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Subject = NAVY TALKING POINTS OFFICE IF INFO  DESERT STORM                

Folder Title = MAJ GALLOWAY S MATERIAL                                                                         

Parent Organization = MARCENT     

Unit  = 1 MEF       

Box ID = BX600094

File Cabinet = Week-51 

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           (Special Operations Capable) entered the theater and joined with the 4th ME91 creating a second
           Marine Expeditionary force, under the operational control of NAVCENTCOM. The 5th MEB left
           West Coastports aboard another 13 Navy amphibious ships including USS TARAWA, USS TRIPOLI
           and USS NEW ORLEANS. The 13th MEU (SOC) embarked aboard 7 ships including USS OKI-
           NAWA, USS OGDEN and USS CAYUGA.

                  By January 29, 1991, over 90,000 U.S. Marines and over 75,000 Navy personnel were in OP-
           ERATION DESERT STORM.


           SEALIFT

                  In the DESERT STORM Operation, as in previous large logistic support operations, over 95
           percent of the heavy equipment, ammunition, fuel, etc. must go via sealift. The Military Sealift
           Command (MSC), in addition to dispatching the nine Maritime Prepositioning Ships, activated the
           eight fast sealift cargo ships (T-AKRs), which are on a 96-hour activation schedule, and ten Afloat
           Prepositioning Force Ships (APF), carrying munitions and supplies for the Army, Air Force and a
           Navy field hospital. Ile fast sealift cargo ships loaded the Army's 24th (Mechanized) Infantry
           Division. The MSC chartered commercial ocean vessels, including the heavy lift ship Super Servant
           111, to transport three U.S. Navy minesweepers and the newly commissioned Mine Counter Measures
           Ship, USS AVENGER, to the Persian Gulf. In addition, the MSC called about 40 ships from the
           Ready Reserve Force to provide needed surge sealift to sustain the support of U.S. forces in Saudi
           Arabia. This operation, called Sealift I, was so effective that large quantities of combat equipment,
           that could only be transported by sea, began arriving ashore in one of the most remote areas of the
           world less than eight days after the activation order was issued.

                  I The MSC responded to President Bush's November 8,1990 announcement of additional troop
           deployments with Sealift 11, a strategic sealift effort of historic proportions. Ships loaded I Marine
           Expeditionary Force reinforcements and the Army's 101st Air Assault Division, the First Cavalry
           Division, the First, Second and Third Armored Divisions, the First Infantry Division and other large
           corps support units. Combined with Sealift L by January 24, 1991, these operations encompassed
           nearly 250 ships and over 360 offloads, totalling 14 billion pounds of equipment and petroleum
           products.

           REA1)YNAFYASSE7S

                   As the 1990-91 Middle East crisis escalated, strategic commitments required a massive 100
           ship buildup for support of U.S. Forces. The Navy's Maritime Intercept Force (MIF), enforcing the
           United Nations'embargo, by January 29,1991, had challenged more than 7,000 merchant ships and
           boarded over 800 with Navy-Coast Guard boarding parties. Six Navy carrier battle groups with
           embarked airwings and other surface craft deployed quickly to the Middle East area. In Aug     'Ust, the
           USS SARATOGAbattle group and battleship USS WISCONSIN transited the Suez Canal to relieve
           USS DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER which was deployed to the Red Sea. Also, USS MIDWAY
           relieved USS INDEPENDENCE in the Gulf of Oman. Battleship USS MISSOURI deployed to the
           Persian Gulf. When OPERATION DESERT STORM began, carriers USS AMERICA, USS SARA-
           TOGA and USS JOHN F. KENNEDY operated from the Red Sea and carriers USS MIDWAY and
           USS RANGER and battleships USS WISCONSIN and USS MISSOURI were in the Persian Gulf.




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Folder Title = MAJ GALLOWAY S MATERIAL
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Subject = NAVY TALKING POINTS OFFICE IF INFO DESERT STORM
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Declassified = 24-MAR-1997