Notes

    This monograph is one of a series entitled U.S. Marines in the Persian Gulf,
1990-1991.  For more detailed information concerning major subordinate units
of I MEF, the reader is referred to companion monographs by LtCol Charles H.
Cureton,-----. With 1st Marine Division; LtCol Dennis P. Mroczkowski,----
With 2d Marine Division; and LtCol Ronald G. Brown,-----. With Task Force
Provide Comfort and-----. With Marine Forces Afloat, all to be published by the
History and Museums Division, Headquarters Marine Corps.   Future mono-
graphs also will cover the 3d Marine Aircraft Wing and combat service support
elements.  For readers who may not have access to the official sources noted
above, the author has included selected endnote references of articles in profes-
sional journals  such as Marine  Corps   Gazette and U.S. Naval Institute
Proceedings.

1.   Benis M.   Frank,  US.  Marines in lebanon,  1982-1984 (Washington:
Hist&MusDiv, HQMC, 1987), pp. 70-105.

2.  CG I MEF msg to I MEF dtd 120116Z Aug90.

3.  Donald McFarlan, ed., The Guinness World Book of Records (New York:
Bantam, 1991), p. 218.

4.  Department of the Army,    Corps Operations, FM 100-15 (Washington,
13Sep89).

5.  See Combined Plan Operation Desert Storm, dtd 16Jan91, for a breakdown
of the force relationships.

6.  Gen H. Norman Schwarzkopf, USA, and LtGen Walter E. Boomer, USMC,
remarks to I MEF commanders and staff during MarCent debriefing to CinCUS-
CentCom at Jubayl, Saudi Arabia, dtd 21Mar91 (unpublished transcript in LtGen
Boomer's   possession), hereafter ComUSMarCent    Debriefing to CinCUS-
CentCom, dtd 21Mar91. See also John 0. Miller and Brendan M. Greeley, Jr.,
"Desert Storm: The Marine Commanders," U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings,
Nov91, pp. 47-80 for interviews with senior I MEF commanders.

7.  MajOen Jeremiah E. Pearson III intvw w/author dtd 16Dec90 at Riyadh,
Saudi Arabia.

8.  Ibid.

9.  Melissa Healy and Stanley Meisler, "Perils of Search-and-Destroy Mission
in Iraq," Los Angeles rimes, 22Nov91.