The Road to Safwan: The 1st Squadron, 4th Cavalry in the 1991 ...
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Corps, Commander’s SITREP (Combat) #39 (242100Z-252100Z Feb<br />
91), VII Corps After Action Report, 25 February <strong>1991</strong>, Saudi Arabia.<br />
Chapter 11<br />
Notes 265<br />
1. For details of this engagement see Michael Krause, “<strong>The</strong> Battle of<br />
73 East<strong>in</strong>g, 26 February <strong>1991</strong>: A His<strong>to</strong>rical Introduction <strong>to</strong> a Simulation”<br />
(Wash<strong>in</strong>g<strong>to</strong>n, DC, <strong>1991</strong>). Bourque, Jayhawk!, 338–40.<br />
2. Department of <strong>the</strong> Army, VII-Corps, FRAGO 140-91 On Order, VII<br />
Corps Attacks <strong>to</strong> Penetrate and envelope Iraqi Defenses, 25 February<br />
<strong>1991</strong>; VII-Corps, FRAGPLAN 7 w/Change 1, 20 February <strong>1991</strong>; <strong>1st</strong><br />
Infantry Division Daily Staff Journal, <strong>1st</strong> Infantry Tactical Command<br />
Post (26 Feb 91), Daily Staff Journal, entries 24, 29, 30.<br />
3. VII-Corps, FRAGPLAN 7 w/Change 1; Department of <strong>the</strong> Army, 7th<br />
Eng<strong>in</strong>eer Brigade, VII Corps Iraqi Material Denial Mission (TF<br />
Demo), 21 April, <strong>1991</strong>; G2, Department of <strong>the</strong> Army VII-Corps, <strong>The</strong><br />
100 Hour Ground War: <strong>The</strong> Failed Iraqi Plan, After Action Report, 20<br />
April <strong>1991</strong>.<br />
4. <strong>Squadron</strong> Tactical Command Post, Daily Staff Journal, Tactical Operation<br />
Center: 0500 25 February <strong>to</strong> 1800 25 February <strong>1991</strong>, 25 February<br />
<strong>1991</strong>, U.S. Armed Service Center for Research of Unit Records.<br />
<strong>1st</strong> Infantry Division (1ID)<strong>1st</strong> Brigade, “S-2 Intelligence Log Summary,<br />
21 February–3 March <strong>1991</strong>,” <strong>in</strong> <strong>1st</strong> Brigade, <strong>1st</strong> Infantry Division:<br />
Desert Shield/S<strong>to</strong>rm His<strong>to</strong>ry, ed. CPT Jim S<strong>to</strong>ckmoe (Fort Riley,<br />
KS: <strong>1st</strong> Brigade, <strong>1991</strong>), 194; Burdan Notes.<br />
5. Burdan notes.<br />
6. Burdan notes.<br />
7. <strong>1st</strong> Brigade, <strong>1st</strong> Infantry Division, “S-2 Intelligence Log Summary,<br />
21 February–3 March <strong>1991</strong>,” 223.<br />
8. Burdan notes.<br />
9. CPT Michael A. Bills, <strong>in</strong>terview by John Burdan. B Troop, <strong>1st</strong><br />
<strong>Squadron</strong>, <strong>4th</strong> <strong>Cavalry</strong>, Fort Leavenworth, KS, 25 May 1996.<br />
10. Wimbish <strong>in</strong>terview, 28 September 1993; Palmieri <strong>in</strong>terview, 25 January<br />
1994; Wilson <strong>in</strong>terview, 28 July <strong>1991</strong>.<br />
11. Ball <strong>in</strong>terview, 12 August 1995.<br />
12. (1ID) <strong>1st</strong> Brigade, “S-2 Intelligence Log Summary, 21 February - 3<br />
March <strong>1991</strong>,” 227.<br />
13. Wimbish <strong>in</strong>terview, 28 September 1993; <strong>1st</strong> Brigade, “S-2 Intelligence<br />
Log Summary, 21 February–3 March <strong>1991</strong>,” 227.<br />
14. CPT Chris<strong>to</strong>pher R. Philbrick, <strong>in</strong>terview by John Burdan, Aviation,<br />
<strong>1st</strong> <strong>Squadron</strong>, <strong>4th</strong> <strong>Cavalry</strong>, 12 March 1994; Burdan notes.<br />
15. Throughout <strong>the</strong> Cold War, <strong>the</strong> his<strong>to</strong>ric 2nd <strong>Cavalry</strong> Regiment was
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