European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 23, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday August 23, 1994 the stars and stripes Page 3 is Ken George . Army 2nd it Tara Kelly from Vicenza Italy monitors military and humanitarian supplies As they arrive at Kigali air port in Rwanda. Charles White an airman based in Charleston s.c., is operating the All terrain forklift. Kigali draws More flights As new Hub by Doyle Tillman staff writer Entebbe Uganda the Ameri can air Mission Here could be waning As More and More operation support Hope flights bring Relief supplies directly into Rwanda s capital a . European come spokesman said. With More than 800 . Military personnel Entebbe has been a major Hub and Headquarters for the month Long american humanitarian Mission to Aid rwandan refugees. But a shift from Entebbe to Kigali Rwanda is in line with the general direction of the operation Navy cmdr. Ron Morse spokesman for the euro Pean come said monday in Stuttgart  . Forces hand missions Over to the United nations and begin with drawing people and equipment Morse said it makes sense for officials to re evaluate their base locations. Maj. Guy Shields a . Spokesman at the Kigali Camp said Federal aviation administration officials certified the runways at the Airport for round the clock operations beginning last thursday. Certification he said greatly reduces insurance costs to contract and chartered air carriers. Faa certification reduces the time needed to deliver cargo into Kigali by at least eight to 10 hours and possibly even Days said it. Col. Ron Peck 621st air mobility operations group commander. Peck said commercial aircraft required two to three hours downtime to unload two or More hours to rebuild and �3� $#�&$1&�m is Ken George airman 1st class Matt Underwood right and senior airman Justin Doolin both from Travis fab calif., take a break to exercise on the Tarmac at Kigali air port As planes from operation support Hope sit in the background. Load pallets onto c-130s, and then the flight time and unloading in  Peck recalled having travelled with a team of10 civil engineers to Kigali to Start reclaiming the Airport they thought they were going on a one Day toy temporary duty assign Montand we kept them there for five or six Days without any change of clothing or amenities he  the team got the Airfield in operation to the Point where a c-5 Galaxy was Able to take off in total darkness after land ing july 31, Peck said. In Kigali operations have been hone to the extent that larger wide bodies aircraft Are allowed two hours and 15 minutes on the ground while c-130s get Only an hour and 15 minutes to unload Peck said. But they c-130 Crews Are usually done in about 45 to 50 minutes. Every Day is a new experience the lieutenant colonel said. Peck said another sign of Success is that the death rate has slowed. They re get Ting enough food and water into Rwanda and the distribution in Kigali is helping to stabilize the country he said. Albeit slowly said Peck you see a country coming Back to  contributing to this report staff writer Vince Crawley in Darmstadt Germany Sarajevo Aid flights restarted by Wayne v. Hall staff writer Rhein main a Germany sanitarian Aid flights to Sarajevo resumed monday after the fifth stoppage inless than a month. A German cargo plane flying from an Cona Italy was the first aircraft to land in the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina at about 12 30 ., said Ron Redmond a spokesman for the . High commissioner for refugees. Up to 13 German British French and . Planes were expected to follow throughout the Day. By mid afternoon monday Redmond said that All flights were being conducted without incident. Meanwhile in Northern Bosnia on monday Aid workers rushed food water milk and blankets to up to 25,000 fleeing refugees after government forces crushed an 11-month rebellion by a renegade Muslim commander. Some of the refugees were wounded a they fled through minefields and about 2,000 people were stranded in the North Ern no Man s land Between croatian and serbian forces. The Aid flights to Sarajevo were sus Pended thursday after a mortar round nit the runway at about 5  In the Pas month flights have reached the besieged City on Only five Days. . Protection forces placed the air port on red Alert status thursday after the mortar strike Redmond said. I believe up Rotor lifted the re Dalert status on Friday but the participating nations were not immediately read to resume flying the missions Redmond said monday in a Telephone interview from his office in Geneva. Stockpiles of food in the City have been dwindling rapidly without the steady air lifts. We Only have about 21 percent of the food required to conduct a distribution said the spokesman for the Agency Over seeing the humanitarian operation. Every two weeks we distribute 1,764metric tons and our last distribution was three weeks  the number of flights scheduled Mon Day was about half the number flown daily in the past. Redmond said that was because they resumed at midday constituting Only half a Day s flights. Two c-130 cargo aircraft left Rhein main a on monday carrying a total of 21.5 metric tons of flour said master  Warman a spokesman for opera Tion provide  c-130s flew double shuttle mis Sions in which they deliver their first Load in Sarajevo then Fly to split Croatia. In split they Are loaded with from 13to 15 metric tons of supplies to be delivered in Sarajevo on their Way Back to Germany Warman said. The Unher plans to Speed the re building of food stockpiles by increasing the daily deliveries from the recent 200 to250 metric tons to 350 metric tons. Contributing to this report Trie associated press. Fast reaction unit Foi air control launched at Ramstein Bojoh Bohmer Kaiserslautern Bureau Ramstein a Germany the 32nd air operations group a unit designed to deploy in a desert storm size operation As the command and control for air Power was activated Friday at Ramstein a. The unit commander col. Steven m. Caine said the Quick reaction group resulted from lessons Learned in the persian Gulf during operation desert storm. The group s creation he said underlines the importance Safe and the air Force place on the joint forces. About 370 people Are permanently assigned to the unit including air planners who allocate the use of air Craft intelligence staffers who gather information and communications specialists. Comparing it to Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf s team in Riyadh saudi Arabia during the 1991 persian Gulf War Caine called the group the Backbone of the joint task Force commander he said additional air planners from various branches of the military would augment it de pending on the Type of Mission and on which branches Are most heavily involved in the Mission. We want to work very closely with the army Navy and marines to see How we can use our resources to better support that Jef commander Caine said. Caine said the 32nd air operations group is Gener ally intended for operations larger than those currently taking place in Central Africa nol Tiern Iraq and the Balkans. He said the group can non of to 700 sorties a Day involving a multitude of aircraft including bomb ers fighters Refu Elers and helicopters. The unit s area of responsibility is the same As that of the . European come Europe West Asia and Africa