Desert Storm ended 22 years ago today
- Nolan
- KAC Member
- Posts: 2178
- Joined: Sat Mar 03, 2012 7:50 pm
- Location: INDIANA
- Has liked: 0
- Been liked: 0
Desert Storm ended 22 years ago today
Proud to have served in Desert Shield/Desert Storm with the 1st Infantry Division
"To disarm the people... was the best and most effectual way to enslave them."
-- George Mason, speech of June 14, 1788
-- George Mason, speech of June 14, 1788
- Nolan
- KAC Member
- Posts: 2178
- Joined: Sat Mar 03, 2012 7:50 pm
- Location: INDIANA
- Has liked: 0
- Been liked: 0
Re: Desert Storm ended 22 years ago today
"To disarm the people... was the best and most effectual way to enslave them."
-- George Mason, speech of June 14, 1788
-- George Mason, speech of June 14, 1788
-
- KAC Member
- Posts: 1492
- Joined: Sun Mar 04, 2012 8:15 am
- Has liked: 0
- Been liked: 0
Re: Desert Storm ended 22 years ago today
Thanks for your service.
I remember sitting at the dinner table watching all the tracers over Baghdad with Bernie shaw and wolf blitzer calling the play by play. I should have joined but went back to school. One of my regrets...
I remember sitting at the dinner table watching all the tracers over Baghdad with Bernie shaw and wolf blitzer calling the play by play. I should have joined but went back to school. One of my regrets...
Kentucky Firearms
Kentucky's class three dealer
..When you just want to shhhoot!
Kentucky's class three dealer
..When you just want to shhhoot!
- Wyldman
- KAC Member
- Posts: 6984
- Joined: Sat Mar 03, 2012 8:01 pm
- Location: Spring, TX
- Has liked: 0
- Been liked: 0
Re: Desert Storm ended 22 years ago today
I actually considered joining, too, but by then I was too old and they wouldn't take me.
IN GOD WE TRUST
"That boy's paradigm don't always add up to four nickels...."
"That boy's paradigm don't always add up to four nickels...."
- Whootsinator
- Little Butthole
- Posts: 3128
- Joined: Sun Mar 04, 2012 2:04 am
- Location: Northern Kentucky
- Has liked: 0
- Been liked: 0
Re: Desert Storm ended 22 years ago today
One of my regrets...
Regret, more specifically my desire to have none, was one of my primary reasons for enlisting when I did. I haven't done a thing yet, and may never, but in twenty years I will be able to look back without regret for not offering to do whatever was needed.
If you think you'll ever regret not doing something, do it while you can.
To me the biggest thank you that can be given to anyone serving is to offer to serve alongside them.
"I don't retreat; I kick ass in the other direction."
- Kadnine
- KAC Member
- Posts: 401
- Joined: Sun Sep 23, 2012 11:14 pm
- Location: LaGrange, KY
- Has liked: 0
- Been liked: 0
- Contact:
Re: Desert Storm ended 22 years ago today
They still tell stories of the 100 hour war, you know. I know a few Shield/Storm vets... they prepped me well for my 2003 stint in the sandbox. Thank you. I literally owe you my life.
I guess in the end we all serve standing on the shoulders of those who served before us. Never pass up an opportunity serve (only if circumstances are carefully measured and for prudent, of course) and NEVER pass up an opportunity to say thank you.
- Keith
I guess in the end we all serve standing on the shoulders of those who served before us. Never pass up an opportunity serve (only if circumstances are carefully measured and for prudent, of course) and NEVER pass up an opportunity to say thank you.
- Keith
~~~
"'...what it is to be a bondservant thou knowest full well, but of freedom thou hast never yet made trial, to know whether it be a sweet thing or not. For if ever thou hadst experience thereof, thou wouldest counsel us to fight for it not with spears only but with axes.' Thus the Spartans answered Hydarnes." - Herodotus
~~~
"'...what it is to be a bondservant thou knowest full well, but of freedom thou hast never yet made trial, to know whether it be a sweet thing or not. For if ever thou hadst experience thereof, thou wouldest counsel us to fight for it not with spears only but with axes.' Thus the Spartans answered Hydarnes." - Herodotus
~~~
Re: Desert Storm ended 22 years ago today
I was in the 7 of the 6th inf Bt. scout platoon during desert shield/Desert StormNolan wrote:Proud to have served in Desert Shield/Desert Storm with the 1st Infantry Division
- DDgunslinger
- Posts: 3430
- Joined: Sat Mar 03, 2012 8:10 pm
- Location: Louisville
- Has liked: 0
- Been liked: 0
- Contact:
-
- Global Mod
- Posts: 12053
- Joined: Sat Mar 03, 2012 8:50 pm
- Location: Louisville
- Has liked: 20 times
- Been liked: 22 times
Re: Desert Storm ended 22 years ago today
I remember having collector desert storm trading cards as a kid. Watching it on tv happen is surreal. Still have the cards I believe boxed up with my comic books/baseball cards/basketball cards. Better to have collected that stuff than spent money on drugs I guess.
- ssracer
- KAC Member
- Posts: 13804
- Joined: Sat Mar 03, 2012 8:24 pm
- Location: KY
- Has liked: 1 time
- Been liked: 61 times
- Contact:
Re: Desert Storm ended 22 years ago today
I used to have all the newspapers from it, and the cards like Jack mentioned.
- Buccman37
- KAC Member
- Posts: 386
- Joined: Sat Oct 06, 2012 12:09 pm
- Location: Elizabethtown
- Has liked: 0
- Been liked: 1 time
Re: Desert Storm ended 22 years ago today
Man has it been that long already? I was 6 at the time and never would have thought I would have went twice to Iraq. For some odd reason I miss the land between the rivers........