European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 16, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes saturday july 16,1994navy dolphins May shove off to new life Bye Offley Seattle Post intelligencer five Navy dolphins trained for military operations Are headed toward an honorable discharge from the service next month thanks to Pentagon budget cuts and the cold wars end. If All goes As planned their last military Man Euver will involve a c-141 flight from san Diego to a privately owned Dolphin Sanctuary near key West Fla in an agreement reached wednesday Between the Navy and the humane society of the United states the Boll close dolphins will be flown to the Marine mammal Sanctuary at Sugarloaf for rehabilitation and eventual release into the wild said Rachel Pancik a spokeswoman for the humane society. The agreement and subsequent release ate subject to approval by the agriculture department and the National Marine fisheries service both of which enforce Laws applying to Marine mammals. Navy dolphins have been used for various tasks including surveillance and mine detection. The Navy has 79 dolphins but Only about 25 of them Are a gainfully employed in Active units said it. Cmdr. De Barker a spokesman for the space and naval warfare systems come. Two dozen trained sea Lions and Beluga whales also Are in Navy programs he said. The five dolphins being considered Tor Transfer Are Young males who were recently captured from the Gulf of Mexico. Dolphin expert Rick of Barry a longtime critic of the Navy who is working on the Dolphin Transfer said the dolphins Are Ideal candidates for release. A a a a we have High Hopes that we can rehabilitate these animals and return them to the wild a of Barry said. Or. Naomi Rose a Marine mammal scientist with the humane society said the dolphins must lose their dependency on humans for food shelter and attention and must be desensitized to natural dangers they did not face in Captivity ranging from storms to Sharks. The reprogramming a can be done As quickly As a month or. Up to six months a Rose said. Rose said the Sugarloaf facility can accommodate up to 12 dolphins and. The goal is to obtain new dolphins As the retrained ones Are released. Observers May also recommend against releasing a Dolphin if it appears that the animal cannot be retrained she said. The Navy a decision to work with the humane society and Dolphin activists such As of Bany constitutes a major reconciliation Effort. Four years ago the animal rights Community slapped the service with a class action lawsuit Over its controversial plan to use dolphins As underwater Security guards at the Bangor naval submarine base in Washington state. The lawsuit was settled with the Navy agreeing not to deploy dolphins to the Trident sub base. A your Bottom line is that we want the dolphins to get the Best care a said Barker. A a a a a it a a \ a Ducr Tributti by ser oppt Howard a two 3�rvc� Axall . Nuke arms of general says Washington apr a top air Force general said Friday that the United states should get rid of All its nuclear weapons. Quot Gen. Charles a. Horner head of the . Space come said the weapons serve no purpose once the superpowers no longer threaten each other. Terrorists would not be deterred by the threat of massive retaliation and any Small countries that use the weapons could still come under a devastating conventional counterattack Homer said. A i want to get rid of All of them a Horner said. A i want to go to Zero and ill Tell you Why if we and. The russians can go to  weapons then think what that does for us in our efforts to counter the new War.�?�. _ the new military threat unlike the superpower tension of the past comes from smaller less stable countries that obtain weapons of mass destruction Horner said. A v a a a -. A think of the High moral ground we secure by having none a said Horner who plans to retire soon. A it s kind of hard for us to say to North Korea a you Are terrible people a you re developing a nuclear weapon a a when the United states has thousands of them. Horner Heads one of the military a nine a unified commands a each of which includes forces from two or More military services. He reports directly to the Secretary of defense and from there to the president. Horner a command covers military satellite operations and Horner ballistic missile defense efforts among other things. The comments during a breakfast meeting with defense reporters run counter to current Pentagon orthodoxy but retired military officers occasionally have voiced the same sentiment. A a in a talking Long term a Horner said As opposed to an immediate and unilateral disarmament. The remarks come As the Clinton administration works on a review of its entire nuclear Force. The administration is not endorsing total nuclear disarmament so it will not happen soon. But with the Cost of maintaining the . Nuclear Arsenal estimated at about $20 billion per year administration officials Are looking at ways to reduce the stockpile sharply. Horner is far from a pacifist. He played a leading role in directing the air War during the 1991 persian Gulf War and be worries that the nations conventional forces Are being Cut too deeply. His concern Over nuclear weapons is a practical one. A i just done to think nuclear weapons Are usable a Horner said. A a in a not saying that we militarily disarm. In a saying that i have a nuclear weapon and you re North Korea and you have a nuclear weapon. You can use yours i can to use mine. What am i going to use it on what Are nuclear weapons Good for busting cities. What president of the United states is going to take out Pyongyang a ouster in court Washington apr a lieutenant who declared his homosexuality on National television said Friday that he Hopes Navy Secretary John Dalton will let him stay in the Navy despite a Navy Board recommendation to throw him out. It. . Tracy Thorne said that if Dalton does no to override the Board he will rely on civilian courts to let him continue to serve. A Navy Board of inquiry recommended thursday that Thome be discharged. He and his attorneys said they will Challenge the Clinton administrations a a done task done to Tell policy in Federal court. A i certainly Hope that Secretary Dalton exercises his judgment to retain me in the service because if not i will simply be discharged because of the fact that 1 told the truth Quot Thorne said Friday on Abc. Asked if he would take the matter to court if that does no to work Thorne said a i certainly Hope i done to have to but the courts have shown that they re not going to let this prejudice stand and they re going to allow people to serve their country  Thorne 27, a former member of the Navy so flying tigers bomber Squadron became one of the first military Gays in recent times to disclose his orientation publicly when he appeared on abcs night Lins in May 1992, his Case has become a major test of the a a done task done to Tell policy which took effect March 1.he was followed by a flood of other Gay service members. Thorne acknowledged Friday that he has never slated whether he has engaged in homosexual acts but denied that he was splitting Legal hairs As he accused the Navy of doing �?o1 just feel that my private life is my private life and when i come to work i leave my private life at Home a Thorne said. After the boards courtroom announcement at the Washington Navy Yard on thursday Thorne said a i am confident that this policy will eventually be overturned when its reviewed on its face a the three member Board in a unanimous decision announced on the fourth Day of a hearing said Thome should receive an honorable discharge. Capt. Douglas w. Cook the boards president said Thorne a failed in fact made no Effort a to dispute a presumption that he engaged in homosexual conduct which is grounds for dismissal. Cook said Thorness a statements that he is a homosexual raised the presumption of homosexual  he said the statements a clearly create a rebuttable presumption that the officer engages in homosexual acts or has a propensity to do .-russian Maneu vers urged Moscow apr the chairman of a parliamentary defense committee said Friday that Russia and the United states should go ahead with plans to hold the first joint military Maneu vers on russian soil. Plans for the Maneu vers initially scheduled to be held in eary july near the ural mountains City of Totsk were shelved in May after hard line lawmakers in the Duma the lower House of parliament objected. The we Klong exercise was supposed to train 250 . Troops and an equal number of russian soldiers for future United nations peacekeeping operations. A a. Sergei Mushenkov chairman of the Dumas defense committee told the itar Tass news Agency the Maneu vers should be rescheduled. An alternative plan to hold the Maneu vers in the United states would be too expensive for Russia he said. Mushenkov said both the Public and politicians should be better informed about the importance of the exercise and that a parliamentary delegation was heading to Totsk this weekend. He complained that All sorts of rumours were being circulated about the proposed Maneu vers including the involvement of a great numbers of tanks aircraft and artillery  Mushenkov said he would assure Totsk residents and officials that the soldiers would be armed Only with automatic rifles. A there will be no ammunition apart from Blank cartridges and simulation charges Quot he said. Drowning victim honoured at service so. Michelle Benecke co director of the service members Legal defense network said there Are More than 100 cases of Gay military personnel pending before inquiry boards and Federal courts that up july reach the supreme court in several years. Bad  a amps a a memorial service was held Friday in Baum older for pvt. Jason p. Rupczyk who drowned july 5. Rupczyk 19, was assigned to the 1st army dives co a 3rd in 12th inf in Baum older. His unit reported him absent from formation july 6. His body was found floating tuesday at Baum older Lake. Results of medical examinations to determine what May have attributed to Rupczyk a drowning have not been received the divisions statement said. He posthumously received the army commendation medal and the army Good conduct medal at the memorial service the statement said. The soldiers body will be returned to the United states on sunday. Funeral arrangements have not been confirmed the statement said. Rupczyk an infantryman assigned As a squad automatic weapon gunner joined his unit last january. He is survived by his father John a Rupczyk of Westfield n.y., and his Mother Laura m. Bohall of Portland