European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 23, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Oks Boel 78 exercise August 1978 the stars and stripes the wizards who feed 606th toe control flight troops Poge 9 i Byda Synovec Bremerhaven Bureau chief Denmark Sis after the men and women of the 606th tac control flight ate their first meal in the Field Here at the beginning of exercise oks Boel 78 they knew they had a team of culinary Wiz the meals have been so Good All of us will have to go on the air forces fat boy program when we return to Bremer hav said airman Susan Aris a 23 year old radar scope operator from fort the culinary wizards preparing meals for 608th personnel Are members of the air forces 601st consolidated mobility sup port so from this is my first deployment and this is All pretty new to but 1 really enjoy it is Good said Tony a 27yenrold mess shift Leader from Robert a 32yearold mess shift supervisor from said the 606th set up its tent City in a Farmers Field about seven Miles from a resort City on Denmark Northern West orations Noli most we Are serving about 130 Harris adding that All the rations Are dehydrated and must be reconstituted in water before being we get fresh butter and danish pastries we Cook three hot meals a Day for the they dont have to eat he said the 601st was formed at sem Bach last there Are four seven Man mess teams that go to the Field with air Force members of the team with recently were in Italy on another Well go from Here to Sembach and then go again to the Field for the reformer Field said Jimmy j Vii Pic Gua ii and Don i stay around anyone place very Browder said the mess team brought enough rations to last 15 Days in the Field supplies Are brought in by helicopter from the Danes run a Good said office care m6lh information from said Mem Bers of her unit Nave been controlling re offensive and defensive air combat missions during the this is very Good we brought our message processing Center to the held from it allows us to tie into the danish air defense radar we be been very pleased with the coordination with the they have Given us Good Caire carious about americans Creighton a vehicle maintenance supervisor from said that when the unit arrived Here Many of the local inhabitants came out to watch them set up their Field weve also had visitors from the danish air Force and weve taken them around and them our Stone he said there was Only one minor problem with a vehicle during the today Convoy from Bremerhaven to danish air Force an air controller working with the said exercise oks Boel 78 is also Good train ing for danish air we All Are getting a lot of outstanding a lot of missions Are being everything is working Rattenborg adding that missions Are being flown Over the North sea with and German aircraft John bound ignored live ammo to put out fires aboard a earns soldiers medal All he could think was getting the fire put out Story and photo by Tony gei8hauser Germany extinguishing a fire twice on a fully armed tank earned the soldiers medal for a non commissioned officer training John a master gunner with 3rd 33rd Armor in Kirch recently received the medal from 3rd annd div commander Wallace a Nutting in a ceremony held at 1st Bri Gade also in platoon sergeant for Jid b said the event began late in the after noon on after he took his place in Range Tower in the a native of said he and the Range safety officer looked Down on two her Sta filled dream was fulfilled Story and photo by Wyrinda Dixon Germany a grand Mother from never imag ined shed meet an army general in but that is what happened Agnes Kemerer met Paul f 8th inf div at the training area As division personnel went through their annual training Efalua she was treated to a lunch in a Field Given a briefing on the evaluation program and shown a number of military the meeting was the result of a letter pollution suit against thrown out n Jap a million lawsuit charging new York and new Jer agencies and officials with polluting Ocean Waters and killing Marine life has been dismissed by a District the National sea slammers association alleged pollution caused algae growth in 1976 that covered up to 20 Miles offshore algae destroyed Marine Plant life and shellfish and resulted in the collapse of Many industries dependent on Marine the association judge Curtis meaner said the coun lacked jurisdiction on some of the suits be Gal and on other counts the association failed to state a claim upon How Relief could be Gorman sent her when her Myron was selected As the divisions no of the month in the sergeant is a team chief for a multichannel communications Van assigned to a 8th signal in at bad the letter Gorman sent Kemerer told Agaes Terrer Story for her grandchildren her of her sons she returned a letter expressing her gratitude and added that she had never fulfilled her dream of visiting Europe during her world War 11 army she included that if she Ever got to shed like to meet i was so Ive seen several army she who chairs the applied science division of Fred Erick Community i actually climbed on top of one of the tanks it was quite an her son was just As i had seen the general but never gut a Chance to talk to the sergeant said All of a sudden the general wants to talk to me and my his is a private first class clerk typist assigned to the 8th inf dive support come in bad Kreuz Narh career Cut abort the senior Kemerer army career was Cut lasting Only 16 months i joined the nurse although my parents of she said i fell a Strong loyally u my country and wanted to serve it during its time of i also wanted to travel but never further than the former Reserve second lieutenant recalled when i gel Home 1 will have something to Tell my grandchildren especially about the time that grandma met a two Star general in the United states she said with a chuckle platoons of fully loaded tanks ready to fire everything was going he the radio in the Range Tower came alive with a message from the battalion who said his Lank was on fire and that he was evacuating the without rushed from the grabbed a fire extinguisher and ran to the burning the sergeant put out the electrical fire which was close to the tanks ammunition storage according to bound acted without regard to his personal even though there was a distinct possibility the ammo might have exploded in the As bound was extinguishing the the Stanley a native of Wash assigned to co 3rd 33rd was offloading the ammo As fast As he bound assisted Hill As soon As the fire appeared to be the tire started up again and bound put it out this bound found the source of the fire and unplugged the Turret motor which was shorting what goes through a persons mind As he puts out a tire on a burning tank full of live ammunition All 1 could think was get Ting the fire put he it was get Ting late and this fire thing was holding up our i just wanted to get the fire out so we could shoot and get off the the battalion Charles Fegan of Junction credits Bounds Quick and decisive action with preventing a potentially disastrous situation that could have occurred had the tire spread to the  it 10 Tow m army div Punk burning spilled Gas snarls traffic on Ohio Turnpike Ohio i a traffic on a portion of the Ohio Turnpike was devoured to a single Lane Over a mile Long Bridge Fol lowing the explosion of a Tanker the truck overturned on the 182foot High Bridge Over the Cuya hoga River Val Ley in Summit dumping hundreds of Gallons of burning traffic Engi neers said the westbound Bridge one of twin spans and they doubted it would be reopened both Bridges were closed following the no one was Hurt