European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 22, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 the stars and stripes wednesday january 22, 1966 5,000 Canadian forces troops taking part in joint exercise news update do Joseph Owen staff writer Germany Tow Canadian forces More Mccu timed to could Wei her training than trim armies Nave deployed Aboul 5.000 Trumps acts Muddy North Ern Bavaria us Isdr first full scale comr Button to a Joni Winter exercise in seven years. Like i hair american i underparts. The canadians Don t have a lot i in in Hie certain Sentinel Maneu vers because to Jirm. Rainy weather has deprived them of training Fieldi Bui even nun ing to the stunt it challenging tas k for 4 Canadian Mcc Hunisch Rig add group u Wolf supporting outfit ready la throw everything from auks a Clieo pics into Bailie. The brigade under the command of Brig Gen . Pan Gerfield sent 10 units to the enc Cise nearly All the ground troops stationed ii Canadian bases in Lahr and Badin such line in. They arrived in Ruck Oan Voys nit trains Over he weekend. One unit 1 Royal Canadian How arty is Fielding u major new piece of equipment tic miq9a2 155mm self propelled Howiler. The other units Are the Royal Canadian dragoons he 1st in Royal 22ml Reg the 2nd priness Patricia s Canadian Light inf 4 combat engr regt ill arid signals so 444 tac helicopter so 4 Field ambulance 4 service in and 4 my pit. German trains unloaded troops and equipment at Bam Borg for Chhim and pc Nitz on sunday and monday. The for Chhim drop occurred on schedule according to War rant officer Ronald Bruce of 4 Canadian combat engr we were All in the Ball Park Bruce said at the Forch Heim Lalion. You can t beat i Csc German railways. You can set your watch by his unit s most tedious task was unloading 2.5-Mctric-tort 2.75 Short tons sections of armoured vehicle launched Bridges. Removing the four sections of a Bridge from the train assembling them and mourning Ihm atop a inverted Leopard tank takes an hour Bruce said. The Bride the is 7x6 feel Long when assembled and 36.3 feel Long when carried on the Leopard. The Bridge Assembly occurred in i tight space on a plat Canadian farces troops Al Forch Helm firn any. Tore Day unload a Mobile Bride from flt re form club cred with tanks bulldozers armoured personal Carrier and other heavy vehicles. Aii that equipment is Likely to see Little use in the exercise but none will be so limited As the excavators parked Down the Road from he station. The excavators Are used to build tank defensive positions and anti Lank ditches Bui they rarely Are used for digging on military exercises because of Tine High repair Bills anal Tan result from damage to civilian properly. We be Only done it once in the five years i be been Here said Cpl. Richard Atherton an excavator pc razor. Atherton recalled Ihal Farmers whose Fields were dug up weren t too impressed with the damage done o their land. Tie town s mayor had aug Tori at the Man Euver lie said but i guess he did t pass it on o the participation in certain Sentinel Marks the end of the canadians annual raining Cycle. The Cycle begins each year with unit training at . Facilities in Hohenfels and and Hen moves la brigade level Maneu vers in towns and villages. Reserve unit tests new techniques at 60-bed combat support Hospital by Joseph Owen staff writer Dinkel Buehl Germany sick and injured a americans Are malting sure that certain Sentinel is no Mere exercise for said ices of the 345lh combat support Hospital an army Reserve unit from Jacksonville Fla. The unit modelled its my Hospital on the Village concept by Selling up facilities in a Brush factory in the West Ern bavarian town of Dinkl Buehl and then adding on portable rooms and to cols. Or. Col Warren Barren the 345th commander said his unit would have required four acres of land to assemble u Field Hospital Only from portable rooms and ends. The reservists also broke Pew ground by be slug a new deployment Echt Isaae designed to Nuj them to wort faster said Brig. Gen. John Dreska of the 2nd support come. If we went to War these Are some of the first Guys who would come in Many units participating in the Winter Maneu vers picked up heir equipment tit strategically located storage Sites in Europe and combat support Hospital units did that m the Post. However the 345th occupied a facility that Dreska s said ices already had set up and the unit used Maic rials flown in Jan. 7-11 by the 31st support come Hospital in Parma a nor what it does is it lets us Hil the ground running. And we did Barren said As soon As they put up a sign that said Hospital we had patients. We be had 16 admissions and we be Wen 178 people in four the Hospital serves As an evacuation Center during cer Tain Sentinel taking patients from three Field collection Points. The exercise s reduced scale has resulted m fewer injuries although the staff did treat six people who were Coughl in a maintenance garage fire. One victim a specialist 4 suffering from smoke inhalation was transferred to a Hospital in Nuernberg. Barren normally a surgeon at Baptist medical Center in Jacksonville said the 345th include 11 physicians 39 nurses an Oral surgeon a pharmacist and a diet Ian. The Dinke Buehl Hospital also includes a Dentas clinic staffed by eight a Iivo duly army dentists from the s7tn medical Dei in Nuernberg. While providing real medical cure to soldiers in need the unit also has Given several Hundred area Orcsi nurse it. Sandy Kelsey in mask and medical Itchel Clin put Margaret Lalk to German visitors. Dents a tour through the temporary Hospital. The Hospital hosted a Stream of German visitors sunday during an Moncri House showing them How one of the factory s three buildings was transformed into Hospital wards and offices. But the big attraction was a series of expandable Unciul rooms and Pale Green inflatable 13-by-24-foot ints attached to the building All relying on a single helicopter engine for Cha electricity and ventilation. Many germans touring the Hospital were health professionals curious about the anticipated Quality of health care behind Battle lines. It s a Good option for emergencies in my opinion said excl Bruni so inter who works As a pan time nurse with the German red Cross. Some germans were curious about details which had nothing la a with health care. One woman asked a reservist if she had any children at Home and who was coring for Ibero in her absence. For heir part the reservists expressed gratitude for the warm rec won they have received in Dinkl Buehl a Small medieval town where tourists Are much More common than soldiers in full Battle dress. This is an open City said it. Col. Buddy pure Etc the executive officer. They re very gracious hosts. Death toll in Venice fire rises Venice imly up a of year Oid Woma died in a Hospital of injuries she suffered m a cite in the cot Diri ment store raising the death count to five. The & Itaipu id Tifka the fifth a cum As Emilia Myrlo Pinion who hid suffered Burns on one Tod and her Fae. Her husband. , 74, was hospitalized in serious condition three woman employees of the store and a 17 car old youth working on the renovation of one son of the store were killed m the fire de Lorean trial to begin april 7 Detroit a the Federal racketeering trial of former Nuton scr John 2. Del Orcan who Ujj accused of defrauding investor in his company out of b,9 million will begin april 7, a . Dis. The seed Fulcd november Start of the rial citing he complexity of the issues. Do Lorenn who Hui pleaded innocent is free on is million unsecured Bond. Cook s order gave do Lorenn until march_3l id change his plea to guilty or to win pc a trial by jury. Britain bans visit by Farrakhan London a Louis Farrakhan. The Amer ican Black Muslim Leader has been banned from entering Britain Home Secretary Douglas Hurd hat Tola the House of commons. Hurd said in a written reply to two legislators who demanded the ban "1 have decided in lie Liam of or. Farrakhan s Public statements that to pres ence in the United kingdom would not be conducive 10 Pijie Public Good and have Given instruction Ihal he should be refused leave to enter if he seeks admission to the United Farrakhan Heads a Chicago based Black Power organization. He received widespread publicity in Britain about anti semitic remarks he made in speeches in the United slates when Fie praised nazi dictator Adolf Miller and called Judaism a dirty he was invited to visit next month by the Hackney Black people s association a North London group. 1st reformer unit from . Preparing to return Home slag Haren Netherlands 5&s tie first reservists 10 draw equipment on their Way to it certain Sentinel 86 exercise became the first to return their unit gear tuesday. One Hundred members of the 449lh m p co of Jackson Ville Fla., were expected to Complete i hair equipment turn in tuesday at a pre positioned equipment site at Ter ape Netherlands. Company platoons were assigned to Germany in Mann Heim Karlsruhe Pir Masens and Kaiser Slatlem to provide rear area support during the exercise said Sec. Walt Sokalski a 7th support come spokesman at the redeploy ment marshalling area at Sfa Gharon. The unit is scheduled 10 depart at the end of the week. German police arrest 3 gis in robbery of taxi Driver Frankfurt is German police apprehended three 3rd Arrond div soldiers in connection with the Rob Bery of a taxi Driver a Public affairs spokesman said tuesday. The suspects were apprehended about i . Monday he said. A Frankfurt newspaper reported Ihal the three soldiers look 150 Marks about $100 and a Wrt Stalch from the Driver shortly before they were picked up. They were turned Over to the Frankfurt military Community criminal investigation div which is investigating the incident the spokesman said. The soldiers have been released to their units. Correction the stars and stripes tuesday incorrectly reported that debris from a c-130, which crashed More than a year ago at the Gie Belstadt army Airfield at Herzo base Ger Many damaged six German feat tents eel up to support redeployment of . The tents set upon the opposite end of the Airfield from the Plazea were damaged Only by the 73-Mph winds
