European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 08, 1963, Darmstadt, Hesse Mats gallops to the Rescue global Johnny on the spot by Bob Poos a staff Wal Ltd Rheua military air transport serv Al in Uit like the old . Cavalry spends much of 1u time galloping of to the Rescue around the world. For Mats thai can mean anything from Rushing badly scald a Little girl to a specialist for treatment to hauling thou Sand i of marines to meet a crisis. In filers hurl their planes into the Teeth of hurricanes to help weather forecasters save lives and of its men plunge from air to Curth or Ocean As combination Para air planes and 52,000 of the 83,000 men As signed to Mats Are in the transport forces. Take a frogman a paratrooper and medical Aid Man. Add a dash of survival training plus a love of danger in you be got one of the nation s moot elite soldiers the Pararas Cueman. Mats air Rescue service Haa a Lon history of rescuing people from ice floes in the Arctic from floods earthquakes another natural disasters not to mention thousands of . Nold fers during the korean conflict. Two of them aided astronaut Scott car Penter and saved his space capsule from no most certain Fotuai in the Atlin Etc Otann. Tensity Speed and direction in which the storm is i roving. Flying wbk something like the old world War ii super forts. I on led with Spe Cial instruments instead of bombs handguns the flying weathermen get inside the storms by using what they Call the boxing the planes just Hutt at the storm until they find a weak spot surge Forward butt in again and find another weak spot until they Are inside the Hurricane s Eye where it is information All the while the big planes finally leave the storm Andi Lurli it. The a i Send a Elope bark to i six new Boeing c13jb to support Iron Iorli Ore readied for Mats delivery at Renton wo�h., Airfield. Trooper doctor frogman and Rescue Spe men have Many and dangerous lot. So Mellmer they Call themselves the you Call we haul that s in under men Ilow thousands of marines end thousand of ions of Bailie equipment to Guantanamo by during the cuban crisis. They flew thousands of air Mill while Rushing arms to India after the chinese commune swarmed across the Indian Border. Other big scale tasks have included Rota Tion of troops in Europe and moving swe dish and Irish soldiers in and out of the Congo. Mats met us first crisis the Berlin air lift shortly after its birth in 1mb. It has been meeting them Ever since. In 15 months of airlifting supplies Oberlin Mats delivered about 1 i million tons of food and then it a Lent Aid in earthquakes in India floods in Europe typhoons an Hurricane in the Atlantic and pack la. Polio epidemics in Japan and South America five wars or near wors and extensive Mili tary Maneu vers. Including those by Nat forces. An unusual Mission was a Rush ordered 14d.�1 pounds of american insecticide when an invasion of army Worms threat ened the egyptian Cotton crop in 1961. Mats Whoso Headquarters is located Ata sprawl pm air Force base near Belle Ville 111., Nas three technical arms Fairweather service the Hurricane Hunters air Rescue service and air photographic charting. But the global air transport Force Breiu Workhorse. Almost Nail of the 1.050 12 recovery of so called space hardware Isone of the More glamorous and important jobs of the Par Rescue men. The Para Rescue men All Are must Complete training As medical technicians studies in Rescue work . Nuvy Underw Mer swimming Frog Man courses and or Vulval training i which they learn How to live off the land no matter How Remote and isolated thespot apart from the work of the parades Cummen. The air Rescue service has helped Check a yellow fever epidemic in Cost Arica rescued flood victims in Holland and England and once dismantled a live bombed the presidential Palace of a Central american nation. La col Arnold Zimmerman makes his living flying into hurricanes a duty the men in his outfit Call mostly boredom punctuated by sheer the 20-year air Force Veteran a father of four children is commander of the 53rd weather reconnaissance so the Hurri Cane Hunters of the air Force. Tie 53rd is stationed at Kundley a bin Bermuda but is one of the children of the air Force s air weather service which is part of the military air trans port on the other Kloc of the world from Bermuda is the 53rd s brother outfit the 54th weather reconnaissance so on Guam which Hunta is dangerous duty the 53rd has never lost a plane but the 54th has los two of them along with the 10-Man Crews of storm seekers Analyse three things about the violent weather they study m Bermuda. From there it is relayed to Hurricane Headquarters in Miami but the Hurricane Hunters constitute just one of Many aws duties although possibly the most glamorous. Tho air weather service shoots Tirol satellites into space and gets Back to pictures of Cloud patterns. The aws is responsible for feeding weather information to All army and air Force units so they will have an we a what the weather is Likely to be and be ready for it. A new aws outfit the Hulth Tett 84.gathers samples of the atmosphere and measures the radiation in it. I aws i1""" continuous flights Over the desolate and unt racked areas of the Earth gathering information to fill in ii stars and stapes the aws flies some by million Miles each year in gathering weather data in his.-j"1", Orcel u Wehr eted in ssh ? a or a oldest command in the air Force. Her Are ome of the informal observe sewer so wealh.T8 " � Good weather Rosy sky at i unset j 1 re p " no a � do in Winter Grey sky at Sunrise White out by Clouds Westerly weather umber sky at Sundown Means rain tomorrow Dull red at Aii Duetran and wind within m hos pass mundwstorm., Halo around the invt of is i""1 rain we than no . """c11 thunderstorm coming tip .?.,. A or Block Cloud South wind bring heavy rain or mow
