The Fort Hood Sentinel (Temple, Tex.), Vol. 51, No. 31, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 12, 1992 Page: 9 of 40
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Thursday March 12 1992
By Craig Williams
Air Force Liaison Officer
Air Force fighter jet aircraft
flew in to Fort Hood recently.
THE THREE F-16s from
Luke Air Force Base in A ri-
zona flew in to Robert Gray
Army Airfield March 4 to prac-
tice close air support.
The F-16s led by Air Force
pilot Capt. Dave W ilm ot
worked with 1st Cavalry Divi-
sion’s ground forward air con-
trollers (Air Force liaison) to
fly a close air support mission
against enemy targets on the
Fort Hood range complex. The
F-16s took off at 10:15 a.m.
and flew to an Air Force tacti-
cal operating area at Laughlin
Air Force Base near Del Rio
Texas
Lt. Gen. H. G. Taylor III
Corps and Fort Hood com-
mander and Brig: Gen. W alt
ather Jr. 1st Cavalry Divi-
sion assistant commander flew
in the F-16s with the close air
support team to get a first-
hand look at a close air sup-
port mission from the Air
Force perspective.
On the way to the target
area the F-16s practiced close
formation flying. At the target
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The F-16 formation then level flight toward the Fort knots (about 545 miles per
Maintenance unit returns to challenging duty
By Doraine McNutt
13th COSCOM ublic A ffairs
After defeating many dif-
ficulties one of the last Fort
Hood battalions to return from
the powdery sands of the Mid-
dle East recently re-opened
their doors for direct and gen-
eral support maintenance.
THE 647TH and 190th
maintenance Company’s 544th
maintenance Battalion 13th
Corps Support Command rede-
ployed in October after spend-
ing almost a year in the desert.
These two companies and
the new addition to the 544th
aint Bn from Germany the
263rd aint Co faced many
difficulties before opening their
doors for business March 2.
The 263rd aint Co which
holds supply activity for the
battalion and any other
units ordered repair parts to
supply its customers. Accord-
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pany commander this was the
most difficult task for them.
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“The parts are coming in
now and things are getting
better. But it takes tim e”
Slack said.
While the 263rd was order-
ing parts and getting ready for
their new assignment the first
mission for the other two re-
turn in companies was to
grant the soldiers 30 days
block leave if they chose to
take it. Since then the bat-
talion has made many prepara-
tions.
This preparation has taken a
lot of tim and effort from each
soldier. According to 1st Lt.
Kim Goffar shop officer 190th
aint Co many soldiers who
had been in the unit during
O eratio esert Shield/
Storm were separating from
the service.
“We were losing a lot of our
more experienced soldiers” Go-
ffar said. So the unit trained
new soldiers.
Spc. Mike Winchell anew
soldier to the unit was busy
repairing an M1A1 Abrams
tank transmission. He said
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hour) the low level mission
finished with an attack on
Shoal Creek one of Fort
Hood’s northern target areas.
During the attack the F-16s
were given final target clear-
ance and direction by the Air
Force ground FAC who was in
position about a kilom meter
from the target.
AS IN all close air support
missions Air Force pilots talk
to a ground FAC who is a fully
qualified A ir Force fighter
pilot temporarily assigned to
an Army unit.
The Air Force and. .Army at
Fort Hood have recently been
working even more closely
with the development of joint
air attack tactics or JAAT.
During JAAT Air Force fight-
ers and Army helicopters and
artillery all work closely to-
gether to put ordnance on an
enemy target.
The most recent exercise
Operation Pegasus Punch was
in January. For that exercise
five A-lOs from England Air
Force Base La. flew to Robert
Gray Army Air Field for an
entire week of JAAT missions.
Army Maj. Dick Graham S-3
for the Iron Horse Brigade
“Now I’m finding out there’s a
lot more to being a 63W (light
wheeled vehicle repair special-
ist) that they didn’t teach us
in school.”
“The level of general support
we do the soldiers don’t Jearn.-
in school. They .m ust have
hands oh training” said Capt.
Eric Johnson 190th aint Co
commander.
THE COMPANIES have
had many similar difficulties
as other units after returning.
“A lot of the equipment was
damaged in transit and a
small amount of it is still out”
Johnson said. »*» r.
The Directorate of Logistics
has helped the 190th with
some of the equipment they
needed to begin operations
and th units have spent
countless hours training the
soldiers.
Despite problems these com-
bined units have overcome
they’re now doing business as
usual. According to Goffar
there was a backlog of equip-
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took the lead in running the
operation.
DURING EACH JAAT mis-
sion 1st Cavalry Division’s
Aviation Brigade and 82nd
Field A rtillery fired live am
munition against a special ta r-
get array to the west of Jack
Mountain.
The artillery started by fir-
ing suppression of enemy air
defense or SEAD to protect the
helicopters as they moved for-
ward into firing position. Then
when the artillery ceased fire
the Apaches started firing on
the targets while the A-lOs
made their approach.
As the A-10s started their
attack the Apaches dropped
down below tree-top level and
the A-10s strafed and bombed
the enemy positions. As the A-
10s left the target area the
Apaches fired on the targets
and as the Apaches left the
artillery fired SEAD missions.
THE RESULT of a JAAT
mission is usually an uninter-
rupted period of from 7 to 12
minutes of deadly fire pouring
onto the enemy. One JAAT
mission can easily wipe out an
entire battalion.
Doraine McNutt/13th COSCOM
Spc. Victor Baker repairs
an M1A1 tank transmis-
sion at the 190th Maint
motor pool.
ment to be repaired.
Sgt. Charles Jones. 190th
aint Co said the morale in
the unit is very high now be-
cause the soldiers are finally
able to do their jobs. But “Any
job they give us right now
would be a motivator because
we are back in the states doing
it!” Jones stated.
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Phipps, Marilyn. The Fort Hood Sentinel (Temple, Tex.), Vol. 51, No. 31, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 12, 1992, newspaper, March 12, 1992; Temple, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth309928/m1/9/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Casey Memorial Library.