• 1st Marine Expeditionary Force (Lt. Gen. Walter Boomer, USMC)
  • 1st Marine Division (Maj. Gen. James M. "Mike" Myatt, USMC)
    • 1st Marine Regiment
    • 3rd Marine Regiment (Col. John Admire, USMC)
    • 4th Marine Regiment
    • 7th Marine Regiment
    • 11th Marine Artillery Regiment
  • 2nd Marine Division (Maj. Gen. William Keys, USMC)
    • 6th Marine Regiment
    • 8th Marine Regiment (Lt. Col. Bruce Gombor, USMC)
    • 10th Marine Artillery Regiment
    • Tiger Brigade, 2nd Armored Division, USA (Col. John Sylvester, USA) [attached]

• 2nd Marine Expeditionary Force (afloat) (Maj. Gen. Harry W. Jenkins, USMC)
  This force remained afloat off the Kuwaiti cost throughout most of operation Desert Storm; used primarily as a feint to pin down Iraqi forces along the coast, but the real option of an amphibious assault remained open until the rapid collapse of iraqi ground forces bacame clear.
  • 4th Marine Expeditionary Brigade
  • 5th Marine Expeditionary Brigade
  • 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit

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