1ST BRIGADE CHRONOLOGY

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Subject = 1ST BRIGADE CHRONOLOGY

Parent Organization = ARCENT

Unit = VII CORPS

Folder Title = 1st cavalry division-command report-opns ds-ds -part 3-annex b-1st brigade chronology

Document Number = 2

Box ID = BX000310

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21 Jan
0108: SCUD Alert, target is believed to be Hafar
Al Batin or King Khalid Military City.
0238: DTAC directs that units will remain at MOPP
level one until further notice.
07OP: MOPP Level Zero in effect.
1143: The Syrian 9th AD completes movement of
approximately one brigade.
2230: Informed by DTAC that movement of the
Syrian 9th AD is delayed 24 hours due to bad weather.

2P Jan
0517: B-3 approves the brigade's request to
reoccupy defensive positions. Units have been holding in
laager sites south of defensive positions during movement
of the Syrian 9th-AD. The movement route of the Syrians is
farther north than first planned.

23 Jan
1214: Syrians complete movement of approximately
one brigade.

24 Jan
0534: Informed by DTAC that the Syrian 9th AD
will complete movement across the division front today.
2015: TF 3-32 investigates suspicious civilians
vicinity their positions.
2359: TF 2-5 investigates seven suspicious
civilians vicinity their positions.

25 Jan
1325: DTAC approves reconnaissance of the new
defensive sector. The recon parties are limited to two
vehicles per battalion.
i540: DTAC warns the brigade of a possible Iraqi
air attack beginning at 1545 hours. The warning is based
on communications intercepts which later prove to be
false.

26 Jan
1000: The brigade begins movement north to new
defensive positions.
1319: All units are closed in new defensive
positions with the FEBA NS839995 to NS992997 to PS139993.

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