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Japanese officials visit the base camp of Colonel T dReid's 197th Infantry Brigade.
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facilities requirements in the theater would cost more than
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billion. Braden
also knew that the military had no good way to fund construction projects
above 0,000.
In early December, Braden and Miller discussed how to use the Gulf Peace
Fund more effectively. Braden considered having the Japanese deposit locally
some money that U.S. forces could draw on. But he did not know how much
he could get. He wanted to have a single, responsive contractor working
directly for CENTCOM. Could they develop such a contract? Could they put
it in place in time for it to be useful- i n other words, before the ground war
began? What kind of mechanism could they set up? Miller suggested that they
use an international three-party agreement, similar to some MEAPO had used
before. Braden asked the Corps to help develop procedures to use Japanese
funding to construct temporary facilities for U.S. forces outside Saudi Arabia.
FIDIC Construction Contract
M a t t h e w Thomason proposed using a Federation Internationale Des
Ingenieurs-Conseils (FIDIC) contract, advanced by the International Federation
of Consulting Engineers, for construction in the theater. Cox recommended to
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