European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 25, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pago 8 the stars and stripes monday november 25. 1985 Apt. Mick Simmons we re training so no one is going " Lesl a we re raining o do aggressors lying the soviet wat Raf , Inland Cali. We re inc  boasts . Col. Rod Kelly. Kelly  of one of four aggressor squad Rons in the  air Force runs his Squadron from a symbolically red carpeted office confused with paintings of  Mig fighters and an american Flag. Red stars adorn the lockers of the 23 fighter pilots. A few Hundred Yard Down the Airfield a do in or so f 5f. Tiger jets sit with Warsaw pact camouflage and More red stars. Arid tucked Awa in a building next to the Squadron ground control intercept controllers sit watching Scopes directing their comrades in the air. The aggressors Job is making sure nato s fighter pilots win if Thuv Ever face their Warsaw i act counterparts. Kelly and his Crew say their Job is a comp Sci and Busy one. Two or three jets of the Alconbury aggressors Are on the Road All the time to go to the fighter pilots Home  and six others Are training pilots off the Southern coast of Sardinia during most of the year. At Home they train nato tighter units that travel to Sec them. Kelly said the aggressor Mission is More than just Doe fighting. Pc a fighter Pilot with about 1,500 hours in the cockpit he puts inc aggressor Mission simply. Our Job in life is to present soviet tactics to front line fighter  he said an important part of the aggressor training is academic the intelligence portion. Kelly said aggressor pilots arc kept up to Dale on soviet intelligence and Icv apply that to their jobs and integrate it into the Tremine of the pilots. B that Kelly says is a lesson from the past. During the Vietnam War. Enemy intelligence was considered too sensitive to pass on to fighter pilots which was one of the reasons so Many american airmen were shot Down. Kelly said. The air Force looked at the poor kill ratio there and asked Why he said. The result was the air Force s red Baron project which led to the first aggressor Squadron the 64th fighter weapons so at Nellis fab nov. Since then three More have come to life and Are training fighter pilots All Over the world before the aggressors. . Pilots usually trained against each other in the same Type of jets. Kelly said that having Crews practice against other f-4 Crews did t do them much Good when they got to Vietnam where they faced the much smaller migs. The other Factor was that the soviet trained pilots there were assisted by ground controllers or on the ground  the aggressor squadrons have changed All that with ground controllers and fighter pilots that think and Fly like soviets. One of the most realistic Battle training grounds in Europe is at Ducimo Nunn off the coast of Sardinia Kelly said. He Calls it the Success Story of  there Al what the americans. Italians germans and British Call an air combat mane vering instrumentation Range is where the aggressors do much of their training. The Range is basically a 30-mile Circle in the Mediterranean wired up with microwave sensors that record Aerial dogfights on videotape. Kelly said the value of the Range is that aggressors and their opponents can step from their cockpits and Wilch what and How they really  they can come Back and View it from every Angle he  "1 wich the entire fight while it s happening. Sometimes the pilots Sec things on the replay that the did t realize they did or what the other Guy was doing Kelly said