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Subject = XVIII AIRBORNE CORPS OPERATION DESERT SHIELD CHRONOLOGY
Parent Organization = CENTCOM
Unit = ARCENT
Folder Title = VOLUME 5 XVIII AIRBORNE CORPS AFTER ACTION REPORT FOR 3D ARMY
Document Number = 4
Box ID = BX000527
UNCLASSIFIED
15Z XVIII Airborne Corps FRAGO #8 places the 96th and 64,tth
Transportation Companies (received from USARCENT
SUPCOM) under the operational control of the lst
Support Command (Corps) effective 090OZ on 18
January 1991.
1300 3d Armored Cavalry makes contact with 6th (French)
Light Armored Division.
1548 Two unidentified individuals in SCUBA equipment are
observed in the water near Warehouse #20 in the
Port of Dammam; they disappear after being engaged
by military police.
1305Z XVIII Airborne Corps FRAGO #9 accepts Company B, 96th
Civil Affairs Battalion, from USARCENT and
attaches it to the 6th (French) Light Division
with the additional specification that it is to
provide direct support civil affairs teams to the
46th and 171st Support Groups during Phase II of
Operation DESERT STOR@L.
133OZ XVIII Airborne Corps FRAGO #10 directs the transfer of
part of the Phase Line RAZOR screening
responsibility from the 6Lh (French) Light Armored
Division to the 3d Armored Cavalry effective 1'200C
on 21 January 1991.
25 212th Field Artillery Brigade begins receiving jamming
on the XVIII Airborne Corps Radio Teletype [RATTI
net which lasts past 2217.
t5 XVIII Airborne Corps Main Command Post receives
notification from CINCCENT of SCUD launches
towards Dhahran from two points.
2155 XVIII Airborne Corps Main Command Post receives
notification from CINCCENT of a thirs SCUD being
launched.
2259 20th Engineer Brigade reports that the 20th Engineer
Battalion has closed into Logistical Base CHARLIE.
20 January (C+163) (D+3)
0645Z XVIII Airborne Corps FRAGO #11 amends FRAGO W'2 to make
the release of the 2d Brigade Task Force of the
101st Airborne Division from the tactical control
of VII Corps an on order mission. Also amends the
boundaries of Assembly Area MAPLE.
113OZ XVIII Airborne Corps FRAGO #12 assigns screening
responsibilities along Phase Line RAZOR to each
major maneuver subordinate command as the element
closes into its area of operations.
1930 All-64 from Company C, 3d Battalion, 227th Aviation
(12th Aviation Brigade) has a hard landing in
Assembly Area SEIRUCE (LT 708504) resul.tiiia in two
minor injuries.
45 Notification received from CINCCENT that Iraq launched
two SCUD missiles toward Diialtrati.
2155 Notification received from CINCCEN'I' that Iraq launched
third SCUD towaro Dliatirati.
2157 XVIII Airborne Corps Main Coiiiiik@tn(i Post liears nearb)@
UNCLASSIFIED
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File Room = aug96_declassified
File Cabinet = Week-33
Box ID = BX000527
Unit = ARCENT
Parent Organization = CENTCOM
Folder Title = VOLUME 5 XVIII AIRBORNE CORPS AFTER ACTION REPORT FOR 3D ARMY
Folder Seq # = 1
Subject = XVIII AIRBORNE CORPS OPERATION DESERT SHIELD CHRONOLOGY
Doc Seq # = 4
Doc Date =
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Queued for Declassification = 25-AUG-1996
SAGWI Request = 11-APR-1997
Long Term Referral = 01-JAN-1980
Permanent Referral = 01-JAN-1980
Non-Health Related Document = 01-JAN-1980
Declassified = 18-APR-1997