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File: 120396_oct96_decls35_0007.txt
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
Document Number: 2
Folder SEQ #: 14
U N C A 3 S I P I E 0 IMMEDIATE
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0 P Z411456Z MAR 9i PSN-681132G21
FM COMDESRON TOO TWO
TO RHIPAAA/USCINCCENT//CCPA//
INFO RUHGJAA/COMUSNAVCENT
RUHGSAA/CTF ONE FIVE ONE
RUHGPBA/CTF ONE FIVE FOUR
RHPTAFA/CTG ONE FIVE FOUR PT TWELVE 3$3
RHOSMPA/CJMCRuDESGRu EIGHT
U'4CLAS //iO5720//
FINAL SECTION OF 03
SUBJT PU86IC AFFAIRS - DESERT STORM RELEASES
SHOCK, FRJM.THE BRIDGE OF US$ JARRETT,# THE MISSILE ALSO APPEARED
TO BE HEADING TOWARD MISSOURI BUT THEN VEERED AvvAYO PERHAPS DRAWN
BY THE CHAFF FROM THE OVERHEAD AIRCRAFT OR FROM THE SHIPS
THEMSELVES, GLOUSTERIS SEA DART SLAMMED INTO THE SILKWORM AND A
TREMENDOUS EXPLOSION LIT UP THE SKY9
ANTICIPATING MORE SILKWORM ATTACKS TO COME IN THE DARKNESS OF
THE EARLY MORNING* THE MINEHUNTERS WERE MOVLRD BEHIND THE DEFENSES
OF THE SATTLEGROUP* NERVES FRAYED BUT SPIRITS HIGHO THE RN HUNTS
AND H4S HERALD RETURNED IN A FEW HOURS TO RESUME THEIR MISSIONO
RELENTLESSLY OPENING THE CHANNEL TO THE COAST OF KUWAIT AS THE 08
CONTINUED TO 80,ABARD THE ENEMY FORCES ASHORE* AS LIGHT CAME a
MISSOURIIS RPV MA$ OUT HUNTINGO THIS TIME FOR THE SILKV40RM 31TE
THAT HAD LAUNCHED THE ATTACK JUST A FEW HOURS BEFOREE WITHIN THREE
HOURS, IT WAS LOCATED, laoo METERS SOUTH OF ITS PREVIOUSLY BOMBED
OUT SITE, A DEVASTATING 16 INCH BARAGE COMMENCED INTERSPERSED
WITH MK 92 BOMBS FROM SUPPORTING AIRCRAFTO RENDERING THE SITE
USELESS,
FOR SEVERAL DAYS, TASK GROUP 151.11 WAS UNDER CONTINUOUS STRAIN
OF BATTLE, GENERAL QUARTERS STATIONS WERE MANNED FOR OVER 60 HOURS
CONTINUOUSLY BY MANY UNITS THAT PARTICIPATEDE U33 MISSOURI FIRED
611 ROUNDS AND MORE THAN ONE MIL41ON ONE.HUNDRED THOUSAND POUNDS OF
ORDNANCE, ACTS OF BRAVERY AND COOL HEADS PREVAILED THROUGMOUTO
THE STRENGTH OF TASK FORCE OAS INDIVIDUALS WHO STAYED AT THEIR
SITATIONO
N144 R HE ICTION OFF
HISTORY FAYLAKA I34AND IN THE NORTH
ARABIAN GULF A Oit COURAGE AND UETERMINATIONO THAT ACHIEVED
UNEQUIVOCAS61 8 So IN KEEPING THE IRAQI ARMY AROUND KUWAIT CITY
OFF BALANCE AND HELD IN PLACE TO DEFEND AGAINST WHAT THEY BELIEVED
NA$ AN IMPENDING INVASIONO CLEARING A MINEFIELD FOR A FIRE SUPPORT
AREAO TO BRING BATTLESHIP GUNS WITHIN RANGE OF LAND TARGETS# WAS
ACCOMPLISHED BY A SMALL FORCE OF MINECLEARANCE 3HIP3 AND AIRCRAFT
UNDER THREAT AND ACTUAL FIRE FROM THE ENEMYL IT IS A TESTAMENT TO
THE DETERMINATION OF THE 14EN WHO PARTICIPATED IN THIS COMBINED
CCG EIGHT INFO 01-CCG 8 ROUTE IOB/A
commo ACOMMO RADIO MCLCPO F14E3
PRK 04259 COPIES 001/006 LIAA 00032 COMDESRON TOO TWO
TOR 050126Z TOR 050127Z RUFRSGG 9697 0414S6Z MAR 91
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File Room = oct96_declassified
File Cabinet = Week-41
Box ID = BX300097
Unit = USS ROOSEV
Parent Organization = NAVCENTCOM
Folder Title = FOLDER MESSAGE FILES 20 FEB - 8 MAR 91 CNA 2760 14 OF 14
Folder Seq # = 14
Subject = PUBLIC AFFAIRS DESERT STORM RELEASES
Document Seq # = 2
Document Date =
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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