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ports of the United States, there would have been one MSC
controlled ship every 50 miles . . . . that's maritime power!
-- SHDEr--
- The equipment delivered by MPS ships to the 1st Marine
Division would have required 2100 C-5s, our largest military
transport aircraft, to do it by air.
- As the Commandant of the Marine Corps, General Gray,
says, `Three or four ships carry as much beans, bandages and
bullets as all the nation's airlift combined!"
SLIDE 18--
One of the most important lessons of DESERT SHIELD
comes from understanding what the operation was not: it was not
a model for all future U.S. military missions. From the
perspective of military planning, the conditions which existed in
Saudi Arabia--and which exist in the other Gulf Cooperation
:is
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