European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 23, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                February the stars and stripes Page 9 chief Mineman Francis Strunk secures the storage can containing the brains of a photos by Stephanie James they make sure mines Are ready to go by Brad Durfee staff writer up the Mobile mine Assembly charge of the 6 whose Parent the mines Are maintained and stored Souda Crete some command is in Here at a stage where they can be readily sailors at the naval support activity Here we Stock Many varieties of technically built up and issued if any Waters in the advanced underwater said War Mediterranean would have to be carrying a Mineman they make rant officer Edward officer in from Mineman Richard working behind a safety assembles electro explosive he said the several Hundred mines they keep on hand arc kept in Tiptop shape by our maintenance people who test them constantly so they can be picked up Here by tactical Carrier aircraft and by an Antisubmarine warfare whose Crews would drop the mines in the linemen Here said that mines arc Safe when they Are in the aircraft but once they Are in the they Are armed and ready to chief Mineman Francis Strunk linemen control the life of a mine by setting it for a time we have magnetic and pres sure mines and a combination of them no longer does a ship have to hit a mine they just have to be in the Vicini added the mine expert from East Chi we can also set these technically advanced mines to affect certain Type ships Large surface Craft or Small ves Hutsell mine warfare is the cheapest and most effective form of warfare the Navy Hutsell during world War mines Sank More ships than All other weapons systems combined after we mined the harbours of North Vietnam in no ships went in or out of any of those har Strunk said the mine warfare com Mand has a worldwide slogan where weve been no Fleet Hutsell there is a tremendous psychological effect on a ships Captain and the Crew if they know that the Waters they Are in Are you can just imag Ine the by the he mining Waters Isan act of Hutsell said there Are 11 mine units and detachments around the including our sister unit in the med Momin det 5 in in Case of War the Active duty mine warfare command would be augmented by members of our 27 Reserve units and we would be Able to take care of All the Waters in the including the Indian Hutsell