European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 29, 1962, Darmstadt, Hesse Or. Fritz a Diedier seeks out impurities with Gas Chron autograph i a capt Francis Buck Rodg identify Jagot \ " by Odice Mcoaniel staff writer Little things mean a lot sometime the difference Between life and death. Testing and measuring some of these hot lettings that really Aren t so Small is the Job of the 7112th general medical up a Wiesbaden Germany. The outfit runs the Only . Air Force chemical analysis Laboratory in Europe and concerns itself with testing air and water food paints and body fluids to detect any source of illness before people get officers five airmen and three German employees work in the lab in an11-room former bomb shelter underground. They Analyse everything from blood to heavy metals. It s our Job to support the Safe preventive Medicine occupational health Industrial Hygiene and aerospace Medicine programs in this command says capt Francis a. Buckeridge of Sacramento,calif., head of the environmental health Laboratory operating today a air Force creates some Industrial hazards so a system had to be devised to protect personnel fro these dangers. The system was the Labora tory Here set up in 1959. Tysing test tubes u radiation detectors and i Datton counters along with Cate scientific equipment the up the air Force s health pro we do 27 analyses of Roy r. Redenbaugh 21, of one of the group s four Cine specialists. If a base fluoride Content is too High they Send their samples for of keeping tabs on the air another part of the Job. Fumes gases and anything that May be harmful. There v Iron mental health Engineer who look out for airmen and i ing conditions. Air samples for instance from a Small basement room showed toxic concentrations Cohol resulting from placating machine. The la More ventilation and better fluid. And that solved that another air problem thl by the . Navy involved depot in Spain. The depot was 1smoke and fuel fumes it at Nal the tto else Prancl pop 12 the stars and stripes 1963
