by Laura Schmidt | Aug 1, 2020
I was deployed to USNS Comfort, T-AH 20 in support of Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm. Other than dependent cruises, staffing this Navy hospital ship was quite a different experience for me. Basically, my husband and I now had our roles reversed. I was the...
by John Sinkovits | Aug 1, 2020
I was in the U.S. Army reserve national guard in California. My unit got activated and was sent to Fort Irvin in the Mojave desert for training. I was a track commander and while maneuvering in the desert a dust storm picked up and blinded us. My APC went over a...
by Tobias Brown | Aug 1, 2020
I was a 20 year old specialist during the Persian Gulf War assigned to the 1/227th Aviation Regiment of the First Cavalry Division. My role was an aircraft fire control specialist for the AH-64A Apache Attack Helicopter. We would jump to various Forward Arming And...
by Donald Branscum | Aug 1, 2020
I was a sergeant assigned to USAF, 1st TFW/71st AMU, Langley, AFB, VA deployed to Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. 1st Tactical Fighter Wing was the first military unit into Saidi Arabia. First In, First Aerial Kill and First Out. Aug 7, 1990 to March 24, 1991. Perfect setting...
by David Bloom | Aug 1, 2020
I was in Marine Corps boot camp in 1990 when Iraq invaded Kuwait. As a split option reservist, I was not on the battle roster when I joined my unit in October 1990 and the roster names were read out. I remember being dejected and a sergeant asked me: “You plan on...
