The Road to Safwan: The 1st Squadron, 4th Cavalry in the 1991 ...

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16. (1ID) U.S. Department of the Army, Daily Staff Journal, 1st Brigade,
1st Infantry Division, Operations and Intelligence Net (24 Feb 91); See
Bourque, Jayhawk!, 252–59, for details on chain of command decisions
at Army and Central Command headquarters.
17. 1st Brigade, 1st Infantry Division, Operations and Intelligence Net (24
Feb 91); United States Army Intelligence and Threat Analysis Center,
How They Fight, DESERT SHIELD, Order of Battle Handbook,
September 1990; Daily Staff Journal 050024 February to 1700 24 February;
Gruenig interview, 15 April 1994.
18. Because of success on the eastern flank of the coalition’s attack, the
coalition commander, General H. Norman Schwartzkopf, asked if
Lieutenant General Yeosock’s two army corps could advance earlier.
The answer was yes. The waiting soldiers had little idea that
the Commander of Central Command was trying to synchronize
a complex combined attack.
19. 1st Brigade, 1st Infantry Division, Operations and Intelligence Net (24
Feb 91); Bourque, 214-19; Daily Staff Journal 050024 February to 1700
24 February.
20. Gruenig interview, 15 April 1994; 1st Brigade, 1st Infantry Tactical
Command Post (24 Feb 91).
21. Maggart and Fontenot, 31; Bourque notes.
22. Robert H. Scales, Certain Victory: The U.S. Army in the Gulf War
(Fort Leavenworth, KS: U.S. Army Command and General Staff
College Press, 1994); Maggart and Fontenot, 27–31.
23. 1st Brigade, 1st Infantry Division, Operations and Intelligence Net (24
Feb 91); Gregory Fontenot, “The ‘Dreadnoughts’ Rip the Saddam
Line,” Army 42, no. 1 (January 1992): 34–35; David Gross, “History
of 37th Armor on Operation Desert Storm,” (1992), 92–202; Jim
Tice, “‘Coming Through,’ The Big Red Raid,” Army Times, 26 August
1991, 20.
24. Gregory R. Fontenot, interview by Robert Cook. 2nd Battalion,
34th Armor, 1st Brigade, 1st Infantry Division, tape recording, Fort
Riley, KS, 29 March 1991; COL Anthony Moreno, interview by
Thomas A. Popa. 2nd Brigade, 1st Infantry Division, tape recording,
Fort Riley, KS, 26 July 1991; Atkinson, Crusade, 397.
25. Daily Staff Journal 050024 February to 1700 24 February; SFC William
A. Ball, interview by John Burdan. HHT, 1st Squadron, 4th Cavalry,
tape recording, Fort Riley, KS, 12 August 1995; Parkey interview,
1 March 1994.
26. Ball interview, 12 August 1995.
27. SFC William Molitor, Interview by John Burdan. A Troop, 1st