European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 13, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes sunday january 13, 1991crisis in the Gulf hangars serving As Hospital wards by Peggy Davidson Kaiserslautern Bureau Ramstein a Germany a outside the building bears the Khaki exterior of an Ordinary hangar. But inside the Ordinary hangar becomes an extraordinary Hospital Ward with More than 100 White sheeted Beds standing on Glossy Gray floors. The converted hangar near the Ramstein a flight line is a newly formed Aeron Edical staging facility that will serve the wounded from operation desert shield if a War starts in the Middle East. The facility will provide a holding area for patients on their Way to hospitals in Germany or the states. A similar facility was set up about a month ago in a hangar at Rhein main a near Frankfurt said 1st it. Toni Kemper a base spokeswoman. Others will be located at Raf Mildenhall Raf upper Scyford and a Raf Waddington England a Firnberg Germany and Torrejon a Spain. Patients coming from medical evacuation aircraft would a theoretically spend three to 15 hours in ram Stcin a facility said col. Mary Post the chief nurse for the  not All patients will go to the facility a Post said. A if All goes smoothly patients will go to Amu buses and ambulances to area hospitals. This is just a holding facility in Case weather transportation or timing prevents immediate movement of  the Ramstein facility will have the same staff that a Hospital would have Post said. Only the numbers would be different. But she is not allowed to say How different. The facility will be staffed by reservists and Ramstein personnel. The medical staff from the 316th air div clinic at Ramstein has been working since Jan. 4 to set up the facility before the tuesday deadline facing Saddam Hussein to remove his forces from Kuwait. But the Mcd a amps Peggy Davidson airman Dana Daley a medical specialist and airman 1st class John to Degelder a dental technician make a bed in the Ramstein Aeron Edical staging facility. Ical staff members Arentt the Only people working to ensure that the facility Quot is in working condition by tues Day Post said. A we have begged borrowed and stolen from so Many agencies a Post said. The bulk of extra help has come from the 377th civil engr so in the form of carpenters electricians plumbers and equipment movers. A they have been Here sunup to Sundown and  added to posts workload Are constantly changing requirements. /. A we started with a request for one fourth of the Beds we have now and within Days were told to expand three times a she said. Electrical outlets and Telephone lines also had to be expanded to meet changing needs. Some of the equipment being used in the facility could be considered Vintage facility workers said. When clinic airmen in crated the package that contained the essentials of an aeromedical staging facility they found a newspaper from 1952 that was used As cushioning material Post said. The equipment is new and usable even though it was manufactured before some of the medical technicians were born Post said. The equipment includes suction pumps carts Beds lamps and linens. A a it a equipment you would see. At any combat Type medical unit a Post said. The facility also will be loaded with High tech equipment. Defibrillators a which electrically restart hearts that have stopped beating a Electrocardiogram machines and other such equipment will be the most modern available Post said. Although it has taken hundreds of hours to set up the facility one airman said she and her colleagues would be glad if it were never used. Sweeping her to include the Beds Supply shelves and her co workers she said �?o1 Hope All this turns out to be just an  no War thousands chant at Frankfurt rally by Chuck Roberts staff writer Frankfurt Germany thousands of people marched through the streets of a Frankfurt on saturday in a mass Appeal for peace in the persian Gulf. A no War in the Gull a and a no blood for Oil a were the Battle cries repeatedly yelled from the Loudspeaker of a Van which led a string of protesters that stretched for More than a mile German police said. They refused to estimate the crowd size. It was a message that was repeated around Germany on saturday. Similar demonstrations were held in about 70 German cities and towns including Munich Leipzig and Chemnitz. Related Story photo on Page 7 in Frankfurt the demonstrators were peaceful but some of their posters decried War. One poster showed Jesus wearing a Gas mask and combat boots nailed to the Cross. Another showed a Young Black child wearing an  helmet and a slogan that read a a done to make him murder bring the troops Home now a the poster also included a phone number for service members interested in becoming a conscientious objector. The group gathered in front of the opera House. About 11 a.m., the protesters quietly wound their Way through the Busy Frankfurt shopping District with a police escort. Their destination was the Abrams Complex site of v corps  Headquarters. One of the Many demonstrators strolling along was Anton Mlynczak who said that War is no longer the answer to solve correction because of a reporting error by the associated press an article in yesterdays newspaper incorrectly defined the conditions Tor service members who Are absent without leave. A service member is usually considered awol for the first 30 Days that he or she is missing. After that time the service member is considered a deserter. The Complex problems of today a society. He said that a War in Kuwait would be about Oil and economics and that economics should be used to solve the problem by continuing the  sanctions against Iraq. Although he said Saddam Hussein was wrong to invade Kuwait Mlynczak said the iraqi invasion was no worse than the . Invasions of Panama and Grenada. Demonstrator Amad Hussein a native of Iran said thousands of soldiers could die in a War that would solve nothing but would create More chaos in the Middle East. A if there is a War they will destroy everything a Hussein said. A and if the . Takes Iraq what happens after that if the /wants peace it should help solve the palestinian  the demonstration ended outside the Gate at the Abrams Complex where representatives from the Green party social democrats and other organizations gave speeches from atop a flatbed truck. The demonstration held at a Gate Entrance that is not used did not interfere with operations inside the military compound a German police investigator said. Another demonstration was scheduled for sunday outside the front Gate at Rhein main a near Frankfurt. In Bonn a Small number of protesters gathered outside the. Iraqi and . Embassies lighted candles and promised to maintain a 24-hour Vigil until at least tuesday the deadline for Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait. Police cordoned off the protest area and kept special watch at the iraqi embassy where an Anonymous caller said Friday night that a bomb would go off. No explosives were found. Control Bung to Thea report the Alao coated Presa and United Prada International protesters gather outside a Gate at the Abrams Complex in Frankfurt during one of. A amps Dave Didio Mam anti War rallies held saturday in Germany