European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 23, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday May 23, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 9 a mock of is in left photo bums in the training nit designed to keep Jet fuel from soaking into the ground. Firefighters douse the firn Ilhan minutes Richl. Pit helps firefighters practice for aircraft fires by Jean Albright Tilburg Bureau Pitburg a Germany firefighters at Tilburg a Are he first in Safe to use a Concrete lined pit equipped with Arr underground fuel system to douse a moult aircraft in training sessions. The new training pit installed near the end of a runway is the prototype of a pit All Safe bases eventually will have. The pit solves problems associated with raining with out sacrificing realism said master ski Thomas Vieth of Tilburg s fire prevention Section. The Concrete lining and raised lip keep fuel and water from soaking into the ground and they allow firefighters id concentrate on Speed and technique in their training Vieth said. The old training site is a rough Hole dug in the ground he said it gels very Muddy and before a prac Tice could be considered Complete we d have to go Back to the station and scrub mud off the tires and our protective  in practice at the new Pil an underground fuel system pours fuel on top of water and around an aircraft mock up designed to be set afire. New crash and firefighting trucks douse the flames with a foam and water mixture in about is second and Rescue Crews go through the motions of pulling people from the wreck. The new truck a p-19, shoots its foam mixture from guns on top and at steering wheel level it can Siphon water from any standing i1 or me Wien its water and foam mixture runs out and can run on diesel fuel and three types of Jet fuel Vilh said. Pitburg has live of the trucks and is the first to convert entirely to their use. Other Safe bases will get the new training pits and switch to p-19 trucks in Laic 1987, Vieth said. They also will in pc underground storage tanks near runways Lor the fire extinguishing foam a standing 10,000 gallon Pool Tor trucks to pull water from an observation Tower to protect supervisors an aircraft mock up which can be burned repeatedly and a Concrete Structure to simulate building fires. Troops will be sent to c. America Pentagon predicts by Richard c. Gross Washington up the United Stales will have to Send at least 100,000 troops to Central America within three years because Nicaragua is not Likely to comply with a proposed peace treaty a Pentagon report predicts. The Pentagon estimated in its analysis that if troops were sent in it would Cost about s9.1 billion in the first year. The slate department promptly disassociated itself from the study signalling a Sharp division in the administration Over the Pentagon assessment the White House said it had not seen the report. State department spokesman Charles Redman said the analysis was written under contract find has no standing As a United slates government document. But the 12-Page report prospects for containment of Nicaragua s communist government carried the defense depart ment Seal on its cover and was prepared for Congress with the help of other government agencies under the direction of Fred Ime the undersecretary of defense for policy. It was not written under contract he said in a Telephone interview. The document was seen by mid level senior officials at the state department and the National Security Council and no disagreement was expressed he said. The report initially was Given to the new York times after negotiations in Panama sunday during which Nicaragua rejected arms control arrangements in the proposed treaty. Nicaragua objected to he proposal be cause it would impose equal weapons restrictions on each of the five Central Amer ican countries which the sandinista argued would hinder them unfairly in their Battle against the u5--backed Contra to Bels. The contras have bases in Honduras and Costa Rica both countries Are situated on Nicaragua s Borders. The United states has about 1,000 troops in Honduras. The treaty proposed by the Contador nations Mexico Venezuela Colombia and Panama would end the . Pres ence in Honduras halt . Military Aid to Honduras Costa Rica and Al Salvador Dis Arm the contras and prohibit the modernisation of regional arned forces. Its provisions would be monitored by a regional commission. The study assumed Nicaragua would be on the commission. The study predicted nicaraguan leaders would circumvent and violate the agreement in order to maintain or increase their military strength and would seek to conceal those violations As Long As Possi  the Assumption was based on experience with commissions that monitored the 1953 korean armistice and the 1954 Indochina agreement which showed the presence of a communist nation on a treaty supervisory organization makes it virtually impossible for such bodies to Monitor effectively investigate and document violations of pacts. Therefore the report said Nicaragua would violate the pact while Honduras Costa Rica and the United Stales abide by its provisions for two to three years. After that  the report said the . And some or All of the other Central american nations would decide that they can no longer be bound by the violated agreement and would seek to develop coun  under this scenario Honduras and Costa Rica Are viewed As having no Choice but to permit the United states to station very sizeable numbers of . Or Allied troops on their territories and to undergo a Mas Sive restructuring of their armed forces the report said. The . Government would have to agree to a protracted commitment of . Forces with major Impact on its worldwide responsibilities it said. The . Must then be willing to use those forces and accept the costs and hazards  top 2 army officials Praise Bradley to Congress a the army s top two officials told Congress the service s much-crilicwec1 Bradley Ruhling vehicle is much better than anything else available to the army to carry soldiers into combat. In Alt la it Loci i stall Auu re j f " Marsh s7d in prepared testimony for the House armed services procurement subcommittee. Wickham and Marsh said a continuing series of tests in ability firepower and  Over its predecessor the m 1 1 3." the Bradley named after the late Gen Omar Brad Ley is intended to carry soldiers into Battle. It runs on treads like a tank at speeds up to 45 Mph and is armed with a 25mm Cannon missiles and machine guns. The army has already received about one third of its planned Purchase of 6,832 Bradley which Cost about $1.5 million each and the budget request for fiscal 1987 seeks authority to buy 870 More. The prime contractor is fac corp of san Jose Calif. Congressional critics reps. Denny Smith r-ore., and Charles Bennett d-fla., among them contend the weapon is highly vulnerable to direct hits and the army s test program is designed to hide those defects. The army has denied those charges and Wickham and Marsh old the Subco Milicic the lest have been approved by the Pentagon s of fico of test and evaluation. But the two acknowledged the Bradley would be vulnerable to missiles and High velocity artillery Hrc. The Bradley was not intended to withstand these kinds of Over Matching tires nor is any armoured person Nel Carrier or fighting vehicle of any armed Force they said. In fact heavy Armor in such a circumstance could be in harm s  they said armoured carriers or fighting vehicles Are not tanks. Rather they provide mobility and Protection against Smalt arms As Well As artillery fragments for the