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The clock is ticking

The new U.S. Army, Europe and Seventh Army command sergeant major,
Command Sgt. Maj. Iuniasolua Tului Savusa, officially assumed his
duties during a May 5 ceremony at Heidelberg

In extreme south Africa, sitting next to strife-torn Zimbabwe and
possessing the second highest adult HIV prevalence rate in the world,
Botswana hardly seems like a country whose defense forces would have
C-130 avionics that the most powerful air force in the world does not.

Q Last week I was driving toward the West Gate to
leave the base. It was almost dark. I was coming around the curve.
There was a bicyclist riding in the right lane bottlenecking traffic.
There was a bicycle path parallel to the road just on the other side of
the curb. The rider was wearing a yellow reflective belt. However,
because the rider was bent over, the belt was barely visible. This
created an unsafe situation for the rider, a traffic hazard for the
motorists, and a traffic slow-down.  I realize that a bicycle is a
vehicle and has certain rights on the road. However, if there is a
bicycle path parallel to the road, shouldn

There are at least 1,600 people in the KMC who believe passionately
that people should not drink and drive. So much so, that last year they
each gave up one of their own Friday or Saturday nights, and early
mornings, to volunteer with the Armedforces Against Drunk Driving
program. They waited by the telephone between the hours of midnight and
6 a.m. and they responded. Last year, the AADD volunteers took nearly
3,500 people safely to their homes.