European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 15, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday september 15, 1991 the stars and stripes b Page 9reforger is the time to Fine tune cavalry unit uses lessons Learned in Gulf War by Ken Clauson staff writer August Dorf Germany a for persian Gulf War veterans training exercises like certain shield no longer mean applying textbook strategies based on someone else a experience. The newest generation of veterans knows what works in practice. And while exercises Lack the intensity of War they provide an Opportunity to Fine tune and reinforce those lessons they say. The 2nd army Cav regt is not the Only unit with Gulf War experience involved in the ongoing nato exercise certain shield �?T91, but its troops were in the Eye of the storm going nose to nose with the iraqi Republican guard and winning decisively. A the primary reason this exercise is important to me is in be got a lot of new folks a said maj. Steven Campbell the regiments intelligence officer. A we were successful in desert storm because of  the process of passing intelligence information from higher Headquarters Down to the squadrons has been streamlined based on the units experience in the desert he said. The Success there enhances his credibility when teaching the next generation of soldiers and when working with the regiments veterans. A some things i Learned there i will never forget. And As i go along i will make changes As necessary based on my Gulf experience a he said. A the Only Way is to continue to have training exercises to make sure the flow is still there. A and As new people come in it does no to matter if they went to the Gulf because the system is in  during the War Campbell had More sources of intelligence information than he normally does during training exercises he said. A if you can do it in this exercise you can definitely do it in War because of All the additional cooperation you la get there a he said. A before we went to the de Sert the assets weren to always there. We did no to have the experience to justify that the regiment has to have those  Campbells Job is to Monitor where the enemy is and what it is doing. He works closely with capt. Brick Miller the regiments operations officer who tracks the status of the regiments own troops. A this exercise is structured to train corps and if you can do it in this exercise you can definitely do it in War because of All the additional cooperation you la get there a maj. Steven Campbell Northern army group staff a Miller said. A a we re facilitators. We re Here so they have somebody real to talk to somebody arrogant enough to say a listen we know what we re  a cavalry soldiers Are competitive and self confident by nature he said. A i thought we were pretty Good before we went to the desert but we changed a lot of things and i think we got even better a he said. Even in mock Battles waged with computers the cavalry fights to win and does no to like being reigned in by exercise controllers he said. A yesterday for about five hours it Felt like the real thing. We passed through the belgians attacked and then the controllers stopped us a he said. A we were going to keep going. We kicked some butt in there in the computer. A your Liaison officers came Back from the belgians and said everybody was cheering us on symbols kept dropping off the screens As opposing units became inoperable. But then out of nowhere the magic destruction bomb came and took us  the regiment disappeared from the exercise As if 500 enemy attack helicopters suddenly appeared 100 feet Over their Heads a scenario Miller just shakes his head at. But he too cites the units exercise Success to lessons Learned in War. For example he said during the Gulf War the unit created a detailed template of the entire regiment that shows the location and spacing of each vehicle assigned or attached to the unit from the Lead tank to the last Supply truck. That template gives commanders a More accurate idea of How the regiment can Man Euver which makes Battle planning More exact. The War also proved the value of additional soldiers the unit has always had available but did no to always plan for he said. A being Cav and the arrogant types we Are we kind of thought that anyone who is not Cav is a Weenie a he said. A but one thing we discovered is that there arc people who Arentt Cav who Arentt  during the War for example the regiment had psychological operations specialists attached to it he said. A we thought the pay Ops folks were just going to be flying around in helicopters playing rite of the Valke pics Over loudspeakers a he said. The pay Ops soldiers proved their Worth however when they convinced Large groups of iraqis to surrender and talked snipers out of their holes Miller said. A we know if we break them up into teams and Send them out with the Lead Squadron they can be effective a he said. A so Here in certain shield we did it How we did in the desert and actually plugged them into the plan. The computer play does no to accept that they talked them out of their holes but we thought about them when we first came out Here and used them.�?�8 killed As typhoon lashes japanese islands Tokyo apr typhoon Kinna pounded Japan on saturday with winds of up to 81 Mph and authorities said eight people were killed. Rains unleashed mudslides washed out Bridges and flooded nearly 1,000 Homes. Two people were missing and 53 were injured a National police Agency official said As 5.88 inches of rain per hour fell in some areas of southwestern Japan. The police official said seven of the deaths occurred on southwestern Kyushu Island where Kinna hit before moving onto the main Island of Honshu. Police said two people died in Nagasaki on Kyushu when winds toppled a Bam. In Kumamoto in Southern Kyushu a motorcyclist died of head injuries when wind knocked him off his Bike. One Man died when his farmhouse collapsed because of a mudslide in Saga prefecture near Nagasaki police said. In Fukuoka prefecture Northern Kyushu two people were killed by flying debris. No details a a Tim. Were Given on the seventh Vic the maritime safety Agency reported that one Fisherman died and two were missing after their boat capsized off the Southern Island of Okinawa As the typhoon swept through Friday. The Island South of the main japanese archipelago is Home to 35,000 . Troops and 20,000 of dependents. Police also said 994 Homes had been flooded and seven were destroyed or washed away. Torrential Rains triggered 44 landslides and swollen Rivers washed out seven Bridges. Most of the damage was concentrated in Kyushu. Many Domestic flights and trains were cancelled or delayed by Kinna the 17th typhoon of the year. The typhoon season runs from july to october. Rescue workers search debris of a farmhouse that collapsed from a mudslide caused by typhoon Kinna in Saga in Southern Japan