Patrick Shields, a history teacher, at Haldane Central in Cold Spring, NY, knows all to well about sending food to Hungary. My son Christopher is now living in Hungary, he asks for everything from a carton of eggs to a can of Pepsi. As for the dive of standards, the soldiers are cooped up inside the camp and under a set of rules cannot leave the camp unless they have special permission. The 4,000 soldiers that are cooped up inside the camp frequently visit the gym, movie theatre, pizza parlor, and the beer tent. The soldiers spend most of their free time in these four places.
Some soldiers believe the rules are used more as a dictatorship rather than to insure their safety.
They can't drink outside of the cap and cannot travel anywhere with less than 10 people. The drinking rule states that soldiers can drink in the camp's beer tent, but not beyond the camp's perimeters. Besides safety, these rules are also developed to ease the minds of the local Hungarians. The reason for the anxieties by Hungarians is due to the fact that this is the first American based establishment in a former Warsaw Pact country. Anthony Mancari, a senior cadet at West Point Military Academy, has just recently returned from Hungary on a routine military operation.