Impressive - you even know which unit/division(?)! Well, I remember he had to lie in the trenches for eight months like a good Marine :) prior to seeing any action. Back then, the only cable news was CNN and Wolf Blitzer, and we'd watch every night in Death Valley. At least now we have a variety of news sources.
The day that war ended there was a most beautiful rainbow over all of Death Valley. We had put yellow ribbons on all the palm and mesquite trees all winter.
Well at the time I was the Deputy Assistant Chief of Staff G-1 (personnel) and within the IMEF at that time were 7 major subordinate commands and the 7thMEB was one of them.
Oh yes I remember the CNN with Christiane Amenpour...and Wolf Blitzer and that other guy..whats his name..
We would be in the lounge at the end of the day watching it well into the night. I dubed it The Wide World of War ( sort of like the wide world of sports). We couldn't tear ourselves away.
I didn't go over.. our unit was deployed on a specific call from the CG over there. Basically they needed triger pullers not a lot of "heavies" ( meaning senior officers).
I won't even tell you what the causalty estimates were then. Remember we were afraid that Saddam was going to use chem warfare...