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

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Box ID = BX600094

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25 Jan DOD announces 17,500 sorties have been flown (a record 2,700 today) and 236
TOMAHAWK cruise missiles have been launched. Iraq has lost 43 aircraft,
19 in air-to-air engagements, 24 on the ground. The U.S. has lost 10 aircraft
to ground fire and the coalition has lost 7 aircraft including 5 UK Tornados
hit by anti-aircraft fire flying low-level Missions to crater airfields. The total
of 17 aircraft losses re=ents two-tenths of I percent of all combat missions
flown to-date,
The U.S. has lost an F/A-18 in non-combat operations. The aircrewman ejected
over the Persian Gulf and was recovered safely.
U.S. ships engage an Iraqi vessel laying mines near Sea Island Terminal, setting part
of terminal and surrounding water afire.
LU has di=ed several million barrels of oil into the Persian Gulf from the Sea
Island crude oil tanker loading terminal, off the coast of Kuwait. 5 pre-
positioned Iraqi tankers in the occupied Kuwaiti port of Mina al Ahmadi
have been drained of oil, and oil is being pumped from storage tanks ashore
through an underwater pipeline into the gulf. Described by DOD as "an act
of environmental terrorist', the spill is approximately 20 miles long, 3 miles
wide, and three feet deep, and threatens to foul the intakes of Saudi Arabia!s
desalinization plants as well as the gulf.
U.S. troop strength in the region has increased to 482,000. To-date, 192,965 Na-
tional Guard and Reservists have been recalled to active duty (14,702 Navy,
22,142 USMC). Fifteen percent of U.S. servicemembers in the DESERT
STORM field of operation are Guard and Reserve.
Iraq fires 3 SCUD missiles at Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. U.S. Patriot missiles success-
My intercept, but warhead debris kills at least one person, 23 injured. In a
second attack, 7 SCUDs impact in Tel Aviv and Haifa, ls@ael, killing one
person, injuring dozens.
SECNAV activates 298 additional Naval Reservists from 41 units.

26 Jan DOD announces 20,000 sorties have been flown as the air campaigns focus shifts
from strategic interdiction to battlefield preparation, with targeting on mili-
tary storage facilities, military production facilities, Republican Guard troop
fortifications and SCUD launchers. Bomb damage assessments confirm
significant destruction of Iraqi biological/chemical production capability.
Total of Iraqi aircraft destroyed in air-to-air engagements climbs to 22 as USAF F-
15s down 3 Iraqi MIG-23s.
USN aircraft attack an Iraqi patrol boat in Kuwait harbor. Boat last seen burning.
A-6s have engaged and left a TNC-45 patrol boat burning.
DOD announces that at least a dozen Iraqi WG-29s/F-ls and a dozen transport
aircraft have landed in an undisclosed location in Iran, a declared neutral
country. DOD ascertaining whether Iraqi planes are seeking a safe haven
from bombing attacks, whether this is a mass defection or a husbanding of re-
sources for future combat operations.
An estimated 120 million gallons of oil continues to spew into the Persian Gulf from
the Sea Island Terminal, and the oil slick -- partly afire from January 25 en-
gagement between USN and Iraqi patrol boat -- is now 31 miles long and 8
miles wide. ASD (PA) Pete Williams denounces deliberate spill as "indis-

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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