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Show DAILY HERALD Sunday, September 7, 2003 AAS Irainin g prepares troops for desert rescues 4 Sandra Chereb communication among the different branches, said Lt.CoL Boyd Collins, public affairs officer for the Army Reserve Command at Fort McPherson, Ga. The problem in the past," Collins said, "is that the Navy uses different language than say the Army or the Air Force. These exercises are designed to bring everyone together." Recognizing that specialized training is needed for search and rescue efforts, the military also is forming designated teams for such missions, Collins said Organized by the Naval Strike and Air Warfare Center home to the "Top Gun aviator school at the Fallon base the goal of the Desert Rescue exercise is to train teams to recover air crews shot down in hostile territory. "It's the first time the Army's been involved," said Staff Sgt. Raymond Toper, an active Army reservist from Gearwa- - ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER A cloud of FALLON, Nev. dust engulfed the Army Reserve Black Hawk helicopters as members of a special operations team leaped out and quickly surveyed the punishing landscape. Nearby one Navy pilot lay tied in the tangled wreckage of a downed aircraft. Another pilot was missing. A ragtag group of hostile rebels, some armed with 50mm guns atop Humvees, patrolled the perimeter of the abandoned embassy in the desert compound, firing sporadically as the rescue mission unfolded under a blistering1. sun. Tt i nuugn me comnai scenario played out in the Nevada desert 7,300 miles from the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, its roots were seeded in the shifting sands of the Middle East during Desert Storm, the first Gulf War 12 years ago. The realities that US. fighting forces confronted there have led officials to stage the military's largest desert rescue exercise each year at Naval Air Station Fallon, 60 miles' east of Reno. . One thing the military has learned is the need for better 1 ter.Fla. "We've got a lot of catching up to do," he said. Toper's unit, C Company of the 1st Battalion, 159th Aviation nicknamed the Regiment is the Army's Ghostriders first designated search and rescue outfit. kded him onto a waiting helicopter. memAs ground troops bers of the 3rd Special Forces Unit from Fort Bragg, N.C made their way toward the embassy in search of the other pilot, the Black Hawks took off to provide combat cover from the air. Flying fast and low above the compound, the choppers banked steeply in a tight dog- bone pattern, dodging artillery from the rebels in this case, members of the Nevada Army National Guard's 221st Calvary In alL about 800 personnel from 15 active and reserve units participated in Desert Rescue, corning from as far away as the East Coast, said Lt Derrick Han-dlewarfare center spokesman. The training course included classroom instruction and up to six field exercises a day involving various scenarios. The missions were observed by instructors at the warfare center and some were monitored through tracking devices to be recreated afterward. After each mission, the crews were scrutinized on what went wrong, what they did right, and what could have been done differently, Handley said. cial Forces team The practice mission took on heightened intensity. Two Navy pilots were shot down near a desert outpost dubbed "Jedi," according to the training scenario. The town's embassy had been abandoned and hostile rebels were in control. The task was to locate the pilots and get them out. After finding the injured pilot tied to the wreckage, the Spe missing pilot. Using Uve bullets, y, y . m iY. CATHLEEN . l..it I.. I fc Mii 'la'iiii Tirjnii .rii AUISONTha Associated Press Members of the 3rd Special Forces Unit pom Fort Bragg,N.C, participate in a mock rescue during a Desert Rescue training exercise near Fallon, Nev. "Combat search and rescue is very new to the Army ," said Capt. James Fitzgerald III, the Ghostriders' commander. Eleven members of the unit flew to the desert Naval base with three new Black Hawk helicopters for the August exercises. "Operating in the sand and the dust ... having joint training is excellent," said Chief Warrant Officer Seth Johansen, who flew reconnaissance planes and spent eight months in Saudi Arabia during the first Gulf War. Johansen and Fitzgerald are e reamong the unit's servists. Others, such as Sgt. 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