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  



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                                        CHARLIE BATTERY


                                        C/4-82FA (155SP)





            C Battery    is travelling in an octagon shaped formation behind the
         Mortar Platoon  as TF 4-SCAV conducts a M6vement to Contact east. The M109s
         travel on the   outside of the formation wit@'ILT Berman, a Platoon Leader,
         to the front    in a M113 and the Q-36 radar to the rear. Due to the
         excellent maintenance supervision conducted by Team Chief SGT Dixon, C
         Battery  is    the, only Battery in the FA Battalion with nine guns

         operational.
            On initial contact by the scouts the battery stops. C Battery lays the
         guns, digs in, and is ready to fire in 3 to 4 minutes. They receive no

         fire missions.
            After C Company destroys the BRDM and ZSU 23-4, the Task Force
         Executive Officer, MAJ Irish, and the TF Commander LTC Hallman give the
         order to march order the battery and continue to move. C Battery travels
         another 500m +or&.iArd before C Company starts calling in multiple hot spots
         to their front. This triggers CPT Knott to stop the battery and dig in
         -Again. As  the battery stops the survey team chief accidentally turns off
         the PADS.  Ir@ has only 30 seconds to save his current position before the
         entire   sysfem- 'goes down and    he can't remember the procedure. SPC
         Fernandez, the survey specialist, saves the data, allowing the battery to
         fire with accuracy. As C Battery stops, they can see indirect fire fall
         all across the task force front. The 0-36 is quickly erected and detects
         two targets. -he data is sent to an MLRS battery and they fire a

         couriterbattery mission.

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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