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20 Years Ago Desert Storm began...where were you and what do you remember about that day?
20 Jan 2011 | US Navy Vet

Posted on 01/20/2011 6:14:56 AM PST by US Navy Vet

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; Israel
KEYWORDS: chat; desertsheildstorm; vanity
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To: US Navy Vet

Manning-up an F/A-18A at Shaikh Isa AB, Bahrain for the first daylight strike.


101 posted on 01/20/2011 9:19:03 AM PST by paddles ("The more corrupt the state, the more it legislates." Tacitus)
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To: US Navy Vet

Well I don’t remember a thing about that day.. ‘Twas a few weeks short of my 2nd birthday :p


102 posted on 01/20/2011 9:50:08 AM PST by Svartalfiar
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To: US Navy Vet

Thanks, I think I remember something about that 30kts threshold. Vibrations throughout the ship were something fierce...


103 posted on 01/20/2011 10:14:06 AM PST by gcraig (Freedom isn't free)
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To: US Navy Vet

I was on USS St Louis (LKA-116) at Subic for REFTRA. I think we were the only forward deployed Seventh Fleet ship that didn’t go the Gulf.


104 posted on 01/20/2011 11:12:23 AM PST by GATOR NAVY ("The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen." -Dennis Prager)
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To: US Navy Vet

I was checking my class material for US Army Sergeant Major Academy. I had two large shipments of books and reading material when the wife came and told me to come watch the news.


105 posted on 01/20/2011 11:56:33 AM PST by Arrowhead1952 (America has two cancers - democrats and RINOS.)
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To: US Navy Vet

I was sitting in a bunker in korea wearing full chem gear praying north korea wasn’t going to use it as an opportunity


106 posted on 01/20/2011 1:36:26 PM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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I worked with a bunch of leftys and they were saying that we (the US) could not defeat such a strong enemy so far away. It was an eye-roll moment and they tried to pull “we’re older so we know better” routine and I finally said that I feel bad for them because they were from the 60’s and used too many drugs. They were miserable the entire time like they were almost rooting for a loss.
My brother-in-law was an USAF engineer that worked on the Patriot missile system. He was stateside and just separated the week before the initial Iraqi invasion of Kuwait which was a month after my nephew was born.


107 posted on 01/20/2011 1:57:20 PM PST by newnhdad (The longest of journeys begins with one step.)
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To: US Navy Vet
Sadly, I was just a civilian, but I was there in spirit.

A friend of mine (we were roommates in high school) is a retired Marine (a colonel) wrote this on Monday, his birthday, on his Facebook page:

"Tonite I toast the boys of TF Shepherd. 20 years since we rolled North to the Kuwaiti border. Best birthday I ever had. It was an honor rolling with every one of you.

Semper Fi brothers"

108 posted on 01/20/2011 2:07:15 PM PST by Cementjungle
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To: ops33

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Watching the KCs take off and land knowing they just pumped gas to the birds dumping the bombs


109 posted on 01/20/2011 2:12:15 PM PST by 5Madman2 (There is no such thing as an experienced suicide bomber)
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To: AppyPappy
We tried to envision that and couldn’t.

Because none have ever been it that situation or knew that we could do that to an enemy.

110 posted on 01/20/2011 2:22:57 PM PST by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country! What else needs said?)
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To: AppyPappy
We tried to envision that and couldn’t.

Because none have ever been in that situation or knew that we could do that to an enemy.

111 posted on 01/20/2011 2:23:31 PM PST by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country! What else needs said?)
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To: US Navy Vet

The initial Kuwait invasion by Iraq occured as I was leading a Boy Scout High Adventure group off into the Boundry Waters. When we returned to civilization’s media coverage ten days later, the UN resolution had been pushed through by GHWB and we awaited the confrontation that was to come about 20 years ago this month.


112 posted on 01/20/2011 2:39:48 PM PST by KC Burke
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To: US Navy Vet

working backstage at a Niel young concert at West Point.....


113 posted on 01/20/2011 2:42:53 PM PST by red devil 40
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To: US Navy Vet; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; bigheadfred; ...

I had CNN on, Bernard Shaw was in Baghdad but not on the air; suddenly the fill-in (I don’t remember who it was) said that Shaw was hollering in his earpiece to come to him, NOW. Shaw and his colleague shot the scene out the hotel window, the triple-A and various US bomb detonations in the city.


114 posted on 01/20/2011 7:41:58 PM PST by SunkenCiv (The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
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To: US Navy Vet

I was stationed in Japan, at FEN-Tokyo, and I worked the overnight shift at the radio station. We had a TV monitor in the studio and I had the TV on all night and watched it inbetween spinning records.


115 posted on 01/20/2011 7:52:31 PM PST by rabidralph
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To: US Navy Vet

Onboard USS AMERICA (CV-66), location, Red Sea.


116 posted on 01/20/2011 7:55:35 PM PST by csvset
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To: US Navy Vet

it might not have been the first day, but I was in
a blood donation center watching their TV very soon
after. which reminds me, I’ve overdue to donate again.


117 posted on 01/31/2011 8:45:43 PM PST by cycjec
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To: US Navy Vet

I believe I was hitting it.


118 posted on 01/31/2011 8:48:32 PM PST by Lazamataz (If Illegal Aliens are Undocumented Workers, then Thieves are Undocumented Shoppers.)
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To: Lazamataz

Standing in my living room, holding a colicky baby, saying a prayer for my brothers in harms way.


119 posted on 01/31/2011 8:50:52 PM PST by Vermont Lt (Don't taze my junk bro.)
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