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Second Lieutenant Timothy M. Biddle of Sperryville, is participating in Exercise Big Lift, the joint Department of Defense demonstration of U.S, capability for rapid, massive reinforcement of NATO forces. Lieutenant Biddle, an Air force navigator, is assigned to the Military Air Transport Service which is using 355 aircrews, necessary support personnel and more than 200 transport aircraft for Big Lift the largest transoceanic airlift in history. Air Force, Army and Navy units are operating jointly in the exercise. More than 15,000 2nd Armored Division'troops were deployed to West Germany in a 72-hour period for NATO maneuvers. Combat air and ground forces, including a Composite Air Strike Force of 116 Tactical Air Command aircraft, are being provided as elements of the U.S.Strike Command. The lieutenant, who received a B.A. degree from Georgetown University, is the son of Colonel and Mrs. Maurice F. Biddle of Rt. 1, Sperryville. His wife, Florence, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William J. Hickey of 9702 Hillridge Drive, Kensington,
Fort Stewart, Ga. — Army Specialist Six Earl W. Burke, son of Mrs. Mary E. Burke, Washington, Va., participated in Exercise SKY SOLDIER I, a 23-day 11th Air Assault Division maneuver, which ended Oct. 15. The men of the 11th Division deployed by helicopter at the request of the government of “Stewartland,” a hypothetical republic established for the exercise and located near Fort Stewart, Ga., to assist the country in repelling aggressors from “Georg an a,’ another hypothetical country. The exercise was designed
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