European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 22, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 the stars and stripes Marth 22, 1961 nato nations use Crete Range to test missiles Heidelberg s p o c i a a army units in Europe have be gun using the new nato missile firing installation on the Island of Crete for the practice firing of their modern missiles. The installation is being used for an Nual service practice by Hawk sergeant and Nike Hercules unit from Usa eur and also from other nations of nato. As Host nation Greece has direct control of the Range and member nations have representatives based at the installation. Practice firings previously were conducted at Mcgregor missile Range . A 6,000mile round trip from Germany and at the guided weapon Range outer hebrides Scotland. Not Only is Crete much closer but it also offers excellent weather practice units Assem ble Check and fire their Crew has a specific time limit in which to Complete their fire series of Check and adjustments. All missiles Are fire Dover the water in a northeasterly direction from the site s launch ing area on Crete s Northern Shore. Polk opens Usa eur Grafe Woehr. Germany is Gen. James h. Polk Usa eur commander in chief officially opened the 1968 us a eur Small arms matches Here thursday at the seventh army training Center. Before firing the first shutdown Range Polk complimented the 4th army div s 1st in 94tharty, for work in preparing the ranges for the remarked that the United states has always Beena great nation of firing will be conducted forthe two major team trophies the Usa eur infantry trophy rid the National pistol trophy. Daily trophies will be awarded to individuals in the open and new shooter will be qualified to compete in the All army matches at it. Benning ga., in ceremonies will be conducted March 28 in Post theater. It. Gen. John a. Heintges Deputy Sarteur commander will award the major subordinate com mands of Usa eur have teams entered in the matches. They Are v and Vii corps Usa eur and seventh army troops a r in y engr come com a seventh army support come 3rd army div 3rd Iri div 4th army div and 8th Law div. Gen. Roberts to Alaska Washington is . Francis j. Roberts a strategic planning officer for shape, being transferred to the alas Kan come in late May the army announced. Scoring and evaluation is con ducted by a multinational team under the control of supreme has Allied Powers Europe shape. Ili ghost in five Yoars re surge in feb. February was for enlistments Heidelberg is the Best month on record in spokesman for the Usa eur adjutant general reported that a total of 1,631 men in Usa eur units were reenlisted during the month. Although this figure represented Only 87.9 per cent of the objective of 1,856, it was the highest number of men to re up As far Back As records Are kept five years. The closest month to february s figure was april 1967 when 1,610 men wore re enlisted. For the first eight months of Cal year 68, Usa eur enlistments lining 1,453 ahead of the same period inthe previous year. A officers attributed the increase in to the Active interest taken in the program by Gen. James h. Polk Usa eur and seventh army commander in chief. Polk has repeatedly urged his subordinate commanders to push reenlistment and on visits to units Polk frequently questions soldiers on the reenlistment program. Musical who s who twin Reed Lien run a Solo session by John Kruege staff writer Wiesbaden is the us afe band has own gemini program the identical 21-year-old twins Joe and Jim Nuzzi from Warren first class airmen Are in orbit As freedmen sax an clarinet with the marching band. Joe the elder by 10 minutes Toots the sax while Jim double son clarinet and sax. There s also other ways of Tell no them apart. Although not see ing them together and without their musical instruments can first classes Joe left and his twin brother Jim Nuzzi blow up a is Gates Auto Din offers fast comma link by Ray Wrights a Ramstein Bureau chief Ramstein Germany is a Flash message generated at the Pentagon can now be received at Ramstein air base with a time delay of Only 12seconds. Such Speed of communication became possible with the open ing this week of the Ramstein terminal of the defense communications system automatic digital network normally condensed to pcs . W. T. Douthwaite jr., 26th tactical reconnaissance win commander who presided at opening ceremonies said Thimau toxin multimedia terminal first of kind to become full operational in Europe is part of a world wide system designed to provide rapid and accurate com tributary station Here has an ism computer which pro Vides a duplex operation with automatic error and Channe controls using Independent and simultaneous two Way 2135th communications so Cen eur arcs. Commanded by it. Col. F. D. Tap pin will operate this newest Linkin the air Force operated jux ration of air Force segment of the world wide network provides More efficient control of air Force weapons systems mater Iel and personnel. Over 12 Mil lion cards or their equivalent can be processed daily. The system links More than300 air Force bases Materiel areas depots contractors another authorized agencies into a single communications , the pcs Auto Din will serve Over 1,000 . Government subscribers throughout the world. Speed accuracy reliability and Security were considered of Paramount importance during the Early stages of developing the Auto Din system so far As Speed is concerned our channels now operate at any where from 60 to 4800 words per minute Wpm with 200 to 1600wpm being most prominent said maj. Ward s. Randolph chief of telecommunications operations for the 2135th communications so. Within the Auto Matic switching centers 3200wpm circuits Are used while internal processing equipment operates at 55,000 words per Sec error detection codes and correction arrangements which insure that each time a message has been transferred it will be received correctly at the receiving Point guarantee a High degree of accuracy according Tom. Sgt. Anthony w. Huncy nco1c of pcs Auto Din operations. High reliability is insured by using the Best available components and equipment items Haney said adding that reliability takes on added significance when the system Engineer must assure that should a Power fail ure or surge occur no part of any message in storage or processed May be lost or pcs Auto Din uses the Lin encryption concept to guarantee Security Randolph Suid. Synchronous crypt equipment permanently installed at each end of the leg permits handling Classi fied traffic Between any Points inthe network without prior encryption action All traffic being encrypted during transmission. The system also provides Means of detecting and prevent ing the transmission of any classified message to an unsecured Channel. Cause real confusion friends an acquaintances attest. Joe recently began parting Hij hair to add another distinguish ing characteristic. Jim Stuj brushes his Black Wavy locks straight Back. Either Joe is Cut Ting his hair Shorter or losing it faster but the fact seems to be that Jim has More to show on his Scalp. However Joe has the Edge on height 5-Llj to 5-8-2, weight,1 183 to 160, and shoe Sie 10 to at birth each weighed 4h pounds. Their differences in size began when they were about 5, the boys recalled their Mother having told them. Mrs. Nuzzi certainly qualifies As an expert on twins. She has another set at Home a 5-year-Oldboy and girl. And the family on oth sides italian has had a history of twins at least every generation there s also some cousins who Are triplets. Asked if they d just possibly be tempted to take out insurance policies on the Chance of having twins or More in their on families when married the lads re plied in unison you know when they finish up their air Force Tours in two years the Nuzzio plan on going into Busi Ness together As women hair stylists although Joe eventually Hopes to obtain a commercial Pilot s License. He already has his private studied at a cosmetology school before entering the air Force and Jim plans to stay on in Germany for about six months after getting out of service to work in a Salon twins the boys fed they have a Good gimmick win for them As businessmen. Even though Joe does some Commer Cial flying the Brothers from the Buckeye state Attree that Jim has the better business head. Among the , Joe is known As a free spender with a gift of ."they have also found they can be in different parts of a build ing and then when they meet find themselves humming the same tune on exactly the same s really weird Jim con taking tests in school they would be sitting on t u opposite Side of the room and still come up with the same Rig and wrong have the same likes in girls and have even dated our twins. Otherwise it s first e""1 first serve because tin los found they can Yot away Atwith least for a couple dates substituting for one another in squirting fair Young ladies in Basic training Triu ions became so mixed up ,j,Hud to behave or both jul Tei blamed
