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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







             We spend the next  several days resting and enjoying the
       sunshine. Gym shorts and t-shirts prevail as we try to catch our
       breath after our dash across the desert. With no showers, our
       amenities are minimal, but everyone seems to enjoy our period of
       forced inactivity. We are told that we'll remain here only a day
       or two, but this stretches to four, and many people, who planned
       to "rough it" without tents are wishing they had set them up,
       especially after one particularly rainy night. In the meantime we
       mistakenly begin to believe that our mission has been completed.


       7 March 1991


             Today we are moving again, transferred to the  control of the
       3rd Armored Division. The 26 mile trip back to the    Iraqi/Kuwaiti
       border (N2955/E4706) takes less than three hours. We put our
       tents up in record time, and then we are able to make our way to
       the phones for our first contact with families back home in 18
       days! This bank of phones is seven miles away, and the line
       stretches 3 to 4 hours, yet we willingly wait this time for the
       chance at making a ten minute call. A small PX has also sprouted
       here, as has, of all things, a hamburger stand! The "Wolfburger"
       is the brain child of Chief Warrant Officer Wesley Wolf, who
       thought this would be a great way to raise morale. All the
       burgers are made by volunteers from various 3rd Armor Division
       units, and McDonald's has never tasted as good as these taste!

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