European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 18, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday july 18, 19b6 the stars and stripes Page 3 medics up to their necks with foot problems  writer Nijm Egen Netherlands . Army medic sgt. Marvin a. Weeks stepped outside the Witchen Blister Lenl looking for sore reel. He did t have far to look. Limping toward weeks was air Force staff sgt. Roy Whisenant. Can i help you weeks asked. Whisenant stationed with the 377th Security police group at Ramstein a Germany replied cod Hope so. The pain s enough to make a grown Man  weeks was just one of he scores of medics from the 3rd support come whose Job is to soothe the pain. And Whisenant was just one of the 360 soldiers seek ing treatment during the second Day of it four Dayoni Megen marches. The Witchen Aid site is also a rest Slop. On wednes Day the ground was littered with the walking wounded. Most had their boots off their feet propped up and smites on their faces because As one Soldier put it it feels Sootoo Good to  the foot treatment was often just As painful As the affliction. Soldiers Call it the benzine treatment. A solution of tincture of benzine is injected into the bub ble of a Blister to disinfect the injury and reattach the dead skin to the foot. It s so percent alcohol. An unfortunate Side affect is that it causes the patient to scream and writhe in pain. Pvt. 2 Melissa Cope another medic said some sol Diers suffer without coming in for treatment because they re afraid of either the pain or the possibility of being medically yanked from the March. My Boyfriend Ray won t even Stop to Sec me she said. Pfc. Faith Henderson said they Don t have to worry about that. Even if i have to give them a pair of crutches i la do my Best to get them Back on the Trail. It Means an awful Tot to them to  chief warrant officer Jesse Sorrells was the top medical expert on the scene at Witchen the Halfway Point of the second Day s March. He said he is getting excellent results using a soft cloth material called we Bril instead of the More traditional Moleskin treat ment. There were More serious injuries than blisters. Sor a cts said two soldiers were treated for dehydration. One of the soldiers had to be taken to a dutch Hospi Tal. The important thing is for them to drink plenty of water Sorrells said. The Beer that they drink a night also dehydrated. Bui soldiers Are going to drink  pfc. Jeffrey Seaberg of the 299th support in 1st inf div fwd came in complaining of severe pain in his knee. Sorrells a physician s assistant in orthopaedic surgery at the army regional medical Center in land Stuhl Germany look the Case. Seaberg said he had knee surgery following a motor Cycle Accident. Sarrels Felt Staberg s knee then rapped it a couple of times. Seaberg stiffened and winced. That hurts like a Mother does t it Sorrell asked. Of my god yeah Seaberg moaned rolling his head Back on the army col. Sorrells gave him a pain killer and ice pack then told him he was of to keep on marching. You re not going to damage it it s just going to Hurt he said. He told him to Check in at the Hueman Soord base Camp at inc crts of the March to get it double checked. Our Job Sorrells said is to tune these Guys up and gel inem Back on inc  Sorrells bedside manner is Down Home and Friendly. He believes a Soldier s own desire to win is the besi Medicine and he won t stand for stupidity. What s that you be got there Soldier he asked ayoung Man with a pair of obviously new boots silting next to him. Are those new boots the Soldier quickly explained they were his spare boots. New boots almost guarantee foot problems Sor Rells warned the Soldier not to use them at All. Sorrells said there Are so Many biomechanics Rea sons for people developing blisters that he can t say what will cause them in any one person. He did say that Many americans generate fool problems because of the same determination that helps heal them. He said they get out there and go full steam ahead. Sorrells said the danish orthopaedic surgeon or. Finn Warburg passed along an interesting observation of Why americans might have so Many fool problems. He told me it lakes our soldiers the first two Days just to slow Down Sorrells said. Jacqueline Kennedy Nasals left Caroline Kennedy Wall my her daughter k to Ward plane at Martha s Vineyard air port for a flight to Hyu la port muss. Caroline will marry new yorker Edwin Schlos Sturg on Cape cod on saturday. Wedding Bells will also ring won for Brit Ain s Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson. Two Ben of Fergie Are shown above but Only the one at right is the real thing. The other b in effigy at a Dame Tib Saud s Wax museum in London. A is flock to Cape cod for Kennedy nuptials centerv1lle, mass. Up dignitaries whisked onto Cape cod thursday for Caroline Kennedy s saturday wedding to artist entrepreneur Edwin Arthur Schlossberg. Kennedy the 28-year-old daughter of slain president John f. Kennedy arrived late wednesday at the Kennedy com Pound in Hyannis port As workmen erected a giant tent for the gala Twilight  Rev. Donald Macmillan of Boston the Presl who will marry the Columbia Law student to 41-year old Schlossberg who is jewish called the wedding a private matter that s the Way they want it he said preparing to officiate at the 3 . Ceremony Al our lady of Victory Church in Centerville. A two hour Champagne reception will be followed Baafi 30p.m.dinncr. While the 400-name Gueirl list includes members of the late president s Cabinet inc wedding will be a striking contrast to april s Hollywood hype nuptials of Cousin Maria Shriver to actor strongman Arnold Schwarzenegger. Unlike Shriver. A to anchorwoman Kennedy has dodged publicity keeping her work and private life in guarded seclusion. Schlossberg described As a serious self fashioned poet philosopher in his High school yearbook has written nine books and owns a new York based firm that designs museum interiors and , who was 6 years old when her father was slain had been the coordinating producer and manager in the office of film and television at new York s metropolitan museum of Art until last August she is vice president of the John f. Kennedy Library foundation in Boston. App Lulo an Ordinary Landau takes the place of the Glass coach in front of Westminster Abbey Early thursday. London rehearses for Royal wedding London a eight Royal coaches and 156 cavalrymen travelled the mile Long route from Buckingham Palace to Westminster Abbey at Dawn thursday in a rehearsal of next week s Royal wedding procession. Missing from the procession were Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson who Wilt be married at West Minster Abbey on july 13 before 1,800 guests and potential worldwide television audience of 300 Mil lion. The Royal couple walked Down the aisle of the ancient Church wednesday in a rehearsal of the ceremony designed primarily for the Young bridesmaids and Page boys. Early thursday while the streets of London were quiet eight of the nine horse drawn carriages to be used for the wedding rumbled along the route Between the Palace and inc Abbey. They were empty and the Black and Gill Glass coach which will carry the Bride and her father was absent from the Parade. The route was lined by soldiers sailors airmen and police officers. Outside Westminster Abbey there was a huddle of senior servicemen policemen and Bowler hatted civil servants Liming the procession. The Domestic news Agency press association on wednesday quoted sources at Heathrow Airport As saying Prince Andrew Queen Elizabeth in s second son and his Bride will spend heir honeymoon aboard the Royal yacht Britannia