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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

I was in my freshman year of college, was working on my homework with my TV on, and saw the Iraqi sky light up with AA fire. Began to contemplate along with my other buddies if we would soon be drafted.


41 posted on 01/20/2011 6:42:52 AM PST by Eagle of Liberty (formally known as Kerretarded....I changed my name)
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To: silverleaf

Kewl.


42 posted on 01/20/2011 6:42:54 AM PST by mad_as_he$$ (V for Vendetta.)
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To: 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.

Wow!
43 posted on 01/20/2011 6:44:52 AM PST by Eagle of Liberty (formally known as Kerretarded....I changed my name)
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To: US Navy Vet

I was a cadet at West Point. We sat in the ‘day room’, where there was a TV set. We waited anxiously for every report about how many bombers had made it back vs being shot down.

There had been a long run-up to this...Saddam’s invasion having happened the previous August. According to the media, this would be a terrbly bloody war that would last for several years. Based on this, we all expected to eventually go over there; and, we were very, very interested in how well the air war would go. Turns out things went alot better than advertised, and I never went to the sandbox.


44 posted on 01/20/2011 6:45:41 AM PST by lacrew (Mr. Soetoro, we regret to inform you that your race card is over the credit limit.)
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To: US Navy Vet
We knew it was coming anytime and I was watching the news with my wife when the aerial bombardment of Bagdad commenced.

I was SO pround that my country had FINALLY KILLED the Viet Nam era thing.

This Vietnam Era vet felt the same way. Amen, brother, Amen!

45 posted on 01/20/2011 6:47:54 AM PST by rochester_veteran ( http://RochesterConservative.com)
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To: US Navy Vet

Shuffling messages for Commander, Training Command, Atlantic (COMTRALANT) and lamenting about how I joined the military to go to war and come home a hero, and that the only war that came along found me stuck on shore duty here in Norfolk. I had transferred off the USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67) the previous March after 3 1/2 years of sea duty just in time to see them deploy for Desert Shield. Gone to Fleet Training Center or instructor duty and was sent TAD to TRALANT for 6 months.

My Dad was awarded a Bronze Star in WWII, best I did was three Navy Marine Corps Achievement Medals.


46 posted on 01/20/2011 6:48:04 AM PST by fredhead (Liberals think globally, reason rectally, act idiotically.)
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To: US Navy Vet
During the first Gulf War I happen to unemployed so got to watch alot of it on TV. It was eerie to watch in real time. I remember thinking things had calmed down so it was safe to go out and get some groceries. Got home and SADDDAM had launched another SCUD barrage into Israel. The daily briefings were must watch TV.
47 posted on 01/20/2011 6:48:04 AM PST by McGruff (If you are taking alot of flak you must be on target.)
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To: US Navy Vet

Ramstein AB Ops Center, preparing briefings for Gen. staff. Watching it all unfold on multiple screens and datastreams.


48 posted on 01/20/2011 6:49:27 AM PST by commish (Freedom tastes sweetest to those who have fought to preserve it.)
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To: sodpoodle
Praying for my 20 year-old son - one of our military men & women.

Me, too. I'd just had my hair cut, walked to the car and heard it on the radio. On the *wild* ride home, I pulled over to say a little prayer for our son and all the military.

49 posted on 01/20/2011 6:50:00 AM PST by azishot (Everyone is entitled to my opinion.)
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To: US Navy Vet

I was on alert and on the job at Osan AB, ROK.


50 posted on 01/20/2011 6:52:37 AM PST by IYAS9YAS (Liberalism can be summed up thusly: someone craps their pants and we all have to wear diapers)
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To: US Navy Vet

I’d just had my bottom wisdom teeth pulled out, sitting on the couch glued to the tv, thinking of my fiance who was over there.


51 posted on 01/20/2011 6:53:44 AM PST by Millicent_Hornswaggle (Retired US Marine wife)
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To: US Navy Vet

I was very pregnant and I remember sewing a blanket for my new baby. She will turn 20 on 1/22. Vividly remember the news in the background while I sewed.


52 posted on 01/20/2011 6:58:55 AM PST by outinyellowdogcountry
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To: US Navy Vet

I was in VA-165 on USS Nimitz steaming west. The CO of the ship made an announcement over the 1MC, “President Bush has ordered Desert Shield transition to Desert Storm”. The vibration effect was amazing. I had no way to know how fast we were going; they blocked SINS (ships inertial system) data.


53 posted on 01/20/2011 7:00:41 AM PST by gcraig (Freedom isn't free)
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To: US Navy Vet

Wearing chem gear and watching aircraft take off from our base in Saudi Arabia to bomb the crap out of Iraq.


54 posted on 01/20/2011 7:01:02 AM PST by ChuckHam
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To: US Navy Vet

In Lemoore, CA sitting drinking a beer after work at NAMTRAGRUDET as an Instructor, at the river marina. We had CNN on, and heard the air war has begun.


55 posted on 01/20/2011 7:02:18 AM PST by tongue-tied ("Never use more than four words to say 'I don't know'")
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To: US Navy Vet
My husband and I were in the living room watching CNN. We hadn't been back from Saudi Arabia very long (my husband had been transferred with his oil production related company) and hearing town and location names that were so familiar to us. We were glued to the TV for days and days, the kids kept wanting to watch anything else, but we wouldn't relinquish the TV to them. We prayed for our military and I wrote many letters to them.

Family and friends didn't even know where Saudi Arabia was or had heard very little about it until we went over. They were full of questions.

56 posted on 01/20/2011 7:02:30 AM PST by YellowRoseofTx (Evil is not the opposite of God; it's the absence of God)
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To: Millicent_Hornswaggle

Sitting around the radio with a bunch of airmen at a USAF radar site in Conrad, MT. I was explaining to them what was going on with the AAA and SAMs the AF was encountering. It was an electric moment, because that’s what we trained aircrews to do.


57 posted on 01/20/2011 7:02:38 AM PST by 4mer Liberal
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To: gcraig
Sins and Loran data went into auto-block mode when the ship exceeded 30 knots.
58 posted on 01/20/2011 7:02:38 AM PST by US Navy Vet
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To: US Navy Vet

FrogDad was in the desert, already.

I walked into the house after work, the FrogKids were sitting in a row on the couch watching CNN (!), the eldest said to me, “Sit down, Mom, it’s started.”

CNN (yes, Wolf Blitzer pissed me off) was on at my house 24/7 until the war ended.

If you’ll recall, they had a lot of moving-the-mail issues at that time. I hadn’t heard from FrogDad since he’d left around the first of December. I wrote to him every day, after the war he told me that he’d get a stack of letters every so often.

The mail on our end finally caught up about the time the war ended.

Rough times.


59 posted on 01/20/2011 7:03:12 AM PST by FrogMom (No such thing as an honest democrat!)
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To: US Navy Vet

And I intended to add to my post.....a BIG Thank You to all of you who served and I’m very glad you made it back from wherever you were. My dad was in one of the Normandy landings, I lost a cousin in Viet Nam, and have a long history of family in all the wars and various branches. We are a strong U.S. military supporting family here.


60 posted on 01/20/2011 7:06:11 AM PST by YellowRoseofTx (Evil is not the opposite of God; it's the absence of God)
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