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re: 29 years ago today: Iraq invades Kuwait
Posted on 8/2/19 at 5:53 pm to SoFla Tideroller
Posted on 8/2/19 at 5:53 pm to SoFla Tideroller
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Dipshit invades Kuwait and our itinerary gets scrubbed and we are just about the first ships in the Gulf. For no other reason than I never made it down under, Saddam needed to die.
I assume you still became a Shellback at some point, even if you didn't get to visit OZ.
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Posted on 8/2/19 at 6:10 pm to Darth_Vader
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And letting him keep Kuwait would mean he controls like 20% of the world’s proven oil reserves.
And the big problem - Saudi was just sitting there like a nice, juicy plum for Saddam to go after. If we show any sign of letting Kuwait go then Saudi could have been next. It would have been a very interesting test. The US would have quickly joined with our air force and the Iraqi air force would quickly be a non-entity. So, can a modern powerful air force defeat a superior invading ground force in open terrain over a large area? Maybe. It would have been brutal.
Posted on 8/2/19 at 6:13 pm to Obtuse1
Nope. We literally came within 25 miles of the line on our way to a stopover at Singapore. Still a 'wog. 
Posted on 8/2/19 at 6:57 pm to LCA131
Seems like just yesterday... and some of these leftist Liberals that I argue online with weren't even born yet... sheezzz
Posted on 8/2/19 at 7:43 pm to WWII Collector
Do we have to go there in this thread?
Posted on 8/2/19 at 10:57 pm to ExtraGravy
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As for the old guy, he had his opinion but I personally hope professional military people think deeper than saying "Arabs can't fight, this will be easy."
Israel damn near got overrun in the 1972 war because they didn't think the Egyptians could get across the Suez Canal and past the sand berm defenses on the other side. The Egyptians came up with the simple but elegant solution of giant water hoses to wash away the sand. History is littered with vanquished armies that underestimated their enemy.
The Iraqis could, and did fight tenaciously against the Iranians, and against us during the insurgency. They just weren't very good at mobile combined arms warfare.
This post was edited on 8/2/19 at 10:58 pm
Posted on 8/3/19 at 1:47 am to Obtuse1
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I had a busy 1989-1991.
Me too.
Spent January at Camp McCoy for cold weather training and February in Norway putting that cold weather training to use.
My squadron rotated to MCAS Iwakuni in December 89 for our 6 month UDP tour. Rotated back to Cherry Point in June. We left our birds in Iwakuni and took over our replacement squadrons POS airplanes which required 20 transfer inspections and 20 acceptance inspections (both time consuming) over the course of a month. Spent most of June and July trying to fix said POS airplanes.
Then the squadron received orders to deploy to Saudi (supposedly because our pilots had done a ton of live fire exercises while in Japan) but to not take our current airplanes. That was another 40 total inspections that had to be completed only this time we had exactly one week. I still don't understand why they didn't just transfer all the pilots to another squadron if they truly felt that all the live fire exercises was important.
Spent a few months roasting in Bahrain and then packed up and moved to KAZ. Went 12 on/12 off in January (I know.....boo-fricking-hoo) until the end of the ground war. Rotated back to Cherry Point in April just in time for my EAS!
The two most memorable parts were when the whole airplane cheered when the pilot announced we had cleared Saudi airspace on our way home and then stopping in Bangor, ME and being greeted by long line of Vietnam vets giving us the welcome home they never received.
Posted on 8/3/19 at 7:24 am to GetCocky11
First clue we had we were going to war was a few days later began a steady stream of planes in and out of Benning.
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