PUBLIC AFFAIRS DESERT STORM RELEASES

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Subject: PUBLIC AFFAIRS  DESERT STORM RELEASES                           

Unit: USS ROOSEV  

Parent Organization: NAVCENTCOM  

Box ID: BX300097

Folder Title: FOLDER MESSAGE FILES 20 FEB - 8 MAR 91 CNA 2760 14 OF 14                                        

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   SMN 023942

   MISSION PLANNING AND COORDINATION CONTINUED THROUGH 12 FEBRUARY9
   CD&IMOOGRE DAVE GRIEVE CCOMUSMCMGRU) AND COMMODORE CHRIS CRAIG RN
   (SENIOR NAVAL OFFICER MIDDLE EAST)O INTEGRATED THEIR FORCES AND
   REQUIREMENTS INTO THE OVERALL PLAN* EARLY ON THE 13TH OF FEBRUARYO
   FLAGSHIP TRIPOLI WAS UNDEREWAY IN THE SOUTHERN ARABIAN GULF
   STEAMING NORTH TO RENDEZVOUS WITH THE TASK GROUP , FROM ALL PARTS
   OF THE GULF, u,S, BATTLESHIPS (USS MISSOURI AND U33 WISCONSIN   0
   DESTROYERS AND FRIGATESO AS %ELL AS ROYAL NAVY TYPE 42f$ AND     9
   22'S# TOOK THEIR STATIONS IN THE THIRTY ONE SKIP FORMATION IN
   STRETCHED FOR THIRTEEN MILEST IN THE VANO US3 CURT3 AND US$. @
   JARRETTO WITH SPECIAL NIGHT SIGHTSO KEPT ALERT FOR P033:BLE:F'60ATING
   MINES, NEXT, ROYAL NAVY MINEHUNTERS IN A LINE ABREAST USED SONAR
   TO SEARCH FOR BUOYANT MINES AHEAD OF THE MAIN BODYO OVERMEADO LYNX
   AND SH@B HELICOPTERS PATROLLED IN SEARCH OF MINES AND ENEMY
   VESSELS, THE MAIN BODY OF BATTLESHIPS AND THE AMPHIBIOUS ASSAULT
   SHIP TRIPOLI WITH EMBARKED HELICOPTERS FOLLO#VED* ALONG WITH THE
   VARIOUS SUPPORT SHIPS# INCLUDINGI RN Oll.ER ULNAO HOSPITAL SHIP
   ARGUSO AND A VARIETY OF TENDERS* REPAIR SHIPS# TUGS AND EDO SUPPORT
   VESSELS,
      EACH OF THE SHIPSO THEIR EMBARKED STAFFSO AND A330CIATED AIRCRAFT
   HAD BEEN IN BUT A FEW DAYS STEAMING* FORGED INTO A COMBINED AND
   INTEGRATED FIGHTING FORCE* EARLY IN THE AFTERNOON OF THE ISTH OF
   FEBRUARYO AS THE FORCE WAS APPROACHING THE LINE DIVIDING THE NORTH
   ARABIAN GULF AND THE CENTRAL PORTIUNO THE FIRST REPORT OF A FLOATING
   MINE RANG OUT, SIGHTED BY A LYNX HELICOPTERO USS CURTS LAUCHED HER
   SH-6a WITH AN EUD TEAM ABOARD* AND SHORTLY THE MINE WAS NEUTRALIZED
   WITH AN EXPLO31VE COUNTER CHARGEs THIS WAS THE FIRST OF MANY TO BE
   ENCOUNTERED9 AS THE TASK GROUP CONRINUED NORTH AND THEN WEST TORWARD
   THE KUWAITI COASTO MORE AND MORE FRIENDLY AIRCRAFT HERE SEEN$ STRIKE
$ CARRIERS OPERATING IN THE ARABIAN GULF TO
   THE SOUTH WERE A CONSTANT STREAM* INGRESSING AND EGRESSING ENEMY
   HELD TERRITORYs TENSIONS ABOARD ALL UNITS CONTINUED TO SPIRAL UPWARD
   AS THE FORCE APPROACHED KUWAITO COMING 61THIN RANGE OF A VARIETY OF.
   ENEMY WEAPONS ABLE TO HIT THE SHIPSS N04 LESS THAN THIRTY MILES
   AnAyo DEFENSIVE REACTION TIME MOULD BE MINIMALs IN QUESTION WERE
   TmE LOCATION AND OPERABILITY OF IRAQI F-I MIRAGE ATTACK AIRCRAFT ANU
   SUPER FRELOV HELICOPTERSE CAPABLE OF CARRYING THE DEADLY EXOCET
   ANTI-SHIP MISSILEO AS WELL AS THE SILKWORM SHORE LAUNCHED MISSILEO
   CAPABLE OF HOMING IN ON A SHIP WITH OVER A THOUSAND POUND WARHEADE
   AS THE FORCE CONTINUED EASTO SUPPORTING UNITS ALONG WITH SEVERAL
   C04BATANTS HERE DIVERTED SOUTH EAST OF THE DURRAM OIL. FIELD9 THE
   LARGE OIL RIGS PROVIDED NATURAL PROTECTION By CLUTTERING THE
   ENE4YIS RADAR TARGETING WITH EXUCET OR SILKWORM MI3$ILE$t THIS
   AREA BECA14E PGASOLINE ALLEY" FOR REPLENISHING THE TASK GROUP$ THE
   BATTLESHIP WISCONSIN OAS DETACHED AND ROUTED BACK TO THE SOUTH TO
   PROVIDE NAVAL GUNFIRE SUPPORT TO GROUND TROOPS IN THE VICINITY OF
   THE SAUDI BORDER,
     ON THE 16TH OF FEBRUARY A SUSPECTED SILKWORM BATTERY WAS
   ATTACKED BY THE JOINT TASK GROUPS U,Ss ARMY AMIRS HELICOPTgRll.
   EMBARKED IN THE USS JARRETT, DIRECTED TO THE TARGET BY A NAVY
   LAMPS HELD THE TWO ANIPS ACHIEVED DIRECT HELLFIRE MISSILE HITS ON
   TWO SILKWORM MISSILE AIRFRAMES AT THE 31TE@ AHIPS AND THEIR
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Subject = PUBLIC AFFAIRS DESERT STORM RELEASES
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