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and jamming and destroying radar guided threat weapons.    Navy

jamming aircraft also supported all US and coalition airforces --
in fact, presence of the Prowlers was a go/no go criterion for

strike missions -- if the countermeasures aircraft weren't available,
the strike aircraft did not fly the missions.


     It was that enabling, enhancing, complementary naval

presence on both flanks of coalition land and air forces ashore
that made the air campaign both feasible and successful.  It also

ensured the continued flow~;of logistics throughout the period of

hostilities and provided the ??insurance?1 which allowed the Gulf
states to participate fully in the coalition because they were

protected from retaliation.  As General McPeak, Chief of Staff oF

the Air Force said, "Naval aviation made a tremendous

contribution. It was not redundant.   They were tremendously

effective in everything they did."

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