European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 5, 1995, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Petty officer 1 St a class Gil Gregg walks outside the High Security compound of Simonella s tac support Center. A amps Carlos Bong loan a enforcers continued from Pago 17 Simonella s tac support Center. Quot this is a dynamic real life decision making environment. We have to remain flexible to react on. Short notice to any task Given. It s like a control room on a ship i mean like Captain Kirk on Star trek. It s really like that Quot he said. ,. Most of the nine nato countries Supply two and sometimes up to four maritime patrol aircraft for the embargo against the former Yugoslavia the United states supplies nine planes for the Effort. The maritime air control authority at Simonella is responsible for the planes and personnel that come from Canada the Netherlands Portugal Spain the United kingdom and the United states. France Italy and Germany provide planes and personnel to the maritime air control authority Rome.  operations at Simonella and Rome coordinate to provide constant surveillance of the Adriatic. If embargo ends nato Mission will still Fly f the United states lifts the arms embargo against the Bosnia and Herzegovina government Quot absolutely nothing Quot will change in natos enforcement of the ban a nato spokeswoman said. A. Quot if one nation decides to unilaterally pull out and not enforce the . Mandate the other of a nations would still continue to enforce it. Yes the . Has a huge contribution but there Are 15 other nations in the North Atlantic treaty organization a that can continue the embargo Quot said . Janis Zvitt Quot nato will continue to enforce the arms embargo against All factions involved in the civil War in the former Yugoslavia with or without . Support Quot she said Witt a .. Air Force officer assigned to nato at the Allied forces Southern Europe come in Naples Italy said a nato has been enforcing the bosnian embargo without . Support since last year. A a nearly 10 months ago Congress passed and the president signed legislation prohibiting the . Military from enforcing or supporting the bosnian arms embargo. The legislation known As the Nunn Mitchell. Amendment became effective in november and a specifically ordered the . Military to cease. Enforcement of the arms embargo against the bosnian government. Although the Nunn Mitchell amendment forbade . A Suppon of the bosnian embargo it allowed the . Military to continue supporting the embargo against the other former yugoslavian republics. Nato commanders simply rearranged their assets in the Adriatic so . Ships would not be in position to Board or inspect vessels that might have arms shipments to Bosnia. In essence . Support of the arms embargo never diminished after Congress pissed the Nunn Mitchell amendment last year. And nato officials say the same would be True even if Congress overrides an August veto  Clinton of legislation passed this summer by both the House and Senate to unilaterally lift the bosnian arms embargo. Last week s bombing raids apparently has put that Issue on hold Senate majority Leader Bob Dole said he will put off indefinitely a vote on overriding the veto. If the United states did lift the bosnian embargo some Are wondering if the United states would begin supplying weapons or military equipment to Bosnia. Quot if we will not do it directly will we help facilitate that delivery Quot asked senator Sam Nunn d-ga., in a speech made in late july. Quot if they the allies continue the embargo will we Quot forcibly break the embargo by delivering equipment will Russia unilaterally lift its embargo on Serbia As it has said it will do Quot nobody in the Pentagon or in nato would answer that question. A statement from the . Defense department. Refused to speculate on the possibility of arms sales to Bosnia but said rather Quot we remain opposed to Congress efforts to unilaterally break the arms embargo. We feel it would seriously undermine our efforts by sparking the withdrawal of our allies . Peacekeepers from Bosnia and leading to even greater humanitarian . The current legislation passed by Congress would lift the embargo Only after United nations forces in Bosnia had withdrawn. The responsibility of asking the  forces to leave Bosnia is with the bosnian government. A Carlos Bongioanni German air Force eases into first action since 1945 by Rick Atkinson the Washington Post the pasta May be better at the pizzeria Charlie Brown in Piacenza Italy but the word among German airmen is that the prettiest italian girls hang out at the old american bar. The daily Supply flight from Bavaria hauls in cases of German Beer and for the truly homesick there a a German language to Channel in the four Star hotel where the flight Crews live. For the first German combat unit sent into action since 1945, War May be hell but at least there a room service. After years of National anguish Over the us of military Force Germany this summer shed its postwar pacifism and dispatched an air Force unit with 14. A Tornado fighter jets for duty Over Bosnia. Luftwaffe deployment Squadron 1 set up operations at san Damiano a followed by 200 German journalists who have been relentlessly scrutinizing the historic deployment. Although some German planes flew missions Over Bosnia and Herzegovina during August they were slow to join last week a bombing raids on serbian positions in Bosnia. The planes sat out the first Day of bombing and were dispatched and recalled before seeing any action on the second Day. But on Friday the planes were in action although the German defense ministry gave Little details about them other than to say All returned safely. By coincidence Friday was the 56.th anniversary of the beginning of world War ii in Europe when Adolf hitlers troops tanks and planes invaded Poland on sept. 1,1939. A being the commander of the first German combat unit to be deployed since world War ii is a Well its strange in some ways a said col. Johann g. Dora 46, in charge of the 520 Luftwaffe troops at the air base. A i  say in a proud of it exactly but in a glad to play a part. The feeling in German society toward the military has changed and it has also changed in the parliament. There a a much broader support for this kind of  the deliberate Tempo of operations largely reflects the restrictions that have clipped the Luftwaffe s wings. In approving Chancellor Helmut Kohl s request to support the . Protection Force in Bosnia with German troops parliament in late june imposed limits on where and  troops could venture into harms Way. A. L thus the Tornado a equipped with one of the world s most sophisticated systems for pinpointing and destroying surface to Mir  to Fly Only in support of the British French dutch rapid reaction Force. Other missions including enforcement of the a no Fly zone Quot Over Bosnia or safeguarding .-declared a Safe areas a were forbidden. That frustrated the German Crews As Well As nato officers trying to integrate the Luftwaffe into Alliance flight operations. Missions flown Over Bosnia were not divided along the lines prescribed by politicians in the bundestag the lower House of Germany s parliament a plane enforcing the no Fly edict might abruptly be asked to help peacekeepers in trouble or to attack a threatening serb anti aircraft site. Consequently . And Spanish f/a-18s often flow backup for missions their German comrades cannot legally handle. A German general at the nato flight operations Center in Vicenza Italy had to review All proposed Luftwaffe sorties to ensure they Are politically Correct. _ Quot we Are constrained and the life of the a Hole operation would be simpler if there Vivere not these restrictions a Dora said. A but our bundestag has made a decision and we have to live with  a the associated press contributed to this report. Tuesday september 5, 1995 the stars and stripes 19