3AD HISTORY OF OPERATION DESERT STORM AND SPEAR

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Subject: 3AD HISTORY OF OPERATION DESERT STORM AND SPEAR                 

Box  ID: BX001301

Document Number:          3

Folder Title: OPORDS AND  COMMAND AND CONTROL                                                                 

Folder Seq #:          4

Unit: 3D AD       

Parent Organzation: VII  CORPS  







        vehicles burning in front of C Company. To the front, a high lip of ground
        masks terrain forward of D Company. To the right, at more than 4km, 4
        unidentified vehicles, along with wheeled vehicles and dismounts, are
        leaving the area moving north to South.
           At 2247 ILT Lawson can see 3rd Platoon of C Company start the first
        bound of the evening attack. C Company follows the movement, bounding
        forward 150m. Once D Company starts moving, CPT Fletcher can tell by his
        GPS that the task force is moving at 45 degrees instead of at 90 degrees.
        He reports this to LTC Hallman, and the misdirection results in a turning

        movement-during the next 2 bounds.
           The first bound allows D Company to see over the lip to their front.
        More burning vehicles are seen in front of C Company. ILT Lawson
        identifies a bunker and several cold vehicles to his front. He fires HEAT
        with no target effect. Si7C Steele on D14 and SSG Dials on D12 engage
        dismounts hopping from hole to hole at 400 to 500m. Their coax zero is oii
        from the long movement and must adjust their zero as they fire.
            2nd Platoon reports sporadic machine gun fire to their front as SSG
        Bird of D22 fires HEAT into a bunker at 800 to ?00m causing 30 dismounts
        to jump Out. SSG     Dials and ILT Lawson fire HEAT into another bunker at
        900m, "stirring a    bees' nest." Twenty dismounts come out and are engaged
        with coax by@ Dli, D12, and D13. It is apparent to ILT Lawson that the
        Iraqis are unaware of the magnitude of the advantage of the thermal
        sights. ILT Lawson chases troops with coax into bunkers and fires HEAT to
        destroy the bunker and the dismounts within. Tanks are engaging dismounts
        with coax as they peek their "hot" heads out from behind their fighting
        Positions. SFC Butler o+ DZ4 engages dismounts to his front with coax.
 engages troops in excess of 1500m with coax by

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File Room = jul96_declassified
File Cabinet = Week-28
Box ID = BX001301
Unit = 3D AD
Parent Organization = VII CORPS
Folder Title = OPORDS AND COMMAND AND CONTROL
Folder Seq # = 4
Subject = 3AD HISTORY OF OPERATION DESERT STORM AND SPEAR
Document Seq # = 1
Document Date =
Scan Date = 18-JUL-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 = 16-AUG-1996