European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 29, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday May 39, t9b6 the stars and stripes ago 9 growth potential by Tony Nauroth Nuernberg Bureau a. James a Newell sol behind his Compaq Corn is Monteith Der sgt. Dinollo Del can uses computer to order repair parts. Pulcer in i Racks office in Fuenfh producing charts and graphs for Quick,.easy Transfer to transparencies for briefings. The Compaq is his own computer bit the software he s working on eventually will find its Way Down the Chain of command so each battalion in inc 1st army div can create its Awn graphics without having a Soldier sit Tor hours at a drafting table pushing pens across paper. The potential for automated growth goes beyond imagination and belief he said about the future of computers in the army. The army s Overall architectural plan to give shape to such imagination is due to Bear fruit by the turn of the Century. The plan being put together by the combined arms Center at fort leaven world kan., is an integrated concept that Caps five areas of tactical automation areas Basic to successful modern warfare whether computerized or not. Newell said. Inc areas arc combat service support including re pair parts and personnel. Intelligence and electronic warfare. Pire support. Man Euver control. Air defense. Together they will provide a commander with the most current and most Complete Battlefield information to make More in formed decisions. Newell sees this system linking with Simi Lar systems being developed by other nato countries. He said the British and German armies arc working in this direction. He also envisions greater use of on Board computerization in tactical weapons which will encourage increasingly Independent Battlefield operations at the lowest Levels or command. He stressed however that computers will never make a commander obsolete. Computers will do the stubby Pencil number crunching work but we still need folks to make the decisions he  Soldier of the future mus Knaw exactly what he or she wants from a computer he said. We must learn to define cd icily what we  As for the Soldier on the Battlefield Corn Pute Bizalion hopefully will save lies life in combat and give him the Best possible peacetime support available to make his life in the army better and easier Newell said. Computer just another tool for Good leaders by Tony Nauroth Nuernberg bureaus it. Muj Larry j. Howard does t think computers Are going to change he fundamental role of the army s cos leadership is leadership said Howard commandant of the 1st army div no Academy in Katterbach. A has t Ever changed in never  but while Howard believes computers won t change leadership he says they Are changing the Way leaders Lead. The no who refuses to Lay his hands on a computer keyboard today according to Howard will be left Hung out to dry on the promotion ladder in the future. The computer is a leadership tool he said. Like any other tool a Good no will Kuhns division troubleshooter use it to his Best advantage. The bad Leader won t use tools at All computer or otherwise. Today s soldiers Are kids whose fathers gave them All these Whiz bang machines. They be spent millions of dollars in computer driven arcades and they re better at such things than Guys like me who came in the army before the wheel was  Howard gets a microscopic View of sol Diers who come from throughout the Divi Sion to be folded into competent leaders by his staff. Leadership is knowing How to motivate troops when they Don t want 10 be motivated he said. A computer can t do that but it can help him Lead  Howard gave an example if soldiers have to move a pile of bricks from Point a to Point a the Good Leader might sit behind a computer and figure out the Best Way 10 move Hose bricks quietly and with As Hittle Effort As possible. Those soldiers he said will be More Likely to follow that Leader than the Guy who just says of move those bricks.". Howard said he is sensitive to change. It comes from watching Young troops being folded into the form and substance of Lead ers under his hand at the Academy. From 1972 to i the army did t change much Howard said. Things remained the same and so did leaders. At the same time the army was enlisting any thing. A Soldier did i have to be Able to think he was Only required to breathe. Leaders could just Drift a  however since 1983, the army has moved Light years ahead in the areas of equipment training and soldiers the Quality of recruits has improved dramatically so that now if a Leader docs not come to grips with i desc changes he or she is going to be left behind. Ignorance will turn today s troops off real Quick. Unfortunately there arc still some cos out there who Are nosing As being smart when they should be admitting they re not the smart est people in the world. They Are being challenged out  leaders who won t meet those challenges can be spotted Howard said. Just Jook for the person who brushes off new ideas with that s the Way we be always done it especially when the idea comes from the Young challenging computer literate Soldier. Experts amateurs make contributions Reers. Taylor computer As Savior is photos by Tony Nauroth by Kohv Nauroth Nuernberg Bureau impute Bizalion of the 1st army div in the words of division officials is in the birthing  in a sense the division is littered with computer babies some Are High rank ers others Are just beginning their army Ca trouble Shooler. That s what they Call see. James Kuhns who works out of the division logistics Automa Tion systems support office at Moneith Barrack. When computer operators anywhere in the division get in a Jam they Call Kuhrau. It used to be that computer operators locked them selves in an air conditioned room and worked with Black boxes. It was a secret cult. We re getting away from that. We re demystifying the cult taking the magic out of computers sol Sim Taylor is a thrilled user tucked into a cubby Hole on the third floor of a Barracks on Storck Barracks in Lutc Shim. He is a kind of absent minded professor cranking out marvelous inventions for the 1st in 6th inf. You know the army is very repetitious. It has forms for everything. All 1 did was put a lot of forms in the com Puter. I can Crank just about anything out and All i have to do is change the name of the Soldier concerned. It s the end of White out the end of the ism correctable be Lecarie typewriter and you can show the product with Pride la anyone from a private to a  Quality s always the same perfect first sol. Daryl Hughes has put humor lit the duty roster. I leave Little notes at the top to let my soldiers know i m thinking about them Hughes said. One week the Rosier began yes this is the duty roster. My Wang a Tang does t  ii used to Lake Hughes up to two hours to do the duty roster. With the Wang computer it takes five minutes. The next step for the first sergeant is to learn program Ming so he can delete he humor of 1st it Karl Moore battalion adjutant. Moore put the duty roster program together for Hughes. Every time the first sergeant Calls up the duty Raster hello you 8 company Dir balls flashes on the screen