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  -- IRAQI'S LIMITED NAVAL BASE AND PORT FACILITIES SEVERELY
     DAMAGED

         UMM QASR, BASRAH, AND KHOR AZ ZUBAYR

  -- IRAQ STILL POSSESSES THE CAPABILITY TO CONDUCT HIT AND RUN

     ATTACKS USING SMALL, LIGHTLY-ARMED BOSTON WHALER-TYPE PATROL

     BOATS.

  -- SMALL BOATS COULD ASSIST EVACUATION OF IRAQI ELEMENTS FROM

     KUWAIT.


- FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER, 4 CV BATTLE GROUPS OPERATING IN ARABIAN

  GULF

  -- OTHER THAN PORT CALL IN IRAN IN 70'S, CV'S HAD NEVER OPERATED

     IN GULF

  -- ALSO 2 CV BATTLE GROUPS IN RED SEA

  -- OVER 15,000 SORTIES FLOWN FROM SIX CARRIERS


- ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS NOW, U.S. SUBMARINES HAVE FIRED TOMAHAWK

  MISSILES AT TARGETS IN IRAQ.

  -- FIRST TIME SINCE WW II US SUBMARINES HAVE FIRED IN ANGER


- MISSOURI AND WISCONSIN HAVE FIRED OVER 1,000 ~16   ROUNDS ON 80

  SEPARATE MISSIONS.

  -- FIRST TIME MISSOURI OR WISCONSIN HAVE FIR~D IN ANGER SINCE

     1953; KOREAN WAR

  -- BATTLESHIPS PLAYED A MAJOR ROLE IN CONVINCING THE IRAQIS THAT

     THE MAJOR ASSAULT WAS COMING FROM EASTERN SAUDI ARABIA.


- OVER 280 TLAM CRUISE MISSILES LAUNCHED FROM ARABIAN GULF, RED SEA

  AND EASTERN MED

  -- AGAINST HIGH VALUE, WELL DEFENDED TARGETS


- AS OF 25 FEB THE NAVY MILITARY SEALIFT COMMAND HAS MOVED 5.8

  MILLION TONS OF SUPPLIES, FOOD, EQUIPMENT AND AMMUNITION INTO THE

  AOR.


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(INFORMATION CURRENT AS OF 27 FEB 1991)

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