European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 24, 1962, Darmstadt, Hesse The stars and stuns Stahr cites vital role of copters los Angeles up army Secretary Elvis j. Stahr or. Said the ultimate Fate of Freedom May depend on sometimes Primi Tive irregular combat. Instead fan All out nuclear War. Army aviation particularly use of helicopters in Viet Nam and elsewhere has a key role in such irregular warfare he said. Stahr in a speech prepared for delivery at a meeting of the association of the . Army said both aggressor and defending nations Are mindful of the frightful consequences of a nuclear sex a result he said such nations resort to one of the most primitive forms of combat the use and counter use of irregular Force. Guerrilla warfare is actually being fought in Many parts of the world today and the ultimate fat of Freedom could Well rest in the hand of the soc ailed irregular troop ratio increase impetus in army aviation As a result is being Given to helicopters and Stahr predicted that by 1970.the army would have an 8-1 ratio of choppers Over fixed Wing air Craft. The Worth of army aviation said Stahr. Is being demonstrated with dramatic clarity today invite Nam. Where we have a num Ber of helicopter and fixed win units. One helicopter company is a Leto lift a battalion of vietnamese he said. These american Niu enuf liked in troop transport observation and resupply Are per forming Yeoman service in defense of the free them he continued the effective conduct of operations by the Viet Nam army against the infiltrating kill and vanish communist guerrilla forces in this land of virtually impassable Jungle would be immensely More difficult he said in order to retain present Force of 16 combat ready divisions eight overseas and eight in the Continental United states we have activated two new regular divisions the 1st army at it Hood. Tex., and the5th mechanized inf at it. Carson Colo. These two new divisions willbe combat ready by the time the National guard divisions have completed their terms of a v or it f " f i ?. ,-.1 / High and dry the destroyer Monahen mown onto the Shore lit Beach Haven n.j., in a atom which buttered the Eastern sea Board i the Center of activity a worker prepare to re float her. A Mem m the bal last Oul Pomped oat of the Hall four de will attempt to Pun the Mouwen wag being Tow Tow line snap Peov All service panel set up to handle contract disputes Washington up the defense department has abolished the separate army. Navy and air Force contract Appeal panels Handset up a new All service Board to handle such disputes. The new unit will be known Ashe armed services Board of con tract appeals. It will handle approximately 600 disputes a year Over the wording in defense con tracts. Decisions of the Board will be final unless overruled by the courts. Many of the disputes involve claims for additional pay ment such As in cases where Workis done that May not have been covered in the contract. Never signed for insurance gis Indianapolis up two soldiers have testified in Federal court that they never signed form authorizing the army to take allot ments from their pay for payment of insurance premiums. Jerry Goff of new York an Rudolph Burse of Miami fja., were among several government witnesses at the trial of nine per sons charged with conspiracy to de fraud the government in an insurance government has accused the none. Mostly insurance salesmen and soldiers of cheating the government through faked insurance allotments to cover policies sup Posedly sold to the scheme the army paid the insurance companies the premiums and the companies in turn paid commissions to the insurance agents. The scheme was carried out through the army finance Center at it. Benjamin also testified that he never had been stationed at it Leonard Wood mo., where an insurance allotment form supposedly signed by him had been made out. Col Daniel Benedict of it Sam Houston tex., who conducted the original investigation in 1960 at it Harrison testified the 1,800 allotment diced in evidence Benedict said that forms were no soldiers whose names and others had said his invest tip the government paid in premiums on the lot ments. Lone survivor of c119 into House comes out of new Orleans
