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The power of example is very important to people under stress. -- General Sir John Hackett |
![]() War Stories: Gulf WarWar Stories published under this topic are as follows:![]() Iraq invades Kuwait August 18-30, 1990 A couple of dozen of the unit fly to Camp Shelby, Mississippi to support Exercise Vulcan Knight. We fly to Gulfport, then bus to Camp Shelby. My first thought upon seeing the place is that it's Beetle Bailey's Camp Swampy, incarnate. The concrete block billets are not air conditioned. It pushes 100 during the day but is actually easier to take than the evenings. ![]() ![]() 7 March 1991 Today we moved again, transferred to the control of the 3rd Armored Division. The 26 mile trip back to the Iraqi/Kuwait border took less than three hours. We put our tents up in record time. ![]() ![]() |
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The Scots, under Robert the Bruce, defeat Edward IIs army at Bannockburn.
1667: The Peace of Breda ends the Second Anglo-Dutch War as the Dutch cede New Amsterdam to the English. 1862: Union and Confederate forces skirmish at the battle of Chickahominy Creek. 1863: In the second day of fighting, Confederate troops fails to dislodge a Union force at the Battle of LaFourche Crossing. 1864: Union General Ulysses S. Grant stretches his lines further around Petersburg, Virginia, accompanied by his commander-in-chief, Abraham Lincoln. 1900: General Arthur MacArthur offers amnesty to Filipinos rebelling against American rule. 1915: Germany uses poison gas for the first time in warfare in the Argonne Forest. 1919: Germans scuttle their own fleet at Scapa Flow, Scotland. 1942: The Allies surrender at Tobruk, Libya. 1945: Japanese forces on Okinawa surrender to American troops. |