The Road to Safwan: The 1st Squadron, 4th Cavalry in the 1991 ...
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Notes 257<br />
2. Army, VII Corps, Commander’s SITREP #17 (022100Z-032100Z Feb<br />
91); Department of <strong>the</strong> Army, VII-Corps, FRAGO 107-91 Enemy reconnaissance<br />
efforts cont<strong>in</strong>ue <strong>in</strong> sec<strong>to</strong>r, 2 February <strong>1991</strong>.<br />
3. A task force is a group<strong>in</strong>g of different company-sized units <strong>to</strong> accomplish<br />
a specific mission. In this case, <strong>the</strong> tank battalion exchanged<br />
a tank company for an <strong>in</strong>fantry company from 2-16th Infantry.<br />
4. <strong>1st</strong> <strong>Squadron</strong> <strong>4th</strong> <strong>Cavalry</strong>, Daily Staff Journal, Tactical Operation Center:<br />
0500 3 February <strong>to</strong> 1700 3 February <strong>1991</strong>; Department of <strong>the</strong><br />
Army, <strong>1st</strong> Infantry Division, Command Report, 19 April <strong>1991</strong>. VII<br />
Corps Ma<strong>in</strong> Command Post, Commander’s SITREP 18, (4 February<br />
<strong>1991</strong>).<br />
5. VII Corps Ma<strong>in</strong> Command Post, Commander’s SITREP 17, (3 February<br />
<strong>1991</strong>); Michael Bracket, <strong>in</strong>terview by Thomas A. Popa, Fort<br />
Riley, KS, 23 July <strong>1991</strong>; VII Corps FRAGO 107-<strong>1991</strong>, 2 February<br />
<strong>1991</strong>; VII Corps FRAGO 110-91, TF Carter Conducts Force Protection<br />
Mission, 4 February <strong>1991</strong>; David Gross, “His<strong>to</strong>ry of 37th Armor<br />
on Operation Desert S<strong>to</strong>rm,” unpublished manuscript (1992).<br />
6. Pope <strong>in</strong>terview, 5 Oc<strong>to</strong>ber 1993; Burdan notes.<br />
7. <strong>1st</strong> <strong>Squadron</strong> <strong>4th</strong> <strong>Cavalry</strong>, Daily Staff Journal, Tactical Operation Center:<br />
1700 6 February <strong>to</strong> 0500 7 February <strong>1991</strong>; <strong>1st</strong> Infantry Division,<br />
Daily Staff Journal, Ma<strong>in</strong> Command Post, G3 Operations (7 Feb 91);<br />
Discussion with CSM (ret) Mike Cobb, 2003.<br />
8. <strong>1st</strong> <strong>Squadron</strong> <strong>4th</strong> <strong>Cavalry</strong>, Daily Staff Journal, Tactical Operation Center:<br />
0500 6 February <strong>to</strong> 1700 6 February <strong>1991</strong>; Tedesco <strong>in</strong>terview, 29<br />
June 1996.<br />
9. Bills <strong>in</strong>terview, 26 August 1995; <strong>4th</strong> <strong>Cavalry</strong> (1-4Cav) <strong>1st</strong> <strong>Squadron</strong>,<br />
<strong>1st</strong> Infantry Division, <strong>Squadron</strong> His<strong>to</strong>rical Narrative, Fort Leavenworth,<br />
KS.<br />
10. <strong>1st</strong> <strong>Squadron</strong> <strong>4th</strong> <strong>Cavalry</strong>, Daily Staff Journal, Tactical Operation Center:<br />
0500 4 February <strong>to</strong> 1700 4 February <strong>1991</strong>.<br />
11. Gross, “His<strong>to</strong>ry of 37th Armor on Operation Desert S<strong>to</strong>rm.”<br />
12. Bills <strong>in</strong>terview, 26 August 1995; <strong>1st</strong> <strong>Squadron</strong> <strong>4th</strong> <strong>Cavalry</strong>, Daily<br />
Staff Journal, Tactical Operation Center: 0500 5 February <strong>to</strong> 1700 5 February<br />
<strong>1991</strong>.<br />
13. <strong>1st</strong> <strong>Squadron</strong> <strong>4th</strong> <strong>Cavalry</strong>, Daily Staff Journal, Tactical Operation Center:<br />
1700 5 February <strong>to</strong> 0500 6 February <strong>1991</strong>.<br />
14. Ibid.<br />
15. <strong>1st</strong> <strong>Squadron</strong> <strong>4th</strong> <strong>Cavalry</strong>, Daily Staff Journal, Tactical Operation Center:<br />
0500 6 February <strong>to</strong> 1700 06 February <strong>1991</strong><br />
16. Burdan notes.
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