European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 23, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                June 1985 the stars and stripes Page 9 military dental team a hit on the Road by Joe Mapother Bremerhaven Bureau chief Germany have Drill will travel would be a fitting motto for Norma Longo and her four assistants who make House Calls to Remote Sites in a five ton dental clinic on the travelling dental team arrives with its own xray dental drilling equipment and portable the 9monthold called project has saved thousands of hours previously spent commuting from Remote Sites to dental care facilities in the nor deutschland military Many of these Sites Are so Remote that it takes six to eight hours just to get to the dental clinic in Longo with waiting and appointment time added a Soldier could lose an entire most Remote units cant afford to have their personnel gone that Long or incur the transportation Cost she during a recent 10day stay in flens the clinic was credited with saving More than hours by filling Teeth and combat realism a photo a fighter Pilot takes aim at hostile aircraft displayed on the 40foot dome screen of a flight simulator developed by Hughes aircraft the weapons tactics Trainer uses computers to pro vide the sounds and feel of a fighter so pilots can get combat train ing without actually flying in a performing other services that used to re quire sending a Soldier to the Bremerhaven dental clinic for the while in the team filled 634 cavities and cleaned 180 staff officers familiar with the travelling clinic say it is a special solution geared to the problem of serving the needs of a Large number of military personnel within a huge there Are about petiole entitled to dental care within the nor deutschland military which encompasses Square from his office at the army Hospital in Daniel Dalzell oversees a dental care area that stretches East to North to the Baltic sea City of Flensburg and South to the Rhine River Community of there have been some growing pains in the the Flensburg visit led to a decision to rely on portable generators for when the Drill equipment and xray unit were plugged into existing out they knocked out the Power to much of the formally closes base training allies in Central America by Norman Black Washington a unable to work out a new agreement with the Hon Duran the Pentagon said Fri Day it has formally closed a regional Mil itary training Center in Trujillo that trained More than troops of three Central american allies during the past two the Center closed Friday with the graduation of a class of 550 honduran the Pentagon it will be replaced with separate facilities being constructed by Honduras and Al it was the refusal of Honduras last fall to allow the continued training of Salvado ran troops at the regional Center that contributed to the bases Congress had tied funding for the Center to Resolution of that dispute As Well As another involving land an american citizen living in Honda Themistocles has charged that the honduran government improperly appropriated several thousand acres of his ranch near Trujillo to establish the the training base never much More than a collection of wooden huts and firing ranges was opened in june 1983 in an isolated area on Honduras Northern its opening had the effect of turning Hon Duras into the defense departments Pri Mary Center for modernizing Friendly Cen trial american although formally commanded by a honduran the Center was at first jointly supported by the United Honduras and Al there were normally 125 to 150 military trainers based at the the Pentagon helped create the in part to avoid congressional reluctance Over proposals to provide More military Aid to Al at the the Rea Gan administration said it wanted to train More salvadoran soldiers to defend their country from leftist guerrillas and could not handle a sufficient number within the United As increasing numbers of salvadoran troops moved through the Honduras reportedly grew More and More although both countries Are friends of the United the two fought a Brief War in 1969 Over their disputed last Honduras demanded that no More salvadorans be trained on its touching off the dispute that finally led to the the Pentagon sought to downplay the centers closure asserting in a writ ten statement that the Center has served its primary during its Salvado hondurans and 45 members of the Costa rican civil guard were the statement the urgent need for out country unit training of salvadorans has decreased As the Al Sal Vador armed forces have become More of a National Basic training Center at la Al has been enabling the salvadorans to train them selves at lesser Honduras is in the initial stages of developing a National training and Costa Rica also will be Able to satisfy training needs inside its the Pentagon said Friday that funds earmarked for operation of the Center will be divided among the three Central Amer ican countries to support their internal training the department said the Center had Cost million to establish and operate Over the past two with the training for each Soldier costing an average to have provided similar training within the United states would have Cost an average of roughly per the Pentagon House tells Reagan of seek offer use Tor Poseidon sub Washington a the House voted Friday to Tell president Reagan to look at other possible uses for a Poseidon submarine instead of dismantling it to com ply with nuclear arms limits in the Unrath fied Salt ii the chamber gave voice vote approval to a proposal by Duncan r to require studying whether the mis Sil firing submarine can be Given to Brit or converted to an attack sub or to a cruise missile carrying we should see if there Are any other ways to use this sub besides taking it Hunter Reagan announced last week that the vessel would be dismantled to allow the United states to remain within Salt ii limits next fall when a new Trident missile firing the enters Hunters proposal was approved As the House worked its Way through a Bill authorizing most of a proposed billion de sense department budget for fiscal starting the measure that passes the democratic controlled House will have to be reconciled by House Senate negotiators with a billion defense Bill already passed by the Republican dominated the House has been debating and voting on the Bill for a week and agreed to consider Only noncontroversial amendments Fri Day because Many congressmen had re turned to their districts for the the Senate has voted 7817 against a move which would have also blocked spend ing million to dismantle the another amendment approved Friday permits the Pentagon to spend million for humanitarian Aid for resistance fighters opposing the soviet controlled government or at least a dozen amendments awaiting House action concern proposed reforms in Pentagon spending controversy also surrounds the air forces plan to conduct final tests later this year of an ant satellite proponents say such a system is Nec Essary to keep Pace with a similar soviet system to Knock out enemy but critics say it is unnecessary and will Only make it difficult to achieve an arms control the House Cut reagans request for spending on Star wars missile defense re search and the my nuclear but approved new chemical weapons after refusing to finance that program for three