One of a hundred ammo areas of ASP #3 (Ammo Supply Point). A segregation area, this line was used for sorting and a low level inspection. Different grades or compatible ammo was stored in a berm in one of the dozens and dozens of acres. One thing the King of Saudi Arabia was able to give us was land! The storage of ammo was based on keeping stuff far away enough that if one area exploded it wouldn't take out the whole ASP. Fortunately the worst "accident" I saw here was when Quinn got a pallete of 8-inch projectiles dropped on a toe. 8-inch in diameter, these rounds weighed almost 80 pounds each and each pallet held 8 of them banded together. Quinn laughed as his boot filled with blood.

ASP #3 (Al Mishab) March, April, or May 1991.

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Cpl Emminger standing in front of a baby fork lift (4,000 pounder).

Great guy, his wife was pregnant when we were deployed. She was a WM (woman Marine) and had the baby girl before he got back. I had the honor of meeting Miss Brittany Emminger just a week before her Daddy did. Man, I cannot believe that "baby bunny" is now 10 years old!

ASP #3 (Al Mishab) April or May 1991.

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Here's a berm full of ammo destined for destruction. It was one of several berms, at one of 4 ASP's just for the Marines of the northern area. Multiple that for the Air Force, Army, and Navy and multiple that by the US, UK, French, and Arabians. There was a whole lot of ammo.

ASP #3 (Al Mishab) May 1991.

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Sgt Owen and a family of refugees. They were Arabian (not the higher class Saudi Arabian) and were looking for food and water. They came in a dusty station wagon and just drove right up to us since we were along a major "road" to Kuwait. They let me take a picture, as long as Mom stayed hidden behind Dad.

"Dad" didn't speak any more english than "George Boosh!" which he proclaimed hands high, and "Saddam!" spit on the ground. Yeah, we gave him water and some MREs.

ASP #5 (Khanjar) March 1991.

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A Corporal from Rome, Georgia displaying two captured Russian rifles. Sorry, Phil Donahue, the Russians, did in fact supply arms to the enemy...

A hummer behind displays the "A" Allies symbol. I had marked my sea bag with a similar symbol a year before but that "A" stood for Artus. I was styling before it was cool...

ASP #5 (Khanjar) March 1991.

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