European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 3, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday March 3,1993 the stars and stripes b Page 3cargo plane stays far above conflict by Vince Crawley. Staff writer with the . Air Force Bosnia and Herze Govina croats muslims and serbs were trying to kill each other tuesday morning As they try to kill each other most Days and nights. Thousands of feet above the fifi Tirgg wearing a High Altitude oxygen mask chief master sgt. Joseph Ochranek stood in the darkened window of an american cargo plane filled with food and Medicine intended to keep some of the croats muslims and serbs alive. Ochranek was one of the c-130�?Ts two Load masters. As the unarmed cargo plane settled Down toward its Parachute drop Altitude his Job was to Hunt for missiles. Then when the navigator said they a reached the drop zone head make sure his Load got out of the air plane on schedule. A a there was gunfire Down below filtered through the Clouds but Ochranek did no to see Quot things coming up tit just some ground fire and artillery.? wearing night vision goggles makes it fairly easy to spot a heat seeking missile Ochranek said. Quot the flame it puts out will Light up the whole sky. Basically the Pilot would just Man Euver the aircraft to try to evade  it would probably come from behind narrowing the places the missiles would have to search. Quot a Guy would have to be an idiot to fire a Chat seek ing missile at the front of our aircraft a the Load master said. Quot there a no heat up  a on the other hand if someone fires a missile from behind and no one sees it in time and if the planets various missile defences done to work then that a one reason Ochranek and the other Crew members Wear parachutes. Maj. Mark Nixon aircraft commander said the missions Success was up to capt. Tom White the navigator who sat before radar screens trying to attach numbers to the wind Quot we re just driving the bus a Nixon said. Quot he a the one that a making it  Quot earlier Over relatively Safe airspace they gently lowered the cargo plane from cruising Altitude in thousand foot increments measuring the winds ced at different Levels. Using these figures White was supposed to calculate where the aircraft should be for the Parachute bundles to hit their targets. To arrive at this he would have to consider the Forward velocity of the air plane and bundles the wind Drift at different known and unknown altitudes and the rate of descent of a 1,330-Pound stack of meals ready to eat when they re tied to a 26-foot Parachute. The thick Cloud cover concealed the c-130 from would be missile launchers below but it also meant the Crew  Sec the ground. Quot if you re not Happy with whatever you re seeing a Nixon told the navigator Quot id rather Calk a no drop than just put it out someplace where its not supposed to  j during test drops last thursday at Bunker drop zone near Grafe Wohr Germany a drop from 4,000 feet had landed within 175 Yards of the target said Ochranek 41, from Seabrook my. Tote next drop from 10,000 feet hit Quot about 250 Yards from the Point we were aiming at a Ochranek said. Quot that Ells us that the a ballistic Al data that we got was pretty  while said it was a perfect night for dropping a dear and starlit above Cloud Cov Rcd below. An Airdrop itself appears Anticlimactic to the planets  navigator gave the go ahead. The Pilot lifted the nose. The co Pilo pressed a Button which reeled in a motorized Cable attached to a knife Edge that Cut a strap. Like a freight train slowly pulling away from a Sta Tion the 15,000 pounds of food Ana Medicine Slid into the bosnian night. I to a c-130-was still Only Halfway Home so the two Load masters returned to their Vantage windows and resumed their search for Chat sucking missiles. Quot i amp a something up ahead of us Quot someone said on the Crew intercom. Done to know if its weather or  other voices on the intercom Quot i done to think its weather. 1 think its  _ Quot some thunderstorms were forecast on the  Quot i think that a explosions on the ground. I done to think that a  Quot that might have been an explosion that last  just another night in Bosnia and Herzegovina a country that can to even Settle on a name to Call itself where croats muslims and serbs were trying to kill each other As they try to kill each other most Days and nights. Years service to by Kevin Dougherty Kaiserslautern Bureau when it comes to his retirement Ensio Lindroth can to seem to understand what All the fuss is about. He is matter of fact when he Speaks about his half Century of service and employment with the army. Quot i always did my Best a said Lindroth 74. At a retirement party last weekend near Kaiserslautern Germany Lindrothe a family friends and colleagues did their Best to show their appreciation for the Man they affectionately Call Quot swede. When he retired feb 3, Lindroth was working As a maintenance specialist for the 200th theater army Materiel management centers missle armament chemical systems division in Wei Brincken Germany. A . Army Europe spokeswoman said an estimated two dozen civilian employees will reach their 50th anniversary of government work during fiscal 1993. Quot although it is not unique it is a Milestone a said army staff sgt. Elayne pc Nama. A there is an increasing number of employees reaching this milestone.�?�. Lindroth served three years in the army before going to work for the government As a civilian. He spent most of his civilian career in Berlin where he worked for nearly 30 years following world War ii. During the Berlin Airlift he supervised the maintenance of the a Lindroth Chines used to construct and care for the runways at Berlin s Tegel and Tympel Hof airports that were used during the 15-month Airlift in 1948-49. More than 2.3 million tons of supplies were flown into the City by planes that logged 277,264 Airlift missions. Quot a Quot that was the highlight of my civilian career my military career too Quot Lindroth said. Quot it was the most challenging. I worked about 16 hours a Day seven Days a week from inc very beginning of the Airlift to the  it was also during this time that Lindroth met his Ger Man born wife Dorrit who worked As an army clerk. Born in Finland Lindroth was raised in a swedish speaking Region. He Learned to speak German in High school. Lindroth came to the United states in 1941 at the age of 22 As a merchant Marine. Though he spoke no English he remained behind because of the War and later became a naturalized american citizen Lindroth joined the . Army in May 1943. He split his service time in Europe among England France Germany and Czechoslovakia. Service held for teen killed in Mountain fall by j. King Cruger Northern Italy Bureau a memorial service was held tuesday for a 19-year-old american employee of the armed forces recreation Center who died after a fall in the mountains above Garmisch Germany. The service for Morgan a. Stewart was held in the Sheridan Cavern Chapel in Garmisch at 2 30 . Stewart had fallen More than 300 feet from a Ridge thursday afternoon. At the time of the Accident Stewart was with Elisa Chebaro another american employee of arc Garmisch they were looking for snowboards they had left on a Mountain slope two Days earlier according to Kevin Dixon an arc spoke so am they found the snowboards but their return trip Down the Mountain took them into unmarked terrain Dixon reported in a tuesday news  said Stewart fell about 3 . Thursday after calling to her a it s dangerous up ahead and its getting  Chebaro said she saw Only Snow falling about 10 feet ahead of her immediately after Stewart made the statement. She said she got As close As she could to where he had disappeared and called to him but there was no answer. Chebaro remained on the Ridge above where Stewart fell for More than 10 hours before she was rescued. She said that she had tried to locate him by sliding Down to a tree next to a Cliff but that she could not safely move from there Dixon reported. A search for the pair was launched at 8 . Thursday by a joint american and German Rescue team after Stewart failed to report to work in the Kitchen of arc s von Steuben hotel. Two Rescue team members located Chebaro at 1 45 . Friday and found stewarts body shortly after. He was pronounced dead by a German doctor who estimated Stewart had died around 10 15 . Thursday. The doctor said Stewart apparently died of a head injury and exposure. Chebaro was wet and suffering from hypothermia and disorientation when she was rescued according to the Rescue Crew. Stewart was a resident of grass Valley Calif. He is survived by his parents Laurence and Clinton Stewart and a brother Shannon also of grass  memorial service set for airman killed in car crash Fulda Germany a amps the 11th army Cav regt in Fulda will hold a memorial service today for an air Force airman killed in an Auto Accident saturday night. The service for airman 1st class scan f. Wright assigned to the 11th army Cav regt will be held at 11 . In building 7526 at Sickels army Airfield. Wright 22, was killed when the car in which he and two other airmen were travelling skidded on Black ice and was hit by an oncoming Cor in downtown Fulda a v corps press release monday said Wright assigned to det 6, 7th weather so with the Blackhorse regiment in Fulda was pronounced dead at the scene by a German physician who arrived with an emergency ambulance Crew. The cards Driver also an airman was taken to the Fulda Stadt Klinick where he is listed in stable condition. Another airman in the car was not injured. Department of the army policy states that the names and injuries of the Driver and the passenger May not be released without their permission a v corps spokesman said tuesday. Wright was a native of Louisiana. He is survived by his father James t. Wright of Kenner la., and Mother Janis a. Wright of fort Sulphur la.146 die in Congo ferry boat Accident Brazzaville Congo a at least 146 people drowned when a Gangway collapsed As passengers rushed to Board a ferry boat and sending scores into the Congo River police said tuesday. Fishermen firemen Polle and sailors stood thigh deep in water at Brazzaville s port tuesday morning retrieving the bodies which the tide carried in. They were taken to the main Hospital morgue of the Central african nation. The ferry had been preparing monday to carry expelled zairian from Brazzaville the Congo capital across the liver to Kinshasa the capital of Zaire