European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 23, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 the stars and stripes monday december 23, 1985 Speed realism technology to Mark reformer Effort a world today by Chuck Vinch Washington Bureau Washington Speed realism and High technology Are the byword at the military traffic manage ment come for the upcoming reformer exercise. The command will have dockworkers Labouring around the clock to Sec just How fast ships can be loaded with military equipment bound for a foreign Battlefield in wartime. Units deploying overseas will use the same ports they would use for wartime deployment and unit com Manders will have the Chance to familiarize themselves with port operations. The exercise will involve More Reserve units than Ever before including the first deployment of a Complete Reserve component brigade the Wisconsin army National guards 32nd inf brigade much. Sixty three army National guard and Reserve units ranging in size from detachments to battalions will participate. The command is moving closer to full implementation of its automated system for stowing equipment on ships. The system will Cut the time needed for developing Stow plans from 24 hours to two hours. We re really not sure How quickly we can Load the Navy s fast sea lift ships because we be never had the stevedores working around the clock like they will this year said maj. Gen. Harold Small a tic commander. Our objective is to Load about 1.400 pieces of equip ment within 48 hours and unload it in Europe within 24 hours Small said. Another a tic initiative this time is to familiarize units with the ports they probably would use to deploy in wartime. We be changed our philosophy on port selection said col. George Kain an a tic spokesman. In the past we be looked for the most economical route to the most economical port. Now we re saying that if a unit is deploying on an exercise we re going to deploy it whenever possible through its designated War Lime primary or secondary during this reformer Kaine said the port that a particular unit deploys to probably will be the same one that unit would use under wartime contingency plans. We re also giving unit commanders a Chance to go to the port prior to deployment he said. This will let Allih c players talk to each other and familiarize themselves with All aspects of the system. Hopefully it la make things run that much for the last exercise the command introduced codes computerized deployment system which drastically Cut the time it takes planners to figure out How to Stow equipment on ships bound for Europe. The Momcil continuing to implement that system. Small said that when the system is fully operational sometime in fiscal 1987, the time could be Cut to two hours from the current 24. If we re mobilizing for War he said we re not going to have 24 hours to decide How to Stow a the sys Teni uses ism personal computers to create three dimensional visualizations of the size and shape of ships. The computer takes into account individual characteristics of the ship including areas difficult to Maneu ver in weight limitations and balance requirements. It then kicks out a recommendation of How the equip ment should be positioned on Board. Previously staff members pasted miniature paper Cut outs of individual items of cargo onto printed Layouts on each deck of the ship an extremely tedious and time consuming task. However Small said the system will not eliminate human input. The vessel master still has the final say on stowing of gear on his ship he said. If he does t like the computer s recommendation for some reason and he does t have to give a reason we go Back to the computer and have it kick out some other configurations we can use until we get one that s to the vessel master s we be changed our philosophy on port selection col. George Kaine another aspect of the command s paperless deploy ment concept is a bar code system for identifying equipment. With this system each piece of equipment is labelled with the same bar codes that appear on just about every product found in supermarkets today. Soldiers using the system run an electronic Wand attached to a scanner Over the Label. The information is fed into a computer and can be used together with codes to draw up Stow plans for ships. About 100 equipment records can be fed into a com Puter in five minutes using the bar codes. The old proce Dure required filling out seven part forms. A Hundred equipment records took about two hours to process. The system now still needs what Small called a human interface someone to take the bar conc in formation and manually Transfer it to codes. When the system is fully implemented the command will have computer modems linking the two systems which will permit almost instantaneous electronic trans Fer of information. So if we re loading a train with equipment at fort Riley Kansas we can read the bar comes for each item going on the train and Send it by Modem to the port and into the codes Small said. By the time the train arrives Well already have a Stow plan for loading the equipment aboard ship and we re not far from that a tic essentially owns the . Side of reformer Small said. The command is responsible for getting equipment on and off the Navy s military sea lift come ships. The a tic also moves equipment to the ports and moves stateside units participating in reformer to the air Force s military Airlift come airfields if the units involved ask for those services. This reformer exercise will involve two of the Navy s fast sea lift ships the an arcs and the Algol which will Load in Baltimore md., and Beaumont Texas respectively. A third ship the Gas Turbine William m. Callag Han will Load in Jacksonville Fla. The ships will leave in late december and Early Jan uary for ports in Belgium where the a tic will unload them and Send the equipment on its Way to Germany for the certain Sentinel exercise. Viet troops mass on thai Border Bangkok Thailand up Vietnam has placed nearly 30,000 fresh troops backed by soviet built tanks and heavy artillery along the troubled thai cambodian Border a guerrilla radio broadcast said sunday. The broadcast which reflected recent thai intelligence reports came amid a divisive Power struggle among Lead in of the Khmer Peoples National liberation front the largest non communist cambodian guerrilla faction which is due to receive . Aid. The squabble has triggered a halt to the faction s guerrilla attacks leaving the group bunched at the Border and vulnerable to an anticipated vietnamese offensive As Early As Christmas Day Indochina observers said. Khmer Rouge radio said More than 28,000 new Viet namese troops have been deployed in Western Cambodia provinces bordering Thailand since mid november. They Are supported by 78 soviet built t-54 tanks 130mm artillery and thousands of tons of ammunition Laid the broadcast monitored in Bangkok. No Independent confirmation of the broadcast was available but thai intelligence sources said last week that convoys of vietnamese troops and supplies have been seen moving toward the thai Border in recent weeks. Vietnam invaded Cambodia on Christmas in 1978 to end a bloody three year Rule by the communist Khmer Rouge and install a Hanoi picked regime in phenom penh. The 40,000-Strong Khmer Rouge fled to the Border area and Job de a fragile coalition with the guerrillas and non communist loyalists of Prince Norodom Sihanouk. The China aimed coalition is recognized by the United nations and the Western bloc As the legitimate government of Cambodia. On thursday disgruntled guerrilla officials said they seized policymaking control in a bloodless coup but were retaining son Sann As president. But a liberation front press communique sunday said the group s executive committee and son Sann still have full authority Over All the civilian and military institutions of the fast food poultry in Moscow can the Kre Linburger be next Rome a fast food is coming at last to the heart of Moscow thanks to some italian entrepreneurs who think there s a Universal appetite for the kind of lunch americans eat in a hurry. Paolo Portoghesi who designed the eatery said the restaurant will be on a Side Street near red Square in the Shadow of the Kremlin. Final negotiations Are expected to be completed within a couple of weeks said Portoghesi and the restaurant should be open in time for the soviet communist party Congress which begins feb. 25. The menu catering to the tastes of muscovites will feature poultry dishes Portoghesi said. Me said that judging by the Long lines he has seen at lunchtime in Moscow muscovites should Welcome a fast food restaurant. The entrepreneurs Are considering opening a fast food eatery in peking. Portoghesi said and the Rome daily la re Publica said there Are negotiations for a Chain of fast food restaurants for Hungary. Philippine army draftee kills 4 in wild armoured vehicle ride Manila Philippines up an army draftee Joy Riding in an armoured personnel Carrier in the Southern Philippines Cut a six mile path of destruction that left four people dead before the vehicle slammed into a Coconut tree and stalled the philippine news Agency said. The news Agency reported that the draftee Ferdinand Ubay was said to be under the influence of eight other people were injured. Ubay climbed aboard the heavy assault vehicle at Campo Uno on the Southern Island of Basilan 570 Miles South of Manila roared out of the 5th inf in area and headed toward the town of Damitan. On the main Road Ubay ran Over and killed three Chil Dren including a 5-year-old girl and sideswiped three motorcycles and three motorized rickshaws killing a Farmer who was aboard one of them. Ubay then drove through town wheeled the arc around and headed toward a Rice Field but he rammed a Coconut tree and the vehicle stalled the report said. Ubay fled into the Rice Field but pursuing soldiers captured him an hour later. Thousands of noisy nuisances invade Bonn chancellery area Bonn up As Many As 10,000 unwelcome Refu gees from Eastern Europe the feathered kind Are bivouac King and creating a nuisance on the grounds around Chancellor Helmut Kohl s chancellery a Bonn newspaper reported. The plague of noisy starlings has desecrated the Chan Cellery grounds with foul smelling droppings prompting some exasperated Kohl aides to resort to undiplomatic epithets. The Birds have grown so Brazen that even attempts by the chancellery Gardener to drive them off with firecrackers have been futile the paper said. The invading starlings were believed to have been on their Way to Winter quarters in Southern Britain or the Atlantic coast of France when they got caught by wow and cold weather in late november. Quake measuring 4.9 shakes Bohemia portions of Austria Prague Czechoslovakia a following a siring of Light tremors in Western Bohemia a new earthquake measuring 4.9 on the Richter scale has been recorded by the seismic station of Pru Honick West of Prague the news Agency ctr reported. The tremors were strongest at plasma and Skalna in the District of Chub in Western Bohemia. No damage or injuries were reported. The quake also was Felt in Many places in Western and Central Bohemia As Well As in Vienna in neighbouring aus Tria and in the provinces of upper and lower Austria. No damage was known to have occurred. The Bohemian tremors starting Early in december with a strength of around 3.8 on the Richter scale and they were the first after a 75-year pause. Ione austrian experts recalling that Light quakes into extended Over months said they did not Rule out More tremors in coming weeks
