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Subject = HISTORY SLIDES FOR 101ST AIRBORNE DIVISION                      

Folder Title = DRAFT COPY OF 101ST ABN DIV AALT OPERATIONS DS-S                                                

Parent Organization = XVIII CORPS 

Unit  = 101ST ID    

Box ID = BX001611

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       required equipment, transportation and life support servides4 31

             The division suffered from an initially low supply of

       ammunition due to an unrealistic ammunition basic load. The

       Division Ready Brigade ammunition package maintained at Fort

       Campbell was insufficient to meet the needs of a deployment

       involving the entire division. The Forces Command plan to have

       necessary ammunition meet the division at the port of debarkation
       was never realized. 32

             As more and more of the division's forces arrived, the

       division amended OPLAN 90-1 to reflect the increase in strength.
       During September 1990, the division staff developed an updated'"

       plan, OPLAN 90-2, for the conduct of the Corps covering force

       mission vicinity An Nuayriya. OPLAN 90-2 proposed that the 101st

       conduct screening and covering force operations in AO Apache,

       provide attack helicopter support and fire support to the Eastern

       Province Area Command (EPAC) forces (deployed between the 101st

       and the Kuwaiti border) to disrupt and delay Iraqi forces and

       assist in the passage of lines of EPAC forces. On order, the

       division would screen the west flank of the XVIII Airborne Corps,
       revert to the corps reserve and prepare to defend KFIA. 33

             OPLAN 90-2 was based on the assumptions that all of the

       division's forces would be in Saudi Arabia by 6 October 90 and

       that there would be eight to twelve hours warning prior to the

       initiation of hostilities. It also assumed that one brigade
       would be located at Camp Eagle II at the start of hostilities. 34


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Box ID = BX001611
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Folder Title = DRAFT COPY OF 101ST ABN DIV AALT OPERATIONS DS-S
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Subject = HISTORY SLIDES FOR 101ST AIRBORNE DIVISION
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