European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 30, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                              The stars and stripes Page 7 for aeromedical lift of a Finete new Hospital plane Fri a " ? a so in will min a he first c9 Nightingale bearing the familiar red Cross will be delivered to the military Airlift come in August. Of. _. N Iii in. R a  r i re 4ft walking patients Scott fab 111. Special the twin let c9 Nightingale the first military trans port with a specially designed Interior for i shifting the S.C. and wounded has Bee displayed at the Mcdonnell Douglas corp. Facility at Long Beach  first of eight c9s purchased for the military Airlift come will be delivered tothe command s 375th aeromedical Airlift fling Here in August. The total contract award was $28.7  the aircraft essentially a dc9 Commer Cial aircraft will be used by Mac to trans port patients within the United states. C9s will replace the propeller driven c118 lift masters and c131 Samaritans now m  part in the ceremonies were rep. A Mendel Rivers d-s.c., chairman of the House armed services committee  m. Estes jr., Mac commander and Donald w. Douglas jr., president of the corporation s Douglas aircraft  air Force officials participating in the ceremonies were maj. Gen. Harr Goldworth aeronautical systems division commander it. Gen. Kenneth Fletcher air Force surgeon general and Brig. Gen. Harold Funsch Mac command  new jets will make a tremendous Impact on Mac s ability to move S.C. an wounded throughout the Domestic system Estes  addition to the Speed and added com fort for the patients the c9 has several refinements S.C. As special care areas which can be used for isolation or intensive care. The c9 can carry 40 walking patients 01 30 litters or a combination of each. Wila maximum patient Load the to Tail be cruises at about 520 Miles per hour. Range will be More than 2,000 Miles with a cruise ceiling of 35,000 feet. The patient loading ramp permits loading and unloading of patients. The built in ramp will be especially useful a reloading patients at Small airfields when proper equipment is not  Normal Crew will consist of a no Copilot two flight nurses and three Medica  award of the contract followed an intensive study aimed at modernizing the present aeromedical Fleet of 20 propeller driven aircraft some of which entered the air Force More than 14 years ago. Cos pm to be used As officers it. Belvoir a. Special top army planners Are greatly increasing their tap on the experience of senior noncommissioned officers and other enlisted personnel a . Army combat developments come cd spokesman has announced. A recent cd memorandum distributed throughout the continent spanning command net work states that enlisted personnel Are often overlooked Asa source of experience that can contribute to the army s develop mental  paper strongly encourages do program coordinators to Senco and enlisted personnel As action officers in projects re ated to their specially areas. Although cd deals primary with the army s future our banners have known All along hat their projections or Blue rings must still be grounded Inland reinforced by the practical know How and insights of experienced combat personnel. The enlisted and noncommissioned ranks of course represent the great majority of the army s experienced forces the spokes Nan  memorandum also Clari fies the procedure for requesting the temporary assignment of senior noncommissioned officers and other enlisted men to cd for service in specified advis Ory and action positions. Such requests Are submitted by cd staff members charged with forming study and evaluation teams to the department of the army which then takes action to provide cd with experienced  is generally believed that this clarification of request procedures will increase the ire cos with math skill Are sought it. Belvoir a. Is he armed forces is looking or noncommissioned officers with an ability in mathematics and physics to spend a year studying the military applications of nuclear Power at the my s Engineer reactors group Here. The group trains Crews to run nuclear Power plants Here at Ort Greely Alaska aboard the the army s Flatinger Plant and s u p p o r t the Jiavis nuclear Power Plant a Mcmurdo sound Antarctica. Servicemen returning to the in Lefoi e aug. 26 and meet a the requirements of a 350 May apply for training in this relatively new. Field through Cha a new Field � " Annels or by writing directly group s chief instructor. Quency of no and pm staffing. As  fab Davis eased i filipino tension _. La. Ofifi a was then winding n financial procedures by Patrick j. Killen Clark air Force base Philippines up when . Benjamin 0. Davis or. Came to the Philippines a year ago to command the 55,00.0 men of the 13th . Air Force he found that unpleasant relation existed Between american servicemen and filipinos. Philippine labor leaders and politicians were upset because filipinos received lower pay than americans doing the same Job for the . Air Force. American servicemen wore being mugged and cheated regularly in Angeles City just out Side the main Gate to Park air Force base 60 Miles North of  philippine government believed that . Officials were doing Little to Stop the flow of american goods from the Mili tary Post exchanges into us philippine Black Market. Into this environment came stateside service his Gen Davis the highest ranking negro in the . Military serv ice and he now admits hews alarmed at some of the things i  Davis now 55, will not walkabout it. But fellow officers say he received the silent treatment during his four years in the .military Academy at West Point. His father was the first negro brigadier general one Star in the United states but american military forces were segregated in to Black a n Lwhite units in those Days including the time when you Gdavis was a Cadet later a lieutenant. During world War ii when he was a combat Pilot the Youn negro officer often found him self assigned to segregated quarters living apart from White from this racial background Lus fellow officers say Dav brought to the Philippines an understanding and sense of direction which have improved relations Between the american Mil itary and the  general a tall slender Nuudi talked with up in an interview before his transit  to Mac Dill air Force b Usein Florida where he will so As Deputy commander of us . Strike command. He said lie first hear.1 of the trembles i � the philippine when a group of filipino Jonir Al to spoke to him in Koi Ca in 1966. He sup an assignment As chief of staff of the United nation command. Confirmation was not Long in coming after he arrived Here. Davis and col. Phillip c. Raw ins 51, a Friendly talkative Man rom Oklahoma arrived at Clark Field last july. A few weeks Ter thousands of Demontra ors converged on the main Gate o protest the firing of More than 350 filipino House boys and mess attendants who had los their jobs because of a change it. Gen. Benjamin 0. Davis or. N financial procedures. I attacked the philippine Merican relations problem be cause i am fully convinced that . Military men Are much More effective if they have Happy relations with the Host coun try Davis said. The task was a is Able  air base employs 1,0 w filipinos and is he. Bit single business in Pampan a province a fanning Rik noted for its resurgent communist link movement. Clark is the largest . Airbase outside the United  contains an average daily population of 60.000 people. It is so vast that Security police Rule horses and motorbikes and us helicopters to patrol the 3a of perimeter Fence which Sui rounds the main base area. Daily incidents Wen re ported most of Plum involve prolonged searches of v. Servic Emeny filipino ans in one episode the T Force put �1 and v a commissioned officers c u All philippine Millionth in Down. A sigh la l pass without trouble. P to i  of  t a i j � to Hie inside