Today in Marine History
28 February 1991: Operation Desert Storm ended when the cease- fire declared by President George Bush went into effect. I Marine Expeditionary Force has a strength of more than 92,000 making Operation Desert Storm the largest Marine Corps operation in history .A total of 24 Marines were killed in action during the Gulf War.
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FateWineRoses on 28 Feb 2005 at Mon 28 February 2005 13:38:35 #
Where were you Michael? I was in my last days of MOS school. I had just been assigned to go to 2nd MarDiv and all of the guys in my class were jealous. I was the only one assigned to a Division. I remember being pissed when they declared cease-fire because it meant that I wouldn’t get to go over and serve. Oh what the young do not know!
I also remember after I arrived at 2nd MarDiv being stuck doing every field day duty you could possibly think of until the bulk of our Company returned . . . and the attitudes of the Marines coming back towards those of us who didn’t get to go.
Good times.