BREACHING OPERATIONS 7TH MARINES LOG OPS DESERT STORM

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Subject = BREACHING OPERATIONS 7TH MARINES LOG OPS DESERT STORM           

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               1204 - FROM DIVISION TO TFR: TEMPORARY BOUNDARY CHANGE WITH 2D
               MARDIV AT GRID QT700144 AT PL RED TO GRID QT778229 FOLLOW ROAD
               NORTHEAST TO GRID QT850388 SO 2D MARDIV CAN MOVE NORTH
               1210 - DW REPORTS PROBABLE COUNTERATTACK LISTED ABOVE IS 22D
               BRIGADE, 5TH MECHANIZED INFANTRY DIVISION
               1221 - DW REPORTS POSSIBLE ARMOR TASK FORCE WITH INFANTRY VICINITY
               OF GRID QT7829 TO ATTACK ALONG UNSPECIFIED ROAD
               1238 - PASSED TO DIVISION CAPTURED MORE MAPS FROM 19TH DIVISION
               ALONG WITH COMM GEAR RADBN EXPLOITING COMM GEAR
               1254 - TFR REPORTS FULL COLONEL EPW, SAYS NOT MANY FORCES AROUND
               KIA, THEY ARE AROUND AL AHAMDI, MOST T-72'S REMOVED FROM KUWAIT TO
               IRAQ
               1300 - 3D TNKBN CAPTURES SA-7
               1315 - FAST FAC SEARCHING OUT BRIGADE CP'S/ALL TARGETS OBSCURED
               UNDER SMOKE CLOUD
               1318 - 3/11 DISPLACING TO NEW POSITION
               1330 - UNDERGROUND FIELD HOSPITAL FOUND VICINITY GRID 749052
               1338 - BOUNDARY CHANGE FOR IST AND 2D MARDIV FROM GRID 703140 TO
               748229 TO 850388 IN AFFECT 1337
               1352  -REPORT OF UNDERGROUND HOSPITAL TO DIVISION
               1430  -TFG ARRIVES TO CLEAR AL JABER AIRFIELD
               1430  -TFR DISPLACED TO ATTACK POSITION
               1433  -3/11 IN PLACE AT NEW POSITION
               1500  -EEI FROM 3D TNKBN ON VISIBILITY OVER THE OIL FIELD
               1515  -3D TNKBN EEI PASSED AN ANSWER
               1534  -FROM TFR TO 3D TNKBN: MOVE TO ATTACK POSITION BY 1600
               1535  -1/7 REPORTS ON THE MOVE HAVE COMPLETED FACE TO FACE WITH
               3/7
               1538  -3D TNKBN ON THE MOVE
               1538  -CFL 4 IN AFFECT
               1540  -TFS REPORT BMP EQUIPPED MECHANIZED BATTALION SURRENDERING
               AT GRID QT899132
               1544 - TFS REPORT LEAD ELEMENT AT GRID QT775106 MOVING NORTHEAST
               1600 - PASSED EPW REPORT ON EPW FROM 3D ARMOR DIVISION GAVE US
               CENTER MASS OF DIVISION AT GRID QT6830, AND BRIGADES LOCATIONS,
               BRIGADES AT 75% COMBAT EFFECTIVENESS
               1606 - SURRENDERING BATTALION IS ACTUALLY A BDE
               1610 - TFS HAS ANOTHER BRIGADE SURRENDERING, REPORTS DUG IN T-62
               AND BMP'S AT GRID QT870153
               1612 - TFR DIRECTS 1/7 SCREEN SOUTH PL RED BETWEEN 85 AND 77 GRID
               LINES
               1622  -1/7 IN ATTACK POSITION
               1630  -TFR IN ATTACK POSITION
               1630  -UPON ARRIVE RIPPER-5 C-TRACK HARD DOWN/MECHANICAL PROBLEM
               1630  -ESTABLISHED TIME OF ATTACK FOR BMNT 26 FEB 91
               1800  -WENT TO MOPP-4 @
               1830  -ALL CLEAR SOUNDED@
               1910  -WENT TO MOPP-4 --
               1920  -ALL CLEAR SOUNDED -
               2320  -INTEL UPDATE FROM DIVISION: POSSIBLE COUNTERATTACK OUT OF
               THE NORTH OR EAST
               2320 - CAS WOULD BE AFFECTED THE NEXT DAY BY BAD WEATHER
               26 February 1991
               0100 - IST CEB INTEL REPORT ON CAPTURED EQUIPMENT AND MINE FROM
               FIRST AND SECOND OBSTACLE BELT



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