TRIP REPORT, KUWAIT INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, 14 MAY 91

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SUBJECT:  TRIP REPORT, KUWAIT INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, 14 MAY 91

MEMORANDUM                                                                            KUWAIT.TR1
                                                                                                      17 MAY 91
From:  CENTAF LNO/DE

Subject:  Trip Report, Kuwait International Airport, 14 May 91

1.  PURPOSE:  Gain familiarization of the 436 ALCE Deployed (MAC)
operations at the airport.  Obtain listing of suppliers used by
Kuwait Aviation Services Company who provide food stocks for their
catering operations.

2.  TRAVELER:  Maj S.M. Dikcis, CENTAF LNO/DE

3.  PERSONS CONTACTED:  Mr.     [(B)(2)],      Assistant Catering
                                                 Director, Kuwait Aviation Services Co.
                                                 Capt           , 436 ALCE Deployed
                                                 MSgt   [(B)(2)],     436 ALCE Deployed

4.  DISCUSSION

	a..  Meeting with Mr Hamdallah provided no detailed listing of
sources his company uses to obtain food stocks.  The business
community is still recovering from the effects of the Iraqi
occupation and subsequent fighting to liberate the country.  All
his normal suppliers fled the country soon after the Iraqi
invasion.  He has been operating through any supplier who can
provided him with the food stocks necessary for the catering
operations (Atch 1).  Most of the suppliers are not located in the
Middle East.  They are located in Europe and use trading companies
operating in Middle East countries to sell their products.  All
Kuwaiti food suppliers must also rely on third party sources
outside the country to bring in food.

	b.  Short meeting with MSgt   [(B)(2)]   revealed the Army has shut
down CAMP LIBERTY.  This was an Army convoy support center and a
logistic point to supply food for the ALCE.  ALCE personnel drove
a flatbed trailer to CAMP LIBERTY on 14 May and took as much food
as they could carry out.  They estimate this resupply will last
them for one month.

	c.  The eleven man civil engineering team sent to Kuwait by
CENTAF/DE had already made several camp improvements.  They
dismantled the old latrine and expanded the existing HARVEST FALCON
(HF) tent and install a HF latrine.  They relocated the WOLFBURGER
stand away from the latrine tent.  They set up twelve portable
picnic tables in the dining tent.  The team would be making more
camp "quality of life"  improvements before their departure on 18
May.  Made a walking tour of the ALCE compound.  There is definite
fly control problem.  One source that attracts flies is the trash
accumulation at the dumpsters in the compound.  There's no
scheduled trash collection established at the airport.  Site
personnel burn their refuse in the dumpsters as it accumulates then
use a fork lift to carry the full dumpster to a landfill site off
the airport.