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there on the sand and do it, we'll do it.  But also keep in mind that when you
put sand down those engines, especially the small engines, we're only going to
be able to do it for about four or five days and we're out of there." We started
getting compressor stalls, and fire coming out the front of that damn thing.   I
mean, we were getting all kinds of stuff.  You would come out with ali engine
that was rated to 86% or 90% and, after four days of operating in the sand, if
you were picking up a battalion and moving it somewhere, just rehearsing, we'd
come back and find it was 78%.

Proceedings: This was a short war. What are the implications for a longer one?

Moore: We learned those lessons early on.     We would pick a road and say,
"Okay, that's where we'll pick up the battalion. We're going to take them into
the sandy area."   We started washing down the engines.      We taped all the
blades, both tail rotors and main rotors. We learned how to live with the desert,
and the ground guys learned how to help us.   I think we would have been okay
for up to 60 days.
  What I didn't want to do was use up assets early.   I wasn't going to get too
tangled up in the first two phases of the air war. I planned to be at maximum
efficiency on 0-Day minus one.  That's really where I wanted to be.
  So I was very careful to ensure that we would have plenty left when the
ground war started. I slowed down OV-1O operations. They're getting old and


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