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tI~ati 800 soflics. A~ a tcsWt, the Iraqis ba~T abandon~ ~flLT1liicJ CO'0troI of LJ~jr air dcf~nse
Wit?)rn iraq and k'uwajt  a vcry iniportant Point. This accounts, In part, ror tlie very, Very lo~
attrition rate of c~a1itioj~ airport. Pilot skill also accounts tor (hat low attrition rate. As you
know, we'v~ ~own morc than 30,ooo sortle~, and WC'vc lost only 19 aircraft. In tl)C last five days,
WC've lost only one £Itcraft to hostIle ground firt.

     Talkins a little bit r;io~ about air-1~air Combat. As you know1 (3cneral ~o~tU a~~~~~ ~~
     air supr~macy Jast week. We'~c dcstroyed 29 iraqi fighter aircrafl, wit}~ not One SIi~~~e
AIr~~~ ~oss on sl('c pan of abe Coalition. AJso, I :hink it's ifl'portant to remember that not a sitigle
Iraqi aircraft to dale has PCnetrated the Coalition air ~pa~e since this war began. In (he last three days
alone, F-iS's have shot down nine MlG-231s and ~iirage F~1's. The Iraqi early warning Sy5tem has
Vompletely ~d, and t1~ir aLrCr'A£t ha~ b:cn caugbt totally by surprised when we a~cked thcn0

     A 3ubjc'ct that1s been vtty niuch In tl)e tiews this wtck is airfjelds, so I'd like 10 tal~ now a
little bit about £irt~c!~.  W: ~LiiaJly ~£ctca 4n ~IffickIs  16 primary airfields, and another 28
disp~a] a~,eids. W~ constantly ~ Thevaittating this, based upon wfrre they put thetr' airplanes. To
date, baaed ~~ W~~rc their airplanes ha~e been, we'vc attackcd 38 airfields and we've flown Over
1300 sortieS against tl~~ airfici£~s. ~c ~8 at~nclc1s havt all been g~~ ~~ itastonce, a~ !nany of
tbcm havc bccn atn~k at Icast ~ ~zu~£   at least 9 of them ait flon~PCrational. ~Ut itt me :nake £hi%
Very in)ponant Poijit. ~Ve never bad any intention to sender all ~f the aiifields tflOptmblt  t?iat ~is
not our Intention at all. Our Intention is 10 render the air force ineffective. There ha"'e hoen varying
1tports about how many of these aitf)elds have bee:) destroyed, and there have bcen ~`arying reports
about how snuch damqe ~1'tC~onc on ihe grouacL J'u £eu yon WC Ca;) toat~ at least 25 aitplanes
~Stroyed bn the ~un~ and £ want to give YOU ~11 t~afflp]e    (chan)

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     ~bis is a~phic `tprOduction t)fs~me han! tvldence `1)11 `we have, ot the Al Taqaddurn
Airfield on 23 Januar~, We wtnt in to A] Tagamum and we destroyed three ~aclger aircraft 01) the
~und. Ln addlti~n to dcst:oying ttnee Ba~ger alrtrraft, we did severe damage to an Ac1nat~ Caridid
aliViane. This )s the t9Uivalent of our U,5 AWACS. When we looked at our rc£ults, `YC found out
itat tl~ ~~re ihn~ inore       on the ~nund, so we flew back tbc nc~t day and destroye~ Ihose
th1't;

     As a resu!t of this lype or Operation, Il)ty decided to put all of their aircraft in hardene(i
~t1res    ~y :ri~a to i)jcle `heir aircraft, ~r~, ,~ ~mfltflenced a `ys~matIc destruction of
those hardened shelters. At this time0 I would like to introd~~e ~ngadier ~eneral Glosson. Nc
Ilappens to be the C(nnrnL:)der of the 14th Air l?ivision. lie rttiiinde




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