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DEPLOYMENT NOV 90 MSG |
COMMUNICATION MESSAGE. Guidelines on release of unit information after it was announced that 3AD would be deploying to the middle east. | ADOBE PDF (file will open in a NEW window) |
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GENERAL ORDER #1 | DESERT SHIELD GENERAL ORDER #1. The first official ' how to act' order for us troops as we prepared to deploy to Saudi . This was scanned from a zerox copy that was sent to every soldier of the V Corps Units that were deploying to the Gulf. | Scanned Page TEXT format |
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M548A4 The Mechanized Camel |
SOLDIER HUMOR. A Camel with missles. This is one of the many 'flyers' that began to appear in the V Corps Units that were deploying to the Gulf. |
Scanned Image GIF format@200% |
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Arabic Phrases | SOLDIER HUMOR. A list of 'useful' Arabic phrases. Notice the phrase about 'reporters'...it reveals the overall feeling of the common soldier towards the news media. |
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Join the Fight | SOLDIER HUMOR. A flyer that advocates turning Iraq into 'Glass' - in other words 'nuke'em. This is one of the many 'flyers' that began to appear in the V Corps Units that were deploying to the Gulf. | Scanned Image GIF format@200% |
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Fight for Oil | SOLDIER HUMOR. A 'what we are fighting for ' cartoon. The average soldier was completely ready to go to war - even though they knew the fight was about oil. | Scanned Image GIF format@200% |
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Tour Saudi Arabia | SOLDIER HUMOR. A joke take a 'tour' leaflet for Saudi and Kuwait. This is one of the many 'flyers' that began to appear in the V Corps Units that were deploying to the Gulf. | Scanned Image GIF format@200% |
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Convoy Map | CONVOY MAP. A stripmap that was distributed at the port as we prepared to convoy toward KKMC. It was a long ... long ... trip ... with colored oil drums marking the route to eventually establish our base camp in the desert. | Scanned Image GIF format@200% |
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Kuwaiti New Years Card 1991 |
NEW YEARS CARD. A card printed by the AHEL AL-DIRAH KUWAITI SOCIETY. This card was given out in the MGM encampment/hotel/apartments to American soldiers in Dhahran around Christmas. The inside of the card - Greeting - was printed in three languages - French, English and Arabic. | Scanned Image GIF format @150% |
