Anniversary

[atilla]

God bless all my Brothers and Sisters. Our time in the sand box began today in '91. Ground war Desert Storm. I salute you all!

 

[atilla]

Early this morning in '91, I and my Bro's were geared up, motivated, and ready to get some Haji ass! First mission we flew in, was listening to ac/dc thunderstruck on my walkman..lol. memories.

 

[JarHed]

Semper Fi. The wars change but the faces remain the same. You'll always have these memories, good and bad and all the feeling in between. Be happy today, you're here Brother and I'm happy about that.

Jar (Ancient Junkyard Dog)

 

[atilla]

Thanks Brother. Rakkasan!

 

[atilla]

Evening, Brothers and Sisters. Tonight, on this annivetsary, I have me a 12-pack of brain grenades, pack of pall malls, a bag of cannabis, my wife, my dogs and cats...yep. and you guys. Thanks to all of you. I raise my glass to you All! Cheers.......Hooooah!

 

[Friday]

Cheers & God Bless, Atilla. Pound it, groundpounding motherf*cker. :sneaky:

 

[Sarg]

Different wars....same insanity.

Sarg

 

[RTO]

Hand.

 

[atilla]

Sarg, you're exactly right. When we went up against Sadam's army, 4th largest in the world at that time. We were trained at that time for war against the Soviet Union. Tactics were geared for epic land battles against russian hardware and troops. We did MOUT training, but nothing like the young warriors do today. Lots of new weapons were tested for the first time in combat. Hell' GPS was in it's infancy. We still relied on a map and a protractor to get a grid for a fire mission. We were trained by Nam vets, and Brothers who fought in Grenada, and Panama. The route clearance we did was done by our combat engineers, breaching obstacles out in the open desert on a huge scale. It was one of the last epic battles on a huge scale, fought according to NATO doctrine. I'm proud to have served with the 101st.abn, and to have participated in the largest air-mobile operations since Vietnam. Proud that we rolled over haji's best (republican guard), in a flat 100 hours. ROE back then was if it was warsaw pact, kill it. Lol, I remember on one mission, we rolled up on a group of bedouins out in the middle of nowhere. We had all done our camo face paint like skulls, these guys shit themselves when they saw us. Our translator told us that they thought we were demons from hell. How right they were.

 

[Rocky1]

I was in that sand box with 3rd Marines and then our unit showed up 2nd Marines arrived in Aug 90 left in April 91 infantry unit....all these years later and still fighting with ptsd I am at Des Moines Vet Hospital now going through ptsd program

 

[atilla]

Hang in there Brother, one step at a time. I'm still shaking sand out of my jungle boots. Glad you're here Rocky.!