Scud missiles riveted the attention of cable news outlets during Operation Desert Storm in early 1991 when Iraq launched 88 of these notoriously inaccurate and unstable weapons at Saudi Arabia and Israel. At 8:30pm on February 25, a Scud struck a United States Army barracks in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, killing 28 members of the
On VBC Happy Hour in February 2021, we had a wonderful conversation for the 30th anniversary of Operation Desert Storm, otherwise known as the First Persian Gulf War of 1991. Architect Randy Schumacher is chief of design for the National Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm Memorial in Washington, DC. Groundbreaking
. . Rick Witherell of Tionesta, Pennsylvania served in the Army at the end of the Cold War, but when his reserve unit was called up during the Gulf War, he deployed to Kuwait. Despite being the first day of spring 2014, it snowed the day we preserved the stories of
