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move units every six days from the forward checkpoint back to Zakhu and
Muqbal for rear area and perimeter security duty.     Companies rotating to
Muqbal   were afforded the opportunity to partake     in live fire exercises,
squad-size patrols, and in organized athletic events.
   During the last weeks of May, the BLT initiated planning for a phased
retrograde of all units back to Iskenderun, Turkey. On 1 June, Company H was
the first unit to leave Muqbal. The company was tasked with providing security
for equipment and cargo at the port facility and assist in the washdown of BLT
vehicles. For the next two weeks selected equipment, vehicles, and personnel
retrograded to Iskenderun via Silopi.  On 15 June, responsibility for the BLT
sector was transitioned to Italian forces, and the remaining combat elements of
the BLT retrograded to Silopi.  BLT 2/8's mission was complete.


Pushing Logistics to the Limit:                     MSSG-24

by LtCol Richard T. Kohl

   Initially, MSSG-24 established a combat service support detachment to the
forward support base it had previously set up at Silopi, Turkey, by mid April.
The task to assist displaced civilians was right up MSSG-24's alley.  The unit
possessed organic motor transport,     supply, medical, dental, and engineer
detachments that could easily task organize for such operations, while simul-
taneously providing logistics sustainment for the MEU.    From the forward
support base, logistics requirements were moved via helicopter and tactical
vehicle  convoy, to  logistics  control points  located in the  rear   of for-
ward
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