European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 11, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday october 11, 1987 the stars and stripes Page 9 cracked neck leads to crack Drill team by Daryl e. Green Kukon lantern Bureau crack a sound that signals fear. Crack. A word thai signifies the precision Tif a award winning marching unil. Spec. 4 Johnny  kindle medical Supply specialist at lands Uhl army regional medical Center overcame a broken neck and formed a crack Drill learn at he Hospital. I heard everything when it snapped kindle said. What kind heard has "2 10 and som Elhindi pounds come crush ing Don in him during a Imhof Flag football and i he sound of a c-4 and t % i i Turc in English a broken neck he said i rank 1mhead slightly Forward. What he feared was never being Able to walk again or worse. When in happened i was so scared i just to Anvil in Al ing Bround to Sec if everything was still working Kimble said. A was like everything lathe before  or.  Trik m. In Flory. A cur Murgan .11 lands Uhl who treated kindle said an Bank in pm is serious an broken neck is notch Nash i i  broken necks ate like snakebite a Cirr guru said. Sometimes a Persia can gel bit and die As a  a person can get Bil and just Ham a Little pain the doctor did. Bui Tell that to she person who gel bit. Doctors at i jul slut saw no evidence of a break in the initial a rays kindle was still sure of hit own diagnosis but pleaded with the doctor to let him go Home. I said. Well if of ran l find anything and i m telling you it s broken Well. Lei me go Home " the do Elurs at i Antt Suhl did just Hal. I walked around for the whole weekend i Smeback that monday and the doctor on Call looked at the a rays Thoj had done Over inc acc kind. W he made me have full cat scans. And Hon they Didich full cat scans that s when they found i the tact that kindle was still Able to walk is no indication of he seriousness of the break. The seriousness of a broken neck is kind of  Gregory said. If you walk along a ledge blindfolded and Don i fall Oft How close to Dang have you come the doctors put kindle in a neck Brace and allowed him to return to work on strictly limited duly. We thought in would heal itself but in did to Gregory said. That s Why we decided logo ahead with inc  almost two months after the Accident kindle underwent More than four hours of sur cry at inc University of Hamburg la Ospital. What icy did was take out one of my discs put a hone Gran in. And then Uio had to put a plate  a plate thai he will earn the Resl of his life. Sets Pharoby Derfl grown spec. 4 Johnny Lee kindle while kindle was undergoing rehabilitation Alland Suhl his recovery program was thrown a curve. His convalescent leave was terminated and he was discharged from the Hospital to allow him logo on emergency leave after his Mother s death. This left kindle to carry out his  much on his own with the help of his wife Deborah and a Friend so. Jacqueline Mcnair a assistant medical services account representative Al Lan Stuhl. Ifil had t been for them. I probably would have just quit he said there were limes when i just wanted to say Well hey. Forget it. I Don t care John is stubborn Mcnair said. Even though the doctor says John you re supposed to do this and you re supposed to do that John is from inc old school where a Man is supposed to be a Man Al Al times. Negating the fact that they re Hurt or not feel ing  hut the two women were aware that this show of false bravado was just an act. "1 knew he was scared and Deb knew he was scared bul he did t want the world to know he was scared Mcnair said. What the world and inc Lan Stuhl Hospital com manily in particular came to know is thai kindle snot a Man to be kept Down. If i was t working and i was t playing softball i had nothing to do kindle said. So he got the Idealo Start a unil Drill learn. We were just Silling on the Steps one Day and i was something that hade in in the Back of my m i and for a while. And it just came up that Day and a lot of people said Well hey you know that s so aching Hal i want to do 11 will keep us out of trouble and maybe it will put us on the  so under kindle s direction and  it. 2 members of the Lan Stuhl military Community practice two hours a Day 10 prepare for i hair first meet. Their first Competition just four weeks after the learn was formed was july 4, and they took firs place in both events Drill and cadence Lan Stuhl was on he map and kindle had changed the sound of the crack in his neck to in distinction of the excellence of his Drill team. The night before the Competition everything went through my mind kindle said during the Lime Hal i broke my neck i thought thai was the worst thing that could happen to a human being. And then to Sec where i m Al now in was a dam Good improvement. I just had to say a  what s it like patrolling where East meets West ask gis from fort Hood byte Boivin stiff writer Camp Lee. Germany while most Iii corps troops were cleaning equip ment or going on cultural hours fallowing Field exercise certain strike 25 soldiers in 2nd so in Cav. Were Louring the dividing line where East meets West based near bad Nous tall at Camp Lee. The fort Hood Tunas soldiers went on dismounted and jeep patrols along the East German Border with inc i lilt army Cav Kugi. Patrolling the Fulda Gap Region was an Eye opening experience for Many of the soldiers. Pfc. Darren Donovan a Bradley fighting vehicle Driver got his first look Al Hind Soviel helicopters in the air and of East German Border guards on patrol. I had seen them Only in pictures be  Donovan Saij. The East German Side of the Border seemed so close hat in was almost As if you could easily walk to the other  one Soldier who had seen these sights before was staff sol. Timothy Kestner the noncommissioned officer in charge of the augmentation soldiers. Kcal nor has been stationed with the i it army Cav regi. Although the soldiers from fort Hood Wilt not serve Border duly Long enough to be certified Kcal nor said they would still learn something. There Are not a lol of things different Here thai the soldiers Don t do Al fort Hood. The one difference is the Border is right there. Some of the soldiers do want to Lake the less Hal the i Ullh army Cav soldiers arc Given up Here and they re studying for those Kcal nor said there Are four tests the soldiers can take that cover Border knowledge leadership and enemy equipment during their Lime on Border duly the soldiers also manned operations posts went on fool patrols and served with the reactionary Force. Soldiers either volunteered or were selected by the Squadron commander to serve on the Border duty while their co Horts were up North going on sightseeing hours. However 2nd la. Norman Spears the officer in charge of the 2nd 5q sol Diers said they would t regret it. Sure some of their buddies Are prob ably having fun on the Tours Spears said. Bui this is something these sol Diers will take with them for the rest of their lives. They la be Able to go Back and Tell their friends what it s really like on the  �15 Penoia by Tun Banff second it Norman Spears says Cis will recall with satisfaction their Border duty