European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 9, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                -.vi, Ais a a a a a rvs ,a a a a it Quot a a,.1,/ akngljw.,- a a Quot a it 1 via a i had a feeling everybody it else was making co tact so l kicked All my scouts Back and put my tanks up front a Cap Jqseph Sar Trafto a five Days after the dying capt. Joseph Sartiano ghost troop s commander views the 73 easting  by minute continued from Page 15  right the first ground defeat of the Republican guards. Campbell said. Within 36 hours most of the others were a gone. A a a a a. A a a a a a a. A. A a. A a the morning after the Battle someone made a wooden Cross and stuck it in the Sand and a chaplain came to say a few words about Moller. A colonel spoke Loo. A everyone from ghost troop was there worn out men with sunken eyes their faces covered with dirt and Gunpowder. It 5 was the first time in two months that they had All been together in one place instead of spread out Over the desert 7 in training or combat formations. Several hugged each other glad to see their friends alive then gathered in a semicircle took off. Their helmets and listened to the chaplain and the colonel. \ a a a Quot. A. A a then they were told to get ready for the next Batile. It never came. Instead a cease fire was called and the cavalrymen a. Had time to sit among themselves and try to understand what had happened. A a a v. A they said sgt. Lars Moller died with his hands on the v. Triggers of the Bradley gun looking for More enemy to shoot. A his Tow missile launcher the Bradley a main anti Lank defense Wasny to working and Molluer Krizew it before he entered the Battle. Reason  stay out but he did no to. Quot he died like a Soldier Quot said one of ghost s artillery. A officers 2nd it Joe Deskevich. 23, of Rockville my. Quot he. Did t run and he did no to die for nothing Quot. He came from somewhere in Nebraska. Sartiano the. Troop commander decided he wifi fake leave and visit the dead sergeant s parents / a a a readers action line prices at q a Why is it a requirement to show your id card at the Mainz Kastel storage station i m being sarcastic \ -. With that question. A but in a not being sarcastic when i say the prices at the place Are very High. The other Day i priced tents at the sports store. The North face Bullfrog Sells for $34. Recreation equipment inc. Rei in Seattle Wash they. Have a Catalo has the same tent Lor $270 the North face Salamander at Mainz Kastel Sells for $362, Rei s Price $250. The  at Mainz Kastel Sells for $298 Rel s Price $195. A you certainly can to save any Money at mama Kastel that s for sure. Paces on stereos and tvs Are also very a High. It s better just to buy from cafes or order trom an american company m the states a. A staff sgt Tom l.  a a a. Mannheim Germany it a William a. Williams chief retail operations. The morning after the Battle kick and another Soldier stood in front of their shrapnel scarred Bradley and talked about Moller. A. Quot he was about the Only sergeant Quot kick said still with a bitterness in his voice who a sit Down and listen to your a problems and treat you like a human being instead of a  a. A a a. That night before the cease fire , the scouts took More prisoners and had to stay up guarding them Bledsoe who d been Moller s Driver said that he and the. Others had stayed awake by talking about Moller Quot we talked about it for three hours a Bledsoe said. Quot we. Decided that when he went up on that Hill he was t worried. About it. He said if they get me that s just another Bullet that. Was Gonna hit . Quot _ in  cavalrymen live in a place called. A Warner Barracks 2, and when they get Back they want to give it a new name a Moller Barracks a if the army will let  Quot no one however,1 really knew what to. Call the Battle they had just lived through the officers were All calling it the 73 easting because they were the ones looking at the maps. Staff sgt. Waylan Lundquist a 29-year-old Tanker from. T Aurora Mich suggested the  thetawakalna., another Man  should be Moller Ridge. A and none of them could judge How important it Hada been they did t know How hard anyone else had fought in the 100-hour War. They still done to it might take months or years before the people who write history books will decide whether ghost troop is Worth  or not. Quot at the time Quot said Garwick the platoon Leader Quot none of division Wiesbaden sports Center Mainz Kastel storage station replies patronage of morale welfare arid recreation facilities is governed by army regulation 215-1 paragraph 2-18 and a 215-2, paragraph 2-3. 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Other factors affecting the prices of North face tents Are the decline in the value of the Dollar and the limited quantities of tents that the Wiesbaden sports Center is a Able to Purchase due to our store size. Large companies us understood what was happening. A All they knew was that they d had a Tough night one they found hard to desc be a language that can be printed in newspapers. It had snowballed into chaos before anyone realty knew what was  chaos was relative though and All rattles Are _ chaotic to the men fighting them. Quot All i did Sartiano said Quot was manage the  at his level on the Battlefield one rung up from Garwick two up from most of the others he had text in control. A. It had after All been a decisive Victory. Captured a. 1 prisoners confirmed that the Tawa Kalna had been caught completely by Surprise. And Sartiano like the others was proud of it. A. V a 7. 7 one morning Garwick gathered his men around to talk to them and admitted that he still was t sure what had. Happened a Quot ail 1 know is that a squadrons supposed to be Able to take a brigade. A troop s supposed to be Able to take a ,. A battalion a , a company our. Fire team took out a  a. U he paused a moment and the words seemed to be a sinking into him As much As in the others. That really was above and beyond the pall of duty a a a a. A a a. A a a Garwick it seemed had been changed the most. He d been spoiling for a fight and got More than he expected. Quot that morning i. Was so excited to have killed a Republican guard a said the 25-year-old lieutenant. Quot and at the end of the Battle if i never saw another Republican. Guard in my life i d be  �,"�-.�-�. A a or perhaps he a not so changed. He still wants to get married As soon As he gets Back a his Fiancee is a former classmate from West Point now a military intelligence officer at fort Polk la. And he jokes about How his platoon a will fail its next gunnery at Grafe Wohr a the. First target will a pop up and ghost troop will instantly blast 40 rounds into. It 7 .7 7 .7 -.7 a .7a -. The night after the cease fire when his men rolled into. Tree Kuwait he stood  Bradley and watched the Eastern sky. Ghost troop was camped in a Quarry that had. Been turned into a Republican guard stronghold a Cit sized Maze of 20-toot ridges transforming the Flat desert a into a miniature Mountain Range. V. 7 7 a .7. Orange flames irom the burning kuwaiti Oil Fields glowed in the East a someone had counted 57 fires a and a Little to the South of that a nearly  was rising. A a. Quot i could t wait to see combat. What a fool i . A. The killing he said became almost too easy and that 1 a a seemed also to make him uncomfortable. He questioned 7 his future now that he a finished living what he thinks might be the most important night of his life. But what bothered 7 him most was another question that really does t have an 7answer a he wanted to know Why. A a a7a -. 7. Quot Why did they tight Quot he asked slowly and repeated it. Quot Why did they fight Quot a a a. He looked again at the sky.7 Quot 7 7 7 a 7 sometimes he said tie spins around the Turret of his a a Bradley and Aims it toward the Moon. He switches on the 7 Thermal sights and target magnifiers and gazes for a time at another desert on another world a Quarter of a million a Miles away. 7 \ ,. A .7 like Rei Are Able to get better pricing due to their higher 7 sales volume which enables them to make larger &Quot.&Quot. Purchases and receive special bulk discounts. A we make every attempt to fill our customers needs in a both the recreational and expert ranges. The. Wiesbaden sports Center carries a wide assortment of tents from. Various companies ranging in Price from $42.95 to Over $400. 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