European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 14, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes monday july 14, 1986 combat lifesavers help fill a Gap  Nat Beig Bureau Bamberg Germany squad Crew and i in Isaik is in he 1st army div s 3rd brigade arc learning i Ivan cd lifesaving techniques Hal will fill the Gap Between the infantryman s Hasic knowledge and the combat medic s More refined skills. Chief warrant officer Richard Allen acting brigade surgeon instructs the combat life Saver program lie brought from fort Hood. Texas. The program has its roots in the israeli army s approach to combat medical care and evacuation he said. Alien a physician s assistant erics a shortage of trained medics in combat units As the spark thai started lie program several years ago. It is just begin Ning to filter into Usa eur units and there still arc no army course standards he said. The medics Are something that the army does t think Abo Iii until they re desperately needed Allen said. Then they re Csc cd to be there first 1,1. . Weintraub medical p Iii on Leader for 1st in. 54ih inf. Said the Ideal situation is to have one medic in each army squad and Crew and wherever a major weapons system is deployed we re Lucky if we have to per company now he said. To make up he difference noncommissioned offi cers usually squad Crew or team leaders arc becoming a Hai Allen Calls the missing  Weintraut said the combat life Saver has the Pri Mary Mission of an infantryman but he s armed with advanced lifesaving skills that can be used it an imme Diate life threatening  his Job is to keep a wounded Soldier alive Long enough for a medic to reach him. Allen said an army doctor who pored Over casually  sri. Michael Shulack winces As sgt. Michael sown ski places he Needle during Hii tint  on person. . Sets up 1st Western Monitor at nuclear test site in soviet Union Moscow a american scientists have in stalled the first Western monitoring station at a soviet nuclear test site putting about a dozen seismic devices in rugged Hill country of Remote Kazakhstan a Mem Ber of the group said sunday. Thomas Cochran a scientist with the Washington based National resources defense Council said in an interview that his group received Strong soviet support for the project which he Hopes will show that it is possible to set up stations for monitoring a nuclear test ban. But a said the rdc scientists have no Assur Ance that they would be allowed to Monitor an actual nuclear test should the soviets resume their testing program after Kremlin chief Mikhail s. Gorbachev s unilateral moratorium expires aug. 6. We will certainly be allowed to stay there after aug. 6," he said. Well have to see if Well be allowed to record their tests or not. Either Way we d know that a test occurred. What would be lost if we re not Al Lowed to Monitor a test would be additional interesting technical information that could be useful in further calibrating the  the project which Calls for soviet scientists to in stall their own seismic monitoring stations near the Nevada test site in the United slates Marks the first time Western scientists have been allowed near the soviet site or permitted to set up a monitoring station on soviet territory. The operation is conducted under an agreement Between the non profit rdc and the soviet Academy of sciences. Rdc chairman Adrian Dewind in Moscow for a scientific conference said sunday that the soviet govern ment has Given its official approval of the project. The stale department has told us visas will be issued for the soviet scientists to come to the United Stales he said. The test site lies about  mite Southeast of mos cow near the Kazakhstan City of Semipalatinsk in rugged Grassland area marked by Small Hills and pulleys Cochran said teams of seismologists and geologists from the University of California at san Diego brought in seismometers from the United states and installed them at three locations around the test site. The stations Are separated by up to 24d Miles Mak ing it difficult to get from one to the other Cochran said. He said he told physicist Yevgeny Pelikhov vice president of the Academy of sciences and one of the organizers of the project about the transportation problems and he promised to make a helicopter Avail Able to the . Experts. Cochran said the three stations arc Only temporary made with off the shelf equipment brought in hastily after the agreement was signed May 28. The seismic stations Are above ground he said making them susceptible to interference from wind and even the movement of nearby Trees. The . Scientists plan to import More sensitive equip ment which will be installed in 100-Yard-deep holes to reduce interference with  Cochran said. The scientists will be calibrating the instruments to local geological conditions making monitoring More accurate. They also will measure earthquakes and other ground motion Cochran said. Figures from the Vietnam War found Hal 50 percent of the soldiers who died in Bailie bled to death. The doctor concluded that 30 per cml of those could have been i saved had somebody been there. I the medics Are at the battalion Aid stations of in 10 Kilometres behind the from lines Allen said. He said the combat life Saver program puts somebody right where the action it. He increases the squad s Confidence in Battle because members know thai some one s right there if they get Hurt. Thursday 10 students were in their fourth Day of the 40-hour course in the brigade s learning resource Center at Warner Barracks. Sgt. Michael Sowinski held a Needle in his right i hand. His other hand gripped sgt. Michael Shusto Coj left forearm just below the Elbow. Sowinski was a Little nervous. It was his first time pulling an intravenous tube into a person. He had practice All Day using a fake Arm to find the right j vein. But this was different. This was real von Don t do ivs in Basic training he said. Despite the tension Suslock trusted Sowinski. Ouch ouch ouch Shustock hissed through clenched Teeth As the Needle slipped in. Although awk Ward it was a pretty Good Job Allen noted. This morning these Guys said they d never do it Allen said. They re doing in now the students take two written tests during the week and an Oral examination As their final. The Oral puts stress on them like they la gel Oul on the Battlefield if they have to use this knowledge Allen said. All graduates get an army certificate of completion and their new skill is noted in their records. They also receive a medical kit to hang on their combat web gear. In distinguishes them As lifesavers. One student was an airman assigned to the brigade s air Liaison office. . Mark Penney goes Oul with the 3rd in 35th Armor As a Forward observer to help coordinate air strikes where the army unit needs them. Penney was working on the fake Arm. Sgt David Williams whom Allen Calls my Best medic also has six years under his Belt As an infantryman. He s been there. Now he s Allen s assistant instructor. He had his Eye on Penney. Penney found the Bevel of the Needle by holding it up to the Light. He Binl Over the patient and aimed for the vein. Then he started to shake. William reached Over and put his hand on the airman s fingers. Relax and try again he said calmly. Penney took a breath slipped the Needle in taped it up and stood Back for Williams critique. Well it in i perfect Williams said. The Needle s Bent right Here but i guess it would save a  Penney grinned. World today missile hits supertanker off Iran s Harg Oil site Manama. Bahrain a a cypriot Man aged supertanker sustained a missile blast Sun Day in the northeastern sector or the persian Gulf London s Lloyds shipping underwriters reported. The raid on the 269,195-ton Achilles look place in the morning about 100 Miles Southeast of Iran s Harg Island Oil terminal according to Lloyds. The location indicated that the attack was car ried out by iraqi Jet lighten. Argentine Leader arrives in Japan for conferences Tokyo up Argentine president Raul Alfonsin arrived in Tokyo sunday for the most important Stop of his current world tour a five Day visit la Japan 10 seek new Trade technology and investment to ease Argentina s deep Finan Cial troubles. New 1 during i promoting japanese technological assistance to Argentina would be announced after the two nations foreign ministers Dante Caputo an Shin Taro Abe meet on tuesday