12/25/2023 0 Comments Youtube gulf war tank battle![]() ![]() ![]() We had already set aside MRE’s and water, that was a part of what we wanted to do.Īnd then we got the call to quickly move after that first engagement. I tell my loader to hand them MREs ( Meals Ready to Eat) and water. ![]() They come out, and they don’t have any weapons. We stopped right at the bush and my tank gunner had the main gun pointed right at them… I’m up in the hatch, standing as tall as I can, I pull out my weapon and I point it down towards the bush and I yelled at the top of my lungs to get out. But we had to go across the field and pay attention to what’s going on out there and everybody had to be trigger ready.Īnd I remember seeing a bunch of Iraqi soldiers getting behind this one bush in my sector. ![]() That was going through my mind as we were going across. As we were lining up for the sweep, I’m standing out at my hatch – in a position where an Iraqi infantryman with a rifle properly placed could shoot my head off. We got to the end and they wanted to do one more sweep. And I remember going across our battlefield and we would take out whatever we needed to take out. A lot of the tanks and first armored personnel carriers were destroyed so we just had a lot of light infantry left. And you could feel the whole ground rumbling when it hit.Īfter the ceasefire from our field artillery folks, we moved off and waited for our first battle. And I am looking at all of this artillery going overhead… It looked like the ultimate fireworks display going overhead. “We were prepped and moved and in a holding pattern waiting for the field artillery to prep our first battlefield. Today, as a HVAF Board Member, he shares his perspective on the four-day war on his 30 th anniversary: Thirty years ago, 24-year-old Arne Pedersen led his Tank Platoon into what would later be known as Desert Storm. ![]()
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