European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 3, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse By Dontate staff writer. In Mii � i Fri m f few. My. I ./.-�.-. I or re rat is ,. For. A � r i few of " " " or a fruit " " v jr.,s of Ruff. Iv.,i i Kul i Ummi Alnut from the.r., Ita .,.hf./ij.,l lip pm Kiy Bie Loa Hailer the Long ride finally Over paratroopers and so Pepper the slip Over the tending Field it Germany. Lonas Nyji or non i in l n in nor a. At i. 0 1 1 feel in Thi. Dirk Over f they spread out mysteriously ser mag k. dreamily red lights winking like Huri l lir Ilii a in a sea of Midnight. Then it is Kiwi. Dawn , mystery fading. Low and Flay to the right the Sun begins Burn no through ,1 neat red Hole in a sky turned the color of Cream the fireflies ire turning into 12 thundering c 110 air planes thai Irma like flying whales whose bellies Are with hundreds of paratroopers. The 12 part Oft he inti Airlift so from Rhem a i n Germany took " " " e nato base at Italy at . 1 hey swept Wesl on an end run below Austria and Switzerland swung around North Over the Alps into Frante and Ilien began the eastward descent into Germany. Down to 5,000 fiet. Then at Hec a Point tango South of Stuttgart Ionics the big swoop Down to too feet. This is no straight ahead Auto Pilot come Fly the Friendly skies formation the Mission which also includes iwo a has and Mother special operations Coo for radar jamming etc., flying apart from the main formation is to drop nearly boo paratroopers on lop of an aggressor Force holding an Airstrip Al Grafe Woehr. They Are doing in he hard Way As if it were combat and they were dodging radar surface to air missiles enemy interceptors. The hard Way. Zooming Low in a v formation Over farms and sleep led villages up and Over and Between roller coaster lulls Ziggi Gand tagging Snake weaving toward the target the formation sometimes spreading out sometimes closing in so lightly Wing on Wing red lights Flash and Klaxon like warning sound off inside the planes. Super flying. And the pilots programmed for precision who sometimes talk like computers. About flying to the Carp com Uteri de air release Point and intersecting the wind Ding of the Ding Dong at the Point of the ire scudding along now like sky King or smiling Lack aces of aces. Wonderful stuff Tor ilium but nut so swell for the loaded Down men squeezed together Elbow to Elbow knee to knee Jim face to Faco in four rows of Nylon Hute seals in the undulating Back of each . The inside of a c-1 � has been said to soundalike inside the belly of ,1 whale with digestive disturbances which is nothing compared to what super flying is doing Lei the bellies of the paratroopers. Then before the Imp levelling started word had readied the i in Kiil of the plane piloted by 27-year old capt. Tajik Harding some of the 50 jumpers in Back were gelling motion sickness. Why wondered . We re not doing anything deeper into the Mission the stomachs of the bumpers to i hum and gurgle like washing machines. The barters Are hardly softies. Indeed the crack 3rd in 325th inf kill airborne in combat team out of Vicenza Italy is about is hard As they come. As part of the Ace Allied command Europe Mobile Force. It s .111 Mil fit ready tit jump and fight in any hot spot in nato anytime. A pretty sturdy bum h Al tin moment a pretty sick sturdy Bunch. The i Florenie we re flyers they re a bit it it Ric mitral Rii Van in i Lum Nim said earlier that when do tilt Low level ill pay door let stuff a Liege ire limes when Guys get to throwing up so nine h we won t let them jump. can Drain you. We Don t want anybody going in i cling Fine Dyer is a 2h, .1 Juni Masler had 12 Aripa Nti Gizin top Armbri 3, 1187
