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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (57017)	11/14/2002 12:23:55 AM
From: Bilow	Respond to of 281500

Hi Nadine Carroll; Re: "... what did you say was the lead time for mobilizing reserves and shipping them to the Gulf?" BCherry168, October 15, 2002 My guess is the air portion starts in December, and the ground attack comes in January. You will see the Reserve and National Guard units being called up in about 3 weeks [i.e. November 5]. We will have four or more carrier battle groups in the ME by mid to late December. The air war could start then. #reply-18118556 -- Carl

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (57017)	11/14/2002 3:13:21 AM
From: D. Long	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

I spoke to a buddy of mine in the Air Force that just got rotated back from Ramstein AB. He said the AF is prepositioning in the Gulf like gangbusters. The B-1s, B-2s, and F-117s have been put into extra training and his unit has been flagged for deployment to Kuwait. He was supposed to go a week ago, but another base got the deployment orders. He was supposed to hear yesterday whether he's being shipped out this week. He thinks after Christmas the shit is gonna hit the fan. Derek