Tech Orders,

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1990, the planning, training, and preparation done by CENTAF was
       quickly overwhelmed.
      
       Deployment of Forces.
      
      In the days prior to Iraqis invasion of Kuwait on  August'
      the Air Force had been monitoring the military movements in the
      area and planning various options. At HQ CENTAF' basing options
      were considered and evaluated by planners. Capt Wayland H.
      Patterson, Chief of the Exercise Branch' CENTAF/DE' was called in
      on 29 July to begin planning for these various options. Beginning
      on 2 August, Director of Operations (DO) personnel began coming to
      CENTAF/DE and saying  "I need to put x-amount of planes somewhere,
      give me a place that this many planes can go." The staff looked
      through their reference materials on airfields in the region'
      primarily "Airfield Facility Graphics'" to provide this
      information. This book' published by the Defense Mapping Agency
      for various regions' contained information and statistics on nearly
      every landing strip in SWA. As the negotiations for access to
      bases in the region were taking place at high levels of government,
      the planners at HQ CENTAF and HQ TAC reacted to every possible
      scenario and constantly changing plans. Captain Patterson provided
      information such as: runway length' parking area' type of
      pavement, faculties' and then tried to determine how much of the
      airfield would be occupied by deploying forces if a certain number
      of aircraft used the base. Initially' the staff limited their
      inputs to only those airfields with a 10000-foot runway or longer'
      at least 500000 square feet of parking ramp, and a load
      classification number high enough to support the type of aircraft
      under consideration. Both civilian and military airfields were
      evaluated. Complicating the process was the fact that many of the
      reference materials were dated 1985. Saudi Arabia and its
      neighbors had been busy building airfields since that time.
      The CENTAF/DE staff also began to put together basing packages
      for individual sites based on several factors. With each plan that
      came down from the DO planners, prime BEEF and Prime RIBS
      requirements were determined and Time-phased Force Flow Document
      worksheets completed. But these were quickly superseded by the
      next plan and new worksheets were completed. This went on for
      days. The size of the UTC was determined by a number of factors.
      For planning purposes' a OO-person Prime BEEF team was required to
      support a deployed wing of fighter aircraft at a true bare base 
      Smaller teams (100 and 50-person teams) supported smaller
      deployments to a base possessing some degree of infrastructure or
      host nation support. The initial planning was followed for only a
      few teams. Because entire wings usually did not deploy to a single
      location' the initial Prime BEEF support was less than 200. Once
      a site was chosen and the aircraft identified' E & S planners at
      CENTAF determined the support package required for that specific
      location. They evaluated the existing base infrastructure, threat'
      expected host nation support, and the misson to calculate the team