European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 05, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse R " signs in front of a Camp plus o tent Point toward places service members would prefer to be. Life on the Edge quiet Gamp Pleso sits within earshot of ongoing Balkan violence by Mark Kinkade staff writer except for occasional late night Small arms fire things Are quiet at Gamp Pleso i Croatia. " _ it s easy to lose sigh of what s going on in the former Yugoslavia when you spend All Day on a guarded United nations compound. Occasionally something _ _ happens to remind the roughly 500 americans with joint task Force Forward provide Promise that they Are standing on the Edge of a very Sharp knife that threatens to slice through the bloody Balkans any Day. Yeah we try to keep a perspective Here Navy it. G Jody Weiss said As she sipped a Beer at the norwegian army s bar at the Camp. aside you can t Tell me the concertina wire in t there or the bunkers. We Don t need a lot to remind us of what could happen the 33 year old nurse from. Beaufort s.c., said. The Zagreb Croatia Airport. When the yugoslavian army pulled out at the end of the cold War it left behind hundreds of land mines and at least one Booby trapped cold War Era Jet fighter. They were just spiteful said one unidentified Sailor As he looked Over a Field marked off with a red sign Reading simply mines this is one dangerous place. You Don t want to stumble through Here at night. It s Best to stick to the � Camp Pleso in t look at. Once it was a " yugoslavian army air Field that shared runway space with. _ master chief Petty officer Joseph Steward says he expected to see More casualties. Navy capt. Gregg Parker is on his first tour As a Hospital commander and he s proud of his facilities and his people the Hospital he said can handle just about any medical problem. Ira fact several peacekeepers have stayed in the Hospital longer than they normally would because the tent facility is better than hospitals in their own countries. We have a state of the Art facility Parker said7"the doctors and nurses Are the highest Caliper and these patients won t see the kind of care we can give them in their own the Hospital recently put the finishing touches Orta physical therapy room. Before patients wounded in mine explosions for example were sent Back out to the Field without rehabilitation " now they go Back Tate Field almost completely healed. A v most Hospital people serving at the Camp had never deployed before task Force officials said. In fact the bulk the roughly 270 sailors at the Hospital Are normally based in the United states riot Europe. For Many of them the Long run of tents that make up the Hospital is a Chance to practice what they were taught. I Felt we would see a lot of casualties said master chief Petty officer Joseph Steward an Independent duty corpsman who spent part of his to years in the Navy u ending submariners. I expected to go on sector visits and Deal with trauma i continued on Page 22 wednesday october 5, 1994 the stars and stripes 21
