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Subject: COMMAND CHRONOLOGY FOR THE PERIOD 1 JAN TO 13 APR 91            

Unit: 2ND MARDIV  

Parent Organization: 2 MEF       

Box ID: BX600014

Folder Title: COMMAND CHRONOLOGY 2ND MARINE DIVISION 1 OF 10  JAN - APRIL 1991                                

Document Number:          4

Folder SEQ  #:          4





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                       0550 Two Iraqi armor battalions and one mech
                       battalion moving into positions from QT6338 to
                       QT5138 to attempt to delay our movement north.

                       0700 Warning Order: 2d LAI Bn be prepared to move
                       west and screen division's west flank.

                       0730 New boundary in effect 1500m west of MSR along
                       71 grid line.

                       0815 2d LAI Bn taking fire from TF Ripper.
                       Coordinated with ist MarDiv to stop firing.

                       0910 Order given to rearm/refuel in preparation of
                       crossing PL HORSE at 1200 to take complexes around
                       Al Jahra and destroy enemy in zone.

                       1030 2d Dn, 12th marines reports two minefields;
                       one at QS552172, and one at QBS60174.

                       1035 Frag 0: Cols E and Co P, 2d LAI Bn to report
                       to fwd assembly area vie QTS10187 NLT noon,
                       prepared to move north screening division's western
                       flank.

                       1057 Breach control reports EPW sites consolidated.
                       Breach lanes and EPW sites are turned over to DSC.

                       1155 DiV main CP displaces north to QSSSO228.

                       1200 6th Mar, Sth Mar, 2d LAI Bn, and Tiger Bde
                       cross LOD for push north.

                       1257 Tiger Bde reports crossing PL WOLF. Attacking
                       Iraqi column on road northwest of Al Jahra.

                       1305 lst Battalion, 6th Marines at 33 grid line.

                       1500 Cpl                2d LAI Bn injured by
                       unexploded rocket bomblet. Co B, 2d LAI Bn
                       receives two WIA, Ssgt                and HM2
tank ditch vie
                       QTS82387. 5 U.S.C. 552 (b)(6)
                       2100-2300 2d LAI Bn observing 40-60 mixed vehicles
                       milling about with headlights on vie QT441318 to
                       QT413356. OV-IOD and Tiger Bde special Forces
                       liaison decide they are lost Kuwaiti and/or Saudi
                       units.

                       2345 Notified by I NEF that Egyptian Bde has been
                       ordered to Al Jahra and Kuwait City by 0400 to link
                       up with Saudi, Syrian and Kuwaiti forces.

                                        UNCLASSIFIED

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