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 Sep 90 (Cons)

22 Sep 		Two C-141s brought the 37 TFW's avionics
		 maintenance vans from Tonopah Test Ranges
 		Nevada, to King Khalid Air Base, Saudi
 		Arabia.
 
21 Sep		 Colonel Whitley Issued Special Order #1 to
 		assign all previously attached personnel to the
 		wing for the duration of Operation DESERT
 		 SHIELD.

 25 Sep		 General Norman Schwarzkopf, US Central Command
 		Commander, visited the 37TFW (Team Stealth) at
 		 King Khalid Air Base, Saudi Arabia.
 		October 1990
 .
1 Oct 		The 188Oth Communications Squadron became a TAC
 		Unit and joined the 37 TFW as the 37th
 		Communications Squadron.

 3 Oct 		Colonel Whitley initiated Sneaky Sultan I, a
		 limited operational readiness exercise, to
 		challenge the 37 TFW's response capability,
 
3  Oct 		His Royal Highness, Prince Sultan Abdul Aziz
 		ibn  Saud, Saudi Defense Minister, conferred
 		with Colonel Whitley and viewed an F-ll7A
 		 static display.

 18 Oct		 Colonel Whitley returned to the Tonopah Test
 		Range to requalify in the F-ll7A. The Deputy
		 Commander for Operations, Col Klaus J.
 		Klause' assumed command over the deployed
		 forces.

 November 1990

 12 Nov 		Colonel Klause initiated Sneaky Sultan II, an
		exercise to test the wing's ability to recall
 		and generate aircraft on short notice to sup-
 		port D-Day planned operations. 

 15-18 Nov 	The 37-TFW flew thirty-two sorties for  Imminent
		 Thunder, a six day joint and combined exercise
		 that enhanced warfare skills. Headquarters,
		 Central Air Forces tasked coalition air forces
		 to attack a simulated "mirror image" of Kuwait
		 and Southeast Iraq"

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