” he
continued. “We have spoken
with a number of new wit-
nesses (to aircraft crash sites)
found new documents we’re
digging in archives and we’re
able to say a few new things.”
The Russian side gave the
Americans a recently discov-
ered document concerning a se-
cret meeting in October 1952
between Soviet dictator Josef
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The Fort Hood community
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2:30 p.m. Jan. 12 at Abrams
Field House.
The guest speaker will be
Dr. Jack Evans the president
of Southwestern Christian Col-
lege in Terrell Texas.
Dr. Edward Wagner a Cen-
tral Texas College instructor
and Roscoe Harrison former
com entator of KCEN-TV
will speak on King’s dream.
Members of the college’s en
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a sergeant and her family from
government family housing.
The eviction was based on a
domestic disturbance between
the sergeant and an unautho-
rized house guest. The guest
also damaged the government
quarters by driving his vehicle
into le front doors of the
quarters.
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Stalin Chinese premier Chou
En-lai and Pen De Hoi the
Chinese commander of forces
in North Korea. Volkogonov
noted none of the three cited
the same number relating to
American POWs.
W hen S talin asked how
many Americans they held in
their camps they all presented
different numbers Volkogonov
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were unable to give precise
numbers.
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flying planes that were shot
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people who perished.”
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