European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 29, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday August 29,1987 the stars and stripes page9 military Rou Nalup 4th Allied tac air Force getting new comr order Shapr Belgium Benm fair Force   Wiuf come 4th Allied tac air  be promoted to lieutenant Gen cwt oar 1, the supreme Allied commander eurom fid , so a feeds it. Gun. Walter r. Schmitz who enter Al Yeara Al Heidelberg will take overdoes As Chiaf the Gentian air Force office  Thyr Nann commands the h German air division. A change of command Creif Cony will be at z . Oct. 2 Al Campbell Barrack in Heidelberg. Contest seeks photos of naval maritime themes Annapolis my. Entries Are being accepted though dec. 31 for the 26th annual naval a maritime photo con fat sponsored by the  Institute a the Eastman Kodak company s govern int systems do Sion. %. Or photo sub miss Mui pertain to a naval or maritime subject.%eu6n be either Black and White or color print crop color transparencies. The first place prize of shoo second place is$350 and third Plant m2so. Fifteen honorable mention prizes Obj 100 he will be  must include of caption and the photographer s Luffie and ads printed or Type Don a Sheet a paper and at Ched to the Back of each in rep or printed on he transparency mount Fie smallest acce Piave print size is s inches a 7 inches. Transparencies should be3smrafor larger. Test rules can be obtained by writing lome be ship department . Naval Institute a Janapolis my. 21402 at calling 301 268-6110, exl. 237. Dark Side of command part of officer s Job Veteran says by of Josd Downs Washington Flaur Job is to kill the enemy and take ground after you Tonish four years Here i want you to realize All of Yout training comes Down Lothat Bottom line. That is what Pur Job is As a platoon Leader in  made thai statement in a lecture on leadership at Wesl Point in the Spring of 1986.1 had looked Oul Over the faces of the cadets and it struck me that i desc naive almost officers could soon be in charge of a infantry platoon preparing to fight an enemy. I mused Over How woefully unprepared  were for whal they would be facing. And so i if them Between the eyes with my remark about killing. Got their attention. 1 also got the  else in the audience a High ranking officer who had been sitting in the Back of the classroom. Afterwards f was admonished Here Al West Point we do not Call it killing the enemy we Call it v servicing the Large " that struck me As absurd. Al the wellspring of \ America s future military leaders the phrase kill the enemy was regarded As impolite. Yet 1 have Given commentary enough lectures and have talked to enough Active duty officer to know that these bloodless euphemisms abound in the modern army s classrooms. Not Only Are words being used to hide the reality of combat hut the hard Learned lessons of platoon command in Vietnam have been practically forgotten since the War  amnesia about Vietnam is bad for the army. It is also grossly unfair to inexperienced Young officers. I leaves them unprepared for combat and Means they Are More Likely to make the kind of mistakes that get their troops killed. Fire Breaks out aboard British sub at dockyard London a a fire broke Oul wednesday aboard the British nuclear submarine conqueror in the secret dockyard at Devonport but no one was injured and the vessel s nuclear equipment was t damaged the Crew of the conqueror was evacuated after in fire broke Oul in the engine room a spokesman for the Royal Navy  was no danger to the nuclear equipment on Board and the fire was put out within the hour Saidie spokesman who in accordance with British prac Tice declined to be identified the submarine is undergoing a major overhaul at the dockyard at Plymouth in southwestern  conqueror which is powered by a pressurized water cooled nuclear reactor Sank the Argentine Cruiser general Belgrano during the 1982 falklands War killing 368  submarine which was launched in 1969, carries a full Crew complement of 1 16, but it was not knowhow Many were aboard when the fire broke Oul. _ the spokesman said experts had been called in Loas sess the damage and the Royal Navy would hold a formal inquiry into the cause of the Blaze. Spain braces for chaos As air controllers vow to strike Madrid Spain up civil aviation official thursday were bracing for another chaotic weekend of snarled Holiday air traffic after striking air controllers owed to walk Oul As planned on saturday. It could be very bad As this is one of the busiest week ends of the year Bui we Are trying to amplify minimum services to ensure that most flights leave on Lime said spokesman forthe Spanish transport ministry Barcelona s 140 air controllers staged the first of three planned walkouts on saturday affecting around 1 400 Holiday flights and stranding tens of thousand of vacationers the Barcelona controllers cover about one third of Spain s  of the affected nights were Charters carrying British and West German tourists to and from Spanish resorts in the Balearic islands and along the Northeast but the perfect platoon docs not exist. Officers Nee to know that within their command Here we be men who Gamble drink take drugs sleep with Pfost Lutcs get into fights Are racists Deal in the Black Market defy authority connive Malinger arc stupid have mental illness Are major felons racist solid killers Are Petty criminals have violent tempers Lac propensity to be undisciplined Are ohs character Are defiant or just Plain hard to gel mpg with. In a Cacelie army there is eat ugh stability for anew officer to become accustom Lufto his role As platoon Leader. There Are expend faced office rain solid chains of command Luiere  cos within the units and there Isit Force of Well trained men who Are there because Frey want to be the dynamics change a Wally in a draftee army i wartime. The army expel ads rapidly with new units -3 the dark fide assumes that in War there Are no Universal truths except the will to survive and the need to live with yourself afterwards. Sex officer Fred Downs if i were in charge of training combat officers establishing a class called the Dar " cities would Slart by establishing dark Side of command. It would be about the realities of combat killing the enemy and Laking ground. 11 is Nan to talk Aboul this Side of command because it involve taboo subjects such As death fear destruction and a menial illness. The dark Side assumes thai in War t rare no Universal truths except the will to survive � the need to live with yourself afterwards. J an officer s first Job is to keep his men under control. That is complicated because men in of meat Are on the ragged Edge and if they sense Wea Jess on the part of an officer or if he condones an if Noraj act. They will lose respect for him and he a Fol lose control. 3an officer must know How to Deal will human _ nature under stress. He must be aware preach Soldier motivation personal habits and belief peer group pressures and societal background. Of must balance these factors in an environment of Spe Pless nights fatigue hunger thirst bad Wealch Ryness anger anxiety killing and dying. A in the perfect platoon most of fac men will be Law abiding moral decent people. Iris this premise on which the training of new of ctn is based. Be officers new no Sand new men All of whom push a through training and rushed to the front or id support units. The Young infantry officer who must face command of these draftees is probably an Amateur himself unaware of the tensions and undercurrent thai can cause  inexperience can be deadly. I am convince that most Hart serenade attacks on officers by their men in Vietnam occurred because the army had Sucha Large percent of draftees under the command or Young officers we did not recognize these undercurrents or know How to Cope with them. The men who fought in Viel Naro did nol give a Good Hootin hell whether their officers came from West Point Roth or the  wanted the officer to keep them alive and nol anything stupid. A Young officer should expect different reaction Young Oce s exp from the men in his Poon to killing and he should be prepared to Deal Witt Locse reactions. A Comba officer must also expect Hal some of the men under his command will be kil4d he must realize that the losses among his men Wiff already have been factored into strategic planning. Evin i the officer does he Job perfectly he will lose men he will make mistakes that will kill men. Some combat officers will not be Able to assume such responsibility for very Long. Some will handle it Well. The Young off Teer must know this dark Side ahead of time if he a Lole a effectively. Editor s note to it   count Neq in Ata Hington pent Ollic of or ii Ritj Honda As holding 4 leftists As suspects in restaurant blast f. Late wednesday the sink ers and civil aviation director Manuel Mederos failed to agric on a claim for Back pay that the controllers say has been owed them for the past eight years. Tegucigalpa Honduras a the military blamed foreign left Ftp for a restaurant bombing that wounded five  this month and it said four suspects had Jeen arrested. The arrests a tit. Announced late wednesday after meeting of pre Benl Jose Azcona Hoyo. Armed forces chief Gen. A Hiberto Regalado Hernandez and lop military and it Lilica officials. Sulho Ritoji were seeking other suspects in the aug. 8pipe-bomb/nptosion in the Lown of Comayagua near the Palm Fola air Bast where 1.200 . Soldiers  press office said. The Job was placed in a window of a  frequented by . Servicemen in Comayagua sealed 55 Miles North of Tegucigalpa and 7 Miles Ort of the Palmerola base. A . Civilian and six honduran civilians were also slightly wounded. Feln their interrogation the suspects revealed the existence of a dangerous plan of subversive do Stabile Zavion in the country through the execution of numer Ous terrorist attacks in combination with direction emanating from International leftist organizations the statement said. I it did not further identify the Birtist Organiza  suspects All charged with conspiracy were identified Only As Francisco Cut Alekno Alex Fer Nando Castro Martinez Mariano Tago Donaire and Rafael Flores. V the statement said they were arrested often Comayagua but did nol say when they were detained. The military s statement Laid some of m four were also involved in the aut 18 bombing ofic rectory building of the National autonomous University of Honduras on the outskirts of Tegucigalpa. Hiat bomb ing caused Little  1982, . Army special forces troops have been training honduran soldiers in countr insurgency tactics to fight whal Are described As Small disorganized Lef Lisl rebel groups thai surface occasionally. Body Huml