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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Tuesday, May 14, 1991

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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 14, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday. May 14, 1991 the stars and stripes. Page 3 a amps photos Jim Dorheim spec. Gerald Frank rotates a Black Hawk Rotor As sgt. Jerry Spencer makes adjustments before leaving Bremerhaven for Wiesbaden Alt. At right. Apaches wait for  in Bremerhaven the whine of helicopter rotors mingled with the rumble of Dock Side cranes in Bremerhaven Germany last week As military sea lift coins cargo ships disgorged military hardware from saudi Arabia then loaded up with supplies destined for kurdish refugees in Northern Iraq. On May 6, the freighter Cape Domingo unloaded 103 aircraft belonging to the 12th aviation brigade and 3rd army l in Init Idin Apache attack helicopters Kwa scouts and Blackhawk Chinook auditory Utility  then worked around the clock preparing the helicopters for tiie journey from Bremerhaven Hack to bases in Central Germany. Rotor Blades Lor the helicopters were remounted and sensitive electronics were recalibrate within Yards of boxes of electric generators being loaded onto the ship for delivery to kurdish Camps. An Apache is towed past the Cape Domingo which carried it and 102 other choppers from the persian Gulf. At right supplies for kurdish Relief Are loaded onto the vessel  
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