European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 14, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday november 14, 1986 the stars and stripes ige9 army studying lessons Learned a Nattle Leavenworth pm. Up the . In Ion of Grenada tamed marxist government on the Liny Bland mid protocol . Ally in a  of to but the Cje ration j blunders were costly. In the end hey gave life Cettl Ken Harrison s organization. Harrison runs the Center of army lessons Learned i fledgling outfit whose name play much describes its Job. The Agency was established thu year after Grenada Al the combined arms Center of part Leavenworth site flee army s general Staft Olk Call Job is to Pluck Nugget Olvi Dom from the record of military event recent indent for eign and american and apply them x. Current army operations we must institutionalize the process of combat lessons Learned so that our school our unit training and personal efforts at self in 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 get 15,198resulted in the deaths of 18 Sot Dien the wounding of More than Joo and numerous instance of botched planning and execution. In one attack two army rangers were killed when their helicopters collided. In another operation Foi of the Navy s elite seals drowned when their tin boat flipped Over in Bobbing seas. One bombing mis take Cost 21 or canadians their lives. I think it s fair to say Grenada was our catalyst Laid Harrison a former cavalry and Armor commander. The analysis Center Bas dipped Musty records and Library shelves studying Al War ii Battles and tactics in the Falkland sep Tome up with some of its material. A lot of tiling cabinets Are full of Jake insightful lessons which never got applied Gnu anally Harri son said. We get comments a Fri time from old salts who say they wish the a Fly had done this a Long time  Ujj one Call project fou Tel the United slates had done Little to prepare soothe massive reconnaissance drive traditionally pm toyed by soviet ground troops Early in Batty this Wassi Milf a phase of the Battle in which we d not spent Juch attention Harrison said. Yet know Soret doctrine is predicated on extensive  in the Early phases of Bat Leand  Nathenn phase is critical to the . Army had few guidelines on How to re he reconnaissance threat. R Call Cui ged that. Today s doctrine Calls for a number of quite measures including the deployment of killer franv1 to capture and destroy the probing enemy a Reig turning of general alertness. It project focuses on coordinating various Battle air support artillery and the rest maximum punch. Historically it has been difficult in a comple Battlefield situation to synchronize combat assets Harrison said. Bui we have looked at the capability of the primary enemy and we know they Are Able to interrupt radio communications. So How do tactical commanded communicate without radios and without communication what happens to coordination although the problem is obvious the solution evaded . Military planners for years. Call came up with an idea. Based on what we have gathered we find there Isa need to work 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 Learnt  Call s Warr search has yet to be put to the lest. We will not know until wartime How effective our recommendation 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 jeffersonv1lle, ind. A Youthful desperation to get a Job willingness to stretch the truth Kossa into the army at age 16. Seven decades later be can Hast about letter from president  Vituj him As the Only Sunj Peig american Veteran to have served Depuig the nation s four major wars this in 1914, Kossyta Young runaway from Texas Nee Ted a clean bed hot food clothes Aura Job but the marines and Navy turn do him away. An old Jerrmy doctor sympathized however m \ added a few Yean to the boy s age of he could join the troops. Anirl stayed until they lucked  Kossa who turned 89 on  was in the army during both world wan and during the korean and Vietnam wars. In his 60 Yean of service Kossa Rose from Buck private to colonel he said he Hasm Al every president since Warren Harding. Sort of makes me uncomfortable Tobe singled  Kossa said. I m just an Ordinary Guy. I m proud to say 1 was a Leto be in the army but i Don t want to Lake any glory for being around so  although retired Kossa is up everyday at 6 . La report to his office in the courthouse where he works As Clar 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 then is in  oldest of 12 children Kossa ran Way from Home in Shulenberg Texas and joined the army Al fort Sam hous by where he started in a motor Pool delivering  first assignment i pulled up in the tank walked in and threw some paper Down of the desk and told this general you be b to sign these " Kossa said. Idin t Saul Tor Call him sir. 1 did t even know what a general was this general looked up atme and said Hov Long you been in the army in not Ancu said one Day and so be gave me a Lite lesson on saluting. I knew 1 was in in army  despite his requests  Kossa remained in the motor a Cpl during world War l afterwards he was discharged but he became an officer in the reserves. The outbreak of world War ii put him Back in a uniform full time handling Gas rations Al fort Knox ky., where one of his regular customers was Gen. George s. Potion who used More Gas than anyone know Kassa said. In 1943, Kossa was sent to Calcutta India where he stayed Tor a year after the War ended before returning to Indi Ana and leaving the army again. In 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 Kossa slaved on. He did t retire until the end of he Vietnam War. There is not a Veteran 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. Sex Marine vows to begin fast to bring attention to Las pos Washington a a Veteran who has been occupying a self styled Cage said wednesday he will Slop taking food or liquid until president Reagan agrees to hold a new conference on the question of live prisoners of War in Southeast Asia. The people Tell me if 1 Slop taking everything i could last from three to 10 Days said Gino Casa Nova a 35-year-old construction worker from Kent Wash. Casanova says he s been fasting for seven weeks is part of his protest near the Vietnam Veter ans memorial. If can last another 17 or is Days without food or water they can put me in the smithsonian said Casa Nova with a wry smile. "1 am rational thinking clearly he said. I am Noton a suicide pact not a fanatic 1 am just a Patriot who loves his  a former Marine Casanova says he started fasting on sept. 26 in protest Over what he perceives As the Reagan administration s failure to help account for the More than 2,400 Las and pos from the Vietnam Era. He staged a is Day protest near Seattle last year. That fait ended Only after Reagan promised to meet with veterans groups Over the Mia Issue. According to Casanova the meeting was never held i would Trade that Promise for one press Confer ence to bring the pow Issue into the open now said Casanova meanwhile Casanova wearing Thermal clothing and sitting under a Blanket against the cold sits in a 6-by 8-foot Bamboo Cage. The Cage while slightly cramped is four limes the size of the Tiger cages employed by the North vietnamese to hold captives during the Vietnam War. Casanova s time in the Cage is limited to Daylight hours. Sleeping on the Park grounds is forbidden and . Park police have threatened to arrest Ca Sanova if he sleeps in the Cage. At night Casanov retires to a Friend s House in nearby Arlington a. Among Casanova s visitors Over the last 49 Day shave been a group of legislators dubbed rambo con Gressmen by veterans groups for their continued sup port of the Las and pos. Bill Hendon came by just 48 hours ago. Really says something about a Guy who still comes by even after be has lost his election said Casanova of the recently Defeated North Carolina Republican. Dave Doc Lee 38, a welding inspector in Raleigh n.c., and a member of the North Carolina Vietnam veterans inc., a helping this week to run a pow Mia information Booth near Casanova s Cage. That Guy has a lot of guts. A lot of people say we should do something about the Las and pos but not Many would sit in a Cage and starve themselves Lee said it s like he s faking the Point for the rest of Molotov buried in private rites Moscow Vyacheslav m. Molotov a lieutenant of Joseph Stalin who served As soviet Premier and foreign minister was buried wednesday at a 45-Minutc private ceremony at tended by about 200 mourners. In keeping with the obscurity of Molotov last years there was no official pomp or High government tribute at novo Defichy cemetery the nation s most prestigious burial place after the Kremlin Wall on red Square. Molotov lost his party and government posts after Stalin died in 1953. He was thrown out of the communist party in 1962, but his part membership was quietly restored in 1984. Molo Lov died saturday at age 96. Police ensured thai no uninvited counters or Western correspondents saw the funeral keeping reporters and photographers across the Stree from the cemetery s High Iron Gates. About a dozen uniformed policemen provided the Only official presence at the Wallet cemetery at the Novod Vichy Convent on the Bank of the Moscow River. Some newspapers carried Brief announcements of Molotov s death but there was no formal communist party or government Observance and no High ranking officiate were seen at the cemetery. Molotov was the last tiring member of the group of men around Lenin the old bolshevik revolutionaries who brought communist Power torusminl917