CORPS-LEVEL TRAINING EXERCISE KHALKHALAH-TALL ASFAR MTA, SYRIA

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• Document Release Date: January 31, 2012
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• Publication Date: October 17, 1983
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24 OCTOBER 1983
CORPS-LEVEL TRAINING EXERCISE
KHALKHALAFf-TALL ASFAR MTA, SYRIA
1. SIGNIFICANCE: A TRAINING EXERCISE CONSISTING OF MAJOR
ELEMENTS OF THE SYRIAN 1ST CORPS WAS IN PROGRESS 30 NM
SOUTFI-SOUTFIEAST OF DAMASCUS ON IMAGERY OF
2., REMARKS: ELEMENTS OF THE 1ST CORPS INVOLVED IN T}iE
EXERCISE INCLUDED BOTH THE 5TH MECHANIZED INFANTRY DIVISION
AND THE 9TH ARMORED DIVISION. TWO SA-6 BATTALIONS, AT
LEAST FOUR FIIND HELICOPTERS, AND CORPS-LEVEL ENGINEER
EQUIPMENT SUPPORTED THE: EXERCISE. FIVL SOVIET USB-41 TENTS
AND SIX SOVIET UST-41 TENTS WERE ALSO PRESENT, POSSIBLY
SUGGESTING THE PRESENCE OF SOVIET ADVISORS AT TFIL: EXERCISE
(GRAPHIC 2).
1ST CORPS UNITS WHIC}-1 WERE.. OUT OF GARRISON AND PROBABLY
INVOLVED IN THE EXERCISE INCLUDED F,LEAIENTS OF TI}E FOLLOWING
(NUMBERS KFYED TO GRAPHIC 1):
1) 5TF} MECHANIZED INFANTRY DIVISION HEADQUARTI.~RS. AS
SUWAYDA ARMY BARRACKS AND HEADQUARTERS
2) 15TH ARD90RED BRIGADE, RAKEIAM AP,MORED TROOP
CONCENTRATION AND BRIGADE FIEADQUAP.TERS
3) 12TH ARMORED BRIGADE AND 175TH FIELD, ARTILLERY
REGIMENT, IZRA ARMY BARRACKS AND HEADQUARTERS
4) 132ND MECHANIZED INFANTRY BRIGADE, DARA BARRACKS AND
BRIGADE FiEADQUARTF.RS
5) ].12TH MECHANIZED INFANTRY BRIGADE, NAWA ARMY
FIEADQUARTEP~S
6) 9TFI ARMORED DIVISION HEADQUARTERS ELEMENTS, AS SANAMAYN
BARRACKS DIVISION HEADQUARTERS
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7) ^52ND MEC}fANIZED INFANTRY BRIGADE, AN NAKFIL TROOP
8) 89TH FIELD ARTILLERY REGIMENT, MUTBIN BRIGADE
HEADQUARTERS
9) 34TH ARMORED BRIGADE, MUTBIN 9TFi DIVISION CAMP
10) 33RD ARMORF,D BRIGADE, MURJANAH AF.MY HEADQUARTERS
11) CORPS-LEVEL UNITS: ELEMENTS OF T}IE ENGINEER UNIT
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OT}-fER UNITS IP~VOLVED IN THE EXERCISE INCLUDED TWO SA-6
BATTALIONS OF T}-IE 82ND SA-6 BRIGADE (PROBABLY SUBORDINATE
TO THE 5TH MECHAN'I FANTRY DIVISION) FROM DARA SAM SITE
A36-6 99 ( AND SHAYKH MISKIN SAM SITE B02-6
HELICOPTERS FROM KHALKHALA AIRFIELD
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4. COLLATERAL REFERENCE:
DIA, DEFENSE INTELLIGENCE ORDER OF BATTLE SYSTEMS (DIOBS),
DEFEI`}SE INTELLIGENCE GROUND ORDER OF BATTLE (DIAGOB),
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