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25.  Author's note taken 15Feb91.

26.  ComUSMarCent, USMarCent Operation Plan Desert Storm, dtd 1Jan91.

27.  Department of the Army, Combined Arms Breaching Operations, FM
90-13-1 (Washington, Sep90), outlines the tactics in use up to the time.

28.  1 MEF (G-2 and Battle Staff Planning Group), briefing chart for CMC
brief, dtd 23Dec90.

29.  LtCol Franklin D. Lane memo for the record, Subj: Deception Planning,
nd, ca. Mar91.

30.  ComUSMarCent debriefing to CinCUSCentCom, dtd 21Mar91, p. 15.

31.  BOen John H. Admire, "The 3d Marines in Desert Shield," Marine Corps
Gazette, Aug91, pp. 82-84.

32.  3d MAW OPlan Desert Storm, dtd 15Jan91, Anx N, Air Ops.

33.  Dake intvw. The 3d MAW OPlan Desert Storm gives the operational
concepts.

34.  Video interview and cockpit video recording with the crew on Mission
#7171K of 31Jan91 by the author on 12Feb91. For security reasons, their names
are omitted. I MEF intelligence officers believed that the III Corps commander
was at the meeting, and his death was mentioned in a number of intelligence
reports shortly afterwards.

35.  Comment by MajOen James M. Myatt at ComUSMarCent debriefing to
CinCUSCentCom, dtd 21Mar91. Criticism of the quality of imagery was nearly
universal with Marines, although the laser reproduction process used may have
been responsible for apparent graininess.

36.  See Capt Robert A. Jones, USMC, "Firefight at Hamaltyat," Marine Corps
Gazette, Jun91, pp. 30-32 for an account of one such engagement.

37.  1 MEF, Tiger Team Staff Study: Tiger Team Anti-Fratricide Report (U),
dtd 10Feb91.

38.  Author's notes.

39.  Ibid.