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- THE RECENT B-52 BOMBING RAID AT RUMAYLAH AMMO STORAGE FACILITY
  RESULTED IN THE HIGHEST EVER RECORDED INFRARED SENSOR EVENT.   THE
  EXPLOSION OF APPROXIMATELY 10,000 METRIC TONS OF EXPLOSIVES.   ON
  A SCALE OF ONE TO TEN, WITH TEN BEING A VOLCANO ERUPTION, THIS

  EXPLOSION REGISTERED TWELVE.


- IN THE EARLY MORNING HOURS OF 2 FEBRUARY, THE MEDINA DIV WAS
  STRUCK BY B-52'S.   THIS STRIKE RESULTED IN YET ANOTHER
  SPECTACULAR EXPLOSION.   IT WAS ABOUT FIVE ON A SCALE OF ONE TO
  TEN, TEN BEING VOLCANO ERUPTION.


- NOW ATTACKING FORCES CLOSEST TO OUR POSITION IN THE KTO WITH OVER
  600 AIRCRAFT SORTIES PER DAY
  -- TACAIR IN SOUTHERN KUWAIT WAS KEY TO OUR QUICK DEFEAT OF IRAQI
     FORCES NEAR KHAFJI
  -- DURING THAT OPERATION B-52'S ALSO PERFORMED STRIKES TO FLUSH
     OUT THE ENEMY
         ONE ATTACK DESCRIBED AS "LIKE TURNING ON THE LIGHT IN A

         COCKROACH INFESTED APARTMENT
              100 - 150 VEHICLES SCATTERED AFTER THE STRIKE --
              TACAIR WAS WAITING TO SQUISH THEM LIKE BUGS"


NAVAL OPERATIONS


- IRAQI'S LIMITED NAVAL FORCE (INCLUDING SEIZED KUWAITI CRAFT) HAS
  BEEN REDUCED TO A HANDFUL OF RELATIVELY INEFFECTIVE PATROL BOATS

  -- NOTE THE LIMITED AREA OF OPERATIONS OF THE IRAQI NAVAL FORCES


- 170 COALITION FORCE SHIPS HAVE ESTABLISHED SEA CONTROL IN THE
  WATERS OF THE ARABIAN GULF AND RED SEA
  -- SANK OR DISABLED 65 IRAQI NAVAL VESSELS OF ALL CLASSES
         INCLUDES 12 OF 13 IRAQI MISSILE PATROL BOATS
  -- NAVAL SURFACE ACTIVITY HAS BEEN INSIGNIFICANT SINCE 29 JANUARY

     WHEN 20 IRAQI CRAFT OFF THE COAST OF UMM AL MARADIM WERE
     ATTACKED BY OUR NAVAL AIRCRAFT AND ARMY AHIP HELOS


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