Desert Storm ... 25 years ago .. 16th/17th Jan 1991

[+Crusader 2,066]

[fallenphoenix1986 603]

Surprised there hasn't been more recognition of the anniversary.

 

Craig

[+Crusader 2,066]

Yep.. all very low key about it so far.

 

New book coming in April :

https://ospreypublishing.com/f-15-eagle-versus-mig-23-25-pb

 

EDIT: cover picture resized

 

 

 

 

Edited January 20, 2016 by Crusader

[xrearl 27]

That long all ready! Man I'am old

[MigBuster 2,863]

Some photos:

 

http://www.airforcemag.com/Features/Pages/2016/January%202016/Desert-Storm-in-25-Photos.aspx

 

 

An Infographic

 

http://theaviationist.com/2016/01/18/usaf-desert-storm-infographic/

[Nesher 629]

wow.. has it been so long? I was around 5 years old when scuds landed in Israel during the war

I remember small things from back then.. :)

[JediMaster 451]

wow.. has it been so long? I was around 5 years old when scuds landed in Israel during the war

I remember small things from back then.. :)

 

Five? Five? FIVE??? I was 6 months from starting college!    It's the defining event of my senior year of HS.

 

Prom, homecoming, driving to school finally instead of taking the bus, yeah that all happened, but ODS is still the first thing I remember about that last year of public school.

[Nesher 629]

yes, I was 5.. not my fault that average age here is 50 haha

[fallenphoenix1986 603]

Yeah I was 5 as well. Only thing I really remember from the time is seeing F-16's on the news on a nightly basis.

 

Craig

[MigBuster 2,863]

http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/how-stealth-was-baptized-by-fire-in-desert-storm-25-yea-1753796745

 

 

One of the most spellbinding military capabilities used 25 years ago during the Operation Desert Storm was stealth technology. Despite many billions of dollars invested, until that point it had never been proven in actual combat on a large scale. This would change in the opening moments of the conflict as F-117s raided Baghdad with dramatic results.

[+Typhoid 231]

yes, I was 5.. not my fault that average age here is 50 haha

 

thanks..... 

 

I was in Cheyenne Mountain.  A bit intense, but of course not nearly as intense as for those in theater. 

[ironroad 218]

I remember CNN stayed on constantly at my house and my mother was always going to pieces when there were mentions US or allied causalities (her brother had gotten called up and deployed).

 

Years later my uncle told me he was out in the desert of Saudi Arabia when the scud hit the barracks housing American troops. He had just been there a few hours before getting supplies for his men. He said it took him a long time to get over that, particularly as two guys he knew did not come back home.

http://www.nytimes.com/1991/02/26/world/war-in-the-gulf-scud-attack-scud-missile-hits-a-us-barracks-killing-27.html

Some popular video documentaries made during the Gulf War victory wave of the 1990s.

 

History of US air power with a segway into the Gulf War

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMmaFzbCqZE

 

Topical Documentary of the Air and Ground War

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJGJ3BuUidI

 

Navy and Marine Aircraft of the Gulf War (I always tear up watching the F-14 and A-6 segment).

Edited January 26, 2016 by ironroad

[+Typhoid 231]

I remember CNN stayed on constantly at my house and my mother was always going to pieces when there were mentions US or allied causalities (her brother had gotten called up and deployed).

 

Years later my uncle told me he was out in the desert of Saudi Arabia when the scud hit the barracks housing American troops. He had just been there a few hours before getting supplies for his men. He said it took him a long time to get over that, particularly as two guys he knew did not come back home.

http://www.nytimes.com/1991/02/26/world/war-in-the-gulf-scud-attack-scud-missile-hits-a-us-barracks-killing-27.html

 

 

In Cheyenne Mountain we had CNN up on a screen constantly. 

 

We would get an alert, process the warning, call the conferences and pass the data and look angles to the Patriot batteries.  Then watch on CNN live as the Patriots engaged. Quite the sequence. 

 

I came on shift the morning after the SCUD hit the barracks.  I know the warnings were passed but a problem at the Patriot caused it to disengage.  I don't recall the details now.  That was, I think, the only attack that was not engaged.  All attacks were detected and warnings passed.

 

On CNN - we weren't the only ones who watched CNN.  There was a not-so-funny cartoon that showed a TV with CNN on it and titled "Iraqi SCUD Targeting System"