European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 28, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 10 the stars and stripes Friday february 28, 1986 Gay go Al isl i importance of Wing wide r,n1e.er,oa.,,Ica,,Erwing the dreaded Chen us blahs Are jus offs is a xxx fan open letter to All tactical fighter win commanders the time has come to say the Unsay Able to risk the Royal Wrath for in must be said the emperor s new clothes do not exist he is marching around naked being on my third Lour in Germany 1feel somewhat qualified to comment on the subject i wish to address the dreaded Salty nation. Mustering All of my Powers of objectivity i feel compelled to say lha the Way these exercises Are planned and executed is not working Good enough an most import ally is not adequately provid ing training to the whole is accepted Dogma Hal these exercises Are supposed to increase readiness but is that enough in t readiness what we want and not just a faltering step or two toward Hal goal my opinion is Hal the three four or More Day exercise is wasting resources creating negative attitudes and providing generally Low state of readiness to a significant percentage of Wing stated my theory can be summed up thusly How Many successful sports teams can you think of whose Only practice is to play a scrimmage bringing this Down to the individual level How Many successful Long distance runners have had world class results by using their training time Only to run the distance a which they compile i believe there Are no examples in answer to these questions an the same analogy is valid for our exercises. So what s wrong Wilh business As usual glad you asked. First i believe there is a significant number of Wing resources people mostly Hal Are washed during the Marathon exercise. Far Loo Many peo ple arc non product live and Are simply waiting for the next red or Black maintenance is deferred during exercises. Paperwork begins Loback up i distribution baskets All Over the base. Now i m sure in arc Are those who would and besides who wants to have that Pel project spread out when a red alarm occurs and they Are injured killed or evacuated. So. They wait. And what if one docs try to keep Busand accomplish something constructive the dreaded chem suit blahs arc just wailing for such a poor soul. Those who work inside Marvel at How anyone could perform strenuous labor in the Chen semble. I have never met a person who was t beginning to drag by inc Middle of Only one thing that can be done Wilh dedication nothing Al All. Admittedly scenarios Are played out an the exercise moves from one stage to the next but with the whole Wing immobilized and Only so Many hours in the Day wide gaps erupt in the focus and Benefit of scripted events with Large numbers of personnel not involved not system encourages negative feel Ings toward the exercise and makes theman ordeal to be dreaded and avoided if possible and not the Well oiled training vehicles so proudly proclaimed. But you say training is taking place of i la agree but far Loo much of it is wasted on the gotcha thesis inc systematic practice of throwing every possible stumbling Block in the Way of doing the task to be evaluated and then saying you re dead maimed wounded when the wrong action is taken. This is training what is being taught is failure not Mastery of skill. How can one help but Harbor grave concern for their safety in the event of War when every raining event shows that the task cannot be done correctly quickly and without hesitation because there will always Buxo unexploded ordnance snipers etc., in the Way should t we be investing our training time in learning How to do the task and Only on occasion run Inlo obstacles or perhaps we could devote an entire training session to dealing with obstacles then press is merely the tip of the iceberg bul one May ask so whal we All have complaints about the Way things Are. How can it be done belter i have some thought son that subject. My ideas Are Only the thoughts of one no but i see some meriting them and if seriously considered added to and used As a starting Point they could Bethe basis for a new approach to gelling the Job done and making life More endurable . Forces in Europe. The Basic premise of my idea is Hal less is More. The More training and Cvarch focused and Fine tuned inc ir.-. Duct ivc they will be. It is not Fri Hal in order to be Able to fight have to keep fighting full fledged a i. Arc we Younci ivc u1b of readiness can beet in a belter Way. 1 believe that a much Tower approach would be to break the War name Down into As Many segments As Nec Essary so that it can be practice in individual 12-hour sessions. For instance if we were to use the pre sent Cycle As a Standard we could have six phases one every two weeks. This would cover our Normal quarterly requirement. It would also leave the alternate weeks Touse in Case we needed to overkill for the big the phases we could use the tried and True training methods Tel them what you re going to practice prac Tice in Lell them How they did then repeat repeal repeat using the 12 hours to the fullest advantage and saving the gotcha obstacles for their own specific session. Isolate the Airfield attack responses an separate them from other tasks. If you want to show us what it is like to work inthe cd Environ men use a whole Day if necessary to Pra Clicc wearing the Gas mask and treating and evacuating wounded. Use the beginning and end of each training Day to process in put of the shelter As you would during is not necessary to close the base and make personnel endure two or three week sin a shelter. They will have to Deal with thai during a War and will accept it require it now when families Are still Here is just another irritant. Getting int and out of the shelter is the key skill. The rest is Only a Mailer of Good planning an the motivation which actual War will pro Don t need to go Inlo details on each phase. This is for inc planning folks to Point is it can be done differently. There Are factors that should be consid ered before one starts to say Why this can t be done. I believe my idea would present Factor that is sorely missing from the pre sent format regularity. Knowing exactly when inc training is to occur makes plan Frederick the great died in 1786, not 1736 trivia question what famous King of Prussia reigned for 50 years after his death the answer according to your piece on Germany s museum of the military is Frederick ii better known As Frederick thereat. Your article stated that the museum is commemorating the King s death in 1736,but in fact Frederick reigned until his death in 1786. What i can t figure out is that the museum allegedly cited this year As the 250th anniversary of the death which would infant place u in 1736. So who made the mistake was it you Orthe museum or is it me maybe old Fred really did reign so years after attending disown funeral. No wonder they called him great. Opt. Robert r. Leonhard pen pals i would ilk to correspond with people in other countries. I am 10 Yuri old and roman Catholic. My hobbles Art Reading dialling a Jouino biking and swimming. 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I Polony Soulac Atabati Philippines puerto Germanas vice president of the German Ameri can club Darmstadt i occasionally get thread the stars and stripes and it was with great interest that read your article about Germany s museum of the unfortunately there Are two mistakes Inthis article Long Jonas did definitely not serve inthe army of Frederick the great since when he died in 1727, Frederick was only15 years old. Frederick did not die in 1736 either. Infant no prussian King died in that year. The facts Are that Friedrich Wilhelm i King of Prussia born in 1688, died in 1740, ruled 1713-1740, was a great fan of the military. For his bodyguard regiment the so called Langen Kerls the Lon Guy she recruited tall men from All Over Europe. At the time the army s muskets had smooth bore barrels and to hit any thing with them at a reasonable distance they had to have As Long a barrel As Possi ble. And since the muskets were muzzle loaders tall men could Load them much easier and faster than Short King s son Frederick ii named the great was born in 1712, died in 1786,ruled from 1740-1786. Therefore the pc Cial exhibition this summer commemorates the 200th anniversary of his death not the 250th.nevertheless, i enjoyed Reading about the museum of which i did not know an shall certainly go there this summer. Helmut sues Darmstadt Germany our error. Sorry. De. Ning easier bul More importantly i main Tain Hal military personnel and their Fain Vilics can adapt very Well to a regular Les arduous schedule. Disruptions to the daily workload would be minimized. Training and evaluation would be More focused and therefore More productive. Finally the Warrior attitude would be improved due to regular training less stressful training and Confidence fas kills that arc taught and reinforced in repeated intense Short , i Don t want a spokesperson to justify Why we do things As we do them and How they Are just Fine thank you. I merely want to have my ideas an thoughts considered of their own Merit. Others probably have even better Point is what we have now is a Sham and a major irritant. The Mission can be accomplished in 1 better Way. Unless persons at your level want the old ways to change they never will. Someone has to Tell the emperor about his new clothes. Name and address withheld. Editor s note cot. Lee , director of combat employment he Safe replies you Are right. We All need to look objectively at the Way we do things from Tine to Lime to make sure we Are not the Way it has always since you have been in Safe for Tei Erl Tours you will remember when a local exercises phase one and two ear blend were no notice and we had a Tea. Rate operational readiness inspection Amnato tactical evaluation in the Era making phase two a separate All scheduled exercise and combining the hand tac Eval we enhanced our rtt Ness training and reduced the tar caused by exercises. The rationale for Joar proposal is along similar a nutshell you suggest Shorter air frequent exercises focused on events and sections within the Wing. While Ibert is Merit to ibis kind concentrated Effort. It will not take Fol place of the Wing wide several Day Schaar. To. -3 to use your analogy athletes do lady to. Ual conditioning and training in their it i Allied skills. But they still must Pra oct As a learn under the most demanding Coa Lions to prepare for Competition. In the armed forces we improve our och visual skills by performing our Dairy my however a combat Wing is More thai m sum of Many individual efforts. While each person has his Job to do ii the Wing u a whole that goes to War. Tarj by exercising the Wing together under trained simulated combat condition Tuff Lell if the unit can perform its Mission. If we had the luxury of More pop the air Force support and personnel would my have to train As wait melees in War skills. Unfortunately Wenot have this Choice. We All have a do when the Wing goes to War and not match our air Force specially Wing wide exercise Means not everyone i be doing his primary Job All the time. Much of your critique of our training deals Wilh the arts Jwj survive to operate Sto. Admittedly or dents like air attacks ufos snipers Salty care and defensive cd proc have a major Impact on the Wing a to conduct operations. Sto and uncomfortable. But to Tat out of our exercise scenarios w0unrealistic. In wartime everyone has jobs accomplishing the assigned and surviving. While we roust continually Rethia training methods our objective w ways be to provide the maximum capability for the entire Wing. This Tatj costly in time and resources and a much personnel discomfort. In the. Analysis though the training we get your local exercises u More import Natl the paperwork stacking up in Ourk ets
