HISTORY SLIDES FOR 101ST AIRBORNE DIVISION

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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 

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        Phase III was to be the seizure of FOB Viper, Objective Green and

        Objective Silver. At the end of Phase III, the division would
        consolidate in Objective silver in preparation for Phase IV,
        future operations, which called for air assaults either to the

        south-east or north-west of Objective Silver to destroy enemy
        forces. 63

              The OPLAN 90-4 mission was feasible, but further analysis

        showed it would be difficult to reposition forces and sustairment

        operations that far west. It was replaced by OPLAN 90-5, which
        gave the division a zone of operations further east. 64 OPLAN-
  4r    90-5 supported the XVIII Airborne Corps mission, which was "on
        order, XVIII Airborne Corps attacks to penetrate Iraqi forward

        defenses and to interdict Iraqi lines of communication along the

        Euphrates River in order to prevent reinforcement of and escape

        from the Kuwaiti Theater of Operations by Iraqi forces; on

        order, continues the attack east to assist in the destruction of
        the RGFC." 65

              The 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) mission was "when

        directed, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) moves by air and

        ground to     Campbell, and prepares for offensive operations;

        commencing G-day conducts air assault to establish FOB Cobra and

        attacks to interdict, block and defeat enemy forces operating in
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        and through lko)Eagle; on order conducts attacks to the east to
        assist in the defeat of RGFC forces." 66

              While the loist would be air assaulting to the Euphrates,



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Subject = HISTORY SLIDES FOR 101ST AIRBORNE DIVISION
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