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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Sunday, March 17, 1968

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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 17, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                              Page 8 the stars and stripes official describes Impact Means More flexible defense of says is the Impact approximately 34.000 troops from eur 5.300 tons of part to Vietnam Toh Vui. Washington is e of America s new c5 strategy of the future was described by assistant air Force Secretary Robert ii. Charl Shere. The c5 s tremendous airlift110 ton for 3,000 nautical Miles Means Charles told a chamber of Commerce National affairs seminar that More . Troops can be stationed in the .in the future and rapidly deployed overseas fully equipped As  this Means for our future capability. Can be appreciated whence realize that even before the c5 is operational we Are in 1968 returning approximately 34,00 troop rope to the . And bringing 18,000 dependents Home he  will realize a $75 million annual saying in foreign Exchange while durability to carry out our share of nato defences will remain essentially unchanged. This increased flexibility will be of incalculable value to the ."the Galaxy will be test flown this summer and becomes operational wit the military Airlift command next year. The air Force official also pointed to last year s Airlift of 10,000 men of the army s 101st airborne div with 5,300 tons of cargo to Vietnam to show what the c5 will be Able to do. The 101st airborne movement required 400 flights by Jet transports including the c141, currently the larg est in the air Force. Once the c5 is operational Only 46 c141 troop lift Sor ties and 69 c5 cargo flights will be needed to do the same Job. The capability of the c5 is also of great value in noncombat situations he said since 10 c5s could have done the work of 225 four engine c54s in a Berli Airlift situation. When the new super cargo airplay becomes operational the air Force will be Able to Fly almost every Wen Nfn the army Arsenal even Uip Halo in equipment of an armoured a fees such As the 60-ton m60 main 3 tank he added. Vehicles Are driven l one end and out the other and he Vaphides Crews make the trin in � same aircraft. In T thus Pir whole philosophy of bringing forces into Battle pvn h changed Charles said. For thess time we will be Able to move comb units with full fire Power to any Susi of conflict anywhere in the world Intima frames previously out of the ques arty outfit is readied by Freddie Nuernberg Germany Spe Cial each of the batteries in Vii corps 3rd in 17th arty will have a new member in its rank when the unit takes its army training test att. Known As Freddie Sadac the new member is a computer employed at each artillery Battery Sfire direction Center. Sadac Field artillery digital automatic computer compounds artillery settings automatically in half the time it takes a Soldier to do it. The computer has the ability to remember locations of98 targets nine Forward observer posts five Battery positions and two different Caliper artillery pieces. It can compute All mis Sions for artillery. Data computed by Freddie Forone Mission can be sent to the guns in two thirds the time twill take the round to reach its target. Also target correction data will be returned seconds after the operator places the observer s calculations in the machine. But this is not All that Freddie does a Vii corps artillerymen noted. Freddie can also be use Din Survey to compute traverse triangulation and  Good Survey computer needs Al most an hour to compute such information but Sadac can do it in 15 minutes. The machine is powered by it sown Generator which is separate from the computer. Sadac take sup approximately nine cubic feet and weighs 240 pounds. Its Price tag is $35,000. No collects is Hobby teaches sgt. Iob9 English by Bill Neal staff writer Hanau Germany is have All the is magazines every one since the army started putting them out Back in june 1951," said staff sgt. Willi Seg eth 18th aviation in s motor sergeant Here. The monthly preventive maintenance Magazine published by a. Sgt. Half Mast at it. Knox ky., is sent free to All army units by the army publication Center in Baltimore and postmen look at it and throw it away said Segeth. The is in the top left Cornero the preventive maintenance Magazine simply stands for postscript meaning something in addition to or supplementary to official directive publications explained Segeth. The keynote of the magazines informality in makeup and language and an approach that includes Glamor girls cartoons gag Art and humor. Each Issue carries inform postscript staff sgt. Willi Segeth with collection of is , Damon Wiley see no one haste right of Way when life is a Stoke. I Sarteur fatal accidents i-1 f i c  
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