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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   AIRCRAFT* SAW THE TWO M133ILES LAUCHED FROM AN AREA SUSPECTED TO BE
   A SILKWORM SITE AND REPORTED TO THE LUCA4 ANTI-AIR WARFARE
   COMMANDER. 600KOUTS AND BRIDGE TEAM3 FROM MISSOURIO JARRETT* MMS
   GLOUCESTER AND THE RN MINE HUNTERS ALL SAW THE DEADLY BRIGHT LIGMT3
   HEADING DIRECTLY FOR THE 3MIPSe RADAR DECOYS WERE RFLZAOEDQ
   OVERHEAD THE FORMATIONO AN SH@ HELICOPTER NA3 DlRgCTEO TO DROP
   CHAFFO TO PULL THE MISSILE AWAY FROM THE FORMATIONs MISIC)IJPI &ND
   JARRETT FIRED CHAFF AND INFRARED DECOYS TO DEFEAT THIE RADAR A$*
   POSSIBLE HEAT SEEKER OF THE ENEMY MIS3ILEs MI331LE SEARCH ItheARS
   AND SKILLED OPERATORS QUICKLY SORTED OUT THE FRIENDLY AIRCRARN IN
   THE NEAR VICINITY AND PICKED OUT THE INBOUND Sli.KYIDRM3, BOTH '
   JARRETT AND GLOUCESTER MANEUVEREDO WITHIN THE SLIVER OF CLEARED
   NATERO TO INSURE CLEAR FIRING BEARINGS'TO ENGAGE THE INCOMING
   THREATE ONE SILKWORM MI33ILE WAS OBSERVED TO SPLASH DOWN SHORT OF
   THE SHIPS FOR AN UNKNOWN ReA3DNo THE OTHER* WITH ITS DESTRUCTIVE
   HALF TON RARMEADO CONTINUED ON DIRECTLY TURWARD MISSOUR19 AS THE
   MISSILE CLOSEDO CLOSE IN WEAPON SYSTEMS WERE CALMLY 30ITCHEDO
   TO FULL AUTOMATIC,. IN THE EVENT THE MISSILE CAME WITHIN THEIR RANGEs
   FROM THE ARIDGE OF THE FLAGSHIP MISSOURIO THE BRIGHT LIG14T APPEARED
   TO BE BULLS-EYED ON THE BATTLESHIP* BRAVERY AND VALOR RAN DEEP IN
   EVERY SHIP AS THE SILKWORM CLOSED ITS INTENDED TARGETO HMS
   GLOUCESTERIS MISSILE SYSTEM LOCKED ON TO THE INBOUND SILKWORM AND
   LAUNCHED A SEA DART MISSILEs ON MISSOURIO ALL HANDS BRACED FOR
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File Room = oct96_declassified
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Box ID = BX300097
Unit = USS ROOSEV
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Folder Title = FOLDER MESSAGE FILES 20 FEB - 8 MAR 91 CNA 2760 14 OF 14
Folder Seq # = 14
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