My Story of Desert Storm in the Iron Brigade.

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@hoganwilson7975 11 ай бұрын

Great video, Cory. Brought back a lot of memories. Many of us from 1-35AR are having a reunion in about a month. This was great to share with them as a refresher on timeline, movements and AAs, some of which I’d forgotten. Your videos are great. Keep’em coming! Hogan

@MilitaryHistory317 10 ай бұрын

Thank You! Be sure to share the video with the 1-35 Armor Team!

@TERMICOBRA 11 ай бұрын

Baghdad 2006-2007 . I deployed as a scout in the 1/14 Cavalry (Stryker Recon Variant) out of Fort Lewis WA. I was the radio-man on the dismount team. We dismounted in the warzone every day for almost a year and a half during the extended deployment of the "the surge". We loved our Strykers for how fast and quiet they were as they dropped off our dismount teams where the enemy didn't expect us. We chased Saddam Fedayeen, Al Qaeda, Badr Brigade, Jaysh Al Mahdi, etc etc in places like Dora Market, SAHA, Karkh, Haifa Street, Predators Elbow, and down in Diwaniyah. I love your episodes on Custer. I don't judge him as harshly as others because we acted with the same boldness as he did. I appreciated this episode and I especially loved your comments at the end about your friends and the humor soldiers have in the worst conditions. I always think of my combat buddies. It was an honor to serve with them.

@MilitaryHistory317 11 ай бұрын

Thank You. You confirm what I have been hearing about how well the Stryker performed. You guys had a tough mission. I was in Dora many times for KLEs, and we shipped millions of dollars of equipment to the base on and adjacent to the refinery. I can't imagine having to fight in that urban environment. Thank you again!

@ericscottstevens 9 ай бұрын

I was with 8th Infantry Mech at this time with HHC 2/68 Armor in Baumholder. Our 2nd brigade was not notified of any formal inclination of going to Saudi Arabia. However our 2 or our 3 155mm FA battalions (2/29 and 4/29) of the Division FA were immediately given orders for Bremerhaven as well as the MLRS unit....Intel wise our C / 333rd field artillery movement and control spotters who left immediately overnight in August and told us they were already inside Iraq mapping fire lanes long before the ground war started. Most of our 8th ID units stayed hand picked units joined various VII Corp units and possibly 1st Cav and 3rd ACR. This included 4/34 armor ~ (1/68 combined) Armor in Mainz, Dco 2/68 in March. 8th ID was in drawdown and not on the deployment list. It can be assumed V corp as a whole was also in process in July 1990. Being in western FRG we were not on tactical issue for Bradley's and were using M113s thus components were deemed too slow to keep up with the M1A1's. I ended up going to Saudi early January 1991 not with 2/68 armor and attached on separate orders to 7th Transportation Group.

@LorenzoCuellar-vr5ov 9 ай бұрын

Awesome Video brother!! Brings back alot of memories from my time there with C Co. 1/35th Armor Cougar Company. I was 1st Platoon Sergeant with my unit from Erlangen , Germany.

@MilitaryHistory317 9 ай бұрын

Thank You!

@alfredosantiago4882 11 ай бұрын

Thank u for your service brother Support Platoon Leader,. been there, done that, got the T-shirt.

@MilitaryHistory317 11 ай бұрын

Thank you. As you know it is the toughest job in the Army!

@ronaldziehlke9720 11 ай бұрын

Thanx for another trip down memory lane, keep em coming.

@MilitaryHistory317 11 ай бұрын

Iron Tigers! Great to hear from you!

@ronaldziehlke9720 11 ай бұрын

@@MilitaryHistory317 And Bandits to you too!

@Wren9 11 ай бұрын

✔️💕🐈‍⬛〰️ Great info’ from Mr IT thank you. Always MM & Crew Got It! 💯

@derekp2674 11 ай бұрын

Thanks Cory. It is most interesting to see all those pictures. My grandfather on my dad's side Served as a Staff Sergeant under General Allenby in Palestine in 1918. He only left us two pictures, one shows him in a group photo of their sergeants' mess and the other shows him riding a camel. Family folklore has it that Grandad was sometimes required to run errands to take or receive dispatches from T E Lawrence. However the only formal memoir he left us is a typed account of a visit to Jerusalem at the end of the war.

@MilitaryHistory317 11 ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing, an amazing story in what was a masterful campaign by Allenby. He did what Richard the Lionheart was unable to achieve. Okay, I am going to have to watch Lawrence of Arabia again this weekend.

@derekp2674 11 ай бұрын

@@MilitaryHistory317 Thanks Cory. By 1914 standards, Grandad had IT skills when he volunteered. From helping out with book keeping for his uncle's pneumatic tyre business, he could use a typewriter and so was selected to work on staff duties rather than anything else.

@buckeyeranger6438 11 ай бұрын

I linked up w/ the 6th Light French & 101st Abn . ⚔️🇺🇸

@meddy833 11 ай бұрын

Great review of you time during Desert Storm. I was an M60A3 gunner at the time back in the day and my Armored CAV Unit was training in Gage Town Canada to get ready to go. Of course we were not needed in the end. Rail heading tanks in a rush is not fun. Getting all the logistics properly set up via advanced parties during a real combat operation had to be a pissah of a job. I wouldn't want it. What was the most valuable lesson you learned from your experience?

@MilitaryHistory317 11 ай бұрын

Great question. I recall thinking about it prior to Operation Iraqi Freedom, and I couldn't get over the fact of how vulnerable the logistics were. Lo and behold, what did the insurgents go after with a vengeance once we occupied the country, but the "soft" targets. By the way, the TTS in the M60A3 was vastly superior to the early model M1A1's TIS. I knew a few old crusty tankers that would rather have had an M60A3 in '91. It sounded like in order to get Congressional funding for the M1, they had to cut costs, so they settled for an inferior gun sight. By the late '90s, the new M1s had incredible sights.

@meddy833 11 ай бұрын

Great points and I can personally vouch for the M60A3 TTS being superior to the M1 TIS. It was not even close. What I was told was that the TTS was a "generation" newer then the TIS because the tech was evolving very quickly at the time and the TIS were already committed to the M1s. Great points about logistics being vulnerable. I agree with the old Dino Tank crusty old bastards. I will keep the M60A3 and the TTS. Rather be in something I know all the ins and outs of and can manage. Great stuff!