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added an extra Reserve tank battalion.     We had a comprehensive individual
training program for each reservist: rifle range, gas mask, Code of Con-
duct--the whole works.    At the same time, we were giving the same training to
the reservists who were destined to join the 1st Marine Division, already
deployed to Southwest Asia.     We put about 13,000 reservists through this
program in roughly one month.    Camp Lejeune looked like it must have looked
during World War II, with Marines reporting at all hours of the day and night,
finding temporary billeting in a tent or barracks, then starting out the first thing
next morning to train for combat.
   We began flying the 2d Division to Saudi Arabia around 12 December. The
shipping for our heavy gear and supplies (one MPS squadron plus 18 break-bulk
ships) had begun sailing around the last of November and continued through
December.   All our gear bad arrived by the middle of January; all the troops
were there by year's end.

Proceedings: Then you got some reinforcements in Saudi Arabia, didn't you?

Keys: We took operational control of a U.S. Army tank brigade--the "Tiger
Brigade" [1st Brigade, 2nd Armored Division]. They came lully equipped with
M-1 tanks and were a first-class outfit.   They had been together as a unit for
about two years, and had been through the National Training Center [the Army's
stateside equivalent of the Marine Air-Ground Combat Center in the Mojave
Desert]. Their commander and officers really knew their stuff.
   We spent the first few days getting to know each other, getting briefed on
each other's procedures.    That was much less of a problem than you might
think. We go to their schools; they go to our schools. A lot of our training and
doctrine is the same.    Before long, we were one tight division.  Right at the
beginning, I told the Tiger Brigade that they were my third regiment, and would
be treated the same as the other two.  This made a great difference to them and
paid off greatly later.  Those Army tankers now wear the 2d Marine Division
patch on their right sleeves--to signi~ their service with the Marines in combat.
At the time we assumed operational control, they were located about 80 miles
away, in a relatively good training area.  I saw no point in moving them closer,
so they stayed there until the first week in January and conducted their own
training exercises.    We'd go down there to observe and to coordinate some
things with them that I wanted to do.

Proceedings: When did you begin moving toward your eventual attack positions?

Keys: About 28 December, the first elements of the division moved north.      I
wanted to move units into the field as soon as they got their equipment, and get
on with some serious training.  We moved into a place called the Triangle
area--which was in fact a triangle, lying between three hard-topped roads--about
30 miles north of Al Jubayl.   Within two weeks, the entire division was up at
the Triangle.