From: bergman@AFPAN.PA.AF.MIL (CMSgt Mike Bergman)
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Subject: Army News Service 09/28/92
Date: 30 Sep 92 13:46:15 GMT
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1.  Commentary - Reflections on Hurrican Andrew
2.  Revised FM 100-5
3.  Retired Gen Van Fleet Dies

COMMENTARY: Reflections on Hurricane Andrew, by Staff Sgt. Charles R. 
Evans

      MIAMI (ARNEWS) -- The destruction of Hurricane Andrew is mind-
bending. Traveling through the destroyed areas, it is hard to relate 
to the damage on a personal level. There is just so much destruction.
      The storm was not selective. Although it spared Miami proper, it 
didn't discriminate as it laid waste to neighborhoods south of the 
city.
      From the very poor to the most affluent, everyone in the path of 
destruction paid a price. Those fortunate enough to have insurance 
will have a leg up. Others, who had little to begin with, seek aid 
wherever they can find it.
      One thing they all have in common is the dump. Ultimately, 
debris from the rich and poor alike ends up there.
      In a huge open field, the pile grows. Thousands of trucks -- in 
a seemingly endless line -- roll in, dump their loads, and roll out to 
be loaded again. Like busy insects, they go about their business, 
oblivious that much of their cargo once was the foundation for the 
dreams of so many victims.
      It's a scene out of some apocalyptic horror movie. A gigantic 
heap of trash is tended by machines. As the trucks dump, the 
bulldozers shape the pile and push it toward other machines. So great 
is the mass of trash that two huge earthmovers are dwarfed by it as 
they ascend it like a mountain.
      At the other end of the pit is the pyre -- an earthen pit where 
the debris is consumed by flames. Here, other machines pick through 
the mountain of trash, removing metal and hazardous material. What's 
left goes into the flames.
      The inferno is tremendous. Air from huge blowers is blasted into 
the base of the pit through steel pipes to aid in combustion and make 
the fire hotter. Often the debris bursts into flames before the long 
arm of the machines can drop it onto the heap.
      It is all very impersonal. To the men who operate the machines, 
it is a job -- a job many of them are glad to have. Most are contract 
laborers from outside the area. Just another project to be completed 
before moving on to the next one.
      It is when you examine the pile closely that it becomes 
personal. Much of what you find once meant a great deal to someone.
      Often the entire contents of a home, even the house itself, is 
in the pile. Furnishings, personal belongings, toys, entire 
inventories of a business -- it's all there. The sum total of many 
people's lives reduced to rubble in a matter of minutes.
      Who are these people? What are they doing now? Will they rebuild 
their homes and their lives? Or will they move on and try to start 
again somewhere else? 
      For now, the basic needs of most of them are being met. They are 
being housed, fed and clothed by the huge relief effort that moved in 
after the storm. There are people who care and people who are helping.
      But right now, much of their former lives and dreams belong to 
the machines.
     (Evans is a staff writer for the McClellan News.)


Revised FM 100-5 nearing completion

      WASHINGTON (ARNEWS) -- Scholars and practitioners of Army 
doctrine can rejoice in a milestone of doctrinal development.

      The Army's main warfighting manual -- FM 100-5 -- will soon 
offer an updated picture of today's Army doctrine.
      Commenting recently on the scope and impact of the revised 
manual, Army Vice Chief of Staff Gen. Dennis J. Reimer said the manual 
"really will not be a revolutionary change for the Army. We think the 
basic doctrine that we executed in Operation Desert Storm is fairly 
sound.
      "Where you'll see some change, however, is a reflection more on 
multiple threats, on a power-projection Army, and the ability to 
deploy," Reimer said. "We need to be more deployable -- which means we 
need to be smaller; we need to be less heavy.
      "There may be a little more emphasis on deep attack; but, 
overall, I think this [revised FM 100-5] is an evolutionary change for 
the Army that basically reflects changes in the world we live in."
      Of the initial-draft revision now in the hands of key reviewers, 
TRADOC commander Gen. Frederick M. Franks said, "We consulted as much 
of the Army as we could in this revision. The other services 
participated as well." Franks' Training and Doctrine Command has 
overall responsibility for developing and updating Army doctrine. The 
manual's final version is scheduled to be published next spring.
      Today's doctrine -- the way soldiers and units seek to fulfill 
their mission -- stresses the Army's role as a team player in joint-
service operations.
      Besides the scope of joint operations, the manual deals with 
"operations other than war." Franks cited such examples as 
counternarcotics operations in Central and South America, as well as 
humanitarian operations like Operation Provide Comfort in eastern 
Turkey.
     (Note: For further study of the new FM 100-5, see Lt. Col. 
Michael R. Rampy's article "FM 100-5, Operations: A Paradigm for 
Adaptation" in the U.S. Army Aviation Digest for July-August 1992. 
Changes to training and doctrine are also the main topics of "Today's 
Challenge, Tomorrow's Army II: Maintaining the Edge," published by 
Army public affairs and scheduled for Army-wide distribution in 
December.)


Retired Gen. Van Fleet dies at 100

      WASHINGTON (ARNEWS) -- Retired Gen. James A. Van Fleet, a 
distinguished combat commander in World War I, World War II and the 
Korean War, died Sept. 23. He was 100 years old.
      Van Fleet was born March 19, 1892, in Coyetsville, N.J. He 
earned his commission from West Point in June 1915, and retired in 
March 1953.
      After retiring from the Army, Van Fleet remained active in 
military, government and business affairs. He was chosen to work on 
special projects for Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy, served on many 
corporate boards, and received many honors from patriotic and veterans 
organizations. Van Fleet was an honorary citizen of Greece and Korea, 
as well as New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles.
      Van Fleet's military awards include three Distinguished Service 
Crosses, three Silver Stars, three Purple Hearts, four Distinguished 
Service Medals, two Air Medals, two Legions of Merit, three Bronze 
Stars and the Combat Infantryman's Badge.
      He was also decorated by Greece, Korea, Iran, Ethiopia, 
Thailand, the Philippines, the Republic of China, England, France, 
Belgium, the Netherlands and Colombia.


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