NAVY TALKING POINTS OFFICE IF INFO DESERT STORM

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Subject = NAVY TALKING POINTS OFFICE IF INFO DESERT STORM

Folder Title = MAJ GALLOWAY S MATERIAL

Parent Organization = MARCENT

Unit = 1 MEF

Box ID = BX600094

File Cabinet = Week-51

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28 Jan DOD announces more than 24,000 sorties (about 50% -attack strikes) have
been flown as air campaign focuses on Iraqi command and control,
counter-air ops, interdiction, airfields, SCUD sites, Republican Guard
fortifications, and battlefield preparation.
DOD also announces the U.S. has lost an AV-8B. The USMC crewman is
Missing, the 15th U.S. crewman. A USAF F-4G reported lost on
January 19 has been reclassified from non-combat loss to combat loss
after examination of the wreckage determined that the aircraft had
sustained battle damage sufficient enough to cause the crash.
The status of seven U.S. aircrewmen has been redesignated from Nfissing to
Prisoner of War. The seven include Lieutenant Jeffrey N. Zaun,
USN; Lieutenant Colonel Clifford M. Acree, and Chief Warrant
Officer Guy L. Hunter, USMC.
DOD announces that a total of 80 Iraqi aircraft have relocated to Iran. Air-
craft ferrying is being characterized as 'possible defections" as a con-
sequence of air campaign that has achieved air superiority and neu-
tralized Iraqi counterattack. Flight operations have been conducted
from only 3 of Iraq@s 66 airfields, numbering 30 sorties, 25 to Iran.
DOD appraisal is that "Iraq is unable to offer any organized air resis-
tance." Aircraft will be monitored to assure non-retum to conflict.
Iraqi aircraft relocate from central and northern Iraq, out of range of
U.S. and coalition aircraft to intercept, however four were engaged on
January 27 and destroyed by U.S. F-15s.
USN A-6s have attacked Iraqi ships at Bubiyan Channel, at the Umm.
Qasr Naval Base, and in Kuwait harbor.
U.S. ships continue maritime interception operations, diverting the RED
SEA ENERGY after an inspection team found 160 railroad cars
which were inaccessible. Ile German-flagged freighter, enroute from
Greece to Aqaba, Jordan, was diverted to another port. To-date,
coalition diversions total 37, 7,020 intercepts and 837 boardings. The
U.S. has conducted 490 of these boardings.
USMC and coalition aircraft attack an Iraqi convoy inside Kuwait and de-
stroyed 24 tanks, armored personnel carriers and trucks.
U.S. ground forces continue to receive sporadic artillery fire along the Ku-
waiti border, and have engaged in counter-battery artillery missions.
DOD announces oil, estimated to have totalled 460 million gallons, appears
to have stopped flowing from the Sea Island Terminal, however, still
monitoring.
Iraq launches one SCUD missile at Saudia Arabia. Intercepted by U.S.
Patriot missile, south of Riyadh. A second SCUD fired at Tel Aviv,
Israel, fell.in a West Bank open field without causing injuries.

29 Jan DOD announcer that over 700,ODO coalition air, ground, and naval personnel
are present in the theater of operation, and over 110 coalition com-
batant ships are participating. U.S. troops number over 490,000.

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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 = 24-MAR-1997