European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 7, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes saturday May 7,1994 exercise from Page 1. Continuing preparations for the deployment said maj Michael Mckinney division spokesman we have no information regarding any cancelling except what has been reported it Mckinney said. A we Are proceeding with our plans for  soldiers will continue language and peacekeeper train ing and Complete other preparations a such As records reviews and medical screenings a for deployment to Russia he said. During a unit organization Day tuesday soldiers from the infantry battalion declined to discuss the reports but said they were continuing their preparations. A scheduled for the first week of july the 10-Day Mission involves about 250 soldiers from the 3rd inf div who will train with about the same number of their russian counterparts from the 27th guards motorized Rifle div said maj Gen Leonard d Holder jr., the 3rd inf div com mender. The exercise a mock peacekeeping operation takes place in the russian unit s Headquarters in to Skoye in the Volga military District. Gen. Maj Anatoliy Mikhaylevich Sid Yakin commander of the russian unit and his staff have met with Holder and his officers several times in Wurzburg the 3rd inf div Headquarters and in Russia to plan the Mission. Training plans Call for each  to patrol a Section outside an imaginary City near the 27th guards installs Tion Holder said. There will be reaction Force drills a trots Convoy escorts and observation posts manned by russian and . Soldiers he said the two generals will take turns commanding the combined forces and the russians Are providing logistical support. On Friday . Army Europe officials said that As far Ashe were concerned the exercise is still on also contributing la this Romportl the associated press Bobbitt arrested for assault Las vegas apr John Bobbitt the Man whose Penis was severed by his wife last year was arrested Early Friday after a woman described As his Fiancee complained to police that Bobbitt had assaulted her. Police were summoned to the Mountain Creek apartments about 2 30 a.m., officer Rick Barela said. Bobbitt was arrested when he returned about 3 a.m., he said. Police Are required to hold Bobbitt at least 10 hours on what Barela called the a complaint of Domestic violence a  he has t been formally charged. The woman a name was not released Barela identified her As Bobbitt s Fiancee. She was not taken to the Hospital he said. Surgeons reattached Bobbitt s Penis after the june 23 maiming. Navy unit in Rota by Marian Hamilton Mediterranean Bureau. Naval station Rota Spain the closed Mouth members of a super secret intelligence unit a called the a tron chasers a want to brag about winning top Navy awards but their work is so hush hush that they can to talk about it. A a that a getting dangerously close to secret Quot one tron Chaser said when pressed for details about what the unit does. The units Mascot is a mysterious Man in s Cloft whatever it is the Electron chasers apparently do it Well. Rwandan refugees haul water and Grnwood thursday at a tanzanian Camp near the Susumo Border crossing. Reported in Kigali Nairobi Kenya apr government soldiers and rebels exchanged heavy mortar and Small  fire in Rwanda a capital Friday after peace talks ended in disarray. Quot residents of Kigali who spoke on condition of anonymity said the rebel rwandan patriotic front appeared to be gaining ground in a filial push to capture the capital after More than a month of fighting two Days of peace talks ended in confusion thursday night in the Northwestern tanzanian town of Arusha. Radio Tanzania reported that the rebels had signed a cease fire agreement with Rwanda a interim government but the rebels later denied it. The rebels Are from Rwanda a minority ethnic group the Tutsi. They claim the interim government is headed by extremists from the majority Hutu ethnic group and blame it for the massacres that have ripped the country apart. A a there a still intensive firing Quot . Spokesman Abdul Kabia said Friday morning by Telephone from Kigali. Quot they shelled around the hotel Milles colines and the ministry of defense but we have not been Able to determine casualties.�?�. More than 300 people have been holed up for weeks at the hotel under . Protection. Kigali a Airport the capitals Only link with the outside world remained closed Friday.  Dallaire the . Force commander shut it Down thursday after a Canadian military cargo plane was shot at shortly after Landing. The c-130 Hercules had been delivering the Only Aid regularly reaching the embattled City. Kabia said it still had not been determined which Side fired on the plane. There were no injuries. The  and the rebels have been trading Small  fire and mortar shells across the Airport for Days. But under an agreement worked out by the United nations they usually Stop shooting Long enough to allow Relief planes to land and take off the Canadian plane has been making two flights a Day from Nairobi to Kigali with supplies for the 450 . Peacekeepers still there plus food and Medicine for several thousand refugees under . Protection in the capital. 1 the . Peacekeeping Force reduced last month from 2,500 to under 500, is lightly armed. Its mandate does not allow it to become involved in the fighting. A no electronic naval air Atlantic a Battle Edaward for efficient operations the . Navy Europe Golden Anchor award for unit retention and the commander Fleet air Mediterranean a a so award for safety. Staff members said that they could not comment specifically on the reasons for winning the a Battle Edaward because of the classified nature of much of their work. However they said that the unit was judged the most effective and operationally efficient Navy special Mission Squadron during Adriatic sea projects. The Adriatic sea lies Between the East coast of Italy and the West coasts of Croatia Bosnia and Herzegovina and the yugoslav Republic of Montenegro. The unit was first established in 1955 and has participated in the Arab israeli conflict in 1973 the Beirut Lebanon evacuation of 19s2-s3 what unit members Call a operations in the Vicinity of Libya in april 19s6 and operations desert shield and desert storm in 1990 and�?T91. The tron chasers will divulge this much about their Mission they com duct airborne electronic reconnaissance and analysis of military forces. The aircraft monitoring electronic signals Are known As a platforms Quot and they operate in International airspace Over open Ocean. The Squadron can transmit critical Intelli Snowdon gence developments in volatile foreign countries directly to Washington. It. Cmdr. Jim Hamill of the aircraft maintenance office whose Section encompasses almost half the 550 people in the unit says the Crews look at the big picture taking into account the whole worlds political environment. A the maintenance Section itself is larger than some squadrons a Hamill said. A a that a because some of the aircrews can contain As Many As 30 people on one aircraft. One of the reasons that the unit won the safety award was the seven consecutive Accident free years its members had accrued through january 1994, officials said. The tron chasers also amassed 30,693 mishap free flight hours 4,340 hours of which were flown in 1993. The safety award involved More than just an absence of accidents said it Todd Kotouch Leader of the squadrons naval air training and operating procedures standardization department. It also involved a Campaign to find accidents before they happened. One example Kotowich said was the a laity Bat Quot program which Kotouch said is an adaptation of the a any mouse Quot program. The program takes its name from the phrase a any mouse in a Corner can submit suggestions Quot commonly used by squadrons throughout the Navy to mean that suggestions from any person of any rank Are considered important. A we just personalized it a he said. A your former Mascot was a  the squadrons Symbol is now a the a Don Quot a Spanish looking figure in a Black Cape and hat. Sailors and airmen submit reports of any discrepancies they find to the safety department which must respond to the concern Kotouch said. The squadrons executive officer cmdr. J. Snyder Snowden was enthusiastic about winning the Golden Anchor award. A this does no to just Reward the unit with the most reenlistment Quot he said. A the Overall Quality of life in the unit is what  Sample Snowden said newcomers Are Given 120 Days training and orientation before they Start doing their assigned jobs. Promotions also come faster in the Squadron than in Many other units Snowden said because his people help each other prepare and execute their duties. A lot of people have worked a lot of overtime Quot he said