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Posted: 1/17/2021 8:40:56 PM EDT
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I was outside of Dhahran at a place called "Dragon City" which was where 18th ABC was headquartered out of when the air war started.
I was 19 years old and it seems like someone else's life at times. Also, I went to high school with one of the first casualties of Desert Shield. He was 21 years old when he died. |
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Posted: 1/17/2021 8:41:37 PM EDT
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6yrs old. I remember asking my dad why we bombing them and him saying, "He's (Saddam) a bad man who did bad things."
Good enough for me. 
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Posted: 1/17/2021 8:50:37 PM EDT
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Posted: 1/17/2021 8:54:03 PM EDT
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Ft. Bliss Texas.
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Posted: 1/17/2021 8:57:39 PM EDT
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JTF Commander was Maj Gen Jamerson, his "day job," had been as the USAFE DO. My TF worked directly for him. BG Lee Downer was the Air Component Commander. If you were in the 42ECS, my guys were at your debriefs and took your data to update Jamerson and Horner as the EC effectiveness, Yep, started at Incirlik and when we went into Provide Comfort, wound up in various parts of northen Iraq.
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Posted: 1/17/2021 8:59:14 PM EDT
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I was an 8th grader at the time and thought the 24/7 coverage of the war was the coolest thing ever. I was also incredibly pissed that I had to go to school during the day and be in bed by a reasonable hour at night. I would have much rather stayed at home to watch the coverage of the air campaign as it unfolded.
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Posted: 1/17/2021 9:01:57 PM EDT
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I have a few posted on fuckfacebook by my friends years ago. They are not mine, but I don't think they will mind me sharing them here...
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Posted: 1/17/2021 9:12:16 PM EDT
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Sitting in the back of my Bradley (D21) going through a package my mom sent me handing out food to the guys. She would send tons of vanilla pudding for some reason and the brothers loved that stuff.
My personal favorite was when I would receive BBQ beanie weenies from my aunt. Damn, those are good hot or cold. |
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Posted: 1/17/2021 9:35:38 PM EDT
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2nd Plt, D Co, 54th Engr Bn
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Posted: 1/17/2021 9:42:22 PM EDT
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Posted: 1/17/2021 9:43:55 PM EDT
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Posted: 1/17/2021 9:45:04 PM EDT
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Some of my earliest memories was sitting In front of my grandparents wood cased tv watching clips of it on the nightly news. I'm 34 1/2 years old. Seems like all my toy guns I had in the 90's were chocolate chip desert camo.
Thank you to all that served. |
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Posted: 1/17/2021 9:46:00 PM EDT
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Posted: 1/17/2021 9:52:08 PM EDT
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The average American under 35 doesn’t know what, when or why.
Disgusting...... |
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Posted: 1/17/2021 9:52:58 PM EDT
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The average American under 35 doesn’t know what, when or why.
Disgusting...... |
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Posted: 1/17/2021 9:56:57 PM EDT
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Posted: 1/17/2021 10:02:04 PM EDT
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Posted: 1/17/2021 10:04:02 PM EDT
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Posted: 1/17/2021 10:11:29 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I was sitting in my Bradley watching the planes fly over. B Co. 6-6 IN, 1st AD Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: I was sitting on my tank in Saudi Arabia waiting for the shit to kick off. D Co. 2-1 Avn, 1st AD. (OPCON to the 2nd ACR)  |
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Posted: 1/17/2021 10:15:24 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I was standing near an Apache (in a foxhole) watching the planes fly over. D Co. 2-1 Avn, 1st AD.  ETA: I have video, let me find it. |
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Posted: 1/17/2021 10:17:31 PM EDT
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When the air campaign kicked off I was in the Persian Gulf aboard the USS Mobile with elements of the 5th MEB getting ready to go ashore in Saudi for the ground assault. Several guys had radios, so we got almost all of our news from the BBC at the time.
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Posted: 1/17/2021 10:19:55 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: We built your helo pads back in KKMC after. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: I was standing near an Apache (in a foxhole) watching the planes fly over. D Co. 2-1 Avn, 1st AD. |
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Posted: 1/17/2021 10:22:16 PM EDT
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I was flying border patrol on the Korean border. Recall that the North Koreans thought we could not handle two wars at one time. Yea. We could.
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Posted: 1/17/2021 10:26:43 PM EDT
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Posted: 1/17/2021 10:29:47 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryMannn That takes me back. I'll watch the whole thing later tonight. |
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Posted: 1/17/2021 10:31:49 PM EDT
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 CNN: Remembering Desert Storm, 20 years later Freshmen in HS |
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Posted: 1/17/2021 10:40:17 PM EDT
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Was working 10 years before it started. Dang I am getting tired.
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Posted: 1/17/2021 10:43:50 PM EDT
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I was in OSUT at Ft Knox.
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Posted: 1/17/2021 10:44:50 PM EDT
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I'm old now.
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Posted: 1/17/2021 10:48:22 PM EDT
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MAG-41, Det. A (VMFA-321)
Naval Air Facility Washington D.C |
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Posted: 1/17/2021 10:51:26 PM EDT
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Top 4 tanks of Desert Storm
1 Abrams 2 Challenger 3 M60 4 T72 |
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Posted: 1/17/2021 10:57:17 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: No, I wasn't. I knew a couple of people who were at Clark when it happened. Lots of crazy shit was going on. |
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Posted: 1/17/2021 10:58:50 PM EDT
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Our unit was attached to the Tiger Brigade.
A Co. 1/41 INF, 2AD(-) Reminds me to get the shoebox of photographs on digital. Only had 30 years to do it  Now, I relly feel old. 
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Posted: 1/17/2021 11:06:46 PM EDT
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 The Gulf War: Every Day |
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Posted: 1/17/2021 11:10:59 PM EDT
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Captain Wilbourn went but did not come back. One of the few and one of the last KIAs.
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Posted: 1/17/2021 11:14:51 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The average American under 35 doesn’t know what, when or why. Disgusting...... My wife's 20y/o nephew didn't know the Holocaust happened until last year at a family holiday gathering. 
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Posted: 1/17/2021 11:22:46 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Captain Wilbourn went but did not come back. One of the few and one of the last KIAs. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/324502/04_big_jpg-1784446.JPG https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/324502/treysmall_jpg-1784451.JPG |
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Posted: 1/17/2021 11:24:06 PM EDT
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I was on patrol on the flight line at King Fahd International Airport watching A-10's head out.....
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Posted: 1/18/2021 1:20:08 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I was an 8th grader at the time and thought the 24/7 coverage of the war was the coolest thing ever. I was also incredibly pissed that I had to go to school during the day and be in bed by a reasonable hour at night. I would have much rather stayed at home to watch the coverage of the air campaign as it unfolded. The news on the 24 hr news cycle was addictive. I was a senior in college with 9 credits to graduate and couldn't focus on academics. I was so pumped to go and wanted desperately be part of what was going on in the ME. Finally, on 15 DEC the school trained 1811s in my unit were called up (the 0352s had already gone) and we reported to our ILOC at MCAGCC 29 Stumps CA. NETT'd on the M1A1 after higher figured out WTF to do with us and off we went; attached to 2nd Tank Bn after we took delivery of our tanks off the ship that delivered them to the port of Al Jubail KSA, and then 8th Marine Rgt to support their operations during the attack into Kuwait. For many of us, ODS was like a two-way live fire CAX with random KIA / WIA. Thanks to the Regan defense buildup in the 1980s and the intellectual rigor our military leadership engaged in following the Vietnam War, we enjoyed a very lopsided victory. |
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Posted: 1/18/2021 1:41:53 AM EDT
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I was sitting in my dorm room in college; watching it unfold live on CNN (I think).
I should've been there, not sitting in a dorm room. |
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Posted: 1/18/2021 2:03:32 AM EDT
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I was at Ft Jackson ready to go there and would be there on the 22nd. I would be there for about 5 months moving around from Al Jubayl, KKMC, Kuwait City, southern Iraq.
I was into my 7th year in the Army when I went over there. |
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Posted: 1/18/2021 2:03:49 AM EDT
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I didn’t have TV, but I listened to news radio every night, all the normal reporting stopped, 880AM out of NYC.
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Posted: 1/18/2021 2:34:00 AM EDT
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Waiting for the call that never came. We had gear ready to go at the armory, I had already checked my squads TA50 at least twice. Dual MOS, 11B squad leader and 54B NBC NCO - we were positive we were facing chemical attacks in Kuwait & Iraq.
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Posted: 1/18/2021 2:52:43 AM EDT
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Europe, SE Asia.
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Posted: 1/18/2021 3:24:59 AM EDT
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I was 17 and working late with my Dad at his auto repair shop. No television set at the shop, we both just listened to the radio. Got my parents to sign off so I could join and enlisted in the Army in July 91. Too late this time, but I got my chance in 05.
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Posted: 1/18/2021 3:27:07 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryLove those chocolate chips! |
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Posted: 1/18/2021 3:40:36 AM EDT
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I was active duty at the time but stationed at a test and development unit in Fl. so I did not deploy. Went over for 6 months during the summer of '92 to inspect, pack and ship all the leftover munitions.
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Posted: 1/18/2021 4:24:51 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I remember watching unfold live on CNN. Yeah me too. I was a sophomore in college. All the good stuff was on overnight here stateside. I couldn't not watch it. That's basically how I ended up dropping out, that semester didn't start so well.
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Posted: 1/18/2021 4:30:11 AM EDT
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I was in the Red Sea on the JFK. We were doing air ops non stop and I watched some of the first cruise missiles of the war being launched from what I assume were subs or possibly cruisers off on the horizon. Surreal to say the least. Seems like it was a million years ago.
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Posted: 1/18/2021 5:45:28 AM EDT
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Battalion Commander swore on a stack of bibles my reserve Engineer Company was going. But we didn't.
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