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one of the major success stories of Desert Shield/Desert Storm.


     - Yes, airlift was successful - the most successful in history,

but, it was sealift that moved 90% of all cargo to the theater.
And, it is sealift which will bring over 95% of it back


     - Sealift moved 2.4 million tons of cargo an average of 7500
miles to the Gulf during the first six months of DESERT

SHIELD     By comparison, this is more than four times the
amount of cargo carried acr~oss the Bnglish Channel to Normandy

during the D-Day invasion of World War Two and more than 6.5

times that of- the peak force buildup during the Vietnam War

during a similar period.


     - On 2 Jan 1991, at the peak of the DESERT SEfIELD
deployment, the military sealift command had 172 ships unde~v~'iy.

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