Departure January 6, 1991
Steven Dutch, Professor Emeritus, Natural and Applied Sciences, University of Wisconsin - Green Bay
Sad Farewells From Green Bay
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Will All Those Duffel Bags Fit?
Green Bay to Anywhere Goes Via O'Hare
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Arrival at Fayetteville
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Arrival at Fort Bragg
Up at 0500 to catch a flight at 0700. The unit left in four groups, some from Green Bay and some bused to Milwaukee. My flight left at 0700 amid many tears and news people. After stops in Chicago and Charlotte, we arrived in Fayetteville about 1500. It was beautiful, sunny and about 60 degrees, but we would see very little weather that nice the rest of the time at Fort Bragg. Fort Bragg is down to about 5 per cent of its normal strength.
In the hope of finding a quiet spot, Wally Coyle and I share a 2-man cubicle on the second floor at the far end, with SSG Jeff Poh in the opposite cubicle. Most of the rest of the group took bunks on the first floor. When the rest of the flights came in and set up housekeeping, the second floor was nicknamed "the geriatric ward". In anticipation of the desert, I had brought along a pair of sunglasses I'd used in the Antarctic. I took them out to show Wally and a lens fell out and shattered on the floor. I just felt sick about it.
I called Shawn at 1830, then we had a meeting at 1930. It was just breaking up at 2100, when our trucks arrived; they had been driven down on commercial carriers. 1SG Gerlach called for 10 drivers, so I changed back into BDU's, only to be told that only four drivers were needed. However, it was expected that more drivers might be needed later on that night, so I slept in uniform. The last flight came in about midnight, but the drivers were never needed.
Our billets are in the 18th Airborne Corps NCO Academy, with bunks and nice wall lockers. Some units have been here since before Christmas with 80-100 in a building and no lockers. Our advance people did very well for us.
- August 2, 1990 - January 5, 1991: From the invasion of Kuwait to mobilization.
- January 6, 1991: Departure
- January 7-14, 1991: Settling in at Fort Bragg
- January 15-23, 1991: Fort Bragg Drags On
- January 24 - February 3, 1991: Preparing to Deploy to the Gulf
- February 4 - 5, 1991: Arrival in Country
- February 6-12, 1991: Khobar and Recon to Jubail
- February 13-20, 1991: Al-Jubail
- February 21-25, 1991: Al Jubail
- February 26, 1991: Tapline Road
- February 27, 1991: Return From KKMC
- February 28 - March 3, 1991: We Move Into Kuwait
- March 4 - 8, 1991: On Patrol in Kuwait
- March 9, 1991: The Choke Point
- March 10 - 11, 1991: A Chopper Ride
- March 11, 1991: Chopper Flight - The Oil Fires
- March 12-14, 1991: Oil Fires and Weapons
- March 15-16, 1991: A Congressman and a Private Museum
- March 17-21, 1991: Oil Fires and Routine Patrols
- March 22-24, 1991:Weapons Fire and Day Turns Into Night
- March 25, 1991: Visit to Iraq
- March 27-28, 1991: On the Coast and More Weapons
- March 31, 1991: Easter and Gergian
- April 1-5, 1991: Farewell Dinner and the Sand-Table House
- April 6-7, 1991: Farewell to Kuwait
- April 10-14, 1991: Khobar and Dhahran:
- April 15-16, 1991: Khobar and Bahrain
- April 17 - 23, 1991: Waiting for Kurdistan
- April 24-25, 1991: From Khobar to Incirlik
- April 26, 1991: From Incirlik to Zakho
- April 27-30, 1991: First Days in Kurdistan
- May 1-2, 1991: Camp I Rises
- May 1-2, 1991: Camp I Rises
- May 3-9, 1991: Camp I in Operation
- May 10-13, 1991: The Eventful Birth of Camp II
- May 14-17, 1991: Camp II in Operation
- May 18-19, 1991: Into the Mountains
- May 20, 1991: Kani Masi and Begova
- May 21, 1991: Nazdour and Begova
- May 22, 1991: Uzumlu
- May 23, 1991: Visit to Camp 1 and Nazdour
- May 24-25, 1991: Sirsenk and Silopi
- May 26, 1991: I'll Teach them to Nickname Me "Indy"
- May 27, 1991: Dohuk (Almost) and Kani Masi
- May 28-29, 1991: Return From the Mountains
- May 30, 1991: A Visit From Colin Powell
- May 31 - June 2, 1991: Chopper Flight over Dohuk; Zakho and Silopi
- June 3-7, 1991: Last Days in Kurdistan
- June 6-8, 1991: Incirlik and an Outing Down the Coast
- June 8 - 18, 1991: Out of Turkey and Back to Fort Bragg
- June 19 - October 11, 1991: Picking Up Where We Left Off
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