[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.

[McGruff]

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.

[commish]

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

[IYAS9YAS]

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

[Millicent_Hornswaggle]

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.

[outinyellowdogcountry]

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.

[gcraig]

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.

[ChuckHam]

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

[tongue-tied]

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.

[YellowRoseofTx]

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.

[FrogMom]

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.

[YellowRoseofTx]

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.

[A. Patriot]

I was eating super at church before the Wednesday night service and one of the deacons came into the fellowship hall and announced, "We are at war". We then prayed for our country and soldiers.

Here is a time line for Operation Desert Storm:

Time Line, USA Today

[Halo-JM]

US Army 5th Special Forces! Hell I was there! (LOL)

[grobdriver]

At work, spinning the AM dial trying to find some news about it all.
Had never (well, very little) listened to AM radio before.
That's the day I discovered Rush Limbaugh.

[ChiefKujo]

I was standing outside of my tent between the French and the 82nd looking up at the jets going dark.

[jesseam]

I was watching a television set in the ER at St. Peters Hospital in Helena thinking the war has started. I was later called up for OIF and spent 13 months in Iraq helping to take care of unfinished business

[Bruce Campbells Chin]

Mounting out from division base camp and heading out to our positions.

[jubail]

Living and working in Saudi Arabia about 75 miles south of Kuwait. About 250,000. US military passed through and were stationed where I lived. Met some great military people there, most of which wanted to be anywhere else. Can’t blame them, it was sandstorm season.

[Dunstan McShane]

Watching CNN, with nothing happening yet; decided to check back later, so got up to change the channel--and fire started falling from the sky in Baghdad.

Sat glued to the TV for the rest of the evening.

[rman04554]

Onboard USS Seattle in the Red Sea transferring ammo and oil to 3 carrier battle groups