The FReeper Foxhole Remembers the Marines in the Persian Gulf War (Feb. 1991) May, 11th, 2005

Military History Quarterly | September 2002 | Otto Kreisher

[E.G.C.]

((HUGS))Good morning, Bentfeather. How's it going?

[GailA]

Writers cramp from filling out all those papers! Got a uniform shirt and cap and they said 7-2 for the next 4 days.

[Wneighbor]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BITTY GIRL!!!

[Wneighbor]

Morning to you too Bentfeather :-)

Leg hurts! Will not have another one of those shots!! But, I'm up and around a bit. It really goes against the grain with me to take this "rest" cure. I feel like I should be up and around working out these muscle spasms and soreness - but, heh, the doc is right, that just doesn't work!

Thanks for the concern. This too shall pass.

HUGS right back to you!!! :-)

[Soaring Feather]

Going great, EGC. Wonderful day, balmy and breezy.

[SAMWolf]

Sounds just like joining the Army. ;-)

[Professional Engineer]

Good afternoon ladies. Flag-o-Gram.

Matt Maupin, MIA

[Samwise]

May God bless him.

[snippy_about_it]

Thank you PE.

[SAMWolf]

Afternoon PE.

[snippy_about_it]

Happy Birthday BittyGirl

[Professional Engineer]

Gulf War Marine ping

[Professional Engineer]

Hi miss Feather.

[Professional Engineer]

1924 Antony Hewish radio astronomer

Wow, I didn't think R.A. looked a day over 39.

[GulfWar1Vet]

Thanks Sam :)

[PhilDragoo]

M58 Mine Clearing Line Charge (MICLIC)

Iraqi T-72 tank hit with DU sabot

Iraqi T-62s

Iraqi T- 55 tank destroyed by U.S. Marines of 1st Tank Battalion
burns along Highway 27, north of the An Nu'maniyah Bridge

M249 Squad Automatic Weapon

First Light Armored Vehicle Battalion

Following the invasion of Kuwait by Iraqi forces in August 1990, the First Light Armored Infantry Battalion was deployed to Saudi Arabia for Operation Desert Shield. During Operation Desert Shield, First Light Armored Infantry Battalion (Task Force Shepherd) operated forward of the First Marine Division main battle area providing security and early warning of possible attack.

During Operation Desert Storm, Task Force Shepherd again found itself the forward unit of the First Marine Division, conducting screening and ambiguity operations along the Kuwait border. After the breaching of the Iraqi defensive positions, Task Force Shepherd operated well-forward the attacking Task Forces and was instrumental in locating the Iraqi forces, shaping their view of the battlefield and defeating them. On the third day of the ground offensive, Task Force Shepherd was the first of the allied forces to enter Kuwait City, capturing Kuwait International Airport on 28 February, 1991. In April 1991, first Light Armored Infantry Battalion (Task Force Shepherd) returned to Camp Pendleton, California.

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But then the two task forces' leaders received a disturbing radio call from Myatt, who relayed word from Boomer that President Bush wanted to give Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev more time to attempt to persuade Saddam to withdraw his army from Kuwait. That meant Taro and Grizzly were not to push any farther into Kuwait until the deadline passed, about midnight.

And that certainly worked well.

Later, twelve years later, two Russian generals were in Baghdad--"We didn't come to drink coffee."

Bill Gertz, Treachery: How America's Friends and Foes Are Secretly Arming Our Enemies, Crown, 2004, pages 58-9:

John Bolton, the Bush administration's undersecretary of state for arms control and international security, highlighted this problem when he said, "The critical point here is that some of this equipment can be used against American forces." He added, "That's why we've been especially concerned about it, really going back months and months now." Bolton, who had taken part in numerous meetings with the Russians when their record of selling dangerous arms and equipment was discussed, said that Russia had always flatly denied the charges. When confronted with the intelligence about the GPS jammer transfers, the Russians claimed the company AviaConversia did not even exist. After the U.S. government identified it to the Russians, someone apparently tipped the company off and it quietly went out of business--or, it is more likely, began business under a different name.

Senator Harry Reid (Democrat-Dickens Novel) has demanded Bolton apologize to the Russians, while Ted Kennedy (D.T.-Bridge Too Far) uttered an unintelligible chorus from an Irish drinking song and fell down amidst a clatter of folding chairs, pulling the tablecloth and six place settings onto his corpulent form.

Barbara Boxer threatened to unleash the muskrat that lives on her head.

Joe Biden smirked, "I don't want to sound flip but offending our Russian and Iraqi allies is a little above your pay grade isn't it Mr. Bolton?"

[Victoria Delsoul]

Happy Wednesday, all.

[Professional Engineer]

2001 Douglas Adams, author of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," died at age 49.

He's not dead. He just strapped on a spaceship with tailfins, and went to party with Elvis.

[Professional Engineer]

1937 Spam, a canned ham by Hormel registered as a trademark.

The SPAM® Family of Products is all around us. In sandwiches, salads or mac & cheese. With eggs, cheese, or pineapples. Sliced, diced, baked or fried. The combinations are endless.

[Professional Engineer]

1969 (and now for something completely different) Monty Python comedy troupe forms