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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   AREA,, KEEPINR, AN EYE AN-0 EAR ON ENEMY ACTIVITIES AND OERE EITHER
   ARMED FOR OR ABLE To CALL IN A READY RESPONSE,
       BY THE EVENING OF THE 23RD OF FEBRUARY A NARRONO 1000 TO 2000
   YARD OIDE SAATH OF WATERO 31 MILES LONG# HAD BEEN CLEARED OF MINES
   ALLOWING THE BATTLESHIP MISSOURIO THE TASH GROUPOS NEW FLAGSHIPO
   TO CLOSE THE ISLAND OF FAYLAKA AND
   COMMENCE HEAVY BOMBARDMENT OF ENEMY POSITIONS, NIGHT AND DAY THE
   SATTLESHIPIS GUNS ROARED AS ENEMY BUNKERS AND FORTIFIED POSITIONED
   WERE SUPVEILLED BY THE SHIPS REMOTE PILOTED VEHICLE (RPV)O IN THE
   FLAGSHIP THE TEAM OF MARINE AND NAVY TARGETING EXPERTS AND AIR
   CONTROLLEQS, THE SACC AND TACCO WORKED AROUND THE C60CK TO
   DECONF4ICT FRIE,QDLY STRIKE AIRCRAFT FROM THE BATTLESHIP GUNNERYL
   BY NOW THE TASK GROUP OAS WELL WITHIN RANGE OF SEVERAL SUSPECTED
   SILKOORM IISSILE BATTERY SITESO HEAVY AHTILLERY AND MOBILE MULTIPLE
   ROCKET LAJNCMERSO AS WELL AS POTENTIAL MUSTERD GAS AND NERVE AGENTS
   SOME OF THESE AEAPONS COULD DELIVER. THE STEADY SEASONAL WIND WOULD
   AID THE EFFECTIVENESS OF SUCH AN ATTACK BY CARRYING THE AGENTS TO
   THE TASK GROUP AHICH WAS CONSTRAINED TO MANEUVER IN THE NARROW
   SNEPT CHANNEL, A HEIGHTENED CHEMICAL WEAPON ALERT 3TATU3 WAS
   ORDERED A$ A DEFENSIVE MEASUREs THE RN MINE,-HUNTER3o CONTINUING TO
   mrjRK EVEN CLOSER TO THE HOSTILE SHOREO DID 30 "MILE CONTINUOUSLY AT
   THE HIGHEST CHEIICAL NARFARE DEFENSIVE POSTUREE MORE THAN ONCE
   DURING THIS TIMEO BATTLESHIP MISSOURIO USS JARRETT AND MMS
   GLOUCESTER PENT TU MAXIMUM CHEMICAL DEFENSIVE MEASURES IN RESPONSE
   TO CHEMICAL DETECTOR INDICATIONS THAT DEADLY CHEMICALS WERE IN THE
   AREA,
      ENEMY ACITIVITY ASHORE INCREASED ON THE 24THo AND TARGETING OF
   THE OFFSHORE 6ATTLEGROUP BECAME MORE APPARENT AND MORE MENACING,
   THE MINESTRIKES ON USS TRIPOLI AND U33 PRINCETONO JUST A FEW DAYS
   BEFOREO A4D SUBSE(IUENT ANNOUNCEMENT$ UN MAJOR NEWS NETWORKS
BIOUS ASSAULT WAS NEAR AT HANDE CERTAINLY
   MUST HAVE CONVINCED THE ENEMY THAT A MAJOR AMPHIBIOUS ASSAULT ON
   THE KUWAITI COAST WAS IMINIENTO ENEMY RADARS FREQUENTLY PROBED THE
   SHIPS AS OINE CLEARANCE OPERATIONS CONTINUED TO PUSH CLOSER TO THE
   KUWAITI SHORE, THE RN MINEHUNTERS $ERE OFTEN FAR IN ADVANCE OF THE
   COVERING '4138I        PPED@SHIPS.
       A NARROWO          AD.WlDg RIBBON WAS CLEARED TO THE WEST OF THE
   FAYLAKAH I36AN         SUPPORT AREA TO ALLOW THE BATTLESHIP$ 916 GUNS
   TO NOW RANGE I M       AZT ITSELF, THE COALITION FORCES WERE MOVING
   UP THE COAST A         16 INCH GUNS OERE CALLED UPON TO SUPPORT THEIR
   ADVANCE* ON THE  a     OF FEBRUARY, SHORE BOMBARDMENT STARTED WITH
   THE DESTRUCTION  OF A  MAJOR AMMUNITION DUMP FROM A DIRECT MIT, LATER
   THAT NIGHT SEVERAL HUNDRED ROUNDS WERE TO BE FIRED TO CONVINCE THE
   ENEMY THAT THE AMPHIBIOUS LANDING OAS TAKING PLACE JUST SOUTH OF
   KUWAIT CITY. MISSOURI WAS DIRECTED BY THE TASK GROUP COMMANDER TO
   COMMENCE A RD" DAY BOMBARDMENT OF KNOWN ENEMY POSITIONS IN AN
   EFFORT TO CONVINCE Hlmo THAT SHORTLY THEREAFTER AN ASSAULT NAVE
   WOULD FOL@04, OVER ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY TONS UP ORDNANCE WAS
   FIRED AT THE SELECTED TARGETS NEAR THE INTENDED LANDING BEAC14ES9
   THE ENEMY RESPONSE INCLUDED THE LAUNCH OF TOO SILKWORM M13SILES AT
   THE SATT@EGROUP, THE ALARM RANG OUT ALMOST SIMULTANEOUSLY FROM
   SEVERAL UNITSO OMISSILE IRSOUNDRI ABOVE THE THE FORCE, AN EA68

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Subject = PUBLIC AFFAIRS DESERT STORM RELEASES
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Permanent Referral = 01-JAN-1980
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Declassified = 22-NOV-1996