Downloaded from https://www.everyspec.com FM 34-54 space over the battlefield. Lastly, the 122-mm rocket was employed as the North Vietnamese Army's (NVA) primary artillery weapon in a variety of configurations. While samples of these weapons undoubtedly fell into the hands of the South Vietnamese, nothing was done with them because of the September 1969 inactivation of American TECHINT units in Vietnam. And, by October 1971, the 55th Military Intelligence Detachment, a corps support unit with a TECHINT capability, had also been inactivated. GRENADA (OPERATION URGENT FURY) :
Following the commitment of US forces to Grenada on 25 October 1983, large quantities of foreign military equipment were discovered thus requiring TECHINT support. Two elements of the 203d MI Battalion, 513th MI Group, were deployed to Grenada. Five soldiers participated as members of a Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) Team formed at the request of the Commander in Chief, Atlantic (CINCLANT) operational commander for URGENT FURY. The first element arrived in Grenada on 31 October 1983 and was tasked to identify, sort, and provide approximate inventories of foreign material and to establish priorities for shipment to the United States.
Nineteen other soldiers established the 203d MI Battalion (Forward) and operated a modified CMEC. Together the 203d soldiers type-classified and developed inventories; assisted combat units in searches for materiel; operated a collection point for CEE and captured enemy materiel (CEM); and shipped appropriate items to the continental United States (CONUS). In 1985 the 203d MI Battalion was redesignated the Foreign Materiel Intelligence Group. In 1989 it was again redesignated as the Foreign Materiel Intelligence Battalion (FMIB). THE GULF WAR (OPERATIONS DESERT SHIELD and DESERT STORM):
DESERT SHIELD and DESERT STORM were the largest battlefield TECHINT operations since the Vietnam War, and the largest joint and combined TECHINT operations since World War II. The Joint Captured Materiel Exploitation Center (JCMEC) was formed with the Army's FMIB to serve as the nucleus and headquarters. Augmentation to the FMIB included TECHINT personnel from every element of the Department of Defense (DOD), the national S&TI community, Great Britain, Canada, and Australia. During Sadaam Hussein's attack on the Saudi Arabian city of Khafji in February 1991, a previously unseen and highly modified tank was captured.
This tank, a modified T-55, had vastly improved external armor and possibly new fire control, weapons, and optical systems. A team from the JCMEC was dispatched forward to conduct a hasty exploitation and to 1-6