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To: hmaly who wrote (138247)	7/23/2001 11:09:36 AM
From: TimF	Respond to of 1588397

If the war had dragged on fro months and yrs, then there could have been problems. But with the air power advantage we had, how could we lose. Things would have gotten hairy if Saddam had invaded Saudi just as we were beginning to deploy there. For all our advantage in technology and training the lead elements of the 82nd would have just been a speed bump for an attack by a couple of Iraqi armored divisions. Once we had the time to build up and get ready victory was almost a forgone conclusion, the only question was how many casualties we would take, and of course the answer turned out to be very few. (I have seen an estimate that the number of Americans who died in the Gulf war was lower then the number of people that would have died on the average in a similar sized group in the US from accidents.) Tim