European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 12, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Friday january 12,1990 the stars and stripes Page 9 sus Lyrta All secure in Belgium for reformer curious belgian bicyclists watch from a Bridge As members of the 1166th my co porn Side Security during i belgian s River crossing Al the pcs Sci canal and Kuna Melchen River. The i166lh, in Nul Unal guard unit from Greensboro ala., is in Belgium for this year s refer Ger exercise. Equipment has transported out Bridges built by Belgium units. The Man Euver is part of a Supply network operated by the 21st 1 Heater area come. Safe drastically cuts sorties for 90 exercises by Deedee Arrington Doke Kaiserslautern Bureau Ramstein a. Wesl Germany reflecting the s scaled Down operations in 1990 re Latch activities the air Force has Cut by half the num Ber of sorties it will Fly in the cold fire 90 exercise from the amount flown in 1988. Pilots assigned to us e bases in West Germany and the United kingdom will Fly about 830 sorties Down from 1.625 in 1988 in Southern Germany during cold fire a companion nato air exercise to Centurion shield. The air exercise began thursday and will end Jan. 26. Air forces from Canada. France and West Germany will also participate. The total number of sorties to be flown will be considerably less than in previous cold fires Accord ing to 41 h Allied tac air Force officials in Heidelberg. The Crews will not Fly weekend missions. The exact flying areas will depend on the development of the exercise said maj. Claus Rosin Bauer. A 4th Al lied tac air Force spokesman. . Aircraft to deploy during cold fire include \ 10 Thunderbolt ii tank killers. F-15 and f-16jet fight ers. Full tactical fighters. Of ill tactical jamming aircraft and r-4 reconnaissance aircraft. We can support the exercise adequately with what we have in said maj. . Sinclair. Safe s Central Region action officer for the exercises. No major air Force units arc being deployed from the United slates but individuals Are being sent to augment Europe based units. One reason for the Lack of stateside forces is the out of Cycle Winter setting for the 1990 exercise Sinclair said. It traditionally had been held in september. Why waste . Taxpayers dollars to Send people Over Here when you have bad flying weather Sinclair said. Hut Safe assumed an additional role in the exer Cise by helping commanders practice for War through computer simulations. Safe s involvement has grown since planning first began for the computer simulated War games at the War rior preparation cell or in . West Germany. We started with 12 people. Now it s grown to 44," Sinclair said of Saff s personnel commitment to the computer simulation exercise starting sunday and end ing Jan. 26. The Warrior preparation Center trains senior com Manders through compute i cd War games that Simu late a nato Battlefield environment and use nato defense plans. A successful exercise at the air Force and run Center in september proved that the War games could be operated around the clock. The then decided to operate the Centurion shield computer simulations 24 hours a Day. The air Force will reap limited training from participating in he simulations Sinclair said we re getting some value but the training is More targeted toward the Sinclair said. In addition to cutbacks of tactical Light missions during cold fire and Centurion shield. 15 fewer . Transportation missions for cargo and personnel Are being flown in and out of Europe this year than for the 198s exercise. Army it. Maria Jonkers a spokeswoman for an exercise information office Al Kam Stcin a said 90 commercial and military aircraft flew a forger re Latch missions in and out of Europe in 1988. Only 75 arc scheduled this year. Jonkers said. An troops off to War to cover Centurion shield by Jim Jones staff writer Frankfurt. West German they won t be threatened or shot at. But they la be in the War All the same. Five american forces network Europe teams each consisting of a re Porter and a photographer plus editors and technicians jell their Frankfurt Home base tuesday for Schwabish Hall to prepare for bringing television viewers the goings on of exercise Centurion shield. Viewers already have seen a forger Rel Ald news broadcasts As an followed some 15,000 .-Bascd troops off boats in Antwerp. Belgium and through that country to the exercise area in Southern Germany. Starting tuesday they can expect Tele vision reports of six to 10 minutes on the evening news broadcast. An news director Ann Mulligan said the main objective is to show the Audi ence How the two week Battle is going just As if in were a Battle fought in real however Centurion shield will use fewer troops and tracked vehicles than in the 1988 certain Challenge exercise. It won t have any tanks and a primary emphasis will be on training commanders. Computer simulation will play a major role in the training. Well do a lot of stories try ing to explain to the audience How these computers Mulligan said. The network will use its computers to show viewers How the Battlefield com Puter simulations interact with people in the Field. One of the network s goals. Mulligan said is explaining the exercise so viewers Don t have to be up on computers or military tactical capabilities in order to understand what s happening in the an s graphics Art should make that easier and the Progress of the Battle More understandable. Mulligan said. The evening news also will feature people stories and visits by vips. The evening segment will be anchored As usual from Frankfurt. In will carry news that happened up to about noon that Day. The news will be by Crews in the Field then transported by train in Lime for the evening broadcast. Anything thai happens Between noon and 6 30 . Will be featured on an radio s Neucom update which airs monday through Friday Al 6 55 a.m., 12 15 . And 6 55 . Each afternoon the 10 local affiliate radio stations such As Kaiserslautern and . Will broadcast exer Cise updates on their live disc jockey shows. Listeners hoping to learn about traffic jams or weather information in the li.600-Juarc-mile Man Euver area can to so tune in to Al n radio. Two weekend Neucom reports on an to also will be dedicated to the exercise. The shows airing Jan. 20 and 27 will Recap each week s activities
