CHAPTER SEVEN DEFENSE OF THE WADI AL BATIN

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Subject: CHAPTER SEVEN  DEFENSE OF THE WADI AL BATIN                     

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Folder Title: COMMAND REPORTS - ARCENT AARS- G6-HQCMDT-OTHER MISC                                             

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              acquisition. Another critical determining factor was
              whether more than one source placed the same type of
              target in the same location. This process was continually
              refined as new targets and sources of target data were
              acquired.

                   During the period 23 to 7 Jan, the FSE prepared the
              division's independent artillery laid, VII Corps OPLAN
              REDSTORM requirements, and brigade level operations. The
              division continued to move forward in sector as the Syrian
              forces moved east of the Wadi. New division boundaries
              were worked out to support the forward defense. On 24
              Jan, the targeting effort shifted to the Iraqi 16th IN
              DIV, later redesignated as elements of the Iraqi 27th,
              28th, and 47th IN Divisions. On P5 January, the
              division's HPTL priority changed to (in order) fire
              support, C3, ADA, recon/target acquisition, maneuver and
              radio/electronic nodes.


                   On 27 Jan, lst Cav FSE discussed plans for OPLAN
              REDSTORM with the CMAIN FSE. Their concept consisted of
              an old fashioned rolling barrage of MLRS rockets. This
              proposal, deemed wasteful by DIVARTY, was rejected and
              replaced with a carefully chosen list of known or
              suspected enemy positions.

                   A new survey datum was put into operation when VII
              Corps established the Work Geodetic Survey CWBS) 84 as the
              new corps standard. The FSE and DIVARTY recommended that
              the division also accept W(39 84 as its new standard. In
              replacing the WGS 72 survey, it improved accuracy to 15
              meters easting and 5 meters northing. The chance also put
              the division and corps on a common survey point, improving
         accuracy of potential fire support coming from outside the
              division.

              Target overlays of the Iraqi 1&th Inf Div area of
              operations (AO) were developed and produced by the
              targeting cell for OPLAN REDSTORM and the divisions
              independent artillery raid. On 30 Jan, the FSE
              coordinated divisional boundaries for phases II and III of
              OPLAN DESERT STORM. The CMAIN FSE named the Saudi-Iraqi
              border as the new corps FSCL, creating a coordination
              problem that would carry on throughout the campaign.
              Targets nominated for air interdiction by the FSE, G3 Air,
              and ALO were beyond this FSCL, and therefore beyond the
              division's operational control. Nominations had to be



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