European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 11, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday april 1986 the stars and stripes Page 9 a team of German and . Medical personnel work together to remove an injured Soldier from an my Abrams tank. German american teams Are first to Aid in exercise bad Hersfeldt clinic chief nurse Deanne Meaut applies modelling Clay and paint to the face of spec. 4 Kristopher Bjorkman of troop k to simulate injuries. From Page 8 Ger commando Iii army flight command Iii to provide helicopter support. The Liaison Between the americans and germans was Reinhold Heinz the bad Hersfeldt clinic s ambulance Driver and emergency medical technician who is on temporary duty As a staff sergeant with the German army. The american medical personnel originally planned to use . Heli copters but the Blackhawk were grounded for safety inspections. One helicopter Crew went to the Frank Furt Hospital for the triage team which included or. Maj James m. Startzell an Oral surgeon or. Capt John c. Berg an internist capt. Stephen c. Hart a nurse and sgt. Barney s. Jones and spec. 4 David w. Mccuen both medics. The 45rminute flight from Frankfurt passed Over rolling mountains Evergreen forests and the Orange tile roofs of German houses. Smoke poured out of an Abrams tank Ashe helicopter landed. A catastrophic hit on an my Abrams tank is simulated by smoke billowing from the rear of the tank. Only one tank Down so far said or. Capt Richard Carter clinic commander briefing the team. The attempt now is kind of haphazard because it s More than two medics can  american and German medics scrambled to pick up casualties and bring them to the armoured medical Carrier which was quickly overrun by injured soldiers. Many litter were left outside. Triage team members ran from vehicle to vehicle looking for injured soldiers. Berg and Jones climbed up on an Abrams. Are you an injured party Berg asked a Soldier inside. Is there anyone inhere injured All Clear Here Berg said to Jones an they ran to the next tank. The troop , american and Ger Man medics and clinic personnel were too fast for the triage team. Everyone had been cleared from the Field so the team members began their work on casualties collected at the medical Carrier and the Airfield hangar. The team members had expected to super Vise the removal of the casualties from the vehicles. With some injuries it s safer not to move them immediately without expert help. You had to move those people said capt. Oliver Bell troop  were going to blow  members of troop k who played the part of casualties said they were impressed by the efforts of their comrades and the medical personnel. They had me out of the Bradley so fast i did t know what was happening said pfc. David gaunt whose Arm  pfc. Michael Marshall s face was burned and  in five minutes i was on the Stretcher he said. Capt. Wolfram Kuhfus who led the Ger Man medics also was impressed with How rapidly the medical personnel reacted to the situation. It s very important that we associate to Gether germans and americans he said. Language did not seem to be a problem. Sometimes the americans could speak a Little German or the germans could speak English. Sometimes they pointed. Startzell said the triage team Learned it needs to Send one of its members to the casualty collection Point to make sure patients Are placed according to the serious Ness of their injury. When patients were brought to the hangar they were mixed up. There were lots of Little things that we picked up Here he said