European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 11, 1963, Darmstadt, Hesse Fog s the stars and stripes saturday May 11, 1963 1 Mcnellis veterinary tour opens Heidelberg. Germany Spe Cial brr Gen Rump mrnrllt.-. Army chief veterinary services of Fleer is currently on a month Lone tour of army veterinary fall Ilenin Europe. Mcnellis was Lent no Here sour Day for France where he will find visit Verdun and the com z Hunt j Orleans. He arrived in Germany last Sun Day and spent the first three Day in the Heidelberg Frnnk furl Glen in and Kaive Mautern areas. In eluded wan a Stop at he 487thmedic no detachment other a device for Clouds Lightf. Are being the cd by the army at 11 electronic proving round at it. Hutch urn Arix. The thunderstorm locator Winn Circle 300 Millet in diameter marching for a tort before they Are Al table on the Horton. It in de. Signed to warn Field impending bad weather which could have Adverse effects on Mil itary operations. The Cloud height Devic gauges the height of Clouds passing directly overhead which is important at airports where Cloud ceiling must be known accurately to per Mit Safe operations. Present Cloud height measuring equipment in heavy and Bulky. The new instrument is sufficiently com pact to be transported to temporary military air strips by Heli copter. The time in traction of second sit lakes a pulse of Light to make the trip to a Cloud is Man cured bythe instrument and multiplied by the Speed of Light to find the height a Zey see try action the planning a night of supersonic fi00 Jet fighters above refuelling Tanker of Del t. Posth air refuel. Ing Wing of i Jive Field sore. The fuel Exchange required Only ii a ladles. Contact was made about to mlle from Lajena. Below maj r Eore Clerken teen left detach rent commander and cant Stephen a. Barbler aul sunt operations officer plot routes and refuelling data for aircraft scheduled to to tilt the adore. A photos fill a up from Way up lajes9 flying Gas stations a wac chief will tour i facilities he Idelberg Germany so i i uni col Emily c. Gorman dlr Rector of the women s army corp 1tuchment. Review a Parade Honor-1 ing her at the 130th station hot a pm Tel following an inspection of the Hospital wac detachment and j attend a reception in her Honor. 1 on completing her German tour f May 28. She will visit wac per i Onney in France including Callon Neucom and shape head Quay ters. -. She will Fly to Naples Jun 4, to visit was on duty at a u�4 j forces Southern Europe of South he. Lajes Field azores special Lajes Field this in hitch flight Leader tango Nolner Winer with Nix thirsty Thunder Hlex Eta la Jen. 1445 hug flight 1 Arr. Thin in i Sestac control with three kb5o it rendezvous Wren Golf ready for re fuel inf off the european coast six f103pilots nettle Hack and relax in the mighty j75 Turbojet thru in each Thund ii Clef Westward it us person if speeds. The who tin Thunder Clef to pulps jp4 l t fuel Mure limn 450riilion per hour a landlubber might he Sittle to push the Over the Atlantic with Only 1.300 Gallons of full Thill s enu Ashfor Only Throe hours Flung. Not these airmen nor the thousand More who Span the big Pond each year in aircraft ranging from the comparatively or Natl fh4f Thun de Strenk to the giant the Confidence Uliey know that today. Non every other Day during the in a five yearn he kb50 super fortress Aerial inner to of the tical air come s Del. .1.45fx.th air refuelling Wing it Lajes Field will he airborne uhf halting it rendezvous Lime with Jet fuel. Tact Lajos detach mint. While responsible for providing air refuel ing support to nil Comers is no confined to he refuelling bus it Aid a George j. Fleck e nut p in. Detachment commander. In lad he emphasized we be got a two pronged Mission and two Mitjo conditions Pone Al i me and Emer gency first the detachment provides rout Ine refuelling support to nil american aircraft fitted for probe and Drogue refuelling and those which transit the azores area. Strond it schedules and Moni tors aircraft movements from the conus to dest Lallona in Europe the Middle East and North Africa and reverse flow of aircraft fro these areas. Who move till Tttus of Attr Grafl and. Why the answer in every Lar tical unit in Ihly half of the world. Pur Pone is depot overhaul major contractor rotations Etc. In cum of Nitt Lonill pm Truney the Job is the Jinie Only the Tempo to is up considerably. A Good sex. A Milf of emergency Opi rut Ion would be to look at det 3s act Al net during the Berlin buildup of1961, most air Force people know that hundreds of fighter aircraft is Ife s band commander awarded the legion of Merit by i a Tab Folk Stiffl u Ritro Wiesbaden Germany Isas the Man who led the Usak ban when the red carpet was rolled out for visiting vip Nan on the other end of that carpet Arnnld Gabriel Romm Jinder conductor of the hand was pre enter the legion of Merit by Gen Truman ii. Union. Safe commander in chief during formal review a undo air Sla on former Boxer the Stock Gabriel a completed o five year tour As Hoad oath 50-Mil n Safe band. Rado Springs started boxing in the army and won 11 out of 12 fights a wan after the last one the one he did t win that he decided to quit the ring. After his army tour the sex Boxer from Corot and. Ny., attended i thai it College. To up tort himself through a Hool he organized found. A drum and Bugle corps that won the new York state Champion ship and directed a Baptist his tip Are time he led a Dunt bund. He enlisted in the air Force when the korean War started and has Nanc c become one of the Topland Mailer in the air Force. During his five years with i Safe hundreds of thousand of persons throughout Europe and from air guard and air Force re serve units were pressed into action and flown within hours Banes in Europe. North Africa and England. Practically every Fisherr in that operation and Nurry nor Rentt inn took the Southern Rule through Lajcin was refuelled in � r by Del 3 kb50. Or on Thi ground no air Refl were logged Thra Urh tit ctn Cement aircraft movement control can try those that Lund cd Here were re inn Rcd by die Fri . To in clude filing of flight Plynn com plete roup Bri fines radio procedures. Route Condoli Loith and Emer gency All Ernste Bansei when it Romo to movement of aircraft Tacl Lettl or otherwise we have a hand in it said maj Davidw. Thomas. Del 3 operations officer. We serve 05 the movement control team Tor a tac and aircraft deployments both to and from cons through diea7or he added although controlled by Del 3.the kb1v k arc a ritually a rhed try from their Honn unit he450gth air Crueling Wing tac Langley fab. \ a., commanded Mycol George h. Kneen or. They Fly them we maintain them capt Carl e. Reynold detachment manic nun officer explained. We be never i j n Mission due to maintenance Fleckenste pointed out. If the in Liber of our maintenance people remains at the current High we a on i mls any either. Accompanying her on the Toff will be u co Marie Kehrer. Was staff adviser at Usa eur. " " studies lure men to Sites Washington ur.i1 to obtain officer volunteers for duty at menu Tenn missile Sites maj g a h. G. Thorn jr., air Force dlr Tor of perion Nel pin n nine told n House approx print ions Sti committee in Tettat Mony a a Cist d Here. The education program he said includes a graduate and undergrad i into category. At Mastrom air Irre hnsmont., where this Typ of training is in Progress the officers can acquire a graduate de Grot in a physical science. Duty i i trom officers Man the missile jul ten As Many As 24 con. Acc Tulve hours. Then they Are Oil duty for As Long As three Day. Muring this period of time they Are Rupi a Ted and will attend Claut leading to a graduate Degrat Thorne said they Volunteer. Principally because we hold the. Carrot out the Carrot of addition Al army history Publ hed Washington special to government printing old her has announced the Sale of Umla test volume of the army Tola in the Pacific during world War ii. The 761-Page volume sell Lor,. 1 known at u6afes lop Mun Licul the Middle East have watched him ambassador he will leave Europe thursday to take Over the 100-Pleee air Force Academy band at Colo conduct. His musical selections an the performance of the hand have earned tremendous plaudits
