European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 07, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse I sow ers Ftp site from he for no me after completing m-16 drills with their Green Beret trainers. Capt. Timothy Slemp of the 5th special forces croup confers with kuwaiti a. Nasser Ai Dowa Ilah. Green berets crewmen cers Moon their tanks and prepare to move out during a to i . Is photos by Ken George continued from Page 17 kuwaiti units during the exile in saudi Arabia and Green berets were with the kuwaiti forces that led the coalition ground forces in the persian Gulf War. Special forces have kept a presence in the country Ever since. The Green berets say their kuwaiti hosts Are extremely hospitable people and the americans go to great lengths to avoid being critical of Kuwait s army. You can t equate them with . Standards one Green Beret said but then added soldiers Are soldiers. They la do what they re told kuwaiti soldiers say they la never allow the summer of 199 to be repeated. We have already Learned the lesson of before said pvt. Faisal Saad Al Omair. A Man cannot be bitten by a Snake although Kuwait s army remains too Small to be decisive against the huge and in neighbourly iraqi forces to the North the soldiers say they will be Able to hold their own Long enough for Allied forces to assemble for a counterattack. And despite the country s comfortable Oil riches the soldiers say they look Forward to desert training exercises. All the soldiers Are bedouin people said maj. Nasser Ai Dowa Ilah of the 7th kuwaiti tank in. Kuwaiti people Are bedouin people. Our Are in the desert Kuwait was part of the British Empire until gaining in 1961, and the army for Many years had a British flavor to it. Now however americanism it inevitably creeping i except for their beards kuwaiti soldiers from a distance Are most identical to americans. They same kind of four wheel drive humvee As . Soldiers and they Wear american desert camouflaged uniforms. The 7th tank in distinguished itself by ?. Superior iraqi forces in 1990, losing most of its chieftain tanks in the process while training for the liberation in saudi Arabia the t outfit was hastily re equipped with Yugoslay-buj_m-84tante/whjch Are similar to the russian-Designeai-72s driven by iraqi forces on the other Side of the Border. This leaves thens More or less on equal ? Iraq their greatest threat. But the emirate is Byumg 218 of . M1-a2 Abrams tanks which now and which should give them a decided Edge Over iraqi firepower. Once the kuwaitis switch Over to the latest no Haydon said they la be a better equipped army than the american " %. T prepare to fire sgt. Thomas Miles foreground and other Green bereft Jep kuwaitis take aim with their m-16s. Above a kuwaiti Soldier is a smiles after a successful round on the firing line. At left tankers kick up Sand As they Man Euver into position. At right. Staff Kinnard demonstrates How to Clear an m-16 Rifle. 18 the stars and stripes wednesday december 7,1994 the stars and stripes 19
