European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 11, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Tuesday september 11, 1990 the stars and Stripe crisis in the Gulf troops spend desert pay in their dreams by Ron Jensen Gaff of Impf in saudi Arabia a every Day that airman Craig Dillen sits Here in the desert his Bank account Back Home grows fatter. There is Little or nothing to buy Here and the heat and the Sand Are free. A after taxes and everything. In a saving right at $400 a month a said Dillen a Driver with the 1st trans so of the 1st tac fighter Wing from Langley fab a. That a after he pays a $200 car payment with his $811 monthly pay. When Dillen is not driving he a multiplying $400 by the number of months he May be kept Here by operation desert shield. Then Dillen subtracts what he May have his father spend to keep him supplied. A i wrote him and told him to Send me a Walkman and some tapes a Dillen said. After that he thinks about what he a going to do with the remainder when he gets Home. A a in be got a brother in the Navy in Hawaii that i Haven to seen in almost a year a the Lashmeet w.va., native said. A a it a been five months since i talked to him. I told my dad i was going to take me and him and one of my cousins to Hawaii no matter what the Cost. In be Only got one brother. Got to treat him a lot of the service members deployed to the desert Are calculating How much Money they Are not spending. And making plans for it when they return. A i just bought a House this past weekend a said airman 1st class a Feal Eskridge of the 232nd support services group from Luke fab Ariz. A a in la fix it senior airman William Crews of the 438th area port so at Mcguire fab n.j., said his unspent pay will go to Bills. And then a red lobster a he said. After that hell buy Winter clothes. A a it la be Winter when we get Home a he said. Senior airman Rodney Biggs of the 3415th Security police so at Lowry fab colo., said a live got orders to go to Turkey in March. Before i go in a going to Florida and Biggs buddy airman 1st class Dave Berg has less exotic plans for his savings. A my wife a going to College so it will probably go to College Bills a he said. Staff sgt. Chuck Greenleaf of the 436th avionics Maint so also has simple plans a Case of Beer and two half Gallons of butter Almond and praline crunch ice Cream. Hell also save some for his upcoming wedding. Unfortunately Greenleaf said his expectations done to include a new har Ley Davidson motorcycle. A a that a my pipe dream a he trying to eke out bit of Comfort in dirt by Ron Jensen and Vince Crawley staff writers an air base in saudi Arabia a Marine staff sgt. David Gehrlein apologized to his unexpected guests. A we were hoping to have the Barbecue up already a he says. If it were he could serve his visitors on the picnic tables out Back by the clothesline. Twenty seven Days ago the marines 1st Field service support group from Camp Pendleton calif., was Given a Dusty Patch of dirt alongside a runway to set up housekeeping. When the men Haven to been unloading cargo or Manning patrols they have been pulling As much Comfort As possible from the dust. Their Canvas tent now has a wooden floor and pallets form a sidewalk that keeps feet out of the dirt. There is a signpost outside the Entrance that Points the Way to Iraq and Kuwait Camp Pendleton Valencia ga., and Cincinnati Gehrlein a Home. Atop the Post is a hand lettered sign a we came 10,000 Miles to smoke a a i do this everywhere i go a says Gehrlein. A we beg for nails and beg for the floor came from ships where the pallets were used to Shore up army cargo. The two picnic tables Are fashioned from Wood found lying around this Busy base. Gehrlein has built similar quarters in South Korea and the Philippines each time for the purpose of building morale in an unfriendly environment. A it gives them a program a he says. A instead of living like a pig you live As comfortably As you one of the things they can to do anything about is the nearby runway from which jets arrive and depart throughout the Day and night. Their Roar brings any conversation to an end and roasts sleeping marines. A a that a our Early warning system a says Gehrlein 28. A when they All take off Well know something a usually the jets leave one or two at a time. However Gehrlein recently awoke to hear several take off one after another. He started counting. Lance Cpl. Ricardo Diazs amps Vince Crawley a six. Seven. Eight a he says. A that was All. I knew it was Only a Drill. I went Back to sleep Here is a Premium. The 19 enlisted men and one officer work in two Crews each going for 12 hours at a time. When they first arrived the amount of equipment coming into the country kept them All working almost around the clock. Lance Cpl. Ricardo Diaz of the Bronx n.y., says that when he joined the marines he wanted to he an infantryman. A i spoke to my Recruiter and told him 1 wanted to be a Grunt because grunts Are the Backbone of the military a he says. A they learn All that aggression. 1 want to be a police officer in new York City or new Jersey. So i figured id join the marines get All that aggression stuff and be Able to go Back and be a police officer. A my Recruiter told me that people who join on an open contract nine in 10 times be a Grunt. A obviously in a the 10th one. In a not a Grunt. Which is Good because in a not up he throws his gaze out in the direction of the desert and adds a a in a Back Here. They re up on the front line and in a Back Here in the Diaz May be More comfortable than the grunts up North. And this place is better than it was when he and his companions arrived. But this is still far from the High rent District around Here namely the tent City housing air Force personnel. A i went up to that tent City a Diaz says. A they got a tent there. Inside of it i saw a Bunch of chairs lined up. And at one end there was a Var set up. And people were sitting in chairs wearing civilian clothes. A it was air conditioned. And the movie they were watching was a teen Wolf everybody was sitting Back and looking through magazines and Diaz says he was told to deploy to a War zone. No civvies. He say what Mission took him to that fabulous air Force tent. A if i Tell you i got to kill you a he says. Does that mean there Are women in the air Force tent Diaz does not say Abbas says head Welcome Gulf War new York apr palestinian terrorist Leader Abul Abbas said he would Welcome a persian Gulf War and hinted that he might undertake terrorist strikes on iraqis behalf. In a rare interview from his Baghdad Iraq hideout Abbas told the Wall Street journal that he lives Only for his dream of a palestinian Homeland and that the persian Gulf conflict is vital to the Progress of his Mission. A we see this As a Battle for Palestine a he said in the interview published monday. A winning it will get us closer to Home. Losing it will put us farther Abbas the Leader of the Palestine liberation front did not explicitly threaten terrorist strikes. But when asked if terrorism was a necessary part of iraqi president Saddam Hussein a struggle he responded a we use Many ways to reach our he also quoted an arabic saying that revenge takes 40 years. A if not my son then the son of my son will kill you a he said. A someday we will have missiles that can reach new the 41-year-old Abbas was unapologetic about his past which includes leadership of the 1985 Achille Lauro cruise ship hijacking and this years attack on a Tel Aviv Israel Beach. As he has before he shrugged off the deaths of innocent victims. A accidents happen a he said. He bristled at the name of Leon Kling Hoffer the american hostage in a wheelchair who was shot in the head and pushed off the Achille Lauro. A Klinghoffer always i hear about this Klinghoffer a Abbas said. A nobody knows All the people who die in Palestine. But this Klinghoffer is like Jesus the journal interview was conducted at a heavily guarded Villa in what was described As a an Anonymous neighbourhood a in Baghdad where Abbas has lived for several years. A this is my life a he said at one Point. A i live Only for my Abbas said he still would Welcome a settlement to the Arab israeli conflict. But when asked if he is ready to recognize Israel As Palestine liberation organization Leader Yasser Arafat has done Abbas said a for me for our organization we will not. We want our land now and to build our state. After that we will As for the standoff Over iraqis takeover of Kuwait he said a i think Saddam will win and we will win As arabs. When we support Iraq we support our Case As
