Persian Gulf War

Since he started working at the position a little over a year ago, he has built those connections, but he also has noticed that a certain veteran population has not walked through his office doors or called seeking assistance. That veteran population he is looking to connect with are those from the Gulf War era.

Early Pompeo media reports don't mention his Gulf War “service.” The closest connection is a July 2014 Wichita Eagle report that Pompeo left the US Army because the “military began drawing down after the first Gulf War,” but it never says he served in the war. Pompeo served in the Army after graduating ...

Secretary of State-in-waiting Mike Pompeo never served in the Gulf War, even though media outlets and many of his colleagues have repeatedly said he did, and Pompeo has done nothing to dispute their claims. Splinter News asked the CIA about Pompeo's record, and the agency confirmed that while he ...

Qatari forces participated in joint military exercises that ended in Saudi Arabia this week, in an apparent sign of some compromise among US-allied Arab states locked in a nearly year-long dispute. Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt cut diplomatic, trade and transport ties with Qatar ...

The National Desert Storm War Memorial Association has been working since 2010 to build a memorial in the District to honor veterans of the Gulf War, a military conflict in Kuwait from 1990 to 1991. Two possible locations for the memorial were announced last month, and an official location will be named ...

“It feels good to be remembered,” said Vernon Druses, a veteran of the First Gulf War who now works for NYU Langone, as he stood within a small crowd of mingling adults at a cocktail reception in the Kimmel Rosenthal Pavilion on Saturday, April 7. However, this group was unique from the typical ...

Make it a building with rows of TV screens playing videos of laser guided bombs going through windows or ventilation shafts or whatever on loop. There's also a video of Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf showing “the luckiest man in Iraq.” Maybe some memorabilia from the war, I dunno. Then, as you exit the ...

When the Gulf War started in 1991 and duty called, nearly 200 corpsmen doctors and nurses from Foxtrot Surgical Company were deployed to a field hospital in Saudi Arabia. “It's amazing what we went through together,” retired Corpsman Andy Ortega said, choking back tears. “To reconnect and see that ...

Twenty-seven years after Operations Desert Storm and Desert Shield, nearly 40 retired corpsmen held a special reunion in Oceanside on Saturday. When the Gulf War started in 1991 and duty called, nearly 200 corpsmen doctors and nurses from Foxtrot Surgical Company were deployed to a field hospital ...

In the military: Bill Desmond, 72, enlisted in the Army in 1972 right out of college and made it his career, staying until 2001. After basic training at Fort Campbell in Kentucky, he was assigned as a tank gunner stationed at Fort Stewart in Georgia. “I enjoyed it,” Desmond said. “All the guys were just beautiful.

Today in History: March 20, 2003 — Second Gulf War begins. March 20, 2003 — Second Gulf War begins. Image Credit: Smoke rises from the planning ministry building in Baghdad after being hit during the US raid on Baghdad. - Gulf News Archives. Published: 17:25 March 19, 2018 Gulf News. Abdul Kareem, Head of ...

The Persian Gulf War lasted from August 1990 to February 1991 to liberate then-Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's forces from Kuwait. A total 383 military members were killed, including at least three from Indiana. The memorial, being designed by Indianapolis-based CSO Architects, will feature a timeline of ...

Gulf War Illness affects veterans who served in the Persian Gulf War after exposure to chemicals overseas. Symptoms include fatigue, memory problems, headaches, muscle pain and respiratory issues, among others. "Curcumin has been known to have antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and neurogenic ...

The lance corporal, who also served in the first Gulf War, became so low he would regularly talk about death and ending his life. But he said the "fog was lifted" by veterans' mental health charity Combat Stress, who carried out eight weeks of therapy on the granddad. Guy, of Gillingham, Kent, said: "I think ...

The Gulf War, codenamed Desert Storm, ended on February 28 1991 with the overwhelming victory of a coalition of states, spearheaded by the United States, against Iraq. In a Blitzkrieg-like ground assault, preceded by an extensive aerial bombing campaign, the United States and its allies expelled Iraqi ...

A. I lived through the Iran one and I lived through the first Gulf War. It was not fun but it was an experience you live with and learn from. You don't want your kids to go through it so that is why I am here. Q. How did you come to the United States? A. My grandparents were here as they came to the U.S. in the ...

"The afternoon the bombs start falling, I get my highest score ever on my favorite video game." That is the first line of the new book Playing Atari with Saddam Hussein, written by local author Jennifer Roy and Columbus, Ohio-based Ali Fadhil. The young adult novel — published at the beginning of February ...

Lessard and her unit, the 143rd MPs, received the call to deploy to the Gulf War, also named Operation Desert Storm, in December 1990. After training at Fort Meade in Maryland, she was transported to Saudi Arabia — she was 23 years old — and served with the military police from January to May 1991.

The practice of asking stupid questions with self-serious intonation is an art form that CNN pioneered, thanks to the Gulf War; in the SNL sketch, Dana Carvey best captures the inanity of trying to squeeze newsy blood from a stone: “Colonel, knowing what you know, where would you say our forces are most ...

Listen to the interview with Felicity Arbuthnot on the 1991 bombing of Al-Amiriyah shelter in Iraq by the US Air Force. According to Arbuthnot, the nuclear shelter was built during the Iran-Iraq War by a Finnish company which allegedly shared the map and the design with the United States who later on ...

At the March meeting of the Sons of the American Revolution – DeSoto Trace chapter, Gulf War I veteran Jason Temple shared his experiences with the group. Temple attended the meeting with his wife Diane and son, Micaiah, who is a battalion commander in Junior ROTC at Benton High School and a ...

Gulf War illness affects nearly 200,000 veterans of the first Gulf War who came home with symptoms that include sleep disorders, chronic fatigue, and memory problems. ... Shetty previously established an animal model of Gulf War illness, which allowed him to test the effect of different compounds. Because ...

Researchers at Texas A&M are taking steps to understand an illness soldiers received in the Gulf War. Bobby Deiss, Class of 1980 and a veteran, is suffering from the effects from the Gulf War. Many other veterans similar to Deiss all over the country are struggling with the effects from Operation Desert ...