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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 21, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday september 21.1988 the stars and stripes of police tailor Security to British bases  Raf m1ldenhall. England sgt. Dave Hayter wanted same action. You Don l want to sit out Here and not Sec  the Colorado based airman said As he walked he wooded Aih near the approach lights to Raf Mildenhall. Hayter normally is with the 7625th Security police so at the air Force acad Emy in Colorado Springs Colo. Bui he and Aboul 176 air farce Security police men from three other stateside bases were combing the Fields Woods arid scrubs around . Facilities in England in exercises last week to practice the de sense of the realm. However after i i Days in the Field Only a handful of the enemy Haj been knocked off or captured. Haylor and a few others were looking to up that Lally. The airmen had Learned with the Brit ish to defend bases and other key Sites across the country from subversion and espionage. The British Are Ira nine with troop from the army the Royal Navy the territorial army and i hair Home service Force in the multiphase exercise according to an army spokesman in London. He said sonic civilian police and other civil Agen cies such As fire departments also Are participating. Americans Are involved in Hryce of the exercise phases this a car. To Hayler s exercise Security police from lie Mildenhall and Lakenheath bases were fortified with a lifer . Counterparts to oppose aggressors made up of four Man teams from the British special air service they were posing As russians Elena. Units Irving to infiltrate the two bases in exercise Eastern shield. Cant. Bob Gilliam the officer leading inc group from the Academy said the Eji Crisc was a different Type of Security work for his unit. The air Force is abandoning the old Way of setting up Static guards around a base in favor of a system sgt. Dan Bowen is loaded for Bear soviet Bear that is As he patrols Scutching for soviet spot mus infiltrators at Al missile site of flights and four member fire learns and roving patrols he said. Security planners like Gilliam can Tai Lor a Security Force to the base to be protected. I have free rein on How i want defend this area said Gilliam pointing to a blueprint map As he sat in his com Mand Post tent in Helena Heath Woods. His three sectors about 10 Square Miles of mostly Pine Woodland just off inc base near the town of Mildenhall were fortified by 72 airmen from the 513th Security police so at Raf Milden Hall plus his Academy unit. Hallway through one of the exercise Days last week his defenders had Cap. Tured six bad Guys including one High ranking one with a lot of documents said sol Michael Knapp a 513lh Law enforcement specialist. However the phony Spe Snaz teams had registered five official kills while losing Only three. But Knapp said for every one begot there Are probably 15 More out there Gilliam s Force is designed As an Early warning system for he base. During conflict units like his would be sent from the United states to Lake up their War Lime role. And Gilliam and his men like Hayter were ready for action. In police Lingo he Pul it like this they want o engage in All some 61,000 people Are taking part in inc exercises in september and october which As much As anything arc tests of communications Between the participants one air Force spokesman said. Security police at Raf upper Scyford participated in the autumn Tiger phone sept. 7-11. From sept. 9 through Friday Raf Mildenhall and Raf Lakenheath were involved in the Eastern shield phase. Raf Fairford will help out in exercise Drakes drum oct. 1-9. Also participating in the exercise were airmen from Kelly fab Texas acc ser fab miss. Robins fab a. And rats upper Scyford Mildenhall Lakenheath and Fairford. 2 . Carrier groups sending a signal to soviets  writer aboard the Carrier Theodore Roose velt the first Ever deployment of iwo . Navy Carrier groups to nato s Northern flank is a message to the soviet Union a top Admiral says. We re sending a signal that in times of crisis this won t be unusual Saij vice adm. Jerome John son who is commanding maritime forces in team work 88, a nine nation 21-  
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