European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 03, 1967, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 the stars and stripes i pick kill training All army Basic posts plan to use by guns tuesday october 3, 1967 by Tom Stewart Washington a the army s new secret weapon is the by 12 of the army posts that conduct Basic training will Star putting by rifles in the hands of trainees in december. Three thousand Are on order a spokesman for the Continental army command con arc said. These Are honest to Pete a guns virtually the same As kids use for linking at cans and bottles. To change a boy sized gun to Man size a longer Stock i provided. The army thinks trainees House by guns have a better Chance of surviving face to face encounters with the enemy in Why by guns it s the cheapest thing we know of that la do the Job says maj. Lawrence Takahashi marksmanship training specialist at con arc. And of course Cost is always the thing that determines whether it will Fly or the Job is to train men to Dothe right thing instinctively in a very special combat situation the sudden appear Ance of an enemy at extremely close Range. This happens All too often i Vietnam. A i rounds a turn in the path and finds himself 50yards or less from an approach ing North the i freezes in panic hell probably be dead a moment later. If he keeps his Cool and takes careful aim no matter How Quick chances Are hell still get fire is time consuming maybe just in Milli seconds a u t it s time consuming said it. Col. Harry j. Bohlen a unit training office rat the Pentagon. So in a tight spot like this the army does t want the Man to aim. That s where a new com Bat technique called Quick kill comes in and with it thebe gun. For most of a year now Quick kill methods have been tested at a handful of training stations. The trainee probably feel ing a Little silly watches while an instructor tosses a three inc Metal disc in the air. The by gun s sight has been remove but the Man swings it up and gets off a fast about an hour said Takahashi the average Man is hit Ting that disc in midair about 10 to 15 feet away eight times out of 10. Then they Start shooting at a smaller disc about two inches and pretty soon he can hit that nearly every the usual reaction on the part of the Man is amazement that he can pull off this trick shot stuff Takahashi said. Some keep practising on their own time eventually hitting tossed coins and aspirin still bubbling with Confidence the Man gives up Hibb gun and returns to using his regular training Rifle the m14. He has to keep using Theno aim method while shooting at Man shaped Silhouette target that pop up from the ground at close Range. The m14 s sights Are taped to assure that he does. The principle behind Quick kill is that when a person Points his Finger at something the object his Finger and his Eye fall into perfect it All happens instinctively. Quick kill represents an at tempt to make the Rifle an Extension of the Man s pointing Finger. Cooling off after returning from a patrol to their base Albien Hoa South Vietnam a 173rd airborne brigade handler and his dog Cool off in a Stream. A photo but he never meets subjects his paintings get great exposure by Jerry Buck new York a the artist whose paintings probably get the greatest exposure inthe world never gets to sign his creations and he has never Meany of his subjects. He is Heinz Drude who paint the massive movie billboards that dominate building Wallsend rooftops in times Square where More than 10 million China s Hydrogen bomb this official communist Chi Nese photo purportedly shows a Cloud rising after the explosion last june of China s Hydrogen bomb. Up people pass every week. His latest creation is a six Story High Block Long spectacular for or. Dolittle in which a giant Rex Harrison sits astride a Giraffe. The Bill Board which towers Over the West Side of Broadway from 45th to 46th streets is said to be the world s largest. Drude 44, a Small Blond native of Hamburg Germany came to this country in 1956. A few months later he joined Art Kraft Strauss the company that erects Many of the billboard sin times Square. I once painted Rita Hay Worth and just her Eye was nine feet Long he said. Julie Chris tie s head is 37 feet High in an other advertisement for far from the madding sometimes his paintings get Quick results. When he painted a rear View of Jane Fonda inthe nude people complained. So we covered up part of i with Canvas and let it go like that he recalled. Another time for the movie naked Maja he had just gotten the nude painting up when the police drove up and told him to cover it. It was Al most a re enactment of what happened More than a Hundred years ago when Spanish artist Francisco Goya painted the original naked Maja using the Duchess of Alba As his Model. The Duke objected to the painting of his wife and demanded that Goya paint on som clothes. Goya substituted a clothed copy and preserved the original. But Drude spent the rest of his Day painting on diaphanous gown. Drude has never met any of the hundreds of movie stars he has painted. He generally work from a Small picture. For or. Dolittle he used a record jacket As his guide. He draws squares on the Small picture tomake it easier for him to copy in Large size. The lettering an backgrounds for the billboards Are done by other artists. He often paints the pictures in the shop of Art Kraft Strauss but sometimes he has to do it on a scaffold High above times Square. That s when it s difficult he said. You re too close to judge your work and you can step Back. You be got to go Down and look from across some of the paintings repainted in reverse on Glass and Are Bac lighted such As one heis doing for the film Drude said his severest critic is his wife who comes in about once a month from their Home in port Washington on Long is land. Shell look at one and say. That s a Good Job or Shell say Heinz you did t dose Well " at Home his Hobby is what else painting. He does por traits but his favorite subjects horses. Is he bothered by the fact that his creations never last beyond the run of a movie Well no really he said but some times i when they take Down thrones on Glass and Wash them off i think it s a Hollywood places russian in to orbit Hollywood a a russian has infiltrated the Crew of an american spaceship fear not. He is merely a new Crew member of the Star trek television series of the National broadcasting co. As executive producer Gene Roddenberry tells it he got a letter from a writer for the soviet newspaper pravda. The writer wanted russians represented on the space show since they were the first to rocket into space. He s dead right said Roddenberry i was Ensign Chekov is now a regular member of the Crew. European edition col James w. Campbell Usa .,.,., editor in Cal tilt. Col f. S. Michael jr., Usan Deputy Arnold Burnett a Managlia Edl Taj Elmer d. Prank production Manama Henry 8, Epstein ,.,. Circulation m0tr an unofficial newspaper of and for tha . Armed of brei printed Dally at Darmstadt Germany under the auspice of the office of. The chief of Public affair. He Usa eur. Military address the Star and Stripe Apo 09176. International malls the stars and stripes Postrach 1034, 61-Parmstadt, Germany. Tell Gale Shelnut c prefix 06155 2071 j m Darmstadt air strip prefix 237 741. 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