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USA: FORT HOOD: TROOPS PREPARE FOR DEPLOYMENT IN PERSIAN GULF

(15 Sep 1996) English/Nat Thousands of U-S troops stationed at Fort Hood in Texas are preparing for deployment in the Persian Gulf. President Clinton said 32-thousand soldiers, sailors and airmen already in or converging on the region around Iraq should be enough to keep Saddam Hussein from moving against his oil-rich neighbors in Kuwait. As of late Saturday, thousands of troops stationed at Fort Hood in central Texas are standing by to deploy to Kuwait. Lieutenant Colonel Randy Shoel, a Fort Hood Spokesman, says the soldiers' morale is high, but so far final instructions to actually leave for the Persian Gulf have not been issued. SOUNDBITE: "That guidance has been coming to us in planning guidance of various forms. Right now that guidance has been nothing more than to prepare couple of battalions and brigade headquarters and some other pieces of support equipment, support units for possible deployment to Kuwait and that would have those units deploying to join a task force from the first cavalry division that has been there since August. But we have not received any kind of instructions to actually send forces from Fort Hood." SUPER CAPTION: Lieutenant Colonel Randy Shoel, US Army, 3rd Corps Public Affairs Officer Shoel explained what the troops would do if they are ordered to deploy. SOUNDBITE: "They fly out of here most likely on commercial chartered aircraft, mostly just individual soldiers in some of individual equipment. They would arrive in Kuwait, they will go to some equipment storage sites and they will have issued to them the tanks and infantry vehicles that have been stored there, they will finish up loading any of the equipment that they transported with them - they took with them. They'll take those vehicles then and road march out into assembly areas and training areas and the training ranges in Kuwait, and join battalion task force that has been over there and continue training with them." SUPER CAPTION: Colonel Randy Schoel, US Army, 3rd Corps Public Affairs Officer Schoel says his numbers indicate about 3-thousand troops from Fort Hood would be going. But, if the situation changes, the number of troops might also. Once they got to Kuwait they would be stationed at Camp Doha and take part in exercise "Intrinsic Action," a desert war game scheduled to conclude December 15. There's no word if the exercise will be extended. Fort Hood is home to the Army's tank corps and around 45-thousand soldiers. The 1st Cavalry Division and the 4th Infantry Division both are stationed there. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...