European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 11, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday february 11, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 9 army medics learn value of advanced training by Chris Estes Starr writer Aschaffenbur Germany the army has stretched the limits of what some medics can do on battlefields and in emergencies. Advanced medical no schooling gives Media new skills beyond what they had been allowed to per form even in emergencies. Staff sgt. Ken Hall no in charge of the 9th medi Cal dispensary in a Schallenburg said the training he received at fort Sam Houston Texas helped save two lives. Two drug overdose victims probably would have died without his advanced training he said. It the training helped me to assess the situation quickly and know what to do Hall said. You can t go out pick that patient up not knowing what he needs and take him Back to the doctor who docs. He needs you 10 minutes ago. If you know what he needs put him on oxygen and maybe get an in started then you re Way ahead of the game. That s the first thing the doctor is going to have done  Hall who joined the army in 1978, was assigned to Germany in 1984 after completing the four month intensive course. The new Field 91b or Superb is aligned with National standards of paramedics in the United states. They started teaching about body systems in More depth than we had Learned in the Normal medic course he Taid. Much of the training concentrated on assessing body systems and determining what was wrong with them he said. Among the things he now can do in peacetime emergencies that he could t before Are suturing ivs immunizations and inserting tubes through the nose into the stomach. He also can read electrocardiograms heart tests. In wartime the advanced medics have even More author  re taught to function As the primary person to decide where the patients go this person needs to be taken care of now this person needs to be taken care of in half an hour so he can wait a Little " he said patients May have to be cared for longer and in More depth on future battlefields than in Vietnam. They need to be maintained for up to 72 hours be cause in the next War we re probably not going to Nave air superiorly. I think that s what they re the army looking at. We an t medevac them like we did in Nam. We re going to have to sustain a patient until ency get to higher medical  Hall said the school also helps him train the medics he supervises. There was a teaching Side so we could teach 91 alphas who Haven t been to this  Hall s self Confidence has been boosted by the training. I feel a lot More comfortable assessing a patient. I feel More comfortable getting into the Back of an ambulance. I have More Confidence that when i get there i la know what to do. It will come More natural to  he also thinks the training indirectly improves the image soldiers have of medics. When a person comes in and sees the medic knows what he s doing and has More Confidence in himself then i really think that patient has a whole lot More Confidence that he s being taken care of. They tend to relax a lot More and feel they re in better  Hall said More medics should go through the course. I Don t think it should be just for e-4 promotable e 5s and e-6s. I think that it should be for All medics even if they put it on As an Extension to the medic course. Or lower the rank criteria a Little  Hall said the additional training gives a medic More career incentive. Before you went to school then went to your unit and that s All there was. You could t go any higher. Maybe emergency medical technician but that s about it a 7th medical come spokesman said that while the Sis photo by Ovit Lolo Starr sgt. Kea Hall takes an egg or spec. 4 Al Bolds. Test is offered by City colleges of Chicago for any 9ib who wants to try for the License. Of reportedly reversed View of anti smuggling Wing Washington a classified air Force documents which initially supported creation of an air Wing to detect flying drug Muggle is later were changed to oppose the Mission according to a congressman and a House staffer who saw the memos. The original version of the documents would Lead any one Reading them to conclude that it would be feasible and beneficial to establish the new unit according to the two men who saw  Reading the later versions would conclude that the unit would harm air Force readiness and was a bad idea they said. The documents were revealed by rep. Glenn English,d-okla., chairman of a House government operations sub committee investigating the nation s drug interdiction Effort and Ted Lunger a staff member on the House. Armed services committee. The Issue was raised at a hearing of English s commit tee last Friday. The air Force decided it did t want to do a so the changed the report to say it would be Adverse English said. In a subsequent interview he said this is an attempt to sabotage the air Wing. It appears the policy makers of the air Force would go to any length to avoid being involved in the War on  at the witness table at the hearing were retired la. Gen. Dean Tice. Director of the Pentagon s drug enforcement task Force and Karen r. Keesling principal Deputy assistant Secretary of the air Force for manpower Reserve affairs and installations. I know of no such document Tice said and Keesling added that she also was unaware of the memo. Congress authorized creation of the unit in the 1986 defense authorization Bill that passed last year. It called for 10 planes with sophisticated surveillance and detection equipment to be flying by 1988. Congress said it wanted the unit operated by the first special operations Wing at Hurlburt Field in Florida which operates ac-130 gunships four engine Turbo props that could be built in a stretch version for use against airborne smugglers. Lawmakers included $35 million for the Purchase and. Outfitting of the first aircraft in Hopes it would be in service next january. But Keesling said the air Force could not get Lockheed aircraft corp., manufacturer of ac-130s, to submit an unsolicited bid for new planes and will have to begin a time consuming bidding process. English gave these examples of changes in the memos an original memo said the longer stretch version which could accommodate surveillance and detection equipment could be useful to the air Force in military missions. Later the conclusion was that the stretch was of no use militarily if it had been the air Force would have ordered h. The later version said the drug Mission would harm military readiness of the special operations unit that would operate the planes the earlier memo said any readiness problems stemmed from a shortage of planes and Crews. The original starts with an Assumption that the air Force will have to establish the unit to comply with the will of Congress later the Assumption was changed to say the air Force would have to comply by operating one or two planes and then give the Mission to the Navy. A later version had a barnyard epithet rubber stamped several times on one of the pages. Congressional staffers familiar with the concept of the new unit envisioned that the planes used for the drug Effort could quickly be fitted for military Husejn wartime. They would be replacement planes for any air Force a 130s lost in a conflict. Two of the planes would be stationed in Panama to detect flying drug smugglers when they took off from latin Ameri can airstrips. They would pass the information along to Mili tary and Law enforcement forces in the is. This Way . Forces would know which planes reach ing the . Coast were Likely smugglers and other ac-130s would continue the tracking Effort. Speedy . Cus Toms service planes then would pursue the smugglers and in turn Contact customs bust teams in helicopters that could land with the smugglers and make an arrest. Customs already has four p-3 flying detection platforms and is to receive two More.  bid to take Over British firm Likely to succeed London a a european consortium bidding for Britain s Westland helicopter maker said monday it has failed to get sufficient shares making Success Likely for a .-led takeover in a dispute which has rocked the conservative government. The consortium hoping to woo Small shareholders ten dered two weeks ago for 20.2 percent of shares to enable it to Block a rival Rescue package by the us. Sikorsky com Pany and Italy s Fiat at a shareholders meeting in London in wednesday. It is disappointing said banker David Horne Finan Cial adviser to the five company european consortium. " but the outcome is by no Means decided. It will be the shareholders who finally decide the Issue on wednesday. Sex defense Secretary Michael Heseltine who put his Job on the line and lost it last month in fierce advocacy of the european package for the ailing Wesland pc would probably make a statement later aides said. Trade Secretary Leon Brittan also resigned after leaking a government document aimed at discrediting Heseltine. The european consortium had offered $1.82 a share when the Price stood at $1.54. Westland shares were quoted at si.54 on the London Stock Exchange on monday falling slightly from Friday after Home s announcement. The europeans set a saturday deadline for 20.2 acceptance or for the offer to lapse. When acceptances were tallied monday they fell Short said Home. He declined to give the specific figure but be said u was  the Westland Board which backs the Sikorsky Fiat bid said in a statement that it remained cautious but added we would have thought that this must increase our  wednesday s meeting needs Only a simple majority to approve a takeover compared with 75 percent required at a Jan. 17 shareholders meeting. Sikorsky failed then getting 65.2 percent approval. The european consortium is comprised of two British companies British aerospace pc and the general elec tric co. Messerschmidt Bolkow Blohm of Germany France s Aero spatial and Italy s Augusta. The consortium holds 27 percent of the shares and is assured of support by the largest individual shareholder Alan Bristow with 17 percent and another. 5 percent shareholder. An additional 20.2 percent would thus virtually have assured a european Victory. The dispute about a relatively insignificant company turned into the biggest crisis for prime minister Margaret Thatcher s administration since she won Power in 1979,raising questions about her competence and integrity. Thatcher has said she did not know for 16 Days after the damaging Jan. 6 news leak that Brittan was responsible provoking Public scepticism and opposition charges of cover up. Heseltine argued that a .-led takeover will under mine Western Europe s Independent armaments manufacturing capacity. Thatcher s official position was cab. Inc neutrality