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File: 120396_jun96_decls12_0003.txt
Subject: SECERETARY OF DEFENSE REQUEST 1 APR 91
Unit: VII CORPS
Parent Organization: ARCENT
Box ID: BX000233
Folder Title: SOLDIERS STORIES
Document Number: 4
Folder SEQ #: 2
exceptional navigational skills. Plying the dangerous "no man's
land" between several major formations, Youngman demonstrated his
ability to operate independently and get the job done. Earning
the Bronze Star Medal for Valor, ILT Youngman led his platoon
across 200 miles of desert, constantly exposed to enemy fires,
without a single casualty.
5. SGT Minerva Valenzuela, C Company, 503rd Forward Support
Battalion, 3rd Armored Division, was moving forward with the
brigade on 27 February, when she was notified casualties were
inbound. SGT Valenzuela had trained her section to operate the
new M577 command vehicles as medical treatment facilities and
reconfigured the unit medical sets to the new vehicles only weeks
before. It was time to test her plan and their training.
Quicklyt pulling out of the march column, she established a
treatment facility and was prepared to treat the wounded soldiers
when they arrived. She continuously provided compassionate and
quality care to friendly and enemy casualties throughout DESERT
STORM.
6. short of noncommissioned officers for the job, the 207th Ml
Brigade put SPC Stacey D. Barteck in charge of a six-man Go-team
bound for Iraq on the heels of the Ist Infantry Division
(Mechanized). The team mission was to gather battlefield
information of immediate value to ongoing operations from
captured enemy prisoners of war (EPWS) and documents. Under SPC
Barteck's direction, his team screened 300 EPWs in 12 hours. In
the process, Barteck reported important information on the 26th
Iraqi Infantry Division's positions and defensive plans, napped
out the dispositions of the division's 110th Brigade, identified
, and reported on Iraqi forces
defending the logistics complex at Al Busayya.
7. SFC Mark A. Cook, platoon sergeant for an aircraft
maintenance platoon, 207th MI Bde, had a tough job. operating
from three different airfields, two in northern Saudi Arabia and
a third 540 kilometers to the south, his 90-man platoon serviced
the 18 OV/RV-ID reconnaissance aircraft assigned to VII Corps.
With repair parts in short supply and many of the aircraft older
than the young soldiers who kept them flying, SFC Cook still
managed tomake certain the aircraft in his charge were mission
ready for 100% of the VII Corps aerial reconnaissance
requirements and completed 440 sorties, over 1300 flight hours,
during DESERT STORM.
S. SPC Dawn Jennings, a 207th MI Brigade soldier whose
intelligence unit supported the 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment
during DESERT STOR14, was always known as a solid performer with a
positive attitude. She and several other soldiers were playing
volleyball in the Saudi Arabian desert on the afternoon of 2
March 1991 when a nearby military policeman was accidently shot
in the chest by another soldier. Running to the wounded soldier,
SPC Jennings and a warrant officer began immediate first aid.
When the MP stopped breathing, SPC Jennings started mouth-to-
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Document 7 f:/Week-24/BX000233/SOLDIERS STORIES/seceretary of defense request 1 apr 91:11089615153961
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File Room = jun96_declassified
File Cabinet = Week-24
Box ID = BX000233
Unit = VII CORPS
Parent Organization = ARCENT
Folder Title = SOLDIERS STORIES
Folder Seq # = 2
Subject = SECERETARY OF DEFENSE REQUEST 1 APR 91
Document Seq # = 4
Document Date =
Scan Date =
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 = 08-NOV-1996