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Tuesday, August 22, 1995
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NATION/WORLD UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
United States sends troops to Middle East despite delays
The Associated Press
About 300 U.S. Marines left California's Camp Pendleton yesterday while several hundred soldiers waited to fly out of Fort Hood, Texas, for Middle East military exercises attempting to deter Iraqi aggression.
The Fort Hood deployment was troubled for the second day by
uletays the Army explained only vaguely. Eighty soldiers left Fort Hood aboard a C-141 cargo plane Sunday. However, another flight scheduled for Sunday was canceled, and yesterday 270 soldiers waited to board a DC-10 scheduled to depart at 8 a.m., Staff Sgt. Christian Mulvey said.
"Part of the coordination required en route still needs to be
completed to ensure a smooth arrival," Mulvey said in identical statements both days. "It is impossible to predict the length of the delay, but it doesn't appear it will be long."
The four- to six-week exercise, termed Operation Intrinsic Action, was planned for October but moved up because of increasing instability in Iraq. An Iraqi plan
to invade Kuwait and Saudi Arabia earlier this month failed when a son-in-law of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein defected to Jordan, the son-in-law said Sunday.
In a separate U.S. show of force against Hussein, members of the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force left March Air Force Base in Riverside County, Calif., yesterday for the Persian Gulf, said 1st Lt. Dave
Griesmer. The force's departure is the first of a three-phase operation that would deploy 16,500 Marines from Southern California bases, including Camp Pendleton, Griesmer said.
A similar deployment last year never reached the third phase because U.S. officials thought Iraq was backing down from a military threat.
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