Today in Gulf War History – December 10th [C+125] Exercise SEA SOLDIER Ill conducts a silent, night amphibious assault by four Marine Expeditionary Brigade elements, followed by a heliborne assault. II Marine Expeditionary Force (II MEF), with 24,000 Marines, deploys from Camp Lejeune, NC. 4th Battalion, 64th Armor, completes M-1A1 new equipment transition. 1st (Tiger) Brigade, 2d Armored Division, begins screening new M-1A1 tanks at PEGASUS Range; tomorrow 3d Battalion, 67th Armor, will start gunnery qualification. The RED HORSE team at Al Kharj has erected five of seventeen K-Span munitions shelters and is making good progress on the others. SAC deploys the 9th RTS Mobile Imagery Processing and Exploitation (MIPE) system to Riyadh. Per CENTAF request, RC-135 operations return to 12/24 hour schedule. In addition to normal surveillance and air defense operations, an F-16 drops simulated leaflets from 4,500 ft and 15,000 ft to refine release parameters and measure leaflet dispersal patterns. There remain 19 committed and 11 reinforcing Iraqi divisions in the KTO.
Posted on: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 14:00:00 +0000
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