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  -- OVER 50% OF IRAQ'S SILKWORM SITES ARE DESTROYED OR NON-

     OPERATIONAL

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

     DAMAGED

        UNM QASR, BASRAH, AND KHOR AL ZUBAYR


- FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER, 3 CV BATTLE GROUPS OPERATING IN ARABIAN

  GULF

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

     IN GULF

  -- ALSO 3 CV BATTLE GROUPS IN RED SEA

  -- OVER 6,000 SORTIES FLOWN FROM SIX CARRIERS


- ON 20 JANUARY, USS LOUISVILLE FIRED TOMAHAWK MISSILES AT TARGETS

  IN IRAQ

  -- FIRST TIME SINCE WW II A US SUBXARINE HAS FIRED IN ANGER


- ON 3 FEBRUARY, USS MISSOURI BEGAN FIRING HER 16 INCH GUNS IN

  SUPPORT OF OPERATION DESERT STORM

  -- TARGET WAS COMMUNICATIONS CENTER (COMMAND POST AND ASSOCIATED

     BUNKERS0

  -- MESSAGE SENT:   "GET OUT OF KUWAIT" - MESSAGE RECEIVED!

  -- FIRST TIME MISSOURI HAS FIRED IN ANGER SINCE 1953; KOREAN WAR


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

  AND EASTERN MED

  -- AGAINST HIGH VALUE, WELL DEFENDED TARGETS


- TO DATE 50 MINES HAVE BEEN DESTROYED

  -- MAJORITY IN NORTHERN ARABIAN GULF

  -- SOUTHERNMOST APPROXIMATELY 3 0NM NE OF BANRAIN

  -- MAJORITY MOORED VARIETY THAT HAVE BROKEN LOOSE

  -- MCM, COALITION EFFORT


- AMPHIBIOUS TASK FORCE HAS JUST COMPLETED LARGE AMPHIBIOUS

  REHEARSAL

  -- LARGEST REHEARSAL SINCE KOREAN WAR

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