European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 29, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday july 29, 1988 the stars and stripes Page 9 visiting pilots get feel of combat air guard units from . Training in Germany by Mark Walsh Pitburg Bureau Span Dahlem a West Germany on a nor Mal training Mission Over the midwestern Plains of the United states capt. Daryl Bartek can Fly hundreds of Miles and see Only a few other aircraft. The terrain is relatively Flat peppered by occasional Bluffs and Hill Sand the weather is normally conducive to Good flying. But the a-7 Pilot with the Iowa air National Guardis Well aware that any Aerial conflict he is Likely to take part in will not happen in the area he is so used to flying Over. With that in mind Bartek and about 75 other Mem Bers of the 185th tac fighter group of Sioux City Iowa Are training at Span Dahlem a in Creek Cor Sair 88. The exercise is designed to familiarize air National guard Crews and support people with conditions at overseas operating bases the areas they Likely would be called upon to defend in time of War. Being Here you know you re not flying through Iowa or Kansas and going to hit a target that you be been to several times Bartek said. You re not com ing up to Sioux City for a couple of Days to Fly your missions and go through a couple of routine Screnar  As part of the exercise three air guard units fro the United states will deploy to Span Dahlem for two weeks each learning the tricks of operating in the european theater. The Sioux City unit was to depart for Home base saturday. The other units participating will be the 121st tac fighter Wing of the Rickenbacker air National guard base outside Columbus Ohio and the 150th tac fighter group Kirtland fab . Bartek said the exercise is the Ideal training package for his unit to Fly in the mountainous terrain and get acquainted with the often marginal weather and other obstacles that european based air Force pilots fac every Day. Ground Crew members said they also find the train ing useful although the majority of them agree that working a plane on the ramp at Span Dahlem is no that much different from servicing one in Sioux City. Staff sgt. Howard Hulshof a munitions technicians a Mark Walsh staff sgt. Howard Hulshof left checks munitions while capt. Daryl Bartek inspects his plane s systems. Said deploying to Europe adds a bit of substance to their training. It s More realistic Over Here when you see every thing camouflaged when you see the shelters and when you practice in chem gear said Hulshof who As a civilian farms Corn soybeans and cattle with his fathering Northwestern Iowa. The 24-year-old guardsman admits there is a lot of stress in turning around the aircraft and getting them ready for their next Mission but he said the pressures Are not like those they would experience in combat. I think these exercises prepare us Well for a War time situation because like the pilots we re going to be out Here too he said. Training in 7 hospitals in w. Germany american students examine army medical life by Janet d Agostino medical writer Frankfurt West Germany usually it s the person in the White coat with the Stethoscope who makes the patient nervous. But when medical student 2nd it. David Preston was asked to do a medical history and physical examination on a two Star general he was the one with the butterflies. It was just a Little scary for me. To do a history and physical on the general said Preston who has been training this summer at the Frankfurt army regional medical Center. Being a second lieutenant and going through Roth i know How people Are when they see a  it also was unusual for the 24-year-old to examine someone of such importance. Medical students usually get much of their training by caring for poor uninsured patients in Large City hospitals. An insured patient in a private Hospital might be a Little reluctant to have a third year medical student working on them Preston said. Preston is one of 37 medical students from the United states who have been training in seven army hospitals in West Germany since mid june. Their education is being paid by the health professions scholarship pro Gram offered through the military services. Under the program they put on a uniform during the summer to get a taste of Active duty. Preston Preston a student at Emory University in Atlanta has finished two years of medical school consisting mostly of classroom studies and limited clinical train ing. At Frankfurt he examined at least two patients a week and developed thorough medical reports under the supervision of or. Joseph Murphy an army Cap Tain in the department of internal Medicine. Preston said he Learned How to reduce those reports and paint a Brief concise picture of a patient in five minutes providing All the vital information another physician would need to know. I saw a couple of medical conditions that were just As they teach you in school Preston said and that s when something really locks into your mind when you see it. " one of those cases was a patient who had clubbing or enlargement of the tissues of the fingertips which can be a sign of some types of cancer. I Only had seen pictures of it clubbing of the Fin Gers he said. I was just amazed when he walked in the office it was classic there it  the patient was diagnosed with liver cancer. Preston who leaves Europe this week to return to medical school said working in Frankfurt revealed some of the differences Between civilian and military Medicine including that doctors Don t have to pay for malpractice insurance or an office. On the other hand he said the army is a big big machine with military Medicine bogged Down in red tape and administrative paper work. U.s., Vietnam moving closer to joint Mia search Bangkok Thailand a the United states and Vietnam appear ready to intensify efforts to search together and account for 1,761 americans still missing from the Vietnam War the . Embassy said thurs Day. An embassy statement said experts from both coun tries meeting Over the past four Days discussed plans to work on concerted efforts within the next three months to make significant progress1 to resolve the divisive Issue. The two sides which met in Hanoi Vietnam reviewed arrangements for joint investigative Survey and excavation activities during the period. The statement described the meetings As quite productive and we look Forward to greatly expanded co operation in coming  members of the . Team which returned from Hanoi thursday will discuss implementation of the joint searches in Washington the statement said. The Vietnam War ended in april 1975 with a communist Victory Over the .-backed South vietnamese government. In recent months Vietnam has made significant moves to resolve the Mia Issue. It said this month that it would try to resolve 70 priority cases this year an Welcome More joint excavations of warplane crash Sites. Facing a ruinous Economy and shunned by the non communist world for its invasion of Cambodia Viet  has been making efforts at building some Bridges to the United states and other Western and asian nations. Vietnam has withdrawn some of its forces from Cambodia and participated in the indonesian sponsored talks to find a political solution to the cambodian conflict. The . Technical team to the talks was led by it. Col. Joe Harvey of the joint casualty Resolution Cen Ter and was joined by representatives of the . Cen trial identification Laboratory. Both units Are based in Hawaii