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Movement and location of division units by the evening of 24 February 1991.

deep at that point) and a rear-boundary barbed wire fence. No cover existed to
protect the assaulting force, but the Iraqis chose not to defend this part of the
first obstacle belt. By 0940, the 3d Battalion, 9th Marines, completed its two
lanes and deployed into the desert beyond to establish the task force breachhead
2,000 meters deep by 3,000 meters wide. The 1st Tank Battalion followed and
moved north to secure the center of the breachhead. There, it began receiving
enemy artillery fire. Though sporadic, the firing continued against Company D
until the forward air          controller with Company C,  3d  Tank Battalion,      Task
Force Ripper,  spotted           and destroyed the Iraqi observation tower.       Colonel