Appendix A
                                      Chronology
                                             1991
April

6       Joint Task Force Provide Comfort formed.

7       Joint Task Force Provide Comfort deployed to Incirlik Air Base, Adana, Turkey.

9       MARG 1-91 received warning order to deploy to Iskenderun, Turkey.

10      Backload completed,  MARG    1-91 with 24th MEU    (SOC)  embarked,  sails for eastern
        Mediterranean; 24th MEU (SOC) receives Provide Comfort Operation Order 1.

:11     24th MEU (SOC) Forward Command Element arrives at Incirlik.

13      24th MEU (SOC) FCE flies first relief mission.

14      24th MEU (SOC) under operational control of CTF Provide Comfort.

15      24th MEU Forward moves to Silopi; HMM-264 flies first Marine relief mission; offload of
        Phibron 8 begins.

16      24th MEU Forward operates from Silopi.

17      Task Force Bravo established; Operation Encourage Hope announced.

19      24th MEU (SOC) CE, GCE, ACE, and CSSE at Sitopi; General Shalikashvili meets Iraqis.

20      24th MEU (SOC) secures area around Zakho.

21      First Marine convoy enters northern Iraq; CTF-PC Navy-Marine Liaison Team 10 opened at
        Incirlik.

22      45th Commando, Royal Marines, attached to 24th MEU (SOC).

23      Dutch 1st ACG attached to 24th MEU (SOC).

26      American, British, and Dutch Marines clear Zakho.

27      CMAGTF 1-91 formed on Okinawa.

29      British and Dutch Marines transfer to 3d Coinmando Brigade.