European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 14, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse Thursday september 14, 1978 the stars and stripes Page 9 8th inf div finds pegasus7 Best Aid by Jim Coles ii staff writer Baum older Germany is one invention created because of Little Money resources and training areas is military leadership game called Pega sus said capt. Jim Hanson Pegasus project officer at the Cardinal Point ii training exercise , of Cuya hoga Falls Ohio and he and he co 8th inf Day said Pegasus is a new Battle simulation game targeted at brigade and battalion level this is the first Large scale use in Europe of the nearly one year old training was developed by the combined arms training activity at for Leavenworth kan., to train combat arms officers in tactical Field operations. It simulates actual Battlefield conditions without involving Field senior officers play Pegasus unit cos and Junior officers take part in the major training exercise. The game s rules Are the result of re search into what happens to a unit and its equipment under a variety of Field conditions according to Hanson. Pegasus has its own game Board Large 1/10,000 scale map. Chips with situations printed on them and Dice Are used for the Chance elements. Friendlies and Hostiles match wits and Chance ele ments on the Board. The players Are Gener ally company Grade officers acting As the battalion staff s eyes. Realism is brought into the game by having a Field Headquarters consisting of the battalion or brigade commander and his staff actually on the ground represented by the game Board map. The play ers and the Field unit Are connected by actual radio communications. The players take turns of 12-minute durations to make their moves. Results of the move Are then radioed tothe Small group in the Field who must react to it or follow instructions from the game s results Hanson of the players Here maj. Richard Adams executive officer of the 8th Avia Tion in at Mannheim Germany said this is the Best Aid i be seen for this kind of training since i be been in the army. I really excited about maj. Winston Sanford assistant division chemical officer of the 8th inf div and one of the controllers of the game added this game allows us to do things that Are no normally done in training exercises. We took the Basic game which is not even in the inventory yet and modified it to suit the european environment. We also added the newest weapons the army has to the game. All the known information about those and other weapons capabilities we reworked into the game rules. This gives our players a Chance to Getan idea of what those weapons can do in our environment before they Ever get their hands on is some artificiality in the game but we be worked hard to minimize that. The rules Are based on observed combat copter catches fire Over crowded Washington Road Washington a a Navy Utility helicopter caught fire Over commuter crowded highways but landed on the Pentagon helipad where firemen extinguished the Blaze without injury to four crewmen and a passenger. Capt. Robert Bowen a Pentagon spokes Man said the Navy h-3 helicopter caught fire while on its Way to refuel after Dis charging Navy passengers near the Penta gon. The helicopter had flown the Passen Gers from the Norfolk va., naval air said the fire was entered in the engine and transmission. Government workers said it occurred As the helicopter was climbing Over an interlocking network of highways running past the Pentagon. Those roads Are choked with automobile sat about the time the fire occurred. Situations taking into account All aspects of warfare ground air Armor artillery added that during the Cardinal Point ii exercise it was discovered that som units had different standing operating procedures from the rest of the division which created communications and operating problems. Pegasus helped us find those problem Sand work out solutions to them. The game is limited Only by your imagination. Youdon t even have to go outside your com Pound area to play it. It s a Cost effective Way to get High Quality training for our staffs. They get a real workout when they play this. A workout they can t get another Way Short of a full scale a similar game for cos and Junior offi cers has been in the army inventory for some time Hanson said. Oktoberfest comes in september Liis year s oktoberfest opens i Munich on this coming sunday and the organizers of one of the world s biggest Beer busts Are Rushing to get ahead on All the construction necessary to hold the thirsting throngs. Here a Beer Hall fixes its facade and gets itself ready for the annual cry take me to your liter is photo red Grandy new Type of training for riflemen is learn to shoot Down aircraft Baum older Germany is one of the More expensive lessons Ameri cans Learned in Vietnam was that Soldier with rifles can shoot Down planes. That lesson is being applied to a new Type of training called Small arms against aircraft Sara that was first exhibited during the Cardinal Point ii exercise Here. The exercise part of the army training evaluation program Artel was sponsored by the 8th inf div to test men equip ment and several relatively new training Sara training the infantry sol Diers Here Learned about Strong Point defensive positions new approaches to nuclear biological and chemical training Pegasus leadership game training and realistic training for combat situations us ing soldiers As pos and casualties. Of All these types of training the one the soldiers liked Best was Sara according to . Steven Sparks one of the Range cos. Sparks a Clovis n.m., native now As signed to he Btry 1st in 59th air defense arty said the whole idea is to teach the Guys How to put up a Wall of Lead from their Small arms and have the plane Fly into Good hits will bring Down almost any kind of aircraft.". This Type of air defense Sparks said is most effective against helicopters and Low flying fighters. The radio controlled drone planes use to practice on have about a three foot Wing Span and Fly at 100 real Miles per hour about 200 Yards in front of the firing positions. Sparks said the men Are generally pretty beat when they get to this Range. They be been on a night defense operation until about 3 . And have had Little sleep when they spend a few hours of the morning in concurrent training aircraft identification learning about the air defense equipment Here in Europe and getting ready to . Mike Creighton of Mayfield by the concurrent training no said these Guys Are infantry and Are attuned to infantry. It just amazes them to hear about Vul can guns that spit out 3,000 rounds per min Ute and about radars and missiles. The Guys Are really tired when they a kidnapped italian escapes captors Rome a pier Felice Filippi 23-year-old son of an industrialist who was kidnapped near his Piedmont Home on june 18, has escaped from his captors police freeing himself from his Kidnap pers Felice reported the location of the country House in Stella near Savona on the italian Riviera where he had Bee kept prisoner since his abduction. Report ing to the scene police arrested the Crimi nals. Rive and they Gripe a lot at first but pretty soon they re awake and interested. Hardly anyone goes to sleep training on the Sara Range come As company sized groups and Are broken up into platoons for their concurrent train ing and sgt. Daniel Mccay of Augusta ga., top Soldier of co. A 2nd in 28th inf said this is the most realistic training i be Ever seen. It s platoon s pfc. George Frieberg a los Angeles native said if you gotta Goto the Field you might As Well learn some thing and i be Learned a lot on this Frieberg s group was credited with seven hits on two drone targets an unusually High number of hits according to member of the second platoon sgt. Patrick Graves a Kansas City mo., native said of the training this is different from what we usually do. It s been hard but a lot of fun. I m probably getting out of the army soon but this has been Thebes training i be seen since i be been Sparks said that All soldiers in Cardina Point ii pass through the Sara Range but that co b was the first unit in which Al three platoons shot Down the targets. Pass or fail for this training does not de Pend on bringing the target Down but whether the target was hit. The Soldier shoot at the targets with rifles and Light machine guns no heavy weapons Are Al Lowed on the Range Sparks said. Jim Coles i
