European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 28, 1969, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 the stars and stripes tuesday january 28, 1969 choppers play valuable role in Vietnam War T \. I. A a editor s note the1,000th . Helicopter was shot Down by the enemy Las week. Behind that Bald Statis tic lies a revolution in guerrilla warfare. The Story is told by John. Wheeler a sea soned associated press correspondent in Vietnam. A by John. Wheeler Saigon a the enemy machine gunner who shot Down and destroyed the 1,000th .helicopter of the Vietnam War saturday probably will be promoted and decorated As a valiant destroyer of american imperialist but the High losses cannot dim the fact that without the chopper the Allied command would have needed several Hun dred thousand More combat men to put them in the same place they Are the top generals Down to Small unit commanders in the Boondocks the v i e w is the same. The revolution wrought i guerrilla warfare1 by the Heli copter has been the Only effective answer to Date to enemy in 1968, the 2,500 helicopters in Vietnam flew More than six million missions carrying Over a million men in and out of Bat the zones lugging More than one million tons of supplies and carrying More than a Quarter Mil lion wounded soldiers and civil ians to rear area hospitals and Aid deaths in helicopters stand just under 1,300. Only portion of these men died in the 1,000 downed and destroyed air Craft. Several times this number of helicopters have been shot Down and later recovered patched up fit Bush i or f Strong and sent Back into is noteworthy that during the same be find since Deneem Ber 1wl when american hell copters first arrived in Viet Nam More than 1,300 have been destroyed in ground attacks and shellings of airfields and in Nort copters att gun Ftp tvs i 3ti " borne rocket artillery snip Al can would be impossible to Esti the enemy but gives the assault mate the number of Allied lives ing infantrymen and their hell saved who gunships break tip a a Large Clear Jet. .,-.� j. 1 of. U Joe Lar 4iul i. To. A to enemy . 1st air Cav div make in most extensive us hath of heu has been said that the larg est proportion of the my Deco rated men in Vitam a i me from medical eve 6wo% tints. Doctors say largely because combat accidents that took 893lives when the even then obsoleteh2l flying bananas arrived in Vietnam the enemy often tried to fight them off with Home made rifles pistols and even a occasional Shotgun. Now the enemy has an array of More sophisticated antiaircraft an operation in the a Shau Valley area in 1968, More than 130 helicopters were shot Down in one Pentagon says the Cost of an average helicopter shot Dowland destroyed is about $250,000. The total value of helicopter destroyed in Vietnam is around $580 million. This compare with $5 billion Worth of All air Craft destroyed in the . Army the biggest user of helicopters Here the chopper is an expensive and sophisticated truck. Most Are flown by Young and specially recruited warrant choppers give ground troops the wide ranging mobility they need to Hunt the elusive a unit or even a City is hit by the enemy and in trouble is the helicopter that brings in reinforcements that often save Battlefield situation. Rapid technological develop ment has produced the helicopter gunship. carries Gatling machine guns rocket pods and 40mm rapid fire Grenad launchers. Tobacco states gaining vital committee seats by Carl p. Leubsdorf Washington a As Preye Congress prepares to grapple again with the question of whether to warn smokers anew of possible health hazards members from tobacco producing states Are moving in in creasing numbers onto the committees that will shape the legis lation. As a result of four addition this month the six major Tobac co states will have seven of 35members of the House com Merce committee and three of19 members of the Senate com Merce committee. But the newcomers Den that this is the reason they sought assignment to these committees which have Broad Juris diction including transportation and communications plus health in the Case of the House group and maritime affairs for the Senate. My interest is in the Mer chant Marine said sen. Wil Liam b. Spong jr., d-va., who hails from the port City of ports Mouth. Sen. Howard h. Baker jr., r-tenn., said he is interested in aviation transportation an communications. I got some encouragement from the tobacco Industry to get on the Commerce committee Baker said but. I got on the Commerce committee de spite that not because of in the House two vacancies went to reps. Fletcher Thomp son r-ga., and Richardson Preyer . Said that of course tobacco matters have some interest but i m not going on the committee to vote against everything that would regulate tobacco Holdover members of the two committees include sen. Ernest f. Rollings d-s.c., and Blanton d-tenn., Dan Kuykendall r-tenn., Davis Iii d-va., James. Broyhill r-n.c., and Alber Watson . Only Kentucky of the six largest producers is currently unrepresented. A provision in the current la barring state regulation and preventing the Federal Trad commission from requiring health warnings in advertising expires july 1. The tobacco Industry wants these restriction extended. Unless Congress acts theft might take the action threatened in 1965 to require health warnings in advertising or May go even further. In a series of recommendations sent to Congress last sum Mer the Etc urged that cigarette advertising be either barred from radio and television or severely restricted. urged also that the warning statement on packs be extended to advertising and be broadened to say cigarette smoking is dangerous to your health an May cause death from cancer and other the current warning says merely cigarette smoking May be Hazard Ous to your fire 48 rockets with explosive warheads one a time or in heavy gunship attack is an awesome thing. The Gatling guns can fire up to 1,200 7.62mm slugs & minute. Helicopters also swish Over the Jungle with people sniffers t6 spot enemy units by the ammonia ions humans give Oft i to operate 1ft.reffitltrtlons and often direct r 4vjw/.p or a win orders Are repeatedly violated of this helicopter evacuation by chopper Crews because fhe spree Titae of men dying someone on the ground needs from wounds after reaching a Kielp. A chopper Pilot with the Hospital has been Cut for Otto 4.41st air cavalry who was shot per cent m the korean War to Down seven times in one month less than 1 per cent in discussing helicopter War fare and us costs. Yoe com Mander of one hello asked i when you was officially praised for his heroics. The most highly praised of Al helicopter Crews Are those who pull medical evacuation Means flying to a Battle Field Many times while the fighting still goes on Landing an often unarmed ship and shoot r uni about the Cost of helicopters How can you measure that against a Cou ple of thousand american boy walking the streets of their Home towns right now instead of being dead and burled Meuse ,, sing Back into the sky to carry vein Teaa aim uni now ecu using zone with a of Renlian blinds would Edno the rear they got to a. Hospital too late letters to the editor this is in reference to the reprint of the look column by Nana correspondent Leo Rosten Jan. 3 is. Rosten seems to be quite cutout with the youth revolution and Well he might. But the specious reasoning he uses to Tebutt the Columbia students Little More than the homiletics of a frustrated older generation. His rebuttals rarely speak to the issues raised Andin reality Only confuse those issues. I have the sneaking suspicion that the article appeared Only As a sop to the majority of a readers who care Little for substance but Only for platitudes in support of their preformed prejudices against the likes of the columbian demonstrators rioters if you pre Fer. Rosten casts aspersion on the sincerity of the student by say ing that Hitler too was sincerity is indeed an is sue. Heinous As Hitler s crime were they would be More so had he perpetrated them As Alark rather than from ideological perversion. In the same Token the Stu Dent s sincerity shows a substantive interest in the country and its goals professed and actual this goes far deeper than looking for just another Way to spend the summer. The student s concern sincerity is indicative of the deep an widespread feeling that there is a National malaise which should be noted by one and All. Rosten belittles the student for calling for the destruction of a system which has no tended unemployment exploitation and War. He says Hospi tals Haven abolished disease but we Don destroy them. Notto the Point or. Rosten if the political system has the Means to eliminate unemployment and exploitation but consciously refuses to do so and in actuality pursues policies designed to perpetuate them then the very least a Cal for the destruction of the sys tem should be Analysed for Validity and not dismissed with a non also blames the student for not offering an alternative to the system he wishes abolished. A Point for you , Only a True revolt tonary should have to offer an alternative. The average demonstrator and protestor need Only Call attention to the abhorrent conditions to be effective or useful implicit in the protest is the solution the establishment has the wherewith All to effect the changes. If one wants the War stopped he protests the governments fully capable of stopping if chooses to do so. The Only question is whether the protestor strikes close enough to the conscience of the regime to effect a change. A. Point to remember herein that when protest is ineffective that is when do snot produce the desired changes even in a society in which protestors freely recklessly and Iri transiently Are Al Lowed to attack the establish ment then the protest is liable to turn revolutionary. Recent events support this theory. Pro test does not diminish with in effectiveness takes to the barricades. Establishment take note or. Rosten derides the Stu Dent for saying the society is interested Only in High Price Sand High profits. However the Price fix is indeed in an most industries take a profit far above the fair return to the capital they invest. He takes the student to task forsaking that the Middle class exploits the unemployed. Sweeping statement indeed but or. Nixon was elected Par Lyon a Middle class Promise to end inflation and As almost any professor of economics will Tell you the Cost of stable prices is unemployment. In a paranoiac stance Roste excuses hit generation for injustices not our making frictions not our Choice Dilem Mas that history presented admittedly the problems his generation encountered were and Are great. The fault lies not in having failed to solve them but in failing to approach them in Good Faith. is a question of will not of deed hopefully the same will not be said of the current generation20 years hence for they do appear to have the will to apply fresh solutions if not the Best reasoned solutions Lea stones not couched in the platitudes of the . Rosten s words can just As Well be applied to him Asto the student you confuse rhetoric with reasoning. Assertions Are not facts. Passion is no substitute for Are no is time we All realized older generations and present alike that our problems Are enormous and May not be open to Solu Tion All either by revolutionary reactionary or progressive Means. will take great Deal of intellectual and moral Effort merely to define the problems and much More to solve them. is not enough to act out cliches As the Stu dents do As a doctor who upon seeing a malignancy rushed dramatically in with a meat Leaver to chop away. But equally As foolish is or. Rosten whose platitudes and evasions Are no More helpful than the patient who sees the surgeon approach the cancer with Scal Pel in hand and in transiently says not on my body Youdon 1st . James d. Chipps Gunzburg Germany european edition . Col. F. 6. Michael jr., u8afeditor in chief Mert Proctor. Managing editor Elmer d. Frank. Production Manas Henry 8, Epstein. Circulation manager tilt newspaper an authorized publication of the department of defence for u.8, armed Force Overe Eai. The stare and Stripe i pull shed by the Corn Mander in chief . European command in support of the command internal information program of the department of defense. Content of the Star and Stripe do not N.C. warily reflect the official View of the . Government or the department of Defene the appearance of do play in thai newspaper concerning commercial publication Doe not cont Lute an endorsement by the department of defence or any of component. 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