European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 14, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday August 14, 1990tuesaay, august1990 the stars and stripes Page 9 Gulf Force May Cost . Billions Washington a _ sending . Military orces to saudi Arabia will Cost an estimated $300 million to $440 million a month defense analysts say and like everybody else the Pentagon will feel the bite of fuel Bills driven up by the crisis in the Middle East. Higher Oil Bills could add billions of dollars to Pentagon spending other analysts say affecting not Only troops deployed in the persian Gulf but . Mili tary operations everywhere. Figuring the Cost of deploying troops to saudi Ara Bia has been a Slippery exercise for analysts inside and outside the government. Many were reluctant to give even a Ballpark figure because there Are so Many unknown factors. For one the number of troops being sent is still Uncertain 50,000 or 250,000. And no one knows now Long they will stay. Besides some costs already Are being paid salaries food supplies fuel and maintenance and any increases caused by the deployment Are difficult to measure in Advance. Pentagon spokesman Pete Williams said simply have no idea How much it s costing a  president Bush sidestepped the Issue after announcing he had sent americans into the persian Gulf to help defend saudi Arabia whatever it is we re going to have to pay it he said. _ Lawrence Korb a former assistant Secretary of de sense who is now a defense analyst with the Brookings Institute estimated the Cost at $10 million a Day or$300 million a month. His estimate is based on the deployment of 50,000people and three Carrier task forces. It gives the costs above what the Pentagon would spend anyway in Sala Ries and other expenses for peacetime operations. The Center for defense information a group of retired military officials that often has criticized . Military spending As excessive estimated that deploy ing 50,000 troops would Cost about $440 million a month above Normal military expenses. And if the United states sends As Many As 250,000troops, the additional monthly Cost could rocket to $ 1.69 billion according to the Center s study. Another analyst a House staffer who works on de sense issues also estimated the Cost in the hundreds of  that s just to maintain defensive positions. If shoot ing starts costs will spiral. Ammunition is expensive and damage to ships planes tanks and other equip ment not to mention people is incalculable. Maintenance costs Are Likely to skyrocket too. Thesauri desert Sands present hideous conditions for equipment said a Senate budget analyst who spoke on condition of anonymity. But perhaps the biggest potential Cost is fuel. Con Sumers already arc paying More at the Gas pump. For the Pentagon every Penny per gallon increase adds $100 million in defense spending Korb said. Airborne troops worried that iraqi forces May use chemical arms Pilot says prayer time pfc. Robert Hereford of Cocoa fla., Hereford a member of the 101st air holds a Bible As he attends a sunday borne div air assault stationed at morning service at first Assembly of fort Campbell ky., is waiting to begot Church in Clarksville Tenn. Deployed to saudi Arabia. Washington up members of the 82nd airborne div who flew to saudi Arabia s vast desert last week wer somber and professional but worried their Gas masks would be useless against iraqi chemical weapons a Pilot said Sun Day. Chris Taylor was flight Engineer on Adc-10 world airways Jet that trans ported 246 elite soldiers on aug. 9 to Dhahran a saudi City sandwiched be tween the Waters of the persian Gulf an the Sands of the desert about 200 Miles from the kuwaiti Border. Taylor said he watched As the exhausted troops piled onto trucks at the Airport and were driven off into the wast Eland where he was told they would be housed in bunkers built underground to shelter them from the scaring Sun. They loaded onto trucks and the just disappeared in the horizon Taylor said. They were stressing they were afraid of the chemicals Taylor said of the sol Diers. They All had Gas masks but there was a knowledge a fear that that was not going to be  Iraq is believed to have a considerable Arsenal of internationally outlawed chemical weapons that president sad dam Hussein used against civilian populations during the eight year Iran Ira War. Back in the air Taylor said he scanned the saudi Frontier and across to what he believed to be Kuwait but saw no Evi Dence of the iraqi military buildup on the Border that has left the world preparing for War. It was just desolate. Sand looks like Sand he said. But this was Early in the operation. The airspace Between Spain and Brussels Belgium was just full of Mili tary aircraft though he said. It was just an unbelievable amount of  the military. Airlift come ordered to Send american troops into saudi Ara Bra in Case iraqi troops massing in occupied Kuwait invade the Oil Rich kingdom chartered two world airways dc-1osto transport members of the 82nd air borne from Pope fab in North car Linato Dhahran. Taylor a sort of hired gun in the world of transport had been flying malaysian moslem to Mecca in saudi Arabia forthe Hajj the venerated trip to the holy City of islam that All moslem Hope tomake at least once in their lifetimes. Taylor who joined the plane in Bel Gium said . Troops were in full com Bat gear and spent much of the flight being briefed with maps and charts projected on the plane s movie screen. The mood was very professional a dwell organized he said. There did t seem to be  of younger Guys. The were the  Taylor said one of the commanders came into the cockpit during the flight and used the radio to order More mines and extra trucks to be sent to Dhahran. There were few saudis at. The Dhahran Airport which serves both military and commercial planes Taylor said. Ameri can officers Dir a cd the operation from an air conditioned Headquarters building that had advanced communications equipment and soda machines. It was a Well oiled operation very Well thought out very professional Taylor said. No one was ready to Light he Saidof the troops tired alter their Long flight they basically looked  1 St Gulf casualty the air Force was his life by the los Angeles times the air Force since h in. Is isl is flu. I   ,. ,.� a ii Ivy  lev wtl3 air Force staff sgt. John Campisi of Covina. Calif., l8 Campisi had been As .1 i 1 11 t of ,4,"v/ ii. A of f s who was hit by a truck and killed sunday on a dark ened aircraft runway in saudi Arabia to become the first american casualty since president hush ordered troops to the desert Sheik Dom was married and a father of four two girls and two boys his grief stricken father Salvatore Campisi said sunday evening. It will be very hard on those  the elder Campisi said. The main thine is that he was a wonderful father said Campisi s Mother. Margaret Campisi her voice choked with emotion. He was involved in everything with those kids scout Leader religious classes. He always made Tim for his  an aircraft maintenance technician who had been in signed to Offutt fab i Nebraska. The air Force was his life Campisi s father said. He was in electronics but we never Dis cussed what he  John Campisi grew up in West Covina located 15 Miles East of los an Geles and attended  a a roman Catholic elementary school. He graduated Campisi from Edgewood High a Public school where his favor Ite sports were baseball and wrestling his father said. He was killed three weeks before ins 32nd birthday his father said. Campisi is also survived by a sister and three Brothers. One of the Brothers is a naval chief Petty officer and another recently enlisted in the Navy. Campisi s Mother said. One of them just got Back last week or he would have gone too she said. Pentagon sources said that Campisi May have been wearing protective ear Wear impeding his ability to hear the oncoming vehicle. He left last wednesday his father said told ins wife he was going on temporary duty was the last anyone heard from  Campisi said his son had planned to years in the service and then Rene he hat spend