European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 21, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and Stripe thursday february 21, 1991war in the Gulf unit sending message to Saddam it builds the bombs dropped on the enemy a by Robert v. Pease special to the stars and stripes \ saudi Arabia bomb builders Are working around the clock to Supply a munitions that air Force pilots need to continue their unrelenting assault on iraqi positions. A without ammo the air Force would be just one unscheduled airline a said tech. Sgt. Oscar Mabry of the 69th combat munitions unit at Moody fab a. A we Are it whenever War starts. Without us the War Birds can to serve their  sgt. David Sellers another member of the bomb Force assembled from several units said there is instant feedback on whether the Mission of the munitions folks is being fulfilled. A when you hear some of the pilots talking about hitting their targets then you know immediately the stuff you re building is working. The bombs Are going Olf when they re supposed to go off and the 30mm rounds arc firing when they re supposed to fire a said Sellers deployed trom the 23rd equipment Maint so at England fab la. Because of the units makeup members of the ammo Section needed to get acquainted. A at first it was a Little rough a said sgt. John Mitchell of the 926th tac fighter group naval air station new Orleans. A different people had worked on different munitions and we All had our own Way of doing things. After we got to know each other it became easier. After All  ammo troops and we All know the  however Mitchell and his fellow a a cajuns Point out that none of the others spells a a ammo correctly. They insist the proper spelling is a am Meaux and proudly display it that Way on the Windshield of their Van. The munitions specialists have set up Assembly lines to put together their 500 Back Homes amps Ken Clauson airman 1st class Shaun  the 36th equipment Maint so based at Pitburg a Germany tightens an arming component on a 1,000-Pound bomb at a 4th tac fighter Wing provisional base in Central saudi Arabia. Pound bombs and can Crank out 120 to 140 bombs an hour said conventional munitions supervisor master sgt. Marcus a Holland of the 926th tac fighter group. A it works like any other Assembly line a Holland said a we upload them on one end Lay them on the table assemble the tins and fuses inspect each one offload them onto pallets and Send them on their merry Way. / other pads Are set up for assembling different munitions such As Cluster bomb units and missiles. A a we be sent Saddam Hussein a few messages in the last few Days a Holland said. A if he gets close enough to read them hell have a real big problem. America is going to prove to him that we will prevail and he will leave Kuwait one Way or the  Pease it a staff sergeant with the 23rd tac fighter Wing Public affaire office storm gis enjoyed pizza even without Pepperoni Mauston wis a National guard troops deployed in saudi Arabia enjoyed a taste of Home a minus the Pepper on. Stella Lysell got a Call last week at Kozy s pizza from Jan Mullenberg whose son Randy is with the 107th Maint co of the National guard. Mullenberg ordered 150 pizzas for his unit. Col. Jim Scales at fort Mccoy a said there was a troop transport leaving Friday morning Between 12 30 and i ., and if we could get the pizzas there they d Load them on the transport a l Lysell said. \ 1 Between making pizzas for other orders wednesday night Hysell her son Robert daughter Cindy and others who work at the restaurant baked the extra pizzas then froze and wrapped them. . Peace activists stage sit in at lawmaker s office los Angeles a in radio personality Casey a  and a dozen peace activists invaded the los Angeles offices of rep. Mel Levine for what promised to be along sit in. Carrying signs Reading a War is unhealthy for children and other living things and a vote peace not War Quot the demonstrators walked into Levine a office at 11  And vowed to stay through the week. Kasem left after an hour. Up Luau Iii Ami Vii a his Giuin Usu us Maiio. Way or me incr. M on the table assemble a a we be sent Saddam Hussein a few urea a a in a with the 23rd Tae. Wing Public affairs office Gulf Oil Slick not As Giganti As officials originally feared an. Saudi Arabia apr a the persian Teoro logical and environmental Protection it 1 a i l a i n c. Ii i i a 6 n i m. I m i l a h a _. I. J i. Ltd a. A a. A. Dhahran. Saudi Arabia a the persian Gult Oil Slick is much smaller than originally feared and Allied attacks on iraqi positions Are believed to have caused up to 30 percent of it officials said tuesday. Abdullah Dabbagh director of research at the University of Petroleum and minerals said latest estimates based on satellite photography indicated 1.5 million barrels of crude had been spilled into Gulf Waters since the War began Jan. 17. The saudi government had claimed the Slick contained 11 million barrels breaking the previous record of 4.2 million. There Are 42 Gallons in a barrel. A even if we Are talking about 1.5 million barrels we Are still talking about a huge amount of Oil a Dabbagh told a conference on saudi arabians Economy. In an interview later Dabbagh said sea Beds and Plankton Fields shown in satellite imagery of the gulfs shallow w aters appeared to have been mistaken for Oil. He described the initial estimate of 11 million barrels As an estimate of How much Oil could have entered the water not an a approved scientific study of the actual  it was a worst Case scenario a he said. A after an investigation we scaled Down the  \ officials of the saudi environmental Agency said they believed 20 percent to 30 percent of the Oil resulted from Allied attacks on iraqi land and water targets along the kuwaiti coast. Saudi  said the entire spill was the result of iraqi soldiers opening valves at a kuwaiti Oil loading terminal president Bush accused Saddam Hussein of Quot environmental  now. About 70 percent of the Slick is thought to have been caused by the iraqis a ranking official at the meteorological and environmental Protection Agency said on condition of anonymity. U s. Al 11 fighter bombers halted the iraqi spill by bombing the manifold that controls the flow of Oil at Kuwait a sea Island terminal. Western military officers have said american attacks on iraqi tankers off Kuwait Early in the War had caused a spill and . Shelling of coastal installations had contributed to it. At the time . Military spokesmen said a a Small Slick resulted from attacks on a Tanker they said was involved in reconnaissance on the Allied Armada in the Gulf. A _ a \ a a ,. ,. A a. 1 he saudi official confirmed previous reports that the a first crude to Wash up on saudi shores resulted from an american attack. Pictures of the Slick at the Border town of Khanji gained worldwide attention and reports of the worlds largest Oil spill played an important role in uniting International opinion against Iraq. Hundreds of volunteers arrived in saudi Arabia to help clean it up. _ Dabbagh said he hoped confusion about the Slick its size and sources would not overshadow the great harm it had done. More than 100 Miles of saudi coast have been damaged including Pristine beaches Fertile sea Beds in re jesting areas and Rich tidal pools. The Slick has killed thousands of Birds including cormorants grebes and rare flamingos and herons. L or several Days it has shut Down one of the desalination plants that provide drinking water for saudi Arabia. Dabbagh said he teared other industries on the coast including the worlds largest desalination Plant also might be closed