European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 8, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday january a. 1988 the stars and stripes Page 9 sister ship remembers Stork s Fate a lapse of seconds Cost 37 lives Aijo Ard the Mcclusky a memories of May 17, �s7, Are never far from the minds or Crew members aboard this Sitter ship to the guided missile frigate Stark. Escorting a Convoy of re flagged kuwaiti tankers an Navy chartered fuel ships toward the Mouth of the Gulf they draw motivation from the knowledge that a lapse of seconds Cost 37 lives when iraqi warplanes launched Edom missiles a i the Slark. I be brought Home to my people that you can t let your guard Down at anytime said cmdr. John j. Of Floncy. Commanding officer of Llic Mcclusky. Pc Loncy Doi in i spare himself. During an Init View in tic ship s cramped wardroom the combat information Center Cir phoned in a report that an unidentified warship behind the Convoy had locked on a fire control radar to inc Mcclusky s sh-60b Seahawk Heli copter. Although the c1c was under the control of a Junior officer authorized to fire any weapon in an emergency Melloncy quickly excused himself and went to the Cic. The warship never identified switched Alt of threat ening radar and the incident passed without pc Loncy ordering a higher stale of Alert. _ a Board of inquiry had recommended courts-mar-1ial for the former commanding officer of the Stark who was not in his Cic when the unexpected Iraq attack came and inc tactical action officer Tor fail ing la defend the ship. The former skipper cant. Glenn r. Brigdet. Instead received a reprimand and announced he would retire. He later Laid inc blame on faulty radar and detection systems aboard he guided missile frigate. The officers and Crew of the Mcclusky an identical schools update Dodds accent on jazz Wiesbaden the sixth annual jazz seminar and hand concert for department of defense dependents schools students in Germany will be held monday through Jan. 15 at Cologne University s music Hochschulz. Thirty american students from 10 High schools will be on hand for the seminar conducted by Jau profs . The seminar will conclude with a dinner show at the american embassy club in Bonn beginning 6 30 . Jan. 15. Cost for the show is 25 Marks si5 and ticket can be purchased by Catling 0228-379234. Aids seminar Wiesbaden Wiesbaden High school will Host an aids seminar tuesday beginning at 7 . In the school auditorium. The Public is invited to attend inc seminar which will feature a letter from Brian the film Dodds schools will use As pan of the curriculum dealing with acquired immune deficiency syndrome. Local medical officials will be on hand to answer questions. Call ets 339-1437 for More information. Photo arts seminar Wiesbaden photo artist John  of Salt Lake City will be the guest speaker at the Germany Region s seminar for Art teachers monday through wednesday Ai of Crewl. Schaffer has More than 100 photographs displayed in the Library of Congress master photographic col Lection. Vessel Don t intend to make inc same mistake. We Lake this kind of serious out Here said Petty officer 3.c. Jerry c. Scott 29, As he and storekeeper Seaman George x. Thompson 20, Sal in the ship s Bow keeping a close Eye out for mines. The Mcclusky travels in a proc wion behind in kuwaiti tankers Bride ton. At 401,382 tons the largest ship under . Escort in the Gulf and the ,2b3-ton surf cily even though the Ankers would like in hit any mine first Scotland Thompson never let their Eye stray Iong from the water ahead of inc ship. Atop the Bridge More sailors wait near m60 machine guns and stinger anti aircraft missiles backed up by sailors Manning .50-Ealiber machine guns. In the ship s condition three slate of readiness they re stationed 24 hours a Day at higher stages of Alert 40mm grenade launchers arc in Limberd by the Small Craft action team or scat who arc on Call if iranian speedboats should make a run at the Mcclusky. For More sophisticated threats the Cic is the com Mand Post. We View everything out Here As a threat said Felloney. Our Job is to identify  _ the ship is armed with Standard anti aircraft mis Siles Harpoon anti ship missiles a 76mm rapid firing gun torpedo lubes and a Phalanx galling gun that automatically Homes in on sea skimming missiles like the exec cd As they close on the ship. Sensors aboard the Mcclusky her helicopter another ships and aircraft in the Gulf watch everything that flies or sails and feed it to Scopes that extend the ship s eyes for hundreds of Miles we have Iota coverage of this Pond said Fello Ney whose pallor despite he blazing Gulf Sun aunts Totic time he spends in the darkened Cic. At any Given time we be got ii covered from North to  computers merge inc radar and other data with the weapons control systems and can quickly aim and fire any of the ship s weapons. A crewman demonstrate How he can switch on inc last ditch Phalanx within a second of receiving the order. The one Tock on aside the passage is uneventful during a Daylong visit Fay a Pool of reporters. Mines Haven i been spoiled in the area before and helicopter searches have turned up no new ones the Bridgton hit Al mine on its first transit to Kuwait in july 1987, and this is its first southbound Tran sit since it sailed with a Hole in its Hull. The Convoy steamed in single file no roughly 1,000-Yard intervals accompanied by two chartered lug Baafi rigged for mine sweeping in More threatening Waters. The big tankers Csc phones to the Crew take the Lead because they would run Down it smaller ship that stalled in front of it. The Mcclusky rides in the Middle of the Convoy and the Elrod also a guided missile Gaic brings up the rear. Felloney said escort duty is very taxing on the Crew who must stand extra watches As Welt As doing their Normal jobs. The ship drilled intensively before travelling from san Diego to the Gulf drawing on lessons the Navy Learned from inc Stark attack. Supplies of oxygen breathing gear and cutting torches for firefighting have been boosted and the Crew practice  and fending off attack. But the drills ended when the Mcclusky reached the Gulf. The teachers a school at scr along Muley Elji Sythey re often in doubts to who s who of he Aluir seeing quadruple quadruple. The 7- car tits ure inseparable As Bey it lend classes in Kara Mig 60 Miles bum  Kuala Bumpur. Work for peace Gromyko tells . Youth group Moscow apr president Andrei a. Gromyko urged a group of Young american political lenders wednesday to work for peace Between the superpowers but cautioned hem against interference in internal soviet affairs. The Tass news Agency said Gromyko met in the Kremlin who a group from inc american Council of Young Politi Cal leaders that arrived in Moscow sunday. The group includes state and National elected officials journalists business people and others who helped found and look part in a series of exchanges with Young soviet Leaden in the 1970s. You Are Young people Young Politi Cal leaders and this Means thai you should not be the bit to think about How to remove the nuclear sword threatening humanity Gromyko told them. We would like to believe also thai inc understandings reached in Washington will be fulfilled by both our countries and thai the forthcoming talks on the reduction of strategic offensive arms will also be  soviet Leader Mikhail s. Gorbachev and press Dyni Reagan signed an agreement in Washington in december to eliminate the superpowers medium Range nuclear missiles. Gromyko warned the group against interfering in internal soviet affairs which is How the Kremlin often describes criticism of ils human rights record. Nobody has the right to interfere in inc Domestic affairs of other nations. Domestic affairs arc a concern of the people of the particular countries and the Malone he said. He said Uherc arc no disagreements in the soviet leadership according to the Tass report