WITH THE 1ST MARINE DWISION IN DESERT SHiELD AND DESERT STORM             20


   3d Platoon (motorized), Company C, 1st Reconnaissance Battalion
   Team 2, 1st Platoon, Company A, 1st Reconnaissance Battalion

Task Force Grizzly (RCT 4)
   Headquarters, 4th Marines
   2d Battalion, 7th Marines
   3d Battalion, 7th Marines
   Detachment, Truck Company, Headquarters Battalion
   2d Platoon, Company A, 1st Reconnaissance Battalion
   1st Platoon (motorized), Company D, 1st Reconnaissance Battalion

Task Force Shepherd
   Headquarters, 1st Light Armored Infantry Battalion
   Company A, 1st Light Armored Infantry Battalion
   Company B, 1st Light Armored Infantry Battalion
   Company C, 1st Light Armored Infantry Battalion
   Section A, 2d Platoon, Battery B, 3d Low Altitude Air Defense Battalion

Task Force X-Ray
   1st Battalion, 3d Marines

11th Marines
   Headquarters, 11th Marines
   1st Battalion, 11th Marines
   3d Battalion, 11th Marines
   5th Battalion, 11th Marines
   1st Battalion, 12th Marines
   3d Battalion, 12th Marines

3d Assault Amphibian Battalion (-)
1st Reconnaissance Battalion (-)
1st Battalion, 25th Marines

                  The `Cement Factoiy' Deftnse Line

   In September 1990 the 1st Marine Division had too few AAVs and tanks to
conduct the active defense that later came to characterize its deployment.
Instead, General Myatt took advantage of one of the few natural obstacles that
existed between Jubayl and the Kuwait border. RCT 7 moved 50 kilometers
north of Jubayl to establish the third Marine defensive position. Drawing its
name from the large structures of the cement factory complex that dominated the
surrounding area, the new defensive position was centered on an elevated ridge
line and series of gravel pits that bisected the north-south coastal highway at that
point.