SECERETARY OF DEFENSE REQUEST 1 APR 91

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Subject: SECERETARY OF DEFENSE REQUEST 1 APR 91                          

Unit: VII CORPS   

Parent Organization: ARCENT      

Box ID: BX000233

Folder Title: SOLDIERS STORIES                                                                                

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           trained "combat lifesaver," went to work. Ignoring enemy mortar
           fire, his actions, giving immediate medical aid to the injured,
           kept his fellow soldiers alive.

           14. During the allied offensive into Iraq, lLT Thomas J.
           Trossen, Ist Infantry Division, led his support convoy forward
           for 72 continuous hours. Carrying jet fuel and ammunition for
           the attack helicopters, his mission was critical to the ground
           offensive. On 27 February, ILT Trossen donned night vision
           gaggles and led the way through an enemy minefield in the dark.
           Farther on he came on another convoy frozen in place by enemy
           fire to its front. Trossen bypassed the other convoy, skirted
           the ongoing tank battle, and pushed on. Through his personal
           efforts, the lst Infantry Division's Aviation Brigade never
           lacked for fuel, ammunition, or maintenance support.

           15. CPL Kenneth B. Russell, combatmedic with Team D, TF 5-16,
           ist Infantry Division, didn't hesitate. When he saw a soldier go
           down in a suspected enemy minefield, he went to help. On his
           hands and knees, he probed with his bayonet to clear a path to
           the wounded soldier. "The biggest thing I learned in the war,"
           Russell said, later, "is that if you don't know something or if
           the conditions aren't like you trained for, you learn to adapt
           quickly. You take what you have learned and try to make it work
           . . . You can't train enough."

           16. SGT Lori Ann Hudgings, a combat medic in the 101st Forward
           Support Battalion, lst Infantry Division support command,
           couldn't be bothered with Arab customs about a woman's place in
           society. when her convoy came on the scene of a traffic accident
           on Tapline Road, she saw that the injured Saudi Arabian needed
the victim, her
           initial efforts were rebuffed, but she reassured her patient and
           stayed at his side until a Saudi Arabian medical team arrived to
           transport the injured man to a hospital.

           17. PFC Shannon Quinn, 2nd Armored Division (Forward), moves the
           mail through the brigade mailroom. it's her job, but she adds an
           extra touch. Aware of one soldier in the unit who hadn't
           received any mail for two months, she took a letter addressed to
           "Any Servicemembert' and lettered in the soldier's name to boost
           his morale. "Now," she says, "in the last couple of weeks, he
           has been getting all kinds of mail, so I don't have to worry
           about him anymore . . . Mail is important to everyone . . .
           That's why I take my job seriously. I know if I do it right and
           quickly, it helps people."

           18. CPT Daniel Miller, commanding I Troop, 3rd Squadron, 2ACR,
           was leading his unit in a movement to contact and ran into a much
           larger enemy tank force in prepared defensive positions. His
           tank mechanically disabled, CPT Miller transferred his command to
           a more lightly armored Bradley fighting vehicle and continued to
           lead from the front. Eventually, his troop penetrated two lines
           of defending enemy tanks, destroying many of them and broke into

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