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- From: gawne@stsci.edu
- Subject: Re: 1st Infantry Div. in Desert Storm
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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 16:00:20 GMT
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- From gawne@stsci.edu
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- John Keegan in a review of a book on the Gulf War :
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- > The Gulf Conflict,1990-1991:Diplomacy and War in the New World Order
- > by Lawrence Friedman and Efraim Karsh pub. Faber
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- > states : "In particular, the success of the US 1st Infantry Division's
- > engineers in opening a way through the minefields, which
- > professionals think as remarkable as anything done in the air
- > war is not discussed at all."
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- And what about the Marine Combat Engineers? Seems I recall hearing Stormin
- Norman say something like "absolutely superb" about their breaching operation.
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- Not to take any glory away from the big red 1, but the USMC did one heck of a
- minefield breaching job there too.
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- -Bill Gawne, Space Telescope Science Institute
- MSgt USMCR
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