At 0600 hours on 27 February, DMAIN departed Node Center 62 for Node Center 60. The plan was then to break NC 62 and the SCC at 1000 hours and move them forward to 60. However, the 62 switch crashed at 0830, and SYSCON directed 62 to move immediately. At 0930, Node Center 15 linked up with 62 on the MSR, and they departed together for NC. 60. By 1000 hours, NC 61 had Arrived at 60 to pick up team packets for its next mission.
With 1st and 3rd Brigade still involved in fairly heavy contact, 14 was unable to move to its planned location, so NC 61 moved forward to the same holding area. When the G-2 declared the area clear of enemy, 14 moved forward and established a node center site approximately 25 kilometers east of Node Center 60. NC 61 moved to a location northeast of 60, but west of 14. This was the beginning of a more doctrinal grid network
At approximately noon, the DMAIN arrived at Node Center 60 and established operations. At 1410, NC's 60 and 62 arrived at 60 to pick up team packets for the next mission. Less than five minutes after their arrival, G-3 from the jump DMAIN called SYSCON and said to get 62 and 15 ready to roll to the 14 location. SYSCON had already selected locations for 15 and 62 that created a diamond shaped network with NC 62 at the eastern point in Kuwait. At 1530, jump DMAIN, Node Centers 15 and 62 departed for NC 14.
By 1830, the jump MAIN, 15 and 62 had arrived at 14. Thirty minutes later, G-2 declared 15's planned location safe, and the jump MAIN and NC 15 moved there. By 2130, NC 15 was sitting on the smoldering remains of an Iraqi mechanized company battle position. Node Center 62 remained on hold at NC 14 until G2 declared the next planned location safe.
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