European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 22, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Gazine1 i on target with staff sgt. Anderson Anderson tells Carmen Lugo How it Dona. Story end photos by Dave Jehl . Bureaus ule f  the big Man in camouflage Road from a manual his night students looking a 1 tile bored. Be sure of your  he held a pump action Shotgun easily in one hand but the words came out almost unnaturally uncertainly one student ,1 Domm dad Sailor yawned. Then the Marino lifted his eyes irom the Book to a Dell and Swift motion he brought the gun up grabbed the Stock and levelled it. He cradled the barrel and lucked the Wood of Iho Remington win Masler into his shoulder eyed the sight pumped the gun. Fingered the safely and fired at i he Wall. Stafl sgt. Gerald Anderson . Marine corps was giving a Little lesson to some sailors on How to use a weapon but if Anderson was having a bit of trouble with the Book he was a master of lha practical. When the Navy decided it wanted a tougher Mic skilled Security and anti terrorist Force on its bases it did the logical thing. It sent in the marines. There were sailors serving in similar Rales but the marines were pegged to train the Navy members and put together forces to meet a terrorist threat according to capt. Jeffrey l. Gaspers the commander of the Marine corps Security Force headquartered in London. These marines were placed out Here to put an armed combat Trainer on the bases he said. Each Marine is considered to have tha Basic Warrior Type skills. We Aren t policeman and these Guys Aron l performing a police Type Mission. They Are there Lor weapons training and counter  the sailors will have to work As Security personnel about once a week in addition to their regular jobs As radio operators Seabee and Supply clerks. Anderson arrived this summer to till the Navy s Bill at Raf Thurso a communications base on Scotland s Northern coast. So tar the 15-year Marine Veteran is gelling Good reviews from his students. He s a great Guy a Good Leacher said chief Petty officer Dan Dickerson the former head of the Thurso Security Force. He s the Type thai likes to get things Anderson supervising sailors on the tiring line at Raf Thurso in Scoland done. When he s got a Job to do he docs  chief Petty officer Fritz Heipertz. Dickerson s replacement noted Anderson s efficiency and organization. He said the Marine is Good at getting things done but noted that houses the Marine method. It s a Little weird being a Marine they do things differently than the Navy does. He keeps his Marine ways about  Anderson the second of four kids dropped out of High school to join the marines and planned Only to stay in for one hitch. Fifteen years later he does not consider anything else even on Iho Tough Days at the firing Range where s that weapon supposed to be smith1?" said the Marine who was sure that he had made the Point Clear Only a few minutes before in the classroom. Where s that weapon supposed to be to your shoulder he repeated it All for effect. Don t look at what you re Doire you should t have to look at what you re Doln the camouflaged sergeant used an encouraging Lone of voice. Meanwhile eight Shotgun toting Saitofi blood on the tiring Range awaiting Anderson s word no matter what it was. The orders came from a bullhorn and they might have heard this Marine on lha Orkney islands across o narrow North sea Strait from Raf Thurso. If he said it ordered in they did it. Except Lor Ono. I just Don t like  shrugged Petty officer 3rd class Carmen Lugo who stepped off the Range after firing Only once. Why not?." asked the Marine. Guns won t hurl  the Sailor looked sceptical. She had ripped a baseball sized Hole out of her target a few minutes before. Thai weapon won l do anything to you said Anderson. Guns Are  Anderson is glad the Navy called in the marines to train the sailors at Thurso. The assignment oilers a bit of stability after 12 of 15 years on Iho move. But there have been some adjustments. The discipline Latoi gets to me  said Anderson sporting Iho Standard High and Light Marine corps coif. People Here Are More Laid  being Laid Back in t what marines Are about. Rank in the Marine corps has a position. In the Navy the pay Grade is what you go by. Everybody Here is on a first name basis. It s not so much in what they say it s what it  sometimes he gets called Grunt Gyrene warhead. Thai s of. Anderson says just Don t Call him Gerald and Don t Ever Call him Sarge. Staff sgt. Anderson is the proper term of address. If a person Ever Calls me Sarge i get upset. I just explain Illo pm he said. They usually understand when i explain it to  saturday october 22, 198b the stars and stripes Page 13