OPNS DESERT SHIELD STORM DIARY 807TH MASH

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Subject = OPNS DESERT SHIELD STORM DIARY 807TH MASH

Parent Organization = ARCENT

Unit = VII CORPS

Folder Title = SUBORDINATE COMMAND HISTORICAL REPORTS-2D COSCOM-332D MED-341ST MED-912TH MED

Document Number = 3

Box ID = BX000308

At 1030 hours we receive the final order. It is time to
move out and take our place among those who will prosecute the
ground war. The trucks are already loaded, and now we pile into
the back of our pre-assigned and sandbagged five ton trucks. We
join a massive northbound convoy and travel approximately 20 miles
before stopping for the night 1.3 miles from the border. We are
all in MOPP level 2 (suits and boots on, masks and gloves carried)
and the charcoal from the inside of our newly issued suits rubs
off, giving us all the look of displaced coal miners. We spend
the night in the trucks, again, and the wind blows cold all night
long. During the night we see artillery fire to the north, and
hear the roar and feel the ground tremble under its impact. The
MOPP suits help keep out the cold, but everyone is still pretty
well frozen as dawn breaks.

25 February 1991

At dawn the convoy roars to life, and we move northeast. At
0735 we cross the double berm and enter Iraq. We see the first of
what is to be many burned out Iraqi tanks and armored personnel_@..
carriers. our convoy is comprised of 3 columns approximately f-t---T@e
miles in length. Fuel, rations, and ammunition reloads are also
in our convoy, some columns moving quite a bit faster than ours.
We are following approximately 300 tanks of the lst Armored
Division as they clear a path ahead of us. At 1345 we stopped for