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to divide these responsibilities between Boomer and Myatt, but at the same time
designating Boomer   as Commanding    General,  Marine Corps Base,    Camp
Pendleton.  By eliminating a three star billet in Washington, Gray was able to
promote Boomer to lieutenant general. Within a few weeks Myatt was selected
for promotion to major general.
20. As eventually constituted, the 1st Marine Division in Desert Shield would
consist of three infantry regiments--the 1st, 3d, and 7th Marines; an artillery
regiment--the 11th Marines; and the following separate battalions: 1st Light
Armored Infantry,    1st Combat Engineers,  1st Reconnaissance,   3d Assault
Amphibian, 1st and 3d Tanks.
21. A separate component command for the Marines avoided the ambiguity of
early Vietnam War command arrangements when ComUSMACV had a naval
component which was sometimes commanded by the CG Ill MAF as the senior
naval officer. 22. The ships in PhibRon S were the USS Okinawa (LPll-3),
Ogden (LPD-5), Fort McHenry (LSD-43), Cayuga (LST-1 186), and Durham
(LKA-l 14).
23.    MAGTF    6-90  was  embarked   in  the USS Dubuque   (LPD-8),    San
Bernardino (LST-1 189), and Schenectady (LST-l 195).
24. This was reminiscent of the Korean War, when a Korean Marine Corps
regiment served under the 1st Marine Division and of the Vietnam War, when
the Korean Blue Dragon Brigade served under the operational guidance of the
Ill Marine Amphibious Force.
25. The JCS deployment order of 9 November 1990 did indeed specify the 11
Marine Expeditionary Force and 5th Marine Expeditionary Brigade.
26. The 13 ships of PhibGru3 were the USS Tarawa (LHA-1), New Orleans
(LPH-1 1), Tripoli (LPH-10), Denver (LPD-9), Juneau (LPD-1O), Vancouver
(LPD-2),   Anchorage   (LSD-36),   Germantown   (LSD-42),  Mount     Vernon
(LSD-39),   Peoria   (LST-1 183), Barbour   Count)  (LST-1 184),   Frederick
(LST-1 184), and Mobile (LKA-1 15).
27. Intermittently throughout this period the East Coast-based 22d Marine
Expeditionary Unit, having returned from its deployment, was on heightened
alert, ready to respond to a possible protection of the U. S. Embassy and
evacuation-of-U.S. citizens mission in Haiti, as that Caribbean country went
through the trauma of a presidential election and post-election unrest.
28. The 3d Marine Aircraft Wing for Desert Shield consisted of two fixed-wing
aircraft groups, MAGs 11 and 13; two helicopter groups, MAGs 16 and 26;
Marine Air Control Group 38; and several separate squadrons.
29. The 1st Force Service Group, reinforced, was divided into a General
Support Command, under BGen Brabham's immediate command and consisting
of three combat service support detachments; and a Direct Support Command
(essentially the 2d Force Service Command), under BGen Charles C. Krulak,
consisting of the 2d Medical Battalion, the 7th and 8th Engineer Support
Battalions. and three more combat service support detachments.
30. As organized for Desert Shield, the 2d Marine Division would include three
infantry regiments-the 4th, 6th. and 8th; an artillery regiment-the 10th Marines;