Sentences with phrase «first gulf war»

Keith Orr was active in the Army for 24 years, serving in in the first Gulf War, Haiti, Egypt, Ukraine, Kosovo and Iraq.

The CIA has confirmed that Mike Pompeo, that agency's current director and current nominee for Secretary of State, was not deployed in the first Gulf War, despite widespread statements that he served in that conflict.

«Historically, the bill for these costs has come due many decades later,» Bilmes noted in a recent study, disability expenses for WW I veterans peaked in 1969 and for WW II veterans in the late 1980s, the cost of caring for Vietnam and first Gulf War veterans is still climbing.

Then, as the data show, crude prices staged a mini bull market in the last week of August, when the WTI rose more than 25 percent in its fastest three - day advance since the first Gulf War in 1990.

We caught Arthur Kent, the former NBC war correspondent known as the â $ œScud Studâ $ during his reports from the first Gulf war, on Jesse Brownâ $ ™ s Canadaland podcast this week.

My dad was a Baptist pastor at the time, and our country was in the wake of the Cold War and preparing for the first Gulf War.

Adam, You might want to check your references for the number of Iraqi citizens killed in the first Gulf War known also as Operation Desert Storm carried out to free Kuwait.

I server in the Royal Air Force in the first gulf war.

And your silly statement that there was little threat by Islamic extremism prior to the first gulf war represents either a profound ignorance of history or a deliberate attempt to deceive.

Bernardo — the reference to the number of Iraqi civilians killed has been a total number since the first gulf war and was a conservative estimate.

I'd also point out that there was little threat of terrorism form Islamic extremists before the first Gulf war and therefore continued involvement over there is, I would suggest, conducive to a greater threat from terrorism.

The same happened at the end of the first Gulf War with the Republican Guards, and on many other occasions.

Iraqi Christians have declined rapidly in number since the first Gulf War in 1991, but survivors long believed they could maintain a foothold around Mosul.

Huge ratios cheered the first gulf war, and many imbued it with deep biblical meaning: Babylon - cum - Baghdad, the symbolic center of wickedness, would be destroyed by God.

Mass armies have no more military relevance today than horse cavalry in World War I, as Saddam Hussein learned during the First Gulf War.

JTM's military division was founded in 1992 after the first Gulf War.

Been in Sacramento since after the first gulf war, arriving in late 1991.

In 1990, shortly before the first Gulf War between the U.S. and Iraq, he flew to Baghdad to speak with Saddam Hussein to secure the release of 15 U.S. hostages.

The book tells of some of the actions of the «SAS Originals» during the Second World War and also recounts stories from later twentieth century conflicts including Northern Ireland, the Falklands War and the First Gulf War.

Even under a right - wing government, headed by the seemingly hawkish Yitzhak Shamir, Israel enjoyed considerable international backing during the First Gulf War in 1991 as it was attacked with Scud missiles by Iraq.

The number of fast - jet aircraft squadrons is at an all time low — from 33 at the time of the first Gulf War in 1990 to just eight today.

Afghanistan involved the Taliban failing to hand over Bin Laden, and the first gulf war involved Iraq failing to withdraw from Kuwait.

The shift from red to blue in 1992 can be linked directly to the first Gulf war.

He pointed out that Kuwait had contributed to the cost of the first Gulf War after it was invaded by Saddam Hussein's Iraq.

A paralel that illustrates @SVilcans comments could be the first Gulf War, in which Irak launched Scuds against Israel in an attempt to convert the conflic in a Muslim - Western war, and Israel was asked by the USA not to retaliate to avoid some Arab allies trouble at home because of joining forces with Israel.

After the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003, 12 year old Ahmed begrudgingly follows his Kurdish grandmother across Iraq to discover the fate of his missing father, who had disappeared during the first Gulf War.

Major General Patrick Cordingley, who commanded UK forces in the First Gulf War, blew the whistle on this nonsense, and also argues that «Strategic nuclear weapons have no military use.»

Outside experts feel the losses keenly, because northern Iraqi sites have been largely off limits to study since the start of the first Gulf War a quarter - century ago.

Recently, Cox and colleagues have been studying ALS clusters on the Kii Peninsula in southeastern Japan, and he has joined forces with University of Miami neurologist Bradley to study a heightened incidence of the disease among American veterans of the first Gulf War.

Inspectors in Iraq in the lead - up to the first Gulf War received death threats, says Rodriguez.

At the beginning of the Iraq occupation, the Department of Defense sent Burkle to run the country's Ministry of Health; he had previously headed up a trauma center during the first Gulf War and for more than 20 years has led recovery efforts in war - torn areas from Somalia to northern Iraq.

Twenty - five years after 700,000 U.S. troops fought and won the first Gulf War with remarkably low casualties, research «clearly and consistently» shows that exposure to pesticides and other toxins caused Gulf War Illness, a complex and debilitating disorder that affects as many as 250,000 of those deployed, according to a new report led by a Boston University School of Public Health (BUSPH) researcher.

In the report, the research team notes that in addition to veterans suffering from GWI, other deployed troops from the first Gulf War report a variety of neurological disorders, either in conjunction with GWI or as separate ailments.

He also has extensively studied antibodies to lipids and conducted pivotal research establishing that antibodies to squalene were naturally occurring and were not correlated with the illness of veterans of the first Gulf War or a result of vaccination with the anthrax vaccine.

«My wife contracted Multiple Chemical Sensitivities while in Kuwait after the first Gulf War and we dealt with Fibromyalgia, allergies and a long list of problems we never really understood.

Disabled Veteran, PTSD, Chronic pain I am a Disabled Veteran from the first gulf war.

Also related is McVeigh's personal history as a bully - hating, gun - loving kid in upstate New York who thought he'd found a home in the Army until a disillusioning tour of duty in the first Gulf War led to a sour experience washing out of the Army's Ranger School.

In The Manchurian Candidate, Denzel Washington plays U.S. Army Major Bennett Marco, a man who spends his days giving inspiring speeches about his platoon's ambush in the Kuwaiti desert in the first Gulf War and in particular, the heroics of Sergeant Raymond Shaw (Schreiber), who won the Medal of Honor (the actual medal, not the video game) for saving Marco's crew.

doing for the Cold War what Three Kings did for the first Gulf war - i.e. following the adventures of a small group of profiteering soldiers in order to satirise the self - interested smash - and - grab attitudes of US foreign policy.

In the years that followed, he covered the wars in Central America, social and political strife in South America, the first Gulf War, the wars in the former Yugoslavia, and the transitions to democracy in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.