CASUALTY REPORT AWARD OF THE PURPLE HEART

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Subject: CASUALTY REPORT     AWARD OF THE PURPLE HEART                   

Unit: 1ST ID      

Parent Organization: VII  CORPS  

Box  ID: BX001004

Folder Title: AWARD    GUEST ROBERT L III-1                                                                   

Document Number:          1

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                 ON 17 FEBRUARY, 1991, WHILE ATTACHED TO IST BATTALION, A-IST

              INFANTRY REGIMENT PRIVATE FIRST CLASS              M113 WAS STRUCK AND


              DESTROYED BY A HELL.FIRE     MISSILE.    PRIVATE FIR@'.@-CLASS GUEC;T@S


              RADAR TEAM WAS F'R!--IVIEiING SURVEILLANCE AND EARLY WARNING OF ENEMY


              GROUND   FORCE ACTIVITY       ON   THE SAUDI-IRAQI       BORDER.       Af'


              APPROXIMATELY 2330 HOURS 16 FEBRUARY 1991,         PRIVATE FIRST CLASS

              GUEST'S RADAR TEAM REF,ORTED TWO ENEMY TANK TARGETS APPROXIMATELY


              5000 METERS NORTH OF HIS F,OSI-ili-IN. THESE TARGETS WERE CONFIRMED


              BY OTHER FRIENDLY FORCES IN THE AREA, APACHE ATTACK HELICOPTERS


              WERE DISPATCHED TO DESTROY THE EN@@@'Y.     AT 030C) HOURS 17 FEF-,RUARY


              199', AN APACHE MISTAKENLY TOOK PRIVATE FIRST CLASS GLIEST@S

              VEHICLE AND A NEIGHBORING BRADLEY FIOHTINi-i VEHICLE AS THE ENEMY.

              THE BRADLEY WAS STRUCK FIRST, AND THE RADAR TEAM WAS PREPARING TO

              MOVE TO A POSITION OUT OF FIRE TO PROVIDE SUPPORT TO THE BRADLEY,


              WHOSE CREW WAS ABANDONING THE BURNING VEHICLE. SGI' PAYNE, 'THE


              VEHICLE COMMANDER, WAS EXITING THE REAR OF THE VEHICLE TO ASSIST

              THE SENIOR RADAR CIF,ERATCIR, E;PECIAL.IST MITCHELL,    IN I-iE RECOVERY


              OF 'THEIR RADAR SYSTEM WHEN THE HE!-LFIRE STRUCK THE WEST SIDE OF


              THE M113.      PRIVATE FIRST CLASS GUEST WAS IN THE DRIVERS


              COMF'ARTMENT WHEN THE ROUND                THE VEHICLE BEGAN BURNING


              IMMEDIATELY.    SERGEANT PAYNE WAS THROWN FROM THE VEHICLE WHILE


              PRIVATE FIRST CLASS GUEST EVAC:IJATEEI THE DRIVERS STATION.          BOTH


              RECEIVED SECOND DEGREE BURNS TO THEIR HEAD, FACE AND HANDS.

              SPECIALIST MITCHELL WAS BLOWN OFF HIS FEET, LANEiINIj SEVERAL FEET

S LEG AND HIP.             AS SECONDARY


              EXPi-OSION@, RIPPED THROUGH THE VEHICLE, SERGEANT PAYNE AND PRIVATE


              FIRST CLASS GUEST FOUND EACH OTHER IN -THE DARKNESS UNSURE OF THE

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File Room = jul96_declassified
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Box ID = BX001004
Unit = 1ST ID
Parent Organization = VII CORPS
Folder Title = AWARD GUEST ROBERT L III-1
Folder Seq # = 102
Subject = CASUALTY REPORT AWARD OF THE PURPLE HEART
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Queued for Declassification = 01-JAN-1980
Short Term Referral = 01-JAN-1980
Long Term Referral = 01-JAN-1980
Permanent Referral = 01-JAN-1980
Non-Health Related Document = 01-JAN-1980
Declassified = 17-DEC-1996