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Thursday, November 15, 1990/ University Daily Kansan
Persian Gulf Crisis
Soldiers from the 1st Battalion/34th Armor of the 1st Brigade at Fort Riley participate in a practice firing exercise using Bradley Armored Personnel Carriers. The soldiers practiced yesterday.
Riley
"They're scared, like any other military family," he said. "They want to know how long we'll be gone, and nobody knows."
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Staff Sgt. Mark Williams, the master gunner in Zahn's unit, said his family was reacting as most were.
Williams said he was comfortable with his mission in the gulf crisis because he believed in world peace.
"I'm a big-world person," he said.
"I feel like we need to be there Someone needs to intervene."
Williams will be serving in the gulf in an amphibious Bradley armored personnel carrier
sgt Gary Hartzell another gunner in Zhan's unit, agreed with Williams "I'm happy to be on this," he said.
It's a hot selling machine The Bradley carriers that Williams
Custer said the division would use about 12,000 gallons of a tan paint with special additives that resist chemicals
and Hartzell use are painted in the conventional army green.
Before they are loaded next week on railroad cars and shipped to ports on the East and Gulf coasts, they will be painted a camouflage tan.
Bob Custer, maintenance division director, said Army personnel were painting about 300 vehicles a day, from jeeps to tank retrieval vehicles. A tank retrieval vehicle is the Army's equivalent of a tow truck.
Sgt Tom Skimmer, a public affairs officer, said the 1st Division would begin transporting the vehicles. The vehicles will be transported overseas on merchant ships.
Jane Rudolph/KANSAN
Soldiers preparing to leave for the gulf apply tan paint to a Tank Retrieval Vehicle.
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