European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 13, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Thursday. November 13, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 9 army studying lessons Learned in Battle Leavenworth Ksn up the . Eva we of Grenada toppled a marxist government on the tiny Aland and produced a . Ally in a strategic stretch of a but the mention blunders Wen costly. In the end they gave life to col Ken Harrison s organi action. Harrian null 1b Center for army lessons Learned a hedging outfit whose name pretty much describes its Job. The Agency was established two years after Grenada at die combined arms Center at fort Leavenworth Lite of the army s general staff College. Call s Job is to Pluck nuggets of Wisdom fro the record of military event recent ancient for eign and american and apply them to current army operations we must institutionalize the process of gleaning combat lessons Learned so that our school system our unit training and personal efforts at self improvement can Benefit recommends the june 1984 memorandum establishing the 40-Man Center. To understand the need for Call is to understand what went wrong on Grenada. The three Day Island assault launched oct. 25,1983. Retailed in the deaths of in soldiers Ute 1-Nnnvling of Man than 100 and numerous instances of botched planning and execution. In one attack two army rangers were killed when their helicopters collided. In another operation four of the Navy s elite seals drowned when their tin boat lipped Over in Bobbing seas. One bombing mis take con 21 grenadian their lives. I think it s fair to say Grenada was our catalyst said Harrison a former cavalry and moot commander. The analysis Center has dipped into Musty records and Library shelves studying world War ii Battles and tactics in the Falkland to come up with some of its material. A lot of filing cabinets Are full of Good insightful lessons which never got applied universally Ham son said we get comments All the time from old salts who say they wish the army had done Chi a Long time Call project found the United slates had done Little to prepare for the massive reconnaissance drive traditionally employed by soviet ground troops Early in was simply a phase of the Battle in which we had not spent much attention Harrison said. Yet we know soviet doctrine is predicated on extensive reconnaissance in the Early phases of Nattlean that this intelligence gathering phase is critical to the Success of their entire attack. Yet the army had few guidelines on How to re Pond to the reconnaissance threat. Call changed that today doctrine Calls for number of Younie measures including the deployment of Kiber teams to capture and destroy the probing enemy Anda heightening of general Totne a another project focuses on coordinating various arms of Battle air support artillery and the rest for maximum it has been difficult in a Complex Battlefield situation to synchronise combat assets Harrison Laid. But we have looked at the capability of the primary enemy and a know they Are Able to interrupt radio communications so How do tactical commanders communicate without radios and without communication what happens to coordination although the problem is obvious the solution evaded its. Military planners for Yean. Call came up with an idea. Based on what we have gathered we find there Ita need o wort through a game plan beforehand he said. The idea is to prepare Battlefront commander son what to expect so their forces can be called into play even if electronic links Are severed. Its creating that sixth sense among com Manders knowing what activities Are related one to the other in precise chronology. In Short they Lea to Call s War research has yet to be put to the test. We will not know until wartime How effective our recommendations have been but we can say with Confidence that the changes should and will save lives in combat a Call spokesman said. Mention the War and hell ask which of 4 Jeffersonville ind. A Youthful desperation to get a Job and a willingness to stretch the truth got Frankk Oraa into the army at age 16. Seven decades later he can boast about letter from president Reagan congratulating him As the Only surviving american Veteran to have served during the nation four major wars this Century. In 1914, Kossa a Young runaway from Texas needed a clean bed hot food clothes and a Job but the Marin Sand Navy turned him away. An old army doctor sympathized however and added a few years to the. Boy s age so he could join the i stayed until they kicked me out chuckled Kossa who turned 89 on nov. I. Kossa was in the army during both world wars and during the korean and Vietnam wan. In his 60 Yean of service Kama Rose from Buck private to colonel. He said he Hasmet every president since Warren Harding. Sort of makes me uncomfortable Tobe singled out Kossa said. I m just an Ordinary Guy. I m proud to say i was Abuelo be in the army but i Don t want to take any glory for being around so retired Kosia is up every Day at 6 . To report to his office in the courthouse where he works As dark county director of civil defense. An american Flag flies 24 hours Day from his House in this Small City on the Banks of the Ohio River just across from Louisville by. And Kossa belongs to just about every veterans group therein in the oldest of 12 children Kossa ran away from Home in Shulenberg Texas and joined the army at fort Sam hous. Ton where he started in a motor Pool delivering papers. On his first assignment i pulled up inthe truck walked in and threw some papers Down on the desk and told this general you be got to sign these " Kossa said i did t Salute or Call him sir. 1 did t eve know what a general was. This general looked up atme and said How Long you been in the army Sonny and i said one Day and so he gave me a Little lesson on saluting. 1 knew i was in the army his requests to go overseas Kossa remained in the motor Pool during world War l afterwards he was discharged but he the outbreak of world War ii put him Back in a uniform full time handling Gas rations at fort Knox by. Where one of his regular customers was Gen. George , who used More Gas than anyone i know Kossa 1943, Kossa was sent to Calcutta India where he stayed for a year after the War ended before returning to Indi Ana and leaving the army 1949, however Kossa said an old army buddy asked him to become Selec Tive service director for Indiana the korean War broke out soon afterwards and Ossa stayed on. He didst retire until the end of the Vietnam War. There is not a Veteran s Day that passes that Kossa is not there giving a speech or dedicating a Monument i like to talk to the kids and remind them to be patriotic and Loyal he said. Brig. Gen. Harvey takes 322nd Airlift div command Ramstein a Germany Brig. Gen Paula. Harvey assumes command of the 32znd air lift div at Ramstein a has served As chief of staff at military Aist come he at Scott fab 111., and com a seder of Rtse the Airlift div at Andrews fab Mharvey succeeds maj. Gen. Richard j. Teas Tomi no will become Deputy chief of staff for puns at military Airlift cored he Soldier drives 200,000 Accident free Miles a &0w to 400, James a. Victim of amnesia identified As awol Soldier police say fort Walton Beach Fla. A a Man diagnosed As an amnesia victim has been identified As an army officer absent without leave for 13 months police said. A co worker said the Man was elated to be identified but upset to know that he faces army charges. Second it. Ricky Gene Stephenson 24, of Alex Ander City ala., whom authorities dubbed John was arrested monday and was to be turn Dover to army authorities at fort Bening oa., wednesday to face awol charges said capt. Phi Irish of the fort Walton Beach police department. Stephenson was being transferred from fort Mcclellan near Anniston. Ala., to fort Belvoir vs., when he disappeared in october 1985, Irish Taid. A car be had rented was found abandoned in Vicksburg miss., on oct 9, 1985, family members West Point graduate was identified through an Fri fingerprint Check and was taken into custody at the salvation army Thrift store where be worked As a truck Driver. He was very upset at the army charge but tithe same time elated Laid salvation Anny capt. Roy apparently arrived in fort Walton Beach on oct. 12, 1985. He was Arre led there on charge of Battery against a police officer who had found him behind a. Restaurant. He said he could t remember his name or any thing else about his background except that he had just gotten off a bus from Miami where he had experienced dizzy spells. A psychologist and psychiatrist diagnosed him a suffering from amnesia and a linguist concluded he spoke with an accent that could have come fro Pennsylvania or the Washington. D.c., area. He was sent to Florida state Hospital in Chai Hoo Chee where doctors said they could t find anything physically wrong with him. He was returned to fort Walton Beach in August pleaded guilty to the Battery charge was sentenced to time already served and was released. Stephenson had been working at the salvation army and under going counselling at the Okaloosa guidance since then. Ii i few Kne clinic in Alexander City Bis father Bobby Stephenson said � Friend had told him about news reports of an amnesia victim in fort Walton Beach. He did think it was his son because authorities Laid they were unable to make a fingerprint identification and the elder Stephenson knew his son had been fingerprinted in the army. Irish however said the Florida department flaw enforcement had notified fart Walton Beach police monday that the Fri had matched the fingerprint of John Doe with Stephenson a
