17 January 1991... where were you.

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Posted: 1/17/2018 6:29:36 PM EDT

27 years ago.. feels like yesterday.

Operation Desert Shield

became Desert Storm.

Posted: 1/17/2018 6:31:15 PM EDT

[#1]

In utero for 2 more months.

Posted: 1/17/2018 6:31:38 PM EDT

[#2]

In college.

Posted: 1/17/2018 6:32:30 PM EDT

[#3]

More than likely at work.

Posted: 1/17/2018 6:32:35 PM EDT

[#4]

I was 5.

probably pretending to be a ghostbuster

Posted: 1/17/2018 6:33:20 PM EDT

[#5]

In the 25th Infantry Division watching everything on CNN.

We never deployed.

Posted: 1/17/2018 6:33:27 PM EDT

[#6]

Working at a grocery store shitting my pants that I was going to be drafted. I was 20

Posted: 1/17/2018 6:33:44 PM EDT

[#7]

in first grade, probably drawing pictures on the back of my timetests for my first crush, rachel....

Posted: 1/17/2018 6:34:09 PM EDT

[#8]

I was getting a haircut when the first bombs dropped, saw it on the TV there. I still remember the girl that was cutting my hair, Kathy with a K. That is how she always introduced herself, guess that is why it stuck.

Posted: 1/17/2018 6:34:27 PM EDT

[#9]

At Navy Nuclear Prototype School in Idaho.

Posted: 1/17/2018 6:34:33 PM EDT

[#10]

6th grade. Actually it was a snow day so I was at home watching it on TV.

Posted: 1/17/2018 6:35:18 PM EDT

[#11]

I should've been in middle school, but faked sick so I could stay home and watch the war.

Posted: 1/17/2018 6:35:27 PM EDT

[#12]

Just south of the Kuwaiti border, waiting for the order to move in.

The fireworks were pretty awesome.

Posted: 1/17/2018 6:35:30 PM EDT

[#13]

In second grade, I remember people talking about it

Posted: 1/17/2018 6:35:42 PM EDT

[#14]

4 years old so watching Mr. Rodger's

Posted: 1/17/2018 6:35:50 PM EDT

[#15]

Same place I am now, but active duty. Had a couple of airmen volunteer to go over there during the build up. Kept their bikes in my garage so they wouldn't get fucked up in the barracks parking lot.

Posted: 1/17/2018 6:36:27 PM EDT

[#16]

Just turned 40, and hard at work

Posted: 1/17/2018 6:36:33 PM EDT

[#17]

7th grade

Posted: 1/17/2018 6:36:40 PM EDT

[#18]

House sitting in Tega Cay SC

Posted: 1/17/2018 6:37:09 PM EDT

[#19]

High school

Posted: 1/17/2018 6:37:19 PM EDT

[#20]

NAS Sigonella

Posted: 1/17/2018 6:38:31 PM EDT

[#21]

Had just arrived back at Rhein Main, taking a Herc from the sandbox back for heavy mx. Spent the next few days waiting to deadhead back into theater.

edit - had already been in the UAE since late Aug '90.

Posted: 1/17/2018 6:38:34 PM EDT

[#22]

Ft. Benning about to earn my Blue cord and head to Airborne School.

Posted: 1/17/2018 6:38:42 PM EDT

[#23]

Look for the 1st Inf Div "Big Red One"... 2nd BN / 34th Armor.

Posted: 1/17/2018 6:39:24 PM EDT

[#24]

Out of work with the worst flu I've ever had. So I got to watch it 24/7.

Posted: 1/17/2018 6:39:43 PM EDT

[#25]

At work watching it on a little tube TV in our customer lounge.

Spent many nights watching the wall-to wall coverage.

The triple-A coming off the rooftops in Baghdad was surreal.

Posted: 1/17/2018 6:40:19 PM EDT

[#26]

Already in Iraq 1st 75th

Posted: 1/17/2018 6:40:41 PM EDT

[#27]

still in Berlin

finishing my last year of my Apprenticeship

Posted: 1/17/2018 6:41:03 PM EDT

[#28]

At work

Posted: 1/17/2018 6:41:24 PM EDT

[#29]

Awaiting orders at home.

Posted: 1/17/2018 6:41:25 PM EDT

[#30]

I was airborne between Clark AB and Diego Garcia carrying stuff for Desert Shield when things kicked off.

Posted: 1/17/2018 6:41:31 PM EDT

[#31]

On board the USS Greenling SSN 614 at the submarine base in Groton, Ct. She was in the floating dry dock with a hole cut in her pressure hull.

Posted: 1/17/2018 6:42:25 PM EDT

[#32]

King fahd international airport. Waiting to kickass in my HOG

Eta. One of 4 hogs...first of the war. Nukayb early warning radar site was our mission

Posted: 1/17/2018 6:42:33 PM EDT

[#33]

In the Red Sea.

Posted: 1/17/2018 6:42:39 PM EDT

[#34]

Was working my second job, incoming phone customer service rep. Night was pretty steady until about 7, then the phones just stopped. A bit later one of the reps stood up and shouted "The bombing has started".

Went home later that night to celebrate my birthday. One of the most depressing birthdays of my life for a lot of reasons, not just the war.

Yes, Desert Storm started on my birthday. Never quite forgave George for that.

Good friend of mine (much younger) was on the USS Horne watching Tomahawks fly over head.

Posted: 1/17/2018 6:43:26 PM EDT

[#35]

I was in 9th grade. I remember discussing the initiative in civics class

Posted: 1/17/2018 6:43:47 PM EDT

[#36]

Pooping my pants

Posted: 1/17/2018 6:44:32 PM EDT

[#37]

A O3 in Riyahd helping to bed down troops and aircraft pouring in.

Posted: 1/17/2018 6:44:35 PM EDT

[#38]

Fuck, I'm getting old....

Posted: 1/17/2018 6:44:45 PM EDT

[#39]

Doha, Qatar

Posted: 1/17/2018 6:45:01 PM EDT

[#40]

having water fights in the fucking sand.

Posted: 1/17/2018 6:45:01 PM EDT

[#41]

In bed with the chickenpox and worried that I was going to get kicked out of the police academy and rolled over to the next class.

I was halfway through and I realllllllllly didn't want to start all over again.

Posted: 1/17/2018 6:45:11 PM EDT

[#42]

Born a few years later

Posted: 1/17/2018 6:45:19 PM EDT

[#43]

Sitting in my living room drinking lot's of beer while watching Wolf Blitzer report the war on CNN. Wolf was an excellent news guy back then.

Posted: 1/17/2018 6:45:29 PM EDT

[#44]

Ft. Benning, GA, Just finished up OBC. Waiting on orders to the Big Sandbox. Watched it on TV. More
School’s.

Posted: 1/17/2018 6:45:38 PM EDT

[#45]

I was driving to Shepard AFB to take a fire alarm class. I stopped at my best friends house who was living in Broken Arrow at the time. I watched most of that night on his tv. By the time I got to Shepard, the war was 1/4 over.