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February 6, 1998

Nothing in canon for the day! Unofficially,

Troops of the 11e régiment parachutiste de choc, an elite unit assigned as the direct action arm of the French DGSE, surround the Palace of Versailles and arrest those French and Belgian political leaders which had expressed opposition to the invasion of the Rhineland.

The 402nd Field Artillery Brigade (Training), a OSUT unit (one station unit training unit that took in raw recruits, put them through basic training and an artillery gunnery course before graduation) trains its last pre-exchange draftees at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. The unit is assigned operational tasks, albeit as infantry as the few artillery pieces used for training are left on post, there being little need for artillery. The brigade is tasked to oversee distribution of food and fuel in southwestern Oklahoma and the Texas Panhandle. These duties initially consist of convincing skeptical and semi-hostile farmers, ranchers and small town residents to take in refugees from the cities of Texas and simultaneously hand over crops, livestock and crude oil.

Restructuring of US Army units in Germany continues as the flow of replacement troops has come to a halt. 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, like many other units, deactivates subordinate units (in this case, the 2nd and 3rd Squadrons) in order to form a single nearly full-strength unit.

Its survey mission complete, the Coast Guard cutter Thetis returns to Bandar Abbas, Iran, completing its survey mission to Diego Garcia, which was hit by a Soviet missile in December. The survey party concludes that the airstrip remains intact and can be made useable with a few weeks' work by an engineer platoon, but that basing aircraft there would require reconstruction of facilities destroyed in the blast. The harbor remains an attractive anchorage despite several sunken ships; there is ample room for over a dozen additional vessels.
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