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File: 080596_jun96_decls21_0204.txt
Subject: 24TH MECH INF DIV OPERATION DESERT STORM AFTER ACTION REPORT
Box ID: BX001437
Document Number: 2
Folder Title: 24 MECH INF DIV AFTER ACTION REPORT
Folder Seq #: 785
Unit: 24TH ID
Parent Organzation: XVIII CORPS
UNCLASSIFIED
06/C-
S LONG REPORT
1. (U) JULLS NUMBER: 51975-96970 (00004), submitted by PROVOST
MARSHALL, 24 ID, 870-5516, (912)767-5516.
2. (U) No type OPN DESERT STORM NOTES conducted by 24 IN DIV
on 05/20/91.
3. (U) KEYWORDS: MILITARY POLICE, COMMUNICATIONS,
4. (U) TITLE: MILITARY POLICE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT
5. (U) OBSERVATION: Division MP Company communications
equipment is inadequate.
6. (U) DISCUSSION: Communication equipment authorized for the
Division Military Police company is inadequate for command and
control when there are extended lines of communication. The
equipment authorized for use (AN/VCR 46, AN/VRC 47 AND AN/PRC
77) does not have the range ( 15 miles maximum on the AN/VRC 46
and 5 miles for the AN/PRC 77) to insure adequate
communications. Both are further limited by age and severe loss
of effectiveness under adverse weather conditions. The need to
establish relays placed military police in static positions on
the battlefield and reduced their effectiveness to mass and
provide support to commanders to counter Level II threats. The
additional necessity to establish substations and split cell
operations accounts for a drain on the already austere manpower
assets assigned to the division. Radio equipment which has a
down time rate equal to one of six days of use is offset only by
imaginative repairmen and swapping out of equipment on a
constant basis. No slots were allocated on the division
multi-channel system for either of the two assigned military
made available during portions of
the deployment. Without multi-channel capability, both units
were effectively out of communications with their command and
control element, the Provost Marshal.
7. (U) LESSON LEARNED:
1. The range of present FM radio equipment authorized in
the division MP company is approximately 70 percent of TM stated
range.
2. Planning must include relays when lines of
communication (LOC) will be extended.
3. Multichannel communication is essential between
command and control elements with extended LOC.
S. (U) RECOMMENDED ACTION: communications equipment for the
division military police company should be upgraded to inclqde,
as a minimum, an organic AM capability at the platoon level.
Present FM equipment should be replaced with available modern FM
equipment (SINGARS-V) to include replacement of obsolete
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File Room = jun96_declassified
File Cabinet = Week-22
Box ID = BX001437
Unit = 24TH ID
Parent Organization = XVIII CORPS
Folder Title = 24 MECH INF DIV AFTER ACTION REPORT
Folder Seq # = 785
Subject = 24TH MECH INF DIV OPERATION DESERT STORM AFTER A
Document Seq # = 50
Document Date =
Scan Date = 12-JUN-1996
Queued for Declassification = 01-JAN-1980
Short Term Referral = 01-JAN-1980
Long Term Referral = 01-JAN-1980
Permanent Referral = 01-JAN-1980
Non-Health Related Document = 01-JAN-1980
Declassified = 02-AUG-1996