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...Iraqi attacks died down, the 101st Airborne Division began arriving to release the armored units for other missions. Brigadier General Benjamin Freakley, assistant division commander of the 101st, briefed the leaders of the companies that would be encircling Najaf. Everyone expected the remaining fedayeen to attempt a break toward Baghdad even if it meant running the 101st's gauntlet. But if the fedayeen stayed and conscripted the locals at gunpoint again, Freakley faced a moral conundrum: "Imagine someone walking into your home and saying either you fight or we will kill your wife and daughters. They are doing what...
...from the 4th Infantry Division--who left Fort Hood, Texas, for Kuwait this week--to the front lines to reinforce the two forces already in place. As it regroups on the ground, the U.S. plans to ratchet up the pressure from the air. Apache helicopters from the Army's 101st Airborne Division have begun attacking the Republican Guard's Medina division southwest of Baghdad. Warplanes and gunships will try to smash the three Republican Guard divisions arrayed south of Baghdad as U.S. and Kurdish forces pouring in from northern Iraq attack Iraqi troops on the northern edge of the city...
...problem growing, at least proportionally? The answer, in part, is that enemy fire is less of a problem. "We have so overwhelmed our enemies that the ratio has climbed," says Lieut. Colonel Chris Hughes of the 101st Airborne Division. "It is a direct reflection of the fact that our enemies have not been able to inflict serious damage on us." It's also a reflection of the way weapons systems have advanced faster than recognition capabilities. A target can be hit with precision long before it can be identified. The accuracy and lethality of modern U.S. weapons systems are also...
...dawn Monday, Colonel Ben Hodges, Commander of the 1st Brigade of the 101st Airborne, climbed a 150-foot tower, standing on a recently abandoned electrical plant. He was going to watch the opening phases of the brigade's first offensive operations. In the morning chill, he saw the brigade's 3rd Battalion form up behind a low berm south of the An Najaf Airport. At exactly 6:30 AM the battalion, supported by five tanks, swept across the airfield in almost textbook fashion. By 9:00 AM one of the largest airports in southern Iraq was declared secure and Army...
...Infantry Division rolled into areas west of the city they were greeted by furious assaults by paramilitary forces staging out of An Najaf. When the 3rd ID departed to rest and refit for the assault on the Republican Guard, the job of containing the city fell to the 101st Airborne Division. Using two of its three brigades the 101st put a cordon around An Najaf. Unwilling to send infantry into the city, which still held upwards of 500 Saddam zealots, the Division's leaders have adopted a slow squeezing strategy...