European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 11, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday May 11, 1991 the stars and stripes a Page 3 kurdish refugees have guardians the stars and stripes special forces bring order to chaotic Border Camps by Ron Jensen staff writer ,., Turkey a the child in sgt. 1st class Paul Haughton a arms was Between 2 and 6 years old. Illness fatigue and famine disguised her age. A this child has dehydrated a the medic with the army s 1.0th special forces group told an interpreter. A it needs  soft Low moans came from the Young girl who was too weak to cry hard. Her eyes were sunken and the skin on her stomach was Loose and wrinkled. A this child has pneumonia a Haughton added. Later in the Day Haughton was asked if the child would be All right. A which one a he asked. A there were so  a measured by numbers the special forces troops from fort Devens mass., Are overwhelmed at this Camp on the Turkey Iraq Border. There Are fewer than 80 of them. There Are 128,000 refugees. Yet the unit is making a difference. Before they arrived hundreds of refugees were dying daily. The death toll is now much lower. A they said three a couple Days ago. But it averages Between 20 and 30,�?� said maj. Carl. Riester commander of the detachment. Those figures still Are grotesque but the rapid fall from earlier numbers is miraculous considering the conditions when the americans arrived. A it was pretty desperate a Riester said. A there was no equitable food distribution. They were getting food. They were getting Airdrop. But there was no  some supplies literally dropped on the kurd killing them. The special forces brought an air Force air traffic controller with them to guide aircraft and there were no More such deaths. Food was going Only to the quickest and the strongest. Sanitation had been non existent in this Camp. It was a place where 128,000 people a driven by fear into the mountains a had simply stopped running from iraqi troops and begun to die. A i come off a farm in Pennsylvania. In a used to a pasture a said sgt Michael Thomas a special forces Engineer. A but that was nothing compared with what a up there.some civilian Relief agencies including concern from Ireland and doctors without Borders a French medical group already were operating Here. But they weren to having the Impact the special forces would which was evident from the Day they arrived. A we were cheered and applauded As we walked up the Hill a Riester said smiling at the memory. A that was  bringing Relief to refugees is not the common image of the special forces a people think of the special forces As action Guys always going into  Riester said. A but this is one of our i is Quot a  a a a a a a a a a a a v Quot Quot a a Athey immediately divided the Camp into sectors and sought leaders to help run the Camp. The. Special forces then attacked the water Supply problem. A there was a Muddy Stream All the Way Down the Mountain a Thomas said. A a the. People were using that to drink Bathe Wash their  the soldiers directed the Stream into a pipe that they installed through much of the Camp. Every few feet a Hole was drilled. The kurd now gather water As it pours clean from the holes. A the kurdish people weren to letting the americans do any work any manual labor. They were taking your shovel a Thomas recalled. The Camp crawls through three valleys and on the slopes. It was once three Camps but they grew into each other. A a that a Happy Valley a said sgt. Robert Pion pointing to a mass of tents below the Peak on which he stood. A this is busters Mountain a named for the team sergeant in charge of this sector. A we Call the whole thing  from a distance the Camp hums with the indistinguishable sounds of  close the humanity becomes identifiable. Pots bang. Men talk. And children shout and laugh. Some have fashioned rope swings and sail Back and Forth beneath the few Trees not felled for firewood. A a we Call them hello Birds a Thomas said. The children run out when soldiers pass calling  it is More of a song the Way they shout it. A hello. Hello.  when one shouts a it attracts others. They in turn bring out  until an entire Section of the Camp is alive with smiling children singing  one Young girl was so excited when her greeting was returned she jumped up and Down As if she were about to burst with a glee. A. ,. A a a. Haughton sees children less Happy and Carefree. The most common health problem is dehydration and diarrhoea he said. The pills to rehydrate the children taste bad. And the mothers Are reluctant to Force it upon their protesting children. A More serious worry is cholera which was recently found in this Camp that is adjacent to the turkish Border where armed turkish soldiers stopped the exo. Dus from Iraq. A the Saddest thing is the babies a Haughton said. A a in be got a 3-and 6-year-old at Home. The first night i worked cholera i had a Little boy die in my arms a. Ass Ron Jenson sgt. Paul Quot Haughton a special forces medic holds a kurdish child who is suffering from pneumonia at a kurdish refugee Camp in Northern Iraq. Who looked like my Little boy. It Tore me  staff sgt. Peter Huemiller is attached to the special forces As an interpreter. He Speaks Farsi the language of Iran and arabic plus a Little kurdish. Several years ago he read a Book about the kurd and since then has wanted to help them. A a it a like a dream come True a Huemiller said. A i wanted to come and work with the kurd some Day and Here i  the kurd Are gracious giving people he said. He was once caught in the Camp without a jacket when it began to rain. A kurdish Man loaned him his jacket. The newest crisis is a water shortage accompanying the warm weather. This Camp cannot remain open much longer. A something must happen this month a said Matti Philips Elba i 43, an English teacher from Dozhuk and one of the Lead ers of the Camp. A. Riester concurs. A fall of the Camps can to move along the same roads at the same time. Well probably be one of the latter  but that decision is not one to be made by the special forces Here. Their Mission was to end the starvation and Abate the disease. A we take it one Day at a time a said Riester a and with gods help and a Little understanding we re making an  holding babies. Piecing together water pipes. Building hospitals. A very Seldom does the army  special forces have an Opportunity to build something rather than tear it Down build rather than destroy a said capt. Kevin Turner. A this Isnit . But the people clinging to these hillsides done to need rambo Kuwait up a an army Cook flipped the last of 300,000 hamburgers at Wolfburger stand no. 34 near the iraqi Border thursday. A we re breaking Down the Burger line and going Home a said sgt. Maj. Michael Schuller who makes the dubious claim of being the army so highest paid  army Burger bar no. 34 has served 300,000 hamburgers and More than 600,000 ice cold cola drinks since opening in late february shortly after  Allied troops stormed Kuwait. A live fed . Troops . Troops kurdish rebels and even bedouins a Schuller said. A a there a a lot of hungry men out Here in the  the bedouins often Stop in for water or a cold soda tying up the camels next to the trash disposal. If they stand in line i 11 teed pm a said Schuller referring to the nomadic tribesmen who live in the desert. Quot they Don t eat the burgers but they la fill up the canteens wit water or they might take a  Wolfburger stands became a military institution last tall alter an army food administrator named Wolf first opened up a handful. The Man responsible is chief warrant officer 4 Wesley Wolf and his Wolfburger stands have since become an institution with More than 40 outlets opening in six months. Rations for the stands were donated by the saudi government including millions of hamburgers sodas chips slices of cheese and dessert biscuits. A everything is compliments of the saudi government Quot said Schuller who claimed that the burgers Are made of �?o100 percent beet from an approved source.�?�. A. Before pulling Back into saudi a Arabia Friday Schuller said he would whip up a grand finale meal Lor the 73 soldiers left in the Encampment. A the menu pork chops with Dijon sauce Green Beans salad mashed potatoes and jello. V Quot it la sure beat eating another Wolfburger a said sgt. Jeff Best who drives a tank and who boasts he was responsible for eating 300 of no. 34�?Ts 300,000 Wolf burgers. .