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the wing, the engine, the controls, everything in the nozzle area.  There are
some things we need to do to a lot of our airplanes, and we need to difluse the
Harrier's heat source. We have done that on the helos before, so it's not a hard
thing to do. We need to increase the IR flare capability in all of our airplanes.
   But to get back to the real question, there is some work we have to do in the
Harrier.   It is not a fragile airplane. We turned that thing in excess of two to
four times a day for almost the whole campaign, so it really stayed up.  I got
exactly what I wanted out of it.  We did a lot of forward basing with it and the
FIA-IS.    Half the AV-8B sorties stopped at Tanajib instead of going back to
Aziz, where the Harriers were based, and half the F/A-18 sorties came back and
stopped at Jubayl instead of going all the way back to Shaik Isa.  So we used
a lot of concepts.  I'm very happy with the Harriers' performance, but we've
got some work to do.

Proceedings: We heard that you had all these staffs and you had to meld them
together; that at one time there were extra colonels and generals.   Was it a
problem?

Moore: On the wing level, I went out very light.    I took four people. That's
what I ended up on the desert with, and I stayed with that for about two weeks
and then slowly started bringing out people.   I still had a wing to run back at
El Toro.   I probably stayed too small, too long, and it hurt me a little because
I had to run my people a bit.     But still, the whole wing headquarters never
exceeded about 125 people.  So I stayed very small.
   The MEF headquarters, by the very nature of what they had to do, probably
got bigger than General Boomer would like.
   But on my side, the only trouble I had was standing up MAG-13, getting the
right Harrier expertise out there, and getting Colonel John Bioty [the group
commander] some staff.   That took a little longer than we thought because they
started this old troop-strength ceilings that we had in Vietnam.   But that all
went away in November and December, 1990.

Proceedings: What took most of your time?

Moore: This business on ordnance probably didn't take as much of my time as
much as worrying about it every inch of the way.      In everything I did, the
sustainability of the force bothered me.  As the air campaign started, the ground
guys still had 38 days to work out their ground campaign, and I was one of the
key players.  So we spent an awf~l lot of time going up and sitting down with
the divisions, sitting down with the MEF, and going through their ground
concept of operations, how they were going to do the amphibious planning, etc.
That didn't surprise me, but it took lots of my time--time not available for me
to be in the Tactical Air Control Center (rACC), for example.