162                                    U.S. MARINES IN THE PERSIAN GULF, 1990-1991


Proceedings: Is there a question I didn't ask that you would like to answer?

Krulak: I've been an infantry officer for 26 of my 27 years in the Marine
Corps.  But as a temporary logistician, I have never been prouder of any group
of men and women than my FSSG.        Nobody who was not there will ever know
what it took to build the support area at Al Khanjar. General Boomer had never
seen anything like it.  It was so big that you could not see from one end to the
other; it faded into the horizon.  And the Marines who put that together in two
weeks didn't stop to rest on their oars; they went through the breach with the
combat units and continued to do their thing.
    You can talk all you want about the air and ground campaigns, and--God
bless them--those warriors did a magnificent job.       I'd never begin to take
anything from them.      Ten years from now, however, when historians and
strategists and tacticians study the Gulf War--what they will study most carefully
will be the logistics. This was a war of logistics.