European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 07, 1967, Darmstadt, Hesse Thursday september 7, 1967 the stars and stripes fag Usa eur announces key officer changes Heidelberg special Sev eral key officer reassignments have been announced by he Usa eur and seventh army. Brig. Gen. Glen Long Vii corps chief of staff will become an assistant division commander of the 3rd army div. Brig. Gen. Roy s. Kelley will succeed Brig. Gen. C. C. Cannon As the Usa eur and seventh army Engineer. Kelley has been Cannon s . Gen. Joseph w. Pezdirtz a brigade commander in the 4tharmd div will become an assistant division commander of that division. Col. George w. Mccaffery assistant Deputy chief of operations he Usa eur and seventh army will become an assistant division commander of the 24thinf div. Col. Verne i. Bowers has been German gift spec. 5 Harold Jones of troop a 3rd so 14tharmd Cav regt sits in the gunner s seat on the training device Given he unit by four German soldiers. Army photo grenadiers give a straight shooter9 by John Flanagan bad Hersfeldt Germany special you just can t Beata device like this for training tank gunners. It s sergeant from 3rd so 14th army Cav regt pointed to the strange looking instrument you know i m really help of this sort is just Short of troop i Soldier staff sgt. Harvey n. Cotham was re Ferring to the latest addition to the 3rd so s training aids for tank gunnery built by Oberfeld Webel e8 Hubertus Weinbren Ner Oberfeld Webel Kurt tog Nino Feld Webel e7 Juergen Gerlich and e6 Bernhardt Benz All of the5th co 51st Panze Grenadier in from Rotenburg on the s amazement was for the German cos who had spent three Days of their leave at the 3rd so s Home building the Trainer and presenting it As a gift of Friendship to the troop i tank ers. The instrument itself stands on three legs and has a bicycle seat mounted for the Are elevating and traversing handles an m22 gun Ner s Periscope and a mount for a .22-caliber Rifle. When the Trainer is used in doors the Rifle is replaced by projector which throws an image of the gunner s sight Reticle onto the target. The instructors thus can determine How Well the gun Ner is tracking or whether he has applied the Correct amount of burst on target. When used outdoors or on a indoor Range German Trace .22 Caliper ammunition May be used allowing the gunner and tank commander to sense the round giving the maximum amount of realism to the Rifle can be fired either electrically or the other German cos were working away at building the Trainer Feld Webel Gerlich donned a Painter s Smock an decorated the troop i class room with a miniature landscape consisting of Woods highways roads and red roofed Village huddled beneath Alpine Moun , who laughingly de scribed himself As a very great artist said that the painted background was t just for dec oration but was to be used in the initial phases of instruct onto allow the gunners to practice tracking and engaging on a fairly realistic terrain. 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Named to succeed Brig. e. Benade As adjutant Gen eral he Usa eur and seventh army. Bowers is presently the Usa eur and seventh army Deputy adjutant general. Col. Darrie h. Richards com Mander of the seventh army support corny s 1st support Bri Gade will become chief of staff of the communications zone Europe. Col. Jack a. Rogers commander of the 32nd army air defense come s 69th arty group will be come chief of staff of v corps. Col. Robert p. Young will re main As commander of the Usa eur eng come provisional. All five colonels Are on the promotion list to brigadier Gen eral. Kaiserslautern Ger Many special col. Glenn p. Ingwersen has assume command of the 24th engr group succeeding col. Johnc. Mattina who has been re assigned to the engr com Ingwersen an assign at the entertainment Center Here. Attendance free of Charles Laughton Adap tation starring Tyrone Power Judith Anderson and Raymond Massey opened in 1952 an toured the . For three years. The play was originally staged in its present form at the Yale drama school in1960. Soldier win medal for Rescue work Fuerth Germany special prompt action in the Rescue of a German has won a Soldier Smedal for a former 4th army div . 4 Ronnie j. Addington he in Frankfurt comes Here from ment in Thailand. Frankfurt special a adaptation of Stephen Vincent Benet s famous work Johnbrown s body will open sept. 20 for a two week run jr., who had been a tank and jeep Driver for cob 2nd in 37th Armor was cited in a Bat Talion review recently for pulling a German Man from a burning automobile last february. Ignoring the threat of a Gaso line explosion Addington successfully freed the Man from Theca and removed him to a Safe , of Winslon Salem n c., returned to the unite states in april. The medal and citation were sent to him after the ceremony. Marne men trap foe or go Kitzinger Germany Spe Cial control this is red. We have seized the aggressor Village and Are securing the area. red this is control. When you have completed securing the Village proceed to area and destroy suspected aggressor missile site. messages like this crackled through Kloster Forest near hear this week As Bravo company from the 1st in 15thfnf. 3rd inf div prepared for expert infantryman badge Eib testing. Candidates from All the Marne division s infantry battalions plus the 3rd up 7th Cav began a month of tests aug. 31. Bravo is scheduled to take the exacting Field tests in mid sep training involved moving two 10-Man patrols from each of the company s line platoons through the Forest for a Day night exercise. A flexible scenario allowed the controlling officer. 1st it. John Hanaberry co co. To introduce objective Sand obstacles at any Point Dur ing the 11-12-hour patrols were completely on their own except for a Grade who accompanied them. Props set up in the Forest served a tangible objectives. The heart of the problem Wasa surface to air missile site with its attendant radar site and nuclear Power Plant. A vietnamese Type Village was built Complete with Straw hut a barbed wire pow compound a Flag and a natural additional problem involved picking up a downed Pilot whose exact position was unknown. The night patrols were similar to the Day version except that the patrols wore dropped off a random Points rather than Start ing from a known base is the keyword for operating a Man Euver such a this said Hanaberry. The Comfort and Well being of the patrols depended on their tactical skill. They carried no rations with them. Around noon they were told to ambush an aggressor motorized Convoy mov ing through their area. The vehicles carried the noon meal and if the Convoy was t captured the men did t eat until the endow the Day. We emphasized guerrilla techniques As much As possible said sgt. . Charles Janeau platoon sergeant. Parties of aggressors from company weapons platoon ambushed and harassed the patrols along Ever stage of their route. The men Learned How to us their maps medics and communications Janeau added. By limiting their water to one can teen and their meals to what they captured they Learned what it s like to survive on limited sup that away Callaway while his radio operator spec. 4patrick Lindsay standing looks on sgt. John Callaway to Hecks his map for the Best possible route to the next objective. In patrol Lias just completed Clearing a vietnamese
