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File: 120396_sep96_decls2_0003.txt
Subject: MARINES SUMMARY OF ACTION
Unit: 3D BN 12T MA
Parent Organization: 11TH MARINES
Box ID: BX600025
Folder Title: COMMAND CHRONOLOGY 3RD BATTALION 12TH MARINE REGIMENT JAN - JUN 1991
Document Number: 1001
Folder SEQ #: 10
UNCLASSIFIED
ORDER TO SUPPORT TF TARO SCREENING AND INFILTRATION OPERATIONS.
1055: 11TH MARINES JUMP COMMAND POST (GP) OCCUPIED POS ITION AT GRID
QS 5@@8 469 AND ASSUMED CONTROL OF THE REGIMENT.
1405: 1/12 DISPLACED AND OCCUPIED FIRING POSITIONS NEAR GRID QS 73@51, FIRING.
CAPABLE (FIRECAP) READY AT 1712; MISSION DS TF TARO.
2100: 1/11 OCCUPIED POSITIONS IN TF PAPA BEAR'S ASSEMBLY AR@A AT GRID
QS 71 47; MISSION DS TF PAPA BEAR.
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21 February Operation Desert Storm B-3. 3/12 fired for.the first time
during the war in support of TF Grizzly who had
reconnaissance forces across the border. 5/11 occupied a
firing position just southwest of the border in preparation
to support the screening and clearing of the artillery
position areas short of the first Iraqi obstacle bel@.
Further south, 3/11 occupied assembly area positions. with 'TF
Ripper, the Division's main effort for the assault'breach.
In anticipation of Division operations in a chemical and,
biological environment, the Division Commander directed that
all personnel begin taking the Nerve Agent'Pretreatment'..,
(NAP) pills and the Ciprofloyin (Cipro) antibiotic pills.
Specific noteworthy events included:
0236: 3/12 FIRED TIME-ON-TARGET (TOT) MISSION IN SUPPORT OF TF GRIZZLY
0358: -0/12 FIRED TOT MISSION IN SU@ORT OF TF GRIZZLY.
8 IN;SUPPORT
OF TF TROY RECONNAISSANCE PERSONNEL. VEHICLES WERE DISPERSED BY 32
ROUNDS OF DPICM.
1236: 3/11 OCCUPIED POSITIONS IN TF RIPPER'S ASSEMBLY AREA AT GRID QS 58 46
FIRECAP READY AT, 1400; MISSION DS TF RIPPER.
1640: 5/11 DISPLACED TO GRID DS 58 65, FIRECAP READY'AT 1910; MISSION GSI'
PRIORITY CALLS FOR FIRE TO TF GRIZZLY AND TF SHEPHERD.
1833: DIVISION INSTRUCTED ALL PERSONNEL TO BESIN TAKING NAP AND CIPRO PILLS.
-@047: REGIMENTAL 5-4 IDENTIFIES THAT HEAVY EQUIPMENT TRANSPORTS (HET)@
PROVIDED BY DIVISION AS UNSUITABLE FOR TRANSPORTING ENGINEER EQUIPMENT
THROUGH BERM INTO KUWAIT.
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22 February Operation Desert Storm Early in the morning as 1/11
and the Regimental jump CP moved forward to positions-along
the border, 1/12 engaged what was believed to-be an Iraqi
armored reconnaissance force of 2 tanks and 3 BMPs moving
south just across the border. While awaiting Cobra support,
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Subject = MARINES SUMMARY OF ACTION
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