European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 10, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday december 10, 1992 marines land orc.?s &�9an arriving in Mogadishu Somalia on wednesday to begin Relief efforts As part of operation restore Hope. About 30,000 . Troops Are expected to participate in the  Effort. Somalia the stars and stripes 12 18 . About two dozen . Marines and Navy commandos land to Clear the Beach near Mogadishu s Airport. They Are greeted by dozens of reporters and cameras but no resistance from somalian gunmen. Before Dawn marines land at Mogadishu s seaport and secure the area new port Indian Ocean before Dawn marines land in amphibious vehicles and helicopters to secure the Airport. They set up checkpoints on the Road to Mogadishu. Rushmore amp Bucus Dock Landing Quot  transport Dock ship. Amphibious Landing vehicles cacs hovercraft air Cushion Landing Craft fast and Maneu Merable carried troops through surf and onto the Beach chewing the fat on troops res Camp Pendleton Calif. A taxpayers will pay $15 million a month to feed the 28,000 . Troops who will help guard and deliver Relief shipments to starving somalis military officials say. Marines Navy army and air Force personnel involved in operation restore Hope will consume 1,800 truckloads of food each month Marine capt. Charles Girard said. Troops initially will be fed meals ready to eat until Field kitchens Are set up to serve hot meals which will include traditional Turkey dinners at Christmas he said. The res include a . Surgeon general approved daily diet of 3,600 calories said Girard who will oversee food service to military personnel deployed in Somalia. Res can be eaten hot or cold but  be served Only to military personnel said Girard who is based at Camp Pendleton. Somalis will not be Given res because their systems Are not used to the foods. The meals come in 10 breakfast choices such As eggs Bacon and sausage and 10 lunch and dinner choices including pork lasagna and Chicken. Packaged in plastic and cardboard res have a shelf life of one year. A nobody likes the pork patties or the beef patties a said Cpl. Marcus Berry one local critic. A a they re dry there a no taste to them and they tend to clog up your system. But its better than nothing which is what the somalis  Girard and his assistant capt. Thomas Cauble admittedly receive thousands of complaints each year. But they said the res a do the  the food is made by private companies having contracts with the military. A some of the food products Lack some of the Quality that we re used to but that a done intentionally because the food usually sits on a shelf for a Long time a cabbie said. The military also serves up dehydrated foods that require water before they can be eaten. One Marine Cpl. Paul Jerome said the powdered bread was particularly avs amphibious assault vehicle usable from ship to Shore and on land carries 25 fully equipped marines 13 Aid workers Are flown from port tasty. A a it a Good its real good1 he said. Nairobi Kenya a the  world food program on wednesday evacuated 13 foreign Aid workers from the Southern somalian port of Kisayo after a night of looting and shooting. The evacuation came hours after . Forces entered Somalia a capital of Mogadishu. Brenda Barton of the world Pood program said those flown out of Kisayo were seven staff members of doctors without Borders four from world concern and two from the . Children a fund. The International committee of the red Cross said it planned to leave its six foreign workers in Kisayo 270 Miles South of Mogadishu for the time being. Jean Luc Loverro a red Cross spokesman in Nairobi said that despite the overnight violence the organization believed the situation was a More or less  a German air Force cargo plane used by world food program to deliver food to the southwestern somali town of Barbera was diverted to Kisayo to pick up the Relief workers Barton said. She said she did not know the details of the unrest that prompted the evacuation. A there was just looting and shooting All night Long a she said. A skis Mayo has been a hotbed of insecurity in recent  in the past month Relief planes have been shot at and Aid workers threatened harassed and robbed. In the past year at least 300,000 somalis have died from warfare drought famine and disease. Two million More Are threatened. Barton said she did not know when . Troops might move into Kisayo. The City sport considered crucial to delivering the amounts of food needed to keep tens of thousands alive has been closed since oct. 13 by unrest