WITlI MARINES IN OPERATION PROVIDE COMFORT                              23


included: adjutant, First Lieutenant Thomas M. Buehner; intelligence officer,
First Lieutenant Robert W. Pavlicin; operations officer, Captain Kevin L. Foley;
logistics officer,  Captain Kenneth E. Jacobsen;  embarkation officer, First
Lieutenant Matthew J. Connors; supply operations officer, First Lieutenant Todd
L. Eggers; disbursing officer, First Lieutenant Gavin R. Reardon; medical officer
Lieutenant Ronald Buckley, USN; and dental officers Lieutenant Donald R.
Ratliff, USN, and Lieutenant Kenneth P. Nogacek, USN. The senior enlisted
personnel were First Sergeant Donald A. Delgado and Master Sergeant Ross E.
Lewellen.
   The MSSG was composed of a headquarters platoon and detachments from
8th Engineer Support Battalion; 2d Landing Support Battalion; 2d Maintenance
Battalion; 2d Medical Battalion; 2d Dental Battalion; 2d Supply Battalion; 8th
Motor  Transport Battalion; 2d Support Battalion; and administrative, military
police, and communications personnel from Headquarters and Service Battalion,
2d FSSG. Its diverse equipment list included radio sets, fork lifts, portable
electric generators, water purification units, cargo trucks, ambulances, medical


                                   Photograph courtesy of MajOen Anhony C. Zinni, U5MC
BGen Anthony C. Zinni makes friends wit'~ Kurdish you?zgsters in nordiern Iraq. Gen Zinni was the
highest.ranking Marine assigned to CTF Provide Comfort.