European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 19, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Ministry of on the flight line by Ron Jensen staff writer chaplain it col Roger som is a dedicate sight tooling about Civ Goll raft among the giant cargo air capt that crowd the Light Liziie at Rhein mum a Gri mme to looks Lila ? a homed golfer m Seei Chot a a a a Woof Lilly chant too shot a. 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Wih Conre up to von night out there More often than not it s a Call from someone , i saw you on the Rad the elder Day and i d like to to k to you a a Quot. A a ,. The chaplains have three shifts on the flight Fine. Nind Moremo Mida Nemon and late evening a Rush Waits to gel to the Back shops of the a hangars hut business has been As bunks the wind a a "dosed.shield, in All honesty was not the catalyst for a d Bush who did something. A similar a b. a a. He had been planning a flight line i Esnero but needed the Goll ear to work. Quot to walk that area would Lake a lot of Effort and shoe leather Quot he said Quot we re in fatigues like. Everybody else we Don t stand out Quot. A but the cart with Quot chaplain Quot in red letters on Ever Side gives them visibility the car and operation desert Soueid arved at about the same time. The initial Are was Kool Aid to Cool Crow a a. Members working in the heal but. That gave Way to. The hot drinks As Winter a a a whatever the season however the main purpose / or the. Cart remains unchanged. Quot mrs very much Quot Bush said. A a a James Harper left and Wilford Alford examine a3qqpoundc141 main gear tire during a spot Cheek of a War readiness kit pallet. Heading downrange air Force men from gun pause for a Chat at Rhein Malnis tent City. Continued from Page 13 Quot a. A a a a y Bush s decision to fill the arabian desert with american might As a deterrent to Tacti Leader Saddam Hussein. Like a a Boom quickly and now can a accommodate up to 800 people a a. A a a for heading downrange the tent City offers a Chance to stretch legs and maybe catch a Lew hours rest. A while wailing for their air plane to be refuelled and a a maintained. A a a a. Quot Quot Quot Well get 350 to 400 folks irom a 747 a who have been on the air plane Many hours Quot said col a a Quot Edward c. White dr., base commander Quot if we did no to have quo this facility they d be forced to stay on the giant tent houses Uso services including everything from free Coffee to darts to scrabble to Row after Row of paperback books. V. Yesterday we made a total of 2,000 sandwiches Quot said Celeste Warner Heyman of the Uso. \ Heyman said the Uso ran out of food recently. V .7 messages on an calling for donations netted enough. Food in 90 minutes to feed 800 hungry people. Quot by the r morning everything was empty again Quot she . Its that Way everywhere in tent City the facility is. Either crowded or empty when its crowded Many of the visitors take showers or do laundry. Some phone Home on an at amp to connection that charges stateside rates ,. Col. Michael Reagan commander of the 4351h. Quot services so oversees the 268 rooms of the base hotel and tie 206 in an Annex. Quot. Quot. Ever since the deployment began tie has had an a Quot. Amazing occupancy rate it was at 144. A a its been even As 180 percent As guests a a usually air Crews a Check out barely 10 hours after Quot checking in. A a a a a a a Reagan has t counted the number of guests. A accommodated but he said it has averaged Between boo and 1,000 since the initial Rush More than four months ago. Roughly then that s More than 100,000 customers. A just to do the accounting work t had to triple my stall Quot. The hotel normally operated a maid service Only during. The daytime but the sudden Stampede of business Quot a a Quot required cleaning Crews to be on hand 24 hours per Day. Reagan received Volunteer help from spouses at Rhein. said did a better Job than the professionals at cleaning the rooms. a ,. A a a transporting flight Crews to the hotel is one task of Ho-435.th trans so. By the end of november the squad had a made nearly 16,000 runs to the flight line since the Start of shield More than 200 Crew runs have been made in some 24-hour periods said capt. Marshal Mantiply. ,. While flight Crews Are sleeping. Their air planes Are being refuelled and maintained at exceptional Levels. A Quot what we normally do in a month we did in three y. Days Quot said sgt. Robert Robson Coic of accounting a and administration for the fuels management Branch of a y the 435th Supply so. 7. .,7 y my a a during the first three months of operation desert shield the fuel Crews pumped the amount of fuel normally. Pumped in 18 months.7 y a the base has averaged 5 million Gallons of fuel pumped per week since Early August and More than once has a. Pumped fuel at Pace greater than 1 million Gallons per Day. Robson said it was discovered that the onslaught of More fuel stands. Resourceful workers constructed two additional fuel stands to up the Slack. Sgt James Harper chief of Supply for the Squadron s 1 Forward Supply location said his people have been a handling replacement parts at a record Pace. A. Quot our workload h.astnc.reased.400.percent,&Quot he said. A a. Quot we re doing that with the number of Peop e we have. Assigned during a Normal time Quot v a a Quot when this first started we worked about three weeks a straight without a break Quot Harper said. The Crews have y a / a been augmented by several people. Some have come from a Safe Mac Headquarters sent a handful. A a de planing c-141 Crew does a Quot bag drag Quot to a waiting air Force bus at Rhein Maln a. Impromptu pizza feasts helped keep morale up As the people handled chores outside their Normal experience. ,. Sgt. Willord Raiford superintendent for Supply logistics. A your whole warehouse will turn Over in about a weekend a half Quot y a a. A. Putting Many of those pads on the air planes Are the men and women of the 435th aircraft generation so red. Aircraft min unit. Chief master sgt. John Wilson with 140 people in the unit he has added 80 deployment began most from Travis fab Norton fab and Altus fab in the states and has kept them All Busy no one had a Day off for the first ,18 Days of. The / a deployment a _ a. A. The goal is to have the aircraft a mostly c-141 s and c a y. 5s a Bac in the air in three hours and 15 minutes Wilson. Said under Normal conditions his does that More than a 90 percent of the Horne t. However increased flight frequencies has dropped c-14 is get Back in the air in the preferred Timp about 85 percent of the time Wilson said for.c-5s,. The rate is about 75 percent. A. A y Quot i have the Best Damn mechanics in All of Mac. I Don t. Hesitate in saying . Y a. Quot. The deployment has stretched the responsibilities of the 435th equip Mth so in Normal times it repairs weather and radar equipment for c-130s. Now it does it for c-141s Andc--5s o n their Way downrange. A y Quot our product tidy has increased said sgt Mark. help out the unit Lias added people from a a West Virginia National guard unit a Quot the deployment has attest of oven areas Lottie base not directly involved for example the oms to inspection y Agency Winch to candles cooperative inspections of base Between America and soviet forces houses its soviet visitors at the Abrams in Frankfurt instead of the crowded base hotel. A y. A a. ,. A if there has been one lesson teamed four months of operation desert shield Mol Nyk said it is that the deployment procedure works. Quot you Don t invent a new system Quot. A a Page 14 a a a a the stars and stripes wednesday december 19,1990 / the stars and stripes Page 15
