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                        UNITED- ST~TES M~RINE CORPS
                        lst~Battal~on, 7th Marines
                      lst-'Mari'ne Division (Rein), FrIF
                      ...U~per~~ti~~ Desert Storm11

                    San F~r.amnec.\Sc...O~. California 9.66o8~5.51~2~c. . -.
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From:   -Commanding Officer,~~stBattalion, 7th tIarines
To:      Commanding 6eneral~ ~st~Marine Division
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Subj:    OP. ER4TION DESERT STORM ~ST B~Ti~LION, 7TH M~RINES M~NEUYER
         SYNOPSIS

Ends:    (l):1Maneuver Chronology:..

      .Ttt~e 1/7 commanders and-staff..meeting -on .6-1 ended with.
Colonel5~attt5::r.emarking,-V.Use-~ire 5u~p0rt{to-the maximum extent
possible~and;take care 0+ your-.~en. II         Sta+f'and officers bid luck
to comrades and returned to their sections and units to pass final
word
      Lit-tie remained undone.        We donned MOPP suits at 1700, -joking
about odd sizes and finally receiving some. clean `uniforms. .~arlier
in the d~y Battalion ~id Station         (B~S) had finished administering
the anti-botulis~ vaccine so with the nerve agent pretreatment
tablets and the Cipro anti-biotic,           1/7 was~prepared-for Iraq's
chemical threat.      The Marines spent the rest of the evening trying
to sleep, most to no avail.
      1/7 moved from our (Nssembly ~rea as part of Task Force
Ripper's (TFR) standard wedge formation -at 0001 on'-G-Day.          *1The
First Team11 units deployed in~a Battalion Vee with Team Mech on
the left--as base-of movement, Team Tank onthe..right as 4nain
effort, and C Co behind 81mm Mortar Platoon as the center point of
the Vee.    The Main CF and Combat Train were in trace 0+ C Co while
the ~ump CF. took -up a forward position between lead elements 0+
Team Mech and Team Tank to enhance control.            Further forward, C4~T
2 had certain elements in front with the remainder easing down our
right flank     in trace 0+ C4~T .2 on the right flank was C4~T I
reinforced with Tow      .    1/7 would remain in this formation until
punching through the far side of the second enemy obstacle belt ~4
kilometers inside Kuwait.      The battalion linked up with Captain
Donald Schutt and his Forward ~ir, ~rtillery, and Naval 6un+ire
(F4~NE~)  vehicle, elements 0+ Sergeant Thomas Ryan's Surveillance
and Target ~cq~isit1-on Flatoon         (ST~), and three of Captain Rick
Mancini   5 tanks which had been uploaded with `1Roller Dudes1        and an
Israeli   mine roller approimately 1 kilometer southwest of the
Kuwait border.    F~~NL9 and S~~ had moved across the border on 6-i
as part of a TFF: qartering party in order to recon and marl:: our
route,   secure the attack position, and ensure

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