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Aerospace World Aerospace World By Suzann Chapman, Associate Editor USAF's Bosnia Plans Unfold US Air Forces in Europe and Air Mobility Command more than two years ago began planning for pos- sible peace operations in the Balkans. In December, those plans were put into effect. USAF troops at European and An Army Hum vee is Stateside bases joined forces to re- unloaded from a US Air invigorate two dilapidated Cold War Force C-130 at Sarajevo airports in central Europe, reener- Airport. Bad weather gize Rhein-Main AB in western Ger- has been a challenge to many, and establish the air link for the NATO peacekeeping Operation Joint Endeavor. mission in Bosnia- Hercegovina, and some On November 28—the day after flights scheduled to land President Clinton's major address on in the northern town of the planned deployment of 20,000 Tuzla had to be diverted US troops to support NATO's Joint to the Bosnian capital. Endeavor in Bosnia-Hercegovina—a USAF team led by Col. Neal Patton, 16th Air Force vice commander, was on its way to a former MiG fighter base at Tuzla, Bosnia, to survey the airfield. Tuzla and Hungary's Taszar AB, an active MiG-21 fighter base, were se- lected to serve as the main forward airlift centers for the operation. A substantial force of USAF combat aircraft at Aviano AB, Italy, contin- ued to provide the NATO force with control of the air. Air Force special operations units were based further south at Brindisi, Italy. Throughout the next few weeks, Rhein-Main AB on December 15 with The Air Force expects delivery of USAF active-duty and reserve per- two E-8 Joint STARS (Joint Surveil- the first production models this month. sonnel and units supported the NATO lance and Target Attack Radar Sys- However, for Joint Endeavor, mili- operation in a variety of ways, from tem) aircraft. tary crews will conduct all operations airlift operations to combat air patrol Though still in development, Joint on the two preproduction models, with and from airborne surveillance and STARS aircraft flew forty-nine com- some seventy-five Northrop Grumman reconnaissance to aerial refueling and bat missions in Operation Desert personnel providing technical backup, satellite communications. Storm in 1991, tracking Iraqi forces, as needed, according to Air Force Colonel Patton on December 6 re- vehicles, and fixed and mobile Scud officials. turned to Tuzla as the commander of missiles. USAF Col. Robert DeBusk, 4500th the 4100th Air Base Group (Provi- The system includes a modified JSS commander, said that the cur- sional) aboard a C-130 from Ram- Boeing 707, with a radar antenna rent Joint STARS aircraft are even stein AB's 86th Airlift Wing. He brought housed under the fuselage, and mo- more effective than those used in a team of USAF personnel, many bile ground stations that forward the Desert Storm because of improved from Ramstein's 1st Combat Com- surveillance data to field units. Joint computer software and radar func- munications Squadron, to prepare the STARS has the ability to detect and tions. He added that if any of the airfield for round-the clock operations. track ground movements with such warring factions decide to break the precision that the unit can distinguish Bosnia peace pact, "they can't hide." Joint STARS Ready for Balkan between wheeled and tracked ve- Squadron Vice Commander Army Duty hicles. It also provides ground-threat Col. Jeff Wright called Joint STARS Some 450 members of a joint USAF- data to flying units, complementing "one of the more sophisticated, com- Army unit—the 4500th Joint STARS Airborne Warning and Control Sys- plex, and revolutionary systems" pro- Squadron (Provisional)—arrived at tem aircraft. viding support to all commanders. 14 AIR FORCE Magazine / February 1996 New Momentum for the B-2 The outlook for procurement of new B-2 bombers appeared to have bright- ened as a result of the words and deeds of Congress and the President. Congress approved a Fiscal 1996 defense appropriations bill contain- ing some $500 million in B-2 funds that the Administration had not sought. The bill did not specify use of the money. House lawmakers said the ultimate goal was new procurement. President Clinton accepted the bill, seeming to crack the door for more bombers. In a December 20 inter- view with the Los Angeles Times, he expressed a more favorable view of bomber purchases. "You know I have mixed feelings about the B-2," he told Times re- porter Ralph Vartabedian. "I think it's a good plane, but I don't think we need as many as the Congress wants At Bell Helicopter Textron's Flight Research Center, Arlington, Tex., a crane to build." moves the wing and nacelle structure of a V-22 Osprey into place on the air- The President then added, "I signed craft's fuselage, signaling the start of final assembly. Bell Boeing officials say the bill; there are going to be more B- production of the tilt rotor aircraft is on schedule. 2s built." Congress in 1992 capped procure- sidered in light of overall defense trines will pass into history now that ment at twenty bombers, and the needs and budget levels. DoD has approved the "one plus one" Clinton Administration has always Defense Secretary William J. Perry standard for single enlisted person- resisted subsequent moves to in- in the past has said that he might nel. However, a DoD release cau- crease that number. In the Times want to tap the B-2 funds to finance tioned that "transformation of old interview, he announced that "there US operations in Bosnia. barracks into 1990s-style singles liv- are circumstances under which I could ing will not happen overnight." go along with building some more." One Plus One Approved The Pentagon announced Decem- He did not specify the circumstances Those pre—All-Volunteer Force ber 11 that Defense Secretary Wil- and said procurement must be con- open-bay barracks and common la- liam J. Perry had "signed off" on the new housing standard on November 6. Just weeks before, the USAF-led push for the new department-wide stan- dard seemingly had stalled, prompt- Everyday Heroes ing Air Force officials to say the ser- vice would continue to pursue "one Members of the Air Force occasionally find themselves in situations calling for plus one" independently. quick reaction and calm thinking. In this, they often excel, as the following recent Recent studies, including the 1995 award and actions demonstrate. SrA. Lisa Natola, who works in the Wilford Hall Medical Center's Human USAF Quality-of-Life survey, indi- Resources Office, received the Airman's Medal on October 26 for heroism she cated that young recruits ranked gain- displayed when she pulled an injured driver from a burning car in 1993. ing more privacy and space as top Al C Kyle Clay, AFRES, a financial services specialist with the 94th Airlift Wing, concerns. Dobbins ARB, Ga., helped save the life of a pregnant Georgia woman who lost a Under the new standard, single leg in a traffic accident in November. He credited first-aid field training during a enlisted members at permanent duty recent weekend drill with spurring his quick and successful reactions. The woman locations will live in mini-apartments survived and gave birth to a four-pound baby. Both are OK, according to Airman with two individual sleeping rooms Clay. (each about 118 square feet), plus a SSgts. Gary Duclo and Neri LaMadrid, on temporary duty in October in Japan from the 83d Aerial Port Squadron, Portland, Ore., rescued a six-year-old kitchenette and bathroom shared with Japanese girl as she slid down a nearly vertical, fifty-foot rocky incline off a hiking only one other person. According to trail on Mount Nokogiri. Sergeant LaMadrid brought the child back up the cliff. She DoD, the apartments will "normally spent seven days in the hospital and recovered fully. accommodate two service members In November, Capt. Timothy Finnegan, 353d Special Operations Group, in the ranks of E-1 through E-4, or Kadena AB, Japan, helped save an Okinawan boy who was trapped under a van one person ranked E-5 or above." that had flipped over. The Captain managed to pick up the van far enough to slip Each service will implement the a rock underneath it to relieve some of the pressure on the child. When other men latest standard "wherever possible arrived, they righted the vehicle. The two-year-old boy was expected to remain in beginning with Fiscal Year 1996 con- the hospital for at least two months. AFRES TSgts. Ray J. Korizon and Paul W. Vojtech and SSgt. Vince Bobowski, struction." The DoD release stated from the 928th Maintenance Squadron, O'Hare IAP/ARS, Ill., helped contain a that during the next twenty years, the bus fire and save its passengers in October while on temporary duty at Hickam number of E-1s to E-4s who will have AFB, Hawaii. They were driving along a highway when they heard an explosion "the opportunity" to live in the new- and saw smoke and flames from a tour bus in front of them. They borrowed a style rooms will increase from about garden hose and several fire extinguishers to help put out the fire. 50,000 to more than 275,000. Addition- ally, the number of barracks spaces AIR FORCE Magazine / February 1996 15 Aerospace World not only in terms of cost. For the Air Force, he said, slower production would keep the C-17 line open longer, "and that gives you some options in the outyears to look at .
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