European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 14, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The  1942-1992 50 years of service vol. 51, no. 241 350 monday december 14,1992 b d 8693 plane brings Aid to somalis at Field taken by marines Ethiopia 100 miles100 pm Bairoa aha marines secure Indian Ocean ass a. S s truss Mogadishu Somalia a . Marines secured an Airfield in the country a Interior sunday Clearing the Way for a plane carrying food for starving somalis to land. A Day after . Forces destroyed three armed somalian vehicles after two helicopter gunships were fired on the commander of the . Task Force in Somalia said that the capital was Calm and that the military deployment was going a exactly As we  however it. Gen. Robert b. Johnston said . Marines were not ready to move into famine Ridden Bairoa where Aid workers Are endangered by marauding gunmen. A we Are pressing to go to Bairoa As Quick As we can a Johnston said in an interview from Mogadishu with Abc. A but it requires the right kind of  in its first major sortie out of Mogadishu a company of marines in 13 helicopters flew Early sunday into Bali Dogle 60 Miles Northwest of Mogadishu and secured an out of us Airfield. The strip on the Road to Bairoa a City of 100,000, is to be a base for Canadian forces arriving later this week. The site will be used by Canadian and . Forces As a food distribution base. At the Airstrip several somalian militiamen surrendered to the marines saying they wanted food according to air Force it. Col. Michael Cox. There was no resistance from local gunmen. A a it a about As benign As you can get a sgt. Dave Jamison platoon sergeant of the 3rd platoon co a said of the Landing. Bali Dogle is a former soviet air base that the somalis took Over after ousting the russians in 1977. It has fallen into disrepair since civil War broke out two years ago. Less than an hour after the 200 marines secured the strip a c-130 Hercules transport plane landed bearing badly needed food. The americans who eventually will have 28,000 troops in the country leading the . Action plan to secure numerous see marines on Page 2 a amps Gus Schuettler three of 16 ch-47d Chinook helicopters take off sunday morning from Sandhofer Germany in route to Somalia. Chopper Force starts journey from Germany Frankfurt Germany a amps the first 16 of the 46 helicopters making up task Force 5-158 left Germany on sunday less than 24 hours after being alerted for deployment As part of operation restore Hope v corps officials said. The 16 ch-47d Chinook cargo helicopters from cod 502nd aviation regt part of v corps 12th aviation brigade lifted off in four flights from Coleman Barracks Airfield in Sandhofer Germany on sunday morning on the first leg of a two Day journey to Pisa Italy. Twelve of the helicopters were to remain overnight sunday in Marseille France and four in Lyon France before completing their journey to Pisa today. After arriving in Italy the helicopters will be brought to the port of Livorno to be prepared for loading aboard ship. Preparation for the sea movement includes removing the Rotor Blades and a a cocooning the aircraft in special aviation shrink wrap to protect them from the elements see chopper on Page 2 Bias still dogs military report says women minorities complain of continued harassment Dallas up a despite four decades of efforts to integrate the . Military Many minorities and women in the armed forces feel the system is still unresponsive to their needs and is sometimes repressive. In a copyright Story sunday the Dallas morning news said that alter a yearlong investigation it found the integration Effort has produced a corps of generals and admirals that is 95 percent White. The report said 10 years of a Zero tolerance and sexual harassment have left Many women in uniform feeling like victims. Some of those who complained about racial or sexual discrimination and harassment said their careers were ruined by criminal investigations  Ric evaluations or lowered Job ratings. At the same time they said the perpetrators of such treatment went unpunished. The newspaper said it found that accusations of harassment and discrimination Are common in the armed services and that women and minorities Are greatly underrepresented in the higher uniformed and civilian ranks. Military officials acknowledge that vestiges of discrimination and harassment remain but insist that their policies Are fundamentally sound the morning news said. A where we May not have been completely successful is in the execution of the program a Gen. Gordon r Sullivan the army chief of staff told the House armed services committee in june. A the program is  Sullivan and top leaders of the air Force Navy and Marine corps also told the committee that the equal Opportunity system had helped eliminate racial discrimination As a pervasive problem. But Marine capt. Markus Hartmann was quoted As saying he was called a a a boy by a White Marine officer and was told that it was not bigotry because his skin was so Light that the officer did not know he was Black. A if sexual harassment goes the Way of racism in the Navy and Marine corps you can expect to have it around for a see Bias on Page 2