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Posted: 1/21/2019 11:46:13 PM EDT
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Wow. Long time ago. Doesn’t seem like it.
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Posted: 1/22/2019 12:06:53 AM EDT
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I take it that isn't a laser guided bomb? I was told the USN and USMC focused on improving aircraft bomb sights up until ODS, then saw the light after the USAF made such spectacular headlines with the AN/AVQ-26 Pave Tack system mounted in the forward bomb bay of the F-111. I think El Dorado Canyon was the first operational use of Pave Tack, but ODS really brought LGB (as in Laser Guided Bombs, not "Lesbians, Gays, and Bisexuals") to the public's attention. |
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Posted: 1/22/2019 12:33:12 AM EDT
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I always hear “One Vision” in my head when I see videos of our jets blowing shit up.
Thank you sir. |
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Posted: 1/22/2019 12:47:37 AM EDT
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I bought a Beretta Desert Storm Commemorative 92. https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/472/Beretta_M9_C_Web-505208.jpg |
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Posted: 1/22/2019 12:53:13 AM EDT
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Intel was convinced that Saddam was going to launch a preemptive strike on Christmas. Absolutely convinced, and they were selling it to everyone. Something about he did it (attack during a major holiday) during the Iran/Iraq war.
I jockeyed the schedule so my flight was on alert over Christmas, so we spent the holiday with the jets. 
Fucking intel. Right again. Fuckers make the weatherman look like Nostradamus. When I got back from Baghdad after the first night, my honest-to-God first combat mission, the DO met us with...O'Doul's. Fucking non-alcoholic piss water. I remember thinking, "this is not what I read combat would be like." |
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Posted: 1/22/2019 12:56:21 AM EDT
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Yep, activated for that little war, but never got off the ground, stayed stateside.
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Posted: 1/22/2019 1:08:08 AM EDT
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God damn, 28 years???
I landed in Riyadh on 8/1/91 and left 8/1/93. Left my appendix over there at H10 clinic. |
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Posted: 1/22/2019 1:18:54 AM EDT
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Good on you OP.
At the time, did the notion of being one of the first to be ushering in the new age of modern warfare play on your mind, or did you embrace the new technology and chalk it up to doing what you were trained to do ? Please do not take this question as offensive, the Gulf War brought in all sorts of unproven tech that was REALLY proven and put the US way above anybody in the World when it comes to going to battle. It was amazing what you guys did in such a short period of time. 
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Posted: 1/22/2019 1:27:34 AM EDT
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Good on you OP. At the time, did the notion of being one of the first to be ushering in the new age of modern warfare play on your mind, or did you embrace the new technology and chalk it up to doing what you were trained to do ? Please do not take this question as offensive, the Gulf War brought in all sorts of unproven tech that was REALLY proven and put the US way above anybody in the World when it comes to going to battle. It was amazing what you guys did in such a short period of time. I didn't know any better and just followed the truck in front of me. 
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Posted: 1/22/2019 1:33:52 AM EDT
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Thanks for sharing! I was a tank gunner, 2nd AD, Tiger Brigade, TF Ripper
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Posted: 1/22/2019 3:36:05 AM EDT
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I was at KKMC and Doha, Kuwait for most of it.
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Posted: 1/22/2019 3:40:36 AM EDT
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Intel was convinced that Saddam was going to launch a preemptive strike on Christmas. Absolutely convinced, and they were selling it to everyone. Something about he did it (attack during a major holiday) during the Iran/Iraq war. I jockeyed the schedule so my flight was on alert over Christmas, so we spent the holiday with the jets. http://i48.tinypic.com/986k4h.jpg Fucking intel. Right again. Fuckers make the weatherman look like Nostradamus. When I got back from Baghdad after the first night, my honest-to-God first combat mission, the DO met us with...O'Doul's. Fucking non-alcoholic piss water. I remember thinking, "this is not what I read combat would be like." |
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Posted: 1/22/2019 3:42:36 AM EDT
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Thanks for sharing that.
I was in western Iraq waiting to roll across the berm. 28 years...some of it seem like yesterday still...my buddies that were KIA, I miss them, and damn it still hurts to think about that day. They would be 47 now, and Alaniz would be a grandfather... C 3-15 Inf. 24th ID 
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Posted: 1/22/2019 3:47:30 AM EDT
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I couldn’t even last 5 minutes playing Zaxon back then let alone do what you did OP
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Posted: 1/22/2019 4:11:30 AM EDT
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IIRC, GPS was one of those firsts, but only several hours per day. I didn't know any better and just followed the truck in front of me. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Good on you OP. At the time, did the notion of being one of the first to be ushering in the new age of modern warfare play on your mind, or did you embrace the new technology and chalk it up to doing what you were trained to do ? Please do not take this question as offensive, the Gulf War brought in all sorts of unproven tech that was REALLY proven and put the US way above anybody in the World when it comes to going to battle. It was amazing what you guys did in such a short period of time. I didn't know any better and just followed the truck in front of me.
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Posted: 1/22/2019 5:12:12 AM EDT
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Can't believe it's been this long. I was in 5th grade at the time and dad was deployed with the Ohio ANG flying KC-135s out of Jeddah or Moron, Spain...
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Posted: 1/22/2019 12:37:58 PM EDT
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Time does fly.
We lived at Nellis and my dad deployed to Saudi with the F-117's. |
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Posted: 1/22/2019 6:06:27 PM EDT
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Time does fly. We lived at Nellis and my dad deployed to Saudi with the F-117's. |
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Posted: 1/22/2019 6:26:16 PM EDT
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Thanks to OP & others who served & fought in Desert Shield/Desert Storm. For those who lost brothers, my most sincere condolences for those fine Americans lost (all better men than I could ever be).
Spent 8 months in theater (4th MEB). Because of long-term health effects related to serving in that theater, I have lifetime free VA healthcare (no co-pays, no deductibles). |
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Posted: 1/22/2019 8:02:08 PM EDT
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On the plus side, you look just like Powers Booth in Red Dawn. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Intel was convinced that Saddam was going to launch a preemptive strike on Christmas. Absolutely convinced, and they were selling it to everyone. Something about he did it (attack during a major holiday) during the Iran/Iraq war. I jockeyed the schedule so my flight was on alert over Christmas, so we spent the holiday with the jets. http://i48.tinypic.com/986k4h.jpg Fucking intel. Right again. Fuckers make the weatherman look like Nostradamus. When I got back from Baghdad after the first night, my honest-to-God first combat mission, the DO met us with...O'Doul's. Fucking non-alcoholic piss water. I remember thinking, "this is not what I read combat would be like." |
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Posted: 1/22/2019 11:52:31 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Fuck. I’m officially depressed. 
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Posted: 1/23/2019 12:02:54 AM EDT
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I was 18 in HS-12 on the Indy. PC/LSE. We did a lot of cruises in 4 years.
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Posted: 1/23/2019 12:08:58 AM EDT
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I was a 26yo. SSG with 6-6 IN. We deployed from Germany on Christmas Day 1990.
It sure doesn't seem like it was 28 years ago. |
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Posted: 1/23/2019 12:26:25 AM EDT
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Well if any of you guys looked to your left as you drove up the Tapline highway (I think it was also called Route Dodge) and saw the Engineers building the pipeline intended to fuel the big left hook into Iraq, you might have seen me.
We completed the pipeline the day before the invasion, but the war was over before fuel was pumped all the way through it. They did push some fuel that supported the mop up operations. We waited around a few weeks, and then took the pipeline apart so that it would be available if the Russians invaded Europe. That was my contribution to the war: construction and removal of a boondoggle that wasn't used to support combat operations. 808 EN (Pipeline) USAR, Houston TX. |
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Posted: 1/23/2019 5:57:30 AM EDT
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Thanks for all the great stories and comments to this post.
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Posted: 1/23/2019 6:09:01 AM EDT
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Plenty of other shit to remember, but one of the memories that always comes to mind first is tossing candy bars to the street kids in Hafar Al Batin. They'd scramble for 'em like goats in a petting zoo.
And haggling with Arab traders in the desert. Always trying to buy my M16 for $30 and a brass tea pot. I still have the tea pot. |
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Posted: 1/23/2019 7:30:15 AM EDT
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I ended up in KKMC as a 29 year old E5.
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Posted: 1/23/2019 8:19:28 AM EDT
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Thanks for your service and the stories!!!! Hornet you were one of the honest to god high speed low drag folks!!!
 Do we have any of the tankers on here that went through that? I just wondered what it was like from their perspective also. I was 10 at that time. I made it over to that theater in 03 for Iraqi freedom on a little wooden boat. 
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Posted: 1/23/2019 8:28:49 AM EDT
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Thanks for sharing! I was a tank gunner, 2nd AD, Tiger Brigade, TF Ripper
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Posted: 1/23/2019 8:37:30 AM EDT
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cool and thanks for your service
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Posted: 1/23/2019 8:45:29 AM EDT
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very nice!
was out downhill skiing when they announced the ground war started....i figured my chance of going was 100% as we were and arctic infantry unit (army would send to the desert...) did not go until 2015...lol...with the AF... |
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Posted: 1/23/2019 9:24:05 AM EDT
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I was at NTC Great Lakes, in MM A school.
Pretty much the butt end of the spear, but we got to wear civvies on liberty because of risk of the risk of terrorist attacks on uniforms, and the extra goodies in the galley were awesome too, tubs and tubs of candy bars and stuff... Lots of free drinks when we would go to the city, one guy bought several bottles of liquor. Had to stash the liquor in snow piles beside the barracks. Somebody stole my whiskey, and I got stuck with some Captain Morgans. Still the worst hangover to date. Proud of all you guys who got to tear shit up, I would've loved to have done more to support you. I did eventually become somewhat useful. |
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Posted: 1/23/2019 1:26:11 PM EDT
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I ended up in KKMC as a 29 year old E5. |
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Posted: 1/23/2019 1:35:23 PM EDT
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I love the smell of burning oil wells in the afternoon....
 
Picture taken at high noon near Al Jaber airfield. |
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Posted: 1/23/2019 11:08:36 PM EDT
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I turned 24 in Iraq. Turned 28 in Afghanistan. A few years after Desert Storm obviously. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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I turned 24 in the S.A desert just on the S.A side of the berm.
I turned 24 in Iraq. Turned 28 in Afghanistan. A few years after Desert Storm obviously. OP, that is so cool. Never got to do anything near as sweet as that. Thanks for sharing. |
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Posted: 1/23/2019 11:11:14 PM EDT
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When I was a young 2LT all my NCOs had combat patches from Desert Storm. Not to many of those around now on AD. |
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Posted: 1/23/2019 11:16:30 PM EDT
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very cool OP
in 2003 did you hit a concrete factory or abandoned hospital near Al samawah Iraq??? at dawn I was suppose to be the breaching team leader at the hospital , If you are the hornet driver that destroyed it for us thank you, we were expecting 40% casualties that morning. then the Navy agreed to bomb it.
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Posted: 1/23/2019 11:23:06 PM EDT
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very cool OP in 2003 did you hit a concrete factory or abandoned hospital near Al samawah Iraq??? at dawn I was suppose to be the breaching team leader at the hospital , If you are the hornet driver that destroyed it for us thank you, we were expecting 40% casualties that morning. then the Navy agreed to bomb it. 
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