Author's story of his service during the Gulf war ... funny, factual and interesting
24 February 1991 the ground war kicked off. Everybody was glued to the radio
reports. Our soldiers were kicking some serious ass. Reports were coming in,
Iraqis giving up, throwing their weapons down and turning themselves in. We
cheered our front line troops! The war was about over. Four days later, 28
February 1991, war was declared over. I think every unit in Saudi, Kuwait and
Iraq celebrated our front line units and our coalition friends. It was surely a victory
we were all proud of. Our EPW camp was loaded up with Iraqi prisoners when
several of them arrived by every means of transportation known to man.
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