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                                                                 

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Unit: 3D AD       

Parent Organzation: VII  CORPS  






        sing their thermal sights to adjust their fire.





           At over 2000m, SSG Colson next engages and destroys a BRDM with HEAT.:

        SSG Bird follows by destroying another BRDM in the same fashion. What

        appears to CPT Fletcher as reengagements of the same vehicles at night is
        seen at daybreak as BRDMs falling in b@hind others that have already been

        hit.

           Just prior -to executing the second bound of the attack, 6 tanks           Om

        7,-BCAV drive across D Company's zone into C Company's before stopping. CPT

        Fletcher warns C Company and the rest of the task force on the tas@ force
        net. D' Company executes the second bound up to C Company, another 15&r

        forward, and does not move during the third bound as the base unit to t!ie

        turning movement.

            D12 destroys a BMP located in C Company's zone                 is :raske= 7,),

        terrain to C Company's front. The BMP is "hot" and SS'z -@-als -ills i"

        HEAT at 700m. The gas jet from the round can @@e seen e@.iting @iie 4ar

        o4 @he BMP.

            At   approximately 0430, with things relatively quiet,               Compan@

        conducts CLIIIA and CLV resupply. Not knowing exactly wnere D Company "Is.

        ISG "icks stops at the first M113 that he comes to, tnink4@ng it to be ZnE
        -medic Mil-1. CPT Fletcher comes up to the ISG to e@@plain his neer' tc

        withdraw the -fuel and ammo to a safer location when a nearby tank fires
        its main gun. ISG Hicks is brought to the sudden realization of his
        Position and that what he thought was the medic PC is actually the FISTV.
        He quickly withdraws the trucks to the rear. Class V resupply is used tc

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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