European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 06, 1995, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes bosnian crisis wednesday september 6,1995 stiff upper lip is the Raf lieutenant fakes detached View of military Byeff Leathen staff writer Aviano a Italy the British Are of course so British. At Aviano a the Royal air Force Crews helping enforce nato policy Over Bosnia Don t mingle much with their . Counterparts. With their famous British Reserve in full Force the Crews Are sticking to a Cycle of work a few pints of Beer rest and More work. The adage about stiff upper lip is True said flight it. Grant Stallwood leaning in his chair sunday at the airborne warning and control system operations Center Bunker. He was discussing the British penchant for restraint when a to news report about the crash of a British military plane brought hint to his feet. Along with six staffers in the room he let out a shocked gasp. That reaction probably was More revealing about the deep sense of comradeship the English have for their fellow service members than Stallwood would admit. " the londoner knew some of the seven Crew members who died in the plane crash at a Canadian air show saturday. His first reaction about the plane crash you find out who s on it to see if it s any of your  looking at a Short list on his desk Stallwood said he could not talk about the victims because their relatives had not been notified. The Raf flight lieutenant talked about his View of military kinship following last week s nato and . Strikes against bosnian serbian military targets in the former Yugoslavia. Commenting on has concern about the safety of fellow British service members serving with the rapid reaction Force on the ground Stallwood said he shared the detached feelings of Many of his co workers who operate the underground vaulted Center filled with maps computers and telephones. His airborne warning and control system unit is an Allied forces Southern Europe unit at Aviano a in support of operation deny flight nato s enforcement of the United we come out do the Job and go Home right u. Grant Stallwood nations no Fly zone Over Bosnia. We get tasked for the Mission. As _ you re going in you Don t think it s my countrymen or anything like that he said. The focus is on the Mission arid they have All been successful. You get tied up in the Job,".he said. We come out do the Job and go  Stallwood also admitted that he did not feel particularly close to the americans on the base his family a wife and two teen age daughters live near his Home base at Raf Waddington England. But 2,500 americans have their families living in Aviano and its nearby villages. There s not much social Contact. The americans have their family lives he said. But the English airmen Are living in hotels and eating dinners out. We re self entertaining. After work we have ourselves a couple of pints of Beer just like we do when we re  . Plans big up i lout from Croatia Zagreb Croatia a the United nations said tuesday that it would soon Send Home about 10,000 soldiers terminating their 3-year-old Mission in Croatia after a government offensive re captured serbian held land. . Commander in chief it. Gen. Bernard Janvier has issued a withdrawal order for More than 10,300 peacekeepers a . Statement said. About 2,200 soldiers will remain in troubled Eastern Croatia to separate government forces and rebel serbs. The last party of departing peace keepers from Jordan Nepal Argentina Kenya Canada Denmark Ukraine Poland the czech Republic and Bangladesh is scheduled to leave Croatia around dec. 16. The withdrawal docs not affect the . Mission in neighbouring Bosnia. The peacekeeping mandate was effectively ended in most of Croatia by the aug. 4 government offensive launched . More than 150,000 ethnic serbs fear ing reprisals fled to serbian held areas of Bosnia or Yugoslavia which consists of Serbia and Montenegro. A serbian woman hangs her laundry along the razor wire surrounding a . Refugee Camp housing More than 750 refugees in Kiln Croatia on monday. The . Troops reported burning and looting of deserted serbian Homes by the victorious croatian soldiers after the fighting. On tuesday . Officials said the decapitated body of an elderly Roan and that of a woman shot in the head were recently discovered in an area of South Ern Croatia recaptured from rebel serbs last month. . Spokesman Chris furiness said about 50 bodies have been found since  croatian army offensive. . Troops were deployed along Croatia s fragile truce lines in 1992, after the 1991 serbian croatian War. Serbs held a third of Croatia and pro claimed their own state. Nato from Page 1 were similar to those attacked ast week when nato went after ammunition dumps anti aircraft and radar Sites and command and control installations. The bosnian serbian military said the raids caused extensive damage and civil Ian casualties but did not say in its statement what was attacked. The primary aim of the bombardment is to get the serbs to pull about 300 heavy weapons out of a Rizw mile zone around Sarajevo other demands were reopening Sarajevo s Airport and land routes into the City and an end to attacks on .-de cleared Safe areas including Sarajevo. Peace negotiations Are to resume Friday. Warp Aries zoomed in Over the Western part of Sarajevo around noon and several explosions followed in the City s serbian held southwestern suburbs. Seve ral More explosions were later heard Peto nations also were heard in the bosnian serbian Headquarters in Pale about nine Miles Southeast of Sarajevo. Hours later . Officials in the North Ern town of Tula reported three explosions in the area of a serbian held Hillside communications Tower apparently from nato attacks.-. V the airstrikes have support from air Crews at Aviano a. It s the right thing to do to bring it to a Quick close said a naval aviation unit flight officer who said his people have put in "12 straight hours every  the schedule has been demanding and the Wear and tear in our Crews and aircraft has been a great Deal More than Normal he said. And we Are anxious logo  can reported that of Al 8 jets from the Roosevelt were included in the strike Force. White House spokesman Mike Mccurry said president Clinton supported the renewed attacks British prime minister John major also backed them contributing to this report Marian Hamilton Mediterranean Bureau and Effie Bathen staff writer troop training not linked to Bosnia army says Vicenza Italy is the deploy ment today of More than 1,300 troops from the . Army s Southern euro Pean task Force at Vicenza is unrelated to the military actions taking place in Bosnia and Herzegovina officials said tuesday. The troops will be participating in an exercise called operation Mountain shield two at the army s Grafe Wohr and Hohenfels training areas in Ger Many. The Field training was planned in june and follows an initial exercise that also involved hundreds of troops said spokes Man it. Col. Timothy Thomas. Thomas said the training will have a variety of applications but declined to comment on ground missions in Bosnia. However As the setae he support co loaded its gear tuesday Wall maps of the War torn Region were included. Setae has the Only airborne infantry combat team in Europe. The "3rd in 325th inf regt is a crack army paratrooper unit. Thomas added that the movement of troops to the German training areas is done in phases to minimize the Impact if a major deployment is called while the unit is in transit. Also if the factions in Bosnia achieve Peac president Clinton has pledged that 25,000 troops assumed to be mostly based in Germany will be sent to the area. From Page 1 they were falling. I knew they were armed. I knew they had those Little gadgets to signal where they Are. Those boys Are not unprepared but they had no Chance to hide. I knew they were steering to fall on a Meadow just behind the for est Cosovic said. Arriving at the site the serbian Fanner said,.he saw one of the airmen lying on the ground with a broken leg and the other frantically trying to gather and fold their parachutes. I fired a few shots in the air just to let them know i was armed. I always carry a pistol Cosovic said producing a massive old Walthur captured from the nazis. Before the War i needed it because of wolves and now the nearest front line is Only five Miles from  then he used a term he believed would be universally understood. I shouted halt Cosovic said. It worked. One Pilot dropped his hand gun and presumably in French told his injured colleague who had fired a few shots in the air to do the same. They did not resist. Farmers from several other houses gathered quickly ready to Lynch the Crew men Cosovic said. Within minutes though bosnian serbian military and civilian police arrived and took the French airmen away. Their current whereabouts Are unknown. The serbs have not officially acknowledged having the crewmen. Natu officials said Only that search and Rescue efforts continue