HQ EUCOM has initiated a program for rehabilitating soldiers serving guardhouse sentences and leading to their return to duty with, full rights and privileges. Eligible for the rehabilitation program are male prisoners whose sentences do not include a punitive (bad-conduct or dishonorable) discharge, and all prisoners whose sentences are six months or less and include a suspended punitive discharge.

Eligible prisoners who succesfully undergo two phases of the rehabilitation training will be considered for clemency and restoration to active duty, thus increasing the manpower available in EUCOM, a Frankfurt Military Post announcement said.

To qualify for the center, guardhouse inmates on Frankfurt and Nurnberg military posts must first complete a preliminary four-week training course while still in confinement. This includes instruction in American Government, duties of citizenship, map reading, combat intelligence, military justice and other related subjects.

Prisoners who successfully complete this phase and volunteer for the second are accepted "if their attitude and record indicate an honest desire to redeem themselves."

During the second phase at the Lechfeld center, prisoners are on parolee basis, and not under armed guard or lock and key, Maj Gus D. Wiethorn, FMP stockade officer, said.

Men who are sentenced to punitive discharges and who fail to progress satisfactorily at the EUCOM training center will be sent back to post guardhouses to serve the rest of their sentences. Men who are not sentenced to punitive discharges and who fail to progress satisfactorily at the EUCOM training center will be sent back to post guardhouses to serve the rest of their sentences.

The Frankfurt stockade last week sent its first contingent of 34 prisoners by train to the new EUCOM Retraining Center at Lechfeld Air Base, on Augsburg Military Post.