Tilapia for me. No pics, but I did take one of lunch, nuttin special, sort of a soft shell taco. I keep a bowl of ready to warm taco meat in the fridge for a quick lunch or breakfast.
Pause for a phone call.
Nope, after my time. Saw Cobras have at it from a distance, never near me, just the standard C model Huey gunships flew support on my flights, A-1 Skyraiders (awesome laying .50 suppressive fire next to you while landing!) and F4 Phantoms (even more awesome, 20mm and napalm). I've seen a B52 strike at night (all I could actually see was the flash of the bombs), B57 Canberras putting rockets on targets, F100s dive bombing (just a few hundred yards away once), A37s bombing and strafing, and an AC47 Puff at night - that was pretty awesome, too, lot of minigun action, so many tracers it almost makes a solid line. All those planes fired red tracers, occasionally saw green, but they were going the wrong way...
When I was in Desert Storm, at night we would lay against the windshield and watch the planes fly overhead and absolutely pound the Iraqi positions on the horizon. Night after night it was surreal. The ground never stopped shaking either.
When I was in Desert Storm, at night we would lay against the windshield and watch the planes fly overhead and absolutely pound the Iraqi positions on the horizon. Night after night it was surreal. The ground never stopped shaking either.
Did you do dessert shield in 91,92? My dad was there for that. 3/160th mechignized infantry.
Did you do dessert shield in 91,92? My dad was there for that. 3/160th mechignized infantry.
Desert Shield was the military support/build up response in Saudi Arabia to the Kuwaiti invasion by Iraq (8/90- 1/91). Desert Storm was the air war and subsequent ground attack unleashed when the support/build up was achieved (1/91 - 3/91). There was extensive occupation there for years supporting the NO FLY zone.
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