European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 2, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Sunday april 2, 1989 the stars and stripes Page 9 class keeps tank troops on their toes blistering Ranger class puts Riding warriors Back on their feet again by John Millard Wardzell West Germany tucked inside High Speed Bradley lighting vehicles and my tanks Soldier in today s mechanized Force Are More Apt to head for Battle with Highway maps than the topographical Grid sheets that arc Standard army Issue. Fearful that there is Loo Lille foot left in foot Soldier ing 3rd army div commanders Are gelling their sol Diers to Swap the Road for the Ridge in what division officials Call Ranger Camp in the Tough terrain of Northern Franconia s Spessars mountains. ,. One of the problems with Pur division is people Don t like la gel out of their vehicles said Cap. Tony Turner commander of co a 3rd so 5th Cav we have problems with land navigation on and that shortcoming does t Square with a division philosophy that the lowly foot Soldier will be the Factor in determining Battles that pit mechanized units against each other. Hence Ranger training two weeks of Teg stretching at the hands of 3 5 graduates of the army s elite Ranger school at fort Banning. A. During a recent version of the ramp 160 division troops underwent a week of training in such basics As patrolling rappelling. Mountaineering first Aid and ambushes on a class schedule that kicked off each Day As Early As 4 and ended around Midnight. A we Klong tactical scenario followed pitting cavalry soldiers in Warsaw pact uniforms against the Stu dents. Ranger instructors marked Down deficiencies All along Heway. -. A lot of people come Here thinking it s going to bean easy ride said capt. Richard Ward a Iston 36th inf officer who headed one of the Ranger platoons the first Day i could Sec them looking with big Ward said. But by afternoon of the first Day they understood exactly where we were coming front arid they were moving with urn. Speed. Every where they Wen ,. J. " by the time it was All Over even the students acknowledged that Riding in a vehicle bad dulled skills the Camp helped Sharpen. This is a Good Eye opener said Cpl Steven Perry a 3rd army div Soldier presses his a through the Fouke Forest in West Germany s spes Art mountains. Of co a 1st in 48th inf. Being gel to being lady. This is getting Back to going on your another student staff sol. Daniel Beecham of the battalion s cod recommended that All non commissioned officers attend the course. In the Bradley if Yogi stay in the Turret for a Long Lime you la lose the basics of infantry soldiering he also viewed the pc Start training As a Welcome break from training areas such As and Hohrn fils where Rechani de mane vering keeps sol Diers in their tracked vehicles most of the takes awhile to gel used to the stress said Cpl. Jeffrey barbed a student from the battalion s he s no so Russ Back in the rear. It takes a couple of Days to get used to the stress and be Able to Deal withit.? -. From the Ranger viewpoint such stress strength ens the Junior officer and no leadership abilities by forcing them to take command of a patrol or uni that s tired Chilly Ruddy and stressed out said 1st Saunders an instructor from the j33fd military intelligence in. Consequently Ward said the Ranger instructors Cut Little Slack. We re not Here to try to make them quit. We re jus there to put pressure on them and to make them learn he said. Added 1st it. Sean Seally assistant operations and training officer for 3rd so 5th Cav this course does is it trains those Junior leaders so they can go Back and train their soldiers. It s very physically demanding mentally demand ing. But what it s really meant to do is to have these Guys go Back to their Home unit take what they have Learned Here and use it to teach their Junior enlisted the Guys they have working for them on the new in Effing Maisei Seurt i for 16 engine flow by Arrington Doke a Bureau Ramstein a West Germany aircrews searching for a potentially dangerous flaw in an fico engine now can inspect the engine without removing it from l6 fighter aircraft. -. ,.v ,.- the method Cus inspection Lime from a full work Day to one to three hours us ape s director of maintenance said Friday. General electric introduced the tech Nique to Safe last month within weeks of an air Force order to inspect Tel 10 engines used in l6 fighter air Craft for flaws near the fuel Noble Graham said. Graham declined to discuss the reason for the inspect Ion which initially involved Only Al 10 engines with More than 350 Fly ing hours. Defense Industry publications. However have reported the inspections were prompted by the Nicks and cracks in the High stressed Core see Lions of some of the engines. The 10 has come underdone Schili by in the Wake of a series off a 6 crashes Over the past two years. The engine said to be the world s most powerful single Jet engine offers 28,000 pounds ,. If fuel escapes Sirilo the engine could deteriorate Over Lime. If uncorrected the engine could fail a Safe spokesman said. In Safe about 200 Filos were inspected Between feb. .16 and March is. Aboul 140were checked with the new tech Nique. Although Only 46 engines came under the feb. 16 order for inspecting in june Witri 350 or More flying hours City air logistics Center issued subsequent orders to also inspect those with 50 or More flying hours for stress and cracks near the fuel Iio be. The inspections turned up eight item thai resulted in replacement or repair. / a couple were things. We weren specifically looking for Graham said. He emphasized that air Force aircraft and engines Are regularly inspected. How Ever he noted of the fico s relative newness definitive inspection schedule has not yet been standardized. Different fighter engines Wear differently and. You end up looking for differ Nipa items of Wear Graham said with the new technique and Llie engine still installed in an l6, a Crew using a flexible optical scope needs Les than three hours to look for so Russ or cracks developing around the plane s fuel nozzle. Previously an entire work Day was needed to inspect the engine for that Type of flaw Graham said. Taking an engine apart is a major he said. Although inspecting aircraft engines with a scope is not a new technique using the smaller sized tool to seek out flaws around the. Fuel nozzle is a recent development. Graham said. No decision has been made As to How often the inspections will be done a Safe spokesman said. Although Graham filed savings in time As the new technique s chief Benefit time in t the Only commodity thai will be saved by leaving engines in planes for inspection. When engines arc taken apart for inspection some parts must be replaced for Wear that occurs during the inspection. Study defends research on biological warfare by Norm an Black a military writer Washington a study of the nation s biological warfare research program has concluded that such work is ecologically Safe and essential to National Security the army said Friday. Completing work ordered by a Federal court settlement two years ago the army said a team of its engineers concluded that such Basic biological research with toxins must be continued. The study called the final programmatic Environ mental Impact statement now goes to the Secretary of he army for approval. By Law the Impact statement cannot be formally approved for at least 30 Days. According to the Arm the final Impact statement essentially mirrors a draft document released in may1988 that was the subject of Public hearings in Utah and Virginia the final assessment concludes that Laboratory re search with biological materials is potentially Bazart Doris but thai elaborate controls tvs been devel oped Over the years to assure adequate Protection for the environment the army said the final Impact statement Wai immediately condemned Friday by the environmental group that forced its preparation. The group called the study a joke and an they have taken a fairly Cavalier attitude and ignored the requirements of the Law said Jeremy if Kin president of the foundation on economic trends. This Impact statement is grossly inadequate it does t begin to Deal with the problems fan escape of organisms from a Laboratory he continued. They have not dealt with mass evacuation proce dures mass medical procedures or Security procedures. We Are going to instruct our attorneys to move this Back into court. The defense department is working with every deadly Pathogen known to human Man. If a deadly virus does escape it could wreak havoc and potentially be the environmental study completed Friday was prompted by a suit filed by the Washington based foundation in september 1986,
