MoH Monday: Sergeant First Class Alwyn Cashe
Sergeant First Class Alwyn Cashe is a posthumous recipient of the Medal of Honor. He earned his award for courageous action during the Iraq War. Sergeant First Class Cashe Background…
The first US casualty of the Gulf War was a downed pilot
U.S. Navy Lt. Cmdr. Scott Speicher was flying his F/A-18 Hornet 100 miles west of Baghdad on Jan. 17, 1991. It was just minutes into the first night of Operation Desert Storm, the U.S.-led coalition’s offensive to expel the Iraqi Army from Kuwait. …
This tank-jet hybrid was used to put out oil fires set by Saddam’s retreating troops
“Big Wind” is a 92,600-pound beast made from a tank chassis and two turbojet engines that are powerful enough to blow out oil fires like candles on a birthday cake.
While it looks ridiculous and would be nearly useless in a tank fight…
The longest tank-to-tank kill was fired from three miles away
Britain’s Challenger-1 tank was originally designed to be sold to the Shah of Iran, but with the Iranian Revolution in 1979, that sale was cancelled. Britain developed the tank for…
4 of the US military’s largest tank battles came during the Gulf War
During Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm, the US military was at its finest, liberating Kuwaiti civilians from the forces of an evil dictator. In every way, every branch of…
Watch this F-16 pilot dodge six Iraqi surface-to-air missiles in Desert Storm
In the largest air strike of Desert Storm, 72 U.S. Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcons took off from the Persian Gulf to refuel over northern Saudi Arabia. Their target was…
Gulf War veteran reflects on life and moving into the future with NFT project
Cryptocurrency is arguably the newest and most unique way of investing, though the military community has often been left out of the wealth building discussion. One veteran-owned business is ensuring…
21 facts about the First Gulf War
Remember The First Gulf War? Persian Gulf War? Desert Storm and/or Desert Shield? They’re all the same war. Whatever we call it now, it was the war which expelled Iraqi troops from Kuwait, checked a decade of Saddam Hussein’s aggression toward his…
Did you know this military branch captured the first POWs of Desert Storm?
The Iraqi invasion of Kuwait on August 2, 1990, was the beginning of what became known as the Gulf War. The United States responded to the invasion with Operation Desert…
This is how the Israelis planned to kill Saddam Hussein
During the thick of the 1991 Gulf War, anti-Iraqi coalition forces were mounting some 2,000 air sorties against Iraqi targets in the Middle East. In retaliation, Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein fired scud missiles at Israel.
Who wasn’t par…