The Road to Safwan: The 1st Squadron, 4th Cavalry in the 1991 ...
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254 <strong>The</strong> <strong>Road</strong> <strong>to</strong> <strong>Safwan</strong><br />
6. <strong>1st</strong> <strong>Squadron</strong> <strong>4th</strong> <strong>Cavalry</strong>, Daily Staff Journal, Tactical Operation Center:<br />
1300 10 January <strong>to</strong> 0200 11 January <strong>1991</strong>.<br />
7. <strong>1st</strong> <strong>Squadron</strong> <strong>4th</strong> <strong>Cavalry</strong>, Daily Staff Journal, Tactical Operation Center:<br />
1800 13 January <strong>to</strong> 0618 14 January <strong>1991</strong>; <strong>1st</strong> <strong>Squadron</strong> <strong>4th</strong> <strong>Cavalry</strong>,<br />
Daily Staff Journal, Tactical Operation Center: 0630 14 January <strong>to</strong><br />
1700 15 January <strong>1991</strong>.<br />
8. Bourque, Jayhawk! <strong>The</strong> VII Corps <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> Persian Gulf War, 124–26; <strong>1st</strong><br />
<strong>Squadron</strong>, <strong>4th</strong> <strong>Cavalry</strong>, Daily Staff Journal, Tactical Operation Center:<br />
0630 14 January <strong>to</strong> 1700 15 January <strong>1991</strong>. This <strong>in</strong>cident caused personal<br />
problems for CPT Maloney upon <strong>the</strong> unit’s return <strong>to</strong> Fort Riley.<br />
Some equipment shipped <strong>to</strong> <strong>the</strong> desert could not be accounted<br />
for and was assumed lost dur<strong>in</strong>g this transaction. Although LTC<br />
Wilson recommended that, under <strong>the</strong> circumstances, no one be<br />
held accountable for <strong>the</strong> lost equipment, COL Mowery decided <strong>to</strong><br />
charge <strong>the</strong> S4 with <strong>the</strong> loss. <strong>The</strong> matter was f<strong>in</strong>ally cleared <strong>in</strong> Maloney’s<br />
favor after an appeal <strong>to</strong> <strong>the</strong> division commander.<br />
9. <strong>1st</strong> <strong>Squadron</strong>, <strong>4th</strong> <strong>Cavalry</strong>, Daily Staff Journal, Tactical Operation<br />
Center: 0630 14 January <strong>to</strong> 1700 15 January <strong>1991</strong>.<br />
10. Ball <strong>in</strong>terview, 12 August 1995.<br />
11. Readers should remember that this deployment <strong>to</strong>ok place long<br />
before American soldiers encountered suicide bombers and aggressive<br />
small-scale attacks <strong>in</strong> large numbers, as <strong>the</strong>y have dur<strong>in</strong>g<br />
<strong>the</strong>ir second war aga<strong>in</strong>st Iraq.<br />
12. <strong>1st</strong> Brigade, <strong>1st</strong> Infantry Division, Operation Order: Desert S<strong>to</strong>rm-4, 25<br />
January <strong>1991</strong>, TAA Roosevelt, Iraq.<br />
13. Tedesco <strong>in</strong>terview, 29 June 1996; Bills <strong>in</strong>terview, 26 August 1995.<br />
14. <strong>1st</strong> <strong>Squadron</strong> <strong>4th</strong> <strong>Cavalry</strong>, Daily Staff Journal, Tactical Operation Center:<br />
1900 16 January <strong>to</strong> 0615 17 January <strong>1991</strong>.<br />
15. <strong>1st</strong> <strong>Squadron</strong> <strong>4th</strong> <strong>Cavalry</strong>, Daily Staff Journal, Tactical Operation Center:<br />
0630 14 January <strong>to</strong> 1700 15 January <strong>1991</strong>, entry 24.<br />
16. <strong>The</strong> His<strong>to</strong>ry of <strong>the</strong> Fourth United States <strong>Cavalry</strong>, prepared by <strong>the</strong><br />
<strong>Squadron</strong> Staff, pg E-4.<br />
17. Bourque, Jayhawk!, 141–43.<br />
18. Bills <strong>in</strong>terview, 26 August 1995.<br />
19. VII-Corps, Daily Staff Journal, VII Corps Ma<strong>in</strong> Command Post, G3<br />
Operations (19 January <strong>1991</strong>); <strong>1st</strong> <strong>Squadron</strong> <strong>4th</strong> <strong>Cavalry</strong>, Daily Staff<br />
Journal, Tactical Operation Center: 1856 18 January <strong>to</strong> 0600 19 January<br />
<strong>1991</strong>.<br />
20. <strong>1st</strong> <strong>Squadron</strong> <strong>4th</strong> <strong>Cavalry</strong> (1-4Cav), Daily Staff Journal, Tactical Operation<br />
Center: 0610 19 January <strong>to</strong> 1815 19 January <strong>1991</strong>.<br />
21. Ibid.
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