European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 4, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes Friday october 4, 1985 2 senators decry interservice rivalries Washington a the nation military planners plagued by inter service rivalries and ignoring the lessons of experience still arc unable to work together in a crisis calling for joint operations under unified command leaders of the Senate armed services commit acc said wednes Day. The military services inability or unwillingness to work together has led this nation to military disaster or near disaster. Not once or twice but repeatedly said sen. Barry Goldwater r-ariz., the com Mittee s chairman. The Root causes of these problems arc still firmly embedded in the current organisational Structure of the department of de sense said sen. Sam Nunn of Georgia the ranking Democrat on the committee. The iwo senators continuing a series of floor speeches examining the serious flaws they contend mar the planning and execution of . Military operations said there has been no improvement in  since the Spanish american War 87 years ago. Nunn focused on the october 1983 .invasion of Grenada which he said was impaired by the fact that Navy and army radios were incompatible and therefore useless. This failure of communication caused an army officer on the Beach in Grenada to use his at to credit card to Telephone his office in North Carolina Over civilian lines in an Effort to coordinate Navy fire support for his position Nunn said. And he said when an army officer Bor rowed a Marine radio he could not make it work because he did not know the Nav codes and procedures. In addition he said the Marine an army units on the ground lacked a unified commander each reporting to the taskforce commander who was on a ship off the Caribbean Island. This decreased their  and in creased the danger to each Force where they operated in proximity Nunn said. The invasion was plagued by the forces inability to communicate. Reports and analyses conducted after the invasion reveal a woeful Lack of inter service coordination in planning the opera Tion Nunn said. Planning sessions were held separately and service counterparts were not invited to attend. Furthermore the services demonstrated a remarkable Lack of knowledge about How each one  Nunn added that the joint planning Agency which was created to coordinate such operations was completely shut out of the planning and execution of the Grenada  a close look at the Grenada operation can Only Lead to the conclusion that despite our Victory despite the performance of the individual troops who fought bravely the United states armed forces have  conducting joint operations Unn said. He and Goldwater cited other examples of what they called a failure of joint operations through the Lack of a unified com Mand. They said these include the Vietnam War the Battle of Lyle Gulf in world War ii and the Surprise japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. In the aborted hostage Rescue Mission in Iran in 1980, Nunn said air Force pilots trained for the Long distance Low Altitude helicopter flights that were required were not used because interservice rivalry among other reasons compelled the use of Marine pilots who lacked the required  is Clear the department of defense won t make the necessary changes Gold water said. It is going to be up to the .  was no immediate comment on the Goldwater and Nunn speeches from the  defense Secretary Caspar w. Wein Berger and other top military leaders including Navy Secretary John f. Lehman have been notably Cool to congressional proposals to restructure the joint chiefs of staff or to make other fundamental changes in military organization. Atlantis rockets into space with secret military pay Oad Cape Ca the new Spac toward space thursday under a cloak of military secrecy reportedly to deploy two bomb shielded Jam proof air Force communications satellites. The Atlantis the fourth and final member of the National aeronautic and space administration s shuttle Fleet Ocean Side thick  flame As it headed t secret until for space for the first time. Juster hamper soviet efforts to track the shuttle and thus learn More about its orbit and payload. The Atlantis payload also is Cluj but various Sou Taafuli my mint includes two generation defense communication satellites called dscs-3. It was not known when the relay stations were to be deployed. On Board the  billion Atlantis were air Force col. Karol Bobko the command no Llie Marine maj. David Hoo. As the third shuttle launch for Bobko and the second for , a computer expert is a member of the defense department s manned space flight Engineer program and is not a Nasa astronaut under a policy established for the shuttle discovery s january Mission to deliver a spy satellite into orbit the air Force had an unc cd Only that the Atlantis would take  i 20p.m. Lets beef up embassy Security Beirut a the Sovie creased Security at its Beirut embassy on thursday to guard against a threatened Sui cide bomb attack and an embassy official said he expected sad news about three surviving soviets kidnapped by moslem extremists. The body of one kidnapped was found by police Oak id claiming Toj ejjp0lmontnreatencd to   and bomb the pm soviet embassy expecting sad new so three c d affaires at the run Beirut radio said Gouslikov meteor an hour thursday with president Amin Ger Daycl a Christian and senior army an police commanders at Gemayel s Palace in suburban Baarda. _ studying _ Oviet captives the radio said giving no further details. Tofu als have appealed to Syria Nam ers to help free the Sovi ets abduct co  kidnappers de manding that Moscow Fhi  Stop a Battle Between pros Napales Tinian militias in Tripoli. And giving the official air Force has said Only the will end its Maiden Voy Afaf Calif. The duration of the flight it is expected to last about of the 89 Active Nas Active duty military officer four services. Only  for military shut temperatures i Heithe Atlantis fat Edwardi classified but Days. Ron auts 58 Arem Ting All Man Are nights. In wars not a loyalty test Burt a Hamburg Sells. Ambassador Richard Burt said in a be released thursday that Aon whether to take part in . Up accion on research will be no lest of German loyalty to  however in the interview with the mass circulation daily Bild Burt left no doubt that president Reagan would Welcome Ger Man participation in the research. With their great scientists the g