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Task Force Taro was also a participant in the 1st Marine Division's combat operations. Task Force Papa Bear, C and D Co, 1st Marine Division, who as the division reserve repelled a huge enemy counter-attack while defending the minefield breach.
Force "Abu Bakr" [25] 2nd Brigade, Saudi National Guard. Force "Othman" Royal Saudi 8th Mechanized Brigade Kuwaiti "Al Fatah" Brigade Oman Motorized Infantry Battalion Bahraini Motorized Infantry Company. Task Force "Omar" 10th Saudi Mechanized Brigade United Arab Emirates Mechanized Battalion. Task Force "Tariq" Royal Saudi Marine Battalion
In October, 3rd Battalion and 2nd Battalion, 3rd Marines were designated "Task Force Taro" and moved to the extreme right flank of the Marine sector, bordering the King Abdul Aziz Brigade of the Saudi Arabian National Guard. Because of their close proximity, Taro was ordered to begin cross-training with the Saudi forces.
The regiment, which became known as Task Force Taro in honor of the state and people of Hawaii, became the first American unit to be engaged by Iraqi artillery, rocket and missile fire on 18 January 1991. They countered the Iraqi supporting attacks by conducting artillery raids into Kuwait as the first ground offensive actions of the war.
This is the order of battle for the Liberation of Kuwait campaign during the Gulf War between Coalition forces [1] and the Iraqi Armed Forces [2] between February 24–28, 1991.
The force, nicknamed Task Force Smith for its commander, Lieutenant Colonel Charles Bradford Smith, was lightly armed and ordered to delay the advance of KPA forces while the rest of the 24th Infantry Division moved into South Korea. On 4 July, the task force set up in the hills north of Osan and prepared to block advancing KPA forces. [30]
The Task Force suffered 32 [80] casualties and around a dozen combat vehicles were destroyed, including five M1A1 Abrams tanks, during combat operations. [81] [82] The Task Force would travel over 124 miles (200 km) in 72 hours during Operation Desert Storm. [3] Task Force 1-41 Infantry earned a Valorous Unit Award for its efforts. [3]
Blade Marines as part of Task Force Grizzly raising Old Glory on their Humvee during combat operations. During the 1990–91 Persian Gulf War , 3/7 took part in Operation Desert Storm . The battalion arrived in Jubail , Saudi Arabia, in mid-January 1991, with the mission to be a foot-mobile infiltration force.