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conveniently based at Shaikh Isa Air Base next to Marine Aircraft Group ii
The Marine imagery interpreters selected and printed desired photographs.
Then they delivered the prints to a waiting Marine Beechcraft C-12 Super King
liaison aircraft which flew them to the force command post.
    Other aerial intelligence assets arrived in-theater 13-iS January to fill the
gap.  To provide battlefield intelligence and fast-moving forward air controllers
(FastFACs), Marine All Weather Fighter Attack Squadron 121 was snatched out
of its initial operational workup at El Toro and ordered to Bahrain in its new
two-seat F/A-18D Hornets.    The squadron arrived just in time to render golden
service during the air and ground campaigns.         The force gained a signals
intelligence platform known as Senior Warrior in the form of two specially
configured Lockheed KC-i30T Hercules refueler-transports of Marine Air
RefuelingiTransport Squadron 452, a Reserve unit from Newburgh, New York.
A valuable theater asset in targeting was Grumman's prototype Joint Target
Attack Radar System (JSTARS).      This multi-mode, phased-array radar was
carried aloft in a converted Boeing 707 transport and sensed vehicle movements
over a wide area.

               Double Breaches and Logistical Headaches

    At the beginning of February, additional breaching equipment arrived in-
theater following a remarkable acquisition effort by the Research, Development,
and Acquisition Command at Quantico.      At the same time the 2d Marine
Division commander, Major General Keys, concluded that his division was
sufficiently trained to engage in separate breaching operations.  On 1 February
Keys and his operations officer, Colonel Ronald G. Richard, approached General
Boomer and argued for a second set of breaches, one per division.      They felt
that separate breaches offered certain advantages such as mutual support and the
elimination of the complex passage of divisions with its correspondingly high
concentration of attacking forces at the area of penetration.  They also believed
that double sets of breaches would make it harder for enemy commanders to
assess what was happening on the battlefield and therefore to respond effectively
with supporting arms.      However, the concept required a major effort to
reposition combat service support and to move 2d Marine Division into new
tactical assembly areas.   General Boomer weighed the issues including the
minimal time available; he knew that the ground campaign could begin as soon
as as 20 February. Boomer told Keys to develop the concept and then put the
I MEF staff to work on it.
    Although the two-breach course offered more tactical advantages, Colonel
Raymond A. List, the force logistics officer was aghast at the requirements to
support it.  Not since the Korean War, if even then, had the Marine Corps
faced such a difficult overland logistics challenge.   To support both divisions,


    ~he commander of the 192d TRS was happy to oblige. LtCoI Anthony H. Scheuller had
served as a Marine fighter attack pilot in Vietnam.