Gulf War they set fire to nearly 700 oil wells and placed land mines around the wells to make extinguishing the fires more difficult. The war's ground phase was officially designated Operation Desert Saber. The first units to move into Iraq were three patrols of the British Special Air Service's B squadron, call signs Bravo One Zero, Bravo Two Zero, and Bravo Three Zero, in late January. These eight-man patrols landed behind Iraqi lines to gather intelligence on the movements of Scud mobile missile launchers, which could not be detected from the air, as they were hidden under bridges and camouflage netting
Order of battle during the Iran–Iraq War Guard Corps Order of battle during the Iran–Iraq War These are the orders of battle of the Iraqi and Iranian armies for the start of the Iran–Iraq War in 1980. The data is drawn from the Air Combat Information Group's Arabian Peninsula and Persian Gulf Database. Iraqi Armed Forces National Defense Battalions<br> 1st Army Corps (sector between Rawanduz and Marivan) 2nd Army Corps (sector between Qasre-e-Shirin, Ilam, and Mehran, armor deployed between Mehran and Dezful) 3rd Army Corps (HQ al-Qurnah, Iraq) (Sector between Dezful and Abadan) Iranian Armed Forces Peshmerga<br> "Units Garrisoned along the Iraqi Border" Ground Forces of the