European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 19, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday january 19, 1987 the stars and stripes Page 9 Hof food module rotes High among airmen by Norman Blackcap military writer Washington when in comes la food in flight bomber crewmen say they certainly like in hot. Install on the entire Fleet now wrote one Crew Man who participated in a lest last year or a new system for serving hot food in flight. Best airborne meal 1 Ever had said another. Very Nice i think this is a great idea. Hope this will become part of each flight concluded a third. The object of their Praise a a Small food service module under study by the army s Natick re search development and engineering Center in Massachusetts a Laboratory serving As an agent for defense department food programs. The module adapted from a system used in com Mercial aviation is designed to Deal with a problem faced by those aboard certain planes like the b-52. Such aircraft Are used for lengthy missions even in routine training frequently eight hours or More and have no Way of preserving food or preparing hot meals. Thus Crews Load up with cold Box lunches the new unit is a combination Healing system and refrigerator. According to Bob o Brien an operations research analyst at the Natick Tab it is 14 inches High 23 i inches wide and 25 inches deep and can carry up to 10 meals each of which can be healed inside the module without disturbing the others. Last summer the Natick lab installed a prototype on a b-52 bomber based at Triflis fab . Twelve missions were flown with the bomber by different Crews in August and september producing the rave reviews. Best in flight meal Ever had and that includes first class 747 service from san Francisco to Tokyo wrote one crewman. A b-52 was selected for the first test because we were looking for a worst Case scenario said o Brien explaining the aging bomber is by far the most cramped for space of military Long haul planes. O Brien said the lab found the module was Small enough to fit in a space behind the flight Crew in the cockpit and could be wired into the air plane s electrical system. In essentially is a Small refrigerator with trays in Side o Brien said. Under each tray is a special Heater shelf with a Healing Clement under Trie hot food dish on the tray. When a crewman is ready for a hot meal he activates the heating shelf for his tray. The hot food dish is heated while cold air continues to chill the other and any cold food items on his tray my o Brien says the strategic air come is now Pur-1 suing the concept. Investigating ways to fund this Type of project. He estimated the modules could be purchased for significantly under $10,000 apiece adding new tests Are now being planned aboard other planes such a cargo aircraft. As for the new fans of the system at Grilii. They did t wont to give up the prototype / add o Brien. But we did have to Lake it  As the film ended Viet vets were crying Washington a just As they were during the War it depicts Congress men and the men who served Are divided Over platoon the latest and perhaps most powerful of Vietnam War movies. Numbness was the common reaction those invited to a special Wash a . As wit the War the movie  controversy but there was no Over its intense Impact. In probably was As emotionally Drain ing an experience As i be had said sen Tom Daschle d-s.d., who is vice chair Man of the caucus of Vietnam Era Veter ans in Congress. When i came out i Felt a Little ashamed said Bob Moran a double amputee who now works with the Par Al Zed veterans of America. I did not stay for the  the movie which is just up nip around the country is the film of Fth Etna experience Many Veteran by they be been waiting for one Ink Fri and directed by a Vietnam vet Oliy Fatone. The vie Taala veterans of America the service mini nation chartered by con. On ored the showing wednesday in Jeff along with Daschle s group Viet Nam Era veterans in Congress. When it was Over grown men including Vietnam War veterans were crying. Some left hurriedly. Others sat paralysed in their seats almost no one talked. The movie crams Many of the stories of the War s brutality and atrocities into its two hours american soldiers killing civilians raping and terrorizing children and fighting or tagging to be. It is chm by a  the . Firebase tries to make sense anti it is a Brut adj a blot also one in which the so there victims Loo de brutalized by the War Ihei Iliond the circumstance. They step Jurf Nhuc plane As fresh faced kids and plays later outraged by the enemy s kill ing of their own arc killing villagers by gun by grenade and by hand. I just loved it it was so real said Jan Scruggs the Man who started and directed the successful drive to build the Vietnam veterans memorial in Washington. It Cap tured a lot of the Vietnam experience that a lot of vets had tried to forget Scruggs said one thing 1 could t be Lieve when i got Over there was seeing gis throwing rocks at civilians. But in six or eight months 1 was doing the same thing. I did t kill anyone i could t live with  rep. . Montgomery the mis i conservative who is House veterans Aja did t like thu Megehe saw. Or there seven times during War and six limes after working on Mia Issue Montgomery said. I just did t find the american Soldier of that brutality and i went to these fire and talked to the infantrymen. Entertainment the show was  As far As being that factual i Don t to khat portrays the american Soldier 1 Sar mobb there. I guess the Bottom line  not guile fair to the american who  Many Vietnam veterans who saw the movie acknowledged there would be split opinions among themselves. Moran joined the infantry at 19 and served As a Point Man in search and de stroy missions. A and mine blew i legs off. I am your average mid America i Joe he said and now 17 Yean later there s a film that says what i was All a bom and show i sin Kinji dope and people. I just did t it portrayal. He said i Don t want to have that kind of Label attached to me. Bob Moran was not that  Richard Fuller also a legislative director at the paralysed Veteran of Ameri Ca said the combat seemed As real As could be. I liked it yet in was t a movie you like he said while most have yet to see it Vietnam veterans have been generally positive in their reaction to the movie said Ken Burcz associate director of the Vietnam veterans of America foundation. Me said he expects an upsurge in veterans seeking help at a counselling centers As ill of the movie. The More appropriate Audi ence  a younger generation whose View Otow Carti is the Ravnbo superhero Dep Cliant a be surreal and symbolic approaches of other Vietnam pictures. It reminds us All that whether we were there or not this is what happened 15,20 years ago he said. New French tank on the prowl in tank Rolls Over the Countryside neb town of Sizory which is near Puis during recent Field tests. The French army expects to in replacing their current amx-30 main Battle Lank with the Advt Simodel beginning in 1991. Armoured tank