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Coming soon: SharePoint Component Holidays for 2011 takes over from WISE Please find below the official 2011 E-3A Component holiday schedule including six E-3A Component Commander’s Stand- By Maureen Geraets-Head that were already licensed to NATO Down Days. and in place. It combines web access Over the course of the last few with all of the features of Microsoft Commander’s Stand-Down Day 7 Mar Monday months, everyone at the Component Office. This familiar technology and has had to become acquainted with advanced functionality has already (Carnival Monday) the new look of the intranet page: reduced Web Application turnaround Good Friday 22 April Friday Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) time by 90%, dropping 10-week Easter Monday 25 Apr Monday are replacing the WISE information development schedules to one week, Labor Day 1 May Sunday portal. and 10-day schedules to one day.” Ascension Day 2 Jun Thursday The good old “WISE page”, which Every portal site will be allowed Commander’s Stand-Down Day 3 Jun Friday has been serving the Component since an initial capacity of 4 GB. This is Whit Monday 13 Jun Monday 2004, was a NATO-designated product possible because WSS is programmed Corpus Christi 23 Jun Thursday and was never designed to grow to differently from WISE. the 700 MB size that it ultimately Commander’s Stand-Down Day 24 Jun Friday reached here. The WISE era will soon Since September 2010, IWINW Commander’s Stand-Down Day 30 Sep Friday come to an end. It is being replaced has been offering introduction classes German Unity Day 3 Oct Monday by this topnotch WSS product. The to Site Collection Administrators. information portal will be faster, If you are interested in becoming a Site All Saints Day 1 Nov Tuesday clearer and more user-friendly. Collection Administrator, please speak Commander’s Stand-Down Day 23 Dec Friday to your commander to volunteer. Christmas Day 25 Dec Sunday MSgt. Jason Amidan, from the For additional information you can Boxing Day 26 Dec Monday Information Technology Wing, contact the Windows SharePoint explains, “This new Portal System Administrator Mr. Ken Caputa. Commander’s Stand-Down Day 30 Dec Friday functions similar to WISE, but with major feature and design The target date for WISE shutdown Any questions should be directed to Personnel Division,

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Commander own and do not necessarily reflect the official views of, or endorsement by, the North Atlantic Brig. Gen. Burkhard Pototzky Treaty Organization. The appearance of advertising in this publication, including inserts or Chief, Public Affairs supplements, does not constitute an endorsement by NATO of the products or services advertised. Lt.Col. Antje Kalka Submissions are due seven days before publication and may be edited for style and space. Volume 27, No. 1 14 January 2011 Email articles and classified advertisements to [email protected]. 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To read the NATO Skywatch online visit www.e3a.nato.int 4 NATO Skywatch 14 January 2011 More online Skywatch It never snows in GK conditions continue to represent a flightline, familiarize yourselves readers challenge for all of us in preventing with the Snow and Ice Removal traffic and work accidents resulting Plan (CP 3.7-13), which details from slippery roads, walkways and clearing procedures on the ramp. in 2010 surfaces. • Offer assistance to your local Building Custodian in his/her The Public Affairs Office would By now, everybody should have efforts to provide safe access to like to thank you, our faithful understood the rationale of German your workplace. Skywatch readers, for all your legislation requiring antifreeze screen • At your workplace, familiarize trust and confidence. By Josef Hess, Head Ground Safety wash and winter/all-season tires. yourself with the location of Branch So, on top of that what can you do winter service equipment and In 2010, our Component individually to prevent negative supplies such as snow shovel, newspaper was read by even more After the reasonably robust winter outcomes as a result of ice and snow? broom, gravel and salt. These people online. A total of 92,036 season 2009/10, for the past six Here are a number of thoughts for items should be available at hits were counted, which means weeks we have found ourselves again you to consider: every building in sufficient an increase of 27% in comparison confronted with all the aspects of a amounts. In case of shortages, to the figures for 2009. harsh winter. In fact, when you talk to • Even if it means less sleep, your Building Custodian can the older locals they cannot remember schedule extra time for your order re-supplies from the on- • The Skywatch issue that you having seen that much snow in the journey to work. base Garrison Administration liked most was issue number 5 area for several decades. Certainly, • Adjust your vehicle speed to the (Bundeswehrdienstleistungs- published on 12 March 2010, this brought us a White Christmas prevailing road conditions; this is zentrum-BwDLZ) using F45.2, which featured the article about and even winter sports nearby. On particularly true for the West Gate Request for BwDLZ Consumable Fire Department member Frank the other hand, for the ongoing road, which often freezes up in Supplies. Offergeld and his collection season the Safety Division has already wintertime. of more than 2,000 patches – received eight work accident reports • Move out of the way of snow With some foresight and team 9,099 hits were counted for in which slippery conditions where ploughs and winter service teams spirit, everybody can help to reduce that specific issue. found to be causal or contributory. when they are trying to remove accident hazards and make the Likewise, the International Military snow and ice. Also, if so instructed, Component a safer place for all. And • The Christmas issue published Police logged 14 on-base traffic do not park your vehicle in if a work accident occurs despite on 15 December 2010 scored accidents in the two weeks before a parking lot designated for everyone’s efforts, make sure it is the most hits within one month Christmas, with winter driving issues mechanical clearing by your local promptly reported to your supervisor with 4,651 hits. being part of the chain of events. This Building Custodian. and the Safety Division, using F 37.4, clearly shows that the wintry weather • For those of you working on the Accident Report. IYA Christmas Brig. Gen. Burkhard Pototzky Coloring Contest and Mayor Thomas Fiedler surrounded by 340 pupils and As in previous years, young artists their teachers. recently participated in the annual Photo Andrea Hohenforst IYA Christmas Coloring Contest and they all submitted beautiful artworks. 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By Lt.Col. Antje Kalka 4 October 2010. The basin wall breaks. The mud is released as a Devecser and Kolontár in wave of up to two meters high, and Hungary, 14 December 2010. the toxic liquid floods the nearby The only noise to be heard in the villages of Kolontár and Devecser. The abandoned village is the haunting inhabitants have no choice than to sound of a bamboo wind chime. On flee their homes. the stairs beneath the wind chime is a pair of rubber boots covered with Ten people cannot escape. They crusted red sludge. Inside the house die in the mud. Since then, 14 more All the food boxes the floor is covered with dried red have died after being in contact with contain durable food cans. mud. Up to a height of 1.50 meters the toxic substances. The red sludge Photo Andrea Hohenforst the walls are blood-red. Only above causes severe acid burns. Many that height you can see the original people are still suffering from these white wallpaper. The windows are burns on their skin. broken. With each wind gust the wind chime tinkles. Again and again. Late October 2010. Capt. Frank A wardrobe is open. All the dresses Lorra from Squadron 3 returns from are soaked with red sludge up to the his vacation in Hungary. “We were armpits. Obviously the inhabitants visiting my girl friend’s family, living had to flee from their home, only in western Hungary”, he tells us. “By saving their lives, nothing else. chance, we came through the region of Kolontár and Devecser – and saw It is Tuesday, 14 December a catastrophe. The people affected 2010. We are in the village of by the disaster lost everything. Many Kolontár in western Hungary. houses have been demolished and Located 30 kilometers north of the are uninhabitable”. Lorra and Petra famous Balaton Lake, in the midst of Prém, a former member of Squadron Perfectly prepared: The unloading a famous wine-producing region of 1, decided immediately: We are going at Air Base Pápa. Photo Lt.Col. Antje Kalka Hungary. If you look on the internet to do something. for satellite images of Kolontár, you will see a reddish rectangle at This “something” resulted in a relief a distance of one kilometer from it. campaign supported by Brig.Gen. Girl from Devecser watching This rectangle is a 400 x 250-meter Burkhard Pototzky, E-3A Component the trucks with relief goods basin used to store liquid toxic by- Commander. “I was very impressed for her village. products of aluminium production. that a Component member initiated Photo Lt.Col. Antje Kalka But the satellite picture does not a relief project and felt so much social portray the reality. responsibility”, Pototzky says.

Toxic red mud made houses in Devecser uninhabitable. Photo Lt.Col. Antje Kalka

Capt. Frank Lorra: “Many, many thanks to all donators and volunteers! You laid the solid foundations for this successful relief campaign. On behalf of the people of Devecser and Kolontár I want to thank you for your individual contributions to a great result.” 14 January 2011 NATO Skywatch 7 Vacancy Successful relief campaign for Hungary announcements Applications are invited for the following posts: Only a few days later, the project spontaneously offered their support villagers who lost everything. Usually accelerated to full speed. Other and experience to organize the Pastor Mód does not seem to be a Petroleum, Oil & Lubricants (POL) Component members spontaneously transport to Hungary. loss for words, but now he is. “We Specialist, advertisement number joined the campaign. “We started have never experienced so much 10054, NATO Grade C-3, assigned to collecting money and food in 10:52. Landing at Pápa Air love as we do now”, he says. the POL Section, Resource Readiness supermarkets in Schinveld and Base. Everything is immaculately Branch, Supply Squadron, Logistics Geilenkirchen”, reports Capt. Wilko ter prepared: fork lift trucks are waiting From Devecser we go to Kolontár. Wing. This post is due to be filled Horst from the Public Affairs Office. to unload the TCA. The Hungarian This village is even closer to the as soon as possible. Closing date: The aim: Each of the affected families Forces have lined up heavy trucks to broken basin. We leave the bus. 24 January 2011. should be given a food package. All transport the pallets immediately to Haunting silence around us. No bird Component members were informed a warehouse, for onward distribution. singing. No cows mooing. No child System/Software Analyst, that – in addition to the collection of Col. Ton van Happen, Deputy crying. Only a faint tinkle, coming advertisement number 10055, NATO money – non-food donations were Commander of the E-3A Component, from the courtyard. It is the bamboo Grade B-5, assigned to the Mission needed too, because the inhabitants is impressed. “That’s what I call a wind chime. It is difficult to find Systems Engineering Division, of Kolontár and Devecser had lost perfect organization”, he says. words for what we see. “It looks like Information Technology Wing. This absolutely everything. “We asked for the aftermath of a war”, says Capt. post is due to be filled as soon as all kinds of household items, from Col. van Happen and a small Frank Lorra. To me, standing in front possible. Closing date: 25 January 2011. cutlery and plates to coffeemakers, delegation from Geilenkirchen travel of broken windows and looking into toys for kids, tools for repair work, with the relief convoy to Devecser. a hastily abandoned house felt like Principal Technician (Radar), cleaning materials and so on”, explains We pass small Hungarian villages a last glimpse of dreams suddenly advertisement numbers 10061 and Capt. Lorra. and hamlets. This is a rural region. submerged in toxic red sludge. 10062, NATO Grade B-5, assigned Not rich, not poor. Suddenly, the to the Radar Maintenance Branch, The campaign set-up was so soil is no longer brown and partly Mrs. Palmen from the “Samen Electronics Maintenance Squadron, convincing that the communities snow-covered, but red. Partly blood- Delen” foundation came with our Logistics Wing. These posts are around the air base supported it, too. red, partly auburn. Poisoned. All the delegation to Hungary, saw the due to be filled as soon as possible. The Mayor of Onderbanken, Mrs. houses have a red stripe stretching poisoned villages, stood stunned Closing date: 10 February 2011. Mirjam Clermonts-Aretz, established from the ground to the windows. in the frozen blood-red sludge. Her contact between the campaign Toxic sludge, soaked into the conclusion: “Now I am entirely sure For further details please visit initiator and the Dutch charitable brickwork. that we did the right thing”. the Component Information Portal organization “Stichting Samen under Headquarters/A1/A1CR/ Delen”. Mrs. Anny Palmen, chairman First stop: a warehouse in Col. van Happen nods and adds, Advertisements, and on www.e3a. of this foundation, opened up its Devecser, rented by Pastor Miklós “To me the cooperation between the nato.int, or review the advertisement depots and contributed goods, such Mód. We receive an extremely warm people from our air base and the posted in Building 8. Note: Only as sheets, blankets, quilts, pillows, welcome. The pallets are unloaded communities around it was more applications of qualified personnel soap, toys, kitchen appliances and from the trucks, and the relief goods than positive. It was heart-warming. will be considered. many, many more – enough to fill are taken into the warehouse by Together we can achieve a lot and two trucks. “When we received this volunteers from his community. In make Christmas for these people tremendous quantity of relief goods the next few days the donations will at least a little better. We should Squadron 3 we knew that our campaign would be distributed. Distributed to the continue to follow this path”. be successful”, Capt. ter Horst says arranges a fun- gratefully. filled day for The response on the air base was impressive as well. “For example, we special visitors collected money at NATEX because By MSgt. Mirco “Howie” Hauschild many people go there”, Capt. Lorra says. Family members supported On Tuesday 14 December 2010 the campaign, too. “My wife works a group of children between 8 and on the air base. When she told me 16 years old from the children’s about the campaign, I decided to homes in Geilenkirchen, Hilfarth assist”, says Maj. Andreas Kalka of and belonging to the the German Army. He adds: “The ‘Heimverbund Region ’ Sunday collection campaign at the visited our base. The group was NATEX was a great experience. As a warmly welcomed by Squadron 3 well-known German proverb says, Everything was lost in members in the reception room of ‘Many drips make an ocean’. And the the red sludge disaster. Bldg. 212, where they were treated to donators filled our box drip by drip Photo Lt.Col. Antje Kalka hot chocolate and Christmas cookies. with all kinds of money, from 1 cent Each one of them also received coins to 50 euro banknotes”. At the a goody bag, and in their bright end of the day, the collection box eyes you could see that they were contained more than 1,500 euros. delighted.

14 December 2010. At 08:52 a The highlights of the visit were the TCA takes off from Geilenkirchen for dynamic display of a fire truck from Pápa Air Base in Hungary, located the airfield’s fire department and the only 25 kilometers north of the static display of an E-3A aircraft. While poisoned villages. The flight was out on the flight line, the youngsters scheduled long before the disaster had the opportunity to witness the occurred in western Hungary. But approach of an E-3A aircraft that was it provides a unique opportunity to returning from a daily mission. deliver the first six tons of goods. A further 3.5 tons are brought to After these fun-filled hours at the Pápa Air Base next day, also on a Component the group left the base routine flight. Everything is palletized. with an expression of gratitude in Volunteers from various nations have Once a living room, now uninhabitable. Photo Lt.Col. Antje Kalka their eyes. Superior

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A1.1 - beginners – intensive courses, to be paid in cash when you Non-Smoking Policy: Smoking is prohibited inside the Rotodome and at level 1 receive the MWA card. Card both entrance areas. Please also adhere to the smoking restrictions at the Tuesdays & Thursdays, 1030-1200, holders that have already paid two additional exits, in the middle portion of the Rotodome, left and right instructor: N.N., Room 125 their annual contribution fee in of the coffee machine, as follows: When facing the coffee machine inside Tuesdays & Thursdays, 1900-2030, 2010, please note that these cards the Rotodome, the exit to the left is a non-smoking area and the exit to instructor: Marita Klee, room 118 will be prolonged and that the the right is a smoking area. A1.2 – advanced beginners – intensive amount will be adjusted with the courses, level 2 upcoming fee. E-3A Club Tuesdays & Thursdays, 1030-1200, For more information please The E-3A Club will remain as the main bar facility at the Component, instructor: Tanja Rzeppa, room 109 contact the Services Branch, also providing a variety of small snacks, such as Toasties, Bockwurst with Tuesdays & Thursdays, 1730-1900, ext. 4910, 4918 or 4914. potato salad, sandwiches, coffee and cake. Opening hours: Monday-Friday instructor: Marita Klee, room 118 1100-2200. Starting in the middle of level 2 Mondays & Wednesdays, 1000-1130, instructor: Meral Alkan-Oncu, Upcoming events room 109 A2.1 – pre-intermediate – intensive 4 Feb Robert Burns Night course, level 3 Mark your calendars! On Friday, Tuesdays & Thursdays, 1700-1830, Next NATO Skywatch: 4 Feb, the E-3A Club will host a Robert instructor: Christine Mertens, 4 February Burns Night, a traditional Scottish room 109 event packed with entertainment. 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