The fact that they're wearing woodland camo in the desert is a subtle hint at the state of the world back then. These troops were redirected to the Middle East from Europe, where they were expected to fight the Soviets which were still in existence for most of 1991. Thirty years later, the image of the US soldier that most of us have in mind is with Desert camo.
My father was deployed during Desert Storm, asked him as a kid if he ever killed anyone. Stupid thing to ask a veteran but I was young, he said no. It just hit me that he probably did and lied.
He was probably just more shocked to hear you ask that question as you were to realize he lied for your benefit. Kids aren't dumb but they're generally not smart enough to recognize government sanctioned murder.
tbf, most of the damaged done in desert storm was from the air war and artillery, your father probably haven't seem mass combat, since they were mostly riding on their bradley most of the time, a lot of infantry did not really do anything during desert storn.
ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-RSqKx3FG0Lw.html&ab_channel=TheOperationsRoom this video have multiple operational examples during desert storm.
I have some old polaroids of my uncle in Iraq in his Abrams, on his Abrams, in the shade by his Abrams. Cool stuff, though I'm not sure where they've gotten over the years.
Get em scanned when you find them. Polaroids aren’t like printed film which is on inert paper, the chemicals inside breakdown over time from moisture and light.
My father has lung complications due to Desert Storm’s burning of the Kuwaiti oil fields. My dad doesn’t like speaking about it much, but he has shown me a lot of photos. I’m too young to understand war in it’s entirety, but I’ll understand someday.
I heard from a veteran of that war basically say “The entire thing was a turkey shoot, it wasn’t battle, it was slaughter. I don’t like to think about it.”
No matter what anyone says in these comments about it being just over oil or anything of the like, your dad did his service to the country and is a honorable man and brother in arms to all of us in the past present and future.
@@gavinedgerton5880 it was over oil. The iraqis wanted to sieze the kuwaiti oil fields. Desert storm wasnt anythong like 2004. It was actually countries intervening to save kuwait.
Mom brought me to her friend's house when I was really young. She and her friend were talking or whatever and the lady's husband was like "want to see something cool?" So he brought out his M16 (hindsight it had to be a built AR). He was in Desert Storm. Showed me how to take it apart and put it back together. I asked him why he wanted to join the Marines, he said "I just wanted to see how many I could kill." Even as a little kid I knew not to push that line of questioning...
My dad is a desert storm veteran who trained in west Germany in the 80s and was deployed to Iraq in the 90s he served 25 years in the british army but today he works for Adani and travels around the world like Egypt, Sri Lanka and many more, he sells X-rays to prisons, but I’m glad my dad is still alive, love u dad! ❤️
@@youhavnoheart when? when did ANYONE ever ask? get some voting rights first, learn to paralal park. Getcho ass back into kitchen. Do you know the difference between Iron Man and Iron Woman? One is a superhero and the other is a command.
I was a little kid when this war happen. It was crazy watching it damn near live. Lol Also that A10 warthawg was from my hometown back when MB SC had a airforce base.
@@su-25frogfoot74 idk russian but i can read some letters in cyrillic and i think it says "real khokhol doing real frozen without light" or literally romanized "rial khokhli duing rial frozen vizaut lait"
@@su-25frogfoot74 something like "real hohly(like ukrainians but i cant explain it because my english is bad) doing real frozen without light (wtf idk)"
"my grandfather is a serbian and was in the yugoslavian army when yugoslav war broke out he done many bad things, he killed people, smuggling people, and sold people, but one of my grandfather friends betrayed my grandfather, also some terrible things happens to my grandfather when the ship he was in had an accident he had to swim for his life, my grandfather went to new york to meet his cousin because he is the only family my grandfather had left, and my grandfather also is in search of the traitors that betrayed him."
he killed alot of civilians, probably. I don't know if he loved what he did there (if he did, then great, he doesnt have to struggle with regret unlike some of the veterans I know)
@@AdirFoxxo not talking about war crimes (I know that can get controversial), but tomahawks did hit other buildings in the way as well and cause other collateral damage killing thousands of civilians. Im not debating whether or not it was necessary (ultimately, to end the war fast i would argue that it was, though I disagree with the premise of the war to begin with) but this is a fact.
@@crimson1453 right but 3K civilians in Baghdad were killed, largely by aerial bombardment. That is a very significant number, especially given how (relatively) few vehicles with striking capacity there were in operations. Ignoring the Amiriyah shelter bombing as an outlier (so 2.5K civilian deaths fromother incidents), assuming that the average bombing strike which killed civilians killed 2, and that ~2K civilian deaths were from aerial bombardment (besides Amiriyah), then that still means that 1000 strikes resulted in civilian deaths. Thousands more probably severely injured civilians. If his dad was a tomahawk operator its very likely that there was indeed unintended collateral. War is a terrible business. I dont blame his dad of course but the facts are the facts
I served from 85' - 05'. 1991 was the pinnacle of recent American power. Now? It's sadly turned to shit. Glad to be long retired so I don't have to deal with the PRONOUN crap.
@@crusader8063 yeah my comment was just a litte nod to the countless operations conducted by the US-coalition in middle eastern countries, sry for the historical inaccuracy
I’m just commenting because 7/6 (it’s 11:15 in Connecticut rn) this will be a year old. Take the time to think how fast time goes you don’t realize until it’s a year later. Have a good day 🤗
"The real super power isn't flying or telepathy it's when you risk your life for others working harder than their family combined... And not for your self. "-me
I saw the full combat film from these guys, every singe dude in the video is alive, in the original footage at then end when they record the time when the cease fire he tells the camera that they suffered 0 losses
