European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 23, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 the stars and stripes saturday november 23, 1985 Holst s newest equipment would get enemy in a Jam world today by m1kk stuff writer Ansom h. In Many once an Indian s Well aimed Arrow could kill a unit s bugler and destroy a commander s primary Means of communicating orders to in fighting troops. Toda. In less than a second specially trained soldiers a in do Chr thing electronically. In co a 5 11 is military intelligence bit. Six teams of specialists arc using some of the newest equipment in the Arm deigned to disrupt enemy Communia jillions and help ensure i 1st army div Victory on the Battlefield. Three teams operate the an/ml.q-34 Milky 31" so Stern which was not even being taught this Spring at the army s fort Devens. Mass., school for according to spec. 4 Bailey. Bailey. 28. From Idaho joined the 501st in May. Tac Jam was delivered to the 50 i in the Spring of 19k4. Three Oiler teams operate improved versions of the an ti.q-i7a "17 Alpha set mounted in ml51 jeeps. The smaller less powerful very Mobile equip ment complements the tac Jam systems which arc housed in he shelters Mou Ruedon tracked transporters. in operate the tac Jam system was t difficult. said. Her most difficult adjustment a doing the operator maintenance needed for the track and support ice. You re told full be doing operator checks but you re Mil told Wail All that Bailey said about her school training. "1 mining is slower coming than new equipment re 1st . Douglas Drackley co a platoon Leader. I just got in someone trained on the 17 the compensates for the Lack of school train ing a on the Job training on both systems. Drakely said Pulick is to leave a learn together on one system for six months to a year then switch jamming specialists to the of her system to learn it. For tac Jam. Six soldiers were sent to California for initial concentrated training in inc Spring of 1984. One of i Host was sgt. Joseph Biela 22, of Holyoke. Mass. Who serves As a tac Jam team chief. Biola s team up to four hammers Are russian and czechoslovakian linguists. Their Job is to Slop disrupt or confuse the enemy s very High frequency Ana voice communications. With tac Jam they can identify an enemy signal in less than a second and quickly Jam it with the help and Speed of the computer equipment in the system. Tac Jam less Bic la s team Jam Ihrck signals at the same time unlike the system it replaced. With it they could Jam Only one. Big advantages of tac Jam come in the Speed Vii h which his team can and up and begin jamming Biela said because the new system Nas an inboard Generator and an Antenna which can be raised and moved with inc of a Button from inside the shelter. Biola s team Cun Sci up in 90 seconds. With the old system s manually attached Antenna and Generator Biela said it took 15 to 20 minutes id set up. The smaller counter measures sets mounted in jeeps haul generators in trailers and use an Antenna which it isl be assembled by inc team of up to three hammers. Spec. 4 Carol Corrigan. 2i, is a team chief for a 17 Alpha unit. Her team can set up and Start jamming in under 10 minutes she said. Both kinds of teams can move quickly and that s vital to their Mission and survival Biela said. Communications jamming teams Are deployed remotely with Maneu ver units of the division. Because they generate their own signal while disrupting the enemy s communications jamming locations can be pin pointed making them silting ducks for enemy fire Biela said. For Protection jamming learns do a of moving. Breaking in the new Wall a prot land youngster break dances at he peace will in Belfast. Northern Ireland while a Friend watches. The will is being built to separate the Catho Lic Falls Road Section of the City from the protestant Shankill Road two areas which have been major flashpoints of violence. Cafes hiking some Catalon prices 15% Munich is prices for some photographic and electronic items in the army and air Force Exchange service Catalon will increase 15 percent in january Exchange system officials announced. The increase takes effect Jan. 5 for merchandise listed on pages r-204 through r-340 of the overseas edition of the 1986 cafes Catalon. It docs not affect items offered in other sections of the Catalon nor docs it affect shelf items offered at exchanges in Europe said maj. Pete Ryan cafes Europe spokesman. Items offered on those pages include cameras and other photographic equipment musical instruments video re corders television sets and stereo equipment and accessories. Catalon sales officials at cafes Headquarters in dal Las recommend that customers mail their orders before dec. 15 to beat the Price hike Ryan said. Orders received on or after Jan. 5 will be processed with the increase included. The increase is the result of the drop in the Dollar s value on world markets Ryan said. When the Dollar is Strong cafes generally offers Price reductions this occurred last year when a 10 percent discount was offered on Catalon orders he said. False fire alarm forces Jet to land at air base in azores i Ajes a azores up1 a false fire alarm Over inc Atlantic forced a British airways Boeing 747 with 351 people aboard to make an emergency Landing in the azores islands. Sixteen people suffered mostly Light injures in evacuating the plane using exit chutes airline and Lajes a officials said. They said the jetliner flying from is. Lucia and Barba Dos in the Caribbean to London landed at the joint Portu . Air base 15 minutes after alarm systems indicated a fire in the cargo hold. 15th-Century murals found in former cloister in e. Germany Magdeburg. East Germany up Art experts have found rare and extensive i St Century religious murals under layers of Wall paint in a former cloister now used As a local office of the government Grain research Institute the news Agency adn said. The state run Agency said i researcher for the Magde Burg City monuments department found references to the murals in old books and began scraping at the Point Lay ered Walls of a Large Hall in the building in Fernburg 30 Miles South of Magdeburg. Beneath he uncovered the extensive murals apparently representing the Nave of a Church with decorative symbolic shapes of plants and ornaments surrounding the figure of saints in religious garb. The whole Wall was framed with pictures of Arches and columns imitating brickwork in Strong Brown Colon adn said. Bolt believed to have fallen from Jet damages Temple roof Tokyo a a Metal Bolt that apparently fell from a passing jumbo Jet damaged the tin roof of a Buddhist Temple near the Tokyo International Airport at Narita a transport ministry official said. Lie said the Bolt apparently one of 18 from a main wheel could have fallen As the Jet was lowering its Landing Pear for its approach to the Airport. The official who asked not to be named said he ministry now is looking for the plane. The official said it was not known when the Bolt fell. There was a Hole about i Inch in diameter in the roof where the Bolt was found. The Bolt is half an Inch in diameter and 3.1 inches Long and it weighs four ounces. Takashi Akichika a 61-year-old Farmer living near the Temple found the Hole when he was examining the Temple for rain leaks reported recently the official said. China expects to manufacture 30 million bicycles in 1985 peking up China which already has More than 200 million bicycles expects to manufacture 30 Mil lion two wheelers in 1985, inc China daily newspaper said. This year the nation s bicycle output is expected to top 30 million a third of All production worldwide Chi Adaily said. And the country now has 200 million bicycles a Quarter of the world s bicycles provide the major form of transport Lor tens of millions of chinese City dwellers. Rush hour in major civics such As peking Shanghai and Canton brings out millions of Bike Riding commuters who depend on their two wheelers year round. China daily said one company has begun production of a bicycle that has wheels with by Adelic spokes that whistle when they spin. China could Well be called a kingdom of bicycles i said. Atomic bomb saved gis lives Koch says on Hiroshima visit Hiroshima Japan a new York mayor Edward 1. Koch visiting the site of history s first nuclear attack said the use of the atomic bomb 40 years ago saved american lives and forced Japan to admit defeat in world the dropping of the bomb saved a million american soldiers lives and the japanese would not have surren dered had there been no Hiroshima Koch said before the visit. no fmlin8s of guilt about the War Koch added.1 did t come Here to seek absolution because the Japa Nese started world War ii. If their attack on Pear har born an t the Start of the War what was if a movie i Leel no hostility to the japanese. During world War 11 they were the enemy Bent on the destruction of Law rest of Mankind but now i m pleased that they re . Allies he added. I
