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1990/Desert Shield
11 August 	(U) The CS issued the Desert Shield execute
			order to all military-commands. (See Appendix
			8 for USCENCEUR tasks for Desert Shield.)

			(U) The USAFE CAT assisted AC in gaining
			overflight permission from the Austrian
			government. -
			
			(U) The 601st Tactical Control Wing deployed
			its first tactical air control system (TACS)
			personnel and equipment to Southwest Asia in
			support of USCENTCOM. USCENTCOM preferred
			piecemeal TACS support vice integrated unit
			deployments. (See Appendix 9 for a summary of
			TACS support to Desert Shield and Desert
			Storm.)

12 August (U) The first U.S. military member to die in
			Operation Desert Shield was Air Force Staff
			Sergeant John Campisi from SAC's 55th Organi-
			zational Maintenance Squadron, killed in a
			flight line vehicle accident bile TDY to
			Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

			(U) Iraqi President Saddam Hussein tried to
			link the crisis to the larger Arab-Israeli
			dispute by suggesting a possible pullout from
			Kuwait, conditional upon Israeli withdrawal
			from the occupied territories.

13 August 	The U.S. Mission to NATO advised Secre-
			tary Baker the U.S. did not need approval from
			the NATO Defense Planning Committee or any
			other NATO body to remove forces from Europe
			for contingency operations.(7)

			(U) The USAFE Crisis Action Team began 24
			hour operations in the Operations Support
			Center.

			(U) Syria became the thirteenth county to
			join the coalition force against Iraq.

14 August 	(U) A MAC Airlift Control Element (ALCE)
			arrived at Zaragoza AB, Spain, with 96
			personnel from McChord AFB, Washington.

			(U) The CINCTRANS Commander in Chief, U.S.
			Transportation Command announced that, for
			
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