European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 29, 1965, Darmstadt, Hesse                                S the stars and stripes a Anil 19m pm earn degrees soldiers hit the books Washington the american Soldier realizes he importance or according to figures released by the statistics show that an average of about officers and enlisted men were enrolled in off duty courses of one Type or an other during the 1965 fiscal year which ended june a total of courses were this is an increase of about Soldier students Over the previous 12month period and an increase of course completions Over the previous years rec during fiscal officer and enlisted men also earned baccalaureate or advanced de Grees through education pro about half of these men received their degrees through the general educational develop ment ged the remainder were graduate degrees awarded to students in the army civilian school academic and technical courses from elementary through graduate level arc offered for men who want to continue their education while in uniform h 296 education miters throughout the correspondence courses arc also offered through go Home loan plan still 21 Rome special the i Home loan program came of age this still Active although its termination dates have been the veterans administration lists the following statistics pertinent to its Progress More ulan million Home totalling 162 have been guaranteed or insured by the a since 1144 when the pro Gram to assist Home hungry vet Erans got about business Loans and farm Loans have been made and More than direct Loans were made to vet Erans living in areas where Pri vate capital was not readily these direct Loans totalled the grand total of Loans added up to approximately 7 million with a face value of ii nearly 3 million of these i Loans have been repaid in More than 17 per cent of veterans who obtained i Loans have made up to Date current or final smoke grenades strapped to his member of the Golden knights slowly descends from the smoke to to Aid spectators viewing the Ali Golden the arrays precision Parachute recently performed at Annapolis and Maxwell air Force base in ass cd Avoir bedevil by rav Herndon Viet Nam up air Force capt Hank Lang Calls himself the Baron von Lang and hands strangers Call ing cards which read revolutions uprisings quelled and assassinations in his occupation int nearly that but it is probably More his Job is to guide and direct the fighters and bombers that attack communist vet Cong troop concentrations while making sure they dont bomb Friendly forces which May be lust 50 Yards away or he is Forward air con apparently to distract his aviation unit owns vim Cong Battle Flag Germany special a Viet Cone Battle Flag is now resting in out trophy Case of the m3rd aviation 3rd army the Flag was donated by two Gary we a helicopter Pilot in co he obtained it from South vietnamese Soldier he was ing daring his 8kb and final Mission in january Viet Cong Battle Ore carried by the Viet Cong guerrillas and Are individually handmade by the mind from the almost constant dangers of his seven Day work he works at cultivating the image of the reckless bar he is a caricature of a world War i German fighter Pilot to the last to the homemade bombs he hurls from the window of his observation plane lust to shake up the trademark when he a Brilliant red nearly the length of his streams from the win it is inscribed Baron von a grown Lavlet Nam Handlebar moustache gives him the appearance of the classic stage despite his Light hearted manner a new is All business when he is perform ing his this reporter accompanied him on a bombing Mission in support of vietnamese Para troopers battling Viet Cong around the due co special forces As soon As Lang informed the american adviser with the Viet namese paratroops that he was in the the Anonymous voice crackled Over the we got a target right were near the Trail leading into the Little and the Charlies Viet Cong Are not far from Lang called for the paratroop ers to Mark their Forward positions with a smoke but when the Clouds of yellow smoke began spewing from the Here was one Cloud too the Viet Cong obviously had been listening to the radio after Many minutes of discus Sion of the terrain immediately surrounding the Friendly Posi Lang was finally satisfied that he knew the line separating the Friendly from enemy Posi this is the most critical part of the he a Hundred Yard error and the Friendly front line goes the american officer on the ground wanted the bombs to fall on Viet Cong positions within so Yards of his because the pilots of the fight a bombers tune to different a King bringing twist to in Naples Naples on 3 and the Allied officers club at Bagnoli Post Here will feature Chubby the King of the for two Chubby checker will sing out the songs that made him res the Man responsible for spreading the twist throughout the United states and Europe and setting the Pace for the new beat in Rock and Dio frequencies and heard none of the Exchange Between Lang and the paratroop it remained langs Job to Mark the target with a smoke Here we Lang said throwing his wl19 into a Bank that would guide the plane onto a Headon course for the Viet Cong out flew the rocket slug be Neath the planes seconds later came the sound of the smoke rocket exploding amid the communist positions switching his radio to the fre Quency of the orbiting fighter Lang told the attack Craft pilots the areas they could bomb in relation to the burst of White phosphorous be there Are Friend lies on the North Side of the he the first of two propeller driven sky Alders dived through the Clouds and released a 260 Pound bomb within feet of the smoke near miss the second plane trailed but released his bomb Heyl shouted us he watched the bomb explode lust at the Northern Edge of the your Wing Man is bomb ing out of he complained to the flight he squirmed 6 his dreading a message from the ground that Friendly troops had been killed by the for the paratroopers were not occupying the strip of Road Edge where the bomb burst Here comes the hairy Lang said Over the planes usually dont shoot it us until the bombing they dont want to give their but when the bombs Start we become the Prim tji they know the cant bomb without e his comment was punctuated by the whistling sound of a Bullet zipping past the planes see what i meant he 3 simulate conditions on Moon Washington Nana air Force now has in operation three Moon then Are enclosures where every is fort is made to duplicate conditions which probably will been countered on the Moons surface if anybody Ever gets we try to it i report just the High vacuum and Tion Levels found at the lunar we believe the Moon ten be covered with an extremely Fine Grain but we ban using our that because of the absence of aia oar atmosphere this powder is bonded into a firm army majors selected Lor conf from 11 10 John 1 John x w me m v h t n w or John ii m1 re Herd b 07 w o or its seas is Crft w Alfred h 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