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File: 980717_aug97_decls4_0008.txt
Subject = INVESTIGATION OF THE CIRCUMSTANCES SURROUNDING THE COMBAT DAMAGE
Box ID = BX002451
Folder title = INFORMAL INVES OF NIGHT ATTACK CONDUCTED BY 2D BDE 26-27 FEB 91
Unit = TRADOC
Parent = TRADOC
5 U.S.C. 552 (b)(6)
There was never any mention on the radio of what portion of the
Brigade boundary would be given up to the 4/7 CAV. D-1 was the
initial contact point of 4/7, 2d of the 2d ACR, and Ist Bde met at
grid 4010. Revised phase line Malta. That was the point at which
we pivoted and turned due east. All three units met at that point.
Very solid coordination at that point. Yes, sir 4/7 CAV, 2d ACR
and Ist Sde, as represented by 4/34 Armor. The coordination was
made by 4/34 Armor. As we moved east, there was coordination on
how much space on my southern boundary I would give 4/7 CAV.
Realizing that I had three Battalions in wedge moving in a zone
that moved from'9 Kilometers wide down to phase line Bullet along
the 75 north south grid line to the 17 grid line narrowing the
Brigade zone to 7 Kilometers at phase line Bullet.
asked for a 3 click area, a click and a half north and a ClICk and
a half south of the 10 line that he was coordinating with them for
some of this. Speaking with him several days after the fight he
says he may have been looking 3 clicks north. That would have
given me a four click front which was impossible for me to accept.
I wasn't happy with a click and a half so I told him I would give
him a click. Meaning from 10 to 11 and I would run 4/34 along
the 11 line. I might have thought that I was talking
about a one click buffer from his click and a half. It was clear
in my mind and everybody elses that I could not afford to narrow
down so much. They made initial contact between the 71 and 72
north south grid lines, with 3/5 making contact. When they went on
line then 4/34 initially went on line with them stretching from
about 11 to 13 and he was stuffed up much farther north than I
wanted him. In fact, he was getting to close to 3/5 and
inhibiting them. There were no battalion boundaries. We were in a
wedge formation, working off of positive ID. 3/5 CAV's way point
was 750135. Realizing that 135 was half way between 10 and 17, the
way point was picked a long time before we started working the 4/7
boundary. Yes sir, my boundary was 10 to 17. I coordinated with
m for a 1 Kilometer southern 10 to 11 and he may have been
confused and thought it was 10 to 12. The Brigade was moving in a
wedge. We made contact at.D-1 (4010), there was a D-2, which I
can't remember the grid, but I think it was 6010. In D-3, which
was 7510 and that was the coordination point for the lst Brigade
the 2d ACR and the 4/7 CAV. The point is, it was running right down
the line and it was at 6010 that we made coordination. My first
concern when the contact started was that 4/34 had moved too
far north and was interfering with 3/5's deployment and that was my
first conversation. had the clear responsibility of
fitting in the CAV with the 2d Regiment. I was given the mission
from the ADC-maneuver to be the contact with 2d Regiment. I was
told to man D-1, D-21 D-3 along with 4/7, which was also in there.
we were all trying to kind of meet. The 4/7 ground flank screen
got ahead of the Brigade. Even though elements of 4/7 were meet@-ng
us at contact points and were tied in to us, their location in our
zone in front of us was not known by me and I don't know if it was
known by In my mind the 4/7 was generally free to
operate between the 10 and 11 grid line. The only other thing :s
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5 U.S.C. 552 (b)(6)
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