European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 4, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse 8 the stars and stripes May 1985 two army tugboats go about their assignments during last weekends a Flag 85 exercise at Raf Hythe in army knowhow sends old vessels Back to sea by King c Ruger Bureau chief rat England the Chal Lenges facing several soldiers last weekend were two old tugboats and two fuel barges that had been in storage for they had to be made seaworthy within just 48 the tugs have been in storage for 15 years and you know what age can but we arc going to try to prove its possible to get them going within the two said army staff Juan an assistant Leonguerrero was part of a nine per son Advance party that had arrived several Days earlier to make preparations for the annual army Fleet activation a Flag he had taken part in four of the last five such during the first years it took us 10 Days to get similar vessels ready for weve got the routine Down to a system that really said the 29 year old native of he explained that All seals and valves were All in pieces aboard the two 65foot Long tugs and the pair of 120footlong fuel barges each loaded Down with Gallons of i Csc they have to be apart while the vessels Are in storage because they Are part of pressure systems that cant be left hooked he when we go Well be facing giant Jigsaw puzzles of a but hopefully All the parts will be wired up to where go or will be stowed away in labelled boxes and this waterfront across from the major port of is the Home of the army trans corps in England and the site of us Reurs Reserve Fleet storage four 92 local employees and 16 ministry of defense guards staff the 16acre Raf Hythe is 89 Miles Southwest of at an activity of the army 47th area support headquartered at Raf Are stored More than items with a total replacement Cost in excess of 140 some of the items Are weighty in storage Are four 100foot 15 65 foot four fuel three 100ton floating four 60ton floating a Trio of 300footiong floating two Bridge erector two mechanized Landing a Complete floating machine shop and a slew of cargo plus a Complete portable fuel with Miles and Miles of before staring Leonguerrero said Well probably work some very Long our first Job is to get the generators on line to provide Power for the nighttime we have four very experienced mechanics the secret to our Success will be if we can keep moving from one task to another without a Holdup being caused by a major at last the exercise kicked off with the participants Many of them having had Little or no sleep on the Long journey Here swarming aboard the vessels to be made ready for All the exercise troops came from their Home base at fort just upriver from Newport where the majority of them work aboard army Day in and Day the tugs help to land Tow fuel barges to refuelling conduct missions along the inter coastal Waterways and take part in Long towing missions in the much of their work involves picking up and drop Ping off vessels at shipyards or participating in waterborne five minutes after Leonguerrero and 5 june Ward had started work on their assigned tugs they had it running smoothly and ready to Supply Power where As they did their others on Board the tugs and fuel barges quickly broke out and deployed safety equipment fire fire Extin axes and life the Dick War re serve Branch chief for the 21st support headquartered at said every one of these vessels has always run and passed its sea with this 48hour its a question of our being Able to show that we can meet a real world this exercise is costing but that Cost is a drop in the bucket compared to the benefits we Are getting out of the we Are trying to show that the Green suiters can get everything activated and empty this place within 48 Irish it was All Over by Early sunday morn we did it in 38 reported Keith the commanding offi cer it went better than we were shooting for 48 hours and we were a bit sceptical about reaching that needless to we Are very pleased with the Kentucky Derby will be for woman by Tony Nauroth Nuernberg Bureau chief Germany for Mari Lyn saturdays Kentucky Derby will be in living color min Julep Rose red and Blu grass it will be live because her 1st army div lawyer Buris bought her a plane ticket to Churchill Downs race track in and it will be in color because that the name of her mothers a Louisiana cajun form of in is something of a dark horse in the according to Marilyn bought by her Fred in last Springs hits Parade enc Olure won the Arkansas which put him in this years top 20 moneymakers and made him eligible for saturdays the hits Parade the horses in training Sale is a Southern Louisiana auction in which promising 2yearolds go on the Dale said enc lures performance is outpacing his she said her Mother has received several Calls from big time owners who want to buy her the son of Riva Ridge a former Derby was bought by Dales father because he Al ways wanted that one real Good race she Dale recalled the Days when she was growing up on a Small ranch in Midland 20 Miles East of it want really a she it was a Patch of ground with a tin barn on we had three horses Jack he was mine a Shetland and a huge Black Dale said her parents didst get involved in racing until she was in that was in the Early her Moth still lives on that Patch of and near enc Olure is boarded in where he is trained by Tom Dale her father died last just before his Good Racehorse started in co lures bold died about the same she after the Arkansas Derby one newspaper ran a headline Reading somewhere up there an owner is Smil that smile has probably Broad ened since enc Olure won the March 23 hits Parade invitational by one length in front of expected Winner under or Dale claims she really Doest under stand thoroughbred she Doest know what a mint Julep is although she said Shell certainly try and she Doest know How much her father paid for but she said she does know one thing its going to be an emotional win or my fathers going to be there in the and Shell be there to cheer him an television plans to air the run for the roses saturday night at of photo by Tony Nauroth Marilyn Dale photos of a win
