NOTES

        Unless otherwise noted the material in this monograph was derived from the following: LtCol
Robert L. Bailey intvw, 2Jun91, hereafter Bailey intvw; LtCol Joseph A. Byrtus intvw, 25May91,
hereafter Byrtus intvw; Capt Charles E. Headen intvw, 27May91, hereafter Headen intvw; MajGen James
L. Jarnerson~ USAF, intvw, 16May91, hereafter Jamerson intvw; Col James L. Jones, Jr  intvw,
31May91, hereafter Jones intvw; Capt Dewey G. Jordan intvw, 29May91, hereafter Jordan intvw; LtCol
Richard L. Kohl intvw, 11May91, hereafter Kohl intvw; Capt Timothy J. Ott intvw, 28May91, hereafter
Ott intvw; BGen Richard W. Potter, USA, intvw, 17May91, hereafter Potter intvw; Commo Dean Turner
intvw, 1Jun91; BGen Anthony C. Zinni intvw, 10Jun91, hereafter Zinni intvw; SMSgt Thomas L. Robb
and SSgt Thomas A. Traynor, CTF-PC Chronology, 7Apr-8Jun9l, hereafter PC Chron; FMFEur
ComdC, Jan-Jun91; 24th MEU(SOC) ComdC, Jan4un 91; HMM-264 ComdC, Janjun9l; MSSG-24
ComdC, Jan-Jun9l; Maj Charles V. Mugno presentation to CTF-PC, 9May91, hereafter Mugno Brief:
CMC SitReps, Mar-Apr9l; Col Peter M. Gish, Provide Comfort Journal, hereafter Gish Jnl; LtCol
Ronald J. Brown, Provide Comfort Journal, hereafter Brown Jnl; Dept of Army, Area Handbook for Iraq
(Washington, GPO, 1969); John Bulloch and Harvey Morris, No Friends but the Mountains (New York:
Oxford University Press, 1992); Albert Houroni, A History of the Arab Peoples (Cambridge, MA:
Harvard University Press, 1991); Middle East Watch, Human Rights in Iraq (New Haven: Yale
University Press, 1990); Sheri Laizer, Into Kurdistan (London: Zed Books, 1991); Trevor Mostyn, The
Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Middle East and North Africa (Cambridge: University Press, 1988); Peter
Douglas, "Bloody, Beautiful Kurdistan" Soldier of Fortune Magazine, Nov91, pp. 52-57; Col James L.
Jones, Jr., "Operation Provide Comfort: Humanitarian and Security Assistance in Northern Iraq," Marine
Corps Gazette, Nov91, pp. 99-107, hereafter Jones, "Provide Comfort."


1.  Provide Comfort later was eclipsed by Operation Restore Hope in Somalia.


2.  USCinCEur/ECJ3/CAT msg dtd 6Apr91.

3.  JTF-PC SitBrief, 7Apr91.

4.  This designation was later changed to Joint Task Force Alpha.

5.  These aircraft were actually four C-130 Hercules and two MC-130 Talons.

6.  JTFPC SitRep #1, 7Apr91.

7. CTF-PC Chron; some of the Kurds ate the MREs dry, then drank water, causing the dehydrated food
to swell and resulting in severe gastro-intestinal problems.

8.  CG, JTF-PC "Bravo Zulu" msg to 1st LSB dtd 271325Z Jun91.

9.  CTF-PC Chron.