I just finished Norman Schwartzkopf’s autobiography.
One thing I had forgotten was just how effective our Air Force was in the Gulf War. They had really degraded Saddam’s military before the ground war began.
I was in the Army at the time, waiting for my unit to be mobilized for OD Shield/Storm.
Luckily, Stormin’ Norman and his SHOCK AND AWE made it so that my unit wasn’t called...though we were later for Iraq.
My then-husband was a (Supply) Warrant Officer. When we got the news, we just hugged one another; didn’t have to say a word knowing it would be a good two years before our life was back to, ‘normal’ - though it never was.
Nobody prays for peace like those of us in the military - but we also know what has to be done. ;)
On day two of the air war CNN showed a clip of an F-18 with my name on the side taxiing out to the runway. I wasn’t the pilot as I had flown the night before but my folks got a lot of phone calls that day. Was never able to find the footage.