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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   PATHFINDER LAMPS WOULD BE USEO REPEATEDLY FOR NIGHT ARMED
   RECONNAISSANCE OF ENEMY P031TIONS IN KUWAIT AND ON FAYLAKAM ISLAND,
      BY THE 17TH OF FEBRUARY, MINE CLEARING VESSELS AND HELICOPTERS
   HAD BEGUN SWEEPING A LANE TOWARD THE KUWAITI COAST. AS NIGHT
   FELLO INCREASED ENEMY ACTIVITY WAS APPARENT AS THE ENEMY ATTEMPTED
   TO TARGET THE TASK FORCEs VARIOUS INDICATIONS AND WARNINGS RELATIVE
   TO ENEMY SILKWORM SITES PROMPTED DEFENSIVE MEASURES INCLUDING
   MANEUVERS TO CHANGE THE FORCE STATION DI3POSTIONs ALTHOUGH STILL
   4ITmIN RA;@GE OF THE SILKWORM MISSILESP THE VULNERABLE LIGHTLY ARMED
   MINE HUNTERS, THEIR MOTHER SHIP HMS HERALD AND THE OTHER SUPPORT
   SHIPS WERE REPD$iTiUNED EAST OF BRITISH AND U,S, SURFACE TO AIR
   MISSILE CAPABLE SHIPS PROVIDING A WALL OF ANTI-MISSILE DEFENSES9
   USS PRINCETON, HURRIEDLY COMPLETED A NEEDED REFUELING IN GAS06INE
   ALLEY AND RACED BACK TO ASSUME A POSITION BETWEEN THE SILKWORM
   THREAT AND THE TASK GROUPS MISSION ESSENTIAL MINE HUNTING AND
   MINES4EEPING UNITS AND SUPPORT SHIPS,
     DISASTER STRUCK EARLY IN THE MORNING ON THE 18TH OF FEBRUARYG
   USS TRIPOLI, STRUCK A MOORED CONTACT MINE, THE FORCE OF THE
   EXPLOSION LIFTEU THE SHIP AT THE BON AND RESULTED IN DAMAGING
   SEVERAL COMPARTMENTS AS FLOODING PROGRESSED@ POWER AND
   COMMUNICATIONS WERE LOST BUT QUICKLY RESTORED AND FLOODING WAS
   CONTAINED THROUGH HEROIC ACTIONS BY HER CREW, MIRACULOUSLY THERE
   WAS 40 LOSS OF LIFE, AND ONLY FEN MINOR INJURIESE SHORING UP THE
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Box ID = BX300097
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Folder Title = FOLDER MESSAGE FILES 20 FEB - 8 MAR 91 CNA 2760 14 OF 14
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Subject = PUBLIC AFFAIRS DESERT STORM RELEASES
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Queued for Declassification = 01-JAN-1980
Short Term Referral = 01-JAN-1980
Long Term Referral = 01-JAN-1980
Permanent Referral = 01-JAN-1980
Non-Health Related Document = 01-JAN-1980
Declassified = 22-NOV-1996