Dependents ordered back to U.S. over gang graffiti at Vogelweh

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Remnants of gang graffiti remain on a retaining wall in the new senior noncommissioned officer housing near Kaiserslautern High School in Vogelweh on Tuesday. Four teens confessed to spray-painting gang signs at various locations in the vicinity of the school complex.


Dependents ordered back to U.S. over gang graffiti at Vogelweh
By Matt Millham, Stars and Stripes
European edition, Sunday, January 25, 2009

KAISERSLAUTERN, Germany — Two teenaged Army dependents have been ordered back to the States for vandalizing a U.S. Air Force base with gang-related graffiti on New Year’s Eve, an Air Force official said Friday.

Two other teens involved in the incident, which resulted in at least $5,000 worth of damage at a new military housing area within sight of Kaiserslautern High School on the Vogelweh installation, received lesser punishments from a civilian misconduct board handling the case.

"One will be getting fairly significant community service hours," said Air Force Col. Don Bacon, commander of the 435th Air Base Wing at Ramstein Air Base, Germany.

Another was informed of his punishment Friday, and has three days to appeal the decision, "so I don’t feel like it would be appropriate right now to mention" the decision until the punishment is finalized, Bacon said.

Three of the teens are minors and students at Department of Defense Dependents Schools in the Kaiserslautern area, according to a DODDS-Europe spokesperson. The other is a DODDS graduate. One of the perpetrators was an Air Force dependent; the rest were Army dependents, Bacon said.


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