European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 16, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Vol. 50, no. 307 sunday february 16,1992 d 8693 a so a Dave Dkl to his goggles dotted with Snow a frosty tech. Sgt. Roger Coe of Rhein main a Germany navigates his forklift through a blizzard during operation provide Hope. Russian soldiers take boxes of Granola bars from forklift pallets and put them onto waiting thick. A amps David Dudl Airlift shows America care gesture More important than food official says by Chuck Roberts staff writer Moscow a a c-5 Galaxy touched Down on the outskirts of Moscow on Friday loaded to near capacity with Chili Granola lasagne pie filling starburst Candy and other food items. But the purpose of the last flight to the former soviet capital was More important than the 179,620,000 pounds of Tiargo said a . Embassy employee speaking above the Roar of the Jet engines soon after the air Force plane landed. The plane part of operation provide Hope touched Down at Shere metco Airport about 1 . A politically and psychologically its effective for russian president Boris a Yeltsin but if you re a starving russian on the Street its not a said the embassy employee while standing in the snowy freezing weather. The official said television reports Are accurate when they show poor elderly women crying outside empty food stores in Moscow. But the cameras never Point toward nearby stores filled with fresh fruit and vegetables that Only foreigners and local crime Syndicate members can afford. A that does no to sell Quot said the embassy employee. Operation provide Hope could have been dubbed operation grand gesture remarked Don Krumm a state department employee. Krumm said the supplies  make a significant Dent in the russian food Supply but the Effort is important see Airlift on Page 2 Torrejon airmen packing it in after three decades of service by j. Kin Cruger Mediterranean Bureau Torrejon a Spain a for More than 30 years american warplanes roared into the sky from Torrejon a Spain. Air Force b-47 bombers and f-86, f-102, f-4 and f-16 fighters trained for War and defended Freedom from Torrejon. Torrejon a France Barcelona these Days the sounds of screaming american Jet fighters Are but Seldom heard at the base 10 Miles Northeast of the Spanish capital. Today Only a dozen f-16 fighting Falcons remain at Torrejon. By March 24, in compliance with the 1988 defense cooperation agreement Between Spain and the United states the last of the Multi role f-16s will have vacated Torrejon. The f-16s, in their heyday about 80 of them have been leaving Torrejon since last fall. Some of the planes have gone to air bases and air National guard units in the states others have been transferred to Ramstein and Span Dahlem air bases in Germany. A those Are the Only two american f-16 bases remaining in Europe. We went from four big f-16 bases in Europe Down to those two Small ones a said air Force it. Col. S4s Chuck Brammeier commander of the 614th fighter so Torrejon a Lone remaining fighter outfit. The 614th has called Torrejon Home for nearly 20 years. Soon it too will be no More. A a we be accumulated a lot of mementos in that time. We will just Box them up and they will go into storage perhaps they will go to Aviano a in Northern Italy when the 401st fighter Wing transfers there without its aircraft in May said Brammeier 40. The 614th deployed for War on aug. 28, 1990. During the situation briefing to the pilots Many Learned for the first time where the country of Qatar was located. In 12 hours they would deploy the Complete Squadron of two dozen f-16cs to Doha Qatar where american aircraft had never before been stationed. Because of the unusual nature of the deployment the squadrons Advance team departed for Qatar with a briefcase full of Money approximately $3 million to build and establish flying operations at a spartan 6ase, according to the official history of the 401st fighter Wing during operations desert shield and storm. The 614th, bolstered by a half dozen pilots from another of the wings squadrons the 613th, engaged in 46 Days of combat. They attacked an array of targets including surface to air missile Sites in Kuwait chemical storage bunkers at fortified Republican guard positions in Iraq an iraqi nuclear research facility and Baghdad soil refinery during the first Daylight f-16 raids on the iraqi capital. Another Squadron the 612th, deployed for the War see Torrejon on Page 3navy Heads Gulf Security Admiral says Manama Bahrain apr the . Navy has the Lead role in postwar Security for the Gulf Region much As armies had in Europe after world War ii the chief of the naval forces Central come said saturday. Speaking at a change of command aboard his flagship la Salle rear adm. Raynor . Taylor said that 45 years ago the United states and its european allies set up a Security Structure so successful that a pluralism democracy and Freedom has extended into Central Europe communism is dissolved and the Berlin Wall is  in Europe he said the potential Battlefield was the Northern Plain and the armies took the Lead. A Over Here the potential Battlefield we now know Many times Over is the Gulf made of water. The Navy is and will be and has been the Lead responsibility and this ship is the front a he said to a gathering of Bahrain dignitaries diplomats and military officers from other countries that helped end iraqis occupation of Kuwait a year ago. Capt. Robert c. Klosterman a 45-year-Ojd native of Cincinnati took Over from capt. Warren see Navy on Page 2