Posted on 01/20/2011 6:14:56 AM PST by US Navy Vet
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Manning-up an F/A-18A at Shaikh Isa AB, Bahrain for the first daylight strike.
Well I don’t remember a thing about that day.. ‘Twas a few weeks short of my 2nd birthday :p
Thanks, I think I remember something about that 30kts threshold. Vibrations throughout the ship were something fierce...
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.
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.
I was sitting in a bunker in korea wearing full chem gear praying north korea wasn’t going to use it as an opportunity
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.
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"
Security Flight Sergeant in Oman
Watching the KCs take off and land knowing they just pumped gas to the birds dumping the bombs
Because none have ever been it that situation or knew that we could do that to an enemy.
Because none have ever been in that situation or knew that we could do that to an enemy.
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.
working backstage at a Niel young concert at West Point.....
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.
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.
Onboard USS AMERICA (CV-66), location, Red Sea.
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.
I believe I was hitting it.
Standing in my living room, holding a colicky baby, saying a prayer for my brothers in harms way.
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