ANTHOLOGY AND ANNOrATED BIBLIOGRAPHY                                       131

Proceedings: How was your intelligence support when you first went in? What
did you depend on?

Myatt: Everybody's shooting himself in the foot over the intelligence.  It's a
difference in what you need and what you want.  I guess you're never going to
get everything you want.       That we've been training people to deal with
uncertainty is the right focus. It wasn't all bad that we painted him to be ten
feet tall, because we prepared our Marines to fight somebody ten feet tall.

Proceedings: When you got over there, the ?th Marine Expeditionary Brigade
[MEB] was in position and the 1st MEB was arriving. How did you fit the units
back into the division?

Myatt: We got additional forces, such as the 1st Battalion, Sixth Marine
Regiment, a tank company, an assault amphibian vehicle platoon from Okinawa,
an artillery battery from Okinawa, and we just melded all the ground combat
element portions into the 1st Marine Division.

Proceedings: How about setting up ranges and training?

Myatt: In dealing with the Saudis initially, it didn't look as if we'd ever be able
to live-fire our weapons. But the M6OA1 tanks that we got from the MPS ships
were new, and had never been fired before.     First, we had to test-fire those
tanks and second,    we had to     become familiar with the discarding-sabot
ammunition that our Marines had never been allowed to fire.  By 16 Septem-
ber, I believe, we had fired our weapons on Leatherneck Range.
   Because this went well, we then made progress in obtaining permission to
fire live ammunition in Saudi Arabia at what I consider a remarkable pace,
knowing that we were asking to fire into areas where the bedouins moved
camels and sheep.

Proceedings: Are these ranges now off-limits because of unexploded ordnance?

Myatt: The ranges in Saudi Arabia were shut down at the conclusion of the
training phase. After Desert Storm, we policed up all the unexpended ordnance
and blew it in place. Theoretically those places are now clean.
   We were fortunate that the British 7th Armored Brigade brought a very
experienced 40-man training section with them when they joined us in October.
They set up a combined-arms range that was finished by January--Devil Dog
Dragoon Range--where we maneuvered while firing artillery and bringing in air
strikes. What we were working on, of course, was the breaching of the obstacle
belts as supported by air and artillery.