European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 07, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Saturday May 7, 1977 the stars and stripes Page 9 certain fighter members of the 3rd army div under simulated attack during certain fighter held exercise left photo Lake Shel Ter behind a Low Ridge near Hunfeld Germany. Photo at right shows East German soldiers working on the Fence marking the Border Between East and West Germany. Sis photos by Maie Field exercise took gis near Border by Rick Maze staff writer Vonfeld Germany is during the v corps exercise certain fighter members of the 8th inf div literally had their backs to the Wall with some of the units located less than a mile from the East German of the division s soldiers didst think about their proximity to the Border but Many realized for the first time the Border is s pretty close too close. Everybody talks about it and looks Over there said spec. 4 Daniel Colby 18, of Castle Rock Wash. Colby worked at a Forward area support team site a Little Over a mile from the Border. Another Soldier at the site. Pfc. Danny Billings 21, of Miami said he had goo reason to think about the Border the other night while coming Back from a Shower run the truck we were Riding i took a wrong turn and was headed towards the Border. All of us in Back were Yelling because we weren t looking Forward to being shot or anything. The Driver realized he was going the wrong Way but before he could turn around a military police patrol a itary officials said special my patrols were added along the Border during the Man Euver to make sure trucks did t go the wrong were told if you get lost no matter what you do. Head East. Or is i West said spec. 4 Russell Segovia. 20, of Boise. Idaho. Segovia is Arm a Carrier Driver for the 4th in 69th to Isth inf div troops were the aggressors or enemy in the seven Day exer disc with the 3rd army div participating the 8th inf div s staff spent the exercise at a German Border police Cavern located on the Edge of this Small town about five Miles Northeast of Fulda and about three Miles from the gave us a big speech about the Border before we came out Here letting us know what it was and where it said spec. 4 Patrick Fitzgerald 19. Of May Wood Calif. He said he did t think about the Border much on the exercise but added they Are just As afraid of us As Weare of them but still 1 have no intention of Frankfurt health Check wandering near the division s Field signal Headquarters was located less than a mile from the order and when sol. Jeffery Bell 25, of Baltimore my. Was asked what he thought of being so close he said. I try not to think about other soldiers at the site said the Border was a topic of Dis Cussion at night but the talk was mostly about what the East German soldiers were . Mary Mente 20, of Kingston. N.y., said i think it s like we Are showing off to 52? screened during awareness Days test according to v corps officials the exer Cise involved about 24.000 soldiers. Other units in the exercise were the 17th airfare. V corps artillery and Engineer units the 3rd support come corps Ullh army Cav regt. The 10th air defense arty v corps officials spokesman said it was one of the larg est exercises Ever held by a single corps with units mane vering 24 hours a Day. Byed Reavis staff write Frankfurt Sis the Frankfurt health awareness Days brought s21 people out for screening tests and saw two per sons taken directly to a . Anna t. Norton nurse and projects officer for the health fair called the weekend a Success Norton gave the statistics of fair of the 521 seen during the 19 hours of screening one half were women 79 were less than 16 years old 5 were american civilians who had no connection with the Mil itary 47 had elevated blood pressure very High in a number of cases and 80 per cent of them had no inkling that they had any blood pressure problem 14 had intraocular pressure which can Lead to blindness there were 151 dental referrals. 14 of which were considered serious 42 showed protein in their urine which can indicate a variety of serious organic malfunctions and another two persons turned up with a High glucose count sugar one Man was admitted to the 97th Gen eral Hospital with an apparent heart attack and another taken to the emergency room for an examination of a suspected head injury Norton said. Many people thought enough of the advice they received during the screening to come to the Hospital for further exam Norton said. She said thai col. Robert e. Neimes. Commander of the 97th general Hospital and Frankfurt medical department activity was so impressed by the number of people reached and the results that there is a possibility of having the health aware Ness Days More than once year. Norton said. I m an advocate of going to the people and the employment of preventive Medicine. I was impressed How people stood out in the rain waiting for their turn to be screened. I third the health awareness Days showed that with the support of the Community commander the local health facility and volunteers such As we had in the v corps officers wives club these screen Ings can be carried out with very few of the highly trained personnel. We had six. It s effective preventive Medicine no matter How you look at each other. We re Over Here driving tanks around and they Are Over there watch . 1. C. Fred Barnes of Salt Lake City Utah said. If it weren t a Field training exercise you can be sure we would be worrying about the Border. We arc just too Busy to think about Barnes was the acting sergeant major for the 708th Maint in during the said you can Tell who is inter ested in the Border because those Are the people asking Barnes said he tries to answer All the soldiers questions. Soldiers assigned to the division staff were Able to visit a museum at the police Cavern the last Day of the exercise. The new Border fences were explained to them and the soldiers were told the new East German precautions to keep East Ger mans in their country Cost about one Mil lion do about w20.000 a Kilometre. Sgt. Alex Marcha 21, of Hayward Calif., a military policemen guarding the division rear said i know the Border is there and How close it is. But 1 try not to think about it. 1 live belter that the exercise concluded at noon thurs Day and the units started resuming to their Garrison cities Lale thursday afternoon. Corps officials said Good weather and briefings before the exercise began kept Man Euver damage at a minimum. Brando s sex wife sues for $2 million los Angeles up Anna Kashfi. Former wife of Marlon Brando sued the actor for $2 million charging he broke an agreement promising she could see their son regularly the son Christian Devi now 18, was the subject of an 11-year custody Battle that began when his parents marriage broke up. Brando won custody in 1972, and under a 1974 amendment Kashfi since Remar ried was to be allowed to see him on a regular basis. She charged Brando kept their son on a tahitian Island where Brando spends much of his time
