COMMAND CHRONOLOGY INDEX

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Subject: COMMAND CHRONOLOGY INDEX                                        

Unit: 3D BN 12T MA

Parent Organization: 11TH MARINES

Box ID: BX600025

Folder Title: COMMAND CHRONOLOGY 3RD BATTALION 12TH MARINE REGIMENT JAN - JUN 1991                            

Document Number:          3

Folder SEQ  #:         10




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                                    SECTION 2


                                NARRATIVE SUMMARY


                        Command, Operations and Training

            Third Battalion, 12th Marines arrived in Saudi Arabia on 13
       January with Headquarters Battery, Battery B, let Bn, 10th Ma-
       rines and Battery F, 2nd Bn, 10th Marines. The battalion advance
       party which had been in country since September and Battery I,
       3rd Bn, 14th Marines who arrived early in January joined the Bn
       and began calibrating and test firing weapons at Devil Dog Range.
       During the air campaign, vigorous CPX training was conducted,
       with additional training in day and night battalion movements,
       casualty handling procedures, and intensive NBC training. Con-
       currently, liaison was also made with 4th Marines and llth Ma-
       rines. The enemy situation wag obtained and intelligence dissem-
       ination and reporting procedures were established.

            A battalion movement order was prepared and on 26 Jan, the
       battalion moved to a position south of Tanajib airfield as part
       of Operation Desert Storm to defend against a possible Iraqi
       attack- It was during this time that the Iraqi's made a bold
       attack across the border to take Al Khafji. Training continued
       in conjunction with 4th Marines (Task Force Grizzly) and llth
       Marines as well as within the battalion on NBC defense, mass
       casualty treatment, EPW handling, local security, fire direction
       operations, gunline procedures and convoy tactics.

            On I February, the battalion conducted a night move to press-
       sembly area positions in vicinity of Al Qarrah to support 4th
       Marines in defending the airfield. At the airfield was 4th
       Marines consisting of 2/7, 3/7, and 1/25. The rest of the Divi-
       sion emplaced during the following week. A Q-36 counterbattery
direct support of the battalion by Ilth
       Marines. This movement covered a distance in excess of 100 miles
       and put the battalion on the right flank of let MarDiv (this
       displacement of the battalion in mass took 18 hours). The area
       the battalion occupied was extremely flat in all directions as
       far as the eye could see and required navigating with electronic
       means (PLRS, OPS, and PADS). Position hardening by engineers was
       accomplished because of the threat of an enemy spoiling attack
       and the threat of enemy long range artillery and rocket fires.
       While in this position the battalion was assigned the mission to
       support 5th Bn, llth Marines for an artillery raid on Iraqi SCUD
       storage sites in Kuwait. The following day the battalion re-
       ceived a warning order to be prepared to conduct an artillery
       raid. A Battalion Raid SOP was prepared and a few days later the
       battalion moved forward to conduct a night artillery raid under
       zero visibility conditions. The mission of this raid was to
       provide fire support to let Recon Bn which was tasked to conduct
       a cross border raid/ambush on an enemy police post suspected by
       intelligence to be used as an Iraqi surveillance site. We posi-
       tioned Battery F,


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File Room = sep96_declassified
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Box ID = BX600025
Unit = 3D BN 12T MA
Parent Organization = 11TH MARINES
Folder Title = COMMAND CHRONOLOGY 3RD BATTALION 12TH MARINE REGIMENT JAN - JUN 1991
Folder Seq # = 10
Subject = COMMAND CHRONOLOGY INDEX
Document Seq # = 3
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Long Term Referral = 01-JAN-1980
Permanent Referral = 01-JAN-1980
Non-Health Related Document = 01-JAN-1980
Declassified = 11-OCT-1996