DESERT STORM AFTER ACTION REPORT

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Subject: DESERT STORM AFTER ACTION REPORT                                

Unit: 22D SUPCOM  

Parent Organization: ARCENT      

Box ID: BX005554

Folder Title: ARMY EOD IN DESERT STORM VOL 3 542 EOD CONTROL TEAM                                             

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                EOD Group sorwtimes asked for informtion or r        ted t@    directly, but
        that was eventually solved. This problem was probably caused by first being a
        Control Tearn and not an EOD GroW. This event for than nay have went a lot
        smootherhad a mre   @rienced Staff person at that level arrived before or when the
        542d arrived, instead of trying to integrate at the late date they did. Because the
        war involved a full scale deployamt of the Active, Reserve, and National Guard
        forces, it would have been better if           had deployed the          BOD
        with his staff level experience. This experience m scene would have not only
                 BOD Group's of festiveness, but would have assured a =rather transition
        from a Control Temn to a Control Group.

                Your rrdssicn consisted of what type of incidents?

                We had a good cross section of EOD amssions. In Dhahran, we res            to a
        number of hoax IED'S, supported Saudi Air Force BOD on range clearances,      supported
        the Saud3. Arabian National        an a few conventional incidents (mainly    stuck
        rounds in the tubes), supported 513th 141 for intelligence gathering and insured all
        ordnance and equimmt gathered by 513th blI was safe for transport. We also
        certified ordnance and  @Mmt safe for transport to OONUS.

                Whm we deployed further North to Log Base Alpha, our nmssion changed to the
        =re conventional EM support. Unfortunately, we had no EOD incidents to report.
        In stwport of 5th Special Forces Group, we did a little of everything. We helped
        gather intelligence information for war crinm and information to the extent of
        Jordan's help to Iraq. We were responsible for clearing boobytraps in tkie bunker
        I=w and provi&W EOD support to the Pan-Arab forces. Later we cleared explosive
d a variety of
        other essential areas. We also supported the Kuwaiti Resistant in clearing area@
                essential.

                In support of Task Force Freed=, we cleared holdings of ordnance and
        weapons. in particular, we did ordnance clearance of two buildings in      @t City.
        one, a mmll ASP that had caught fire and blew up, and the other, a police station
        where the wm          had          . Th3.9 is where we began using vehicle tires as
        replacements for           around  mmll  @tions we would detonate. The tires could
        also be used a few times over and tires were plentiful because of the Iraqi Image.
        We also had a tean clearing the burjm line along the coast. The Kuwaiti ArivW would
        pick up the reusable        tim, and the          le we would pick up and turn in to
        the SM  for destruction.

                We then moved to 9WWrt 3d AD. our @sion changed to clearing the town of
        Safwan, refugee camps,       t @t's CP's, the Peace Talk area, and heliports of
        enenw ordnance and s       tions. We res         to a variety of US and Iraqi
        ordnance. This is where the use of tires was brought to a fine art. This is were
        we did our only true RSP's of the war. The RSP's were performed on three W82's
        with W346's by the heliport next to the Peace Talk area. The tents and TOC were
        only 60 ffeters from the barbs. The fuzes were an armed, partially          , and an
                . We know IAW the nanual, all are considered armed regardless of the
        condition of the window, but believe us, the cam does not protrude until it's red.
        This did nake a difference in our success story.      All R.9P's were performed
        according to the book. The fully armed fuze did not cone out after two tries, the
        other two were successful on the first tries. on the third try it started ticking,
        and the alternate method did not work, so after a few seconds thought, running
   became the preferred mlthod of RSP. We eventually used a     @ 's (tank) 7.62m to
        shoot away the fuze and conv@ the Area Canrander blowing in place was the only

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File Room = sep96_declassified
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Box ID = BX005554
Unit = 22D SUPCOM
Parent Organization = ARCENT
Folder Title = ARMY EOD IN DESERT STORM VOL 3 542 EOD CONTROL TEAM
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Subject = DESERT STORM AFTER ACTION REPORT
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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 = 22-NOV-1996