Path: bloom-picayune.mit.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!americast.com!americast.com!americast-post Newsgroups: americast.twt.news From: americast-post@AmeriCast.Com Organization: American Cybercasting Approved: americast-post@AmeriCast.com Subject: Army medics off to Croatia Date: Sat, 7 Nov 92 19:23:58 EST Message-ID: \SE A;WORLD \SS (WS) \HD Army medics off to Croatia \BY ASSOCIATED PRESS \DT WIESBADEN, Germany WIESBADEN, Germany (AP) - A U.S. Army mobile hospital was loaded up yesterday for a train trip to Croatia, and 330 American soldiers prepared to join U.N. peacekeeping forces in war-torn former Yugoslavia. The 212th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital will provide medical care for U.N. peacekeepers who are maintaining a truce that ended six months of ethnic fighting after Croatia's secession last year. The Americans will not serve in neighboring Bosnia-Herzegovina, which has been wracked by an ethnic war since it quit the Yugoslav federation earlier this year. The mobile hospital's medical equipment and supplies were loaded onto train cars at Wiesbaden Air Base, 25 miles west of Frankfurt. Two trainloads of equipment had departed by yesterday and a third was to leave for Zagreb, Croatia's capital, over the weekend, said Connie Sommer, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Army's V Corps. The unit's 300 personnel are to begin flying to Zagreb on Tuesday. It is the first Army unit to join the U.N. peacekeeping operation, which has about 15,000 soldiers in former Yugoslav republics. The troops are expected to remain in Croatia about six months. This article is copyright 1992 The Washington Times. Redistribution to other sites is not permitted except by arrangement with American Cybercasting Corporation. For more information, send-email to usa@AmeriCast.COM