20 Years Ago Desert Storm began...where were you and what do you remember about that day?

20 Jan 2011 | US Navy Vet

[US Navy Vet]

I was in my living room in US Navy Housing(Murphy Canyon)in San Diego. I had just gotten back from the last of the real Cold War WestPacs(USS Carl Vinson-CVN-70). I was attached to VF-111 Sundowners(F-14a/TARPS). I was SO pround that my country had FINALLY KILLED the Viet Nam era thing.

[Sybeck1]

Baptist Student Union at Ole Miss. We had a prayer vigil for the Lord to guide our soldiers.

[SonofReagan]

I was in an early evening college class when I first heard about the beginning of the air war.

I thought my Liberal philosophy professor was going to faint. LOL!

[lonestar]

I was in a Vegas hotel.

[AlphaOneAlpha]

I was just driving into our municipal parking lot when I heard that the air war had just started. I was on my way to a budget plannng meeting of the town council and announced what I had heard on the car radio. We shortened the meeting and everyone scattered to go home and watch the TV.

[stuartcr]

Rota Spain, having a coffee and watching spanish tv.

[American Quilter]

I was assigned to the 480th Reconnaissance Technical Group at Langley AFB, VA, and knew I’d be heading up the night shift in processing imagery from the battle areas.

[silverleaf]

In a watch center, knowing the missiles were enroute, watching the evening news from Baghdad, and waiting to see how the journalists reporting from the al-Rashid hotel would react when the shtf....

[Sacajaweau]

Began on January 17th. I was drafting a map via autocad. I put a huge note on the map about the beginning. Then reduced it into a “little dot” in the corner.

[Tolsti2]

I was on my cb radio, a young lad.. I was watching late night TV and someone broke on and said, pretty disheveled looking, that Iraq had invaded Kuwait. Just a 2 minute thing.

Next thing I clearly remember is seeing Dan Rather stand outside on some building looking off to the north and a Patriot fired off and exploded just above the cloud layer.

He had no clue what it was, but I yelled outloud it was a Patriot.

[Fish Speaker]

I was driving up 32 from Indianapolis to Kokomo IN, on leave, and stopped at the McDonalds to call back to the commander to find out if I needed to head back to LA.

[MrEdd]

I was there, as a 2171 in 2nd MEF.

[Bayan]

I was living in the UK at the time. The day before I talked to a friend of mine that was in the Middle East and he told me, “tonights the night.” So I stayed up all night watching the news and bingo, in the early morning hours it started. War live on television, it was riveting. I didn’t sleep for about 48 hours.

[OCC]

I was working night shift in the bomb dump at RAF Bentwaters in the UK. We got a call that the air war had started and spent the rest of the (12 hour) shift watching the news on a 9 inch BW TV in the munitions control room. Exciting stuff for an Airman who had only been in the USAF for 1 year.

[sodpoodle]

Praying for my 20 year-old son - one of our military men & women.

Prayers answered.

[jdsteel]

I remember the uncertainty about the U.S. militarys ability to win an engagement with Iraq (put forth by the MSM)turning into pride in peoples hearts all across this country.

[antiRepublicrat]

In a tent in Saudi Arabia wondering when us land forces were going to get sent in.

[jstaff]

I was sitting in a buttoned up APC on the Iraq/Saudi border wishing I was home with my wife, and waiting for the call to roll out.

[backwoods-engineer]

Sitting with my wife, watching it unfold on CNN. We thought that if Saddam hit Israel, it would start Armageddon.