KAGNEWSTATION, ASMARA, ERITREA, ETHIOPIA...The medical group from Kagnew Station, each of whom volunteered to assist the victims of a major disaster in Hoedieda, Yemen, is on the spot both phyusically and figuratively. Living and working under primitive and heart-breaking conditions, the group has accepted the monumental task of treating and innoculating up to 10,000 victims.

Travellers from the stricken area report that each member of the group is red-eyed from lack of sleep and over-work, hands are blistered from constant exposure to vaccines and almost around the clock administering of injections. Yet each is cheerfully and selflessly determined to do all within the ability of human endurance to aid fellow humans in their time of distress.

Major Burt, Captain anderson, SFC Robert B. Long, S/Sgt George Luttkus, S/Sgt Allen Heiman and Sp5 William Larrimer are eating and sleeping, when time permits, under harsh, uncomfortable conditions in quarters with inadequate to non-existent facilities which we take for granted. Their food consists of whatever local fare is available. Dousing of bodies with DDT is the order of the day. They don't min, for they know that lives are being saved through their efforts and sacrifice.

We hope that the task now being performed in Yemen will soon be completed, and the members of the team will return to their families and the relative comforts of Kagnew Station.

In the meantime, their families can well be proud of their unselfish devition to duty, as all of us can.

We are indeed fortunate to have such persons as members of the United States Army at Kagnew Station.