European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 6, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Tuesday december 6, 19bb the stars and stripes Page 9 War costs no blood just nerves computer system tests commanders by Janet Howells Tierney staff writer Fulda West Germany the Only Way to test them was 10 Start a War. Fortunately the Battleground was simulated using computer graphics and no one was Hurt although plenty of the High ranking players lost sleep. Commanders of he 3rd amid div in Frankfurt were the focus of command Pojl exercise War fighter held to test their reactions to a barrage of information about a fictional Batik the exercise held last month was the first division level test of the joint exer Cise simulation system or Jess in Europe. And although the $2.5 million computer system was Safe and warm in Side the Downs Barracks gym in Fulda commanders were making their Deci Sions from tents out in the Field. We be been fighting for three Days said a. Gen. George Joulwan 3rd aim div commander who admitted to surviving on three or four hours of sleep each night it s a continuous War 24 hours a Jess was designed to test corps level commanders however using it at the division level has saved about Flo Mil lion in development costs according id William a Purcell or. Of the v corps simulation division. Jess is a flick solution while the army is working on a highly technical Model that should be ready by 1993," putted said. All five of the army s Active corps will be listed using the the final goal u to link Active unit with Reserve Anc National guard units for simulated exercises without any of them Leav ing their Home base Purtell said. With the computer conducting All phases of combat troop movement costs Are kept to a minimum. During War fighter More than 1,000 peo ple staffed computers and response Neuv around the Dock inside die Batik Simula Tion Center. They kept in constant Contact with the commanded via Field phones. My 16 to 20 people worked 12-hour shifts simulating the movements and operations of four different battalions,11 said it. Col. Robert j. So Onge jr., commander of the exercise s 2nd brigade 3rd army div response cell. We did a lot of role playing As if we were in the Field ourselves. We translated computer directions into How a battalion would relate that to its com Mander such As the positions of adjacent units or Contact we had with enemy St. Onge added when the computers were slow with directions we had to fabricate stories. We could t say Wail the computer is Down so we told them we d lost Contact with that unit or simulate having a Jaunted a computer Battle has few restrictions up Recti said and can create situations not easily duplicated in a peacetime exercise such As chemical warfare. The Battle simulation Center concept using Jess forces commanders in a High pressure Way to make decisions and conduct War plans Purtill said it replicates the intensity and pressures of Al Croach major Battle of War fighter the commander s actions were critiqued by a lean from fort leaven onh kan., made up of military and retired military observers.-. ". Commanders did wed forecasting when the artillery fire would come from said Doug Nolen v corps Deputy Chic Forer cases. There were problems with concent a lion of combat Power. Early on the com Manders weren t massing. The tactical helicopter Power Lite they Nolen said a major principle of War is to do things in Masse. But they got Busy and forgot thai. The idea of finding the enemy s tanks going out and killing those sucker with All you a got was War Ithier operational cosh were about $640,000, a substantial savings Over what is spent for an exercise such As reformer the annual deployment exercise becoming to maj. 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