BOOMERS BRIEFS 4 JAN 91

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Subject = BOOMERS BRIEFS 4 JAN 91                                         

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Folder Title = COMUSMARCENT - BOOMER BRIEFS   4 JAN 91                                                         

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    COL HASTINGS: I haven't seen it yet.

    COL LIST: I'll check. It was done last night.

    G-2: Col Lucy and LtCol Brunn flew up to Riyadh this morning.
    They will be players there. Col Lucy has an in-call with BGen
    Leide this afternoon. They have an intelligence conference
    tomorrow, plan to fly back tomorrow by 1900. That's all I have.

    COL HILL: Sir, in the 5th MEB sitrep there's mention of the Navy
    having problems installing a radio aboard the flag ship, and
    estimated completion would be the 8th of February. That piece of
    equipment is necessary to give them a WMMCSS capability. It
    appears it will be at least a month before they have that
    capability on there. I called the NAVCENT N-6 last night, and
    they are having some installation problems in being able to
    integrate it into the ship system. That's all I have, sir.

    COL HASTINGS: Lot of effort expended on that, just getting that
    into place, but it's not going to happen?

    COL HILL: Not yet.

    GEN JENKINS: The Navy had six of those, and we are absolutely
    hard other initially about doing anything else. This has been
    ongoing since they embarked to come out here. If you solve it,
    that will be great; but I'll believe it when I see it.

    COL SHOTWELL: Morning, sir. DOD   wants to start exercising the
    combat correspondent pools in the very near future. It's
    supposed to be no notice drills.  We think the first one's going
    to go on the 7th. What that will  involve, they will send us a
    group of 18 correspondents - that includes the camera guys and
    sound guys, and we will subdivide those into smaller groups and
    send them out to units RON. The key is just to see how quickly
    we can get them out and get their products back, videotape with
    the stories or whatever, but we anticipate at least a couple of
    drills over the course of the next week.

    GEN BOOMER: Okay. I want to talk to you about that right after
    the meeting.

    COL SHOTWELL: Secondly, we are starting -- the media are
    starting to heavy-up a little bit as we get into the new year.
    NBC has brought in Bob McFarlane - this is the guy who was the
    bureau chief for NBC in Washington. He's now in country and
    would like to meet with you sometime next week. Bruce Vanvoris
    (phoenetic), you might remember from Time Magazine; so we are
    getting more of those folks are starting to pop up on the scope.
    That's all I have, sir.

    GEN BOOMER: They can come up to visit.

    COL HASTINGS: At this time I'd like to introduce Col Ed Soriano.
    He is the team chief for the liaison.





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