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Box ID = BX005102

Folder Title = 22ND SUP COM AAR THE FINAL CHAPTER XII                                                          

Unit = 22D SUPCOM  

Parent Org = ARCENT      




               After Action Review
               Executive Summary

               also maintaining a balance of energy and fresh ideas from new
               personnel with continuity and experience from the veterans.
               A number of people who had handled the war's hectic pace
               volunteered to stay, and their presence made a tremendous and
               valuable impact. Seventy units in the command were
               identified as critical to the closeout mission and were
               replaced with Transportation Terminal Units (TTUs), active
               component units from Forces Command (FORSCOM), and a mix of
               individual active and reserve soldiers. Sixty-one of the
               seventy units were provisional and were made from an active/
               reserve mix. The individuals from these units never bad
               worked with each other prior to being flown into southwest
               Asia. They were tasked to conduct the most massive
               redeployment of personnel and materiel in history. Thanks to
               their dedication, they did what was asked of them under harsh
               and austere conditions.

                   b. A historic moment in this war   occurred on 16 June
               when 858 personnel remaining from the  3rd Armored Division
               left Kuwait. They were the last unit   in theater who
               participated in the ground offensive.
                   c. At the request of the Kuwaiti   government, the U.S.
               deployed another unit to Kuwait. The   llth Armored Cavalry
               Regiment from US Army Europe (USAREUR) followed the 3rd
               Armored Division in deploying to Kuwait. Beginning 14 June,
               thirty-six hundred and eighty-five soldiers  from the lith ACR
               arrived in theater, drew equipment from the  command, and
               began to perform their mission of defending  Kuwait from
               possible re-invasion and helping to rebuild  the country.
                  d. The Iraqis set 732 oil wells ablaze    as they were
               retreating from Kuwait. Kuwait and much of   the east coast of
               Saudi Arabia were covered under a gigantic cloud that created
               darkness in the middle of the day. Several civilian
               companies and individuals from around the world assisted in
               putting out these fires. The llth ACR also did its part in
               helping to extinguish these fires. By using cannons from
               their combat engineer vehicles, they blasted through the
               walls of coke caused by the flames. This allowed fire
               fighters access to the flames to extinguish them. initial
               projections indicated that oil wells would be burning in
               Kuwait for 3 to 5 years after the war was over. These
               projections proved to be unduly pessimistic as the last oil
               well fire was extinguished by the Emir of Kuwait on 7
               November 1991.

                  e. On 11 July, 53 soldiers from the llth ACR were
               injured in an explosion and fire in the motor pool at Doha,
               Kuwait. This tragedy was further exacerbated on 23 July,
               when some ordnance was accidentally detonated and took the
               lives of three soldiers clearing ordnance remains from that
               fire. These two incidents demonstrated the danger of the

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