NAVY TALKING POINTS OFFICE IF INFO DESERT STORM

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Subject = NAVY TALKING POINTS OFFICE IF INFO DESERT STORM

Folder Title = MAJ GALLOWAY S MATERIAL

Parent Organization = MARCENT

Unit = 1 MEF

Box ID = BX600094

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17Jan(continuing) 3USMC/lUSN'mj'uredinbunkersinSaudiArabiabyIraqiardlleryfirenear
Kuwaiti border.
DODannouncestheU.S.haslostanF/A-18andanA-6. TheF/A-18crewman
is listed as missing. The U.S. has lost 2 aircraft and has 1 person listed
as missing. Coalition forces have lost one aircraft.
SECNAV activates 421 additional Naval Reservists from 36 units.

18 Jan DOD announces 196 TOMAHAWK cruise missiles have been launched. Ad-
ditionally, 2,107 attack sorties have been flown by USN, USMC, USAF,
USA and coalition forces (Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, UY, Canada, France,
Italy) and have been assessed as 80% effective.
USS NICHOLAS (FFG-47), in operations with USA helos and a Kuwaiti patrol
boat@ engaged and neutralized Iraqi forces firing on coalition aircraft
with anti-aircraft artillery and shoulder-fired SAMs from eleven Kuwaiti
oil platforms in northern Arabian Gulf. Five Iraqis are killed, 3 wounded
and 23 enemy prisoners of war were taken aboard USS NICHOLAS for
transfer to USMC holding facility and Saudi Arabian EPW camp.
U.S. has lost two additional aircraft, a USN A-6 and a USAF F-15. The two
aircrewmen of the F-15 are listed as missing. The two aircrewmen of the
A-6 lost on 17 January are now listed as missing. U.S. has lost 4 aircraft
and has 5 personnel listed as missing.
In air-to-air engagements, eight Iraqi MIG-29s and Mirage F-1s are destroyed;
two by USN aircraft and six by USAF aircraft.
CINCCENTCOM(D+36hours): C6nfirmsIraqiSCUDmissilesimpactin
Israel, 10-12 civilian mijunies.
SECDEF declares an airlift emergengy, activates Stage la of Civil Reserve Air
Fleet (CRAF) plan, authorizing government to contract with civil air
carriers to use up to 181 aircraft to move supplies and equipment in
support of Operation DESERT STORM.
SECNAV activates 498 additional Naval Reservists from 37 units

19 Jan DOD announces that U.S. troop strength is 460,000 (75,000 USN, 85,000
USMQ and over 100 ships in AOR. 216 TOMAHAWK cruise missiles
have been launched and over 4,000 sorties (bombing, combat, attack sup-
pression, refueling) have been flown. Neutralizing SCUDS remains
primary target. Air campaign is satisfactory, causing Iraq to move
aircraft north; west and southern air defenses are weakening. Campaign
is shifting to neutralizing elite Republican Guard troops.
USN A-6s and A-7s successfully launch a Standoff Land Attack Missile (SLAM)
against an Iraqi target for the first time,
USS LOUISVILLE @SSN-724) fires th?, first submarine'-launched TOMA-
RAWK cruise missile in combat histoiywhile submerged in the Red Sea,
Missile was directed aga
.@mst an unidentified Iraqi target.
DOD announces the deployment of European-based U.S. Patriot surface-to-air
defensive missiles, with American crews, to Israel to assist defenses
against SCUD missiles.

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Queued for Declassification = 01-JAN-1980
Short Term Referral = 01-JAN-1980
Long Term Referral = 01-JAN-1980
Permanent Referral = 01-JAN-1980
Non-Health Related Document = 01-JAN-1980
Declassified = 24-MAR-1997