• Army Acts to Add Thousands of G.I.'s to Its Gulf Force
  More than 15,000 soldiers will be part of the largest single ground deployment to the Persian Gulf since the war there in 1991.
  
  
• [T]he USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier will stay on deployment instead of returning to its homeport in Everett, Wash., next month as planned.
  
  
• U.S. Sending 25,000 Troops to Persian Gulf
  Those deployed will join 57,000 now in position for a strike on Iraq.
  When the movements are completed, the Pentagon will have positioned about half the 50,000 troops officials had previously indicated they would be moving to the region. They will join an estimated 57,000 troops already in position.
  
  
• Navy Activates Hospital Ship, in Flurry of War Preparations