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Home Railroad Collectibles -All Railroad Magazines RR Books Collectible Plates Information & shopping cart New Collector Plate website Collectible plates LIST only - no photos Transportation Items Air, Bus paper Hess Trucks & Ertl die cast items Books & Magazines (Non Railroad) Great Items - Cottages, Cigarette posters -- Magazine of the U.S. Navy. This magazine is dedicated to the men and women of the Navy and Marine Corps who served during Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm, to the millions of patriotic Americans across the nation who supported them and to those who remain on station today defending freedom. -- Contents: The Gulf War -- Historic Presence -- Desert Shield sealift -- Severing Saddam's lifeline -- The air war's hard rain -- Victory at sea -- Mother of all surrenders -- Greater 'gators' -- Flexible response -- Combat damage control -- Weapons of war -- Seabee spirit -- Combat logistics -- The total force -- Navy medicine -- Homefront support -- Return to freedom -- People -- Shield/Storm chronology -- Seventy two pages. $9.95 The Gulf War --Victory through versatility --After legions of the world's fourth largest army poured across the Kuwaiti border Aug. 2, 1990, the U.S. military formed the foundation for a powerful 29-nation coalition united against Iraq's brutal and unlawful invasion of its tiny neighbor. The foundation's maritime power was provided by the Navy-Marine Corps team, whose inherent flexibility and sustainability paved the way for the U.S.-led allied air and ground forces, and subsequently, the way to victory. At the time of the invasion, the Navy-Marine Corps team was already on station. The ships of Joint Task Force Middle East, a presence in the region since 1949, were immediately placed on alert, while the USS Independence (CV 62) and USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) battle groups sped from the Indian Ocean and Eastern Mediterranean to take up positions in the Gulf of Oman and Red Sea. Once on station, the ships provided the first U.S. military assets capable of a sustained presence and power projection ashore. When President Bush ordered the historic deployment of troops and equipment to the Middle East, long-established maritime superiority allowed the U.S. to undertake the largest strategic sealift of supplies in history, with more than 250 ships carrying nearly 18.5 billion pounds of equipment and supplies to sustain Desert Shield/Storm forces. Maritime superiority also afforded allied naval forces the ability to implement and sustain U.N. trade sanctions against Iraq, immediately after they were imposed, severing Saddam's economic lifeline. Low-key but close military ties with friendly Arab states, due in part to the more than 40-year Middle East Force presence, allowed for quick introduction of U.S. ground and air forces into Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states early in the crisis. When U.S. Marines began arriving in Saudi Arabia, their supplies and equipment were close at hand. Forward-deployed maritime prepositioning ships based out of Diego Garcia carried enough tanks, artillery and ammunition to sustain 16,800 Desert Shield Marines for 30 days.

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