[sci.military] Update: Forces in Gulf, as of Sunday 8/20

arnaud@samsung.com (Alain Arnaud) (08/21/90)

From: arnaud@samsung.com (Alain Arnaud)


Navy 

Joint Task Force Middle East in the Persian Gulf:

	Command ship:
		 LaSalle
	Aegis cruisers:
		 England and Antietam
	Guided missile frigates:
		Vandegrift
		Rentz
		Robert G. Bradley
		Barbey
	Destroyer:
		David R. Ray

Independence battle group in Gulf of Oman
	
	Carrier Independence
	Cruiser Jouett
	Guided missile destroyer:
		Goldsborough
	Frigates
		Brewton
		Reasoner
		?
	
	? Submarine

	Oiler, storage ship, ammunition ship

Einsenhower battle group in the Read Sea


	Carrier Einsenhower
	Aegis cruiser Ticonderoga
	Guided missile destroyer Scott
	Guided missile frigate John L. Hall
	Submarine
	Ammunition ship

Saratoga battle group in the eastern Mediterranean

	Carrier Saratoga
	Battleship Wisconsin
	Sixth Fleet Flagship Bellknap
	Guided missile destroyer Sampson
	Destroyer Spruance
	Frigate Elmer Montgomery
	Submarine
	Oiler

Marines:
	1st Marine Expeditionary Force
	1st Marine Expeditionary Brigade
	4st Marine Expeditionary Brigade
	7st Marine Expeditionary Brigade

Army:
	82nd Airborne division
	24th Infantry mechanized division
	197th Infantry mechanized division
	101st Airborbe division
	1st Corps Support command
	3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment
	11th Air Defense Artillery Brigade

Air Force
	1st tactical Fighter wing
	4th tactical Fighter wing
	363d tactical Fighter wing	
	354th tactical Fighter wing
	22 F117A Stealth fighters
	RC135 Recon
	4 Air-transportable hospitals
	5 AWACS