WITH THE 3rd INFANTRY DIVISION, Northeastern Kuwait, March 19 — When American soldiers and Marines finally make their move against Saddam Hussein's Iraq, the journalists riding with them will have unprecedented opportunities to report from the front line in real time.

] The combination of satellite technology with the broad
] access the military is giving journalists in this war
] means that the reporters, photographers and camera crews
] "embedded" with the troops will %u2014 in theory, at
] least %u2014 be able to transmit portions of the war
] either live, as it's happening, or within minutes or a
] few hours of the action taking place.
]
] It should provide television viewers in the United States
] and around the world with an unprecedented view of the
] battlefield.
]
] "This is going to be historic. It really is," said Ross
] Simpson, an Associated Press radio correspondent embedded
] with the 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Division