European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 10, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday october 1 0. 1 987 the stars and stripes heading pm Home is a heavy duty Mission  of tikk Slaff  while went into the Field in Laic August to  equipment. With a Little Luck he will be Hofto Early november. That s a Long to away from Home As Many of lie  and St Jort personnel working in Llic Netherlands and  get the Man Euver equip ment Back where in a clogs ill testify. While is the no in charge if Opi Runions Tor the 250-Mcmber task Force Hamnet Arnwin from transportation units or the 37th trans Grahn in Kaiser slam Lem. He arrived at an abandoned Caitlain Schnip Pingen Germany before the first of 35, in oops arrived in the Netherlands. He Wilf to there when the last ones leave for the slates in Nover he win be Here in Shepherd equipment to be Shii Bock to the United Stales and to be stored in cot Wain equipment depots scattered across Northern Europe. Moving equipment is not As exciting As flying an ah-64 Apache helicopter on a night Mission but it Isa Mission. A Long one. Task Force Hamrick draws its name from it. Col. Glynne Hamrick who normally commands he Lofils trans in in Russ Olsheim Germany. Hamrick draws hit people from All Over. The task Force swelled to 560 people when Hamrick stripped the 37th Tara group of every heavy equipment transporter for three Days to move a tank battalion from the Netherlands to the exercise area in Northern German. It was one move among Many that has kept the task Force on j seven Day workweek Tor most of the exercise. One reason for the seven Day work schedules found in reformer statistics compiled by the 69lh3jks co in . The augmented company he men driving 90 trucks and As of this week had Ruff More than 236,000 Miles enough to drive the  914 times this year s return of forces Toa Ermany exercise was the largest Ever. A Complete corf minus one brigade Al ready stationed in car Maritje moved from fort Hood Texas. Nowil is being roup Mulc by truck rail air and by ship. Of although  Are alternated each year of the annual Nat Xercie Bremer Haven is the port from which Ihui Edwarc goes Back. About hat the 2,200 rail can hauling military Bremerhaven have been unloaded said army Uff Anita Mcmiller operations officer for the  terminal. The heaviest wreck was the last a september when 650 rail ears were emptied Al had outside Carl Schurz Cavern. Europeans target nov. 17 for next satellite launch Paris up operators of Europe s ariane rocket said wednesday that nov. 17 has been set As the target Date for the next liftoff of the com mar Ciao satellite launcher. The target Date of the next ariane launch has been fixed for next nov. 17," said Charles bigot general director of Arian Espach the 11-nation euro Pean consortium that builds and markets the rocket. The launch of the unmanned rocket from the French Center for space studies in Kourou French Guiana will put a German television satellite Inlo orbit said Charles bigot director general of ariane space the consortium thai build markets and launches ariane for the european space Agency. The launch will be the second since May 3. 1986, when the failure of a third Stag ignition system forced controllers to use a radio command shortly after liftoff to destroy an ariane rocket and a satellite Uwaje carrying. An ariane 3 rocket on sept 16 put two Tel com Munica lians satellites into orbit amid increasing Competition among potential commercial launchers due to a backlog of orders for satellites following Shejan. 28,19g6.cnaecngtr disaster. Space officiate also said wednesday the decision to construct the next 50 ariane in rockets at one time combined with new responsibilities by builders should Tower the european rocket s launch Price for ihel990sby20pcrccnt. We have ordered construction today of to ariane rockets said bigot. Our objective is an average Price for ariane in rockets of about 350 million francs s58.3 million each. Which Corre sponds to a drop of about 20 percent compared to our present Price tinker trucks in Bremerhaven Wall their turn f ship fwd Back to the states after the biggest a forger Ever. Each of the roughly 5,000 major pieces  i. Supposed 10 carry stick on identification markers that can be read like a supermarket checkout computer reads la Bels on food items. The equipment is color coded for one of the four shipments that will carry the bulk of the hard Ware bade to me a coast Mcmiller said. The last ship is to leave in Early november. If the equipment identification markers have been stripped off or the color code is missing the piece of equipment gets assigned to the frustrated cargo  there has been a lot of frustrated cargo but computerized searches have Cut Down on the human frustration said Cape. Charles Carter. He works in a trailer inside the port with a Crew whose permanent duty stations Range from fort Hood to Felixstowe England to Continental Europe. The Only problem is that the data base is so big thata while for the computer to do some of its Carter said. Fid the fact that Many among Carter s Crew have by Enaray from Home As Long As White has been. Add to Tutti in arrival of 6,000 British troops and 3,000 pieces  in Bremerhaven As the re forger material Wanhung in. They the British haul Cave the port area As we were going in said it. Col. Woli Josler logistics director for the redeployment Assembly talk la is stationed with the 543rd area support group in  a Home packed with visitors on the Airway Horn act we had As Many As 15 units in  got in approximately 104 aircraft in the first four Dawn isaid at the redeployment phase thai technically started if agon scraps plan to Send Coc St guard boats planes to Gulf by Impf can Black a wbk Jeiry writer Washington Dif Csc Secretary Caspar w. Weinberger dropped a plan  to Send a Small number of coast guard Rauol Cullers and air dad to the persian Gulf  vessels weren t needed. There Are no plans to Send coast Bard boats or aircraft to the persian Gulf annoyed Fred Hoffman the Pentagon s chief spokesman. They arc not needed now he said. How _ will continue to look at All available assets As a Hoffman declined to discuss the matter further. 1 several defense officials said Weinberger had review the Plant on wednesday and scrapped them after concluding the Navy had sufficient forces to perform the _ Job of escorting kuwaiti tankers. While some top military brass were still advising deployment Weinberger put his fool Down r for now one official said. In a related development the sources s Day it now appeared that Iran a red a the num Ber of Small gunboats massed in and Panid the area of Khare Island in the Northern Gulf.  had said tuesday that . Intelligence a of pics were Monitor ing the number of gunboats or Region. There is still a sizable of Ember at Harg and they do pose a threat . But in now appears the number has Drc Jirl Back from 80 or so 10 maybe the Nurto Pplk keep going up and Down. We re still watching of gunboats in the area is a matter of concern to the Pentagon because of an incident Over the weekend during which dozens of the boats streamed into the Gulf toward a a Vii arabian Oil held. Although there was no Atup Tomc Pentagon officials believe Iran might be mining to slip up its military activities in the Norworn Gulf. As for the coast  officials vrho demanded anonymity a frosted earlier this week a handful of patrol res and aircraft were being sent to the Gulf under Lna n endorsed by the joint chiefs of staff. The  the patrol vessels would be used to Sage barges that have been leased to serve bases for Navy mine sweeping boats free or Navy frigates to concentrate on searching for in boats suspected of sowing mines in the Gulf. Coast guard boats and aircraft would also be i for any future search and Rescue operations in it of aircraft Accident in the Gulf the sources military helicopters have crashed in recent weeks