European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 27, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday May 27 199.1 the stars and stripes Page 7drugs killed airman Captain says t  p a it a / u Pic an airman involved in operation desert storm who the military says died of a heart attack really was killed by a drug overdose says an air Force Captain facing a court martial. Senior airman Ramono Poole 21, based at Macdill fab near Tampa died Jan 20 in Riyadh saudi Arabia his Parr ends were told by his commanding officer. That their son an operating room techno Dan died of a heart  capt. Roger Mansfield who served As a chief pharmacist with the air forces. 56th medical group in Riyadh from mid August to late january disputes that  George Tragos. Mansfield s attorney said military reports show a bottle of what was believed to be Iso Lurane a liquid aesthetic that is inhaled was found next to Poole s body. In an account published in saturday s Tampa Tribune. Tragos said it was the investigation into Poole a death that led to the charges against Mansfield but that the air Force found no connection Between Mansfield and the fatality. Mansfield is scheduled to face four drug related charges at the. Court martial set for june 12 at Macdill. He is accused of using Iso Lurane in front of enlisted personnel during his off hours in saudi a Arabia and. Providing it for their rec car tonal use. In a letter to rep. Cav. Bill Youngr a la. Mansfield called for a congressional investigation into what he claimed was widespread drug use among operation desert storm soldiers in saudi Arabia where alcohol is outlawed a a Poole s parents were horrified by the allegations that their son used drugs. V a efm offended that his memory is being tainted a said his Mother Louise Poole of muscle Shoals Ala. A the was never in any trouble and he did no to do drugs Here i believe someone is saying these things Only to throw blame on my  Benny Poole said Quot he a gone. I la set the font heart  \ in his letter to Young Mansfield said he Quot f111cd no me Rous Prusen Pinns for  officers for Large amounts of Tranquili Zers Quot we were not allowed to consume alcohol and there was no Woy for us to release the tension built up by being in that atmosphere Quot he said a consequently Low Grade drugs began missing from the supplies Yin particular Iso Lurane maj. Olin Saunders a spokesman for the us Central come at Macdill. Said re ports of d Rug use d u r i no desert St o pm were a a exceptionally Low and absolutely do not support Cape. Mansfi Euit a assertions of widespread  to save 2 yosem1te National Park Calif. Apr a car carrying five Urcla fives plunged into an icy River saturday and one of them a 44-year-old woman drowned when she tried to save two Young great nephews who were swept downstream. The boys were missing and presumed dead a Park spokeswoman said. A a. The five crawled onto the top of the car and onlookers tossed them a rope and were pulling the 3 and 5-year-old boys and their 7-year-old sister to safety when the swollen Merced River a currents. Ripped the. Boys away Park spokeswoman Kim Tucker said. The children a great aunt jumped off the car roof and tried to reach the boys but was swept away and drowned. She was pulled from the River by rangers and pronounced dead at Yosemite medical j clinic Tucker said. The 7-year-old girl was rescued along with the children a grandmother age 62. Both were treated at the medical clinic for mild hypothermia and released. Air River and ground Crews searched for the boys until saturday night with plans to resume sunday though Tucker said the youngsters were presumed dead. The Merced was swollen by Snow just a week ago. Quot there arc big boiling cauldrons that can hold you Down a lot of snags Quot John a 62-Ycar-old woman is rescued after her family a car plunged into californians Merced River killing at least one. Dill head of search and Rescue said of the River. Quot you get bashed against rocks. Cold water saps your strength even if you Are a Good  car plunged in the River near Bri Dalzeil Falls  140 after an Accident about 6 30 . Saturday Tucker said. It Wasny to immediately known How the car ended up in the River Bill Perry 44, , va., raced to the scene when a passer by asked him to help. ,. A the Back of the car was lodged on a tree trunk in the River arid the nose was in the current Quot Perry said. A the car was about 20 feet from Shore and the Hack window was broken  Quot the water was about at the Middle of the front Windshield so i told them to stay Calm and i would try to get help Quot said Perry who did no to have any rope in his ear and raced to a phone to Call Lor help. Quot As i headed Back i saw the rangers on their  a. The identities of the cards occupants who were from Southern California were being withheld ,.a cadets Start to study frightening facts of War this is the. Way its going  he said. A a be prepared West Point . A James Anderson is an army colonel Battlefield Veteran and master of the sword at the school that turns out renowned Mili tary leaders he a not afraid to say it. Cop Bat is scary. "1 was All by myself the Only american with about 680 vietnamese out in the Jungles up in the mountains und i was afraid Quot Anderson said. Quot id seen All a thai John Wayne movies and John Wayne was never  fear is something every Soldier in Battle has to fight but the , military Academy where Anderson is head of physical education never really focused on fear until this year when he began teaching a mandatory course for seniors. T Andrei san graduated from West Point in 1956 with Gen. A Lorman Schwarzkopf . Commander during the persian Gulf War and considers a Lack of preparation to Deal with fear a weakness of his own training. Quot in be made it kind of a crusade that in a going to Tell every Young person i meet that a going into it to accept it a you re going to be afraid. What you need to do is Deal with  drawing on his two Tours of duly in Vietnam an _ Derson began speaking about fear last july at1 fort Hood Texas. He gave six lectures a Day to thousands of troops on what he Calls Quot War fighting  intrigued by the intense interest at fort Hood Anderson assembled 36 instructors. In october he began planning a presentation for seniors at West Point. Coincidentally the presentation came on the eve of the Allied attack on Iraq but the cadets initially were uninterested from what id heard pretty much everyone thought it was something we had heard before a said Cadet John Elkin of Iowa Falls Iowa. It Wasny  when i was talking to the cadets it became very. Quiet Quot Anderson Saiof of the presentation Given at the Start of a two week break Between semesters in. January. Quot you could hear a pin drop. I could have said that at any other time two years ago and it  have gotten nearly As much attention Quot but now every one of them knows cadets who last year were sitting in the seats they were sitting in and this Yea suddenly found themselves overseas in combat it was much More real to  after the speech the seniors were split into groups of three or four. A Quot they were required to put in two hours a Day Over a 10-Day period Reading history books and novels a cling with War to develop a creative image of what Battle would be like. A Quot 1 the object was Quot to develop a training program to prepare soldiers for the War each Cadet created in his mind. They also devoted an additional four hours a Day working on papers 10 to 12 pages Long. Individual presentations were Given at the end of the  we realty never thought about that before the class a i d c a do t Tod d re m Bles. O f alpe n  in h Quot it really opened my eyes. Before you just  very appropriate for the senior class. Now we  could he us who re getting shot