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active duty at the same time to 125,000.     The call-up ceiling for the Marine
Corps was 15,000.

15-21 November--About 100 miles south of the Kuwait border, American and
Saudi Arabian military forces participated in Exercise Imminent Thunder.  The
exercise included an amphibious landing by more than 1,000 Marines of the 4th
Marine Expeditionary Brigade and tested the military's ability to command,
control, and coordinate air and ground forces.      It included air-to-air mock
fighter combat and close air support of ground forces.  At the same time, only
25 miles   south of Kuwait,  another      1,000 Marines from  the  1st Marine
Expeditionary Brigade conducted field exercises ashore.

16 November--Admiral     Frank  B.  Kelso     II, Chief of Naval   Operations,
announced that ships would remain in the Middle East longer than the six-
month limit established for Navy deployments.    The decision of November 8th
to send nearly 200,000 more troops to the Persian Gulf not only scuttled
Defense Department plans to start rotating personnel home from the desert, but
also bumped the subject of troop rotation off the Pentagon's list of priorities.

22 November--President Bush addressed U.S. Marines, sailors, and British
soldiers during his visit to Saudi Arabia. Standing before a crowd of more than
3,000 front-line forces, the president reaffirmed    his resolve to see Iraqi
strongman Saddam Hussein ousted from Kuwait. The President and Mrs. Bush
then joined the Marines for a traditional Thanksgiving Day meal.

3 December--The Marine Corps was granted a new call-up ceiling of 23,000
reservists when Defense Secretary Richard Cheney gave the military departments
authority to call-up 63,000 additional members of the National Guard and
Reserves in support of Operation Desert Shield.     Added to authority already
granted, this action raised the number of Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine
Corps selected reservists who could be on active duty at the same time to
188,000.

10 December--More than 24,000 Marines of the II Marine Expeditionary Force
mustered on the parade ground at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, for a pre-
deployment review by the Commandant of the Marine Corps and the Com-
mander in Chief, Atlantic Fleet in the largest formation of Marines in modern
history.   Commanded by Lieutenant General Carl E. Mundy, Jr., the units
included the 2d Marine Division, 2d Marine Aircraft Wing, 2d Force Service
Support Group, and the 2d Surveillance Reconnaissance and Intelligence Group.
The units deployed to Southwest Asia in support of Operation Desert Shield
through the month of December.

18 December--Rollout ceremonies for the Corps' new M1A1 tank were held at
the General Dynamics Land Systems Division in Warren, Michigan. The M1A1
"common tank' was outfitted to Marine Corps specifications with such features