timeline |
1991 |
Feb 1 | First of six alerts
over a 26-day period identified on tape from MM-1 mobile spectrometer used by 24th
Infantry Division |
Feb 8 | Smoke from the burning oil wells first visible from satellite images |
Feb 21 | Award of the National
Defense Service Medal is authorized |
Feb 23 | By late February
Iraqis had ignited nearly 700 oil wells in Kuwait Volume 6: Oil Well Fires |
Feb 24 | Allied ground assault begins at 4 a.m. (Feb. 23 at 8 p.m. eastern time) |
Feb 24 | 11th Marines
battalions entered Kuwait, moved north, and began crossing the two obstacle belts in
southern Kuwait |
Feb 24 | U.S. Marine Corps forces began the liberation of Kuwait by breaching (clearing a path through) Iraqi minefields that stretched across southern Kuwait so that they could engage Iraqi ground forces |
Feb 25 | Iraqi Scud destroys U.S. barracks in Dhahran,
Saudi Arabia, killing 28 U.S. soldiers |
Feb 25 | During the night an alarm was reported by Fox
vehicle #5604commanded by Gunnery Sergeant George Grass, Task Force Ripperas a
blister agent detection. Alert not confirmed by M256A1 Chemical Weapons Detector Kits |
Feb 28 | Cessation of hostilities declared at 8:01 a.m. (12:01 a.m. eastern time) |
Feb 28 | U.S. Central Command tasked the U.S. Army
Central Command to survey suspected chemical and biological warfare weapons storage sites
in their area of operations |
Feb 28 | Fox vehicle belonging to Task Force Ripper reported alerting on traces of three different chemical agents within 100 meters of each other at an Ammunition Supply Point located southwest of Kuwait International Airport, in the vicinity of map coordinates QT75393910 |