European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 30, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday january -30, 1991 the stars and stripes Page 7 War Graffiti brings needed comic to of ground Crews Central saudi Arabia up a a caution i Brake for scuds. A a they re much easier to drop than they Are to  a to Saddam this is your brain on drugs with a picture of eggs in a frying pan this is 1,000 pounds on your  they re the Graffiti of War. For air Force ground Crews such As those with the 4th tac fighter Wing provision Al stationed in Central saudi Arabia the Graffiti written with White Chalk on the sides of bombs fill various needs from creative output to directing anger a every time i put my air plane in the air that a my message to the Crew. The writing on the bomb is my message to the enemy a said tech. Sgt. Gerard reister 33, of Roseville mich., Crew chief for an f-15e fighter bomber. / Reist cry a plane designed specifically for bombing at night arid in bad weather carries a bomb inscribed a we Rule the night every  ground Crews compete to come up with the wittiest Graffiti. The Best Are like japanese Haiku Short simple and per haps profound a if the right path is chosen there will be peace a one says. A a you be got to be insane to enjoy this. Its not human to enjoy getting it to the target and getting out said capt. Rick Henson 31, of Forest City Ark an f-15e crewman. A when you come off target and see the bombs hit you know there a a human life associated with that but its a very detached feeling because you done to see peo pie a he said. A a a a a a a a. A a Down on the ground their suppliers move deftly through a Field of bombs stored by Type in 20-foot-High stacks that l Dot the desert about a half mile Between stacks. The Field of bombs extends As far As the Eye can see. A we know what a happening in the War by what kind of bombs they want a said the Man in charge of bomb Assembly master sgt. Larry Smith who gives a pseudonym to protect his family Back Home. Smith and his co workers fill orders specifying the kinds of fuses to insert and the types of fins to be installed on the Tail. High drag fins for example pop out like an umbrella after the bomb is released. It works like a Parachute allowing a Low flying plane to get away before the explosion. A everybody wants what we be got so we Call ourselves the Candy Man a said Smith.  a _ but such a name does not hide the grisly truth of their jobs. A look at this one Here a Smith said pointing out a rather Ordinary Olive Green variety. A this is a Nasty bomb. V a this one has a 2�?Ta-Inch-thick Metal Case. Its 2,000 pounds of net explosive weight a he said. A up Here on the nose is a proximity fuse that makes it explode about 15 feet above the ground. A when it explodes Alt that shrapnel just cuts Loose and cuts through bodies. A this is an inhuman bomb. Birr or a he said. A 1 Vyone particularly effective Model is the Cluster bomb. They Are canisters that split open after they Are released spewing 208 Bombl cts Over a football Field size area. A single f-15e fighter bomber can carry up to a dozen. A better on him than on us a Smith said. A we done to see ourselves As killers. This is an All Volunteer Force arid the moral Issue is out of it. We see ourselves As professionals.�?�. A a others such As sgt. Robert Powell 27, of Pink Hill n.c., an assembler Are less. Detached a you wonder about the damage that a going on up North a he said. A i think about the casualties the bombs Are causing. A a in a just glad in a riot in the iraqis position a he said. A i  want to be on the receiving end but maybe the bombing will make them think about their  Supply and demand an american Soldier spends some time monday bargaining with a shopkeeper Oyer the Price of a Camp stove at a Roadside store in Eastern saudi Arabia. The printing on the packing foxes says the kerosene cooking stoves were made in Shanghai China. Unique by John Balzar the los Angeles times Dhahran saudi Arabia a Colin Nickerson of the Boston Globe is travelling Light writing his frontline dispatches by hand on a Legal pad. At the Bottom of one he scrawls a postscript to a colleague Here in  Robby if you can find time Between a scud attacks urgently need typewriter writing pads this size and an extra Large sweat Shire it is bitter cold on these desert Sands and i have no change of clothes except socks. Sleeping on the Sand near foxhole. Lots of booms and fighter activity up Here and we go closer soon. Be Safe. Best regards.�?�. Exhilarating yes. And full of surprises and doubts. Reporters worry about being parroted in their sleep by iraqi commandos. They watch and wince As missiles fall Over their positions. They have nightmares that the stories they struggle to write will be lost by the couriers carrying them to Headquarters areas for relay Home. They worry whether editors will appreciate their struggles. And perhaps most of All they wonder if their tiny peepholes on the action Are blinding them to bigger stories that need telling. Its confining work too with military Public relations specialists looking Over their shoulders to enforce controls on the flow of information  after the file was. Censored Here it was held up further by the Pentagon i and never reached Dhahran 1quot a Quot a a Malcolm w. Brown of the new York time on trying to / j. Report on stealth action uncomfortably at Odds with the american concept of a free press. A reporter writes that pilots Are a a Giddy upon returning from an f-117 stealth fighter Mission. The military changes the dispatch to say that the pilots returned  a another correspondent reports marines were a a ordered to add More sandbags to their bunkers. His military escort suggests that a a asks might be a better word. Malcolm w. Browne of the new York times files a dispatch with a note explaining a vain Effort to get an earlier report of stealth fighter action Back to press Headquarters. A even after the file was censored Here a he wrote to his colleagues a it was held up funner by the Pentagon and never reached  a wars kill some soldiers and make heroes of others and sometimes the difference is ones concentration on the larger task. Its a Little of the same for combat journalists. The 710 journalists in saudi Arabia cannot escape the knowledge that the correspondents who emerged As heroes of the Vietnam War were those who peeled Back layers of misinformation to report the failures of . Efforts. Few if any reporters in saudi Arabia think they will have More than weeks or a few months to Tell the Story of the persian Gulf War. If it lasts longer the failure will be self evident. The journalism heroes of other wars also ghost through Dhahran. A my editor told me to write like this a said a Young woman who flew the 20 hours from the United states to the Battle zone with the last flight into Dhahran. She held a copy of a Book by Ernie Pyle the legendary world War h correspondent who glamorized the Drudgery and bravery of the Ordinary lighting Man