WITH THE 1ST MARINE DWISION IN DESERT SHiELD AND DESERT STORM 20 3d Platoon (motorized), Company C, 1st Reconnaissance Battalion Team 2, 1st Platoon, Company A, 1st Reconnaissance Battalion Task Force Grizzly (RCT 4) Headquarters, 4th Marines 2d Battalion, 7th Marines 3d Battalion, 7th Marines Detachment, Truck Company, Headquarters Battalion 2d Platoon, Company A, 1st Reconnaissance Battalion 1st Platoon (motorized), Company D, 1st Reconnaissance Battalion Task Force Shepherd Headquarters, 1st Light Armored Infantry Battalion Company A, 1st Light Armored Infantry Battalion Company B, 1st Light Armored Infantry Battalion Company C, 1st Light Armored Infantry Battalion Section A, 2d Platoon, Battery B, 3d Low Altitude Air Defense Battalion Task Force X-Ray 1st Battalion, 3d Marines 11th Marines Headquarters, 11th Marines 1st Battalion, 11th Marines 3d Battalion, 11th Marines 5th Battalion, 11th Marines 1st Battalion, 12th Marines 3d Battalion, 12th Marines 3d Assault Amphibian Battalion (-) 1st Reconnaissance Battalion (-) 1st Battalion, 25th Marines The `Cement Factoiy' Deftnse Line In September 1990 the 1st Marine Division had too few AAVs and tanks to conduct the active defense that later came to characterize its deployment. Instead, General Myatt took advantage of one of the few natural obstacles that existed between Jubayl and the Kuwait border. RCT 7 moved 50 kilometers north of Jubayl to establish the third Marine defensive position. Drawing its name from the large structures of the cement factory complex that dominated the surrounding area, the new defensive position was centered on an elevated ridge line and series of gravel pits that bisected the north-south coastal highway at that point.First Page | Prev Page | Next Page | Src Image |