ANTHOLOGY AND ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY                                      13S

probably a dozen combined-arms raids into Kuwait. Tom understands deception-
-that is, whatever you do has to be believable.

Proceedings: He mentioned that he had some very innovative reserve officers
working for him.

Myatt: In fact, we took this ad hoc group that Tom assigned to Lieutenant
Colonel Charles Kershaw, and they came up with a lot of ideas on how to trick
the enemy--and everybody agrees that tricking the enemy is a good thing to do.
   Seabees built mock-up tanks.    They built mock-up M198 153mm. artillery
pieces out of lumber and put them under camouflage nets. Then the Task Force
would put together an actual force of tanks and artillery, supported by EA~Bs
and some security elements, and conduct a combined-arms raid into Kuwait.   I
don't believe the Iraqis knew what we had there, but we knew that some of the
observation posts could see our decoys.

Proceedings: Did General Draude have any dedicated forces?

Myatt: He had a very small cadre of tanks, artillery pieces, some security
infantry,  and a company of light armored vehicles.        Tom arranged   for
helicopters supporting either the 1st or 2d Division to stop in at Troy, making
it look like a division. He also used radio transmissions to mimic actual nets.

Proceedings: Did you use electronic warfare units?

Myatt:   The Radio Battalion was very effective.       We ought to get more
LAY-mounted mobile electronic warfare Support systems, in my opinion. They
did a good job.  Of course, they're most effective in a passive mode, and they
have to be passive for a while to know what the situation is.  The Iraqis were
very, very active for the first three weeks after 17 January [when the air
campaign began] with their own electronic warfare capability.  They were able
to impact on what we were doing.

Proceedings: General Moore mentioned that the air wing pushed for standard
call signs and frequencies, rather than changing daily. How did that work?

Myatt: It worked.  If you've got secure radio nets, why do you have to change
all the time? We simplified the process.  We went to plain name call signs.
Everybody knew Tom Draude was Sage, my 6-3 was Silver, his operations
officer was Coach, Carl Fulford was Ripper, John Admire was Taro with the
3d Marines, and Jim Fulks, who had one of the infiltration rigs, was Grizzly.

Proceedings: Did you have reserve units in your division?

Myatt: Yes.    We had the 1st Battalion, 25th Marines [1/25], one of the most
can-do outfits I've ever seen.  Of course, you can't expect them to start out on