Wednesday, May 11,1983/The Battalion/Page 9
rmy missle use
aught in drill
Warped
by Scott McCullar
H United Press International
HL PASO — The Army brass
alls it “the 10-second drill” and
low well it is executed can be the
^^Berence between living and
V|yiri:4 I'H a l"t ill Mildiei v
■The drill’s scenario: T wo
s .hei! in a jeep pulling a small
are deep in enemy terri-
\ ory with their own troops all
' iround them when an airplane
udilenly appears over the hori-
;on The plane is headed
^Hight toward them and their
roops.
jJlThe two men have 10 seconds
ostopthejeep, run to the trailer
,nd take one of six Stinger sur-
f^B-to-air missiles from its
wHe, hoist it to the gunner’s
boulder, identify the airlane as
\ fiei id or foe, track it, and — if it
5 an enemy — fire.
make sure soldiers can do
hat and do it right is the job of
nstiuctors of the 1st Air De-
iensc Artillery Training Bri-
rade at Fort Bliss.
^^■You only have one chance to
toil right,” said 1st Sgt. Celson
^■len of Banbridge, Ga., as he
idjusted the shoulder strap on
ipec. 4 Howard Tucker of John-
burg, N.Y.
^Soldiers who use the Stinger
'—ire in the business of providing
ow altitude air defense in com-
iatsituations. Fort Bliss uses one
station unit training in which a
soldier goes through seven
weeks of basic training, then
another seven weeks of “MAN-
PADS” or Manned Portable Air
Defense training in both the
Fort Bliss utilizes the
“self pace” method of
teaching in which indi
vidual soldiers work,
within limits, at their
own pace. They utilize
teaching aids and prog
ress to actual handling
of the weapon.
Stinger and the older Redeye
weapon.
Both are shoulder-launched,
heat-seeking missiles designed
to down enemy aircraft flying at
low level as in a strafing or
bombing run.
After launch, both missiles
home in on the airplane’s jet or
regular exhaust system and fly
directly to the aircraft.
The difference between the
two, said Sgt. Larry Osborne of
Bartley, W.Va., the MANPADS
training non-commissioned
officer, is that the Redeye is con
sidered a “revenge weapon, in
that the aircraft has already
flown by the gunner before the
missile can home in on its ex
haust.”
Osborne said a lot of damage
could already be inflicted by the
enemy aircraft before it can be
shot down.
“The Stinger can meet the
enemy head on while the air
craft is crossing in front of the
weapon,” Osborne said. “In
other words, it does not have to
wait until it is past. The gunner
can fire it directly at the oncom
ing airplane and it will home in.”
Fort Bliss utilizes the “self
pace” method of teaching in
which individual soldiers work,
within limits, at their own pace.
They utilize teaching aids and
progress to actual handling of
the weapon.
Soldiers fresh out of basic
training go through a course in
which they use audio-visual aids
to learn about the Stinger and
Redeye and how to identify 21
friendly and enemy aircraft.
They study at their own
speed and when they feel ready,
they are tested and get either a
“go or no go” grade. With a “no
go” they simply review the mate
rial in which they were deficient
until they feel they are ready to
be tested again.
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Sgt. it
alette Bf echanical engineering awards
Job well done
staff photo by Eric Evan Lee
Keith E. McKinney accepts the
Caddess Award for materials science
from Dr. Caddess at the
ceremony held Friday afternoon in
Rudder Tower. In addition to the
award, a $325 check was presented.
oliceman’s
on sought
n warrant
R United Press International
rnationul BELLAS — Authorities
__ Ipesday were searching for the
>r havel*| n °f a deputy police chief
r roles elated in a massive roundup of
. famih ‘feged drug dealers that also
esidem ( et ted the son of a federal nar-
•xtortmuBcs agent.
■Dallas police Lt. David M.
26, was4 av >s said 66 of the 112 people
for IddiPnied in warrants issued last
for n i|k had been arrested by late
rother.HPnday.
ed 20 ((■mong those arrested Friday
20 yeari pHing was James Martin Lam-
Ft, 25, of Irving, whose father
guiltyM® 1 agent of the U.S. Drug En-
■ement Administration, an
forced |I eri cy that provided financial
e of i. Pstance during the three
lent Lowjpth investigation.
■Authorities were still seeking
Weir’s Randell, 25, the son of
ekeeper P rt heast patrol Deputy Chief
was a u gene Randell on a warrant
Theydfc^g h e s °ld marijuana to an
bank toIpercover officer, Davis said,
police P Officers who went to the
pnger Randell’s Balch
gugl'pnngs apartment discovered
®^fthad moved out he night be-
|ort: the raid.
BWe have no reason to believe
Jwas intentionally tipped off
anyone,” Davis said,
ances are his move was a
cidence.”
avis added that Lambert’s
iher works in a jurisdiction
iside Dallas.
eputy Chief Randell said he
earned of his son’s arrest war-
It from Chief Billy Prince last
eek.
lit came as a shock to me,”
lid Randell, who said he has not
lard from his son in three
'eeks.
|Tf I did hear from him, I’d
tell him: ‘You have some
iness. You need to go down
he city and take care of it,”’ he
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GREENVILLE — Owners of
Greencrest Manor Nursing
Home have said they plan to re
open the facility as soon as the
state health department’s 10-
day shutdown order expires.
Citing allegations of improp
er health care, Atty. Gen. Jim
Mattox personally closed Green-
crest Manor Nursing Home last
Friday after a 9-day investiga
tion by the health department.
Dr. William Hubbard, of the
health department office at
Arlington, testified at a Satur
day court hearing that at least 11
Greencrest Manor patients died
in March and April after receiv
ing questionable care.
Health department officials
recommended the facility be de
certified, Mattox spokeswoman
Elna Christopher said.
Steve Stricklin, a district
operations director for Hill
Haven Corp., which owns the
nursing home, said patients at
the facility “got proper care,”
even if it was not documented in
company records.
A decertification hearing set
for Tuesday in Austin was post
poned in order to give attorneys
time to prepare their cases, a
health department spokesman
said.
In addition, the state attorney
general’s office is investigating
the possibility of Medicaid
fraud, Christopher said.
Hill Haven Corp. Vice Presi
dent Frank Ruffo said he is una
ware of any such investigation
and denied any wrongdoing,
predicting the firm will be
cleared of any improper actions.
Nursing home officials said
they plan to re-open the facility
May 17.
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