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                                                

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       the supervision of the division's Chief of Staff and G3. The

       Rear Command Post, also in the TAA, continued to monitor the
       battle and prepare for any possible rear battle actions. i93

            As the division prepared for future operations, the choice

       between an assault into Objective Gold or Objective Strike still
       hung in the.balance'. Early indications had suggested Second
       Brigade TF would be going into Objective Gold, but messages from

       Corps on the night of the 25th indicated an assault into

       Objective Strike. Colonel Bolt, division Chief of Staff,

       informed the division staff that a move into Gold would probably

       come only after the 24th Infantry Division had already taken
       Gold. 194

             Further events obviated the need for either of these

       missions. On the 26th of February, XVIII Airborne Corps notified

       the division that the Corps' operations were being reoriented to

       the east in order to cut off the enemy's escape routes north of

       Basrah. The division was instructed to plan to posture south of

       the 24th Infantry Division's Objective Orange in order to further
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       interdict Iraqi escape routes.

            The loist quickly adjusted to this change in plans. Major

       General Peay decided to establish a new forward operating base,

       FOB Viper, at PU470517 as a base for attacks to the northeast.

       The Second Brigade TF and two aviation attack battalions were
       ordered to prepare for movement to establish FOB Viper. 196
       Second Brigade's objective in Viper was named Objective Tim. 197



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