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I remember hearing about that shooting. Good that they missed the important stuff.

Do you remember a large burm surrounding those areas? If so it was the ammo supply points.

ahhh the sound of crickets......

Anyone "live" in the minefields for 30 or more days? Any stories about going through them?

I am sure you used our wash points. We were some of the last units out.

Did your unit bring back any captured Iraqi APC's? There was a couple of those and maybe an Iraqi tank.

Maybe I should have stated better. My unit pretty much had to be self sustaining. I can't say much about the supplies but we did our own roads, tents, and buildings when we could find wood. Lots of...

Ok, something new to keep this going. What did you live in during the war?

My unit lived in GP tents "dug in". The dozer could only go down about 8 feet then a berm was placed around it. We made...

17 yrs 1 day.... Long time ago. Late Happy Cease Fire Day.

Anyone tried to google earth the areas you were in during Desert Storm? I did it and I swear I can see a big square area that may have been one of the supply points.

My unit stayed in the area for 30 days after pulling back from the airfield. There was an Abrams that hit a mine in the same belt I think. One morning a Hummer with a high ranking officer came up to...

Seemed to be a lot of gear left around it. Lucky no one stepped on an AP mine. I was next to a guy that was just inches away from stepping on one.

I remember that! We did the second breach and maintained after. There was a track in the mine field, second belt I believe, but it looked like it had hit a mine.

I'd say closer than you think. What company were you in? My unit moved back to the minefields and stayed there for awhile before moving back to the first big supply point. Then back to the port to...

Looks like I got off the subject a bit. Now back to the desert....

Where were you when the cease fire started? I was at an airfield just inside Kuwait. We had been moving too fast and had to...

I may have been there before you got there. We only stayed about 30 days just to build tent city. I remember a construction shop we built somewhere near the steel plant. Man did I ever get messed up...

C Co. 3rd CEB Capt Bunting or something like that. We had to restore one of the hills behind Kinville because his former company put an LZ on it by mistake. I remember some names from the company...

I was with 3rd CEB in 87/88 also. Noticed you had been there too. I was with C Co 8th ESB task force Pappa Bear.

Anyone remember all the chemical alarms going off at the ammo supply point? I was setting my squad in position when it happend. I looked toward what I believe was A Company 8th ESB ( could've been B...

Saw one big 'ol lizard and a desert rat/mouse that one of the guys tried to keep in an ammo can until someone pointed out that it was air tight! :)

P.S. One of the guys didn't like the lizard...

Good to hear from so many. Hello Cpl Cox...

Keep the ball rolling!:marine:

Its good to hear from you SSG Lemley. You are the only one from the Company that I have ever run across on the web. Hope you are doing well. Alls fine here.:flag:

Looks like a lot take a look at this thread but don't say much. Just wait till we get even older. Then we will have more to say huh? Anyway it was good that some did post. I thought maybe we were all...

I stand corrected. Only one was the largest and that was in Marine Corps history. I was part of CSSD-11 in support of Task Force Papa Bear.