Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!nih-csl!lhc!mimsy!haven!uflorida!rex!wuarchive!usc!ucsd!pacbell.com!att!cbnews!cbnews!military From: kmc4@midway.uchicago.edu (keith matthew cardoza) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: Re: OP. DESERT SHIELD Message-ID: <1990Nov15.013838.2252@cbnews.att.com> Date: 15 Nov 90 01:38:38 GMT References: <1990Nov14.010924.15410@cbnews.att.com> Sender: military@cbnews.att.com (William B. Thacker) Organization: University of Chicago Lines: 108 Approved: military@att.att.com From: kmc4@midway.uchicago.edu (keith matthew cardoza) In article <1990Nov14.010924.15410@cbnews.att.com> white_ca@lrc.uucp writes: > > >From: white_ca@lrc.uucp >About a month ago, someone placed a breakdown of U.S. and other troops present >in the Middle East region that were either associated with OPERATION DESERT >SHIELD or in the vicinity. Does anyone have an updated list? Such a list >would be greatly appreciated ! > Chuckles TX#! This was published in NYT on Saturday, November 10,1990 U.S. Gulf Force: What's There, What's on the Way Navy (Forces in Place) Joint Task Force Middle East In the Persian Gulf: Command Ship LaSalle Cruisers England and Antietam Frigates Vandegrift, Reid, Robert G. Bradley and Barbey Destroyer David R. Ray Battleship Wisconsin John F. Kennedy battle group In the eastern Mediterranean: Carrier John F. Kennedy Cruisers Mississippi, San Jacinto and Thomas S. Gates Destroyer Moosbrugger Frigate Samuel B. Roberts Four minesweepers Saratoga battle group In the Red Sea: Carrier Saratoga Cruisers Philippine Sea and Biddle Destroyers Sampson and Spruance Frigates Elmer Montgomery and Thomas C. Hart Midway Carrier Group In the Gulf of Oman: Aircraft carrier Midway Cruisers Bunker Hill and Mobile Bay Destroyers Hewitt and Oldendorf Frigates Curtis and Rodney M. Davis Navy (Forces to be Deployed) Up to 25,000 sailors Carrier Ranger and escorts Carrier Theodore Roosevelt and escorts Carrier America and escorts Battleship Missouri Amphibious Group 3 Army (Forces in Place) 82nd Airborne Division 24th Mechanized Infantry Division 101st Airborne Division I Corps Support Command 197th Mechanized Infantry Brigade 3d Armored Cavalry Regiment 11th Air Defense Artillery Brigade First Cavalry Division III Corps Artillery 12th Aviation Brigade Army (Forces to be Deployed) More than 55,000 troops and 1,130 tanks First Infantry Division (Fort Riley, Kan.) First Armored Division (Ansbach, Germany) Third Armored Division (Frankfurt, Germany) Second Armored Cavalry Regiment (Neremberg, Germany) II Corps Support Command (Stuttgart, Germany) VII Corps Headquarters (Stuttgart, Germany) Combat support, and combat service support units Marines (Forces in Place) First Marine Expeditionary Force First Marine Expeditionary Brigade Fourth Marine Expeditionary Brigade Seventh Marine Expeditionary Brigade Marines (Forces to be Deployed) More than 34,000 troops Second Marine Expeditionary Force (Camp Lejeune, N.C.) Fifth Marine Expeditionary Brigade (Camp Pendleton, Calif.) Maritie free-positioning package (Norfolk, Va.) Air Force (Forces in Place) First Tactical Fighter Wing (F-15B's, C's) Fourth Tactical Fighter Wing (F-15E's) 35th Tactical Fighter Wing (F-4G's) 37th Tactical Fighter Wing (F-117 Stealths) 48th Tactical Fighter Wing (F-111 F's) 52d Tactical Fighter wing (F-4G's) 354th Tactical Fighter Wing (A-10's) 363d Tactical Fighter Wing (F-16's) 401st Tactical Fighter Wing (F-16's) 552d Airborne Warning and Control Wing (E-3 Awacs) RC-135 reconnaissance aircraft -- Keith Cardoza E-mail : kmc4@midway.uchicago.edu =============================================================================== The University Of Chicago : "We're smart, you're dumb." 8^) Macintosh (tm) - Once you go Mac, you never go back.