File: 100896_sep96_decls29_0027.txt
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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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                       1100 HQXC Battlefield Assessment Team aboard to
                       document the ground war.

        4 MAlt         0932 Div G-4 requests to use water point at
                       QTS92509 as DSC is unable to meet division
                       requirements.

                       1905 2d Battalion, 4th Marines reports small arms
                       fire from across PL BEAR, no injuries.

        5 mm           0500 Army special Forces assigned to the division
                       returned to ARCENT.

                       0900 Division battlefield toured by MajGen Sheehan.

        6 MAR          1230 2d LAI Bn reports small arms fire at grids
                       QT757394 and QT800413.

                       1655 2d LAI Bn reports small arms fire and
                       explosions at TN100338.

        8 MAR          1411 Tiger Bde blows Iraqi ammo bunker at QT499492.

        10 MAR         0428 2d LAI Bn reports three to four personnel in
                       POVs dismounted their vehicle and fired several
                       rounds indiscriminately about their area.

                       0917 LCpl                                 when bunker
    5 U.S.C. 552 (b)(6) collapsed on top or him.

                       1910 6th Mar reports a HMMWV was damaged by running
                       over a landmine or a cluster bomb while enroute to
                       CSSD-26.

                       1915 2d Recon Bn advises they have found an Iraqi
                       sandtable in warehouse in agricultural area at
                       QTG53405.

                       2015 Boundary with Saudi forces established from
                       TN120410 to TN120300 to QT908300 to QT904317 to
                       QT780397 to QT783410.

                       2255 2d LAI Bn reports short firefight vic
                       QT801419. Several armed men entered a building,
w people and took them away.

        11 MAR         0519 Tiger Bde reports a truck returning from the
                       phone center hit a landmine injuring 20 soldiers.

                       1030 BGen Neal, CENTCOM, briefed on the
                       divisions portion of the war.

        14 MAR         0800 2d Tank Bn commences move south to   Al Mishab,
                       Saudi Arabia.



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