European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 26, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                July 1985 the stars and stripes Page 9 everyone wins in joint medical program by Ellen Ridge staff writer members of the National guard and the 7th medical come Are participating in a program in which everyone comes out this for the first the nation Al guard key personnel upgrade pro Gram is sending nurses and dentists to Europe to serve on Short term Active duty at 7th medical come facile the designed to upgrade National guard members has served As a Boon to the 7th medical come As Well As the National said Jesse National guard and army re serve adviser to 7th medical weve been getting positive feedback from both the National guard peo ple have indicated they really like the pro Gram and Are learning from and the 7th medical come appreciates the especially during this time of the year when Many people Are Inland out process Faught it does give you an appreciation for what army Medicine said Eugene Diefenbach of Deifenbach served his duty at the obstetrics gynaecology clinic at Lan Stuhl which has an average of five to seven births and 66 patients per Richard Swillinger said he had a unique Opportunity during his two week stay to study some diseases he Doest see in his private because of the High volume of younger patients at the Frankfurt army it would take a urologist with a private practice in san four years to see the same he Diefenbach and Swillinger Are two of 125 National guard physicians and nurses and 20 dentists serving Short Active duty Tours in 7th medical come the main difference Here is they have uniforms and More Diefenbach its a Giveand take said 2nd David a nurse from the t 13th medical brigade in i learn something they learn in addition to alleviating a Short age of nursing was asked by the nursing staff at Lan Stuhl to lecture on his medical specially at the end of his at first i thought i was really mis matched when they put me on the of gyn said who works at a veterans administration Hospital that Doest have an Obyn but i got a Chance to work in an area i Haven studied since nursing Peter an Anaesthesiologist from the 1 16th Mobile army surgical Hospital in said his overseas experience at land Stuhl complemented his other duties with the National i knew 1 could handle a Mash but 1 was totally unaware what a regular army Hospital was now All my questions have been Glassman 1 found out 1 was Able to walk off the plane and work from ground in an army he one common denominator among the three men at Lan Stuhl was that they were working with Short they the staff is far smaller than what we would put up with in private the doctor ends up doing the stuff the nursing staff usually Diefenbach phantom Jet has been a Friend to retiring Pilot by Dave Diehl Bureau William Acker stared up at the Wall As he tried to think of a fitting Story to Tell about his years As an f4 in Gettin to be an old Man the 55yearold Acker his words Are spiced with a touch of a Southern drawl that has either lingered from his boy Hood in Tennessee or the remnants of the Lingo squawk ing on the radio that comes with hours in the seat of a who retires seems somewhat somber when he reflects on the 33 years Hes spent in the air a lot of that time has been spent flying much of that time flying jets has been in the Jet that the air Force Calls the Acker has spent 20 years climbing in and out of what he Calls one of the Best fighters the air Force has Ever now he leaves his career in the air Force last when he wrapped his hands around the stick and pulled Back the throttle in the last f4 hell Ever Acker was saying goodbye to one of the Best friends Hes Ever that planes been Good to said the out going 3rd air Force when the Young Captain strapped into one of his first phantoms in he didst know that besides launching him into supersonic speeds with pounds of thrust at his the Jet would carry him to his first since Acker has been in on some of the most important developments in the planes tech nolo he was once the commander of the largest fighter Wing in the history of the somebody called it from bars to stars in the Phan he said with a theres a modesty in his manner when Acker talks Korea vets plan Usan photo William Acker in the about his old he Doest like to talk much about his two Tours in Vietnam and the 211 hours he spent in i dont want to be he but his humility Doest match his in 1960 Acker was selected As one of four pilots to introduce the f4 into the air Force the Navy already had the when he and his fellow pilots got their first f4bs at Macdill they were Ackers teaching experience in other jets and his re Cord As a fighter put him in line for a Job that would play a key role in bringing one of what would become one of the most successful fighters in the world to the air since Acker has flown in every f4 Model known air Force Roundup command chaplain honoured Liduia Iii Nunu Reu simple ceremony for 40 years in Eagle scouting Washington a Bill Norris fought on heart break Ridge and Mun Donni and in the Iron Triangle in a War he thinks has been so on the 32nd anniversary of the end of the korean Norris and a few others Are going to Honor their fallen comrades with a Small ceremony at Arlington National there will be no White House no Mili tary bands and very Little of the pomp that is part of most other such ceremonies at the final resting place of Many of americas military this is just a Bunch of Guys that got says nor of they didst do nothing for us for Well do this for this is by and for Norris has been dismayed for a Long time by the Lack of attention to the sacrifices by american fighting men in the korean War referred to officially As Only a conflict because Congress never declared War against the North to Norris and his Joe Mccallion of decided to hold the ceremony at where one of the four bodies in the Tomb of the unknown sol Dier is that of a Warrior who fell in there will be a Wreath laying at that then a simple memorial service in the cemetery on a table will be a soldiers helmet filled with Ramstein Germany chaplain Alston Safe command has been presented the distinguished Eagle scout award in recognition of More than 40 years of service to according to a Safe he news an Eagle scout of some 40 years received the award from Charles Donnelly Safe Pitburg demonstration Pilot is awarded Solo trophy Pitburg Germany Eric one of bit burgs two f15 demonstration became the first american to win the International air Tattoo Solo trophy earlier this according to a Safe he news the iat is a weekend Long air show held in England every two years to raise Money for the Royal air Force benevolent this years show at Raf Fairford and Drew crowds of More than each who works in the Tion 36th tac fighter and flies with the 525th tac fighter was judged on presentation of the orientation of the display and accuracy of each he also placed second in the Best demonstrate the air he has flown the Jet All Over the trained More pilots than he can remember and was in Strumental in modifying and refining the plane for air Force with a bit of Acker will talk about some of the More dramatic moments while flying the one came when he was on one of his two Tours in Southeast he was mainly a night flier doing bombing one of his Pilot friends told him to go under the flares the enemy would launch to Light up the Acker was used to flying Over the top of he found himself dodging More surface air missiles than he was used it was a heavy time of combat during that Acker we lost about a dozen of our like one of the first times i went Down under the they told me i might be Able to see better if i went underneath he i went underneath and i can Tell the gunners could see better from then on i stayed on top of the Acker came through his combat time relatively but he lost a lot of friends to migs and 1 had my share of he i was shot at by ground sometimes it was closer than sometimes it was too damned i meet pilots some of my student pilots at one time that Are brigadier generals but one of the most Gratifying experiences for me is that i can rarely go to an f4 outfit today where one of the senior pilots Doest come up to me and you taught me How to Fly the and that one of the really great things of being in the air plane that he Tion by an overseas participant Nedergaard has been flying demonstrations for Pitburg for the last two a flight commander and instructor is leaving Pitburg to attend the air command and staff College at Maxwell Safe plans Coronet thud for 2 weeks in Denmark Ramstein Germany the tac air come will deploy 12 f16 fighting Falcon aircraft from the 419th tac fighter Hill to from 24 to in a Short term tactical deployment called Coronet a Safe news release while the 419th tac fighter Wing will train with military elements of safes 50th tac fighter from Hahn will provide support to the 419th tac fighter Wing while it is in the f16s will deploy nonstop across the Atlantic an ec135 tactical deployment control aircraft will accompany the Falcons across the the aircraft will refuel in flight from strategic air come military Airlift come will Airlift about 250 maintenance and support personnel and their equipment in conjunction with the this temporary deployment is part of a larger program called Check ered in which tactical units deploy to Alaska and the