Appendix D
                            Chronology
                                   1990
2 August--Kuwait is invaded by the army of Iraq.

6 August--The United Nations authorizes economic sanctions against Iraq.

7 August--Operation Desert Shield   begins. President Bush orders  the first
deployment of U.S. Armed Forces to the Persian Gulf.

17 August--The 4th MEB deploys to the Persian Gulf.

8 November--President Bush authorizes additional deployments of troops to the
Persian Gulf region.

14 November--The Secretary of Defense grants the Marine Corps the authority
to call up 15,000 Reservists.

18 November--The 2d Marine Division receives orders to deploy to the Kuwait
Theater of Operations.

26 November--The first increments of mobilized Reservists arrive at Camp
Lejeune.

29 November--U.N. Security Council Resolution 678 authorizes the use of "ali
necessary means" to get Iraqi forces to leave Kuwait if they have not done so
by 15January 1991.

4 December--The 2d Marine Division's advance party departs for Saudi Arabia.

6 December--The advance party arrives at the port of Al Jubayl and begins the
offload of MPS-l ships.

10 December--The 2d Marine Division participates with other II MEF elements
in a review at Camp Lejeune.

12 December--The main body of the division begins its movement to Saudi
Arabia.

14 December--Major General William M. Keys, commanding general of the 2d
Marine Division, arrives in Saudi Arabia.

25 December--The 2d Marine Division issues its first order of Operation Desert
Shield.