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- CONTINUE TO ISOLATE THE KTO BY DESTROYING KEY BRIDGES TO SHUT OFF
  HIS SUPPLY LINES AND BY ATTACKING HIS SUPPLY CONVOYS
  -- APPROXIMATELY 865 SORTIES AGAINST HIS LOC'S

  -- BRIDGES ARE VERY TOUGH TARGETS TO HIT~ BUT OUR PRECISION
     GUIDED MUNITIONS HAVE SHOWN TRENENDOUS SUCCESS

  -- 40 BRIDGES HAVE BEEN ATTACKED
         OVER 60% OF THE BRIDGES STRUCK ARE NON-OPERATIONAL
  -- BACKED UP CONVOYS AT DESTROYED BRIDGES PROVIDE TARGET RICH
     OPPORTUNITIES


- FROM A LEVEL OF 1i000 TRUCKS AT ANY ONE TINE IN THE EARLY STAGES
  -- AS FEW AS 100 TRUCKS AT ANY ONE TINE TODAY IS COMMON

         HAS BEEN AS LOW AS ~
         REDUCED RESUPPLY BY 90%


- ANECDOTAL EVIDENCE
  -- SOLDIERS BEGGING FOOD FROM KUWAITI CIVILIANS
  -- EPW'S BEING DOWN TO ONE MEAL A DAY AND NO WATER TO BATHE IN
  -- EPW'S COVERED WITH LICE AND MANY WITH OPEN SORES

  -- HOSPITALIZED IRAQI'S BELIEVE THEY WOULD HAVE DIED IN IRAQI
     MEDICAL CHAIN
     - -- 3 MEALS A DAY
         COLOR TV


NBC


                  TOTAL NBC TARGZTHD           33
                  flC TARGETS ATTACIED         33
                        NUC              4
                        BlO             10
                        CHEM            19

                  TOTAL SORTIES FLOWN         600


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