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Contact Info
Home Town UPLAND
Last Address 1138 Sullivan St. Upland, CA. 91784-1814
Member of the Board of Directors for Assn of 3ad Veterans www.3ad.org
Watch out for Bird shit and Fools
Other Comments:
Where are all of the DRAGOONS? Found Thirty of you Mike Fouts (Frisco Red), Mike Vitelo (Vito), Kevin Wood (KC), Berry, Maj Burns, and Richard, Maj Brown, Mike Bennett, Lt Harper, Eddie S, Samantha Perry, Paul V, LTC Wes Cooler, Hack Attack, Don Pasko, Shaun Frenette, Harry Dehaven, John Dahl, Trygg Anderson, Jim Chorazy, Cantwell, Lindsey, Cook, Martin and Sheehan, Mark Holzer, Steve Lindsey, Bro Ed Williams, Wysong, T Anderson.
Frisco Red, KC, and Vito were in my Company during my tour B 2/48. Bennett was HHC and Burns and Cooler were Plt Leaders in C Company 2/48 at that time.
Gulf War/Liberation and Defense of Kuwait/Operation Desert Storm
From Month/Year
January / 1991
To Month/Year
February / 1991
Description Just after midnight on January 17, 1991 in the U.S., Bush gave the order for U.S. troops to lead an international coalition in an attack on Saddam Hussein’s army. U.S. General Norman Schwarzkopf led “Operation Desert Storm,” which began with a massive bombing of Hussein’s armies in Iraq and Kuwait. The ensuing campaign, which is remembered in part for the United States’ use of superior military technology, introduced the term “smart bombs” to the global vernacular—precision-bombing devices aimed primarily at destroying infrastructure and minimizing civilian casualties. In response, Hussein launched SCUD missiles into Saudi Arabia and Israel. Iraq’s use of SCUDs, notoriously inaccurate weapons designed to terrorize civilian targets, nearly succeeded in inciting the Israelis to retaliate. Hussein hoped an Israeli military response would draw neighboring Arab nations into the fight on Iraq’s side, but he again committed a grave miscalculation. Bush reassured Israelis that the U.S. would protect them from Hussein’s terrifying SCUD attacks and Israel resisted the urge to retaliate. Soon after, U.S. –installed Patriot missiles destroyed SCUD missiles in flight and further foiled Hussein’s plan to goad Israel into a holy war.
Following an intense bombing of Baghdad, U.S.-led coalition ground forces marched into Kuwait and across the Iraq border. Regular Iraqi troops surrendered in droves, leaving only Hussein’s hard-line Republican Guard to defend the capital, which they were unsuccessful in doing. After pushing Hussein’s forces out of Kuwait, Schwarzkopf called a ceasefire on February 28; he accepted the surrender of Iraqi generals on March 3.
