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    bomb. He will make a mark, and from his mark we say, "Okay,
    we see your bomb" then he will talk our eyes to the target
    that he wants us to hit, based upon his mark. "Okay, look
    south of my mark a mile. You will see a circular formation
    of tanks in bunkers. That is your target. I would like for
    One and Two to hit the eastern side; Three and Four hit the
    western side."
    
                             [(b)(1)Sec3.4(b)(4)]
    
    The concept of us having the gas and the four bombs up here
    and Pointer make us much more effective than we were before
    we had the Pointer when we were flying out of here. That
    will probably take us anywhere from takeoff to the target
    area, which is 20 to 25 minutes. We will probably spend
    another 10 minutes in the target area, occasionally 15, and
    then it will take us another 20 to 25 minutes to get home.
    The total sortie is, like I said, anywhere from about 55 to
    70 minutes long.
    
    S: What about defenses against the F-16s coming in; what have    
    You experienced?

    E: From Day One they have gone down, obviously. I don't know
    if you have seen pictures, but up in Baghdad there were
    numerous SA-2s, SA-3s, a lot of AAA. The SAMs have gone
    down. Now in the KTO [Kuwaiti Theater of Operations] very 
    
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