Firepower: Desert Storm Ground Assault 4/4
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 4 сен 2011
- The weapons and strategies employed by the coalition to dislodge the Iraqi army from Kuwait during the 1991 Gulf War. Features combat footage along with interviews with military experts and participants.
9:13 “There is no evidence that your hearing loss is service related. However, thank you for your service. Next in line.”
2013 v.a gave me 10% today 4 22 21 getting hearing aids thanks
@@dogsense3773par for the course, I had an mgs stryker fire a round right next to me with no warning and I had no ear pro and I got it documented, my ets date is in about a year and I’m expecting I wont get shit for it
I felt good serving in the gulf war, mainly because I was confident in our leadership and proud of our troops and I knew that we would win the day.
Ditto 👍🏾
Proud because the enemy came with a knife against guns and you just had to wait for MLRS, planes, artillery and helicopters to kill people while you sit and wait.
FUCK ISRAEL USA Bitch
congrats, you are war criminal who is proud of it.
@@aliancemd Then they shouldn't of had skill issue idk why you complaining.
Wow, That’s me at 8.20 in the background. I was 19yrs old in the USMC.
Bo Rodriguez uhh 8:20 showed a burnt out Iraq tank...
Bo Rodriguez were you the Marine wearing glasses?! Oraaah Devil Dog!
Pictures or it didn't happen .
@Dominus Providebit Ask the Kuwaitis whether justice was served.
@Nunya Bis
"thanks for your service" "
Are you a corporation?
Amazing strategy by the General. If you take away a few unfortunate friendly fire attacks. Almost perfect. Looking back, it was actually genius
It was text book repeat of the German invasion of France 1940. Thiers was to go around the Maginot Line and later turn South to get in behind the line. Ours was start far out to the west to bypass the better prepared areas along the Kuwait border, and then turn right to cut off the enemy retreat. But unfortunately, we stopped short of the coast to let a lot of Republican Guard units get away. Still the execution was well done.
@@haroldk3913 Now that I think about it, Desert Storm does have a lot of parallels with the German invasion of France!
I think the friendly fire is inevitable in any operation of this size. The reason it seemed so prevalent here is that Iraqi resistance was so ineffective that the FF stood out as a major source of casualties where in any other major war such incidents would get lost in the background.
Friendly fire happens in every conflict it's impossible to avoid
USA's favourite colour is blue on blue
RIP General Norman Schwartzkoptf it was my pleasure to serve under such a great man/soldier....we need many more like you.
TravelerNTime Amen. He cared.
Great general since 2nd world war
Well said, blessings to a great General. Blessings to his family, and all who served under him. From this Veteran, to all, Thank you for your service, and the unseen service of all family member who also served in their support of their loved ones, who fought.
Amen! The Colonel - My Late-Father - served under him as well (he was LTC at the time) said he was Brilliant, Badass and a great Leader, Officer, Gentleman and Man.
Much like I'm guessing yourself and your Brothers-at-Arms! Thank you for your Service and know how proud you/y'all made (and make) us! This was unprecedented! As The Colonel (Operations Shield and Storm - OEF & OIF and General Schwartzkopf said:
It's all about the Troops, Training and Their Dedication to Duty!
And it's why you, those Serving, those Enlisting, those Retired and those Resting are all Heroes!
Thank you, Sir.
8⁸
I joined the Marines in 92 and had a ton of salty dogs that were in Iraq. Much respect to all of them.
I was 18 at the time, eating McDonald's on the couch and watching it on CNN. All I have to say is hats off to you gulf vets and thank you for kicking ass. And thank you for your service
Thanks for the help
Can’t belive you missed your chance to go to war at prime age
"Always running"
The United States Army is the greatest land force in the history of the world.
For real
Yes Sir, after the Wehrmacht, after 1945.
Air and naval force too lol
Our entire military but yes you got the idea
Only agains homeless Arabs and civilians 😂
Thank you to all of the service men and women who have and still serve. You’re all heros
Guy I work with says all that was is an air battle . I said unless you were there like the rest of us I don't want to hear it.hard to believe it will be 30 years in January
We were pressed to move faster. So fast that some BMPs were tracking us with their cannons as we rolled past their fighting positions. They told us that the Iraqis abandoned all the vehicles and to just keep moving. They werent abandoned.
I was a 36 years old Intel specialist with 3d Armored Division, VII Corps. Longest 4 days of my life.
@6:23,.. You got to love a man who enjoys his job!
Love what you do, you’ll never work a day in your life.
everyone had that 90s swag to them the way they moved. pimp
before the internet made everyone self involved and insecure.
Was with the 24th Inf Division. Turned 23 that day. Hoorah all you glorious bastards. First to Fight
Imagine hearing that the US showed up to fight and next thing you know everything blows up, and the war is over?! Iraq was not ready.
Fox 2/14
many black nights.
Driver and #1 man...
Events that changed my life forever..
Thanks for your sacrifice brother
I was 19, US Army, remember these times as if yesterday.
i was 14 yrs >>living in Kuwait ,for long long time im looking for pictures taken for me with US soldiers in (salmia) any one was in US Military after war end visit salmia area .any one can help me in this ..Thank you
Ramez K. Tamimi you should go to Reddit man. I’m sure someone could at least give you info on the units in that area, if you can give a date or month or something, even better. Hope it works out.
The greatest military on earth, the US Army all the way none better! God Bless all our military and allies!!!
How did saddam ever think he could win
Over some 50 tons of "silver bullets" used and the DVA still in denial over the health impact.
It’s not healthy for sure, but damn affective, veterans should be compensated
They should have been educated in not getting near the Iraq tank racks
All heavy metal dust is toxic not just DU
Interesting story about the flag at 6:45, all british tanks and AFVs started hoisting british flags due to fatal friendly fire from the americans on numerous occasions.
Why would you go around without your flag? But yea it’s hard to see
There were a "bulldozer assault: where 457 Iraqi soldiers were buried alive by combat earthmovers in their trench.
I heard about that, though I thought the number was closer to 150
My grandpa David Naden served in the 101st Airborne in Desert Storm! Solid video, I'll make sure to share with him.
9:13 His ears are still ringing in 2020
Something to remember for sure
😂
I have seen too many videos of guys standing next to guns not wearing hearing protection that end up paying the price.
@@josephastier7421 How many wars have you fought in?
@@TOMVUTHEPIMP None.
"They blew the hell out of 'em". It sure did. It sure did.
Thank you for your service lads and lasses, ,,rest in peace to all who never made it home!!!!!
I never soldiered under him. I never really got to meet him. I wrote a few letters and got one or two back. But I've read and watched everything I can about him.
He's a very smart man, capable of measured and well reasoned thought despite the intensity of the situation. He's truly a man who rises to the occasion rather than shrink from it. He performed things politicians never could; he got MANY Nations to set aside differences in the name of the greater good. He used his resources well and didn't rely on any one particular strategy or weapon or obsess over a specific technology.
A very rare human being indeed.
12:03 that "tiger" Brigade was redesginated to my current unit after coming back to fort hood in 1991.
Wow.
Tiger Brigade deployed with us (1st Cav) from FT Hood and was assigned to help the Marines south of us on the border of Saudi Arabia / Kuwait.
I was in that tiger brigade at hood but went to Germany then Saudi . My Brothers from Tiger brigade did an awesome job along the marines I had marine buddies said they would go to war with them again anytime
My Combat Engineer Guard Unit got orders for this war. I remember the briefing from the commander gave it was close to what the General said, they were very worried about the initial front line breach, being bogged down while being hit with chemical gas. They were very concerned about this. In the end our orders to be deployed got rescinded and there were no chemicals used . One thing that gets missed is the 80s saw a very rekindled mindset about losing the Vietnam war. We wanted payback. A perfect chance with the collapse of the USSR. And thats exactly what we did. Well done fellas.
Definitely showed how awesome the M1 Abrams is against the old Iraqi tank force. It was a slaughter
@@sadqqwwqeq4175 well you have to fire the DU either from a Tank or a helicopter..so it seems the tank was pretty accurate
Unlikely anyone would ever afford us a similar buildup. Especially after displaying the results!
The Army 7th Corp fought tank battles at 73 Easting, Medina Ridge and Objective Norfolk. Iraq units in these fights compromised:
Tawlkana Mech Division
(Destroyed)
Mediana Arm Division
(Destroyed)
Humrabi Arm Division
(1 Brigade Destroyed by 18th Airborne Corp)
Adan Mot Division
(1 Brigade Destroyed)
Neb Mot Division
(Elements destroyed)
10th Arm Division
(Destroyed)
12th Arm Division
(Destroyed)
52nd Arm Division
(Destroyed)
17th Arm Division
(Destroyed)
Dave Craft 3/2 ACR- Toujours Pret!!!
I watched battalion mass MLRS fires followed by 8” guns. It was amazing.
It blows my mind when I think of the fact that Washington estimated a total of 30,000 U.S. casualties in the FIRST day of the ground war! Imagine being one of those soldiers/marines when being told by your upper leadership just before going in? Total mind-fuck lol!
They were contracting out hospital beds as far away as Morocco and Tunisia. I was with the 18th Airborne Corps and it didn't exactly make us feel warm and fuzzy to hear that.
It weighed heavy on us, trust me. We didn't expect to come home.
I wonder if the troops going to the destroyed tank ruble had any idea how dangerous that is... white dust from DU round is no joke.
I think they knew but it was likely the least or their concerns
We were clearly warned not to go poking around knocked out enemy vehicles, especially armor, for this very reason…
May, 2021. This was 30 years ago. 30 years after WWII was early '70s. It's just interesting to think of that.
Warfare changes fast
@EchoLeague2 OK. I was just pondering on the passage of time, but we all can see different things in the same thing, and it can often show us a bit about ourselves.
@@timothyball3144 yeah I didn’t really know where you were going with that lol but yeah time moves on man 😂 doesn’t stand still
Their heart was not in it. That is the key to winning or losing war or anything in life.
We are in there at 4:49. Sitting on the ground at FOB Cobra
The most awesome thing here is that cookie camouflage (after the veterans, of course.)
you know there's one thing i have learned
A soldier can leave the war but the war wont leave the soldier
Greetings, some what accurate depending on when and where you where at the time ~ 2nd AD " He'll On Wheels " and 15th EVAC Hosp. and 82nd AB " All The Way " Combat Medic ~ '88 - ' 96
I always thought the BDU’s of Desert Storm were pretty cool. Camouflage pattern.
The good old “Chocolate chips”!!
David Attenborough out here making nature documentaries of wars
Do you got any benefit for forced to pay watching ads, folks?
Or just youtube does?
Aint at games, players can choose with benefit if watching ads.
4:33 talking on my PRC 119 field radio....
Kidd Kool Arrow I remember the prc 77s with encryption mounted to them...Vietnam era and still using them then.
i was 14 yrs >>living in Kuwait ,for long long time im looking for pictures taken for me with US soldiers in (salmia) any one was in US Military after war end visit salmia area .any one can help me in this ..Thank you
@@arthurc1971 1 Corinthians chapter 15 verses 1-4.the gospel then go to Amazon and order a book called one book rightly divided by douglas d.stauffer and order timeline charts maps by rose publishing order on Amazon and order the power of faith by Derek prince and order a book called the power of the blood by Andrew Murray...101weapons and spritual warfare by dr.olukoya
Richard Brown uh, ok. Not sure what that has to do with a prc77 but I am a man of faith. I’ll check it all out.
I wouldn't be sitting in a T72 Tank after seeing dozens of videos of huge jet flames shooting out the turrets .
We were warned to stay away from knocked out enemy vehicles, especially tanks. Depleted Uranium rounds were used very effectively over there. Nobody knew if DU’s left behind enough residual radiation to cause cancer…?
Gracias.
It was a slaughter.
Well hell's bells they started it so I don't see what's the big deal we did what we had to do.🤨
Ernie Corella it was actually Russia
Yes, it was... next time match up to something in your range. The Russians
10:34 watched the kid describe how it's still warm in the tank. Depleted uranium is still radioactive so yah the inside of a tank with 41 pounds of uranium is going to feel warm. Lots of guys made that mistake and some were assigned to demolitioning the tanks.
Uranium inside a tank?
@@acerrulz1053 Armor piercing ammo of tanks and the A-10 that were shooting tanks have uranium shafts. It's called depleted uranium as a sales technique where an unknowing persons says it's not in a reactor anymore so it isn't bad. All uranium is radioactive. When piercing the armor the uranium showers the inside of the vehicle. Inside of vehicle destroyed by that ammo is not the place to go. Uranium or any other radioactive material will give you a warm feeling from the radiation hitting your body. Think of it like a constantly running microwave oven.
NightWaves thanks for the info. Learned something new!
@@nightwaves3203 I was inside of several tanks like that, didn't know back then...do now.
@@sheepdog271 Good luck. Commanders should of warned troops. There are some military bases with target vehicles peppered with DU rds. Look, don't touch.
Remember the Iraqi were poorly led they were fighting for someone basically they hated they were in the wrong, most were draftees. The Republican guard fought not very well mind you but you see what happened when we went back there. They were fighting for something else. That's why they're not giving up to this day
I was 18th Airborne. We started keeping prisoners to bury their own dead, including major who shot his Baath Party commissar and led half his battalion “over the hill.” Asked why, he pulled out a photo of a little boy. “I have spent the last ten years at war. I’ve fought Iranians, Kurds and now Americans. This is my son. This photo is old, he barely knows me. I’m tired. I just want to go home to my family.” All these years later, I can still see that man’s face. At times, I wonder what became of him…
The only reason we were so successful was because we were trained by the Vietnam Veterans who were still in service. They were calm. They would say all the time, This is going to be great.
This must have been like wandering into a long lost gopher field ......
It's odd to see yourself..I was 2 years older than you.then..its a very surreal experience that stays with you the rest of your life...my wife wanted to know what it was like in the suck..semper fi...
Hard to believe this is about 30 years ago
Mk. 08:57 What's written on the M1A1's Gun Barrel? "Suck..."?
Cheers
"Suck It Iraq"
What would Generals Montgomery, Patton, and Rommel have thought about this?!
With no were to hide the man said.
I wouldn't want to go inside the Iraqi tank that was destroyed by a DU penetrator.
You're not supposed to know that. Now shush.
Depleted uranium is radioactive like a mother heferr
Tony Montana don’t they use depleted uranium for tank armor? Wouldn’t the tank crew be at risk of radiation exposure
@@ify105 No, depleted uranium is only mildly radioactive (from which the human body will recover after a short period of time). However, the problem with DU is being a heavy metal it is VERY toxic, and breathing or ingesting its dust from spent munitions is what causes the health problems. The armour of a M1A1HA, M1A2 etc, is a "sandwich" construction whereby the DU is sheathed in composites; as such it has very little chance of vaporizing and therefore poses no real health risks to the crews.
Bruce Lamberton interesting
And the vast tons of DS-2 that was buried in the desert because it was cheaper than to ship it back and dispose of properly.
Sounds good to me...
thanks
No power like America's military. God Bless our men and woman.
*Johnboy
So, just the one woman then. What's her name?
America has no military power because they always beg all their allies for assistance in their wars. If you were such a super power you wouldn't be begging us brits for help every time you want some sweet oil lol.
@@slayerr4365
Wow guy, I guess you were just born this stupid huh? lol
@@slayerr4365 Do you really think the UK brings that much firepower to the fight? VII Corps could wipe out your entire country. We thank you for your assistance but don't ever think the US "NEEDS" your help to succeed.
@Dominus Providebit Fuck you. America is number one!
We should have, went all the way, wound
Up going back to finish the job in 03-05
Yes. I often wonder.. What If?? But, that is living in the past. My friend, we have to live in the here and now. We can't change the past. We have to let the past go. God bless you!
No Bush was right. We had put Saddam back in his box. Although he was a evil dictator he could no longer threaten his neighbors but he controlled his country , No ISIS, no insurgents. We had the no fly zone and could just go in and bomb him every once in a while. Bush#2 made a big mistake.
@@bobw5024 That was all about getting Iraqi oil production under control and handing out contacts to Haliburton, because of VP Dick Cheney.
I was in 2-29 FA BN from 8ID in Germany. We were put with the VII Corps, under 3AD. I remember 4 days of moving our wedge formation for days on end, stopping to fire, and move again. About midnight on the 4th day we were in sight of the coast road the Iraqi Army retreated north on from Kuwait. I remember lots of burning vehicles at points along the way.
I was 3/20th FA. You should recognize that unit for sure.
I was in the ARMY NATIONAL GUARD 29th INFANTRY DIVISION. I SERVED
@jeff griffin no oil dummy
Darrell Bell, Thank you for your service
@Erich Von Wachter of course not dummy
Troops, tanks, and Toyotas.
someone should have told the Iraqi army "hell is coming to breakfast"
Hell On Wheels
11:33 G3A3, beautiful.
its a horrible rifle, accuracy cant hit a barn. when the germans were fighting in Afghanistan, they didn’t even bother shooting.
@@nicolaslalfeur6949 Source?
Cameraman must've been shitting bricks! 😳 9:24
Artillery always cracked me up, how accurate is it really? Seriously curious. Seeing these rocket barrages going perhaps 50 miles or more
Accurate as fuck artillery is the god of war if you ever come under incoming fire your in deep shit
@@JB-pt7sr I don't doubt it I'm just amazed by how it can be with a fluid war. How long it takes to adjust and all of it really. It might seem simple but the distance is what get's me
The Marine Corps standard back then for adjusting rounds on target was one minute after the first round, and 30 seconds for the next adjustment. It's was actually fairly quick. We were good.
30 sec to go 15 miles
@@JB-pt7sr you can't dig a hole deep enough or fast enough to save yourself!!!
I call that a drive by
Good one
I was in a support group with the 18th Airborne Corps behind the French east of Rahfa.
That could have been dangerous, behind the French?they could have over run you when the retreat
What is it about wars starting in February?
We were trained, motivated and dedicated..old school Military. After like 1999ish to present? Im not sure.
2003 invasion went down in much the same way. US military has even better toys now but hard to say what the men are like now. i dont think an invasion of Iran for example would go down as easy as some people still think. Iranians would be more motivated to fight than Iraqis ever where.
very good
to all my Desert Storm brothers and sisters.. May the sand finally be out of your weapon..
Jose Coss and my ass crack,,,, lol
Same to you brother.
Thank you for what you did bro, and I hope your weapon is always clean...
What’s My Name are you trying to invoke Ali here? “What’s my name fight” Whatever his political views were Many I disagree.. He is my boxing idol don’t stain anything he’s ever said. Make your new thing to change my name
Yes and may you have weapons still today and plenty of ammo to defend the USA on our own turf from the demons within.... God bless you all
I was @ KKMC, and those Chinooks we're my brothers in arms. Go !!! 6th Cavalry (AC),
We hauled, everything beans bullets, bags of fuel, P.O.W's if it went inside or slingload below.
Never forget, finding out some guys I know
From basic Training in Jackson. didn't live
make it back home.
Good to see ole Storm norman again.
Is it weird that I'm thinking that it was a really nice move for the US/UK/French to do most of the heavy lifting but allow the Kuwaiti's the honour and respect to be the first ones entering their city?
It also got them out of the our way.letting them get there freed our minds up ,by not having to worry about hitting friendly crews driving russian vehicles.
@@danno1ize Were any of their units useful?
@@OldSkoolWax they weren't to bad.
You will have to go into saudia Arabia in a few years good you got the feel of the land
hussein just got wrecked
They should have taken him out back then when the whole world was on board
How many Iraq and Saudi Arabia soldiers were died at the moment
Who would of thought that ,decades later , that the mighty U.S military would still be there clueless as to how to end the conflict that they created
Ok I hear ya but that blame is also thrown to a bunch of other countries not just the US
The US military did not start that conflict. As always it was the politicians.
Classic blitzkrieg tactics and blitzkrieg result.
chrischralph2222 So? How does your theory make the outcome of this war any different?
By the way Irak’s tactics then were Sovjet Russia tactics. They didn’t work.
Oh by the way Russia and China do. Plural.
The primary purpose of nuclear weapons is not to attack but to defer.
... so learned about German Wehrmacht and SS-Units WW2 - not quickly enough, but so much . *Go round about away....
soonest to *End-Target......
Blitzkrieg had nothing to do with these victories
Ivan The Tanker Oh no? How do you know?
They outflanked the enemy.
Concentrated their armoured thrust.
Punched a hole in the defensive line.
Kept the momentum of the attack going at all times and kept on pushing.
Never gave the enemy a chance to catch their breath and establish a new integrated front.
Sounds like France in May 1940 to me.
Served in Desert Storm with 3/7 Kilo , RCT 4 (later TF Grizzly) 1 MEF.
Semper Fi Boys
How is the 24th et al ignored , yet high lite the 101
I found it ironic that a T-62/72 Russian tank with English service and repair publications .
The guy at 11:04 is standing inside a tank hit by a depleted uranium shell. He probably died from lung cancer a long time ago.
I was with 1st Mar Reg, my TACP team was among the first allied teams in Kuwait City. The Iraqi's hadn't left yet, the people hadn't come out, and the militia wasn't rounding up collaborators yet. It was eerie an surreal to say the least.
This tells you something about Afghanistan and their willingness to fight.
sadam was the only one who wanted to fight the americans so iraqi tried to fight the americans lol when everyone else in iraq was thinking otherwise.
Only time I liked something that was broadcast on CNN.
Must be a trump 💋 ass
@@ronnrogers9459 And you are a gay from Obamaland, half man ou null man. 👬🤣🤣🤣
@@ronnrogers9459 Nigga, I should have known by its low intellectual quality.
@@olafweinzer5746 so what does it say about you replying to such a comment jackass
None of you realize how childish you are acting
I was 18 and with the Armys 912th MASH this far back. Lol feels like a 100 years ago.
Personally I think the Iraqi army in both wars could have created a much bigger war with a loot more casualties but I think they realized that ultimately they would lose the war so they didn’t even really fight
We had, amongst our POWs, an Iraqi battalion commander who shot his Baath Party commissar and led half his unit into our lines. When asked why, he showed up a photograph of his family and said, "I've spent the last 10 years fighting Iranians, Kurds and now you Americans. My youngest child barely knows me. I'm tired of war. I want to go home, finally."
Hahaha yeah thats what happened
@10:52 "still warm" enjoy the uranium dust, my dude.
Blind Squid sheeeesh thats crazy I met this Marine Recon dude (retired) that had a softball sized tumor and so many complications from that.
Wonder if he's still with us??.
@@dancly1913 DU dust is the new Agent Orange.
No Uranium you plank, APFSDS rounds tungsten tipped steel normally, you are thinking A-10 30mm:
@@UncleBoratagain The US switched from tungsten to depleted uranium in the mid 80s so he would have been breathing in contaminated dust with
.more than 33 states against iraq what do you think can anyone stand with such coalitions
Yeah but the rest weren’t really needed.
Mi Tanks had infrared night vision and Laser range finder.
08:27...is that Col Rich Hodory?
Give me a real war
Kuwait ? Haven't heard from them in years.
Well , we don't exactly have conflicts or anything special for the news but i guess the only change now is that our Emir passed away and now his brother took his place
@@thedemoninthecornerofyoure6609 No News is Good News these days.
@@chriskelleher349 that's true , one of the reasons why i stay away from the media
The Iraqis went up against The Borg... and lost miserably.
NORMAN! " ... and then we're going to kill them." Those carpet bombing B-52's gave 'em hell.
I was there when this happened and I was are you in Kuwait heading towards Iraq before they came across I was in the Marines and we were attached to Tiger Brigade which is an army unit album on Abrams tanks and we went in to take out armor it was nothing but a turkey shoot araki's had no and I repeat no way they would have survived