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10. 22nd Support Command, 125th Support Command After Action Report,
1991, II-2 to II-3.
11. Donald S. Pihl and George E. Dausman, eds., United States Army:
Weapon Systems 1990 (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office,
1990), 17.
12. Wehage interview, 25 January 1994; Bills interview, 26 August
1995.
13. Steven E. Dietrich, “In-Theater Armored Force Modernization,”
Military Review 73 (October 1993): 40–44.
14. Pope interview, 5 October 1993.
15. Robert Wilson, “Tanks in the Division Cavalry Squadron,” Armor
101, no. (July-August 1992): 7-9.
16. Waymire interview, 1 March 1994.
17. Notestine and Grimes interview, 18 December 1993; Wimbish interview,
28 September 1993.
18. Gruenig interview, 7 January 1994.
19. Philbrick interview, 12 February 1994.
Chapter 5
1. Steve Vogel, “Metal Rain: Old Ironsides and the Iraqis Who
Wouldn’t Back Down,” Army Times, 16 September 1991, 12; John
Sack, Company C: The Real War in Iraq (New York: William Morrow
and Company, 1995), 46; VII-Corps, Daily Staff Journal, VII Corps
Main Command Post, G3 Operations (31 December 1990); VII-Corps,
Daily Staff Journal, VII Corps Main Command Post, G3 Operations (03
January 1991). Aramco was the Arabian-American Oil Company,
one of the largest oil producers in the Middle East.
2. Note: Much of this chapter is based on John Burdan’s personal
notes.
3. 1st Infantry Division Forward (1IDF), 1st Infantry Division (Forward)
Desert Shield/Desert Storm after Action Review of VII Corps Debarkation
and Onward Movement, Army, 30 May 1991, Iraq, VII
Corps, briefing chart (Heavy Lift Assets.), 41; Anthony H. Cordesman
and Abraham R. Wagner, The Lessons of Modern War, Vol IV:
The Gulf War (Boulder: Westview Press, 1996), 698–99; William G.
Pagonis, Moving Mountains: Lessons in Leadership and Logistics from
the Gulf War (Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1992), 123.
4. David W. Marlin, “History of the 4th Battalion, 37th Armored Regiment
in Operation Desert Shield/Storm” (U.S. Army War College,
1992), 433.
5. Wimbish interview, 28 September 1993.