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   Iraq I Force Deployments,
      21 February 1991

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normally be.    But to sustain the attack with the speed and power it required,
we needed to take some risks.  1 had a great deal of faith in the logisticians. 1
had been watching them for six or seven months by that time and had seen their
self-confidence grow steadily, to the point where 1 could ask them to do things
way beyond what doctrine said they were capable of doing.          This may be
cheerleading, but 1 firmly believe that Marines can do anything.     If you give
them at least some of the equipment they need and turn them loose, you'll
always be amazed at what they can accomplish.
   When I told Jim Brabham and Chuck [Brigadier General C. C.] Krulak
[Conunanding General, 2d Force Service Support Group] what I wanted to do,
their only request was to get started on it as quickly as possible.    What they
created out there in the desert at the Al Kilanjar support base was absolutely
mindboggling.    Even seeing it from the air, you could hardly believe they had
done it--and in just two weeks! Earlier in the campaign, while we were still
learning what we were capable of doing, I might have hesitated to ask for so
much.    But at that point I knew that I could ask for the near-impossible, and
they would deliver.

Proceedings: The possibility existed for a real slugging match, if the Iraqis
resisted strongly or used chemical or biological weapons reportedly at their
disposal.    When did you first begin to think that they might not use their
mass-casualty producing weapons?