Facts about the war

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Casualties

U.S. military: 29 dead

British military: 22 dead

Iraqi forces: No estimate of military casualties. Iraq says about 425 civilians have been killed.

— Associated Press

Quote

"They're starting to fight back. They are going after the stragglers. The next one of you I catch sleeping is going to hate life."

Marine Cpl. D.J. Parr, to Marines in a supply convoy that took a wrong turn because one of the drivers was drowsy

BY THE NUMBERS

642 — Hawai'i-based soldiers, Marines, airmen and reservists deployed in support of the Iraq invasion as of last week. Does not count sailors aboard Pearl Harbor-based Navy and Coast Guard ships.

112 — billion barrels of crude oil estimated to be held in Iraqi oil fields

650 — Tomahawk cruise missiles fired since the start of the war

9 — soldiers that can be carried inside a Bradley fighting vehicle — 3 crew members and 6 squad members

97 — Average daily high temperature in Baghdad in May

45 — Miles per hour is the top speed of the M1A1 Abrams tank on the road. It can go 30 mph on rough terrain.

90,000 — U.S. troops on the ground in Kuwait and Iraq

250,000 — U.S. military members, including sailors aboard ships, in the region

OIL PRICES

NEW YORK: Down 21 cents to close at $30.16 a barrel

LONDON: Down 47 cents to close at $26.35 a barrel

The time

Iraq's time zone is 13 hours ahead of Hawai'i time.

Persian Gulf weather

Tomorrow's forecast:

Baghdad — Daytime: 68 degrees, partly cloudy. Night: 48 degrees.

Basra — Daytime: 81 degrees, sunny. Night: 54 degrees.

Kuwait City — Day: 80 degrees, sunny. Night: 52 degrees.

Unit spotlight

The Honolulu-based Coast Guard cutter Walnut, which was recently conducting missions in the northern Arabian Sea, is the fifth cutter of the Juniper-class seagoing buoy tenders, and the second to carry the name Walnut.

With sister ship Kukui, Walnut conducts missions including aids to navigation, search and rescue, maritime law enforcement, marine environmental protection, and national defense.

One of the reasons the Walnut was sent to the Persian Gulf region was to help with oil containment if oil was released into the Gulf.

Walnut was delivered to the Coast Guard in 1999. The first Walnut was a 175-foot lighthouse tender built in Oakland, Calif., in 1939 for the U.S. Lighthouse Service. The Walnut was reassigned to Honolulu in 1941.

Crew: 50
Length: 225 feet
Beam: 46 feet
Displacement: 2,000 tons
Buoy desk area: 2,875 square feet
Web site: www.uscg.mil/d14/units/1walnut.htm