European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 15, 1980, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes monday september 15, 1980 autumn forge gets into High gear by Ann Keays autumn Force editor More than 200.000 nato troop arc taking part in on annual series of exercises collectively known As autumn forge 80 which began in August and will run until mid november. The Maneu vers coordinated National and Multi National exercises show the Western Alliance s common efforts to in crease its defense and deterrence abilities said an official at supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe shape the Mili tary Arm of nato. The autumn forge Maneu vers began in 1975 under then supreme Allied com Mander Europe . Gen. Alexander m. Mail jr., and arc being continued under nato s current military chief .  w. Rogers. There arc 25 exercises this fall As part of autumn forge. They Range from the Fords of Northern Norway to the Sands of Eastern Turkey. Airlifting of . Troops to Germany is an annual feature of autumn forge a Nevers. During september 17,000 . Troops and their equipment Are being flown and shipped to Europe in exercise re target 80 return of forces to Ger Many in an Effort to demonstrate . Ability to provide Quick assistance to its european allies in Case of aggression. The preparatory phases of this main . Stra Segic mobility exercise the 12th in the refer Ger series began in August. The return of ground forces will be completed when paratroopers from the 82nd airborne div Fly non Stop to North Ern Germany and Parachute in to take part in the largest exercise in nato s Central european Region. Exercise Spear Point 80. Spearpoint begins monday sept. 15, is a Multi National Field training exercise of some 63,000 troops including some of the 30,000 British reinforcements who shuttled to the continent during the weekend. Also taking part in spearpoint Are units of the . Army s hell on wheels 2nd army div from fort Hood Texas and a West German armoured brigade in Addi Tion to the . Brigade from the 82nd airborne div. As part of this Man Euver a mock Battle will unfold in lower Saxony an area Mili tary sources term one of the most threat ened regions of the nato Central  in Case of War the area will invite an attack by tanks one source said. The spearpoint operation is scheduled to end sept. 26. A major commitment of . Forces will be in exercise certain Rampart to be held sept. I5-26 in Central Bavaria. This exer Cise tests combined arms operation and River crossing abilities. The participants Are canadians. Danes germans and americans with the . Vii corps run Ning the show. One of the first links in the Chain of autumn forge exercises was code named concordant journey. It was an example of How autumn forge Maneu vers bring to Gether military units from several Allied nations to reach a single goal the training of reinforcements for Central Europe in time of conflict. Participating in concordant journey which began sept. I and ends tuesday arc air and land units from Belgium. West Germany Luxembourg the nether lands great Britain and the United states. Concordant journey carried the responsibility for setting up the Benelux line of communications loathe pro Cess of transporting troops through Bel Gium the Netherlands and Luxembourg to the autumn forge Man Euver areas. . Air Force assets Are annually deployed to Germany in exercise crested Cap. This Airpower deployment is based on a 1967 agreement by the ., . And Germany. The agreement commits aircraft Crews and support personnel based in the . To nato. The dates for this portion of autumn forge arc aug. 20-oct. 10. Cold fire conducted by he Allied forces Central Europe accents the major nato air exercise in the Central Region with air elements from the ., Canada Germany the Netherlands and Britain. It runs from sept. 15-26. Cold fire includes the Headquarters of Allied air forces Central Europe Aaice and elements of Northern army group Northam and Central army group Cental. Exer Cim Sank Reorg St. George is a corps Field training exercise fax conducted by the 3rd German corps com Mander with an 8th inf div brigade from the . V corps participating. It takes place in the Northern Cental area North of the pc Start mountains near Fulda and Rammelburg. Sept. 15-19. The Fulda Gap has Long been listed As the classic invasion route of tanks and troops British Reserve forces invade West Germany London a Twenty thousand part time soldiers abandoning temporarily civilian jobs from Bank managers to bus Drivers left Britain by air and sea in the biggest British troop movement to the euro Pean continent since world War ii. Defense chiefs chartered civilian aircraft from state owned British airways and transport vessels from a private danish firm to help move the troops and 3,000 vehicles to Northern West Germany to take part innate manbevers. It s going remarkably Well a defense ministry spokesman said. The men have turned up in the strengths we ordered and we expect to have All our territorial As signed to this exercise in place right on  the territorial or part time Volunteer reservists join some 10,000 regular British troops moved to Germany since the begin Ning of this month to reinforce the 55,000 stationed there. The British troops will take part with ., dutch and West German military personnel in the elaborate month Long a never code named exercise crusader "80," aimed at testing the Western response to attack from the soviet led Warsaw pact nations whose troops have just completed a similar major exercise most of the soldiers will Lake part in an exercise called spearpoint 80," beginning monday in the Hannover Region. The part time soldiers comprise about one third of Britain s entire territorial re serve Force. They will spend two weeks their annual training period in West Germany. Some 4,000 of them added to the crush at London s Heathrow Airport saturday Fly ing out on chartered civilian aircraft. They included u merchant banker turned military policeman for two weeks a London bus Driver who is a sergeant major in the Royal yeomanry cavalry regiment and a real estate agent who commands a bomb disposal Squadron. Others flew out from civil airports at Glasgow Scotland and Manchester i Northern England. Service vessels and ferries hired from a danish company and from British tour operators plied across the English Channel from the ports of Harwich Immingham Dover and Folkestone. The ferries were to make 111 sailings carrying half the troop deployment and almost All the vehicles. Coming from the East. In the Northern Region of nato the largest Man Euver was exercise bar Frost sept. 8-12an air sea land a never involving norwegian dutch Brit ish and american troops near Tromson Norway. This norwegian sponsored fax also included air Force units from the Netherlands and Britain and marines from the . And . Several Maneu vers under the code name teamwork "80 arc being held in the North Atlantic English Channel and North sea sept. 10-24. These nato maritime exercises involve 60,000 troops 170 ship and 400 aircraft from eight Al lied nations. The display determination exercise sept. 29-oct. 14 will be the largest a never in nato s Southern flank. Air naval and land forces from Italy Portu Gal Turkey great Britain and the . Will take part in this operation that will be staged in Italy Turkey and the Mediterranean. Awil express 80 is an Allied com Mand Europe Mobile Force am Field training exercise to practice rapid deploy ment to the turkish Thrace area and deterrent and combat operations alongside Host nation forces. Units from the ., Britain Germany Italy and Belgium Are scheduled to train alongside turkish forces from sept. 11-ocl. 6, with air sup port provided by american italian and turkish air forces. Am artillery will conduct a live fire exercise called Anvil Barbara. Exercise Eenkhoorn a is a Nell or lands1 division level fax taking place in the Northam area sept. 15-27. The United kingdom s major commitment this year is called exercise Cru Sader 80. It includes three separate but related National exercises Square leg jog Trot and participation in spearpoint. Jog Trot sept. 1-oct. 4a National deployment and logistical Field exercise is connected with concordant journey i with spearpoint. Square leg sept. 22 will practice Home defense and mobilization of 10,000 regular and 1 000 territorial army reinforcements i the european continent. In addition to Field Maneu vers the arc command Post exercises cpx Nas certain Lancer. This reformer cpx j being held at bad vile cd a suburb i Frankfurt sept. 15-26. Elements of i stateside based 4th and 9th infantry i Sions will join Usa eur and v r personnel for tactical operations training. Not All 15 nato nations will i Pale in autumn forge 80. Iceland 1 armed forces and Greece and France to not part of nato s integrated Milt of command Structure. Consequently font from the latter two nations will join in but not be considered officially at part of autumn forge 80. Because of budgetary problems which. Forced Belgium to Cut its 1980 defeat budget by 2.2 percent belgian presence in autumn forge 80 has been severely Cut. The country has cancelled the participation of some of its air Force units in two Multi National air Maneu vers one. In West Germany the other in Turkey. Soviet observers have been invited to autumn forge 80 by the German government according to one nato official who added other nations intend to in Vite observers As  such invitations have to be issued by the nato govern ments. Also just ending arc the largest War saw pact Maneu vers in 10 years which were held in Northern East Germany an event that has Little influence on nato s annual exercises. The two rival military alliances like to schedule major Maneu vers in the fall be cause by then harvesting is Over the Ter rain is Likely to be at its Best and vacations Are Over. The map show let or  fone a nut in j Irving mor Lay pm