European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 15, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday december 15, 1988 the stars and stripes Page 9 but As far As weather goes you might As Well train in terrible weather so that you la be used to it in  spec. Jay White from Page Active duty experience a Quarter of that in classrooms. And he s in the Cross Tiro. Enlisted soldiers some with a Don years in uniform look up in him while officers in i lie Chili n of com Maud look Down Ai him As. Though he were  Microscope. He is 111,1 pressure Point where officer Mccols Enisley. He s our very important link Between us and Llic commander  Perry s platoon sergeant set. 1st class Fred Cizin Jalcs an 11-year Veteran who s served under Sis platoon hinders.  avs the age and experience Difei Cnoc usually balance Sun the positive tide. I May have 11 years As a Cav scout but 1 Don t know in All. I m always looking for new ideas. A Good lieutenant has new  i Crry had hoi cd 34 of the first 36 hours before the fog came. At Ali jut 3 . On the second morning he and spec. Robert Armijo the gunner put while in charge of the radios and got about an hour and a half of Steep. Then a Mission came Down. About 12 hours later pc Rev came Down again from inc Turret for a White and leafed wearily through while s Eastri jars Magazine then mentioned that he d rather ride horses than Hurley. Bui then the radio was chattering his Call Sif a orders were coming Down and Perry was up in the Turret again Riding the fast Lane. To Defiance perhaps. Perry still carries a briefcase Low Ork. Battered scratched caked with mud it was lashed to the Bultel bags and looked As out of place As would inc tablets of Moses among inc mud and dust and gunfire and armoured rumble of combat raining. Platoon Lender Dave Perry right holds an Impromptu Field conference with his Niin  officers. Alpha s command track is driven by spec. Lee a co. 20. Who says he s from a town you be never heard of i n Louisi Ana when it wed. He reveals thai in is South of Alexandria. Pressed further he admits in is Mooreville. No one within i a hot has heard of it. The night before the Roll out Coco went 1o sen License to drive the Lili movie at Camp Aachen. So in had less than three hour Osl cup before the 4 30 . Wake up he picked Cav after watching a Siri Tigon Recruiter movies. He liked the action shooting missiles jumping Over ditches. It looked pretty fun and he says the real life ver Sion live up to die recruiting promises especially when the platoon goes to he inf is the Man Euver area near Graf. It s just that in Law film they did t Shuw you How cold in was Over Here he said. Coco who plans to get out of the army in nine months and move Hack to i Owsiana where the Wilmere Are worm said one of his favorite parts of inc Bradley Cav vehicle is its healer. When Coco switches on the heat moisture collects on the cold armoured ceiling of the Ere compartment. This is similar to what happens when you defrost a near and after about 30 m minutes it begins raining inside so that even indoors you can t escape the rain. The Turret is truly the sic of a phone Booth. Maybe one of the larger German ones but a phone Booth nonetheless this is where Perry and Armijo spend their two Days. Armijo s Job Wistos Viool the 25mm Cannon mini los and coaxial machine gun on Board inc Bradley. He s also been known to lob a hand grenade Over the Sidra Timco two. He hails from a Callie ranch in new Mexico and will be Home by Christmas. While Apache troop of ids to the yuletide Border Armijo will be taking 35 Days of leave in route to his no a Post Al tort Knox by during the 36th hour when fog stopped inc exercise Armijo had 17 Days left in Germany. Sometime around Midnight the fog began to free a away. Movement orders came Down Over the radio waking the platoon out of i to stupor and the night gunnery began bleary eyed troopers confused stressed from sleeplessness and half sleep. Like combat. Just before the 48ih hour one of the platoon s Bradley careened into the mud stuck j us about a mile a couple of minutes from inc end of the exercise. Pc Rev went out into the Muddy darkness to Sec what he could do. Armijo. Exhausted manned the radio for a while then turned it Over to White and collapsed onto the pile of Duffel bags in the Back of the Bradley. While stayed in the gunner s scat at first then crawled outside on top of the Turret and Sal. You could hear the stuck Bradley its tread Nio Aning like a trapped whale and see a Flicker from its night lights. But the lieutenant wherever he had gone was covered by darkness. The sky was almost Clear now. A few Slan broke through the Mist. And first Light began growing in the cast 1he beginning of Fth third Day. What do you suy about that White asked. " now that we re Gonna finish it s Gonna be a Clear  Call it Apache troop Luck. It s just that in the film License to drive they did t show you How cold it was Over  spec. Lee Coco on the night before the Start of 48-hour gunnery practice Perry briefs his outfit on the upcoming Mission