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Subject = HISTORY SLIDES FOR 101ST AIRBORNE DIVISION                      

Folder Title = DRAFT COPY OF 101ST ABN DIV AALT OPERATIONS DS-S                                                

Parent Organization = XVIII CORPS 

Unit  = 101ST ID    

Box ID = BX001611

File Cabinet = Week-48 

File Room = sep96_classified    







       at Fort Knox, Kentucky, training West Point cadets, and s4lected

       leaders involved in the training and evaluation of National Guard
       and Reserve forces.4

             The training in Honduras and Panama was.cancelled on 10

       August 90. The next day, the 2-502d peacekeeping mission was

       cancelled.: By 17 August, with the return from West Point of the
       3-327th Infantry, most of the division was back at Fort Campbell
       preparing for war. The last of the helicopters serving in
       Honduras would not return until 24 August.5

             The division staff had also just returned from an off-post
       deployment when Iraq invaded Kuwait on 2 August 1990. They hai

       been at Fort Bragg, North Carolina taking part in the INTERNAL

       LOOK command post exercise. The US Central Co=and had based the
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       INTERNAL LOOK scenario on an Iraqi invasion of Saudi Arabia.

       This exercise not only foreshadowed the coming crisis, it

       provided the division staff with a valuable familiarization of

       the Persian Gulf region.

             The first 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) soldiers to

       deploy to Saudi Arabia were the five troopers of the division's

       Advon Party. The Advon reported to Fort Bragg on 12 August 90

       and departed for Saudi Arabia at 2150 Zulu on 14 August 1990.
       They arrived in Saudi Arabia on 15 August 1990.7 major Huber,

       Chief, G3 Operations, and Captain Lake, of the G4 staff,

       simultaneously stepped onto the airport tarmak at Dhahran so that

       they could both claim to be the first Screaming Eagles in the



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Document 96 f:/Week-48/BX001611/DRAFT COPY OF 101ST ABN DIV AALT OPERATIONS DS-S/history slides for 101st airborne division:03069709501938
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File Room = sep96_declassified
File Cabinet = Week-48
Box ID = BX001611
Unit = 101ST ID
Parent Organization = XVIII CORPS
Folder Title = DRAFT COPY OF 101ST ABN DIV AALT OPERATIONS DS-S
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Subject = HISTORY SLIDES FOR 101ST AIRBORNE DIVISION
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Queued for Declassification = 01-JAN-1980
Short Term Referral = 01-JAN-1980
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Permanent Referral = 01-JAN-1980
Non-Health Related Document = 01-JAN-1980
Declassified = 06-MAR-1997