European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 13, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Saturday september 13. 1986 the stars and stripes Page 3 military Roundup 54 s Prwivo by Turiy Naurath staff go. Dennis Potafi stands near the spot where he saved an elderly woman from drowning just a reaction says no who pulled woman from River Bureau Nuernberg staff sgt. Dennis Poag was t planning to save anybody s life bit month not until he saw he crowd painting toward the water. Friday Poag resumed to the spol where he rescued an elderly German woman from drowning aug. 14. The pc Sanlon calif., native was on hit Way to visit a Friend at a Hospital clinic along the Banks of the Penni Lariver in downtown Nuernberg. The 34-year-old Soldier assigned to he co 1 is army div in Ansbach parked his car and Martha walking toward the clinic. I saw All these people on the Bridge pointing and hollering Poag said. I went Over and saw a woman face Down in the water next to he the Haller Wiesse Bridge is a wooden pedestrian Walkway across the pc Nitz. Its ends rest on 10-fool High Stone Waits that hold the River in. Downstream a Waterfall tumbles just beyond the Bridge. Upstream stands the Wall or the old City of Nuernberg. The reappears to be no Way to reach Shore Between those iwo Points. Poag realized that nobody was going to do anything. I ran through the Bushes to the Wall he said. I did t know what i was going to do. I just knew 1 had to get her face out of the arms and face scratched from his Rush through the Thickel. Poag leaped of the Wall into the water hurting his Ankles that had been weakened by a previous in jury. Thai s when he spotted a hidden break with a ramp in the Wall used by firefighters to Lap into the pulled her up out of the Waler gave her Mouth to Mouth resuscitation and she breathed he said. I called to the crowd in both English and German for somebody to go find a doctor but there was no response. I could t believe in. T could throw a Rock and Hil the Dink recalling his red Cross first Aid instruction he picked a Man out of the crowd pointed at him and yelled you go gel a doctor Al first he did l move bul finally he ran to the clinic. I remembered from my training that if you sin Gle one person out of a crowd it lays a guilt rip on him that he won t be Able to forgive himself for later. It a few minutes later the police came an ambulance came and i just faded away Poag said. Thai s the Way it would have remained if it had not been for a German police idler that arrived at division Headquarters last week thanking Poag for his Elt Orts. The Teller included a certificate and recommended this superiors thai they should recognize him in some Way. Poag does t know the woman s Ide Lily. I did l do much Poag insisted just got my clothes bul he also favors one ankle a bit As he walks. He rolled his shoulders inside his uniform when asked if he thought he was a hero. It s As if he were trying to shrug on such a Label. He gave an a shucks kick into the dirt with the Bottom of his Boot and said i did l think about it. It was just a he noticed a toy car sitting about three feel out in the water he Bent Down scooped in up and hauled it t want any Little kid coming along and tailing in trying to grab in he said. In was perhaps just another reaction. Is again intercept soviet jets Anchorage Al seat if for the second time in a week the air Force bomb ers flying along Alaska s Northern coast soviet planes Back toward Home Federal official thursday. Air Force Al s Jet fighters scrambled from two alas Kan bases wednesday night and intercepted two soviet Tu-95 Bear a bombers 102 Miles North of Point bar Row America s northernmost Point of land. The Pentagon released the information through sen. Frank Murkowski a Alaska a member of the Senate select committee on intelligence. Four f-15 fighters flew alongside the soviet bomb ers until they retreated toward the soviet Union. The soviet bombers Are capable of carrying cruise missiles according to the Pentagon. The soviet planes apparently were on the Sam course As four other soviet Bear a bombers intercepted sept. 4 about 90 Miles North of Prudhoe Bay wednesday s incident the soviets did not gel As i Lime in a week the Alaska air command Haskim base the soviet bombers away from the Alaska said. These flights by soviet occurring More and More frequently Over he Al least 29 soviet bombers have off Alaska s coast so far this year 14 of the aug. 15, according to information from the air to and the Navy. Last year the air Force intercepted 30 soviet planes off Alaska s coast. Gregory nominated for new duty 4th Star Washington president Reagan has nominated la. Gen. Jack i. Gregory for a promotion and new assignment As the commander of Pacific air forces. The Pentagon said thursday. Gregory 55, a native of Somerset ky., now is Dep uly commander of . Forces in South Korea and Deputy commander of it United nations command in , who will receive his fourth Star if confirmed by the Senate will replace Gen. Robert w. Bazly who will retire Jan. I Afler More than 36 years iwo of her air Force personnel actions the Penta gon said the president had nominated Mai. Gen. Cra Ven c. Rogersjr. To receive his third Star and assume the Post being inca cd in Korea by Gregory. Rogers. 52, a native of Gale Caslon Texas now is vice commander of the Pacific air forces. 65,000 nato soldiers in 3-week exercise Kiel Germany around 65,000 nato soldiers look to the Field in Denmark and West Germany Fri Day to practice the defense of the Western Entrance to the Baltic from the United Stales Wisl Germany the Netherlands Denmark and Britain arc participating in the three week nato autumn exercise cat fed bold exercise is being staged in Germany s Northern Border province of Schleswig Holslin and the Adja cent danish Peninsula of Jutland partly divides the Baltic sea from the North sea. Nato officials said about 65,000 troops will prac Tice the reinforcement of the forces guarding the Nar Row Straits that provide Access to the Bailie Between Jutland and Sweden. Bold guard will end oct. 7. Mclnerney to get 3rd Star reassignment in Safe Ramstein a. Germany maj. Gen. Thomas g. Mclnerney has been nominated for promotion to lieutenant general and assignment us vice commander of , now commander of the 3rd air Force in England will assume his new duties oct. I pending confirmation of the nomination by the . 27-year Veteran of the air Force Mclnerney has served As commander of the 313th air div at Kaduna a Japan and the 3rd tac fighter Wing at Clark a. replaces it Gen. Carl h. Cathey. Cathey is special assistant to the air Force chief of staff and will retire oct. 1. 900 guardsman from . In Italy for War games Vicenza Italy nine Hundred army National guardsmen from North Carolina new York and ver Mont have arrived in Northern Italy to Lake part in nato exercise display determination 86. The guardsmen joined 250 other army guardsmen and reservists from 11 Stales and Washington . Who had deployed earlier for the two week event. The exercise is designed to test the capability of i he . And italian military in moving a major american troop unit and its equipment to a she in Italy in response to an enemy threat. The trip also gives soldiers based in the Stales the Chance to familiarize them selves with the people and terrain of i Taly. The tanks trucks and other heavy equipment for the stateside units were shipped from Wilmington,n.c., to Genoa Italy. Some Green Beret troops moving to fort Campbell fort Campbell by. In an Effort to relieve a housing and Barracks shortage at fort Bragg n.c., about 1,500 of the army s elite Green Beret troops Are to move to fort Campbell Over the next two years officials have a Little More space to handle the unit Cape. James Puller a spokesman for the Headquarters for the army s loll airborne div said re kind of spreading out the already 250 troops with the 1st battalion of the 5th special forces group have arrived at the fort. Puller said. They arrived in mid August officials were unsure when the second round of Green berets will Transfer. Compiled by tha suit Ana sulph from Rawi r
