European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 15, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes thursday May 15.19s6 Reagan hails spec a role of service member Washington a president Reagan in n Mes Sage prepared in Honor of armed forces Day said he nation h proud Ami grateful of military members very special contribution to keeping America  por most americans armed farces Day is i once a year cd Chi bid la you who serve in inc army Navy air Force Marine corps and coast guard every Day is  Day Reagan said in inc message which wat Rvl Iid tuesday.bj1 the Pentagon. Armed Force Day is saturday. Whether Sou Are on a lonely Mimp on Posl in Korea serving in that Urban Island of Freedom known is Wem Berlin patrolling the High seas unloading cargo planes it Diego Garcia turning eager youngsters into proud marines or rescuing Smill Waier Craft off our nation s coasts you nil serve America and serve in Well. We Are proud of you proud and grateful. 1 Salute All of you today and every Day fur Yogi very special contribution to keeping am idea  the Pentagon said Reagan s message would be distributed la military bases Amund the world along with so i. Rate statements by defense Secretary crts Par w. Wein Berger and adm. William a Crowe the chairman of the join chiefs of staff. On this armed forces Day of 1986, i Hope you can sense As i do that All americans Bave a renewed Pride and Confidence in their armed forces and in the achieve ments of our men and women in uniform Weinberger wrote. This is a tremendous accomplishment which you your selves achieved through sacrifice and  Crowe added i am convinced without a doubt that  s to edicts sailors marines airmen  guardsmen Active. Guard and Reserve arc the Best i be seen in my 40 years of service. To keen peace is our fundamental Mission but w must remember thai Freedom is not free Crowe said. It requires of us constant Effort and vigilance i know we arc Vitial la inc task today us we have always been in the   update coast guard airlifts soviet Sailor Portland. Ore. A a Soviel Sailor air lifted from his ship by in const guard Hejkal plur is in serious condition with a blood disorder officials said. A helicopter plucked Fedar Gachev 37, from n soviet cargo ship after the ship s Crew asked for help said coast guard chief quartermaster Pahl Putkey. University i it Pill spokeswoman Jill Kaady said that gallic was diagnosed As suffering from a chronic disorder that causes Bruise like spats on the body. A Hev s ship wus in route from the soviet onion to Vancouver British Columbia Saint put Tuccy. 2 libyans on trial in Ankara Adana Turkey not two libyans have gone on trial in Ankara on charges they conspired to bomb the american officers club then last month. The attempt was failed at the last moment. Three Oiler libyans two employee of a c libyan embassy my a representative of Libya s nations airline arc being tried in absent a. At the opening session in stale Security court the Case was adjourned for one week the indictment for the first time discloses specifics of a Case thai if proved would support american contentions that the libyan govern ment is directly involved in terrorism. The two men on trial in Ankara Are All Elecey ii Ramadan and Recap Muhtar Rohoma tar uni. They were captured on april 13 by turkish police officers who said they saw the two men prowling around the club. The prosecutor charge they in tended to hurl grenades into inc club which was tilled with Mare than 100 americans and turks attending a wedding reception. Military to stockpile Frozen blood in Europe for possible wartime needs by Joseph Owen. Stuttgart Bureau Stuttgart the . Military will begin blocking Frozen blood it Europe within three years a meet anticipated needs during War a Neucom spokesman said army maj. Larry Fallz Neucom s military blood pro Gram director said the defense department also intends to make its Sis european blood shipping centers Mobile so they Cun escape enemy attacks the intent is to have a system that can better sustain our fighting forces Felu said. The department Hopes to Complete the project by the year cited in the program s name military blood pro Gram 2004." a Dod master concept plan issued in March provided details of inc now 2-year-old project and Felt said the assistant Secretary of defense for health affairs has approved its implementation. Military personnel in Europe donate about 7,000 pints of blood yearly enough to fulfil peacetime needs but not to meet the demands that War would impose said air Force Cape. Mart d. Williams chief of Laboratory serv ices at Ramstein a Germany and the Safe military blood program manager. Right now we re highly dependent on the United states to Supply More than half our wartime blood Williams said. We want id keep self sufficiency in our unified  he said no bases in Europe Are equipped to handle the volume of blood shipments that a War would require and those shipments could be Cut off in a Battle. Liquid blood has a shelf life of about 33 Days if in is stored at 36 to so degrees fahrenheit. Frozen blood has a 16-year shelf life and Williams said the technology of freezing and thawing blood products is improving steadily. By stocking Frozen blood in european depots the depart ment Hopes to give soldiers in combat Quick Access to blood and to eliminate some of the logistical problems involved in shipping it from the United Stales. Felt said the project will Lake 20 years because of the expense of installing new equipment and training person Nel and because the technology of Frozen blood has not been applied in his  the first Frozen blood supplies intended for Long term storage Are expected to arrive in Europe in about three years. The plan Calls for technicians m the armed services whole blood processing laboratories in new Jersey and to Nils the air Force will store the blood at shipping centers at Raf Laken Halh United kingdom Rhein main a Germany Torr Jon a Spain Aviano a Llali hell Chi Kon a Greece and in Ciurlik a. Turkey. The depart ment plans to establish several army and Navy Frozen blood depots and to make the shipping centers Mobile so they can be relocated if necessary during a War. Most Frozen blood will be Type "0." the Universal donor so there will be no need to Check blood types of injured soldiers a we have to do is thaw it out and move it Down the Chain lathe Battlefield Williams said. Even after the Frozen blood stocks Are in place the defense department still would ship liquid blood to Enron  a War he said. The liquid supplies would be used first Fultz said and the military would resort to the Frozen blood in an Emer gency. Feltz said the military has shipped pallets of blood and artificial blood to Europe during Field training exercises every year since 1979, and has snipped Small amounts of Frozen blood three limes. Fire destroys mail in Germany on Way Tsapos by Drenda Hoster Sloff Weller an undetermined amount of mail bound for . Army and British farces Post offices in North Germany was destroyed in a trailer fire or damaged by water used to extinguish the Blaze a postal official said wednesday. The mail was in a truck trailer that caught fire tuesday morning along autobahn 1 North of Cologne. The mail was bound for Apo 09078 and Apo 09171 in Muenster Apo 09103 in Rici Dahlen Apo 09711 in dues Shorf Apo 09713 in Sheinberg and Apo 09292 at Camp new Amsterdam. Apo mail destined for British forces Post offices is exchanged at the Rici Dahlen office. We re not sure what caused the fire said sgt. Maj. Loren do crop senior maintenance officer for the 37th trans croup in Kaiserslautern. It could have been bad wheel bearings a Flat tire that got hot or a number of other things. We re just not sure at this Point. We re still tooling into  most of the fire was contained to one Side of inc trailer dec Kop said. There was Little damage to the trailer As a matter of fact we put a new wheel Assembly on the trailer and drove it Back he said. No Ore was injured in the incident. Some of the 171 sacks and pieces of mail were destroyed by the fire but most of the damage was from the water used to put in out said u. Daniel Olsen spokesman for the . Army postal croup Europe in Schwelm Zingen postal officials have no idea exactly How much mail was destroyed because each sack could have contained up to several Hundred letters Olsen said mail with a legible address was delivered yesterday tuesday he said. Postal personnel arc still trying to dry the wet mail and determine who he addressees Are. We will Send u letter with that mail to the addressees to explain what happened.". People who had registered or insured mail will be Able to apply for compensation through the postal system Plsen said. Others will have to lie a claim with their local judge advocate general s office. Could give Complete Protection Jane s says soviets reportedly adding new Armor to tanks Lon Don a soviet t-64 tanks Are getting a new kind of add on Armor that could give Complete Protection against anti tank weapons used by nato forces Jane s defense weekly said tuesday. Intelligence photographs show so called reactive Armor plates fitted to the t-64, an older Laik still widely in use in divisions deployed in the soviet Union Jane s said quoting nato intelligence sources. The panels Urc said to be about 2 feel Square and 9 inches thick. Reactive Armor is believed to have been developed by the israelis who showed in for the first time fitted to tanks during the 1982 invasion of Lebanon. The Armor is in fact a Type of explosive which erupts outward when an anti tank weapon starts to make Impact thus neutralizing the effect of the incoming round Jane s said the report said Many soviet tanks now have an advanced laminate Armor that is immune to penetration by Many anti tank weapons. If the soviets Are fitting reactive Armor to tanks already fitted with laminate Armor then they conk have Complete Protection against a tows anti tank guided weapons on which nato relies for much of its anti Lank defensive capability the report said. U said the soviets had been expected to develop reactive Armor but intelligence sources had expressed surprises the Speed with which in appeared. It is believed that the majority of the soviet Union s to is will be adapted to carry the reactive Armor Over the next two years Jane s said