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

File Cabinet = Week-51

File Room = dec96_classified

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26 Jan (continuing) crimiriate environmental war' causing catastrophic environmental
damage to entire Persian Gulf region, and refutes Iraqi allegation that
U.S. or coalition sabotaged facility and caused spill. U.S. is sending a
team of U.S. Coast Guard, NOAA and EPA oil pollution and environ-
mental experts to scene to assist Saudi Arabian efforts to contain the
spill.
U.S. Marines stage biggest artillery attack of the war, firing a battery of
155mm howitzers at Iraqi troops six miles inside Kuwait.
Three U.S. Marines, members of the First Marine Division, were killed and
seven injured when.two LAV-25 light Armored vehicles accidentally
collided as the Marines were returning from a raid mission along the
Saudi-Kuwaiti border. To-date, U.S. non-hostile deaths are 10, 14 are
missing, and 3 have been wounded. Hostile deaths remain at 0.
Iraq fires a SCUD missile at Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, intercepted by U.S.
Patriot missile. In a second attack, three SCUDs are launched at
Haifa and one SCUD at Tel Aviv, Israel. All were intercepted by U.S.
Patriot missiles. This latest salvo brings to 45 total SCUD launches.
U.S. troop strength has increased to 483,000 in the region.
Enemy Prisoners of War (EPW) to-date: 110, in U.S. facilities awaiting
processing to Saudia Arabian EPW camp.

27 Jan DOD announces that USAF F-111s attacked pipelines feeding the Sea bland
Terminal with GBU-15 laser-mided bombs to stem the flow of oil,
now 35 miles long and 10 miles wide, -into the Persian Gulf, and to
ignite oil and bum off pollutants. The attack specifically targeted sys-
tem of pipes that regulate oil flow from storage tanks to the terminal
called manifolds. Oil flow has apparently drastically slowed, and fire
should bum out in about 24 hours.
Over 22,000 sorties have been flown, including attacks on 3 SCUD missile
launch sites, Republican Guard troop emplacements, bridges, lines of
communications and shelters. There have been no U.S. aircraft lost in
the past 49 hours.
Four Iraqi WG-23 aircraft have been destroyed in air-to-air engagements
with 2 USAF F-15s near Baghdad. Iraqi aircraft losses in air-to-
air engagements-to-date total 26.
USN A-6s attack and destroy an Iraqi ship, and coalition naval forces con-
tinue to hunt Iraqi patrol and mine-laying boats in the northern Ara-
bian Gulf and near Bubiyan Island. To-date, 8 Iraqi vessels (1 oil
platform service ship, 2 patrol boats, I tanker, and 4 unknown) are
presumed destroyed, and 10 (4 mining vessels, 1 hovercraft, 3 patrol
boats, and 2 unknown) have been surik. 2 additional mines have been
located and destroyed in the northern Arabian Gulf.
39 Iraqi aircraft, including 23 in the past 24 hours, have landed in Iran. Iran
announces that to protect its neutrality, any warplanes landing within
its borders would be confiscated and held until end of hostilities.
U.S. Patriot missiles intercept 6 Iraqi SCUD missiles aimed at Saudi Arabia
and Israel. 51 SCUDs have been launched to-date.

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File Room = dec96_declassified
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Box ID = BX600094
Unit = 1 MEF
Parent Organization = MARCENT
Folder Title = MAJ GALLOWAY S MATERIAL
Folder Seq # = 207
Subject = NAVY TALKING POINTS OFFICE IF INFO DESERT STORM
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Document Date =
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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